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| 20080201431 | Method and System For Providing Permanent Mail Service - Disclosed is a method and system for storing mail permanently without restriction of storage space of mail box. When user requests to store certain mail permanently, mail server transforms the requested mail data into permanent mail data with predetermined format. The transformed mail data is transmitted to an external server, the external server is a various kind of server that provides personal information storage space. The external server stores received permanent mail data on corresponding user area. If user requests to read permanent mail, the mail server requests the requested permanent mail data to the external server, and the external server transmits the requested permanent mail data to the mail server, by which users can read mails indicated as permanent mail regardless mail capacity of mail box. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201432 | System and Method for Facilitating Transfer of Experience Data in to Generate a New Member Profile for a Online Service Portal - System and method for facilitating trasfer of experience data to generate new member profile is described. In one embodiment, the method, which can be performed on a system, comprises, in response to a user being added as a member of an online service portal, accessing from a database of the service portal, the interactions between the user and the service portal from before the user joined the service portal as a member; and, generating a member profile for the user based on the interactions between the user and the service portal from before the user joined the service portal as a member. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201433 | METRIC-BASED ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM - Described are an electronic communication system and method for routing an electronic mail (email) message. The system includes a database and an email server that receives an email message from a client system over a network. The email message has sender-specified delivery criterion associated therewith. The email server communicates with the database to identify dynamically one or more email addresses of email users based on the delivery criterion associated with the email message. The email server forwards the email message to each dynamically identified email address. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201434 | Context-Sensitive Searches and Functionality for Instant Messaging Applications - In one or more embodiments, in the context of an instant messaging application, a conversation is analyzed and contextually or textually relevant keywords and/or phrases are identified. These keywords or phrases are then highlighted in a visually-identifiable manner for selection by an individual participating in the conversation. Once selected by an individual, a user interface is presented and exposes the individual or individuals in the conversation to various contextually- or textually-relevant material or functionality that pertains to the selected word or phrase. In one or more embodiments, an individual can also manually select a word or phrase to access the user interface that exposes contextually or textually-relevant material or functionality. In the various embodiments described below, at least some of this relevant material or functionality is presented to the user in the context of the instant messaging application and in a manner in which it can be consumed by the individual within the instant messaging application itself. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201435 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORDERING ADDRESSEES IN ADDRESS FIELDS - A method and system for ordering addressees in address fields ( | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201436 | ENHANCED INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and computer program product for monitoring one or more actions taken by a user of a website. At least one of the one or more actions is associated with one or more experts skilled in a technological area associated with the one or more actions. Communication between the user and at least one of the one or more experts skilled in the technological area is facilitated. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201437 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIEWING MEDIA CONTENT IN INSTANT MESSAGING - Systems and methods for viewing media content in instant messaging are provided. In an embodiment, a first IM server that manages instant messaging of a first IM client receives a chat message having a media address from a second IM client whose instant messaging is managed by a second IM server. A first media recognizer associated with the first IM server recognizes the media address in the chat message. In response to the recognition, the first IM server provides the chat message and a media instruction to the first IM client. In another embodiment, the first IM server obtains media associated with the recognized media address and provides the chat message and the obtained media to the first IM client. In a further embodiment, a system for viewing media content based on presence information in instant messaging is provided. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201438 | Instant messaging activity notification - A method of communicating user activity in a messaging system. The method comprises: monitoring an input region displayed to a first user of the messaging system in a client executed at a user terminal of the first user; responsive to receiving a user activated input at the input region, analysing the input and using the analysis to match the input to a type of user activity from a predetermined set of user activities; and transmitting a message comprising data representing the type of user activity from the user terminal of the first user to a user terminal of at least one other user of the messaging system over a communications network. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201439 | EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WITH WIRELESS DEVICE MOVE RECONCILIATION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - An email communications system for operating over a communications network may include an email server having a server inbox for receiving and storing email via the communications network and having a server email storage folder. The system may further include at least one wireless email communications device having a device inbox, and an email proxy server for communicating with the email server and the at least one wireless email communications device via the communications network. The email proxy server may be for forwarding email from the server inbox to the device inbox, detecting a deletion of a given email from the server inbox, and if the deletion of the given email from the server inbox is not preceded by copying of the given email to the server email storage folder, then causing the wireless email communications device to also delete the given email from the device inbox based thereon. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201440 | Electronic Messaging Recordlessness Warning and Routing System and Method - A system and method for monitoring an electronic message. Messaging information is received for inclusion in an electronic message. The messaging information is utilized to determine a desired degree of recordlessness for the electronic message. One or more electronic messaging functionalities for generating and/or transmitting the electronic message is chosen based on the desired degree of recordlessness. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201441 | Method and System for Instant Messaging Traffic Routing - There is described an interconnect hub for routing an Instant Message (IM) or related communication between a sending IM device in a first IM community and a recipient IM device in one of a plurality of potential second IM communities. The interconnect hub comprises a router for determining the destination of IM communications and routing the IM communications to the intended recipient, a search function for finding the service provider providing IM services to the user identifier, and a cache comprising a plurality of records associating user identifiers with corresponding service providers (mobile or Internet). When the IM communication is received by the interconnect hub, the router examines the recipient user identifier, accesses the cache keying on the recipient user identifier, retrieves the service provider associated with the recipient user identifier, and forwards the IM communication to the associated service provider for delivery to the intended recipient. If there is no record in the cache for the user identifier, the searcher initiates a search to identify the service provider and to update the cache if the service provider is found. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CUSTOMIZING ANIMATED ENTITIES FOR USE IN A MULTI-MEDIA COMMUNICATION APPLICATION - In an embodiment, a method is provided for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient. An image file from the sender may be received by a server. The image file may include an image of an entity. The sender may be requested to provide input with respect to facial features of the image of the entity in preparation for animating the image of the entity. After the sender provides the input with respect to the facial features of the image of the entity, the image of the entity may be presented as a personal animated entity to the sender to preview. Upon approval of the preview from the sender, the image of the entity may be presented as a sender-selectable personal animated entity for delivering the multi-media message to the recipient. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080208978 | Data Processing Device for Use in an Ad-Hoc Network, and Corresponding Ad-Hoc Network - In one aspect, a data processing device which comprises an application for use in an ad-hoc network whereby the application is provided with a data interface to a central service for the processing of the first data is provided. A proxy instance is connected to the application via a first data connection for the exchange of the first data, while the proxy instance is connected to a plurality of additional data processing devices via the ad-hoc network for the exchange of second data. The proxy instance is adapted to generate the first data from the second data and to generate the second data from the first data, the exchange of the first data between the application and the proxy instance being carried out via the data interface. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208979 | DISPATCHING CLIENT REQUESTS TO APPROPRIATE SERVER-SIDE METHODS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for dispatching client requests to appropriate server-side methods. When a client request is received, a Web server refers to a service contract framework that maps URI paths and HTTP methods to corresponding server implemented methods. A server implemented method corresponding to a URI path and/or an HTTP method included in the client request is identified. The server implemented method is invoked to process the client request message. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention provide a uniform mechanism to dispatch HTTP requests to designated server implemented methods based solely on URI path and HTTP method. That is, an HTTP request can be dispatched to a designated server implemented method without having to include additional dispatch metadata within the HTTP request (e.g., in a SOAP envelope). | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208980 | EMAIL AGGREGATION SYSTEM WITH SUPPLEMENTAL PROCESSING INFORMATION ADDITION/REMOVAL AND RELATED METHODS - An electronic mail (email) system may include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices, a plurality of email storage servers, and an email aggregation system operatively connected between the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices and the plurality of email storage servers for directing emails therebetween. The email aggregation system may include an inbound gateway server for receiving inbound emails and selectively adding supplemental processing data thereto, as well as at least one mail user agent (MUA) server downstream from the input gateway server for processing received emails based upon the selectively added supplemental processing data. The email aggregation system may further include an outbound gateway server downstream from the at least one MUA server for sending outbound emails after removing the supplemental processing data therefrom. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208981 | Providing Information Regarding Mailing List Aliases - A method for providing information regarding mailing list aliases, the method including displaying an email message including at least one mailing list alias, and displaying an email address of a recipient of the email message in association with the mailing list alias. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING STATUS INFORMATION RELATING TO A RELATION BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF PARTICIPANTS - Methods and systems are described for providing status information relating to a relation between a plurality of participants. One method includes receiving a first message from an agent associated with a relation principal for a relation between a plurality of participants, the message including relation status information of the relation. A relation tuple associated with the relation principal for the relation is provided. The relation tuple includes a party element having information identifying at least one of the plurality of participants in the relation and a status element having a status of the relation. In response to providing the relation tuple, a notification message including at least a portion of the received relation status information is generated. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208983 | Providing Information Regarding Mailing List Aliases - Systems and methods for providing information regarding mailing list aliases to recipients of email messages that are sent using mailing list aliases are provided in the present invention. A method for providing information regarding mailing list aliases in an email message is provided. The method includes displaying an email message including at least one mailing list alias, and displaying a scope indicator in association with the mailing list alias, wherein the scope indicator provides a visual indication that a plurality of email addresses are mapped to the mailing list alias. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208984 | User interface for transitioning between chat and email - Instant messaging, also known as chat, is integrated with electronic mail in a user interface that provides for conversion of messages between electronic mail (email) and instant messaging. A user interface is provided for allowing a user who is composing an email message to convert the message to a chat message. The chat message will include any content that was present in the electronic mail message, and the user can continue to compose the chat message, and then send it to a chat address determined automatically from the email address of the original email message. Notifications are provided that indicate when chat users have logged on to or logged off from the chat service. These notifications assist a user composing a message to select the most appropriate communication method based upon the current online presence of the intended recipient. A user interface for converting messages in the opposite direction, from chat to email, is also provided. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208985 | System and method for preloading content segments to client devices in an electronic network - A system and method for supporting content distribution in an electronic network includes a peer-to-peer network of electronic devices. The electronic devices are initially preloaded in a distributed manner with various content segments from corresponding content items. When a system user selects a particular content item on a corresponding electronic device, a download manager of the electronic device may automatically generate content segment requests to other appropriate electronic devices in the peer-to-peer network. The download manager may then download and automatically reassemble the content segments to produce the selected content item for utilization by the system user. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208986 | System and method for targeted healthcare messaging - A system and method for targeted pharmaceutical messaging is provided. The system includes a central targeted messaging server for receiving targeted advertisements or messages from a plurality of data sources, a notification database for storing the targeted messages and associated, pre-defined criteria, and a web server which can communicate with a plurality of message requesters to receive requests for targeted messages and to convey same to the plurality of message requesters. A customized web site could be provided for allowing vendors (e.g., pharmaceutical companies, etc.) to upload targeted message text files and/or voice files to the system of the present invention. In response to prescription-related activity, requests for targeted messages are transmitted by the plurality of message requesters to the system of the present invention. The targeted messaging server queries the notification database to identify a matching targeted message, and responds with the location of a matching targeted message text and/or voice file. The matching targeted message can then be transmitted and conveyed to the recipient. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208987 | Graphical spam detection and filtering - Some embodiments of graphical spam detection and filtering have been presented. In one embodiment, an electronic mail addressed to an electronic mail account is screened. If a graphic image is embedded in a body of the electronic mail and a sender of the electronic mail is unidentified, then the electronic mail is classified as unsolicited bulk electronic mail. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208988 | Automatic restriction of reply emails - In one embodiment, a method includes detecting, by an automated program, an attempt by a recipient of an email addressed to a plurality of addressees that includes the recipient to send a reply-all email. The automated program rejecting the reply-all email based on a pre-set policy rule that limits a number of reply-all email in a thread. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208989 | Method for Provision of an Address in a Data Network - The invention relates to a method for provision of an address of an online computer, connected to a data network, for at least one receiving computer. The aim of the invention is the provision of an address, in particular, a temporary IP address in which known disadvantages do not occur. Said aim is achieved, whereby the online computer carries out the following steps: transmission of a first data set, with the identification for at least one server structure globally accessible by the data network, to the receiver computer, whereby the server structure is selected from a number of available server structures, transmission of a second data set, identifying at least one code designator, to the receiving computer and storage of the address of the online computer together with the code designator on the identified server structure. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208990 | PRESENCE SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, SERVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - A presence system in which communication terminals and a presence server may cooperate to provide status notifications. A communication terminal may provide the server a store message to suspend transmission of status notifications to that communication terminal. The presence server may be arranged so that in response to a store message requesting storage of status notifications the transmission of status notifications from the server to that communication terminal is suspended. Several approaches to release the suspension are provided. The presence system, communication terminal and/or the communication presence server may include hardware and/or computer code or software to provide the respective functions and operations. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208991 | Data Processing Arrangement - A data processing arrangement (BBP) comprises a system-host processor (SHP) and a system-guest processor (SGPl). The system-host processor (SHP) is provided with an operating system (OS) and an operating-system-message transceiver (SI) for receiving an operating-system-related message corresponding with a service request and for sending an operating-system-related message corresponding with a service response. The system-guest processor (SGPl) is provided with an operating-system simulator (SOI). The operating-system simulator (SOI) sends an operating-system-related message to the system-host processor (SHP) in response to a service request from a task (A, B) that the system-guest processor carries (SGP) out. The operating-system simulator (SOI) provides a service response to the task (A, H) in response to an operating-system-related message from the system-host processor (SHP). | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208992 | Mechanism for discovering and recovering missing emails in an email conversation - A mechanism is disclosed for generating a composite email for an email conversation. The composite email includes content automatically extracted from a plurality of the emails in the email conversation, and may be generated in response to a user accessing just one of the emails in the email conversation. A mechanism is also disclosed for discovering and recovering lost emails in an email conversation. A mechanism is further disclosed for automatically moving emails from one container to another after an email has been read. These and other advantageous email generating, manipulation, and organization mechanisms are disclosed herein. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208993 | Method For Distributing New Services in an Internet Multimedia Subsystem (Ims), and a Node Adapted Therefore - The present invention relates to a node in an Internet Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, adapted to carry Session Initiated Protocol, SIP, traffic between inviting and invited users, comprising means for distributing at least one address from where an SIP based application, required for a communication between the users, wherein the type of communication is defined in the invitation form the inviting user, can be downloaded. The node comprises means for including the at least one address from where the SIP based application can be downloaded into a SIP message from the inviting user to the invited user, wherein the SIP message is associated with the invitation for immediate communication via the required application. The present invention also relates to a method in an IMS for distributing the at least one address from where an SIP based application can be downloaded. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208994 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY OF EMAIL DISCUSSION WITHIN EMAIL CLIENTS - A method and email system for improving efficiency of email discussion within an email client comprising: an email tag filter for filtering a special tag in email contents, extracting original email contents, and identifying tag related information which includes at least an author name corresponding to the email contents; and a content style setting component for receiving and keeping the tag related information fed by the email tag filter, then identifying which part of the email contents is written by which author according to the tag information, and assigning correct style to corresponding contents using a user customization style for each author. The invention differentiates different users mainly by automatically labeling the contents input by the users, and the input contents can be distributed in different positions within a single email, which matches the natural convention of the current users to use the email system. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208995 | ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCESSING SYSTEM - Even when setting a complicated spam judging condition, it is possible to reliably determine a necessary electronic mail in reality (i.e a mail that is not a spam mail), without deleting a necessary electronic mail or the like. Based on the assumption that an electronic mail from a mail address to which transmission was performed in the past has a high possibility of not being a spam mail, a transmission destination mail address of an electronic mail transmitted to outside the organization is recorded as a permitted mail address (Step 506-Step 510), and when a transmission source address of an electronic mail destined to inside the organization matches a mail address registered in a permitted mail address database (Step 511: Yes), processing is performed to unconditionally receive this electronic mail (Step 504). | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208996 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRANSFER IN NETWORKS USING DISTRIBUTED FILE LOCATION INDICES - Methods and apparatus for data transfer according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a peer-to-peer (p2p) network associated with distributed file location index. For example, a system according to various aspects of the present invention may identify a high-demand file item according to communications on the p2p network and store a copy of the high-demand file item. The system may assign a non-random node identifier to the system for identifying the computer system in the p2p network. The system may then respond to requests for the high-demand file item. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208997 | Electronic mail communication device - An electronic mail communication device may be provided with a receiving device that receives an electronic mail, a sequence map creation device, and an output device. The sequence map creation device may create a sequence map in which correspondent objects corresponding to the correspondents of a series of electronic mails relating to the electronic mail received by the receiving device are arranged along an x direction, and transmission objects indicating from whom and to whom each of the series of electronic mails was transmitted are arranged along a y direction in order of the date and time of communication. The output device may output the sequence map created by the sequence map creation device. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208998 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN A SERVER AND A CLIENT - A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080208999 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDIATING PUBLISHED MESSAGE STREAMS FOR SELECTIVE DISTRIBUTION - A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for delivering published messages to at least one subscriber in a publish-subscribe messaging system. A computer implemented method for delivering published messages to a subscriber includes receiving a plurality of message streams, and analyzing at least one message from each of the plurality of message streams in accordance with criteria established by the subscriber specifying a message content and a message content quality. At least one message that satisfies the criteria is delivered to the subscriber. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080215684 | Wireless E-Mail System and Method for Using Same - A wireless e-mail system and method is disclosed. The system comprises a wireless mobile device comprising an e-mail client, an e-mail server, a gateway, a mobile network interconnecting the wireless mobile device and the gateway, and a broadband network interconnecting the gateway and the e-mail server. When the client transmits a single self-contained request to the gateway via the mobile network to retrieve a set of e-mail related information from the e-mail server, the gateway retrieves at least the e-mail related information from the e-mail server via the broadband network using a plurality of transactions, compiles the retrieved information into a single self contained response and transmits the single response via the mobile network to the e-mail client. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215685 | Network communication apparatus for providing a user with a paging message - A network communications system comprises a number of user stations, coupled via a data network to a number of service provider host systems. The user stations are registered as client stations at the host system of a service provider, with the host system maintaining a database of registered client station identification data. The host system additionally maintains a directory of the client stations that are on-line at a given time, determined from periodic messages sent to the host by each client station. Callers wishing to contact a client station ( | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215687 | Mechanism for facilitating organization and accessing of emails - A mechanism is disclosed for generating a composite email for an email conversation. The composite email includes content automatically extracted from a plurality of the emails in the email conversation, and may be generated in response to a user accessing just one of the emails in the email conversation. A mechanism is also disclosed for discovering and recovering lost emails in an email conversation. A mechanism is further disclosed for automatically moving emails from one container to another after an email has been read. These and other advantageous email generating, manipulation, and organization mechanisms are disclosed herein. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215688 | SENDING E-MAIL FROM A HOSTED SYSTEM - A method includes receiving e-mail input data from a client at a server that is configured to serve a hosted application that includes an e-mail user interface to the client. The e-mail input data is used to generate an e-mail message from a user of the client, where the client is associated with a first domain and the server is associated with a second domain. An e-mail object corresponding to the e-mail message from the user of the client is generated at the server, and the e-mail object is forwarded from the server to the client along with instructions to convert the e-mail object into the e-mail message and to send the e-mail message from the first domain. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215689 | CONTACT DEVICE AND A NETWORK OF CONTACT DEVICES - An invention relates to a device enabling face-to-face contacts between persons immediately or almost immediately when their profiles match, i.e. when the persons have similar requirements or interests. The device may be an accessory of a mobile phone and it comprises a power source such as a battery or an accumulator. The device further comprises a first radio and a second radio that use different types of wireless short-range radio technologies. The first radio is configured to communicate with a terminal of a mobile communication network by receiving content for a profile of a user. This profile relates to a certain contact service and the content of the profile is created by means of the terminal. The second radio is configured to communicate with another device by transmitting the profile from the device to the other device. The second radio is further configured to communicate by receiving a message of the contact service when the transmitted profile matches with a profile of another user. In addition to the device, the invention optionally comprises a network of above-described devices. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215690 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR STORING INFORMATION IN AN APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER - A method, system and computer program product for storing document information in an application service provider (ASP) which is connected to a user terminal through a network, such as the Internet. The method on which the system and computer program product are based includes inputting the document information into the user terminal, inputting a previously created e-mail address into the user terminal, the e-mail address being confirmed by the ASP and corresponding to a storage location in the ASP, and sending the document information to the e-mail address via the network. The document information may be input into the user terminal either manually or automatically and a storage folder may be created for storing documents to the ASP. Where the user terminal is an Internet fax machine, the Internet fax machine can be set up to automatically send all document information received by the Internet fax machine to the ASP for storage. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215691 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALENDARING REMINDERS - An electronic calendar includes such features as recurring reminders, dividing unpredictable work loads into equal pieces, template free parsing, a reminders scheduling algorithm to reduce spikes, dynamic delivery and recovery algorithms, methods for splitting the work load between controllers and workers and for monitoring progress, all within the context of a calendar architecture for a large enterprise. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215692 | METHOD OF COMPENSATING FOR ENHANCING EMAILS WITH TARGETED ADS - A computer method and device for intercepting contracting client's sent electronic messages, scanning the message body content for key words, sending the key words to a remote central computer server which analyses the key words and enhances the message by attaching a relevant, contextual advertising tag line or image/banner/words/HTML/Flash, etc. to the electronic message, and transmitting the enhanced message to a receiver. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215693 | Systems, Methods, and Media for Communication with Database Client Users - Systems, methods and media for communicating with a database client user are disclosed. Embodiments may include a database messaging system having a database server and one or more database clients. The database server may include a database messaging module, which may include a database administrator (DBA) interface module to receive a message request, where the message request includes message content and an indication of one or more database clients to which a message will be sent. The database messaging module may also include an address module to determine an IP address associated with each of the one or more database clients and a database messaging transmitter to transmit a message to each determined IP address, where the message may include the message content. The database clients may include a client listener for receiving the message from the database server and displaying it to a database client user's monitor. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215694 | System and method for unified messaging service - System, method and program storage device for unified messaging services. The method includes receiving a message generated by a sender, collecting user attribute information of the sender and/or a recipient, providing at least one policy factor associated with the user attribute information, converting the first message into a unified format message, processing the user attribute information of the sender and/or the recipient and the policy factor to determine a terminal device for the recipient, converting the unified format message into a second message according to the determined terminal device for the recipient and delivering the message converted according to the determined terminal device for the recipient to the recipient. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215695 | Publish/Subscribe Messaging System - The invention relates to a message broker for managing subscription requests in a multicast messaging system. The messaging system comprises a plurality of publishers publishing information to the broker and a plurality of subscribers subscribing to information received from one or more publishers. The broker is able to receive a subscription request pointing to topic information in which the requesting subscriber is interested, the topic information defining a specific topic within a topic hierarchy. The broker is able to parse the request to determine if the request includes a wildcard and if the request does include a wildcard, the broker instructs the requesting subscriber to listen on a multicast address associated with the topic in the topic hierarchy which precedes the wildcard. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215696 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE OF A MESSAGING SYSTEM - Software agents perform a process to monitor the availability and/or performance of various functions of a messaging system, such as a Unified Messaging System. A call is initiated to an endpoint, where the endpoint is registered with a messaging system and is configured to forward incoming messages to the messaging system. A first agent transmits a message to the endpoint for forwarding to the messaging system. A second agent that is associated with the endpoint then determines whether the endpoint receives a message notification in response to the transmitted message. In an embodiment, the time that elapses between arrival of the message at the endpoint and reception of a message notification is determined. In an embodiment, if the second agent is able to access a mailbox and retrieve the transmitted message, then the message retrieved from the messaging system is compared with the version of the original message that was received at the endpoint. Whether the retrieved message suffered any degradation from its path through the messaging system is determined based on the comparison. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215697 | AUTOMATED EMAIL ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT - A system for organizing email includes a modeler operable to infer a temporal sequential process from a corpus of unlabeled email messages, and a categorizer operable to accept an incoming message and map the aforesaid incoming message to a transition in the aforesaid temporal sequential process. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215698 | Method and Apparatus for Adding Recipients to Sent Email - A data processing system for resending a previously sent email message. A new recipient for the previously sent email message is selected. The new recipient of the previously sent email message is added in response to selecting the new recipient, wherein the previously sent email message is directed to the new recipient and a previous recipient. An indicator to the previously sent email message is added in response to selecting the new recipient, wherein the indicator indicates that the new recipient has been added to a form a new version of the previously sent email message. The new version of the previously sent email message is sent in response to adding the indicator, wherein the indicator causes the new version of the previously sent email message to replace the previously sent email message at an email program of the previous recipient. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215699 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MESSAGE MAPPING OF COMMUNICATIONS - A method, system, and computer program product for implementing message mapping of communications is provided. The method includes receiving a communication and a time-stamp of the communication from a messaging system of an originating terminal device and receiving a request to respond to the communication from a messaging system at a recipient terminal device. The request includes a first response and a first selected portion of the communication to which the first response is directed. The method also includes generating an index that defines parameters of the first selected portion in context with the communication and generating a responsive communication that includes the first response and the index. The index is operable for communicating the parameters of the first selected portion to the originating terminal device. The method further includes mapping the responsive communication to the communication via the time-stamp. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080222253 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CREATING AND RATING ITEMS FOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS - A system and method for providing items to users and, more particularly, a system and method for rating items and placing such items into a queued list. The method includes providing an item from a web browser to a recipient on a preferred list and placing the item into a queued list with respect to other items based on a rating. The system includes a computer infrastructure being operable to provide a rated item from a web browser to a recipient on a preferred list and place the rated item in a queued list with respect to other items. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222254 | Systems and methods for sending customized emails to recipient groups - Systems and methods for allowing a user to send customized electronic mails to recipients, comprising providing a graphical window on a display screen of an electronic device, allowing the user to input a message which is displayed within the graphical window, allowing the user to identify portions of the message as being intended for certain recipient groups, creating an electronic mail for each recipient group based on the portions of the message identified as being intended for that recipient group, and sending the electronic mails. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222255 | Systems and methods for providing high performance and scalable messaging - Systems and methods are disclosed to perform messaging among a plurality of mobile nodes by performing one disk seek to store a predetermined short message; and performing two disk seeks to read and delete the predetermined short message. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222256 | Autocomplete for intergrating diverse methods of electronic communication - Instant messaging, also known as chat, is integrated with electronic mail in a user interface that provides for automatic completion of recipient names or addresses, such as email addresses or chat addresses, as a user types characters of the name or address when addressing a message. The automatic completion feature displays a list of matches, which are names or addresses in, for example, the user's online contact list, that match the characters the user types. The matches list may contain names or addresses for multiple different communication methods. The user may then select one of the names or addresses to compose a message to be sent to the selected name or address. A user interface is then provided for composing a message to be sent to the selected name or address using the communication protocol associated with the selected name or address. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222257 | Systems and methods for sending customized emails to recipient groups - Systems and methods for allowing a user to send customized electronic mails to recipients, comprising providing a graphical window on a display screen of an electronic device, allowing the user to input a message which is displayed within the graphical window, allowing the user to identify portions of the message as being intended for certain recipient groups, creating an electronic mail for each recipient group based on the portions of the message identified as being intended for that recipient group, and sending the electronic mails. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222258 | DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A digital rights management (DRM) method and apparatus are provided. The DRM method includes generating a rights object request message for requesting a rights object corresponding to content stored in a media player and transmitting the rights object request message; receiving a rights object response message corresponding to the rights object request message from a media server which receives the rights object request message; and obtaining a rights object using the rights object response message. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222259 | EMAIL SUBSTRING CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER - A method and system for placing, displaying and printing email strings in different chronological orders. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222260 | INSTANT MESSAGING WITH CALLER IDENTIFICATION - A method for providing caller identification information to instant messaging communication participants can include identifying an online presence for at least a first instant messaging client and determining caller identification information for a user associated with the first instant messaging client. The caller identification information can be provided to a second instant messaging client. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222261 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING CONSTRUCTIVE DISCOURSE ON COMPUTERS AND MOBILE DEVICES - A system and method to allow a user to engage in a collaborative discourse embedded in messaging platforms such as email or instant messaging, and to visualize the structure of that discourse. The system provides the ability to create and modify tree-like structures, which can represent outlines or tables of contents employed in documents. These structures take the place of traditional documents in representing the work product of a knowledge worker. These structures are related to the discourse in that messages may refer to nodes of these structures, and hence be understood to be related. It is the interplay between the creation of a structured message-based discourse and the persistent outline-form knowledge structures that allows message-based correspondence, including the reading and writing of documents, to be performed with increased efficiency and at a higher level of integration. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222262 | Digital Album Service System for Showing Digital Fashion Created by Users and Method for Operating the Same - A system and method provide mobile services of a fashion album directly created by a user. A digital album service system and method provide wireless mobile services, wherein figures of a user's avatar wearing a variety of fashion items are provided in the form of a moving picture to a user connected to an avatar image server through a wired communication network using a personal computer (PC). A relevant image is provided in the form of a still picture and/or a mobile flash to a specific mobile communication terminal selected by the user, thereby allowing the user to view or download the image without restriction of time and space. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222263 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE EMAIL ADAPTATION - The present invention discloses a method and system for mobile email adaptation, which sets an adaptation server separated from the mail proxy server, while a mobile email server can ask the adaptation server to fulfill the adaptation function for the content of the mail. Therefore, the adaptation function is stripped from the mail proxy server, the burden on the proxy server is decreased, and the possible bottleneck of the system is avoided. And the adaptation is concentrated in the adaptation server of the mobile email server end, instead of being distributed into each proxy server. So it is more convenient for concentrative manage and function upgrade. As a plurality of mobile email servers could access the same adaptation server, the network organization is more convenient and flexible. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080222264 | Integrated Two-Way Communications Between Database Client Users and Administrators - Systems, methods and media for two-way communication between database client users and administrators are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for communicating between database client users and administrators. Embodiments may include receiving a message request to send to one or more recipients, the message request including message content and an indication of the one or more recipients to which the message will be sent. Embodiments may also include determining an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with each of the one or more recipients based on the message request and transmitting a message to each of the determined IP addresses, where the message includes the received message content. Embodiments may also include receiving a second message from one of the determined IP addresses. Further embodiments may include displaying the second message in a display window. Recipients of messages may include database administrators (DBAs) or database client users. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080228880 | MANAGED CODE MAPI APIS - An API called MAPI.NET written in managed code allows front-end applications written in managed code to access backend data stores using existing MAPI technology. Functions within this API provide ways in which data from a mailbox or a public folder on a backend server is accessed. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228881 | Interactive web collaboration systems and methods - A topic room is provided in which one or more individuals or other entities may collaborate on topics of mutual interest. Multiple individuals or participants may use the topic room to communicate in real or non-real time and may work together to create, browse, modify, comment on, and perform any other suitable action on content. A chat room within the topic room receives, records, and transmits the communications and all activity in the topic room to all participants as messages. Client processes at a participant's user equipment may listen to the messages and take particular actions. For example, one participant can follow another participant as that participant browses through material by using the messages received from that participant. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228882 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PUSH-TO-EMAIL COMMUNICATION WITH LOCATION INFORMATION - A push-to-email system comprises a mobile communication device configured to generate a voice message and transmit the voice message to a message authority via, e.g., a single transmit action, such as a push-to-talk transmit action. The system can also comprise a message authority configured to receive the voice message, a time stamp associated with the voice message and location information related to the location of the mobile device when the message was sent. The message authority can then generate a data message intended for a recipient associated with the voice message, such as an email message and embed the voice message, time stamp and location information, or a link to the voice message, time stamp and location information. Alternatively, the mobile communication device can be configured to generate the data message. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228883 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Indicating Receipt of Electronic Mail - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for delivering an indication of an email message's arrival. The email message is received and identifies at least an addressee. The addressee is looked up in a database that associates multiple addressees to a shared Internet Protocol address. The shared Internet Protocol address is retrieved and a message is sent to the shared Internet Protocol address. The message identifies the addressee of the email message and includes instructions for indicating arrival of the message at the addressee. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228884 | System and method for message processing and routing - A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of learning and executing new routing rules and message transformations in formats previously unrecognized by the system. The system enables precise and reliable logging of messages throughout processing and supports publication of enterprise-wide broadcast messages. The system further preferably employs cooperating inbound and outbound transport processes for consuming, routing, processing, safely storing and publishing messages in batches of logical units of work to ensure that the logical units of work are not lost in system transactions. The system also preferably utilizes a replay server for preserving and replaying messages that might otherwise fail to reach their intended destinations. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228885 | System and method for message processing and routing - A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of learning and executing new routing rules and message transformations in formats previously unrecognized by the system. The system enables precise and reliable logging of messages throughout processing and supports publication of enterprise-wide broadcast messages. The system further preferably employs cooperating inbound and outbound transport processes for consuming, routing, processing, safely storing and publishing messages in batches of logical units of work to ensure that the logical units of work are not lost in system transactions. The system also preferably utilizes a replay server for preserving and replaying messages that might otherwise fail to reach their intended destinations. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228886 | System and method for message processing and routing - A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of learning and executing new routing rules and message transformations in formats previously unrecognized by the system. The system enables precise and reliable logging of messages throughout processing and supports publication of enterprise-wide broadcast messages. The system further preferably employs cooperating inbound and outbound transport processes for consuming, routing, processing, safely storing and publishing messages in batches of logical units of work to ensure that the logical units of work are not lost in system transactions. The system also preferably utilizes a replay server for preserving and replaying messages that might otherwise fail to reach their intended destinations. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228887 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A networked computer system provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users. For example, in one embodiment, users can identify other users based on their affiliations with particular schools or other organizations. The system also provides a mechanism for a user to selectively establish contact relationships or connections with other users, and to grant permissions for such other users to view personal information of the user. The system may also include features for enabling users to identify contacts of their respective contacts. In addition, the system may automatically notify users of personal information updates made by their respective contacts. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228888 | Method for Redirection of Instant Messages - The present invention a method by which the sender of an instant message can designate an alternate recipient of the message in the event the initial recipient does not respond to the message within a predetermined time period. The sender can create a list of one or more alternate recipients for a message. The sender can also specify a response time for the message. If the initial recipient does not response to the message within the defined time period, the message will be sent to a designated alternate recipient. In this invention, there can be multiple alternate recipients. Each alternate can receive the message or there can be a priority among the alternate recipients. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228889 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISTRIBUTING SOFTWARE BASED ON AN E-MAIL SERVICE - A solution for distributing software products is proposed. Typically, a software distribution infrastructure controls the deployment of software packages to selected endpoints; each software package includes commands and resource images, which are used to install a corresponding software product. For this purpose, an e-mail service is exploited. Particularly, a new e-mail message is created for each software package to be deployed; the software package is embedded into the e-mail message as an attachment and tags for controlling the software distribution process (such as a desired target state of the software package) are inserted into its body section. A plug-in of a mail client on each endpoint receives that e-mail message; the software package is then extracted and passed to an application engine, which controls its application according to the target state indicated by the corresponding control tag. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228890 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUSHING ACTIVATED INSTANT MESSAGES - A system and method for sending activated instant messages includes determining a condition under which an activated instant message is permissible and determining if the condition is met. If the condition is met, the activated instant message is sent such that the activated instant message causes a receiver device of the activated instant message to automatically perform an instruction sent by the sender. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228891 | Apparatus for Identifying and Tracking Grouped Content in E-mail Campaigns - A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for identifying and tracking grouped content in e-mail campaigns. An instruction set is placed in an e-mail to form a modified e-mail, wherein the modified e-mail contains a grouped content having a plurality of levels that are expandable to present additional content. The modified e-mail is sent to a distribution list, wherein the instruction set is used to track information about the grouped content. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080228892 | Method and system providing a messaging service - The invention is directed to an instant messaging method and communication system comprising one or more network elements, wherein a connection from one to another network element as part of one or more protocol words. The protocol includes a protocol portion allowing a network element to specify whether or not the message is to be stored in case it cannot be promptly delivered to the another network element. The protocol portion preferably is part of the protocol header. The protocol may be a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and the message can be contained in an Invite request sent from the sending equipment to the receiving equipment. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080235334 | METHODS FOR CREATING AND USING ELECTRONIC MAILING GROUPS - A method for creating an electronic mailing group. The method is implemented via execution of computer readable program code on a processor of a computer system. A first input is stored in a computer-readable storage medium. The first input includes a first group name for distributing a first electronic mail message. The first group name is associated with a plurality of electronic mail addresses, based on a first set of received instructions. The first group name represents the addresses. After associating, information associated with the first group name is stored in the storage medium. The information is associated with each address of the addresses and designates each address of the addresses as a first recipient type selected from: To recipient, Carbon Copy recipient, and Blind Carbon Copy recipient. At least one address of the addresses is designated as a Carbon Copy recipient or a Blind Carbon Copy recipient. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235335 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CHANGING THE STATUS OF AN EXISTING EMAIL IN A RECIPIENT EMAIL CLIENT INBOX - A method, system, and computer program product for changing the status of an existing email in a recipient email client inbox are provided. The method includes receiving a message from an email server that includes a message identifier identifying the existing email message, the existing email message transmitted to the recipient email client inbox. The method also includes retrieving the existing email message corresponding to the message identifier, replacing a date and time of the existing email message with a current date and time corresponding to a time the message is transmitted, and moving the existing email message to the top of an email queue of the recipient email client inbox. The method further includes marking the existing email message at the top of the email queue as unread and notating the existing email message with the date and time of the existing email message. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235336 | IMPLEMENTATION OF PRIVATE MESSAGING - A method is disclosed for sending messages such as emails where the sender and receiver in the exchange remain anonymous to each other. The method uses a service, which may for example be an Internet service provider, which acts as an intermediary between a first party and second party to a message. All exchanges between the first and second parties pass through the service, which masks all true identities while ensuring that the message is routed to the proper recipient(s). | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235337 | Adaptive buddy lists - In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) monitoring for a buddy relevant event; (ii) deriving a buddy list portion from the buddy relevant event; (iii) determining presence information for each member in the buddy list portion; and (iv) updating an adaptive buddy list using the buddy list portion and the presence information. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235338 | Apparatus, systems, and methods to facilitate the interaction between parties - Devices, systems and methods for facilitating interactions between individuals are disclosed. The exemplary method may include providing member facility information and allowing other members to review the facility information. Members may request a meeting with another member with details of the requested meeting via the system. The request is transmitted to another member and the other member may accept, deny, or modify the request by the other member. Members may have an other members inclusive list or other members exclusive list to assist in facilitating interactions. Ratings may be used to rate other members and interaction facilities to aid in facilitating future interactions. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235339 | SUBJECT MATTER RESOURCE WEBSITE - A method and apparatus for providing searchable data. The method includes the steps of detecting a content capture request from a user and analyzing a screen being viewed by the user to capture a content and format of any information elements displayed on the screen. The method further includes the steps of prompting the user for descriptive information about the viewed content and saving the captured content and format and descriptive information as a subject matter resource within a subject matter resource file located at a predetermined website or physical location on the user's computer. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235340 | Information processing device, information processing method and information processing program - Included are a browse determining unit | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235341 | Messaging system - A method of selecting a recipient of a message on the basis of data identifying access to previously transmitted messages, wherein each said message includes content data for display within a display area of a receiving terminal and control data including data indicative of a user selectable portion within the display area. The method includes receiving content data having one of a plurality of different types for use in creating said message, accessing tracking data corresponding to a previously transmitted message containing content data of a given type, the tracking data being indicative of selection of said user selectable portion upon display thereof at said receiving terminal, and selecting a recipient of the message on the basis of the received content data and the tracking data. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235342 | Interactive communications system - An interactive system and method for controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions involving a plurality of users including controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions, each of said communications sessions being for access by a plurality of users, wherein data identifying said plurality of communications sessions have been stored in association with data indicative of one or more characteristics thereof. The method includes receiving a request to initiate communications among members of a group of users, wherein said request includes data identifying the group of users, responsive to receiving said request, selecting a communications session on the basis of data identifying the group and at least some of said stored data indicative of characteristics of a given communications session, and transmitting messages to at least some members of the group. Each message has a message body including data providing access to the selected communications session and a destination address determined from data indicative of a given member of the group. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235343 | SYSTEM FOR STATUS REPORTING - A system for status reporting. The system provides a plurality of status messages, and reports to at least two user groups at least two status messages of the plurality of status messages, wherein each of the at least two user groups receives a different status message. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235344 | AUTO REPLY EMAIL AND AUTO REPLY EMAIL METHOD - Auto reply email and auto reply email methods are disclosed. A particular email message includes a no-reply origination address and a message body. Characteristics of the message body are selected based at least partially on a previous email message sent to the no-reply origination address. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235345 | Method, Apparatus, and Program to Forward and Verify Multiple Digital Signatures in Electronic Mail - A mechanism is provided for augmenting the mail header of a message with a list of digital signatures representing the chain of contributors to the message. The augmented header may also encode the actual contributions corresponding to each digital signature. The list is appended every time a message is forwarded. If a message has a portion with no corresponding digital signature or if one or more of the digital signatures is not trusted, the user may handle the message accordingly. Furthermore, a mail server or client may discard a message if the number of digital signatures exceeds a threshold to filter out unwanted messages, such as e-mail chain letters. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080244009 | Method and System For Regulating Electronic Mail - A method and system are disclosed which regulate the electronic mail received by a subscriber or user by forcing the sender to pay a small amount for sending e-mail, making it uneconomic to send very large volumes of spam indiscriminately. The resulting permit or stamp can be reused by the receiver. A method and system for managing the response to unstamped e-mail is also disclosed. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244010 | PROVIDING MESSAGE CONTENT TO A USER FOR COMPOSING MESSAGES FOR MAILING AT A HAND-HELD PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and an apparatus are provided for providing message content to a user at a hand-held, portable electronic device for composing an electronic message. The user may use at least a portion of the message content for composing the electronic message for mailing over a network to a recipient. For example, templates with precomposed content may be provided at a cell phone to compose a message body and/or a subject filed of electronic messages for mailing including electronic mail (e-mail) messages. A template with precomposed content may comprise previously created content for use in a message body including a subject filed of the message. The precomposed content may be selectively editable by a user. By using a messaging application that may be capable of communicating with a server in a network, a user may compose the message, such as a reply to an e-mail with desired message content from one or more of the templates. Use of at least one template with precomposed message content in the messaging application at a hand-held, portable electronic device may enable a user to perform mobile emailing with ease. In one embodiment, a method of enabling electronic messaging using an interactive user interface of a hand-held, portable electronic device is provided. The method comprises providing templates with precomposed message content for use in the interactive user interface to compose an electronic message having at least one of a message body or a signature block. The method further comprises enabling a user to compose the message body of the electronic message with at least a portion of the precomposed message content for delivery to an intended recipient. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244011 | System and Method for providing instant messaging session backups - A system, method, and program product are provided that receives an instant messaging request from a sender over a network, such as the Internet. The instant messaging request is directed to requesting an instant messaging session with a primary recipient. The system determines whether the primary recipient is available. If the primary recipient is available, the system sets up the instant messaging session with the primary recipient. On the other hand, if the primary recipient is unavailable, the system identifies a backup recipient. This is accomplished by retrieving stored backup recipient identifiers that correspond to one or more backup recipients associated with the primary recipient. At least one available backup recipient identifier from the one or more stored backup recipient identifiers is identified, and the instant messaging session is set up with the identified (available) backup recipient. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244012 | INSTANT MESSAGING WITH REDUCED MESSAGE OVERHEAD - A messaging system with reduced overhead, the system including a messaging server operative to receive a typing message sent from the first computer and destined for a second computer, and a message filter operative to determine a level of unused resources of the server, and instruct the server to forward the typing message to the second computer only if the level is within predefined parameters. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244013 | Method, Apparatus, System, Medium, and Signals for Publishing Content Created During a Communication - Systems, apparatus and methods related to multiple-party communications conducted between client computers in a computer network. For example, a method and apparatus for publishing content created during a previous communication hosted by a server are disclosed. The content is represented by a first plurality of saved messages saved in a persistent memory on the server, the server being in communication with a computer network. The method involves receiving a request from a first computer in the computer network to view the content, the request including an identifier identifying the first plurality of saved messages. The method further involves reading the first plurality of saved messages associated with the identifier from the persistent memory, producing first output messages representing the content in respective saved messages in the first plurality of saved messages, and transmitting the first output messages to the first computer. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244014 | PRODUCT, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE USER IDS IN INSTANT MESSAGING OR EMAIL COMPUTER SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - An invention is disclosed for enhancing communication with instant messaging (IM)/chat or email computer software applications by allowing a user to manage multiple user IDs by linking each different ID associated with that user thus allowing others to access that user regardless of the particular IM/chat or email system or account or session being accessed. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244015 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DIALOG DRIVEN UP-SELLING - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automated dialog driven up-selling. A conversion module may convert a service dialog into service dialog text. A search module searches the service dialog text from the service dialog between a customer and a customer service agent for at least one specified key word. An identification module identifies a customer interaction in response to the at least one key word. An opportunity module identifies an interaction opportunity wherein the customer is not interacting with the customer service agent. A presentation module presents the customer interaction to a customer. A blocking module may receive a blocking request and block customer interaction. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244016 | Method and system for processing a message by a message provider - A method for processing a message by a message provider that includes receiving, for a topic, a mutual exclusion function from each application instance of a plurality of application instances, receiving the message for the topic, and sending the message to one application instance of the plurality of application instances based on executing each of the mutual exclusion functions, wherein the mutual exclusion functions ensure that the message is sent to a single application instance of the plurality of application instances. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244017 | Filtering application messages in a high speed, low latency data communications environment - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for filtering application messages in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include: receiving an application message in a transport engine of a message receiving device from a message transmitting device, the application message having a message contents label and a collision indicator, the message contents label representing contents of the application message, the collision indicator specifying whether the message contents label represents different contents in at least one other application message; determining, by the transport engine, whether contents of the application message satisfy a transport layer constraint in dependence upon the message contents label; providing, by the transport engine, the application message and the collision indicator to messaging middleware of the message receiving device if the contents of the application message satisfy the transport layer constraint; and administering the application message, by the messaging middleware, in dependence upon the collision indicator. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244018 | Personal communication gateway - Disclosed is a method in a personal communication gateway. The method includes communicating with a user terminal through a personal area network interface, accessing multimedia services through a communication network interface, and operating as a proxy to provide for the user terminal access to the multimedia services through the personal area network interface. Also disclosed is a method in a user terminal, which method includes communicating with a personal communication gateway through a personal area network interface, and using the personal communication gateway as a proxy for accessing multimedia services. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244019 | System and method for plug and play video-conferencing - The present invention is a system and method for simply and intuitively establishing and using a communication link with another user. Various embodiments of the present invention allow one or more non-technically oriented users to also easily set up for, and engage easily in a video call. In an embodiment, a communication application used over a network (e.g., the Internet) is seamlessly downloaded onto a user's machine if necessary. The user is provided with an account which has already been created/registered with the application. In addition, the user's account is linked to at least one other account, and information for each account is populated into the buddy-list or contact information for the other account. Providing of already created/registered accounts, and the linking of various accounts, permits easy and seamless communication between users. In one embodiment, cards are used to provide the user with information regarding the pre-registered accounts. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244020 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USER DEFINITION OF AND PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITIES AND MANAGEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION - A set of systems and methods that improve the means by which its users can define and participate in communities and by which users can manage their individual information and communication as well as that of their communities. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244021 | SPAM RESISTANT E-MAIL SYSTEM - A spam resistant e-mail system employs communication via authenticated communication channels while providing a mechanism for rapidly growing a list of authenticated individuals and managing that list on a personal and collaborative basis to prevent spammers from joining the network. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244022 | EMAIL TEMPLATES FOR PERSON TO PERSON COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods are described for customizing electronic communications and systems. In particular, methods for generating and using templates are described. Email is typically customized according to a scheme or format selected by the user and in accordance with an affinity of the user with an organization, sports team or an event. Participants in a sporting activity may choose to participate in disclosed systems on behalf of the league or sporting organization's members. Text and graphical content provided by participants may be associated with links to dynamically provided information. Content providers may offer a plurality of templates including branded messaging such as E-mail featuring images and brand related to sports, motion picture, arts, entertainment and hobbies. Templates may include advertising content allowing a service provider to generate revenue from ad placement. A toolbar is described that permits subscribers to choose whether a template should be added to the message. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244023 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING SERVER-BASED MOBILE CHAT - A method of conserving client resources associated with a mobile device may include receiving a data message for an intended subscriber of a mobile solution provider, storing the data message in a computer readable storage medium, and, in response to receiving the data message, determining whether a TCP socket can be opened with a mobile device associated with the intended subscriber. If a TCP socket can be opened, the method may include opening a TCP socket with the mobile device and sending to the mobile device one or more instructions for activating the mobile device. A request for data transfer may be received from the mobile device, and the data message may be retrieved from the computer-readable storage medium. The data message may be sent to the mobile device over the TCP socket. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244024 | Interactive communications system - An interactive system and method for controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions involving a plurality of users including controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions, each of said communications sessions being for access by a plurality of users, wherein data identifying said plurality of communications sessions have been stored in association with data indicative of one or more characteristics thereof. The method includes receiving a request to initiate communications among members of a group of users, wherein said request includes data identifying the group of users, responsive to receiving said request, selecting a communications session on the basis of data identifying the group and at least some of said stored data indicative of characteristics of a given communications session, and transmitting messages to at least some members of the group. Each message has a message body including data providing access to the selected communications session and a destination address determined from data indicative of a given member of the group. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244025 | CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK-CONTROLLED DEPLOYMENT OF MESSAGE TRANSFORMS IN A DISTRIBUTED MESSAGING SYSTEM - The present invention solves the disadvantages of the prior art and provides a distributed messaging system supporting stateful subscriptions. A stateful publish-subscribe system extends the functionality of the content-based approach to include more general state-valued expressions. A plurality of broker machines is provided to deliver messages sent by publishing clients toward subscribing clients based upon the contents of the messages and stateful transformations requested by the subscribing clients. Subscription specifications are analyzed by a compiler and converted into a collection of message transforms and views. A deployment service component deploys tasks to optimize system performance. A monitoring services component detects a possible need to reconfigure. A performance optimization service component computes new assignment of transforms. A continuous deployment service implements a redeployment protocol that installs changes to transform placement while the existing publish-subscribe system continues to operate. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244026 | Real-Time Notification of Presence Changes - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing presence and availability status information of a first user to a second user. The system includes a presence availability server for storing presence and availability status information of the first user. The presence availability server is configured to detect a change in the presence and availability status of the first user. The presence availability server also informs a notification server of a change in the presence and availability status of the first user. The notification server sends a notification message to a communication device of the second user. The notification message contains current presence and availability status information of the first user. Other systems and methods are also provided. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080244027 | System and Method Related to Generating and Tracking an Email Campaign - A method and system for generating and tracking an email campaign is described. An email campaign generator generates an email campaign template from an email target database. The email target database comprises at least one email target. An email campaign engine generates a custom email corresponding to each of the at least one email target. The custom email is formed from the email campaign template. The email campaign engine sends to each of the at least one email target the corresponding custom email. A campaign tracker receives at least one response corresponding to the sent custom email. The campaign tracker creates a campaign tracking list that includes the received at least one response. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080250106 | Use of Acceptance Methods for Accepting Email and Messages - An email and message management system invention that rejects all emails and messages unless the messages pass acceptance filter criteria. Without any filtering this invention will refuse to accept all incoming email and messages, whereas current systems accept all email messages without filtering aids. The invention uses several acceptance filtering methods including: a list of acceptable origin message addresses, a list of acceptable origin domain addresses, an algorithm criterion that allows messages based on wildcard type comparisons, a rules method that provides a means to use logic directives, and a method that allows the use of Pass Key Codes to automatically accept messages and to enhance message security. The invention includes an administrative function to set up and maintain the acceptance criteria, provide notification to users of rejected emails, message traffic monitoring for system quality control, and control of a network of the inventions. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250107 | INSTANT MESSAGE ARCHIVE VIEWING - Techniques for traversing a conversation history between a first user and a second user are provided. A window is displayed that is used to send messages from the second user to the first user. The window includes a conversation history window. The second user scrolls through the conversation history (associated with the first user) to find a particular message that was sent between the first user and the second user. In response, a plurality of capsules is displayed. Each capsule represents messages that were sent during a particular time period (e.g., a one month period). One or more of the capsules may be expanded to display: (a) additional capsules of finer time granularity (e.g., one week) or (b) actual messages. Each capsule may display text or graphics that clue the second user as to the messages that were sent during the time range represented by the corresponding capsule. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250108 | Web and telephony interaction system and method - Apparatus for location at a website comprising: a media input for receiving a media signal, typically video; a chat room host configured to host chat rooms, each chat room configured to display media from said media input in association with text from chat users as a chat room display; a media output for outputting a media signal; and a user client located between said media input, said media output and said chat room host, configured to provide said media signal to said chat room host, and to receive said chat room display and output said chat room display to said media output as a video signal. The system allows an interactive connection to a mobile telephone and allows a mobile telephone to use its camera to broadcast to all the users of a chatroom. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250109 | Method and system for tracking time over instant messenger - A method and apparatus for allowing the tracking the starting, ending and duration of instant messenger (“IM”) interactions, are disclosed. An IM application, running on an electronic device, may provide functionality to capture the duration and history of an interaction between users over an IM infrastructure. The IM application may regulate an interactive session (“session”) over IM, capturing a users' explicit agreement to engage in a session, the user's pausing and ending of the session, and the history of the session (text, voice, files etc. exchanged between the parties as part of the IM session). In addition, monetary rate may be associated with a session and a monetary charge, associated with the monetary rate and session duration, may be captured, confirmed, reported and/or billed. The record of an IM session may be synchronized among users' IM applications and exported to other applications or for storage. Tracking IM sessions may be made a part of IM client applications, may be part of a module which may be associated with one or more IM client applications, or may be a part of applications and devices capable of exchanging messages over an IM infrastructure. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250110 | PEER-TO-PEER MESSAGING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a distributed environment for supporting on-line collaborative meetings among a plurality of users includes a plurality of applications executing on different client machines. A sequence of messages is transmitted from a first application of the distributed environment to a second application of the distributed environment, using a multicast form of delivery. A request for re-transmission is received from the second application specifying at least one message of the sequence that was not received by the second application. In response to the request, the specified at least one message of the sequence is retransmitted from the first application to the second application using a reliable unicast form of delivery. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250111 | Remote Operation of Instant Messaging Systems - A method for allowing remote operation of an instant messaging session is provided. A remote instant messaging client is selected from a list of remote instant messaging clients. User input, indicating an instant messaging command to be executed on the selected remote instant messaging client, is received. A request that includes the instant messaging command to be executed is sent to the selected remote instant messaging client. A message indicating receipt of the request by the selected remote instant messaging client is received from the selected remote instant messaging client. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250112 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Whether an Email Message is Ready for Transmission - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to analyze an email message using a policy to form a result in response to detecting a request to send an email message. A determination is made as to whether the result indicates that the email message is complete. An alert is generated if a determination is present that indicates that the email message is incomplete. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250113 | INDIVIDUALLY SPECIFYING MESSAGE OUTPUT ATTRIBUTES IN A MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method, system and program for specifying message outputs in a messaging session are provided. A message entry is received in association with a particular topic from among multiple available topics from a particular user from among multiple users participating in a messaging session. Output attributes are assigned to the message entry according to receiving user specified output preferences for the particular topic individually specified by each of the receiving users participating in the messaging session, such that output of the message entry is uniquely specified for each of the receiving users participating. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250114 | MITIGATING ADDRESS BOOK WEAKNESSES THAT PERMIT THE SENDING OF E-MAIL TO WRONG ADDRESSES - A computer-implemented method for mitigating address book weaknesses that permit sending of e-mail to wrong addresses includes determining prior to sending an e-mail message whether one of a plurality of recipients of an e-mail message should receive the e-mail message, the determining prior to sending the e-mail message including analyzing history information of a sender of the e-mail message to determine whether the one of the plurality of recipients is ordinarily connected with the plurality of recipients and whether the one of the plurality of recipients is ordinarily connected with a subject of the e-mail message, the analyzing history information including comparing the plurality of recipients to a database indicative of recipients that received e-mail from the sender, and, responsive to the history information, determining whether the one of the plurality of recipients is one of a new recipient and an ordinary recipient, and presenting the determining to the sender. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080256187 | Method and System for Filtering Electronic Messages - Embodiments of the invention are concerned with filtering emails having data therein identifying a link to a remote processing system, which, when activated, causes the recipient to retrieve data from the remote processing system. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256188 | Method of removing metadata from email attachments - A method and system for removing metadata from email attachments sent from mobile devices includes receiving an email with an attached document. The attached document has metadata removed to create a cleansed version of the attached document. The attached document is replaced by the cleansed version of the attached document, and the email is sent according to the address or addresses included in the email. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256189 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION AND FOR MANAGING VISUAL CLUTTER IN A LIVE SESSION DISPLAY AREA SYSTEM - A system for clearing content displayed in the live session display area of an instant messaging system. The system enables a session participant to clear the content currently visible to each other participant in the session, either immediately, or in response to a criteria such as elapsed time or elapsed time since active in the session. The content that is cleared from the live session display area is not permanently lost, but is only temporarily hidden from the live session display area. The system further enables a local participant to recall such temporarily hidden content back into the live session display area. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256190 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING THE LOGGING OF SESSION TRANSCRIPTS TO LOG FILES IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A mechanism for controlling the saving of an instant messaging session transcript to a log file. The system includes a session locking feature that allows a participant (e.g. the session initiator) to lock the entire contents of a session transcript saved into a log file. The system further includes a message locking features that allows a participant to selectively lock a specified portion the contents of the session transcript saved to a log file. The locking participant is able to indicate which other participants can unlock the content in the session transcript stored in the log file that they have locked, and those specified other participants are accordingly sent the necessary key to unlock such locked content. The system further allows users to subsequently request locks to unlock content in a session transcript stored in a log file, and for the locking participant to selectively allow or disallow such requests. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256191 | SESSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE WITH STATELESS MESSAGING SERVICES - The present system uses dynamic assignment of key codes to select options of response content in request messages prior to transmission from an application server to a communication device. Dynamic assignment of key codes to selection options can occur according to a list of key codes having a predefined order also known as a predefined key code series. A key code series could be ordered according to ergonomic considerations or other considerations such as according to an alphabetic or numeric ordering. Communication occurs between one or more server applications running on an application server and a particular communication device, such as a cell phone. Dynamic key code assignment addresses problems raised when one communication device is concurrently carrying on more than one session with one or more server applications since the communication device identifier, such as a phone number, will be the same for all sessions. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256192 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTED PRESENCE - A method and system for capturing and managing an indication of availability of a user to make and receive media communications is disclosed. The user availability indication is suitable for use by a user having a plurality of communications devices operable over a variety of media at least some of which are attached to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) enabled network. The method and system provide an architecture for managing and publication of user availability information. The method and system provide a user with interfaces for set up, publication and delivery of user availability data that can integrate across different media types. A user can establish role, group, activity and location dependent availability information that is managed and updated automatically according to user defined policies or based on a case-by-case basis as the user interacts with the system of the invention. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256193 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING AN EMAIL AGGREGATION SERVER PROVIDING POLLING TIME GAP COMPACTING AND RELATED METHODS - An electronic mail (email) system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for repetitively polling the mailboxes for email messages, and forwarding the email messages to respective mobile wireless communications devices. The at least one email aggregation server may determine time gapped polling of corresponding mailboxes defined by at least one time gap between successive polls, and time compact a subsequent polling of the corresponding mailboxes by removing the at least one time gap. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256194 | Email Bookmark with Automatic Archiving - An email message content management method, system and program are provided for bookmarking subsets of electronic mail (email) message content for subsequent searching and retrieval. Subsets of email message content are designated and then identified to be bookmarked for subsequent searching and retrieval. Identification information such as file pointers and Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) links identifying the bookmarked email message content are generated and then indexed such that the bookmarked content can be searched. A copy of the email message is then automatically and persistently stored in a predetermined location. The bookmarked email message content can subsequently be retrieved, either by browsing the copies of the stored email messages or by performing search operations. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256195 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING EMAIL AGGREGATION SERVER PROVIDING STAGGERED INITIAL FALLBACK POLLING AND RELATED METHODS - An email system may include at least one subscribed mailbox server having a plurality of subscribed mailboxes and sending a new mail indication upon receiving a new email message, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for polling each subscribed mailbox for email messages based upon receiving a respective new email indication therefrom, and forwarding the email messages to respective mobile wireless communications devices. The at least one email aggregation server may perform a fallback polling of each subscribed mailbox based upon not having polled the subscribed mailbox for a threshold fallback time, and stagger respective initial fallback polling times of the subscribed mailboxes upon startup. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256196 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING EMAIL AGGREGATION SERVER PROVIDING STAGGERING OF OVERLAPPED POLLING AND RELATED METHODS - An electronic mail (email) system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for repetitively polling the mailboxes for email messages, and forwarding the email messages to respective mobile wireless communications devices. The at least one email aggregation server may determine time overlapped polling of corresponding mailboxes and time stagger a next polling thereof. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256197 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING EMAIL AGGREGATION SERVER PROVIDING SECURITY PARAMETER DETERMINATION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - An email system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages therein, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may also include at least one email aggregation server comprising a configuration module cooperating with the at least one email server for determining a plurality of operational configuration parameters for accessing a given mailbox by attempting access to the given mailbox using possible configuration parameters. The plurality of possible configuration parameters may include at least one possible email communication protocol security parameter. The at least one aggregation server may further include an aggregation module for forwarding email messages from the mailboxes to respective mobile wireless communications devices based upon the operational configuration parameters. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256198 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING AN EMAIL AGGREGATION SERVER PROVIDING DISTRIBUTED POLLING AND RELATED METHODS - An email system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages therein, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for polling the mailboxes for email messages, and forwarding the email messages to respective mobile wireless communications devices. The at least one email aggregation server may divide each of a plurality of repeating polling time intervals into a plurality of subintervals, and schedule each mailbox for at least a first type polling over each subinterval and for a second type polling over each polling time interval. The second type polling may be more comprehensive than the first type polling. The at least one email aggregation server may distribute the second type polling of the mailboxes over each polling time interval. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256199 | ATTACHING FILES FROM THE ATTACHMENTS AVAILABLE IN A USER'S MAIL BOX - Techniques are provided to a user for attaching files that are available in the user's mail box. Previous email messages are saved, along with any file attachments, in the mail box. When composing a new message and the user intends to attach files to the new message, the files that are available for attachment are not limited to the files that are saved on the user's computer. Available files to attach include the file attachments that are saved in the user's mail box and other files that are stored in an online storage system, which service may be provided by the same entity that provides the email service to the user. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256200 | Computer application text messaging input and output - The subject matter herein relates to computer application input and output and, more particularly, computer application text messaging input and output. Various embodiments provide systems, methods, and software to enable interaction with computer applications utilizing virtually any text-client, such as an instant messaging or text messaging client application or device. Some embodiments provide the ability for text-client interaction with voice applications, such as interactive voice response applications typically available to telephone callers. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256201 | System and method for communicating messages using alias addressing - A method and system for routing email messages to a recipient across disparate communication networks, by addressing the recipient using a pre-assigned alias. The alias may be an alphanumeric identifier that is associated with the recipient device, or a nickname that is associated with an alphanumeric identifier that is associated with the recipient device. The alphanumeric identifier is network independent across carrier networks, such as the recipient's wireless phone number or a nickname. The sender addresses an email message using the alias to a messaging server, without having prior knowledge of the wireless carrier dependent syntax for email addressing the recipient. The messaging server determines the corresponding wireless network carrier that services the recipient's particular recipient as identified by the alias, and the appropriate wireless network dependent syntax for email messaging to the recipient. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256202 | DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM WITH EXTERNAL SMTP SERVER SUPPORT - A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network for sending and receiving emails therefrom. A direct access server is operative with the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of the user belonging to an email source hosted by an email provider and obtaining email from the electronic mailboxes and pushing any email through the network engine to selected user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. It includes an internal SMTP server that is configured for outgoing email and operative for specifying an SMTP server for communication belonging to an email provider given a SMTP server and protocol combination for the email source of the email provider to which communication is desired such that the internal SMTP server of the direct access server is not used. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256203 | DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM WITH IMAP-IDLE IMPLEMENTATION - The communications system includes a network engine that communicates with the plurality of a user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network for sending and receiving emails. A direct access server is operative with the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of users from an email source and retrieving electronic messages from the electronic mailboxes and pushing any electronic mailboxes to the network engine to selected users subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. The direct access server communicates with an email source using the internet message access protocol (IMAP) and IMAP-Idle supportable connections to accept real-time notifications such that when a connection limit is reached or exceeded to an email source, the direct access server disables IMAP-Idle connections to the email source. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256204 | DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM WITH OUT-OF-COVERAGE NOTIFICATION - A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices and operative for determining when a mobile wireless communications device is out-of-coverage or turned off and unable to communicate with the network engine. A direct access server is operative with the network engine and polls electronic mailboxes of the users and retrieves electronic messages from the electronic mailboxes and pushes any electronic messages through the network engine to selected user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. The direct access server suspends polling of those electronic mailboxes of a user when a mobile wireless communications device associated with a user has been determined to be out-of-coverage or turned off and unable to communicate so as to preserve polling resources within the direct access server. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256205 | Apparatus and Method for a Portable Hand Held Device Into a Media Controller - A portable handheld electronic device, such as a cellular telephone, PDA, or gaming console, is disclosed that can be configured to initiate and control a media presentation at a display terminal. The media presentation originates from a media server. The handheld device provides functionality similar to a typical television remote control through the use of wireless transmissions, including Short Message Service (“SMS”) text messages and Instant Messages (“IMs”). | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256206 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PUSHING E-MAIL TO PORTABLE TERMINAL IN E-MAIL SYSTEM - Provided is an apparatus and method for pushing an e-mail to a portable terminal in an e-mail system. In an e-mail system for pushing an e-mail, an e-mail agent checks reception of a new e-mail, receives and stores the new e-mail, and generates a mail notification message, a message server receives the mail notification message and transmits it to an e-mail client, the e-mail client generates a mail request message and transmits it to the e-mail agent. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256207 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM FOR CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROGRAM - In a case where session management information is created from request information concerning a Web-based e-mail transmitted as HTTP data, if the request information coincides with a previously defined session start event for each Web-based e-mail service, a relay server adds a new entry to the session management information. On the other hand, if the request information coincides with a previously defined data operation event for each Web-based e-mail service, the relay server updates entry data of the session management information. Consequently, an administrator can execute higher accurate mail browsing by extracting, from the request information concerning the Web-based e-mail, not only the content of the Web-based e-mail but also a mail creation start method and a transmission state of the Web-based e-mail. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256208 | MANAGING ON-DEMAND EMAIL STORAGE - A method, system, and program for managing on-demand email storage are provided. An email service provider allocates a predetermined amount of storage space to an intended recipient. When an email is received for the intended recipient at the email service provider, the email service provider determines whether the predetermined storage space has sufficient capacity for storage of the email. If the predetermined storage space is insufficient for storage of the email, then the email service provider allocates on-demand storage space to the intended recipient. The email service provider then stores the email in the on-demand storage space, such that the email is stored, rather than discarded, when the predetermined storage space reaches full capacity. Before allocating on-demand storage space, the email service provider may compare the email characteristics with predefined criteria set by the intended recipient for emails to be stored in on-demand storage space. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256209 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VERIFYING AN ATTACHMENT FILE WITHIN AN E-MAIL - System, method and program product for managing a file attached to an e-mail. The attached file's file name is obtained. A voice message file address is received and encoded into a modified address to comply with file naming rules of a recipient computer. A composite file name results from inserting the modified address into the attached file's file name and is displayed in the e-mail. The recipient computer extracts the modified address from the composite file name in the e-mail and decodes the modified address to obtain the voice message file address. Using the voice message file address, the recipient computer requests and receives the voice message file. The voice message is analyzed and verified prior to accessing the attached file. Verifying the voice message includes comparing a voice of the voice message to a voice signature. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256210 | FILTERING EMAIL MESSAGES CORRESPONDING TO UNDESIRABLE DOMAINS - An email message is filtered to determine whether or not it is an undesired email message (e.g., “spam,” “junk mail,” etc.) that originates from an undesirable domain, such as, for example, a domain designated as originating from an undesirable geographic location. In some embodiments, upon determining that the email message originates from an undesirable domain, the email message is deleted (e.g., permanently removed, moved to a designated folder, marked for followup, etc.). In other embodiments, upon determining that the email message originates from an undesirable domain, the email message is further filtered to determine whether or not the email message includes attributes that indicate that the email message should not be discarded. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256211 | Electronic mail viewing device and electronic mail editing device - An object of the present invention is to provide an e-mail editing device having excellent operability, in particular, an e-mail editing device capable of switching and displaying related e-mails. A display processor ( | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256212 | Apparatus for Managing Email Messages - A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing email messages. Outgoing packets are monitored. The outgoing packets are parsed for outgoing email messages. An identification of recipients in packets for outgoing email messages is made. A list of email addresses is updated with email addresses for the identified recipients, wherein the list of email addresses is used to accept incoming email messages. The outgoing packets also are parsed to identify Web traffic containing a user email address. A domain name of the destination is identified for Web traffic containing the user email address. The list of email messages is updated with this domain name. Incoming email messages are screened to see if the domain name is present in the email address of the sender in determining whether to accepted the email messages. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080263156 | Secure Transactional Communication - Systems for providing sign-up email addresses are disclosed herein. A user may set up a sign-up email address for receiving emails from a trusted, Internet-based enterprise. The user may set up a dedicated mailbox folder associated with the sign-up email address or enterprise. The email server may automatically direct emails coming from that enterprise into that folder. To “unsubscribe,” the user needs only to delete the folder or the sign-up address. Emails from the enterprise to the sign-up address may be highlighted in the user's main inbox. Thus, the user may be assured that any such email is truly from the enterprise, and not a phishing expedition or spam. Such systems also provide the user with effective tools to recognize phish or spam emails that appear to be from the trusted enterprise and not to act on them. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263157 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORDERING INSTANT MESSAGES - A computer implemented method and a computer usable program product for ordering a plurality of instant messages are provided. A data processing system receives at least one incoming instant message. Responsive to identifying the at least one incoming instant message as a response to at least one outgoing instant message originating from the data processing system, the data processing system associates the at least one incoming instant message with the at least one outgoing instant message to form a set of related messages. The data processing system presents the at least one incoming instant message to a first user, wherein a relationship between the at least one incoming instant message and the at least one outgoing instant message is identified. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263158 | Method and Apparatus for Instant Messaging - A method and apparatus for instant messaging capable of an automatic response mode with enhanced reply options. In the automatic response mode, upon receiving a message from a sender, a terminal selects a reply message from a plurality of messages in accordance with at least one predetermined criterion, and responds to the sender with the selected reply message. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263159 | System and Method for Filtering Message - A system and method for message filtering are disclosed. A conversion target letter table is generated which stores information on letters that may be used to elude filtering, the table storing the hex code information of each letter that may be used for eluding filtering and the conversion letter information regarding the conversion letter to which each letter is to be converted. A hex code of a message text inputted by a user is compared with the hex codes of the table, and when a conversion target letter is included, it is converted to the conversion letter stored in the conversion target table associated with the letter. When the conversion is completed, it is determined whether or not pre-configured prohibited words are included in the converted message; and message filtering is performed. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263160 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT INFORMATION AND VIDEO APPARATUS THEREOF - A method for displaying content information and a video apparatus thereof are provided. The video apparatus includes an interface unit which receives a mail message from a mail server; and a content information generator which generates content information using a mail body of the received mail message, if URL information is contained in the mail body. Therefore, content such as web pages may also be provided to a user who does not know a URL, and the user can easily access content using a video apparatus in which it is difficult to perform web browsing. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263161 | Terminal and method for distinguishing between email recipients using specific identifier - Provided are a terminal and method for distinguishing between email recipients using a specific identifier. According to the inventive terminal and method, when email is desired to be sent to several recipients, it is possible to set an individual transmission configuration for each recipient and transmit the email in different formats depending on the recipients. Thus, a large-sized file is prevented from being unnecessarily created or transferred, thereby reducing unnecessary traffic. In addition, it is possible to prevent the storage space of a mobile device from being wasted due to receiving an unwanted attachment file. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263162 | Modeling User-Initiated Requests and Status Updates Within an Email Message - The embodiments described herein generally relate to systems and methods for modeling a user-initiated request to a business process application as an email form. It is often necessary for individuals to communicate, or exchange information, with a business application. Inefficiencies and delays arise where individuals are required to work within the context of the business application to accomplish desired actions or to determine the status of a requested action. By allowing a user to request an action from a business application using an email form, such inefficiencies and delays are minimized, if not eliminated altogether. A user may therefore initiate a request to a business application by working within the familiar and readily-available UI of the user's general-purpose email client and may receive status updates regarding such a request with the same UI of the original request. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263163 | Demand-driven, collaborative systems and processes for collecting structured information - A demand driven process of collecting and collaborating around reviews including the steps of: receiving a request for a review from a requestor, associating one or more potential responders with the request for a review, providing the request for a review to one or more potential responders, receiving and organizing one or more reviews from the responders, providing access to the organized reviews to the requestor and to the responders, and updating the accessible organized reviews as additional reviews are received, all electronically. An arrangement for the same includes user computers for receiving requests for a review, network communication devices for transmitting the requests to potential responders, memory for storing electronic reviews and a controller for organizing, updating, and providing access to the electronic reviews. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263164 | Method of Sending Motion Control Content in a Message, Message Transmitting Device Abnd Message Rendering Device - The invention describes a method of sending a message (M) from a sender to a recipient in which a record content (S | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263165 | INSTANT MESSAGE METHOD TO PROVIDE A DELAYED ALARM/REMINDER - A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for providing instant messaging users with an alarm to remind users of an event or to re-join an instant messaging chat. An instant message that includes a request for a user to currently participate in an event is received at an instant messaging client. If the user is currently unable to participate in the event, the user may create an alarm message that defines a delay time period after which the user is able to participate in the event. The alarm message is then sent to users in the instant messaging chat session. Responsive to receiving the alarm message at an instant messaging client, a countdown of the delay time period is initiated. Additionally, the receipt of the alarm message and timer countdown processing may occur on the instant messaging server, which would dispatch a message to the instant messaging client when the timer expires. Upon expiration of the delay time period, an alarm popup window is displayed, wherein the alarm reminds the user to participate in the event. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263166 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING DATA TRANSFERS IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for improving data transfers in peer-to-peer networks includes receiving a search request message from a requesting node, where the search request message requests specific data. A responding node then sends a response message to the requesting node including a referral message comprising at least one referred node that is expected to have the requested data, based on knowledge of the referred node's previous incoming and outgoing data transfers. The responding node may also indicate that the responding node has the requested data. In addition to increasing the requesting node's view of the peer-to-peer network, this also enables the identification of nodes (e.g., referred nodes) with which the requesting node may wish to establish direct peer-to-peer connections, e.g., to build peer-to-peer communities of nodes having similar interests. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263167 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFERRING READ STATUS OF INSTANT MESSAGES - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for inferring the read status of instant messages. One embodiment of the inventive method involves displaying the instant message on the receiver's computing device and sending a message to the sender indicating a probability with which the receiver has viewed the instant message. In one embodiment, this probability is based at least in part on an amount of the instant message that is in view on the receiver's computing device and on user input that is received by the receiver's computing device, e.g., from the receiver. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263168 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable information recording medium - An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a predetermined part of an electronic mail item, and a determination unit configured to determine whether another portion of the electronic mail item should be received based on the predetermined part of the electronic mail item. The predetermined part of the electronic mail item includes information about at least a title, an amount of information, and a transmission date of the electronic mail item. The determination unit determines whether the other portion of the electronic mail item should be received by comparing at least one item of the information about at least the title, the information amount, and the transmission date of the electronic mail item with a corresponding determination criterion. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080263169 | Systems and methods for messaging to multiple gateways - Systems and methods for providing message communication among multiple communication gateways. In particular, systems and methods for providing non-voice message delivery to intended recipients with increased speed and reliability to multiple users on multiple platforms. The systems and methods relate to non-voice messaging to multiple messaging gateways. In at least one embodiment, the systems and methods include Internet based electronic messaging using a messaging subsystem configured to optimize text message delivery to communication gateways. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080270540 | Filter and a Method of Filtering Electronic Messages - The invention provides a filter for filtering out spam mails before they arrive at a recipient's computer. Upon receiving a mail, the filter checks an associated insignia, e.g. the e-mail address of the sender, and if the sender is not yet in the allowed list, a reply mail is generated for the sender. When the sender responds to the reply, a priority is assigned to the insignia and the firstly forwarded message is held back until the insignia is selected to the allowed list. The filter could be implemented in standard computer systems. The invention further provides a method of filtering messages. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270541 | Interactive audio/video method on the internet - A method and system for providing live entertainment and teaching using interactive video and audio over an open internet connection to multiple viewers. The entertaining talent-person or teacher is located in various places and locations. In each location the talent-person talks about a particular subject such as cooking, travel, physics, farming, music, politics, or baseball and is broadcasting live audio and video of the talent-person through a camera and microphone connected to a computer, which is connected to the internet. The viewers see and hear the talent live by watching a web page on the viewers' devices connected to the internet. The viewers are able to comment and ask questions to the talent-person through chat input available on the web site. The talent-person to reads the viewer's comments and questions and responds to the question. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270542 | Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product for Reducing Session Related Message Size - An apparatus for reducing session related message size includes a processing element. The processing element may be configured to determine a domain-wide unique identifier and generate a message including a first field for identifying a message sequence associated with the message and a second field including a tag. The second field including the tag may be associated with an identifier of a source or recipient of the message. At least one of the first and second fields may be without data. The processing element may be further configured to include, in the message, a third field comprising at least the domain-wide unique identifier. The third field may be associated with data otherwise intended for the first and second fields. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270543 | E-MAIL SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS SENDER TO ATTACH RECIPIENT SPECIFIC METADATA - A method detects a request from a user to append metadata to an e-mail message being addressed to a number of recipients. In response to the request, the method prompts the user to supply recipient specific information. The method generates the recipient specific metadata from the recipient specific information. The recipient specific information is different for different recipients and includes information regarding the action that is expected from the recipient, the relevance level of the e-mail, the description of the e-mail, and/or associated comments. Similarly, the recipient specific metadata is different for different recipients and the recipient specific metadata comprises fields for expected action, relevance level, description, and/or comments. The method adds the recipient specific metadata to the e-mail message and sends the e-mail message. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270544 | GREYLISTING OPTIMIZATIONS FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERING - The present invention is directed to providing mail system administrators with the ability to choose the members of a key set used for storage and retrieval of greylisting records, wherein the key set members are derived from information concerning an SMTP transaction, such as SMTP client network details and/or other SMTP command arguments in addition to those of MAIL FROM: and RCPT TO:. The invention is further directed to the specific treatment of a key set that uses a client PTR record obtained from a DNS query based on an IP address of a connected SMTP client. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270545 | ENHANCED MESSAGE-ID AS ELECTRONIC WATERMARK FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERING - The present invention is directed to an enhanced Message-ID for an email message produced by an enhanced Message-ID generator and validator of an email system. The enhanced Message-ID comprises a symbolic name used to identify the presence of an enhanced Message-ID header, a timestamp value indicating when a modification was applied to the header, an original value of the Message-ID header, and a textual representation of a one-way security hash generated from the timestamp value, the original value, and a secret phrase. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270546 | Methods And Systems For Communicating Task Information - Methods, systems, and computer readable media are described for communicating task information. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving a publish message including task information representing a request, generating a notify message addressed to a device associated with the recipient watcher, wherein the notify message includes a sender presentity identifier, sending the notify message to the device enabling the task information to be presented with presence information associated with the sender presentity. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270547 | System and method for synchronizing email messages between an external email server a local email server and/or a wireless data processing device - A computer-implemented system and method for synchronizing email messages between an external email server a local email server and a wireless data processing device. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises a task queue comprised of a plurality of task entries, each entry associated with a particular user email account on the external email server and/or the local email server and representing a task to be performed in relation to the user email account; and a synchronizer to read synchronization tasks from the task queue and cause the synchronization tasks to be executed to synchronize email data stored on the external email server, the local email server and the wireless data processing device. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270548 | Apparatus and method for caching email messages within a wireless data service - A system and method are described for caching email messages within a data service. For example, a computer-implemented method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: retrieving a first set of email messages from a first email server on behalf of a wireless data processing device; extracting metadata from the first set of email messages; storing the metadata in a first cache, the first cache managed according to a first cache management policy; storing at least the message bodies of the email messages in a second cache, the second cache managed according to a second cache management policy. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270549 | Extracting link spam using random walks and spam seeds - Architecture for extracting link spam communities when given one or more members of the community. A link spam extraction algorithm is provided that takes as input link spam seeds and extracts other nearby link spam through a biased local random walk around the seed(s). The seed set is provided by a user (or an automated algorithm scrubbed by a human) which the algorithm uses to simulate a random walk on a web graph. The random walk can be biased to explore a local neighborhood around the seed set through use of decay probabilities. Truncation can be used to retain only the most frequently visited nodes. After termination, the nodes are sorted in decreasing order of final probabilities and presented to the user. Human judges need only make decisions at the spam community level, thereby limiting involvement, and human input can be scaled by several orders of magnitude. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270550 | Electronic mail connector - Technologies are described herein for providing a bi-direction e-mail transport between a management (“CRM”) server computer and an e-mail server computer. An e-mail connector communicates with a CRM server computer to determine whether any e-mail messages are pending send at the CRM server computer. If any e-mail messages are pending send, the e-mail connector retrieves the e-mail messages from the CRM server computer. The e-mail connector then communicates with an e-mail server computer to send the retrieved e-mail messages to their intended recipients. The e-mail connector may also retrieve e-mail messages from the e-mail server computer and determine whether the e-mail messages are CRM related. If the e-mail messages are CRM related, the e-mail connector is operative to transmit the CRM-related e-mails to the CRM server. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270551 | Rewarding influencers - Embodiments include a system, a device, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product. An embodiment provides an influence evaluation method. The method includes receiving data indicative of a person accessing at least one of a first network-available electronic content having a first-electronic-content portion or a second network-available electronic content having a second-electronic-content portion. The method also includes receiving data indicative of an involvement between the person and a third party. The method further includes facilitating delivery of a benefit to an owner of the first-electronic content or an owner of the second electronic content in response to an assessed influence by the first-electronic-content portion and/or the second-electronic-content portion on the involvement between the person and the third-party. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270552 | Determining influencers - Embodiments include a system, a device, an apparatus, a method and a computer program product. An embodiment provides an influencer discovery method includes receiving at least one of content site data, computing device data, search engine site data, or beneficiary site data. The method also includes determining a correlation between the communication between the content site and the computing device responsive to a human user input; and the communication between the computing device responsive to a human user input and the beneficiary site. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270553 | Method and System for Instant Notification of Communication Block Information - A method for notifying block information applicable to an instant messaging (IM) system employing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)/SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE) is disclosed. The method includes: a new user joining an activated instant messaging system; a server obtaining a user block list, and determining a block relationship between the new user and an existing user; sending a message to the existing user notifying that a blocked user has joined the instant messaging system, or a message to the new user notifying that a blocked user is in the instant messaging system. With the method, a client of the SIP/SIMPLE IM system is able to obtain the block relationship between users in the IM system, so that the IM system may be improved. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270554 | Application Design Framework for MANET Over Bluetooth - A system and method for designing applications for a device in a Bluetooth-based MANET (mobile ad hoc network) is provided. The method includes providing an application having an event module and a plurality of protocol modules. The method includes specifying whether the application will execute in either a high or low priority thread. The method also includes specifying whether high priority threads execute with one of an unblocking status and a best effort status, and specifying whether lower priority threads execute with one of a blocking status, the unblocking status, and the best effort status. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270555 | Interactive web collaboration systems and methods - A topic room is provided in which one or more individuals or other entities may collaborate on topics of mutual interest. Multiple individuals or participants may use the topic room to communicate in real or non-real time and may work together to create, browse, modify, comment on, and perform any other suitable action on content. A chat room within the topic room receives, records, and transmits the communications and all activity in the topic room to all participants as messages. Client processes at a participant's user equipment may listen to the messages and take particular actions. For example, one participant can follow another participant as that participant browses through material by using the messages received from that participant. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270556 | Contact-based communication threading system - A method of displaying messages received from or sent to communication devices includes displaying a list of all communication devices from which at least one stored message has been received or to which at least one stored message has been sent, selecting a communication device from the list of communication devices, displaying a list of stored messages received from and sent to the selected communication device. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270557 | E-MAIL SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS SENDER TO ATTACH RECIPEINT SPECIFIC METADATA - A method detects a request from a user to append metadata to an e-mail message being addressed to a number of recipients. In response to the request, the method prompts the user to supply recipient specific information. The method generates the recipient specific metadata from the recipient specific information. The recipient specific information is different for different recipients and includes information regarding the action that is expected from the recipient, the relevance level of the e-mail, the description of the e-mail, and/or associated comments. Similarly, the recipient specific metadata is different for different recipients and the recipient specific metadata comprises fields for expected action, relevance level, description, and/or comments. The method adds the recipient specific metadata to the e-mail message and sends the e-mail message. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270558 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REALIZING GROUP-SENDING MESSAGE SERVICE - A method for realizing a group-sending message service of the present invention is provided. The address information of a plurality of recipients assigned by a user is carried in a message body, and then a message application server finishes analyzing a group-sending flow directed to a plurality of users. The present invention further provides an apparatus for realizing the method and a system thereof. Since it needs performing communication between terminals and the server merely once, the network resource is saved. Because the group-sending address list is edited into the message body, it is more flexible for a user to assign destination recipients without being limited by the forms and numbers of recipients, and enriches the function of group-sending message service. Further, a provider can even supply a group-sending message to customers as a separate service, thus having a desirable commercial value. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270559 | Mobile Device and Method for Sending a Message from a Mobile Device - To provide a mobile device which facilitates the sending of a message and decreases the time needed for sending a message, a mobile device is proposed comprising a message creating unit (MCU) which creates a message having one or more message attributes and/or a message content. A recipient database (RDB) stores at least one recipient identification representative of an addressee. An analyzing unit (AU) analyzes the message attributes and/or the message contents, and generates a recipient list of at least one recipient identification based on the analyzed message attributes and/or message contents. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080275956 | GROUPING EVENT NOTIFICATIONS IN A DATABASE SYSTEM - Techniques for grouping events in a computing system are provided. A registrant sends, to a database server, a request to register to receive a single notification based the occurrence of multiple events that satisfy certain criteria, referred to as grouping attributes. Such registrations are referred to as grouping registrations. An eventing mechanism in the database server receives and maintains grouping registrations. When an event is received, the eventing mechanism determines whether the event has been registered for in an active grouping registration, i.e., one whose start time has passed but whose completion criteria are not yet satisfied. If so, then the eventing mechanism updates grouping data associated with the grouping registration. When the completion criteria of a grouping registration are satisfied, the eventing mechanism sends a notification to the registrant and/or other intended recipient(s). The notification may provide a summary of all the events in the group or provide details about a single event from the group, such as the latest event. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080275957 | Identifying and correlating electronic mail messages - Technologies are described herein for identifying and correlating e-mail messages. The contents of the subject and recipients fields of e-mail messages received at and sent from a computing system are hashed and stored in a database. When an incoming e-mail message is received at the computing system, the contents of its subject and recipients fields are also hashed. A search is then made of the database to locate e-mail messages identified in the database that have a sufficient number of subject and address hash values that match the subject and address hash values generated for the incoming e-mail message so that the messages may be correlated. A correlation is made between the incoming e-mail message and the best matching e-mail message located during the search of the database. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080275958 | DISTRIBUTED AND SCALABLE INSTANT MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for addressing an entity for an internet-based service other than electronic mailing includes selecting a prefix that is uniquely associated the internet-based service, providing an email address for the entity, where the email address includes a username and domain, and attaching the prefix to the domain to convert automatically the email address into an address for the entity for the internet-based service. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080281920 | ADAPTIVE PARSING AND COMPRESSION OF SOAP MESSAGES - A method and system for optimizing SOAP messages combines mechanisms of accelerating the composition of SOAP messages, reducing SOAP parsing overheads, and reducing SOAP message sizes by leveraging elements of the previous two techniques and policies for configuring these mechanisms. A byte-level partial representation of a SOAP message may be constructed upon its first use and each new instantiation of the same message is composed from this representation and the encoded parameters or return values. SOAP message parsing may be accelerated using a cache of associations. Each entry may associate the byte-level encoding of an XML tag with its component in the internal data representation of the received message. These two techniques can be used independently on one or both SOAP endpoints. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281921 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTER-DOMAIN MESSAGING - Methods and systems are disclosed herein for relaying a digital message from a first browser module to a second browser module. A webpage can be received from a first domain server. The webpage can have a link to a URI that references a web service on a second domain server. The webpage can be displayed in a first browser module. The URI can be referenced so as to invoke the web service. A cookie can be received from a web service and detected by a monitoring module. The cookie detected can be provided to the second browser module. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281922 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF EMAIL PREVIEWS AND SUMMARIES - An incoming electronic communication is broken down into message portions. Features of the message portions are extracted and the message portions are converted into sparse feature vectors. The probabilities of the message portions being of interest of the user are calculated and the message portions are converted back into text. Message portions with a relatively high probability of being of interest to a user are presented to the user as a summary. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281923 | Distribution List Management via SMS - The ability to manage and use a group distribution list by sending command codes in messages sent via a short messaging service is provided for. Management and usage may include receiving an SMS message having a command code, interpreting the message to retrieve the command code, and executing the command code. A system for managing and using a distribution list may include a short messaging service, and a group distribution list manager configured to receive a message via the short messaging service, interpret the message to retrieve a command code contained within the message, and execute the command code. A computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions for managing and using group distribution lists may include instructions that interpret a short messaging service message, wherein the message contains a command code, retrieve the command code, and execute the command code. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281924 | End user transparent email attachment handling to overcome size and attachment policy barriers - Email server side or client side components either remove email attachments from the relevant email, or identify the attachment while the email is being composed and makes the attachment available from a secure website or file hosting site. The recipient then receives instructions in the email and links to access the attachments rather than the attachments themselves. Email attachment size limitations are overcome for sender/recipient mail systems. Also, file type limitations related to email attachments are overcome, provides improved attachment security, and reduces email bandwidth costs. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281925 | Hybrid email method and system - A method and system for sending email. The method and system can include the drafting of an email on an interface and the sending of an email to an intended recipient via a server. If the recipient receives or opens the email, a delivered or read receipt may be transmitted to the sender of the email. If the recipient does not receive or open the email, a message may be mailed via a party maintaining the server. The message may contain information about the email and may have its associated delivery fees charged to the original sender of the email. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281926 | STB messaging system - There are provided a method, a system and a machine-readable medium for video terminal device messaging. In one embodiment, a method includes querying a user associated with a mobile device whether to receive one or more mobile messages destined for the mobile device at a video terminal device; and selectively receiving the one or more mobile messages at the video terminal device based on a response to the querying. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281927 | Summarization tool and method for a dialogue sequence - The application discloses embodiments of a summarization tool for a dialogue sequence or message thread. In the embodiments disclosed, the summarization tool utilizes a topic shift component to identify a topic start to define a topic group for the dialogue sequence or message thread. A summary component uses the topic start to generate a summary output for the topic group of the dialogue sequence or message thread. In illustrated embodiments, the summary output includes one or more of a context summary, a thread summary, and scope data or information. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281928 | Method For Transmitting Data to at Least One Communications End System and Communications Device For Carrying Out Said Method - The invention relates to a method for transmitting data to at least one communications end system, and to a communications device for carrying out said method. The inventive method comprises the following steps: providing a dataset that is meant to be transmitted to at least one communications end system ( | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281929 | System and Method of Automatic Multi-Media Mail - The present invention provides an automatic multi-media mail system which is (1) installed in a website that provides the Internet mail service, or (2) working in conjunction with an Internet mail server used by a user. In the first case, the present invention provides multi-media information recording functions through the Internet. In the latter case, the present invention separates multi-media information from a text mail and stores the multi-media information so that a user can transmit and/or access the multi-media information bypassing the Internet mail server. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281930 | Method, System, and Apparatus for Providing Self-Destructing Electronic Mail Messages - A method, system, and apparatus for providing a self-destructing e-mail messages are described. An e-mail client application provides a user interface through which the sender of an e-mail message can enter the message and a time period for destruction of the message. Once the sender has provided this information, the e-mail client application sends a request to an e-mail server application to transmit the self-destructing e-mail message. The e-mail client application may also receive self-destructing e-mail messages. When a self-destructing e-mail message is received, the destruction date associated with the e-mail message is identified and the message is destroyed at the specified time. The e-mail client application can also limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on a self-destructing e-mail. An e-mail server application is also provided that receives requests from the e-mail client application to transmit self-destructing e-mail messages and perform other functions. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281931 | Group Management Method and System in Interworking System of Imps System and Simple Im System - Provided is a group management method and system for group communication in an in-terworking system of an Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) system and a Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions Instant Messaging (SIMPLE IM) system. In the group management method, a client currently connected to one of the IMPS system and the SIMPLE IM system requests the retrieval of the group properties of a group included in the other system to which the client is not connected. The group property retrieval request is converted into a protocol format supported by the other system and is forwarded to the other system. The other system retrieves the group properties of the group, generates a group property response including the retrieved group properties, and forwards the group property response. The group property response is converted into a protocol format supported by the currently connected system and is forwarded to the currently connected system. The currently connected system forwards the group property response to the client. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281932 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Categorizing and Converting Attached Objects - Methods, systems, and products systems are disclosed for categorizing and converting an attached object. An electronic message is received from a sender's address that is destined for a recipient's address and has the attached object associated with a sender legacy system. The sender's address and the recipient's address are associated to a list of addresses. When both the sender's address and the recipient's address are matched to the list of addresses, then the electronic message is sent to a rule-based engine that interprets the attached object using a set of rules and that categorizes the attached object. The object is converted based on the category. When the sender's address and the recipient's address do not match the list of addresses, then an identifier is received that associates the electronic message with another system. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281933 | Session Management Enhancements for Instant Messaging Applications - The invention comprises an improved demand-based messaging system that enables a user to effectively manage multiple messaging sessions. The messaging system comprises a messaging program operable on a plurality of electrical computers or data processing machines connected by one or more communications media. The messaging program comprises a conventional message composer program, a conventional message transport program, a conventional message reader program, and an inventive, user-configurable, policy-driven session management program. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281934 | Assisting the response to an electronic mail message - A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for assisting an electronic mail (e-mail) response message by providing e-mail messages related to an open e-mail message. Specifically, the method determines whether an available e-mail message is related to the open e-mail message. Available e-mail messages may include unopened, previously opened, or incoming e-mail messages. As such, the user is warned of all relevant e-mail messages before responding with a reply message or a forward message. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281935 | INTELLIGENT DELAYED BROADCAST METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method, system, and article of manufacture that improves the chance of getting an answer to a broadcast chat by sending the messages in subscribers in periodically delayed groups. If a group of subscribers does not produce enough suitable answers, the present invention will then rebroadcast the inquiry to another group of subscribers. This process will continue until enough suitable answers are received. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080288593 | Method and Apparatus for Creating Merged Mails - A method for creating merged mails ( | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288594 | Electronic Mailing System - The present invention relates to a method, a system and corresponding devices for electronic transmission of mail pieces such as post cards front a plurality of local input means ( | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288595 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE-ORIENTED SEMANTIC WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLANNING - A method for modeling a web service operation, includes: defining an input message pattern that describes input requirements of a web service operation, wherein the input message pattern includes a set of variables representing data elements that must be contained in a message input to the web service operation, and a graph pattern that semantically describes the data elements that must be contained in the message input to the web service operation; and defining an output message pattern that describes an output message of the web service operation, wherein the output message pattern includes a set of variables and exemplars that represent data elements contained in the output message, and a graph pattern that semantically describes the data elements contained in the output message. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINT ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL AND CONTENT NETWORKS - A method and apparatus is provided to analyze social and content networks, to identify new relationships among users and content, and to more effectively link users to content. Embodiments of the invention also facilitate more relevant searches over both social and content data. One embodiment is directed to analyzing integrated social and content networks, and includes specifying a social network comprising multiple user nodes, and specifying a content network comprising multiple multimedia content nodes. Data elements associated with respective nodes of the user and content networks are analyzed, in order to detect a set of nodes comprising at least first and second user nodes and first and second content nodes, and to further detect at least three commonality links that join all the nodes of the set together. It is also determined whether a further link is a valid commonality link. The further link is initially inferred to extend between two of the nodes in the set, and to cooperatively join with the three identified commonality links to form a closed loop. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288597 | METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREVENTING DISTRIBUTION OF AN E-MAIL MESSAGE - A method and program product for preventing distribution of an e-mail message. The method includes generating an e-mail message to one or more recipients using an e-mail application installed on a sender e-mail client and selecting a non-distribution option provided by a non-distribution plug-in installed on the sender e-mail client. The method further includes encrypting the message using a recipient public key and a plug-in secret key provided by the plug-in before sending the message. Further, the method includes providing a hyperlink to a website for installing a correct version of the plug-in on a recipient e-mail client for decrypting and displaying the message. Moreover, the method includes decrypting the message using a recipient private key and using the plug-in secret key provided by the plug-in and modifying the recipient e-mail client, such that one or more distribution functions are disabled, preventing distribution of the message by the recipient. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288598 | METHOD TO MANAGE DISK USAGE BASED ON USER SPECIFIED CONDITIONS - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for managing email disk usage based on user specified conditions. An incoming email for a user is scanned for email expressions. A determination is made as to whether one of the email expressions matches one of a number of listed expressions forming a matched expression. Responsive to a presence of a matched expression, a determination is made as to whether a first threshold associated with the matched expression is met or exceeded. Responsive to the first threshold being met or exceeded, a notification is sent to the user of the first threshold being met. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288599 | Apparatus, systems and methods for transformation services - A web services hub receives a request from a data source system, transforms the request, and transmits the transformed request to an external system. A secure service router is coupled to the web services hub. The secure service router authenticates the data source system and locates a transformation service to transform the request. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288600 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO ASSOCIATED DATA RELATED TO PRIMARY MEDIA DATA VIA EMAIL - Systems are described for distributing supplemental data to media recipients that are experiencing a primary media event, such as a television or radio program, a movie or a live event. One of the methods includes receiving a media data stream from a media data source, where the media data stream includes primary data and associated data. The primary data includes a primary media presentation, such as a television program or commercial, and the associated data indicates availability of supplemental information related to the program or commercial. As the primary media presentation is presented to the media recipient via a media presentation device, the associated data is accessed from the media data stream. Based on the associated data, an indication is provided to the media recipient indicating that supplemental information is available. This indication may be in the form of a graphic icon that appears on a television screen or other display device. If the media recipient is interested in receiving the supplemental information, the media recipient activates a button on a remote control or other device which causes generation of a request for delivery of the supplemental information. In response to the request, the supplemental information is sent in an email message to the media recipient's email address. For example, the supplemental information may be an audio or video file, a document, or a link to a website which provides more information about a product depicted in the primary media presentation. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONED DELIVERY OF ELECTRONIC MAIL - A system and method for conditioned distribution of e-mail is provided. Delivery of an e-mail message to selected second recipients (equivalently addressees) may be conditioned on a set of preselected conditions, in particular to a set of conditions associated with the delivery of the e-mail to a set of first recipients. In response to message delivery notifications corresponding to the set of first recipients, a determination is made if the delivery conditions are satisfied, and delivery to the set of second recipients made accordingly. Delivery to a set of third recipients may be likewise conditioned on another set of conditions. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288602 | EMISSION-MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA - A system and a method for transferring data in an emission-monitoring system from a first computer to a second computer are provided. The method includes generating a first message containing a first software variable having a first site-specific value that is transmitted from the first computer to the second computer. The first site-specific value is indicative of whether one of a fault event, a maintenance event, or a calibration event associated with the first computer has occurred. The method further includes receiving the first message at the second computer, the second computer storing the first site-specific value in a first record of a first database. The first record is associated with the first software variable. The method further includes determining whether the first site-specific value indicates that an event has occurred. Finally, the method includes if the first site-specific value indicates that an event has occurred, then generating a second software variable having both a first predetermined name and a value equal to a first standardized value indicating that an event has occurred, else generating a third software variable having both the first predetermined name and a value equal to a second standardized value indicating that an event has not occurred. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288603 | Interceptor for Non-Subscribed Bulk Electronic Messages - Bulk mail subscriptions by including a bulk mail class indicator and a sender identifier key value in the header portion of an electronic message. Messages which are properly identified as bulk class and include an approved sender identifier value are passed directly to the intended recipient. Messages which are properly identified as bulk class but which do not contain an approved sender identifier value are rejected or intercepted. Messages which do no indicate themselves to be bulk class, but which are determined to have characteristics of bulk mail are rejected or intercepted, as well. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080294726 | Private electronic information exchange - Methods and apparatuses for private electronic information exchange are described herein. In one embodiment, when electronic information is received to be delivered to a recipient, the electronic information is transmitted over an electronic network with a private routing address. The private routing address is routable within a private domain, which is a subset of the electronic network. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294727 | Unsubscribing From Notification Of Future Messages In A Thread - The present invention relates to unsubscribing from notification of future messages in an existing message thread. A method for controlling user notification of future electronic mail (email) messages in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving an email message addressed to a user; determining if the email message belongs to an existing message thread; and in the case the email message belongs to an existing message thread, presenting the user with a selection of a plurality of options for controlling notification of future emails addressed to the user and belonging to the existing message thread. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294728 | Service Discovery for Electronic Messaging Clients - An autodiscovery service for clients in an electronic messaging system is disclosed. Client devices in the system request messaging system configuration settings from an autodiscover server. Clients may derive the address of the autodiscover server from user input, such as an email address, or the address may be obtained by other means. The autodiscover server responds to the request with settings for that client. The settings requested may include addresses of electronic mail servers and other servers that provide client services. The autodiscover server may determine the settings for the client based on various criteria, including client location and user mailbox location. Third party servers may participate in the autodiscovery service, and addresses of third party servers may be included in the settings provided to the client devices. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294729 | EMAIL OBJECT FOR OPEN MOBILE ALLIANCE DATA SYNCHRONIZATION USAGE - An email object is provided that fulfills requirements defined in the OMA MEM Enabler, where email messages are represented as extensible markup language documents. Filters created using XPath allow an email client to indicate what email messages are to be advertised as new and later downloaded. Table of content information can also be provided without the need for downloading an entire email object first, as well as additional information about each body part. Therefore, referencing body parts for downloading email body parts step-by-step or for use in a reply/forward without download use case, as well as allowing for the downloading of alternative content (e.g., content-adaptation) is provided. Data synchronization protocols are used to allow the email client to keep an equivalence relationship between main email storage on the email server and local mail storage on the email client side when transferring email messages between the email client and email server. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR END-USER MANAGEMENT OF E-MAIL THREADS USING A SINGLE CLICK - The present invention provides various simple and easy ways for each end user to manage the thread in a way that suits them. In some cases, the user experience requires only a single click. Additional embodiments allow user to manage inbox space, recover suppressed threads, be alerted on contextual changes of such threads, and so forth. The system allows the user to specifically configure his/her own email thread management scheme by selecting an email and choosing “Suppress Thread” on his/her user interface. The system then performs a number of steps such as examining the and headers of the selected email to configure the suppress filter. Once configured, the system will examine each email as it is received and examine its and headers per RFC 822. If the headers match the configured and headers, the emails will be suppressed in the manner chosen by the user such as deletion or move to folder. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294731 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING ADAPTIVE POLLING BASED UPON USER USAGE PATTERNS AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one data storage device for storing messages for respective users, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each associated with a respective user for accessing the messages stored on the at least one data storage device. Moreover, the communications system may further include an adaptive polling engine for polling the at least one data storage device for stored messages and providing the polled messages to mobile wireless communications devices of respective users. The adaptive polling engine may advantageously learn respective user usage patterns for each mobile wireless communications device, and change a respective rate of polling for each mobile wireless communications device based thereon. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294732 | DETERMINING THE STATUS OF A DEVICE THROUGH USE OF A PUBLISHER/SUBSCRIBER INTERFACE - A publish/subscribe interface is used to enable a non-publish/subscribe first system (such as an IP network device) to obtain status information about a publish/subscribe device that cannot be pinged by the first system. The first system sends a status request to a domain name server associated with a system known to include the publish/subscribe device. The status request includes a domain name for the publish/subscribe device. Topic space maintained by a message broker in the publish/subscribe system includes status topics associated with publish/subscribe devices. The status topics contents reflect the current availability of the associated publish/subscribe device. The domain name is mapped to a status topic associated to the publish/subscribe device identified in the status request and the contents of that status topic are retrieved. If the contents have a first value, a “good” IP address is returned to the first system. If the contents have the second value, a “bad” IP address is returned. The return address is used in ping messages. If the ping operation succeeds, it is concluded the publish/subscribe device is online. If the ping operation fails, it is concluded that the publish/subscribe device is off-line. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294733 | REMOTE SERVICES FOR THIN CLIENT - In an embodiment, instead of a desktop operating system providing basic services, such as file storage and/or identity management, the services may be instead migrated onto a network. Applications running under this new platform use remote servers as a mechanism for providing basic services that were previously provided by the desktop operating system. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294734 | System and Method for E-Mail Client with Proactive Indication Unit - A system and method provide an enhanced e-mail (electronic mail) system with a proactive indication of recipient away message. The system and method provide an enhanced e-mail system with a proactive indication of away messages of individuals related to the recipient. The system and method also provides for enhanced e-mail with a variety of away messages automatically sent based on criteria such as the nature of the e-mail sender, the date the e-mail was received, and the content of the e-mail. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294735 | Messaging Service - A messaging service is described which provides application agnostic and cross-platform messaging. Senders compile message content components and specify message preferences. The messaging service calculates a utility and cost of sending the message over different types of communication channel. A communication channel is selected using the cost and utility information and the message service formats the message content components for the particular communication channel. The message is then sent for example, as email, SMS, MMS or other suitable type depending on the selected channel. The utility is calculated using the sender message preferences, communication channel attributes, sending and recipient device attributes and preferably also, but not essentially, preferences of the recipient. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294736 | Electronic Mail Identification System - The present invention relates to an electronic mail identification system and methods, in particular to a system and methods for sending information corresponding to a keyword to an e-mail address of a user having a telecommunications device, said user registering with the system to indicate that the user solicits receiving said information. A method of sending information is provided to a keyword request from a user of an e-mail identification system to an e-mail address of said user, said user having a telecommunications device, said user not already registered with the system. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294737 | METHOD OF SENDING EMAIL FROM IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SENDING EMAIL - A method of sending email in an image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus capable of sending email, the method including: receiving a user selection of a file that is to be transmitted via email, from among one or more files stored outside of the image forming apparatus; generating an email including the selected file; and sending the email. Accordingly, the range of files that can be transmitted in the image forming apparatus increases, thereby improving the efficiency and convenience of email transmission. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294738 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CORRECTING E-MAIL MESSAGES WITH MISSING RECEIVERS - A solution is proposed for exchanging messages (such as e-mails) among a plurality of data processing entities, such as client computers ( | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294739 | OPERATION MONITORING APPARATUS, OPERATION MONITORING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING OPERATION MONITORING PROGRAM - An operation monitoring apparatus monitors statuses of plural monitoring target apparatus connected to a network, by sending a connection confirmation mail, via a notification server located on the network, receiving the connection confirmation mail and an operation confirmation mail sent from each monitoring target apparatus, storing a scheduled transmission time of a next operation confirmation mail contained in the operation confirmation mail, as part of apparatus information of the monitoring target apparatus and judging, using the scheduled transmission time, whether the next operation confirmation mail has been received. The judgment is not made if a latest connection confirmation mail sent from the operation monitoring apparatus itself has not been received. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294740 | EVENT DECOMPOSITION USING RULE-BASED DIRECTIVES AND COMPUTED KEYS - Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating a common event format representation of information from a plurality of messages include parsing a rule associated with a current message to determine if a property of a common event format representation for the current message is to be populated with a property value from a previous message. If the rule specifies to obtain the property value from the previous message, the property value is obtained from the previous message and the common event format representation for the current message is populated with the obtained property value from the previous message. The property value may be obtained by generating a computed key based on properties of the current message that are common to the previous message, and identifying the previous message based on the key of the current message. The rule associated with the current message may also be parsed to determine if the property of the common event format representation for the current message is to be populated with a property value determined by specified code. If the rule specifies to obtain the property value using the specified code, the property value is obtained using the specified code and the common event format representation for the current message is populated with the obtained property value obtained using the specified code. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294741 | Method of dynamically evaluating the mood of an instant messaging user - A method of dynamically evaluating the mood of a user of an electronic messaging system who uses a terminal to send an electronic message addressed to another user, the sending user having an element representative of that user's mood that is visible to the addressee of the message, and in general manner, by all of the contacts of the sending user. The sent message transits via a platform that includes a module for evaluating the mood of users, which module modifies a parameter measuring the mood of the user sending the message as a function of at least one predetermined criterion present in the sent message. The modified parameter is notified to the addressees of the message and to all or some of the contacts of the sending user. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080294742 | NETWORK AVAILABILITY STATUS DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a device configured to send and receive messages over a first network and a second network includes a network status detector unit and a network disabling unit. The network status detector unit is configured to detect the availability of the first network and output a first network status signal indicating the availability or unavailability of the first network. The network disabling unit is configured to receive the first network status signal and disable the sending and receiving of messages on the second network when the first network status signal indicates the first network is unavailable. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080301234 | Communication Apparatus, Information Processing Method, Program, and Storage Medium - This invention has as its object to avoid occurrence of garble even when an e-mail message to be created includes text information described in character codes of different kinds of language. To achieve this object, a communication apparatus according to this invention includes an input unit which inputs image information, a recognition unit which extracts text information included in the image information input by the input unit, and recognizing a type of character code of the extracted text information, an embedding unit which embeds the extracted text information in a text of e-mail using character codes of the type recognized by the recognition unit, and describing the recognized type ( | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301235 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING UNWANTED DIGITAL CONTENT DELIVERED TO A MAIL BOX - Email messages stored on a mail server are filtered to identify the email messages that contain unwanted content. The mail server receives incoming email messages over a network. A content filter performs an initial scan to identify the incoming email messages that contain unwanted content by determining whether signatures associated with the email messages are included on a list of signatures that identify email messages that are known to include unwanted content. The email messages that are not identified as containing unwanted content are forwarded to appropriate mail boxes on the mail server. Multiple scanning threads perform a subsequent scan of the email messages in the mail boxes to identify those email messages containing unwanted content that were not identified by the initial scan. The subsequent scan determines whether signatures associated with the email messages in the mail boxes are included in an updated list of the signatures. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301236 | CONTEXTUAL SOCIAL LANGUAGE - Systems and methods that enrich interaction of users in a written communication environment by providing a contextual language component that points to a designated data source (e.g., an object) and pulls data from such designated source, to perform predetermined function(s) thereupon. Users who communicate in the written environment can type an intuitive or customized operator, to engage in a predetermined functionality (e.g., playing a video). Accordingly, the operator can readily be interpreted by applications associated with the written communication environment. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301237 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED REFERRAL TO RESOURCES AND A RELATED SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and apparatus are provided for a user to construct a payload comprising content, such as multimedia, or references to content. The payload may be provided with further elements, such as a title or initial comments. The payload may be sent to any immediate contact of the user. Upon receipt by other users, the payload may be forwarded to any of the others' immediate contacts. Additionally, comments can be made by anyone in receipt of the payload for others in receipt of the payload to view. A social networking mechanism is provided, wherein a record is made for each forwarding of a payload and introductions can be made between individuals lying in the same forwarding chain of a payload. Immediate contacts can be collected into groups for ease in addressing. Teams of users can send and forward messages among themselves or to others outside of the team, according to predetermined rules and individuals' standing within the team. Users are provided with a sortable, filterable list of payloads sent to them. A thumbnail of each payload is provided to allow a user the opportunity to quickly assess the nature of the content. Payloads and invitations to join may be sent to people outside the system via email or as an instant message. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301238 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING EMAIL ADDRESS ACCOUNTS - A business owner of controlled email addresses sells access to email addresses for a specific amount of time or number of messages. An approved sender transmits an email message. A server receives the incoming email message. A business ID framework matches approved sender to approved receiver and forwards results to the server, If the email message is approved, then it is delivered to the approved receiver. The business may share a percent of the net income generated by address sales with receivers. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301239 | REMOTE ADMINISTRATION OF DEVICES AND RESOURCES USING AN INSTANT MESSENGER SERVICE - Various implementations are described herein for using instant messenger services to administer devices. Both devices and administrators have corresponding client instant messenger services that enable administrators to configure the devices, update firmware and/or software applications running on the devices, control the devices, facilitate communication between the devices and resources such as technicians, web services and so forth. Further, devices are also able to initiate communication with administrators and/or resources to request configuration, updates to firmware and/or software applications running on the devices, troubleshooting services from technicians, send alerts and so forth. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301240 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROPAGATING A MEDIA ITEM RECOMMENDATION MESSAGE COMPRISING RECOMMENDER PRESENCE INFORMATION - A system and method for propagating media item recommendation messages on a media item recommendation system is disclosed. A first media item recommendation message comprising a media item identifier and presence information of a recommender is received from the recommender. The first media item recommendation message is sent to a first recipient. A second media item recommendation message comprising the presence information of the recommender adapted by the first recipient is received from the first recipient. The second media item recommendation message is then sent or forwarded to a second recipient. The first recipient may adapt the presence information by including the presence information of the recommender unmodified, by including the presence information of the recommender modified by the first recipient, and/or by including the presence information of the first recipient with or without the presence information of the recommender. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING A MEDIA ITEM RECOMMENDATION MESSAGE WITH RECOMMENDER PRESENCE INFORMATION - A system and method of generating a media item recommendation message used to provide a recommendation for a media item by a recommender to a recipient on a media item recommendation system is disclosed. The media item recommendation is generated by including a media item identifier of a media item in a media item recommendation message, presence information of a recommender of the media item, and, optionally, a media item annotation in association with the media item identifier in the media item recommendation message. The media item recommendation message is transmitted to the recipient. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301242 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING CHAT CONTENT - Provided is a method for ensuring the privacy of communication during a computer chat session. The claimed subject matter enables each participant of a chat session to choose whether or not to allow other participants to save, print or archive the text of the session. At the beginning of or during a chat session, a particular participant decides that the chat session should be private. The participant transmits a message indicating the desire to make the chat session private. Each participant receives a pop-up message that communicates the privacy request and is provided the option of accepting or declining the request. If a sufficient number of participants accept the request, programming logic that blocks any attempt to save the chat content to memory is executed with respect to the chat session. Different chat sessions may be configured with different options such as, but not limited to, inclusive and non-inclusive. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301243 | Real time messaging framework hub - Methods and systems are provided for communicating an event from a server to a set of applications via a real time messaging framework hub, which communicates with the applications on individual channels and with the server on a single channel. A polling message is sent to the server and a reply is received. From the reply, it is determined whether the event has occurred. A polling message is received from a client, and a reply is sent containing either the event, if it has occurred, or a null response is sent indicating that the event has not occurred. Limitation of server communication with the hub to a single open channel substantially reduces server overhead. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301244 | Concurrent stack - A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface is configured for receiving and sending messages. A building block layer is coupled to the application programming interface. A channel layer is coupled to the building block layer. A transport protocol stack is coupled to the channel layer for implementing properties specified by the channel layer. The transport protocol stack has a concurrent stack consisting of an out of band thread pool and a regular thread pool. The transport protocol layer is to process messages from each sender in parallel with the corresponding channel for each sender. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301245 | System and method for sharing data - A method and computer program product for defining an activity. One or more members of the activity are defined. At least one piece of content is associated with the activity, thus defining at least one associated piece of content that is accessible by at least a portion of the members of the activity. Associating at least one piece of content with the activity includes determining if the at least one piece of content is from a private source. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301246 | Peer-To-Peer Message Format Data Structure - A wire protocol is described which implements connection management and other methods to give enhanced peer-to-peer content distribution. Connections between nodes can be placed in a “notify” state when they are idle but may soon yield useful content. This notify state is also used together with a content request/response cycle to allow a peer to evaluate content available at a neighbour. If no suitable content is available a notify state is entered. When new content is later received at the neighbour it is able to inform the requesting node to allow it to restart the content request/response cycle. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301247 | AUTOMATIC FILE SHARING OVER A NETWORK - A system includes a server, a source client executable on a first electronic device configured to be in communication with the server. The source client is operable to automatically upload a file to the server in response to a user of the first electronic device placing the file in a first electronic folder. The source client is configured to associate a first network address with the first electronic folder in response to a user instruction. A recipient client is executable on a second electronic device configured to be in communication with the server. The second electronic device is located at the first network address. The recipient client is operable to receive from the server the uploaded file. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301248 | Determining an applicable policy for an incoming message - Provides methods, apparatus and systems for determining an applicable policy for an incoming message having a service-level addressing element. A method includes the following steps: a) applying a potentially applicable policy (P | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301249 | Multiple device notification synchronization - A system for updating multiple copies of a software program on respective multiple devices includes a system for responding to a notification of a first copy of the software program in a first one of the devices; a system for sending a notification responded signal to a second one of the devices by the first device that the notification has been responded to; and a system for automatically preventing a duplicate of the notification from occurring in a second copy of the software program on the second device based upon the notification responded signal received by the second device from the first device. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080307054 | DYNAMIC KEY MANAGEMENT SERVER DISCOVERY - Various systems and method are disclosed for automatically disseminating key server contact information in a network. For example, one method (e.g., performed by a discovery server) involves generating a discovery message that includes at least one list of one or more key servers and then sending that discovery message to one or more members of a key management protocol group. Each list of key servers can include contact information for one or more key servers and indicate the priority of each key server relative to other key servers within the list. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307055 | System and Method for Efficient Indexing of Messages in a Law Enforcement Data Network - A system and method for cataloging and indexing messages that utilizes a message reference number that may be translated among different formats for propagating through a standard network and for displaying at a terminal. The reference number may be permanently assigned for the life of the archive. In one embodiment, the reference number may be generated using system number, temporal and sequence fields. The reference number may be mapped using a reversible mapping algorithm to a standard control field format for propagation through the existing database infrastructure systems. The reference number enables a database of search results to be stored permanently indexed by the reference number. Searches may reference other search results by reference number, and queries may be related to search results by the reference number. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307056 | Web Services Reliable Messaging - A method and system to communicate reliably using messages in a communications network is described. Using the described method, a service provider and a service consumer communication using web services messages can track messages using an instance of a reliable messaging protocol to track message receipt. Using a messaging system independent from a web services runtime environment of the service provider or consumer, the system is able to provide additional services such as queuing, scheduling, and delivery quality of service. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307057 | Method and system for providing a spam-free email environment - Spam-free electronic message system and method are described. A system and method for providing email or other electronic messages between users is described that comprises a centralized closed-loop communication network; a server(s) accessible through secured or encrypted connections for receiving and sending email between users; and a structured user protocol with an enforcement recourse process for users. The system provides a spam-free network system and method of operation. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307058 | Message handling for user interfaces - Generally, systems and methods permit customized delivery of messages to a user depending on the specific requirements of a user interface. A processing layer between a business object and a user interface may determine, for a received message, an appropriate rule for the target user interface. The message rule may be applied, and depending on the rule, the message may be delivered to the user. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307059 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMATION PROGRAM EMBODIED ON COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - In order to print a required number of copies, MFP having an assigned email address includes an email reception portion to receive an email, a number of copies determination portion to determine, based on destination information of the received email, the number of copies of data included in the email to print, and an image formation control portion to print the data included in the email by the determined number of copies. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307060 | SEARCH SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When a mobile terminal device detects the existence of the feature information of an article whose position is requested to be searched, it notifies an article management server of the detected position information and the time information together with the feature information of the article, and the article management server notifies a terminal device of the position information of the target estimated based on the detected position information, the time information and the feature information of the target and causes the terminal device to output the information. With this operation, when an article and the like are searched, they can be effectively searched even if they are not provided with a wireless tag, and thus a probability of discovery can be enhanced. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307061 | Message notification in instant messaging - Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the received message is compared with a set of entries and the content is matched with an entry. Notification of a new message is displayed in a form representing the matched entry. Each entry may be associated with a category and the step of displaying notification represents the category of the matched entry. The entries may be any one of or a combination of words, phrases and/or symbols which commonly appear in messages such that a user can determine the category of a message content without focusing on the message. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307062 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR SENDING IMS INSTANT MESSAGES - A method, a system and an apparatus for sending IMS instant messages are provided. The instant message includes at least one message body. The receiving terminal has a message receiving threshold. Under the situation that the size of the instant message is greater than the message receiving threshold, by replacing at least some of the original message bodies in the instant message with a new message body, the instant message is reconstructed so as to make the size of the reconstructed instant message not exceed the message receiving threshold. The reconstructed instant message is sent to the receiving terminal. The new message body contains a message body identifier corresponding to the original message body. The server may store the content of the at least some of the original message bodies and the message body identifier of the original message body. After the receiving terminal receives the instant message, the receiving terminal may selectively obtain the content of the original message body through the message body identifier. In accordance with the embodiments of the present invention, users' service experience can be strengthened, utilization rate of network resource is improved, and the restriction of the terminal's capacity to the size of the instant message is reduced. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307063 | Selective multi-step email message marketing - Here is disclosed a selective multi-step email message method for propagating same. A user interface allows the use of email messages for mass-advertisement while respecting private profiles of a receiving party. The method for automatically filtering email messages and allowing a recipient to predetermine criteria according to interests for receiving multi-steps email messages. The interface allows the user to generate a propagating profile for use in automatically forwarding received multi-step email messages. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080313282 | User interface, operating system and architecture - Disclosed are a novel user interface, operating system, software language and architecture. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313283 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED POPULATION OF MESSAGE BODY AND ADDRESS FIELDS BASED ON EMAIL SUBJECT - A method for automatically populating fields included in an electronic mail (email) message, the method includes: receiving an email subject input from a composer of the email message; determining whether the received email subject input matches a previously entered subject; wherein the previously entered subject is linked with predefined data and information associated with one or more email message fields; and wherein the one or more email message fields of the email message are automatically populated with the predefined data and information in the event that the received email subject matches the previously entered subject. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313284 | WIRELESS DEVICE CACHING DATA PROXY - A wireless device is provided to act as a caching data proxy for a first device, which may or may not be wireless. In particular, a cellular telephone is associated as a caching data proxy for a wireless portable computing device. The cellular telephone caches data as a proxy for the portable computing device when the portable computing device is either out of network coverage, powered down, or the like. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313285 | POST TRANSIT SPAM FILTERING - A system filters for electronic messages received from recently identified sources of unsolicited spam. A database comprises information regarding electronic messages that were previously received. The information may comprise an identification of the source of the electronic message. A server is programmed to identify sources of unsolicited electronic messages and search the database for electronic messages previously received from the identified source. The server is programmed to attempt to remove the previously received electronic messages originating from the identified source of spam from users' electronic message boxes prior to being viewed by the intended recipients. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313286 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PRESENTATION VIA NETWORK - A system for providing presentation via network includes a computer system at a first end having a presentation image retrieval module that retrieves and convents presentation contents into a presentation image and transmits the presentation image to a first instant messaging module on the first computer system, and the presentation image is further transmitted via a network to a second instant messaging module on at least one computer system at a second end for showing on a display of the second computer system. Therefore, a presentation can be given without the need of gathering a presenter and many audiences at a specified place. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313287 | E-MAIL PUBLISHING OF PHOTOS TO PHOTO ALBUMS - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to publishing content via e-mail. In aspects, a user configures a publishing component to enable photos to be published to an album via e-mail. The user may indicate valid e-mail addresses from which e-mails may be sent to publish to the album. A keyword is associated with the album. The keyword is used to generate an e-mail address associated with the album. This e-mail address is provided to the user. The user may then publish photos to the album by sending e-mails conveying photos to the e-mail address. The server hosting the album may verify that the e-mail came from a valid e-mail address. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313288 | Web gateway multi-carrier support - The present invention provides multi-carrier support in a wireless Internet gateway (WIG) that allows the WIG to send messages to any number of ‘peer’ gateways on the Internet in a conveniently reconfigurable manner. The disclosed embodiments include a ‘Message Distribution Center’ (MDC), through which short messages can be routed to the gateways of other wireless carriers based on carrier formats stored in an abstracted carrier format table. The conventional technique of separate classes written for each carrier is replaced by entries in a look-up table format, to provide a more easily adaptable wireless gateway. Thus, occasional updates of the carrier format table need only be updated, rather than the wireless Internet gateway program, reducing down time for updates, reducing the complexity of updates, and improving the reliability of a wireless Internet gateway in the face of changes for one or more carriers in a wireless network. The present invention enables a WIG to communicate with the gateways of other carriers (particularly other wireless carriers) having different and occasionally changing kinds of message destinations using different and occasionally changing protocols. Information regarding other carriers (i.e., destinations) may be added, changed, and/or removed from a wireless short messaging system network by simply modifying a configuration property file relating to message formats for each other carrier, rather than the conventional technique of providing each carrier with its own class, avoiding the conventional need to reprogram relevant sending gateways. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313289 | Mobile terminal apparatus, server apparatus and mobile communication network system - In a mobile communication network system provided with a cellular telephone enabling use of mail service for mobile terminals using a mobile communication network and Web mail service, and a server apparatus that manages e-mail addresses assigned to the cellular telephone for both the mail service, already input information is stored in the terminal when creation of Web mail is suspended in the cellular telephone, while the stored information is transmitted as an e-mail in the mail service for mobile terminals, and when the server apparatus receives the e-mail, the server apparatus replaces an e-mail address of a sender with an e-mail address for the Web mail service to transfer. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313290 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus including: a data generator to generate image data; an email writing unit to write an email including the generated image data; a user interface unit to display a user interface, which enables a user to select email transmission options, if the image data exceeds a file size limitation information of a mail server to receive the email; and a controller to control the email writing unit to write the email, according to the transmission option(s) selected through the user interface. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313291 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DATA - Methods and apparatuses for encoding data are described. In one embodiment, source data may be received. A control character may be inserted in the source data as a delimiter to create delimited data. The delimited data may be provided over a network. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313292 | Threaded Presentation of Electronic Mail - A threaded list of e-mail messages is provided by checking each received message against previous messages to determine whether the new message is associated with previous messages. If so, then a new thread is created. The new thread has an associated thread header, which stores metadata bout the messages in the thread. If the received message is related to messages in an existing thread, then the received message is added to that thread, and the thread header for that thread is updated to reflect data from the received message. The thread header appears with messages in a message list view of the inbox, and provides data about the thread. Messages that are not part of a thread are shown in the same view as threaded messages, without a thread header. This allows a user to view both threaded and non-threaded messages in a single view. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313293 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXACTLY ONCE MESSAGE STORE COMMUNICATION - A system for managing a message store in a network includes an object acting as a message store. In one embodiment, the message store is for Java Message Service. A lead server is selected from several servers. The lead server uses a distributed consensus algorithm to select a host server. The selected host server hosts the message store, providing sole access to the message store. The other servers are notified of the new host by messaging. In one embodiment, servers can send messages to the message store on the host and pick up any messages from the message store. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313294 | MESSAGING SYSTEM - A messaging system comprises a server which registers clients (users) and stores uploaded contact data in contacts databases. The contact databases have meta data including profile attributes indicating the subject matter profiles of the contacts. A content manager receives content items such as collateral parts and message text and stores them in content databases, also with meta data having profile attributes. When a client requests a message to be sent to a contact, the content manager automatically identifies relevant content items according to the profile attributes, and a messaging engine sends a message with a wrapper having links to these content items. When the contact responds, a response management function captures response data and instructs a build engine to build content from the identified items. The content is then sent to the contact. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313295 | MESSAGING PROTOCOL FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES WITH ATTACHMENTS - A message that is to be processed according to an electronic messaging protocol is associated with a sender of the message. The message also includes an attachment from an attaching entity. The attachment is associated with a unique property of the attaching entity. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080313296 | SCHEDULED ELECTRONIC MAIL DELETIONS - A method of managing electronic mail messages in an email account includes displaying an open email message to a user on a display screen of a device. While the open email message is displayed to the user, intent of the user to perform an action that will result in closing the open email message is detected. In automatic response to detecting the intent of the user and before the action can be completed, a plurality of deletion options is presented to the user, from which the user selects one deletion option. A selection of one of the deletion options is received from the user. A deletion criterion is set for a given email message based on the selected deletion option and the action that will result in closing the open email message is completed, in automatic response to receiving the selection from the user. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080320085 | Chat for Television Network - A chat system for a digital television network comprises a digital operator head end system ( | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080320086 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING INSTANT MESSAGE TRANSCRIPTS - The present invention provides a system and method for communications system, such as an instant messaging system, to allow encrypted conversations to be updated in real-time. The messages are encrypted with authentication keys or other security measures. The system and method provide the ability to modify an encrypted instant messaging conversation on the fly, where one user can seamlessly update the text without having to retype the full sentence or part of it. A sender's client may allow a sender client system to modify, for example, automatically or upon sender's input a message that has already been delivered to the recipients involved in the communication session. Once modified, the sender's client may allow the sender client system to deliver the revision to the recipients. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080320087 | SWARM SENSING AND ACTUATING - Sensing information from a multitude of remote sources can provide a user with a vast amount of information as well as a better granularity of the information. A user can also actuate or move remote sources to obtain the desired information or more information and/or to expend energy in a remote location with one or more of the remote sources. Thus, a swarm or large group of devices, sensors, actuators, equipment, and so on can be utilized to provide a user with a desired action. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080320088 | Helping valuable message content pass apparent message filtering - A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining an indication of one or more message filtering rules and accepting text-containing content after obtaining the indication of the one or more message filtering rules and after an acceptance of a delivery evaluation of the text-containing content; or causing a target-dependent, message-content-dependent delivery evaluation to depend at least partly on an indication of an apparent message filtering rule and signaling a resource allocation at least partly based on an acceptance of the target-dependent, message-content-dependent delivery evaluation. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080320089 | Preliminary destination-dependent evaluation of message content - A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations and indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations; or obtaining one or more evaluation parameters in association with a message content destination selection and transmitting at least a tentative-message-content evaluation result from an application of the one or more evaluation parameters to tentative-message-content. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080320090 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REVIEW OF DISCUSSION CONTENT - This invention is a content review system having a computer readable medium which can contain member information embodied in the computer readable medium representing individuals that wish to participate in online discussions where each member has an electronic address. Computer readable instructions provide for receiving initial discussion content generated by an originating member, generating a new discussion notification, transmitting the new discussion notification to the members, receiving a comment to the initial discussion content from a commenting member, transmitting the comment to each member, receiving review information from a reviewing member wherein the review is associated with the comment and wherein the review information include feedback information selected from the group of concur, concur and comment, neutral comment, dissent and dissent and comment, and transmitting the review information to at least one member. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080320091 | Communication Terminal Apparatus - A communication terminal apparatus is provided that prevents registration of a wrong mail address and prevents transmission of useless mails. The communication terminal apparatus has a recipient information memory unit for memorizing recipient information specifying a recipient of a mail, a recipient information input unit for inputting the recipient information, a recipient information verification request transmission unit for transmitting a request for verifying an existence of the recipient information inputted with the recipient information input unit, a reply reception unit for receiving a reply in response to the request transmitted by the recipient information verification request transmission unit, and a recipient information registration unit for registering, based on the reply received by the reply reception unit, the recipient information to the recipient information memory unit. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080320092 | Methods and systems for providing an electronic account to a customer - An electronic account is provided to a customer to enable the customer to access electronic services, such as e-mail and electronic transactions. The electronic account links an electronic address of the customer to a physical address of the customer. Using the electronic account, electronic services can be provided to the customer at either the electronic or physical address, or both. The services can be both secure and non-secure and can be provided by any service provider, such as an online merchant, a government agency, or a bank. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080320093 | Controlling the sending of electronic mail - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for sending individual email messages in a batch, and monitoring the information returned from every receiving mail server to make sure that the failure rate for each server does not rise too high. Two running counts are maintained for every receiving mail server—one count for successful delivery messages, another count for failed delivery messages. A calculation is maintained based on the number of success messages divided by the number of failure messages for each receiving mail server. The calculated result is treated like a score, and is compared to a pre-set value. When the pre-set value is met or exceeded for an individual receiving mail server, the continued sending of email messages to the mail server is stopped. A notification is provided to the sending mail server administrator indicating mail to the individual receiving mail server was stopped. The administrator can review a log of all returned mail and determine whether to re-start the mail batch or remove the batch from the queue for further analysis. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080320094 | System and method for effectively performing a streamlined photo distribution procedure - A system and method for effectively performing a streamlined photo distribution procedure may include a photo data source that provides photo data to a source device in an electronic network. A source photo manager of the source device may be utilized to designate one or more message targets for receiving the photo data from the source device. A source mail program may access the photo data to automatically create a photo message that includes the photo data and photo identifier means to request special handling of the photo data. The source mail program may then automatically transmit the photo message over the electronic network to be downloaded by a target mail program of a target device corresponding to the foregoing designated message target. The target mail program may automatically detect the photo identifier means in the photo message, and may responsively provide the photo data to a target photo manager of the target device for automatic storage into a target photo album of the target device. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090006555 | Method and System For Integration of Instant Messaging and Teleconferencing Via a Telephone Network - A system is provided comprising a plurality of instant messaging client applications ( | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006556 | ASSIGNING TAGS TO NETWORK ADDRESSES FOR SUBSEQUENT RETRIEVAL OF THE NETWORK ADDRESSES - Systems and methods are provided for assigning a tag, such as a short name, to a network address of a web page for ease in subsequent retrieval of the web page. A user of a browser application may enter a tag responsive to which the browser application associates the tag with a network address of a web page. The browser application then transmits the tag and the network address to a tag server that stores the tag as assigned to the network address. At a subsequent time, a user may enter the tag into a browser application to retrieve the network address that is associated with the tag. The browser application transmits the tag to the tag server to retrieve the network address associated with the tag. The browser application may then display the web page that is associated with the retrieved network address. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006557 | REMOTE PROGRAMMING OF AN AUTOMATIC REPLY FEATURE IN AN EMAIL ACCOUNT - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing remote programming of an automatic reply feature in an email account through a communication device, such as a landline phone, a mobile phone, etc. An automatic reply server is implemented in a communication network, such as a PSTN, a cellular network, etc. The user of a communication device may access the automatic reply server with instructions to program the automatic reply feature of his/her email account. Responsive to the instructions, the automatic reply server formats the appropriate program message, and transmits the program message to the email server that is hosting the email account. The email server then programs the automatic reply feature in the email account of the user based on the program message, such as by activating or deactivating the automatic reply feature, defining a message to include in the reply emails, etc. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006558 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING A THREAD OF EMAIL MESSAGES INTO A REAL-TIME MEETING - A system and method for transforming a thread of email messages into a real-time e-meeting. Collaborative processing between asynchronous and synchronous components are controlled through a UI which controls the selection of threaded messages and initiates an e-meeting including all the recipients of the thread, each participant may privately view the full content of the message by selecting the message, and the moderator has the option to terminate the real-time meeting. Any participant who accepts the invitation can see a synchronized inbox that is limited to the selected thread. A final summary of the decisions is then sent as a final message in the thread, thereby being captured in everyone's inbox. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006559 | Application Message Subscription Tracking In A High Speed, Low Latency Data Communications Environment - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for application message subscription tracking in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that includes: receiving, by a stream administration server from a subscribing client device, a subscription initiation request, the subscription initiation request specifying a message topic, the message topic specifying application messages for transmission to the subscribing client device from a message transmitting device; brokering, by the stream administration server, establishment of a message stream that provides the application messages for the specified message topic from the message transmitting device to the subscribing client device; and updating, by the stream administration server, a client subscription repository for monitoring application message subscriptions in dependence upon the subscription initiation request. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006560 | Terminating An Application Message Subscription - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for terminating an application message subscription that include: receiving, by messaging middleware of a subscribing client device, application messages having one or more message topics on one or more message streams from one or more message transmitting devices; receiving, by the messaging middleware from a stream administration server, a subscription termination message specifying a particular message topic for application messages that the subscription client device is no longer authorized to receive; and ceasing, by the messaging middleware, to provide the received application messages having the particular message topic to an application on the subscribing client device, including providing the received application messages having other message topics to the application. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006561 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR RETRACTING INSTANT MESSAGES - A method of and system for enabling retraction of instant messages detects a command to send an instant message from an instant message window. The system determines if the command is the first command sent from the instant message window after the window has received focus. If so, the system delays the execution of the command for a delay time according to a retraction policy, and provides a retraction control for canceling said command. The system cancels the command in response to actuation of the retraction control. The system may cancel the instant message in response to actuation of the retraction control. The system sends the instant message in response to expiration of the delay time without an actuation of the retraction control. The system may provide a control for sending the instant message before expiration of the delay time. The retraction policy may provide different delay times for different categories of recipients. The delay time may be zero for certain categories of recipients. The retraction policy may be configurable by a user. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006562 | Service Gateway Decomposition in a Network Environment Including IMS - In one embodiment, a scheme is described with respect to a service network system adapted to interoperate in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environment wherein signaling and message media planes are decoupled. The service network system comprises a service gateway controller (SGC) that is decomposed from a plurality of a plurality of service gateways (SGWs) operable to effectuate a message transport interface with respect to a remote services server. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006563 | Dynamic peer network extension bridge - A dynamically extended peer network is formed from a first peer network and a second peer network. The first and second peer networks are separated from each other by a boundary. A first computing system in the first peer network is configured to establish a communication link with a second computing system in the second peer network. The first computing system relays messages from the first peer network to the second computing system. The second computing system receives the messages and posts them to the second peer network. If desired, the second computing system can send a response to the message. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006564 | HIGH AVAILABILITY TRANSPORT - A system provides high availability electronic message forwarding. When an electronic message is communicated to a first server, a copy of the electronic message is maintained at a second server. The electronic message is maintained on both servers until the electronic message is successfully communicated to a third server. After the message is delivered to the third server, the electronic message is removed from both the first server and the second server. If the first server fails to communicate the electronic message to the third server, the second server does so. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006565 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MESSAGE CUSTOMIZATION - Disclosed is an apparatus for customizing messages. The apparatus includes a communications unit and a processing unit. The communications unit can be configured to receive a message from a sender and intended for one or more target recipients. The communications unit can also be configured to receive one or more message customization indicators that are from either or both of the sender and respective ones of the target recipients. The message customization indicators are respectively related to identifying characteristics of the respective target recipients and the sender when provided by the sender and respective ones of the target recipients. The processing unit can be configured to cause respective output versions of the message to be outputted to the target recipients, each respective output version being output in a format consistent with the message customization indicators and at least one of the respective output versions being different from another of the respective output versions. Also disclosed are corresponding methods and computer program products. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006566 | Providing Access to Presence Information Using Multiple Presence Objects - An approach is described for maintaining multiple presence objects associated with a single entity. The different presence objects correspond to different respective aspects of the entity's presence. Each presence object includes subscriber information and permission information associated therewith. The subscriber information identifies the subscribers that subscribe to receive notifications for a particular presence object. The permission information identifies the users who are entitled to receive notifications for the particular presence object. By virtue of the use of multiple objects, the entity can control access to its presence information with a high degree of granularity. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006567 | Providing Sender-Selected Sound Items to Conversation Participants - Functionality is described for allowing a first user to select a sound item. The first user can use a first device to send this sound item to a second device operated by a second user. Upon the occurrence of a triggering event, the sound item selected by the first user can be presented by the second device to the second user. The first device and the second device may correspond to two devices in an Instant Messaging (IM) system. According to another illustrative aspect, functionality is described that allows the first user to select the new sound item from a source sound item by adjusting the position and/or size (e.g., width) of a graphical selection unit that is presented over a graphical depiction of the source sound item. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006568 | Network-based collaboration record - A network-accessible data storage service integrated with instant messenger software. Network-based collaboration between one or more collaborators may be facilitated by enabling information exchanged in an instant messaging environment, such as files and comments, to be integrated into a network-accessible data storage service and made available to the one or more collaborators after collaboration in the instant messaging environment has ended. In some embodiments of the invention, a data storage service may comprise an instant messaging service through which the data storage service may be a collaborator. Information exchanged during the network-based conversations may be received by the data storage service as if it were one of the one or more collaborators and may be stored by the data storage service in a network-accessible location. The data may then be made available to the one or more collaborators of the network-based collaboration following the end of the network-based collaboration. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006569 | Method and apparatus for creating predictive filters for messages - A method and apparatus for creating predictive filters for messages. In one embodiment, filter information is coupled to a reputation database. One or more filters for a message feature are generated if a reputation of the message feature is associated with one or more portions of the filter information. In one embodiment, SPAM filters are generated. In yet another embodiment, one or more message features are tested using heuristics. One or more message features are blacklisted based on a determination of the heuristics. One or more additional message filters are generated if a reputation of the message feature is associated with a blacklisted feature. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006570 | Email fetching system and method in a portable electronic device - In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for fetching email from an email server to a portable electronic device is disclosed. The method includes fetching email from the email server upon occurrence of at least one of: expiration of a first period of time after activation of an email application running on the device; expiration of a second period of time after a prior email fetch while the email application is running in the foreground; expiration of a third period of time after the prior email fetch while the email application is running in background; or expiration of a fourth period of time after the portable device is unlocked. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006571 | DATA TRANSFER PROCESS APPARATUS, DEVICE, STATUS NOTIFYING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR STATUS NOTIFICATION, AND PROGRAM FOR STATUS NOTIFICATION - Transmission data is generated depending on the status change of a device according to a message indicating the status information about the device and the destination information about the message and is transmitted by electronic mail, and the user who manages the device can be notified of the status of the device at an appropriate timing by a data transfer process apparatus, a device, a network system, a data transfer method, and a storage medium. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BOUNCING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method and apparatus is provided that establishes user accounts that automatically forward a user's e-mail to the user's pre-selected forwarding e-mail address(es). Each user creates a forwarding directory, which may comprise multiple e-mail accounts, that the user activates and deactivates as needed. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006573 | Method And System For Publishing An Electronic File Attached To An Electronic Mail Message - Publishing content associated with an electronic file attached to an electronic mail message by executing instructions contained in the electronic mail attachment and accessing the content at a remote computer server identified by the attached file. The attached file includes computer-executable instructions, such as a computer program or script, which include an identifier for a remote server connected to a distributed computer network. This identified remote server typically hosts a web site containing content intended for viewing by the recipient of the electronic mail message. In response to launching the attached file of the electronic mail message with a viewer program, a browser program can be opened to enable the recipient to view the content of the identified remote server, typically a web site on an intranet or the global Internet. This supports the communication of electronic content by using an electronic mail message to transport an electronic file attachment having instructions that, when executed by the recipient's computer, enable the recipient to view the electronic content by accessing a server computer connected to distributed computer network. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090013046 | Method and System for Managing Message Communications - A method for managing message communications includes detecting a message comprising a plurality of intended recipients and automatically initiating a forum for response communications associated with the message. The method also includes detecting response communications associated with the message and posting the response communications to the forum. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090013047 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MESSAGES RELATED TO WORKFLOWS - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing messages. A message and a tag are sent to a set of recipients, wherein the tag contains state information for the message. In response to receiving an event from a recipient within the set of recipients, the reply message tag is processed with a policy to identify an action. The action identified by processing the event with the policy is performed. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090013048 | Multimedia mood messages - A user terminal connected to a communication network and executing a communication client. The user terminal comprises display means for displaying a list of contacts associated with a user of said client, means for retrieving a message from said communication network, wherein said message is related to a further user represented by one of said contacts displayed in said list of contacts, said message comprising a reference to media stored in a storage means accessible by said communication network, means for extracting said reference from said message, and means for displaying a visual representation of said media in association with said one of said contacts, such that, responsive to the user actuating said visual representation, the client establishes communication with said storage means using said reference and displays the media to said user. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090013049 | Content and Service Delivery in Telecommunication Networks - A service system ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090013050 | Systems and Methods for Information Delivery - Provided is a computer system | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090013051 | METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF INFORMATION RELATED TO TARGETED CONTENT MESSAGES THROUGH A PROXY SERVER - Information transfer methods for exchange of information with a wireless access terminal (W-AT) includes receiving a first message from the W-AT, the first message including first information provided by the W-AT and an address of the W-AT capable of identifying the W-AT, converting the first message to an anonymized message by replacing the W-AT address with a transaction identifier (ID), transmitting the anonymized message to a remote server, receiving a first response from the remote server, the first response having response information and the anonymized address information, converting the first response to a second response by replacing the transaction ID with the W-AT address, and transmitting the second response to the W-AT. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090013052 | AUTOMATED SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE INFORMATION BASED ON A COMPUTER USER'S CONTEXT - A system filters received messages (e.g., unsolicited advertisements) to determine if they are appropriate for a user based on the non-static, constantly evolving, context of the user. The system can track the user's context by monitoring various environmental parameters, such as related to the user's physical, mental, computing and data environments, and can model the current context of the user based at least in part on the monitoring. The system selects a set of one or more filters to apply to incoming messages based on the user's context, and the selected filters can be updated as the user's context changes. Messages that survive the filters are then evaluated against the user's context to determine whether they should be presented immediately or stored for delayed presentation. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090013053 | System and method for the dynamic generation of correlation scores between arbitrary objects - When an end user opens an e-mail the user's e-mail client requests the image content based on the image tag from a recommendation platform and sends an identification to the recommendation platform as part of the image URL. The user ID or seed item is looked up in the recommendation platform database and associated behavioral data and any applicable rules to generate content for the e-mail and the content is then displayed in the e-mail as an image. When the image is engaged, a request is sent to the recommendation platform that references the user or request identifier and a logical location in the image where the click occurred, the image location is looked up along with the user or request identifier to present the correct page or content for the user. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090019115 | Communications server objects for configuration information access - Architecture comprising an application programming interface (API) for representing and accessing various configuration data related to an enterprise messaging communications system. The API includes three classes for accessing stored configuration data related to enterprise recipients that can receive messages (e.g., e-mail), one or more servers that facilitate messaging communications of the enterprise, and a messaging connector for proper flow of message internal and external to the enterprise. By encapsulating these sets of configuration data into distinct classes, business logic that interprets these classes can be centralized thereby avoiding duplicate and incompatible logic. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019116 | LARGE DISTRIBUTION MESSAGE HANDLING - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for large distribution message handling. Data characterizing an intended distribution load of a message being greater than a threshold indicator may be received, a determination may be made to set a flag in response to the data; and an action may be performed in response to the flag being set. Determining a distribution load may involve determining a number of intended recipients of a distribution list, a size of a message across a number of intended recipients, and the like. Actions to be performed may include suppressing auto-replies, notifying a client, and denying distribution of a message. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019117 | SUPER-EMOTICONS - Techniques are described for generating and displaying “super-emoticons”. Super-emoticons are similar to smileys in that they may be generated in response to a participant in a textual conversation entering a specific sequence of textual characters. However, super-emoticons differ from smileys in that super-emoticons are programmed to demonstrate more sophisticated behaviors, including but not limited to: moving out of the text insertion location, interacting with other display elements, interacting with users, changing appearance based on context, exhibiting randomly selected behaviors, and making use of information from services. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019118 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE IDENTITY OF A CHAT PARTNER DURING AN INSTANT MESSAGING SESSION - A system for verifying the identity of a chat partner during an instant messaging session. The identity of an instant messaging partner can be verified at any given moment during an instant messaging session. The status of the verification is displayed in the current session, and is contained into any subsequently saved session history file. Prior to the beginning of communication, a participant has the ability to challenge one or more other participants to verify that they are really the people assigned to the corresponding instant messaging identifiers. During the instant messaging session, participants are further allowed to challenge any other participant before going further with the session (e.g. prior to discussing confidential information or accepting files). The system addresses the problem of an unauthorized user gaining access to another user's instant messaging identifier. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019119 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ONE OR MORE MISSING ATTACHMENTS OR EXTERNAL REFERENCES IN COLLABORATION PROGRAMS - A system and method provide an enhancement to electronic mail programs, messaging and collaboration programs that scan the sender's message text and determines that the sender intended to attach one or more attachments or include one or more external references, but no attachment or reference has been included, and warns the user before sending. The system and method identify variants of typical phraseology such as “attached is . . . ”, “Here is . . . ”, “This file . . . ”, “take a look at this . . . ”, etc., and determines that it was likely that the user meant to attach or refer to something. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019120 | METADATA-ENHANCED INSTANT-MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - Described herein is a metadata-enhanced instant-messaging application and device. The metadata-enhanced instant-messaging application can create and receive instant-messages that contain data and metadata. The metadata, for example, can contain a type that relates to the data. The metadata-enhanced instant-messaging application can analyze the metadata, such as by ascertaining the type contained or described within the metadata. Furthermore, the metadata-enhanced instant-messaging application can associate the data and metadata based on the information in the meta-data, such as by reading the type contained within the metadata and associating software application that can consume the data and metadata described by the type. In addition, the metadata-enhanced instant-messaging application can provide the data and metadata to the software application to consume the data and metadata. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019121 | Message processing - A message processing system | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019122 | Direct mailing in a geo-spatial environment - A method and system of direct mailing in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile associated with a specific geographic location and at least one contact address, associating a first user with a first user profile, selecting a mail mode, selecting a communication, generating a first display view to include a three-dimensional map view embodied by the community network, at least a portion of the user profiles represented at a location in the three-dimensional map view associated with the specific geographic location of the first user profile, selecting a second user profile from the portion of the user profiles, and generating a mailing of the communication, in a format associated with the mail mode, between the first user profile and the contact address associated with the second user profile. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019123 | Session Management Enhancements for Instant Messaging Applications - An auditing system is disclosed comprising a Policy Validation Mechanism Program (PVMP) that operates in conjunction with a Workflow Engine (WE), and a Policy Validation Server Program (PVSP) that operates on a Policy Validation Server (PVS) connected to the WE by a secure communication link. The PVMP converts a workflow to a workflow representation (WR) and sends the WR to the PVS. The PVSP compares the steps in the WR to a security policy identified for that WR and determines whether the WR is in compliance. In addition, the PVSP validates a checksum for the WR and logs the checksum for subsequent comparisons. The PVSP uses the checksum to determine whether a policy has changed during execution of the workflow. If the WR is not in compliance, if the checksum cannot be validated, or if a policy has changed, then a failure notification is sent to the WE. Otherwise, a success notification is sent to the WR. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019124 | Publish/Subscribe Messaging - The invention relates to a message brokering system for connecting a client in a local publish/subscribe messaging system to a remote message broker. The system comprises a message broker in said local publish/subscribe messaging system and a metabroker application means representing said remote message broker. The local message broker comprises publish/subscribe means for proxying messages between the client and the metabroker application means. The metabroker application means comprises publish/subscribe means for proxying messages between the local broker and the remote broker. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019125 | RECEPTION NOTIFICATION CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A reception notification control method is provided in which an information server that stores information addressed to reception terminals and performs reception notification, via a network apparatus, on each of the reception terminals to which the information stored in the information server is addressed. After receiving, via the network apparatus, a predetermined connection request from a reception terminal to which stored information is addressed, the information server performs the reception notification on the reception terminal. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019126 | AUTHORIZED EMAIL CONTROL SYSTEM - An authorized email control system receives email destined for a particular user. Inclusive, temporary, and exclusive address books are provided for the user. The inclusive address book lists all the sender email addresses and domains names that the user wants to allow into his mailbox. If the received email message's sender is listed in the user's inclusive or temporary address book then the email is placed in the user's main mailbox. If the sender is listed in the user's exclusive address book, then the message is deleted. The invention truncates the body of the received email message to a user settable length which is sent through at least one extensible message filter that provides a pass/fail indicator and optionally provides reasons for a fail indication. If the truncated email body passes all of the filters, then the sender is added to an accepted sender list. Otherwise, the sender is warned that its email was rejected and the reason(s) why. The sender's domain name is then placed on an unaware domain list. The user is conditionally notified if the sender has been added to the sender list or unaware domain list, giving the user the option to add the sender to his inclusive or exclusive address book. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019127 | Method for Determining User Uniqueness in E-Mail Campaigns - A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for determining user uniqueness in e-mail campaigns. An instruction set is placed in an e-mail to form a modified e-mail. The modified e-mail is sent to a server for a distribution list, wherein the instruction set is executed in response to the modified e-mail being opened, wherein the instruction set identifies a reader of the modified e-mail based on an e-mail address of the reader and sends information to a collection device about the modified e-mail and an identification of the reader that opened the modified e-mail. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090024705 | MESSENGER BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ACCESS A SERVICE FROM A BACKEND SYSTEM - What is described is a system and method for accessing a backend service. The method includes receiving a message at a client; parsing the message into parts of the message using a natural language processor; interpreting the parts of the message; identifying a service and a backend system based on the interpreted parts of the message; and invoking the service from the backend system. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090024706 | GRANULARLY SELECTING A SUBSET OF RECIPIENTS WHO CAN REPLY TO A SENDER'S E-MAIL - A method, system, and computer program product for assigning reply status to an outgoing electronic mail (e-mail) message. While creating an e-mail message, an interface is provided for granularly assigning or denying reply privileges to recipients of an outgoing e-mail message. Reply status is assigned by selecting a subset of recipients by name, e-mail address, and/or e-mail group who may reply to the e-mail. As the recipient's reply status is modified, the outgoing e-mail is updated, revising the reply e-mail address for each recipient. When the recipient is granted reply status, the e-mail address of the original sender is provided as the reply e-mail address. However, in the event the recipient is not granted reply status, the e-mail address of an automated, unmanned e-mail account is provided as the reply e-mail address. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090024707 | Electronic Messaging System and Method For A Vehicle - A vehicle includes a body defining a passenger compartment and a messaging system having a user input device with a display. The input device receives an outgoing communication from an occupant and presents the outgoing communication on the display. The messaging system generates an outgoing e-mail message describing the outgoing communication, and containing a text file corresponding to a speech message and/or a digital image file describing a handwritten trace message, and transmits the outgoing e-mail message to a remote source. A method for exchanging electronic messages between a vehicle and a remote source includes recording an outgoing message using a user input device, generating an outgoing e-mail message by recording a voice message as a first electronic audio or text file and/or recording a handwritten trace of as a second electronic image file, and transmitting the e-mail message to the remote source. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090024708 | INSTANT MESSAGING IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and computer program products for exchanging instant messages among a plurality of users of data processing client entities (such as personal computers) are disclosed. For each user, a corresponding method starts with associating a profile with the user. The profile defines a set of (one or more) events, and for each event a set of (one or more) corresponding actions. The method continues by detecting the occurrence of one of the events. A selected action corresponding to the occurred event is then executed. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090024709 | Method and System for Monitoring the Status of an Online Transaction - The invention includes methods and software for presenting a user with a set of interfaces that reveal what events are to occur, or are likely to occur, in a transaction, and provide the ability to program the automatic monitoring of these anticipated events with a customizable set of alerts. A merchant encodes events that are possible for the transaction as part of developing an online transaction system such as an online catalog. The data regarding these events is encoded in an electronic communication, such as an email or onsite transaction history item, such that this data can be detected by a receiving system. The method includes presenting and setting monitoring options for event notices that have not yet been received. The chosen options for event notices that have not yet been received are used to program the monitoring and alerting of the user when such event notices have or have not been received. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090024710 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERFACING WITH A USER IN INSTANT MESSAGING - Reducing the amount of input required by a user to enter an electronic message. When an electronic message is received, one or more language expressions associated with the electronic message are displayed to a user. The user may select one or more of the language expressions and have the full text of all the selected language expressions included in a reply electronic message. Icons, which represent a user's capability to engage in an electronic messaging session, may also be displayed. When a user changes their capability to engage in an electronic messaging session, for instance when they go offline, a command may be sent to other users. This command may take the form of a character sequence not normally occurring in written language, which is interpreted by network devices and changes the display of the icon associated with a the user who went offline. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090024711 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH ENHANCEMENT DATA - A method of enhancing an electronic communication is disclosed, be it in the form of a message, file, or other type of transmission. The method includes the steps of transmitting and receiving a message or file with a content and, along with the message or file, transmitting and receiving enhancement information enabling a recipient of the message or file to more fully appreciate the content. In one embodiment, the enhancement information enables the recipient to visualize the sender or listen to the content of a message. For example, the enhancement information may include phonemes enabling the recipient to listen to the content of a message in a synthesized voice of the sender. In all embodiments, the enhancement information may be stored at the location of the recipient to limit the need for retransmission thereof. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090030988 | RICH-MEDIA INSTANT MESSAGING WITH SELECTIVE RICH MEDIA MESSAGING BROADCAST - In one embodiment, a method for sending a video message and a text message in a communication session is provided. The method includes determining when a contextual trigger is detected in the communication session between a first user and a second user. For example, the contextual trigger may be when a first user focuses on a window being used for the communication session. The first user may then input a text message. A video message of the first user in the communication session is also determined. The video message is determined based on when the contextual trigger is determined. For example, the video message may include video from a time before when the contextual trigger is determined, such as 10 or 20 seconds before, until a time when the first user is finished inputting the text message. The text message and video message are then sent to a second user. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030989 | ENTERPRISE E-MAIL BLOCKING AND FILTERING SYSTEM BASED ON USER INPUT - Incoming e-mails having an incoming domain are received at an e-mail server. Incoming domains are compared to a list of blocked domains to determine whether the incoming e-mail is to be delivered. Incoming domain are further compared to at least one predefined category having a distribution list. If the intended recipient is not a member of the distribution list, the incoming e-mail is not delivered. Domains within the blocked domain list and the predefined categories are user suggested domains from previously received e-mails. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030990 | Tunneling Artifacts Through Instant Messengers - An interactive teleconference includes a text messaging session between a first user and second user. A collaborative pipe is attendant to, but invisible to, the text messaging session. The collaborative pipe allows artifacts, from a first application used by the first user, to be transmitted to a second application used by the second user without underlying logic in the text messaging session being aware of the artifact transmission. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030991 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMING VIDEOS INLINE WITH AN E-MAIL - A method of facilitating the organization and presentation of video e-mails containing embedded video provides a repository for distinguishing video e-mails from regular e-mails, displays the contents of the repository (e.g., as a list of thumbnails, etc.), and, in response to their selection, streams embedded videos from within the e-mail client where the body of an e-mail is usually displayed. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030992 | OPTIMIZING THE EXPECTATION OF A RESPONSE IN INSTANT MESSAGING WITH AN AUTOMATIC HIERARCHICAL INSTANT MESSAGE ASSISTANT - A method, system and computer-readable medium for enhanced instant messaging in a data processing system are disclosed. The instant messaging application detects a number of instant messaging sessions of a first messaging participant with a number of other messaging participants and detects a hierarchy class of each of the other messaging participants. The application calculates an average response time for each of hierarchy classes. The application determines whether the average response time for each hierarchy class exceeds a predefined threshold. If the average response time does not exceed the threshold the application displays an indication of the average response time for the hierarchy class to each of the other messaging participants of the hierarchy class. If the average response time does exceed the threshold, the application displays an indication to each of the other messaging participants of the hierarchy class that the first messaging participant is unable to respond. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030993 | Simultaneous synchronous split-domain email routing with conflict resolution - An email address may be associated with more than one inbox on more than one server. An email sent to such an address may not be delivered automatically to all the inboxes because mail transfer agents follow a rule that each email address is uniquely associated with one inbox on one server, so such agents stop after delivering email to the first inbox. A switching mail transfer agent processes email to deliver to more than one inboxes associated with the address substantially synchronously and substantially without duplicates being delivered to the same inbox. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030994 | GENERATING A FINGERPRINT OF A BIT SEQUENCE - A method of generating a fingerprint of a bit sequence includes determining a relative occurrence frequency of each bit combination of a set of bit combinations in the bit sequence, wherein the set of bit combinations comprises all possible non-redundant sub-sequences of bits having at least one bit and at most a preset maximal number of bits. The method further includes determining for each bit combination of the set of bit combinations a difference value between the relative occurrence frequency of the bit combination and a random occurrence frequency, the random occurrence frequency relating to the expected random occurrence of the bit combination in the bit sequence. Moreover, the method includes allocating a set of bins, each bin of the set of bins being associated with a predetermined interval of difference values, each bin further relating to a bin value. The difference value of each bit combination is assigned to the bin which is associated with the interval of difference values in which the difference value of the corresponding bit combination lies. A fingerprint of the bit sequence is generated by use of the bin values of the bins to which a difference value has been assigned. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030995 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a system includes a wireless server communicatively operable with a set of mobile wireless clients, where the wireless server has a share agent configured to control dissemination of information from a database on a shared basis responsive to a determination of a privacy state of the information. In an embodiment, a mobile wireless device has an integrated management system operable with a controller. The management system is configured to manage the mobile wireless device operable as a multiple-mode wireless client to each wireless server of a set of wireless servers such that information may be shared among the mobile wireless device and the set of wireless servers. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030996 | TECHNIQUE OF RELAYING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN CLIENT APPARATUS AND SERVER APPARATUS - A relay system for obtaining a program from a server and returning the program to a client by forwarding a message received from a client to the server. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030997 | Method and Apparatus for Minimizing Storage of Common Attachment Files in an E-Mail Communications Server - The present invention provides an e-mail communications system that minimizes the number of duplicate copies of common attachment files to e-mail communications that are stored in the mail store of an e-mail server. When the e-mail server receives an e-mail attachment file that is larger than a threshold size, the server performs a database search for another copy of the attachment file in the mail store. If another copy is located, the system creates a pointer in the mail store that associates the located attachment file with the e-mail for the additional recipient(s). Attachment files are deleted only after the recipients of the associated e-mail communications delete each of the respective e-mails. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030998 | CONTACT SIDEBAR TILE - Methods, systems, and computer program products for tracking real-time communication data within a single contact tracking application for diverse communication providers and applications. A global data store is synchronized with real-time communication data, such as presence, status, unread messages, and unread notifications, from each application/provider. Real-time communication data for contacts dynamically determined to be recent contacts is retrieved from the data store, based on properties such as a most recent communication time, a communication count, and the like. Real-time communication data corresponding to contacts identified as pinned contacts for which display of real-time communication data is preferred, also may be retrieved. A user interface is generated for displaying the one or more recent and/or pinned contacts, which may vary in size based on the number of contacts identified as pinned contacts, from which a contact may be selected for real-time conversation or e-mail. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090037535 | Creating or Interpreting an Electronic Communication - Among other disclosure, a computer-implemented method for creating an electronic communication includes identifying, for an electronic communication regarding multiple items that is to be sent, a default value that applies to at least one of the items. The method includes including the default value in a default component configured for holding multiple default values. The method includes identifying a data structure that is common to more than one of the multiple items. The method includes defining the data structure in a list component configured for holding multiple data structures. The method includes forwarding the electronic communication, including the default component and the list component. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037536 | Instant messaging voice mail - A method, system and computer usable medium are disclosed for delivering an electronic message. In various embodiments of the invention a first computer is used to receive voice data from a user and to generate a message data file therefrom. A test is then conducted to determine whether a predetermined second computer is operably coupled to the communication network. If the result of the test indicates that the second computer is not coupled to the communication network, the message data file is forwarded to a predetermined storage location in an electronic messaging system. In various embodiments of the invention, the message data file is subsequently retrieved from the predetermined storage location by the predetermined second computer. In embodiments of the invention, the message data file is processed to comprise text data or voice mail data prior to forwarding to the predetermined storage location in the electronic messaging system. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037537 | Tracking Electronic Mail History - Tracking history of e-mail messages. A tracking request can be sent at any time, and need not be specified prior to or during the sending of the e-mail message. In one embodiment, tracking is requested by resending an earlier-sent message to the recipient, and associated with this resent message is a tracking request X-header. A recipient of the tracking request X-header responds by returning a reply X-header in a reply message along with tracking information pertaining to the original e-mail message. One alternative embodiment embeds an e-mail object in an e-mail message to request the tracking instead of using a request X-header, and similarly, uses an e-mail object to provide the reply instead of using a reply X-header. Users may be allowed to specify whether their e-mail client will respond to tracking requests and/or may be allowed to specify criteria for automating this decision. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037538 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PRIORITIZE CHAT ALERTS BASED ON AN ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHICAL CHAIN - In a chat alert method and system, a chat user creates alert profiles that include the requestor's level in an organizational hierarchy as a parameter and the alert type for the level. When a chat client receives a chat request from a requester for a receiver, the chat client determines if there is a chat alert profile that matches the requestor's level. If so, then an alert is issued to the receiver according to the matching chat alert profile. Optionally, the chat alert profile sets an alternate alert system, where if the receiver does not respond to the request within a specified time, an alert is sent using the alternate alert system. Chat requests from requesters higher up in the reporting chain can be highlighted for the receiver. The receiver can then prioritize the chat requests that he/she receives and respond to them in a timely fashion. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037539 | Methods and Systems for Message Interworking - Methods and systems for interworking in messaging systems are described. An event store can be accessible by different dispatchers associated with different message servers. The dispatchers may be co-located with the event store or non co-located with the event store. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037540 | NOTIFICATION OF WAITING VOICEMAIL MESSAGES BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Systems and methods are disclosed that provide notification of waiting voicemail messages between different types of communication networks. A first communication network as described herein includes a voicemail server to store voicemail messages for a user of a communication device. A second communication network provides phone service to the communication device but uses a different signaling protocol than the first communication network. In order to notify the user of the waiting voicemail message in the voicemail server, a subscriber server (e.g., an HLR) in the first communication network receives a voicemail waiting indicator in the signaling protocol of the first communication network, identifies the signaling protocol of the second communication network, and converts the voicemail waiting indicator to the signaling protocol of the second communication network. The second communication network may then provide notification of the waiting voicemail message to the user. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037541 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESPONDING TO A MESSAGE SENT TO A USER AT AN EMAIL SERVER - A system and methods for adding a personal touch to auto-reply email messages is presented herein. The system and method involve a user enabling a personalized auto-reply feature in their email client, the email client communicating such enablement to a related email server, the email server receiving an email message for the user, the email server determining personal identifier of the sender of the email message and the email server sending a personalized auto-reply using the determined personal identifier to compose and send an auto-reply with a personal touch. The email server may determine the personal identifier through searching one of the user's address book or a global address list for an address entry having the reply address found in the received message's header or the email server may search the body of the received email message to determine personal identifier. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037542 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF EMAIL FORWARDING BY REMOVING DUPLICATION - In a method and system for removing email forwarding duplication, when an email was sent for the first time, the email was assigned a unique identifier. An aggregate recipient list was created and associated with the unique identifier. When the email is to be forwarded, the aggregate recipient list has recipients previously forwarded the email. The recipient list of the forwarding email is compared with the aggregate recipient list. If duplicate email addresses are found, the duplicate email addresses are displayed to a sender of the forwarding email. If the sender chooses not to send the forwarding email to the duplicate email addresses, the duplicate email addresses are removed from the recipient list of the forwarding email. New recipients of the forwarding email are added to the aggregate recipient list. The forwarding email with the unique identifier is sent to the recipient list. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PRIORITIZE CHAT ALERTS BASED ON AN ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHICAL CHAIN - In a chat alert method and system, a chat user creates alert profiles that include the requestor's level in an organizational hierarchy as a parameter and the alert type for the level. When a chat client receives a chat request from a requester for a receiver, the chat client determines if there is a chat alert profile that matches the requestor's level. If so, then an alert is issued to the receiver according to the matching chat alert profile. Optionally, the chat alert profile sets an alternate alert system, where if the receiver does not respond to the request within a specified time, an alert is sent using the alternate alert system. Chat requests from requesters higher up in the reporting chain can be highlighted for the receiver. The receiver can then prioritize the chat requests that he/she receives and respond to them in a timely fashion. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037544 | METHOD TO PROVIDE ASSISTANT ROLE IN INSTANT MESSAGE SOFTWARE - The present invention provides a method for managing additional functions in an instant messaging system, a method for providing an additional function to an instant messaging system, an instant messaging system and IM client therein employing the methods. The instant messaging system enables a plurality of users to instantly message with each other through a network. The method for managing additional functions comprises: at a client of the instant messaging system, invoking a program for one of the additional functions in a session by way of interaction with a contact, wherein the additional function is recorded in local contact list of the client as the contact. The present invention enables a user to add a UI component corresponding to a needed additional function in the dialog of current chatting session only when necessary, thus reducing the complexity of the main UI. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037545 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTING INFORMATION IN A MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method and system for automatically collecting information in messaging system. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: setting a flag indicating an information collection and an initiation flag for a message for requesting information collection by an information requestor; generating a unique identifier for identifying a task for the information collection, and sending the message; when replying to the message for requesting information collection, setting a reply flag for a replied message and sending the replied message, wherein information required to be collected is included in the replied message; and extracting the information required to be collected by the task for the information collection identified by the unique identifier from the replied message in accordance with the flag indicating an information collection and the reply flag, consolidating the information into a single summary document, and providing the summary document to the information requester. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037546 | FILTERING OUTBOUND EMAIL MESSAGES USING RECIPIENT REPUTATION - A method for filtering email messages by using reputations associated with recipients of the email messages to determine if senders of the email messages are spammers and correspondingly if the email messages are spam. Recipient reputations may be established based on counts of unique good senders and unique bad senders sending email messages to the recipients or by comparing sender email activity to bad recipients. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037547 | Safety information transmission device - A safety information transmission device includes a reception unit that receives, via a network, safety information indicating whether or not a user is safe, the safety information being received by an information processing terminal if biometric authentication of the user is successful, and a control unit that determines, when a contact method is a contact by an electronic message and a contact destination address is an electronic message address, to transmit the electronic message containing the safety information to the electronic message address. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037548 | Method and Apparatus for Automatic Notification and Response - A disclosed notification and response system enables applications to communicate with recipients using a number of different media. The notification and response system (i) sends requests to one or more recipients, using the medium specified by each individual recipient; (ii) collects and processes responses; and (iii) forwards the responses to their final destination by means of the medium specified by the final destination. Applications frame requests in at least one supported human language and media format, and the request is delivered to the appropriate recipient(s), according to their preferences. Communication flow expressions specify the recipients for a given request, and how, when and where each recipient shall receive the request. Requests are dynamically updated, and the parameters of a communication flow expression are not evaluated, until the request is delivered. Communication flow rules specify recipient's communication preferences and tailor communication flows to characteristics of the sender, the topic or scheduling constraints. Communication flow expressions are evaluated using a three-valued logic: notification failure (maybe), response failure (false) and response success (true). Primitives specify simultaneous or sequential contact, and when execution of the sub-expression should terminate by defining a logical combination of success test results. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037549 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AN ANALYZING APPARATUS - When an analysis is finished in the GC/MS | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090043850 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATION - A method and computer program product for generating an email message from a first user that solicits a response message. A determination is made concerning whether the response message to the email message is still permitted. If the response message to the email message is still permitted, a second user is allowed to generate the response message. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043851 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATION - A method and computer program product for receiving notification of a first user response message concerning an email message received from a sender; receiving notification of a second user response message concerning the email message received from the sender; and providing the first and second users with one or more statistics concerning the email message. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043852 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATION - A method and computer program product for receiving an indication of the generation of an email message addressed to one or more recipients. An online collaborative workspace is generated. The online collaborative space is associated with the email message. At least a portion of the email message is posted to the online collaborative workspace. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043853 | EMPLOYING PIXEL DENSITY TO DETECT A SPAM IMAGE - A network device and method are directed towards detecting and blocking image spam within a message by performing statistical analysis on differences in edge pixel distribution patterns. An image spam detection component receives a message with an image attachment. Physical characteristics of the image are examined to determine whether the image is a candidate for further analysis. If so, then the image may be converted to a grayscale image, and then performing edge detection, followed by the elimination of non-maxima and thresholding of weak edges. Edge pixels and then employed to determine a normalized pixel density distribution (PDD). Various statistical analyses are applied to the resulting normalized PDD to determine a likelihood that the image is spam. A signature based exemption may be applied to images improperly identified as spam, based on trusted user feedback. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043854 | Instant Messaging Session Initiation Using a Proxy Session Request - A first user of a collaboration application having IM contact information for target users can set up an IM session through the collaboration application that makes of the first user's preferred IM client. The collaboration application responds to the first user's request for an IM session by generating in IM session request that contains 1M contact information for both users. The IM session request is forwarded to the IM server associated with the first user's preferred IM client. The IM server sends a session setup request to the first user. The session setup request identifies the second user as the originator of the request. When the first user responds to the message ostensibly sent by the second user, the message is forwarded to the second user to complete the session setup process. In an alternate embodiment, the server sends the request to the IM server for the second user. When the second user responds with an IM message, the message is forwarded to the first user to complete the session setup process. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043855 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO ORIGINATOR OF MISDIRECTED EMAIL - The invention provides a computer-implemented method for responding to an email message sent by a sender to an intended recipient. The method includes the steps of extracting the recipient email address from the initial email message and determining whether there exists a valid email account corresponding to the extracted recipient email address. When it is determined that no valid email account exists corresponding to the recipient email address, a response email message is generated and directed to the sender email address. The response email message not only indicates that the initial email message was undeliverable, but it includes supplemental information that may be of use to the sender. For example, the supplemental information may include advertisement information or search links that may or may not be contextually relevant to the content of the initial email. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043856 | Instant Messenger with Visible Attributes on the Presence Line - An instant messaging system comprising a user interface and a plurality of indicia. The user interface displays the indicia including a potential recipient of an instant message, and a plurality of attributes representing an area of expertise for the potential recipient. A method for displaying the user interface and the indicia is also disclosed. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043857 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING A TASK VIA INSTANT MESSAGING - A method for receiving a task via an Instant Messaging (IM) service is described. The device is connected to the IM service. A task initiation instant message is received. A response to the task initiation instant message is sent. The response includes instructions on how to send a task to the device using the IM service. The instructions are independent of an IM provider that provides the IM service. A command is received to execute the task at the device. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043858 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INSTANT MESSENGER BASED PERSONAL BROADCASTING SERVICE - A method for providing an IM (Instant Messenger) based personal broadcasting service includes when a lower node in a first group requests an upper node in the first group to transmit a broadcasting content, transmitting, at the upper node in the first group when a lower node in first group requests an upper node in the first group to transmit a broadcasting content, the broadcasting content to the lower node in the first group, and transmitting, at the lower node in the first group that receive the broadcasting content, the broadcasting content to a lower node in a second group where the lower node in the first group operates as an upper node. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043859 | BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS - An MPU of a digital broadcast receiver comprises: a still image generating portion that receives input operation by the user through a remote controller and, based on the received input operation, generates still image information corresponding to video image information received through a receiving portion; and an image transmitting portion that receives input operation by the user through the remote controller, and that, based on the received input operation, attaches the still image information generated by the still image generating portion to an electronic mail message as an attached file and transmits through the Internet the electronic mail message to which the still image information is attached to an electronic mail address stored in an address memorizing portion. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043860 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE - The present invention enables accurate detection of risks from an electronic mail message. In a mail inspection unit, an information extraction section extracts text and a mail address from electronic mail accumulated in a journal DB, and a text normalization section normalizes the text. A sort-information saving section generates text sort information according to the score obtained from a sorting engine, and stores it in a mail-management-information storage section. A personal-information saving section extracts personal information from a personal-information storage section according to the mail address, and stores it in the mail-management-information storage section. Finally, a risk-level determination section compares the information stored in the mail-management-information storage section with the information stored in a category-information storage section to determine the risk level of the electronic mail. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043861 | SYSTEM FOR EXCLUDING RECIPIENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system that enables a communications system user to conveniently define entities to be excluded from receiving an electronic communication, such as an electronic mail (“email”) message. An “Exclude” user entry field is provided in a user interface to a communication system. The Exclude field accepts entry of an “exclude set” of entities to be excluded from an email message being processed or defined in a currently accessible graphical user interface window. The disclosed Exclude field is provided in a user interface window together with one or more other user entry fields available for definition and/or review of an “include set” of entities initially designated for receipt of the message. Lists and/or groups may be resolved by determining the destinations they contain either within the client computer system, within a source server computer system, and/or within a destination server computer system. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090043862 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXCLUDING RECIPIENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system that enables a communications system user to conveniently define entities to be excluded from receiving an electronic communication, such as an electronic mail (“email”) message. An “Exclude” user entry field is provided in a user interface to a communication system. The Exclude field accepts entry of an “exclude set” of entities to be excluded from an email message being processed or defined in a currently accessible graphical user interface window. The disclosed Exclude field is provided in a user interface window together with one or more other user entry fields available for definition and/or review of an “include set” of entities initially designated for receipt of the message. Lists and/or groups may be resolved by determining the destinations they contain either within the client computer system, within a source server computer system, and/or within a destination server computer system. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090049130 | Method and system for sending electronic mail over a network - The present invention provides a method for sending o electronic mail messages (emails) via a network such as t internet by a mail processing unit, comprising: —generating by the mail processing unit of a user's electronic mail message to be authorized, wherein the mail message comprises text image and/or sound data; —addressing of the generated unauthorized mail message by the mail processing unit; —temporarily storing the generated unauthorized mail message at the mail processing unit; —showing the unauthorized mail message to a previously seed supervisor associated with the user; —sending the authorized electronic mail message to the addressee over the network only after authorization b the supervisor. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049131 | TASK ASSIGNMENT AND PROGRESS MONITORING IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SESSION - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to task management in an instant messenger and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for task assignment and progress monitoring in an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of task assignment and progress monitoring in an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include maintaining an instant messaging session between first and second collaborators, assigning a task to the second collaborator on request of the first collaborator from within the instant messaging session, the task specifying a third collaborator external to the instant messaging session, and providing subsequent notice to the first collaborator of collaborative interactions between the second and third collaborators in respect to the assigned task. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049132 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF ROUTING ELECTRONIC MAIL - Device, system, and method of handling electronic mail. For example, a method includes: extracting from a recipient field of an electronic mail message intended for transmission a string representing a telephone number of an intended recipient; based on said string, obtaining an electronic mail address of the intended recipient from a remote database that associates telephone numbers with respective electronic mail addresses; and replacing said string with said electronic mail address in the recipient field of the electronic mail message. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049133 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING AN INSTANT MESSAGE PERSONA TO MANAGE A SERVICE DESK ENVIRONMENT - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for managing a service desk environment. The process receives a request from the user. The request is received via instant messenger and includes at least one of a set of predefined messages. The process then identifies a source of information for generating a response to the request from the user. Thereafter, the process queries the source of information using the set of predefined messages to form a response to the request from the user. The process then presents the response to the user via instant messenger. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049134 | METHOD FOR DELAYING DELIVERY OF E-MAIL CONTENT - A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for managing the delivery of an electronic mail (e-mail) message, and for delaying the delivery of the e-mail message until a time in which the e-mail recipient is present to act upon the message. When a request is received from a sender to send an e-mail message to a recipient, a proxy e-mail message is generated which comprises a reference to the e-mail message. The proxy e-mail message is then sent to the recipient. When a notification from the recipient that the proxy e-mail message has been opened is received, the e-mail message is then sent to the recipient. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049135 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AN INSTANT MESSAGING COMMUNITY - A system and method exploits organizational distances associated with an organizational hierarchy in a directed acyclic graph to both affect behavior in instant messaging systems, as well as to modify behavior (presence, IM, availability, who can get to the IM user) based on the reporting relationships that exist in an organization. One part of the invention is in exploiting a directed acyclic graph for the purposes of controlling instant messaging behavior for an individual, a team or a community. This is accommodated by abstracting organizational reporting relationships. The reporting relationships that exist in LDAP are used to enforce top-down rules which determine actions that motivate a change in behavior for instant messaging users across the organization. Such actions are not possible to motivate in conventional art. Conventional art relies on rules that a specific user manually builds, and do not consider capabilities around hierarchical imposition, not a reporting team/group/organizational. The present invention may force a change in behavior for a plurality of instant messaging users based on reporting relationships. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049136 | Method of and System for Dynamically Managing a System of Servers - A method and system manage a plurality of servers coupled to a network. Each of the servers is identified by a server name. At least one of the servers is identified by an old server name. The method notifies at least some of the plurality of servers that at a specified time the old server name will be changed to a new server name. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049137 | REFERENCING RELATIVE ROLE SUFFIXES IN A COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to referencing organizational roles in a collaborative computing environment and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for referencing relative role suffixes in a collaborative computing environment. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for referencing relative role suffixes in a collaborative computing environment can include receiving as input to a collaborative tool in the collaborative computing environment, a relative reference to a member of the collaborative computing environment and decomposing the relative reference into a prefix and a suffix. The method further can include determining a member specified by the prefix and a role specified by the suffix and transforming the role to a member of the collaborative computing environment relative to the member specified by the prefix. Finally, the method can include returning the transformed member to the collaborative tool. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049138 | MULTI-MODAL TRANSCRIPT UNIFICATION IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to multi-modal chat logging management in a collaborative environment, and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for generating a unified chat transcript for a multi-modal conversation in an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of generating a unified chat transcript for a multi-modal conversation in an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include establishing concurrent voice messaging and text messaging sessions between two conversants, receiving both voice messages and text messages between two conversants through the voice messaging and instant messaging sessions, and logging the voice messages and text messages in a single transcript of conversation between the two conversants. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049139 | Method to Send Related Information to Indirect Email Recipients - A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing the sending of electronic mail (email) messages and responding to requests from indirect recipients for related information. An email message is originated with a first recipient and a recipient request prompt, which comprises a unique recipient request identifier (ID) linking it to the originator's email address. An empty recipient request list is generated, likewise linked to the recipient request ID. The message is then sent to a first recipient, who in turn forwards it to a second recipient. The recipient response prompt is displayed to the second recipient, who uses it to generate a recipient request for related information. The recipient request ID of the originated message and the second recipient's email address is appended to the recipient request, which is then sent to the message originator. The recipient request is received by the email system and parsed. The second recipient's email address is then appended to the recipient request list corresponding to the parsed recipient request ID. The originator is notified of the recipient request and responds accordingly. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049140 | ANALYZING EMAIL CONTENT TO DETERMINE POTENTIAL INTENDED RECIPIENTS - Described herein are processes and devices for analyzing email content to determine potential intended email recipients. One of the devices described is an email content analyzer device. The email content analyzer device can analyze content in a part of an email message that is not an email address recipient field. The email content analyzer device can obtain identifying information about a potential intended recipient of the email message, such as by looking for possible names of intended recipients within the body of the email message. The email content analyzer device can analyze the context of the identifying information in the content to determine the identity of the potential intended recipient. For example, the email content analyzer device can compare the identity of the potential intended recipient to an email addresses in an email address recipient field on the email message. The email content analyzer device can also determine whether the email message was intended for the potential intended recipient. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049141 | TRACKING DELIVERED E-MAIL - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to return receipt processing for e-mail messages and provide a method, system and computer program product for tracking delivered e-mail messages. In one embodiment of the invention, an e-mail tracking method can be provided. The method can include selecting an e-mail message already sent to a designated recipient, forwarding a status request to the designated recipient to determine a status of the e-mail message already sent to the designated recipient, and receiving in return without the intervention of the designated recipient a return receipt for the e-mail message indicating the status of the e-mail message. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049142 | CONFIDENTIALITY MANAGEMENT OF E-MAIL USERS IN REDISTRIBUTED E-MAIL MESSAGES - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for managing e-mail user confidentiality. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing e-mail user confidentiality can be provided. The method can include transmitting an e-mail message for delivery to multiple e-mail users and corresponding e-mail addresses, identifying a privacy preference for a particular one of the e-mail users; and, concealing a display within the e-mail message of an e-mail address associated with the particular one of the e-mail users responsive to the privacy preference. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049143 | System and method for transmitting messages for a set of communication devices - A method for transmitting messages for at least one predefined set of communication devices ( | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049144 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING EMAIL, AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING EMAIL - An email processing apparatus determines, from at least one or more of a main body of an email and a subject of an email stored in an email storage unit, a content category of the email; specifies, based on the content category, a search target category of a search target email that relates to the email of the content category; acquires search target information for searching for a search target email of the search target category; and creates a search condition for searching for the search target email containing the search target information in the email storage unit. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049145 | METHOD OF GENERATING AND DISPLAYING A MESSAGE AND AN APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SUCH A METHOD - A method of generating and displaying a message comprising the steps of | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049146 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA TRANSMISSION - An improved system and method for data transmission is provided without changing the configuration of a client. A data-reading server ( | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049147 | RECIPIENT APPARATUS, FILE SERVER APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - A recipient apparatus and a file server apparatus respectively receive shared mails which are generated by performing secret sharing of an electronic mail from a sender apparatus by a mail server apparatus. The file server apparatus authenticates the recipient apparatus based on an account and transmits shared data to the recipient apparatus when authentication is successful. The recipient apparatus restores the electronic mail with the shared data and shared data in the shared mail which is previously received. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049148 | Method of Editing and Regenerating an Automatic Communication - A method of editing and regenerating an automatic communication to be sent to a recipient, the automatic communication being generated by applying data to a response template having data definitions and conditional criteria, wherein the step of regenerating the edited communication includes the step of storing the edited changes optionally within the regenerated communication or as the edited communication stored in a data store. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049149 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of Information Over a Network - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049150 | Data Compression in Electronic Communications - Disclosed are methods and systems for compressing data communicated in an electronic message. Files attached to an electronic communication are compressed based on an examination of the file type; and an identification of an alternative compressed file type. Accordingly, the first (original) file type is compressed into a second preferred, compressed file type for the purpose of streamlining the package to be delivered in the communication. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090055481 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SUBJECT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EMAIL MESSAGES BASED ON EMAIL MESSAGE CONTENT - The present invention discloses an email application that includes a subject evaluation engine, which is able to automatically generate a subject heading suggestion for an email message based upon content contained in the email message. The subject evaluation engine can also compare a pre-existing subject heading of the email message against content contained in the email message. User selectable interface elements can be included in the email application for invoking the suggestion and comparison functions of the subject evaluation engine. Further, the subject evaluation can automatically be initiated before an email message is sent, can be used to notify a user when the message's subject is inconsistent with the message's content, and can suggest one or more replacement subject headings for the current heading. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055482 | System and Method to Promote Calendar Event Awareness in Instant Messaging Products - A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing a current availability status of a user to receive an instant messaging system (IMS) communication. Electronic calendar information to detect the next scheduled event for the selected IMS recipient. The time remaining before the scheduled event begins is determined. The remaining time and other predetermined information about the scheduled event is used to generate a current availability status of the IMS recipient. The current availability status is provided to the IMS sender prior to initiating an IMS session. The IMS sender and receiver are notified when the time remaining before the start of the event expires. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055483 | Enhanced Collaboration in Instant Messaging - A method, system and computer-usable medium for providing synchronous, real-time collaboration in an instant messaging system (IMS). A shared workspace is created on the IMS, accessible by IMS users through a collaboration window implemented on their respective IMS clients. Predetermined digital content is entered into the shared workspace by an IMS initiating user. Modification operations are then synchronously performed in real-time on the digital content by one or more IMS modifying users within their respective collaboration windows. Modification operations performed by a first IMS modifying user block a second IMS modifying user from performing their own modification operations until the first IMS modifying user relinquishes control. Predetermined visual attributes are assigned to each IMS modifying user to visually track the modifications they make. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055484 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTATION OF ELECTRONIC MAIL USERS USING AVATARS - There is disclosed a system and method for graphically representing an email user. In an embodiment, the method may comprise: at a sending communication device, sending an accompanying avatar or avatar identifier with an email message; at a receiving communication device, scanning an email message for an accompanying avatar or avatar identifier, and if an accompanying avatar is found, displaying the avatar with the email message in a message list user interface; if an accompanying avatar identifier is found, searching for an avatar locally stored at the receiving communication device, and displaying the locally stored avatar if found. The method further comprises sending and receiving a mood avatar or mood avatar identifier indicative of the mood of the user. The mood avatar may be selected at the sending communication device using a mood analyzer, or receiving a mood input from a user. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055485 | LOCATION BASED ANONYMOUS INSTANT MESSAGE EXCHANGE METHOD AND SYSTEM - An anonymous instant messaging system that protects a user's identity and location while allowing numerous users to communicate without being acquainted is disclosed. To request information a user selects a geographical location and relevant topic. The user then sends the information request to a message bot via an instant messenger client. A user geographic and topic matching system provides an active matching users list to the message bot. The message bot then sends the information request message to all of the matching users. The matching users receive and read the information request from the message bot. If a user chooses to reply to the message, the user sends their response to the message bot. The user geographic and topic matching system gives the original question issuer's instant messenger identification to the message bot. The message bot passes the reply to the information request to the original question issuer. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055486 | INSTANT MESSAGING NETWORK CAMERA - An instant messaging network camera has a processor, an image sensor, an audio receiver, an input device, a network connecting module and memory. The processor has a video and an audio encoder. The image sensor is electronically connected to the processor and captures images. The network connecting module is used to connect to an instant messaging service server over the Internet and is electronically connected to the processor. The memory is electronically connected to the processor and has an automatic operating process. The automatic operating process is executed by the processor to log on to an instant messaging service, receive viewing requests sent from a client device also logged on to the instant messaging service and send images to the client device. Therefore, a user can set up and control the network camera easily over the instant messaging service for increased security. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055487 | System and Method for Providing Improved Time References in Documents - A system, method, and program product is provided that receives, at a recipient's computer system, an email message from a sender's computer system with the email message including a time offset value in a metadata area of the email message. The time offset indicates an offset between the time zone that is used at the sender's computer system and a base time zone. A total time offset value is computed based on the received time offset value and the time zone used that is used at the recipient's computer system. Time notations that have been included in a body area of the email message are converted to the second time zone by applying the computed total time offset value to the time notations. The converted time notations are displayed, along with the body area of the email message, on a display device. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055488 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING A LOCATION SELECTION ASSOCIATED WITH AN EVENT - The invention provides a communications system comprising an event server computer system, an event creation module on the event server computer system for permitting the creation of an event from an event host computer system over the network, and a storing module on the event server computer system for storing the event on the event server computer system, a transmissions module on the event server computer system for transmitting a signal relating to the event from a first computer system to a second computer system over a network, and a location selection module on the event server computer system for selecting at least one location from the event host computer system and associating the location with the event on the event server computer system. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055489 | Electronic mail delay adaptation - A electronic communication system that can detect and adapt to delays in delivery of e-mail messages. The system may adapt to delays by using other mechanisms to convey the information intended for delivery by e-mail. The mechanism may convey the information to the recipient once the delayed electronic mail message is received by the recipient's e-mail system. In this respect, the recipient may make arrangements to receive information in the e-mail message when the recipient expects to be away from his or her e-mail system. Additionally or alternatively, the recipient may choose to initiate out-of-band communication to the sender when the recipient receives an indication of a delayed electronic mail message. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055490 | Electronic mail delay adaptation - A electronic communication system that can detect and adapt to delays in delivery of e-mail messages. The system may adapt to delays by using other mechanisms to convey the information intended for delivery by e-mail. Delays may be detected using a low-latency channel to send notifications of e-mails to recipients. The notifications are likely to be received in advance of a delayed e-mail, allowing an intended e-mail recipient to detect that delivery of an e-mail has been delayed. The recipient may adapt to the delay in delivery, when a notification is received without a corresponding electronic mail message. The notification may be small relative to an e-mail message but may include enough information to allow the recipient to identify the subject matter of the corresponding e-mail message, an importance level of the e-mail message, a preferred mechanism of the sender for out-of-band communications, and/or the location from which the e-mail was sent. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055491 | Electronic mail delay adaption - A electronic communication system that can detect and adapt to delays in delivery of e-mail messages. The system may adapt to delays by using other mechanisms to convey the information intended for delivery by e-mail. Though, other reactions to delays are possible, including rescheduling events premised on delivery of information by e-mail. The system may use a low-latency notification channel in parallel with a channel used for e-mail delivery to detect actual delays for a specific e-mail message. Additionally, the system may detect potential delays based on historical delay information or other information indicating that a path over which an e-mail is to be sent may be experiencing delivery delays and may adapt to a potential delay before a message likely to experience the delay is sent. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055492 | Consolidating messages - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for consolidating received messages from a plurality of devices. Each of the received messages has a condition portion representing at least one condition being reported by at least one of said plurality of devices. The apparatus comprises a receiver, a processor, and a transmitter. The method comprises receiving at least one received message from the plurality of devices, selecting at least one transmit condition from the at least one conditions being reported by the plurality of devices, and transmitting a transmit message having a transmit condition portion and a transmit identifier portion. The transmit condition portion is selected so as to optimize the length of the transmit identifier portion. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055493 | GATEWAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for controlling a gateway device arranged between a client terminal and a server, and arranged to relay transmission and reception of e-mails, includes the steps of receiving a first e-mail stored in the server, converting the first e-mail into a second e-mail for temporary storage, transmitting the second e-mail to the client terminal, and managing information on the first e-mail and second e-mail. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055494 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus includes: a display unit; a receiver configured to receive an email; a storage unit configured to store the email; and an unread email notifying unit configured to display on the display unit an image associated with a character string obtained by analyzing at least one of a header and a text of an unread email stored in the storage unit based on an analysis rule. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055495 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIDEO ENHANCED ELECTRONIC MAIL RETURN RECEIPTS - A method for providing electronic mail return receipts with video of the electronic mail recipient is disclosed. The electronic mail recipient opens an electronic mail message which initiates recording of the electronic mail recipient. The recording may be terminated when the recipient closes the electronic mail or minimizes the electronic mail message window. Recording may also end after a predetermined amount of time after the electronic mail message is opened. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055496 | ADVANCED PROCESSOR WITH CREDIT BASED SCHEME FOR OPTIMAL PACKET FLOW IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR SYSTEM ON A CHIP - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for optimal packet flow in a multi-processor system on a chip. In operation, a credit is allocated for each of a plurality of agents coupled to a messaging network, the allocating including reserving one or more entries in a receive queue of at least one of the plurality of agents. Additionally, a first credit is decremented in response to a first agent sending a message to a second agent, the plurality of agents including the first and second agents. Furthermore, one of the first credit or a second credit is incremented in response to a signal from the second agent. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090063636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOLICITING AND RETRIEVING A COMPLETE EMAIL THREAD - A system and method allows an email user to solicit an email thread from another user (or from a server) in situations where the first requesting user may have been added to an email thread after the email thread was started, or in situations where the user may have an incomplete thread (for example, where a user is being added to a thread where an attachment was removed). The complete thread is returned to the first requesting user, after permission has been sought and granted, and after data mining and intelligent aggregation of a plurality of relevant threads in to one interleaved result is performed and returned to the first requesting user. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063637 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE STATUS IN CHAT MESSAGING - A method for indicating in a messaging client the status of a sent message. The method can include the steps of composing a message in a messaging client associated with a sender, sending said message to at least one recipient, receiving a status message from a messaging client associated with said at least one recipient, wherein said status message indicates a likelihood that said at least one recipient has read said message, and in response to receiving said status message, altering an indicia in said sender messaging client to indicate said likelihood that said sent message has been read by said at least one recipient. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063638 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Messages in Messaging System - Techniques are disclosed for processing messages in a messaging system, particularly during an overload condition. For example, a method of processing messages of an instant messaging system includes the following steps. A message from a first instant messaging user is received during an overload condition. A message type associated with the received message is determined. The method then decides whether to send the message to a second instant messaging user based on the determined message type of the received message. In another method, processing messages in an instant messaging system includes the following steps. Presence information associated with a first instant messaging system user is received. The presence information is sent to a second instant messaging system user when the second messaging system user requests the presence information associated with the first instant messaging system user. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063639 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING BUSINESS RULES TO CONTROL INVITATIONS TO JOIN INSTANT MESSAGE COLLABORATIONS - A method and system for using business rules to control invitations to participate in instant message (IM) collaborations. A primary invitee is invited to participate in an IM collaboration via a first IM. A business rule associated with the primary invitee is applied to determine that the primary invitee is unavailable to participate in the IM collaboration. A second IM is sent to automatically invite a backup invitee to participate in the IM collaboration. In another embodiment, a primary invitee with credentials specified by a business rule is to be invited to an IM collaboration at a specified time. An application of the business rule determines that the specified time is outside a valid invitation time period or the primary invitee's credentials are not included in a set of predefined credentials. Following the application of the business rule, a backup invitee is invited. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063640 | Method and system for optimizing transmission of electronic messages - A method and system for optimizing transmission of electronic messages. In one embodiment, the method includes maintaining a database to store electronic messages received from various clients. The method further includes receiving a new electronic message from a client, determining whether the new electronic message is associated with one or more messages stored in the database. If the new electronic message is not associated with any messages stored in the database, the new electronic message is sent to the recipients. If the new electronic message is associated with some messages stored in the database, the new electronic message is sent to the recipients, and in addition, the associated messages that are not stored locally at a particular recipient are sent to this recipient. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063641 | Method and system for composing electronic messages - A method and apparatus for composing electronic messages. In one embodiment, the method includes dividing a first electronic message into one or more segments, uniquely identifying each of the segments of the first electronic message, and storing the first electronic message in a repository with unique identifiers of the segments. The segments can then be individually accessible by a user viewing the first electronic message. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063642 | GUI for presenting electronic messages - A method and apparatus for providing a graphical user interface to present electronic messages. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a user interface presenting a first electronic message to a recipient, where the first electronic message is associated with a segment of a second electronic message. The method further includes identifying the associated segment of the second electronic message to the recipient in the user interface, and allowing the recipient to view the second electronic message in an original form. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063643 | Processing Data Obtained From a Presence-Based System - Functionality is described for collecting data from a presence-based system, such as an instant messaging system. The functionality can extract information from the collected data based on one or more rules. For instance, the functionality can identify presence data and/or message data that includes predetermined key words. The functionality can formulate result information based on the extracted information for presentation to a recipient. Based on these operations, the collected data supports a data-mining operation, as well as the traditional role of facilitating communication among the participants of the presence-based system. The result information can correspond to a report that presents aggregated findings, optionally organized into one or more demographic categories, or the result information can correspond to an advertisement, etc. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063644 | SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REPLICATING MESSAGE STATUS CHANGES ACROSS MESSAGING SYSTEMS - The present invention provides a method, system and program product for replicating message status changes across messaging systems. Specifically, under the present invention, when a status of a message for a user is changed on a messaging system, the status change is entered into a log associated with the user along with a clock time of the messaging system. The status change is then replicated to a replica messaging system along with the clock time of the original messaging system. Upon receipt, the replica messaging system will ensure that the status change is the most recent activity for the message. If so, the status change will be entered into a log of the replica messaging system along with the clock time of the original messaging system and a clock time of the replica messaging system. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063645 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MESSAGING USING A SET TOP BOX - Tools are provided for supporting messaging about a video program using a set top box. Video information related to the video program is received and converted at the set top box and a display device is caused to display the video program. A message to be sent from a first user to a second user is created in accordance with input from the first user. The message is related to the video program. A set of at least one Internet Protocol (“IP”) packets comprising the message is generated. The set of at least one IP packets is transmitted from the set top box through an IP network to be received by an external device that is separate from the set top box. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND ORGANIZING POPULAR NEAR REAL-TIME DATA IN A VIRTUAL GEOGRAPHIC GRID - A system and method for including a geographical framework to the Internet and permitting users to convey data via mobile devices or computers or to convey universal resource locator values through automated filtering and localizing mechanisms that such data for every geographical location (e.g., longitude/latitude, zip code, etc.) in categories (e.g., news, community information, community economy, community social groups or personal user accounts) that make a more effective and precise use of the Internet. A system and method for interfacing with local, state and federal law enforcement authorities over secure networks for providing, among other things, instant mobile alerts to pertinent localized community members. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063647 | Messaging centre for forwarding e-mail - Methods and systems for forwarding an e-mail message from an e-mail server to a mobile terminal are provided. A messaging centre may store a permanent terminal identifier of the mobile terminal and an associated temporary identifier of the mobile terminal. The messaging center, upon receiving an e-mail message, may identify the mobile terminal based on an indication of the permanent terminal identifier included in the message and the stored association information. The e-mail message may then be transmitted to the mobile terminal using the temporary identifier associated with the permanent identifier of the mobile terminal. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063648 | Viewing Attachments to Electronic Communications Via Pushing the Attachment to a Networked Viewing Site - A method and system for viewing an attachment to an electronic communication transmitted in an electronic messaging system is disclosed in which the system receives a communication; examines the content of the communication; sends an attachment contained in the communication to an alternate viewing site; and presents the content of the attachment contained in the communication at the alternate viewing site in a universally-viewable format. An alternative embodiment further includes prompting the receiver of the communication for verification of a previously assigned personal identification number. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090070427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE-DIRECTED PROCESSING OF REMOTE DESKTOP DOCUMENTS - The subject application is directed to a system and method for device-directed processing of remote desktop documents. A controller functionally integrated with a document processing device is first connected with remote workstations via a computer network. An electronic document is received from one of the workstations having an associated document identifier. Identification data is then received from an associated user via a user interface associated with the controller. A received electronic document is associated with the received identification data according to the associated identifier. A workstation is then identified based upon such association. Active document data is then received representing active electronic documents on each of the workstations. Indicia is generated on a display associated with the user interface corresponding to the received active document data. Selection data is received corresponding to a selected electronic document. A document processing operation is then commenced according to the received selection data. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070428 | Method and device for sending e-mail according to postal address - Directory and storage of addresses in electronic form arranged according to the physical postal address. Directory including sub-directory according multiple email addresses at the same physical address. Computer program to support search for addresses. Computer program to store electronic mail giving access to the recipient. Security provision to allow access only to authorized persons. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070429 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN WIRELESS SERVERS - Systems and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism for resource sharing. In an embodiment, e-mail messages is routed between mobile wireless clients without first processing the e-mail message through an external e-mail domain identified in the e-mail message. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOTIFYING LEGAL STATUS OF PATENTS - A method for notifying a legal status of a patent is disclosed. The method includes: setting notification parameters, the notification parameters including one or more patent numbers and/or patent application numbers and an assignee information; downloading a new legal status of patents in a database from the patent office website and updating the legal status of the patents in the database if the patent office website has issued new legal status of the patent; sending a message including the updated legal status to assignee according to the assignee information, if the updated legal status are of the one or more patents and/or patent applications. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070431 | AUTOMATED INSTANT MESSAGING STATE CONTROL BASED UPON EMAIL PERSONA UTILIZATION - Communication services are integrated. A communication suite includes several communications accounts for a first communications service and several communications accounts for a second communications service. Logic is configured to detect when one of the communications accounts in the first communication suite for the first communications service is being actively utilized by a user. Upon detection, the logic is configured to make the second communications service available to the user via the communications accounts in the communication suite for the second communications service. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070432 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A computer system and associated method to distribute an electronic communication object. The electronic communication object comprises a main communication and a first sub-communication object. The first sub-communication object is embedded within a main communication object. The main communication object comprises a first set of attributes and a first addressee. The first sub-communication object comprises a second set of attributes and a second addressee. A hierarchal relationship exists between the main communication object and the first sub-communication object such that the first sub-communication object inherits one or more of the first set of attributes from the main communication object if said one or more of the second set of attributes is not specified in the first sub-communication object. The main communication object and a first outline of the first sub-communication object is sent to the first addressee. The first sub-communication object is sent to the second addressee. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070433 | Instant Message User Management - Techniques are disclosed for improving management of user information in instant messaging systems. Expiration criteria are defined, whereby one or more users or user groups may be considered as having “expired” from consideration by instant messaging functions such as presence determination. In particular, instant messaging activity is preferably used as an expiration criterion. Absence of inbound or outbound messages for a specified amount of time (or since a particular date/time) can therefore be used as a trigger for treating a user or group of users as expired. As a result, efficiency of an instant messaging system is improved by omitting the expired users and groups from subsequent management operations. Optionally, an expired user or group may be revived upon occurrence of certain events (such as a newly-arriving instant message from, or a change in presence status of, the user or group). “On-demand” expiration and revival are preferably provided as well. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090077178 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEQUENCING OF ELECTRONIC MAIL TO DERIVE A SPECIFIED RESPONSE TRAJECTORY - A method for electronic mail (email) distribution and collaboration, the method includes: composing an email message; designating one or more recipients for the email message; assigning a status to each of the one or more recipients; specifying an order of delivery of the email message to the one or more recipients; specifying a required response time period to the email message by the one or more recipients; and specifying a priority order of responses to the email message by the one or more recipients. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077179 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED MESSAGING - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to capture a voice recording, add the voice recording to a greeting to produce a personalized message, and deliver the personalized message upon scheduled delivery to at least one recipient based on a communication identifier of the at least one recipient, where the greeting includes at least one among audio, video, and image data, and where the communication device communicates with a notification server for creating the personalized message. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077180 | NOVEL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING SYNTACTICALLY ACCURATE MESSAGES OVER A NETWORK - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for encoding and retrieving information from a variety of sources using novel search techniques. The systems and methods of the invention are capable of extracting all types of structural and relational information from a query or a source data allowing for the recognition of subtle differences in meaning. The capability of discerning subtle differences in meaning that are beyond the search systems and methods presently available, the invention described herein is capable of repeatedly providing accurate and meaningful responses to a diverse set of queries. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077181 | PROVIDING MULTI-DEVICE INSTANT MESSAGING PRESENCE INDICATIONS - Displaying an instant messaging (IM) presence indicator for each of a plurality of devices associated with a first user, wherein the plurality of devices include a first device representing a first type of instant messaging device and second device representing a second type of instant messaging device. Presence information is acquired for the first and second devices. A first device type identifier is associated with a first activation/deactivation flag indicative of whether or not the first device is activated to receive incoming instant messages, and a second device type identifier is associated with a second activation/deactivation flag indicative of whether or not the second device is activated to receive instant messages. The device type identifiers and activation/deactivation flags are transmitted to a third device associated with a second user for display on the third device. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING EMAIL CAMPAIGNS - A system and method for identifying email campaigns. A first embodiment uses an email client local to email recipients to report email header back to an email monitor server application. The email analysis server application compares the email header information received from many sources and identifies email messages having substantially similar from addresses, subjects and dates as being part of a single email campaign. In a second embodiment, an email monitor program in a mail server local to email recipients is used to report back email header information. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077183 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING AN EVENT SCHEDULE VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL BASED ON A USER'S CALENDER SETTINGS - A method, system and computer program product for associating automated electronic mail (e-mail) with a calendar of events. A sender utilizes an automated e-mail to notify an event's scheduled attendees that the sender is out of office. When utilizing options within a mail user agent, a user may select a set of calendar days in which the user is not available for events. The mail user agent, associated with the user's calendar of events, displays one or more events conflicting with the selected days the user is not available. The e-mail addresses of one or more attendees associated with the conflicting event are dynamically linked to the automated message. The sender may input a text message informing owners, all attendees, and/or select attendees of the sender's absence. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077184 | Remote Control of Mobile Terminal via Remote Control Proxy and SMS - A remote operator and a mobile terminal initiate contact with a remote control proxy server. These components may be behind a firewall. If a mobile terminal does not have a then-extant session with the remote control proxy server, the remote operator and/or the remote control proxy server may send an SMS message to the mobile terminal and/or a device associated with the mobile terminal, which SMS message causes the mobile terminal to initiate a session with the remote control proxy server. After the mobile terminal and the remote operator are both connected to the remote control proxy server, the remote control proxy server passes communications between the mobile terminal and the remote operator without modification. The remote operator may control the mobile device keyboard, screen and may pass arguments to parameters associated with the operation of the device or its applications. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077185 | Automatic-reply instant messeging system and method thereof - An automatic-reply instant messaging system and a method thereof are provided. First, an identity classification of a contactor is previously classified, when the contactor sends a message to a computer platform, a recognition unit and a message meaning identification unit in the computer platform respectively recognizes the identity classification of the contactor and identifies the meaning of the message, and appropriate texts are selected from a text database to constitute a reply message to reply to the contactor. Therefore, when in some occasion a user on the computer platform is unwilling to or incapable of replying to the message in person, the automatic-reply instant messaging system and the method thereof are used to reply with an appropriate message, so as to avoid misunderstanding between the user and the contactor due to busyness or bad mood on such occasion. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077186 | Interface, system and method of providing instant messaging service - An interface, a system and a method of providing an instant message service are provided, so as to solve a problem that the interface of providing the instant message service is excessively dull. A first image is used to represent a user, and a second image is used to represent a contactor. When the contactor sends an instant message to the user, the instant message is displayed around the second image representing the contactor sending the message, thereby achieving a function of a livelier interface. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077187 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATIONS - A communication apparatus working as a sub-device wirelessly transmits/receives encrypted data to/from a plurality of communication apparatuses working as main-devices. Upon detecting a plurality of connectable main-devices, the sub-device determines a target main-device for establishing communication based on priority of the detected main-devices. When the sub-device is disconnected from the main-device with which it is communicating, the sub-device automatically switches to another connectable main-device based on the priority of the detected main-devices. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077188 | Event notification system and method - A notification system comprises a plurality of claim checks and a plurality of communication device identifiers. The notification system further comprises a messaging module that is configured to receive an electronic notification of an event. The messaging module is further configured to associate at least one of the claim checks and one of the communication device identifiers with the event. The messaging module is also configured to generate a message that contains the associated claim check and transmit the message to a communications device identified by the communication device identifier. In one embodiment, the notification system further comprises a retrieval module that is responsive to a request to access the event. In another embodiment, the messaging module is configured to receive an electronic notification of a second event and associate the claim check and another communication device identifier with the message. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077189 | System and methods for using an application layer control protocol transporting spatial location information pertaining to devices connected to wired and wireless internet protocol networks - Application layer signaling is provided from users registering at a presence server for a presence service wherein upon reception the signaling is checked for spatial location information and stored for future use in providing the presence service in association with other user information, such as user identity. The application layer signaling may be in accordance with the session initiation protocol (SIP) and the spatial location information provided as a spatial location payload (SLoP). The presence service may provide access to the spatial location information to one or more location based services either openly or confidentially by hiding the user's identity and other information. The spatial location information may also be used in conjunction with a messaging service for providing messages to the users with enhanced functionality. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077190 | Method and System for Providing Access to Electronic Learning and Social Interaction with in a Single Application - A system for managing academic and social life for students includes a central server connected to a wide-area network and storing a repertoire of logic functions for use by students in managing academic activities; and a plurality of computerized appliances associated with individual students, the computerized appliances connectable to the wide-area network. The students may download logic from the central server, and execute the logic to configure and manage activities related to classes and studies in a college or university, and may interact with other students through the central server. In one aspect the system further includes one or more distributed servers connected to the wide-area-network the servers adapted for network-based academic learning and for communication with the central server over the network; and one or more content servers connected to the wide-area-network, the content servers adapted to provide Web-based content and services to students through the central server. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090083380 | Managing Instant Messenger Contacts at a Contact Center - Instant messaging contacts received at a contact center are directed to a conference with other such contacts before being allocated to an agent. In this way, customers of the contact center are entertained while waiting and have the ability to resolve one another's problems, thereby reducing the load on the contact center's agents. In another aspect, automated instant messaging scripts interact with the customer to elucidate the nature of the customer contact before directing the contact to a human agent. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083381 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HANDLING ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CONTENT FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - Methods and systems for handling electronic message content for electronic communications device are presented. An exemplary method for handling electronic message content for an electronic communications device includes receiving an electronic message that includes default message content at the communications device, and determining at the communications device whether alternate message content is available for the received message. Additionally, the method includes: if alternate message content is available, automatically transmitting a request from the communications device to an alternate content provider for the alternate message content in accordance with data extracted from the received message; receiving the alternate message content at the communications device; and automatically providing the received alternate message content instead of the default message content, in response to a user using the communications device to open the received message for which the alternate message content is available. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083382 | REAL-TIME PRESENCE OF ONLINE CONTACTS - In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, a method for dynamically generating online contacts for an instant messaging (IM) environment in response to receiving login information from a user is provided. The method includes receiving at least one predetermined core IM contact associated with the user at a core IM server, and receiving a query for a presence status of at least one predetermined e-mail contact associated with the user from an e-mail application. A presence status is determined for the at least one predetermined core IM contact and the at least one predetermined e-mail contact. After returning the determined presence status of the at least one predetermined core IM contact for consolidating with the determined presence status of the at least one e-mail contact. An online presence contact list is generated using the determined presence status of the at least one IM contact and the at least one e-mail contact. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083383 | DYNAMIC INSTANT COMMENTS - Dynamically providing instant comments. A first instruction is received for activating an instant commenting tool for enabling instant commenting on a web media object on an online environment. The web media object is identified by the activated instant commenting tool in response to the received first instruction. An instant comment session is provided for a first user to leave comments to the web media object. The comments from the first user from the provided instant comment session are recorded. The recorded comments are rendered as a persistent portion of the web media object on the online environment. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083384 | Collaborative Email With Hierachical Signature Authority - Writing a collaborative email document with hierarchical authorities including establishing a collaborative email document on an administrator's computer, identifying one or more signatories for the document, identifying one or more collaborators who are authorized to view and edit the document, providing to the collaborators copies of the document for viewing and editing, where the collaborators' copies reside on collaborators' computers, updating the copies of the document on collaborators' computers with revisions from the collaborators, and sending the collaborative email document from the administrator's computer to addressees when the document bears valid digital signatures from all signatories. Typical embodiments also include providing at least one user authority to delegate signature authority, establishing a hierarchy of delegation authority for signatures, establishing at least one authority delegation policy including at least one rule for automated delegation of signature authority among signatories and delegating signature authority from at least one signatory to another. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083385 | Device Centric Controls For A Device Controlled Through A Web Portal - A system controls computer network communication devices in a background session in accordance with a control database. The system includes a computer network communication device having a non-volatile memory containing a unique device identifier and a communication module for communicating with a control site, the communication module being configured to generate monitor messages containing the unique device identifier and data corresponding to entry of a command by a user and to parse command messages received from the control site, and a control site comprising a device database and a control database, the control site being configured to compare data in the monitor message to control data stored in the control database in response to the monitor message having a unique device identifier that is also stored in the device database. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083386 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING MEDIA CONTENT - Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to methods and systems for distributing media resources used for worship services. In particular, various embodiments provide systems and methods that include a library of diverse types of media resources and an interface through which a user searches the library for diverse sets of media resources based on a theme, such as the topic of a particular worship service. In addition, various embodiments allow the user to select and purchase one or more media resources displayed in the diverse sets of media resources found during the search. Furthermore, various embodiments allow the user to distribute the purchased media resources to one or more individuals. In various embodiments, the distribution may be performed by e-mailing the resources, downloading the resources, providing a link to the resources, physically mailing a copy of the resources, or any combination thereof. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083387 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CONFIGURATIONS USED FOR ACCESSING ELECTRONIC MAILBOXES - A system and method generates configurations used for accessing electronic mailboxes. A database stores the configuration conventions that are sets of e-mail expressions formed by symbols. A transformer module expands configuration conventions stored in the database to generate configurations based on user supplied context data. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083388 | System for Information Capture - A system for information capture for use in an environment comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein a node communicates with another node via an electronic message and wherein expertise information is associated with a first set of the plurality of nodes. The system comprises means for receiving an input comprising expertise information, means for determining the first set of the plurality of nodes associated with expertise information, means for aggregating a second set of a plurality of nodes of the first set, wherein each node in the second set is associated with the expertise information and communicates with another node in the second set via an electronic message and means for generating a visual representation from information associated with: the second set of a plurality of nodes and the electronic messages associated with the second set of a plurality of nodes. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090089375 | Unsolicited electronic message source verification and tracking system and method - An unsolicited electronic message source verification and tracking method and system for providing an efficient and convenient mechanism for tracking identification of unsolicited electronic message (e.g., e-mails) sources is presented. In one embodiment, a request for authorization to forward an electronic message is received. The request for authorization includes a request source address. A response is sent including an authorization indicator (e.g., a unique bit string) is sent to the request source address. An electronic message is received and a determination is made if the electronic message includes a valid authorization indictor. If the electronic message does include a valid authorization indicator the electronic message is associated with the request source address and the association is tracked. In one exemplary implementation, a source address included in the electronic message is compared to the request source address and discrepancies are noted. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089376 | AUTOMATIC DISTRIBUTION OF CORRECTIVE CONFIGURATION INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus for allowing a central network manager to distribute corrective configuration information to customers using e-mail are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method includes determining if an issue is reported by a first customer system that supports a first device. The issue is associated with the first device. The method also includes obtaining updating information if the issue is reported by the first customer system, and providing the updating information to the first customer system. The first customer system is arranged to distribute the updating information to the first device and to cause the updating information to be implemented on the first device. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC EMAIL CONTENT - A method and computer program product for providing dynamic email content includes sending a request for dynamic email content. The dynamic email content is received from a data store. At least a portion of an email message is populated with the received dynamic email content. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089378 | CONTROLLING EXPIRATION OF ELECTRONIC MAIL SINGLE STORE ATTACHMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for controlling expiration of electronic mail (e-mail) single store attachments. A method to control expiration of e-mail single store attachments can include sending an e-mail message, the e-mail message including one or more attachments, creating a single store linked e-mail message by removing the one or more attachments from the sent e-mail message and replacing each of the one or more attachments with a corresponding single store attachment link. The method further can include storing the removed one or more attachments in an attachment server, where each of the one or more attachments has an expiration date, sending the single store linked e-mail message having the one or more store attachment links to one or more recipients and deleting an attachment stored on the attachment server based upon its respective expiration date having expired. When there is e-mail activity (e.g., forward, reply, etc.) associated with the single store linked e-mail, the expiration of the attachment associated with the attachment link can be modified. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089379 | APPLICATION AND DATA AGNOSTIC COLLABORATION SERVICES - Various embodiments herein include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures to create collaboration enabled client applications. In some embodiments, web services are provided on one or more servers that may be called by processes within client applications to facilitate collaboration within a workspace, such as directly within a computer application. Some such web services are application and data agnostic meaning that such web services are not aware of or do not care where application collaboration service calls come from, what their destination application is, or what data is being communicated. These web services, in some such embodiments, just must be properly called by an authorized user. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089380 | Aggregating and Delivering Information - Embodiments are provided which include functionality to manage and control a provision of information to end users. In an embodiment, components of a system can be configured to manage and control a delivery of web feed information through an information pipeline. In one embodiment, components of a system can be configured to manage and control a delivery of subscription content and other information associated with a number of subscriptions to user email applications. A framework can be configured to use one or more serving components when managing and controlling the delivery of subscription content to end users. Other embodiments and functionality are available. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089381 | PENDING AND EXCLUSIVE ELECTRONIC MAIL INBOX - Distinguishing electronic mail (e-mail) messages for a user. An e-mail inbox is provided to include one or more e-mail messages therein. A first section of the inbox is specified. The first section includes a set of the one or more messages, and the set of the one or more messages is indicative of an unknown status. An second section of the inbox is provided, and the second section includes the remaining set of the one or more messages. The remaining set of the messages is indicative of a known status. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089382 | Email forwarding tunnel capturing or tagging - An email forward tagging system including means for selecting on a sender's email client a receiver's email address; means for displaying to the sender's email client a tagging function; means for selecting on the sender's email client the tagging function; means for sending, via a common email system protocol, an email from a email-sending server to a first email-receiving server; means for receiving, via the common email system protocol, the email at the first receiver's email server from the email-sending server; means for sending the received email in the form of one of a forward email and a reply email to a second email-receiving server connected to the network; and means for automatically forwarding the one of the forward email and the reply email to the sender's email address when the sender's email address is omitted from the one of said forward email and said reply email. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089383 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CONTENT SIMILARITY WITHIN EMAILS DOCUMENTS EMPLOYING SELECTIVE TRUNCATION - A system and a method for detecting content similarities in different emails employing selective truncation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating a first token value dependent on a first subset of characters at a beginning portion of a first email document, generating a second token value dependent on a second subset of characters at an ending portion of a first email document, and depending upon the first and second token values, selectively generating one or more hash values corresponding to a sequence of characters between the first subset and the second subset. The method further comprises generating a third token value dependent on a third subset of characters at a beginning portion of a second email document, generating a forth token value dependent on a forth subset of characters at an ending portion of a second email document, depending upon the first and second token values, and selectively generating one or more hash values corresponding to a sequence of characters between the first subset and the second subset. The method finally comprises comparing the one or more hash values corresponding to the sequence of characters between the first subset and the second subset with the one or more hash values corresponding to the sequence of characters between the third subset and the fourth subset. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING CONTENT SIMILARITY WITHIN EMAIL DOCUMENTS BY SPARSE SUBSET HASHING - Systems and methods for detecting content similarity in email documents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating a first token value for each of a plurality of character sequences of a first email document, selecting a first subset of the plurality of character sequences based on the first token values, and generating one or more hash values corresponding to the selected first subset of character sequences. The method further comprises generating a second token value for each of a plurality of character sequences of a second email document, selecting a second subset of the plurality of character sequences based on the second token values, and generating one or more hash values corresponding to the selected second subset of character sequences. The method additionally comprises comparing the one or more hash values corresponding to the selected first subset with the one or more hash values corresponding to the selected second subset. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089385 | User initiated and controlled electromagnetic transmissions for remotely rendering a tangible delivarable to recipients - The present invention discloses a network communication system that includes a network processing center for receiving and converting an electro-magnetically transmissible data/content into a physically deliverable object for physically delivering to a recipient. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089386 | Method of communicating e-mail and apparatus using the same - Provided are a method of communicating an e-mail and an apparatus using the same. The method includes: selecting at least one image file; generating an index file including an index image of the at least one image file; and generating an e-mail including the at least one image file and the index file. Accordingly, the image file can be checked by simply checking the index file having a relatively small size. In addition, desired image files can be selectively downloaded. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089387 | ELECTRONIC MAIL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An electronic mail communication apparatus disclosed herein is connectable to a mail server and capable of transmitting electronic mail. The electronic mail communication apparatus includes; a connection test executing unit which conducts a detailed connection test necessary for establishing connection between the electronic mail communication apparatus and the mail server, in response to a first instruction; and a mail transmitting unit which conducts a simple connection test between the electronic mail communication apparatus and the mail server in response to a second instruction, and thereafter transmits electronic data as the electronic mail to the mail server when the simple connection test succeeds, wherein the simple connection test is simpler than the detailed connection test. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089388 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, MAIL PUSH SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A communication system, mail push system and method of pushing mail are disclosed. The communication terminal may comprise a parameter acquisition unit for acquiring at least one parameter related to a user usage state; an information transmission unit for transmitting, to a data processing device at a network side, first information including the at least one parameter related to the user usage state, a mail reception unit for receiving a mail from a mail push device at the network side, wherein the mail is pushed by the mail push device according to a mail push indication message which is related to the first information and second information from a second communication terminal, and the second communication terminal is separated from the communication terminal. The communication terminal, the mail push system and the method thereof may automatically select the communication terminal to which the mail is pushed, according to a parameter related to the current user usage state. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089389 | Dynamic Email Content Update Process - An email update system dynamically updates the content of an email when the originator of an email has sent the email, and the originator later determines that the email requires editing. The updating may take place transparent to the recipient and without the introduction of duplicative content into the recipient's email program. The email update system comprises a delta engine program and a delta temporary storage in a sender's computer, a queue manager program and an intermediate email queue in a server computer, and a recipient email retrieval program in a recipient's computer. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090094332 | System and method for enabling offline use of email through a browser interface - A system and method provide online and offline collaboration suite functionality. A local web server application running on the user's computer serves an email client on the user's computer, where the email client executes within a browser. Because the local web server application executes on the user's computer, it is able to serve the email client regardless of whether the user's computer is online or offline. The local web server application also communicates with a remote web server, where the remote web server has the capability to receive incoming messages from, and send outbound messages to, a Mail Transfer Agent. When the user's computer is online, the remote web server and local web server application periodically (although not necessarily at regular intervals) synchronize their user mailbox information. The local web server application and remote web server application store, search, and index user mailbox information in the same manner. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094333 | Collaborative Electronic Mail Filtering - A method is provided for collaboratively maintaining a filter program for a device. The method comprises the following steps. The filter program is registered with a remote program in order to receive spam e-mail filter updates. Notification messages are then received from the remote program. The notification messages comprise spam e-mail filter updates defining at least one filter expression received at the remote program from a third party. The filter expression is applied at the filter program for identifying spam e-mail messages and the spam e-mail messages to the device are filtered. A computer readable medium comprising instructions for executing the method and a computing device configured to implement the method are also provided. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094334 | GATEWAY WITH TRANSPARENT MAIL RELAY - A transparent mail relay is provided at a gateway between networks using different addressing schemes. The transparent mail relay receives mail messages from a mail client in a first one of the networks, inserts trace information into the header of the mail message, and forwards the mail message to a mail server in the other network. Mail protocol commands and replies are passed transparently by the mail relay without alteration. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094335 | Eliminating Redundancy of Attachments in Email Responses - A method, system and computer-usable medium for managing electronic mail (email) attachments. An email message comprising a first recipient list and a first file attachment is received from a sender. A response email is generated, comprising a second recipient list. The first recipient list and the second recipient list are compared and a third recipient list is generated comprising recipients that are listed on the second recipient list, but not on the first. The email response is then transmitted to all recipients that are on the second recipient list but not on the third list, and the email response and the first file attachment is sent to the recipients on the third recipient list. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094336 | Method and Apparatus for Automated Monitoring of System Status - A method, apparatus and computer program code which monitors a group of networked computers by notifying a central apparatus or database of the current state of each of the computers. The monitoring is achieved through software and hardware which obtains the state of each of the networked computers, determines if a new computer has been connected to the network, sets a state for each new computer and determines if any one of the networked computers has not notified the database of its current state within a prescribed interval of time. The hardware and software also determines if any one of the networked computers is in an inactive state, if any one of the networked computers has changed its state to inactive and updates the database to reflect the current state of each of the networked computers. A list of users is notified of the state of each computer, along with the reason for any change in state of each computer. Network intelligence and outside database resources are used to provide information concerning the reason for any change in state of each of the computers. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094337 | METHOD OF ACCESSING WEB E-MAIL OFF-LINE - Computer implemented methods and computer code products provide off-line access to web-based e-mail services. A user of a local data processing system is provided with a local replica of a webmail system. An off-line activity is performed within the local replica. The local replica then utilizes a browser to connect to a webmail server. A synchronization of the local replica with a message file of the webmail server is then performed. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094338 | EMAIL SYSTEM FOR SENDING MESSAGES TO MULTIPLE GROUPS - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for transmitting an email message to multiple groups of recipients is disclosed herein. In selected embodiments, a method may include composing an email message including digitally encoded content and email addresses associated with a first group of intended recipients. The method may further include adding, in response to a user request, email addresses associated with a second group of intended recipients. The email message may then be sent to the first and second groups of intended recipients. The method may further include preventing the first group of intended recipients from determining the identities of the second group of intended recipients, and preventing the second group of intended recipients from determining the identities of the first group of intended recipients. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094339 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WIDGET SHARING BETWEEN CONTENT AGGREGATION POINTS - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a processing device to send a widget to a handheld mobile device. The request can be defined after at least a portion of an instance of the widget has been processed at the processing device. The request can be associated with a widget identifier. The method can also include defining a widget precursor at a widget-sharing server in response to the request from the processing device. The widget precursor can be associated with the widget identifier and a placement identifier. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094340 | Intelligence of the crowd electronic mail management system - Embodiments of ranking emails within an email system are disclosed. One method of ranking emails within an email system includes monitoring actions of a plurality of email users of the email system, and ranking a plurality of emails sent or received by at least one of the email users based on the monitored actions of the plurality of email users. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ENHANCED MESSAGING - Methods and apparatus for providing rich media for enhancing user interaction with a messaging program. The rich media includes user perceptible content and content specific information. User perceptible content may include a small animated picture with an embedded sound file that messaging program users can send to each other during a messaging session. Content specific information may include a description of the perceptible content, context menu items including universal resource identifiers that link to information related to the content and information related to other messaging program content. In addition computer code is provided to allow communication between the rich media and the messaging program so that the messaging program and the rich media can interoperate. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094342 | Recognizing Spam Email - A system includes at least one router for routing email messages from a sender node to a destination node; a system memory; a network interface; a database; and a processor configured for: extracting the delivery path information from the email message; determining a network path for the email message using delivery path information; comparing the delivery path information with the plurality of prior delivery paths; determining a measure of similarity between the network path of the received email message and one or more of the plurality of prior email paths; and determining a spam score for the email received, based on the measure of similarity. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090100138 | Spam filter - Detection of undesired electronic communication, such as spam emails, by comparing the email with a list of likely spam words and establishing the communication as undesired when the words in the list, are substantially present in the email, even if not completely present. For example, the match is close enough if the words have similar letters in similar orders, but with other letters separating them. Another aspect matches the words with a dictionary or rules defining spelling for the language. Emails with too high a percentage of garbage words are marked as undesirable. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090100139 | APPARATUS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO WEB FORM INQUIRIES - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for generating contact plans and responding to web form inquires using the contact plans. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090100140 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTEXTUAL MESSAGING AS UTILIZED FOR DECISION SUPPORT - A method and system for contextual messaging as utilized for decision support is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises receiving and storing information from an administrative client that establishes memberships of a plurality of clients to a common contextual messaging system. Nomenclature information is received from the administrative client that establishes a nomenclature for the common contextual messaging system. A first client of the plurality of clients is permitted to accessing a contextual messaging host server via a web browser associated with the first client. A message is received from the first client. A message context is determined for the message using the nomenclature information. Messages are clustered based on the message context in a message database. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090100141 | INSTANT MESSAGING PRIORITY FILTERING BASED ON CONTENT AND HIERARCHICAL SCHEMES - A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for filtering and prioritizing instant messaging threaded conversations in an instant messaging system based on thread content. The instant messaging client analyzes an incoming message to determine the thread subject. Based on the thread subject analysis, the client determines the priority level associated with the incoming message. The message is then delivered and displayed to the recipient according to the priority level. The present invention also allows a participant initiating a thread of conversation to override filter settings on a messaging client. The authority to override settings may be predicated on an external list, such as a corporate telephone directory. As a result, the participant, having some authority or rights to override the recipient's instant messaging settings, may be allowed to conduct a messaging session with the recipient. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090106365 | CONDITIONAL REMINDERS FOR CONVEYED ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - The present invention discloses a solution for providing conditional reminders for electronic messages. The solution can identify an electronic message conveyed from a sender to a recipient, wherein the electronic message is an email message or text exchange message. A software program can determine a response time and a response condition for the electronic message. When the response time expires and when the response condition is unsatisfied, a software program can present a reminder to the sender and/or the recipient, where the reminder indicates that a response is due. When a software program detects a recipient action that satisfies the response condition before the response time expires, no reminder will be presented to either the sender or the recipient. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING THREADED COMMUNICATION ACROSS MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS USING A MOBILE WEB SERVER - A system, apparatus and method for visualizing threaded communication across multiple communication channels using a Mobile Web Server. A Mobile Web Server enables access to the messages received on a wireless communication device from the Internet using any web browser. Messages belonging to the same conversation, even if received on multiple communication channels (SMS, MMS, email, IM, Bluetooth, etc.), may be displayed in a threaded fashion. Once displayed on the web browser, a user may then view, create, edit, send, receive and filter the messages according to sender, receiver, time ranges, keyword/content, etc. A user does not have to be in physical possession of his or her wireless communication device to access received messages. Rather, one advantage of the invention is to allow a user to access messages on the wireless communication device where the user has forgotten the wireless communication device or spends most of his or her time in front of a personal computer in a location remote from the wireless communication device. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106367 | TRIGGERING A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY REPLY TO COMMUNICATIONS - A communication system which facilitates distribution of electronic communications for a user account includes an emergency auto-reply agent that scans each received communication addressed to the user account for a particular communication sent from at least one emergency address specified for the user account separate from the address of the user account. Responsive to the communication system detecting the particular communication sent from one of the emergency addresses, the emergency auto-reply agent parses the content of the particular communication to detect whether the particular communication comprises a required password. Responsive to detecting the required password within the content of the particular communication, the emergency auto-reply agent directs the communication system to compose and send auto-reply communications from the user account in reply to received communications addressed to the user account. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106368 | INJECTION ADVERTISING TECHNOLOGY - A method and information processing system for providing messaging through an electronic messaging system. At least one user is determined to have performed at least one of the following two acts, creating an electronic message and sending an electronic message. At least one message is selected from a data store in response to the user having performed at least one of the two acts. The message is embedded within the electronic message. An accounting record is updated that includes information for compensating the user based on sent electronic messages including the message, which has been embedded. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106369 | DUPLICATE EMAIL ADDRESS DETECTION FOR A CONTACT - Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for managing multiple email addresses, each of which are associated with a known contact, e.g., a specific person. One embodiment includes selecting email addresses for an email to be sent through a computer system in communication with a mail server, wherein the email addresses comprise an email distribution list. Further, the method includes querying, before sending the email, for duplicate contacts associated with the email addresses in the email distribution list for the email. Further still, the method includes updating, after the querying, the email distribution list to the email addresses left in a remaining email distribution list produced through removal, if any, of the duplicate contacts identified by the querying. Finally, the method includes sending the email to contacts associated with each of the email addresses in the remaining email distribution list, wherein the contacts are in communication with the mail server. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106370 | Processing Electronic Messages According to Sender Classification - A computer-implemented method of sorting electronic messages can include identifying at least one recipient of an electronic message and retrieving a classification scheme of the recipient. An identifier can be included within the electronic message. The identifier can specify a tag selected from the classification scheme of the recipient. The electronic message, including the identifier specifying the selected tag, can be sent. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106371 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO GENERATE BUSINESS REPORTS BASED ON ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - A system may include reception of a first internet electronic mail message, determination of report selection criteria based on the first internet electronic mail message, and generation of a report based on the report selection criteria. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO TRANSMIT INFORMATION TO A GROUPWARE CLIENT - A system may include creation of a message associated with a standards-compliant groupware object and compliant with a Web service message interface, conversion of the message to an internet electronic mail message, and transmission of the internet electronic mail message to an electronic mail address. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106373 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM A GROUPWARE CLIENT - A system may include reception of an internet electronic mail message associated with a standards-compliant groupware object, and conversion of the internet electronic mail message to a message associated with the standards-compliant groupware object and compliant with a Web service message interface. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106374 | Method and Apparatus for Response Enabled Messaging - A method and apparatus for creating associations between messages in a stateless system. The method comprises adding a unique identification to a notification message at a gateway, and upon receiving a response from a user, identifying the unique identification within the response, and utilizing the unique identification to associate the response with the notification message. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106375 | Method and System for Conversation Detection in Email Systems - A method and system are provided for conversation detection in email systems. Multiple email messages are provided and grouped as relating to a conversation. The grouping is carried out by applying a similarity function based on a similarity of the email messages' attributes, the similarity function including a similarity between the email messages' participants and at least one of a similarity between the email messages' subjects or a similarity between the email messages' contents. The similarity function may also include the similarity between the email messages' dates. The similarity function may also include weightings for the contributions of the email messages' attributes. A graphical user interface is provided in an email client which includes means for viewing email messages by conversation. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106376 | PERSISTENT GROUP-BASED INSTANT MESSAGING - A system for managing an instant messaging conversation in a persistent context is provided. The system has an archiving feature for convenient access to the conversation, even after the conversation has ceased. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106377 | Systems and methods for adaptive communication control - Computer program products, apparatus, and methods for processing digital messages to recipients at destination domains is provided. A plurality of profiles are established, each profile for handling digital to a specific domain or set of domains. A request to process a plurality of outbound digital messages is handled by, for each given digital message, processing the given digital message by (i) determining a destination domain for digital messages, (ii) reading a profile for the determined destination domain for the digital messages and (iii) based on at least one parameter set in the profile: (a) sending the given digital message to the determined destination domain in accordance with the profile when permitted by the at least one parameter set in the profile, or (b) not sending the digital message to the determined destination domain when required by the at least one parameter set in the profile. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106378 | Open System for Integrating and managing computer-based components representing a specific functionality of a specific application - An open system for integrating and managing computer-based components representing a specific functionality of a specific application with a computer-based core including: a standard context for integrating computer-based components into the specific application; an integrating protocol including instantiating and loading means for indexing, selecting and assigning computer-based components to the execution of functional objectives of the specific application; connecting means for setting up connections and monitoring message flows among the computer-based components; at least one man-machine interface for enabling the connections and the message flows among the computer-based components to be monitored by a user; specific computer-based components, dedicated to the execution of specific applications. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106379 | Method and Apparatus for Increasing Personability of Instant Messaging with User Images - A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for handling instant messages. In response to receiving an instant message, a determination is made as to whether a picture of a sender of the instant message is associated with the instant message, wherein the picture is located in a preexisting database of pictures. The picture with the message is displayed on a display in the data processing system, if the picture is associated with the message. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106380 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION PROCESSOR SERVICES FROM A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device upon sensing a triggering event is disclosed. A redirector program operating at the host system enables a user to continuously redirect user-selected data items from the host system to the user's mobile data communication device upon detecting that one or more user-defined triggering events has occurred. The redirector program operates in connection with event generating applications and repackaging systems at the host system to configure and detect particular user-defined events, and then to repackage the user-selected data items in an electronic wrapper prior to pushing the data items to the mobile device. The system includes information processing components for identifying one or more information processors in the vicinity of the mobile device and then routing an attachment or information from the host system, the device or an external information source to a selected information processor. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106381 | Network Object Predictive Pre-Download Device - A network object predictive pre-download device operable on a network logically between a web client and a web server on a network is described. The pre-download device includes a prediction engine that intercepts a request from the web client to the web server for a first network object and determines a second network object most probable to be requested in the future from the web server. The pre-download device also includes a cache primer that intercepts a response to the request from the web server and sends a first message to the web client informing the web client of the second network object to be cached by the web client. The cache primer also sends the second network object to the web client such that the second network object is predicatively pre-downloaded to the web client whereby second network object latency is reduced when an actual user request occurs. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106382 | ADAPTIVE NOTIFICATION DELIVERY IN A MULTI-DEVICE ENVIRONMENT - A notification service node to deliver notification messages is disclosed. The notification service node includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to receive a notification message via an instant messaging network, where the notification message is intended for a user. The memory also includes instructions executable by the processor to identify a plurality of network-enabled devices that are associated with the user, to assign one of the network-enabled devices as a current device, and to send the notification message to the current device. The current device includes an agent module capable of discovering a second network-enabled device by communicating from the agent module to a second agent module of the second network-enabled device. The current device is capable of negotiating with the second network-enabled device for the second network-enabled device to render the content of the notification message. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106383 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDIVIDUALIZING NICKNAMES IN MESSAGE - A method for individualizing message nicknames is provided. The method includes creating a nickname conversion table that contains a message address and the corresponding nicknames; receiving messages, converting the sender nickname or recipient nickname in the message according to the nickname conversion table; and sending the converted message out. An apparatus for individualizing message nicknames is also provided. The method and apparatus enable a user to set individualized nickname information; the nickname information can be shared by multiple terminals of a user uniformly, and can be stored in a server securely and reliably. A message server and terminal are also provided. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090112994 | METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATING EMAIL RECIPIENT FIELDS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device and a method implemented within the electronic device for disambiguating email recipient fields by extracting sufficient information from the domain portion of an intended recipient's email address to disambiguate between a personal and a business email address. An exemplary method includes parsing at least one of said multiple addresses in a recipient field of the email to extract information capable of distinguishing the at least one of said multiple addresses from at least another of the multiple addresses, and displaying the information in the recipient field of the email. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090112995 | E-MAIL AND FILE TRACKER - A method, system, and computer program product for tracking e-mail and e-mail attachment usage information is provided. A request to track an e-mail is received. The recipients of the e-mail are determined. E-mail usage information for the e-mail is determined for each recipient. A determination is made as to whether the e-mail comprises at least one attachment. Responsive to a determination that the e-mail comprises at least one attachment, attachment usage information for the at least one attachment is determined for each recipient. Recipients are grouped based on a location of each recipient. Path information for the e-mail is generated. Data, comprising the e-mail usage information, the attachment usage information, the path information, and grouping information, is sent to a remote data processing system. A visual representation of the data is displayed at the remote data processing system. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090112996 | Determining Presence Status of End User Associated with Multiple Access Terminals - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving presence data associated with a plurality of access terminals associated with an end user. The method includes combining the presence data associated with the end user. The method includes associating a single presence status with the end user based on the combined presence data. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090112997 | Utilizing Presence Data Associated with Web Item - In one embodiment, a method includes subscribing to a web item, extracting presence data from the web item, receiving the presence data originating from the web item. The method includes updating status associated with the web item based on the presence data and displaying the updated status associated with the web item. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090112998 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Dissemination of Enterprise Information - Information dissemination in an electronic messaging system is controlled by presenting, to a user, first and second user-action elements. The first element is indicative of whether the first message is to be sent to all recipients in the first distribution list, while the second element is indicative of whether the message is to be sent to a subgroup of the recipients in the first distribution list. If the second element is activated, any recipients that are not also included in a pre-defined set of the recipients are removed from the first distribution list to obtain a second distribution list. If the first element is activated, the message is sent to recipients in the first distribution list. If the second element is activated, the message is sent to recipients in the second distribution list. In one embodiment the first element is a ‘Reply All’ button and the second element is a ‘Reply Subgroup’ button. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090112999 | System and Method for Handling E-Mail Attachments in Data Processing Systems - A system and method for handling e-mail attachments in a data processing system. A client receives at least one message in a message database stored in a system memory, wherein the at least one message includes at least one attached file. The client displays a main preview of the at least one message, wherein the main preview of the at least one message includes an indicia that represents the at least one attached file. The client expands the main preview of the at least one message into a first sub-preview and a second sub-preview, wherein the first sub-preview represents the at least one message, and wherein the second sub-preview represents the at least one attached file. The client selects the second sub-preview to perform a function on the at least one attached file independent of the at least one message. The client performs the function on the at least one attached file independent of the at least one message. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113000 | METHOD FOR REQUESTING THE TERMINATION OF A COMMUNICATION SESSION | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113001 | PRE-SEND EVALUATON OF E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS - A system for identifying attributes associated with content of an e-mail message and alerting a user includes a client device programmed to allow a user to create an e-mail message including at least one recipient and a message content, a server programmed to check an attribute of the e-mail message, and to send the e-mail message, and one or more information stores in communication with the server, the information stores including information about the e-mail message. The server is programmed to query the information stores to obtain information about the e-mail message as the message is being composed by the user, and the server sends a mail tip to the client regarding the e-mail message. The client is programmed to provide the mail tip to the user, the mail tip being formatted and positioned by the client so that it is integrated within a header section of the e-mail message. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113002 | Electronic Message Attachment Options - Included are embodiments for providing an attachment for a message. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a message from a sender, the message configured to be sent to at least one recipient, the message including an attachment and determining whether the at least one recipient is designated to receive the attachment. Some embodiments include determining a desired attachment representation for the attachment and in response to determining a desired attachment representation for the attachment, sending the message for delivery to the at least one recipient. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113003 | IMAGE SPAM FILTERING BASED ON SENDERS' INTENTION ANALYSIS - Systems and methods for an anti-spam detection module that can detect image spam are provided. According to one embodiment, an image spam detection process involves determining and measuring various characteristics of images that may be embedded within or otherwise associated with an electronic mail (email) message. An approximate display location of the embedded images is determined. The existence of one or more abnormal factors associated with the embedded images is identified. A quantity of text included in the one or more embedded images is determined and measured by analyzing one or more blocks of binarized representations of the one or more embedded images. Finally, the likelihood that the email message is spam is determined based on one or more of the approximate display location, the existence of one or more abnormal factors and the quantity and location of text measured. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113004 | System and method for distributing electronic information - The present system for distributing electronic information includes a central email client connected to an email sending server, the central email client connected to an addressee's computer operating an addressee's email client connected to a email receiving server, the email sending server and the email receiving server utilizing a common email system protocol to send an email over the network; and a first selectable link displayed on the email, the first selectable link associated with an Internet portal containing one of a second selectable link and a first set of information categories, the second selectable link and the first set of information categories stored on an Internet server connected to the network, the second selectable link and the first set of information categories displayed to the addressee's computer when the first selectable link is selected. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113005 | Systems and methods for controlling pre-communications interactions - The present invention can permit a communications request initiator to control pre-communications interactions. For example, the present invention can permit a communications request initiator to instruct a recipient communications device to present specific information to a communications request recipient when the initiator sends the communications request to the recipient. The present invention also can permit a communications request initiator to control the information presented to the initiator when he is waiting for a communications request recipient to respond to the communications request. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113006 | Method and apparatus for mutual exchange of sensitive personal information between users of an introductory meeting website - Methods for simultaneous exchange of sensitive personal information between two unrelated parties are disclosed, such as between two users of an online networking website or introductory meeting website, the information being mutually accessible to both users upon exchange. The invention allows for exchange of sensitive personal information between two parties only if both parties indicate a willingness to participate in such exchange. A host data server facilitates information exchanges, otherwise protecting the sensitive personal information. This invention is particularly useful for online dating websites, where the sensitive personal information may include personal photographs or phone numbers. In preferred embodiments, the exchange of sensitive personal information occurs simultaneously, and the sensitive personal information can be simultaneously presented to the two parties. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113007 | METHOD AND INSTANTANEOUS MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE TERMINALS EQUIPPED WITH A VIRTUAL PRESENCE SERVER CONFIGURED TO MANAGE DIFFERENT CONTACT LISTS OF A SINGLE USER - The invention relates to an instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals comprising one or several instantaneous messaging service servers (S | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113008 | Systems and Methods to Exchange Patient Information and to Set Up and Trigger Healthcare Alerts - Systems and methods for sending health care alerts or reminders to patients, such as a reminder to visit the doctor, be vaccinated, or undergo a therapy. The alerts and reminders may be delivered to the patient's cell phone, PDA, or computer, for example. The system manages information of patients and/or caregivers who are eligible for a vaccine or therapy, but have not contacted their health care professional yet for an appointment or taken the vaccine. The system serves to increase the number of patients who will undertake a desired action to which the alert/reminder was directed, such as getting a vaccine, visiting the doctor, or obtaining the remainder of one's therapy, medication, or vaccine. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113009 | Notification Device Interaction - Devices and methods are disclosed for establishing device interaction among electronic devices of a device environment and a notification device interfaced with the user. Notification devices allow the user to communicate directly with the device environment, such as by entering information in a mobile phone that has a wireless connection to the environment. A device of the environment has a first transmitter and receiver for communicating with other devices, such as a notification device within the environment. In the instance where a notification device is located remotely, the device of the environment may also include a second transmitter and receiver for communicating with the remotely located notification device through a remote communications transport. A memory stores interaction rules and translation rules, and a processor implements the interaction rules and translation rules to establish interaction with the notification device. Methods may involve detecting a change of state at a device and then communicating with the notification device in accordance with the interaction rules and translation rules thereafter. Methods may also involve directing a message from a notification device to a device of the environment, such as through the remote communication transport, and then communicating from the device of the environment to additional devices. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113010 | Image Transmission System - Upon accepting, from a user B, a new registration of a configuration showing that the user B wishes to receive data via a FAX, a server sets a notification flag to an address book of a user A which includes an address of the user B. Upon accepting a login of the user A, an MFP displays a message to notify the user A of the new registration by the user B, based on the notification flag. The user A, who has notified of the new registration, can transmit the data to the user B with use of the new registration configured by the user B, namely via a FAX. Accordingly, the user B can receive the data via a FAX as the user B wishes. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113011 | Image processing system, image processing apparatus, mail server, and method of sending email - An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus and a mail server connected to the image processing apparatus through a network. The image processing apparatus includes a first communication unit for receiving a normal reception command from the mail server indicating that the mail server normally receives an email; and an invalidation request command generation unit for generating an invalidation request command for requesting invalidation of the email when the invalidation request command generation unit receives a direction for requesting invalidation of the email sent to the mail server after the first communication unit receives the normal reception command. The mail server includes a second communication unit for sending the normal reception command to the image processing apparatus after the mail server normally receives the email; and a mail deletion unit for deleting the email specified by the invalidation request command when the mail deletion unit receives the invalidation request command sent from the image processing apparatus. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113012 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SPOOFED EMAIL BY MODIFYING THE SENDER ADDRESS - A system, method and computer program product are provided for identifying spoofed emails. According to the method, an email addressed to a recipient in a first network is received, with the email including a plurality of headers, and at least one of the plurality of headers including a sender address. It is determined whether the sender address indicates a mailbox from within the first network, and the sender address is modified if it indicates a mailbox within the first network. The email with the modified sender address is sent to the recipient. In one embodiment, a second email is received that is from the recipient and that is addressed to the modified sender address, the modified sender address is modified so as to return it to its original form, and the second email is sent. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113013 | METHOD, SYSTEM, SERVER AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR OBTAINING DEFAULT NOTIFICATION MESSAGE - The present disclosure discloses a method, server, and UE, to be applied to a DVB-H system, for obtaining a default notification message. The method includes obtaining a data structure carrying a unique default notification access parameter corresponding to a default notification message, obtaining the default notification access parameter from the data structure, and obtaining the default notification message at the location indicated by the default notification access parameter. The method provided by the disclosure may enable a UE to obtain the unique default notification access parameter in a DVB-H system and obtain the default notification message based on the default notification access parameter. Moreover, because the default notification access parameter obtained by the UE is unique, the disclosure overcomes the problem in the prior art that default notification session access parameters may be inconsistent and no data redundancy will be caused in the UE. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090119370 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC TAGGING IN EMAIL - A method and computer program product for dynamically sharing tags associated with an email including associating one or more tags with an email after the email has been sent. The one or more tags are made accessible to at least a portion of one or more email users. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119371 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN A COLLABORATIVE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to question and answer management in a collaborative environment, and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for synchronizing questions and answers in an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of synchronizing questions and answers in an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include maintaining an instant messaging session between first and second participants, identifying questions and answers in the instant messaging text, matching each of the answers to a corresponding one of the questions, and displaying the matched questions and answers supplementally to the displaying of the chat transcript, ensuring that a participant does not overlook a question where response on their part is required. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EMAIL WARNINGS - A system and method for providing an email warning including analyzing one or more communication activities of a user. A pattern of communication activity may be defined based upon, at least in part, the analyzed one or more communication activities of the user. An attempted communication activity may be compared to the pattern of communication activity. A notification may be provided to the user if the attempted communication activity is inconsistent with the pattern of communication activity. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119373 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INSTANT MESSAGING STATUS - A method and computer program product or managing instant messaging status include identifying an instant messaging unavailable status for a user, and identifying a point-in-time collaborative intersection between the user and one or more collaborative users. The instant messaging unavailable status of the user is penetrated to allow instant messaging communications from at least a portion of the one or more collaborative users during the point-in-time collaborative intersection. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119374 | ADAPTIVE INSTANT MESSAGING AWARENESS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to presence awareness for instant messaging and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for adaptive instant messaging awareness. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for adaptive instant messaging awareness can be provided. The method can include overriding an instant messaging system presence awareness do not disturb state for a user of an instant messenger in the instant messaging system in response to determining a contemporaneously calendared event for the user. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119375 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING DELIVERY OF MOBILE CONTENT USING DIFFERENTIAL METADATA UPDATES - A method of and system of optimizing content delivery within a content delivery channel at a processing element in a dynamic content delivery architecture, the content delivery channel having a plurality of logical or physical content types or a plurality of sub-channels, the method: receiving an envelope at the processing element, the envelope containing one or both of content and metadata; checking any received metadata to determine whether the received metadata comprises metadata for a subset of the plurality of logical or physical content types or plurality of sub-channels for the content delivery channel at the processing element; if the received metadata contains or refers to metadata for a subset of the plurality of logical or physical content types or plurality of sub-channels for the content delivery channel at the processing element, extracting the metadata; and applying the extracted metadata to any received content belonging to the subset of the plurality of logical or physical content types or a plurality of sub-channels for the content delivery channel at the processing element. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119376 | Hint-Based Email Address Construction - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for hint-based email address construction that include: receiving, in an email address constructor, an email address hint specified by a user, the email address hint representing an email address for an email recipient; parsing, by the email address constructor, the email address hint for a plurality of hint tokens, each of the hint tokens specifying a user attribute for the email recipient, and at least one of the hint tokens specifying an attribute other than the email recipient's name; and determining, by the email address constructor, the email address for the email recipient in dependence upon the plurality of hint tokens. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119377 | MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS ON AN R-SMART NETWORK - Implementations related to managing communications on r-smart networks are disclosed. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119378 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AN R-SMART NETWORK - Implementations related to controlling access to r-smart person-centric networks are disclosed. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119379 | Rendering of multi-media content to near bit accuracy by contractual obligation - An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique to identify a piece of content. A content identifier is embedded into the piece of content in a pre-determined format. The content identifier identifies the content. The content embedded with the content identifier is encoded into a packaged content to be transmitted from a content provider to a content delivery operator via a transmission medium. The packaged content is delivered to a subscriber by the content delivery operator free of obfuscation according to a contractual agreement between the content provider and the content delivery operator such that the content identifier is preserved for identification of the content. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119380 | Schema Negotiation for Versioned Documents Transmitted in a Distributed Environment - In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for negotiating schema information relating to one or more content types of a message body comprised within a message of a communication protocol. A communication protocol message such as a SIP or HTTP message is generated by a sender towards a recipient, wherein the message includes a message body. A schema indicator is provided in the communication protocol message to indicate acceptability of variations of a content type of a message body or body part in a response from the recipient. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119381 | System and Method of Responding to a Request in a Network Environment Including IMS - In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for facilitating responding to a request in a network environment including IMS. A component associated with a recipient is configured to receive an incoming message from a sender, wherein the incoming message is substantially free of an indication of acceptance by the sender of a body of a particular content type. A component associated with the recipient is configured to provide an outgoing message including at least one body of the particular content type. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119382 | Content Disposition System and Method for Processing Message Content in a Distributed Environment - In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for interpreting contents of at least one message body per message, e.g., a SIP or HTTP message, wherein the message body contents correspond to a content type. A communication protocol message such as a SIP or HTTP message is generated by a sender towards a recipient, wherein the message includes at least one message body content in the message's body. A component associated with the recipient is configured to examine whether at least one indicator is associated with the message. A component, operable responsive to the examination, is configured to inhibit a treatment of the message body content and to apply an alternative treatment with respect thereto. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119383 | END TO END DATA TRANSFER - A method, apparatus and system for data transfer is disclosed. For example, settings from multiple entities arranged in a multi-tier control plane are used to set data transfer policies. The policies are use to govern data transfers such as between end users or from an origin server. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119384 | Multi-Path Gateway Communications Device - Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for enabling a virtual personalized network. Communications are established with a personal digital gateway to control access, sharing, security, and/or management of up-to-date personalized data exchanged between or among a plurality of associated communications devices and/or communications networks. The associated communications devices are owned, operated, and/or accessed by a common user. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090125591 | Instant messaging proxy apparatus and method - A method is described comprising: receiving instant messages from a data processing device in a first instant messaging (“IM”) format; identifying a first IM service to which the instant messages are directed; reformatting the instant messages into a second IM format compatible with the first IM service; and transmitting the instant messages in the second IM format to the first IM service. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125592 | Flexray communication controller - FlexRay communication controller for connecting FlexRay communication lines to a FlexRay network member assigned to the FlexRay communication controller, whereby said FlexRay communication controller encloses some parts as there are at least a message handler, a message memory, a first buffer memory structure for connecting said message memory to said FlexRay network member and a second buffer memory structure for connecting said message memory to said FlexRay communication lines, whereby all the parts are functioning together to connect said FlexRay communication lines to said FlexRay network member and said FlexRay communication controller is constructed in such a way that said functioning is controlled by the contents of a variety of registers located onto said FlexRay communication controller. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125593 | Message Delivery System and Method - In one embodiment, a method of delivering messages to a user of a user terminal executing a communication client and connected to a packet-based communication network, includes receiving a message at the communication client from the communication network, the message comprising a content portion and a control portion, wherein the content portion comprises information intended for display to the user of the user terminal, and storing the message in a data store at the user terminal. The communication client reads the control portion of the message and extracts data defining a trigger event and a condition. The communication client is monitored to determine whether the communication client state corresponds to the trigger event. Responsive to the communication client state corresponding to the trigger event, the communication client determines whether the condition is met. In the case that the condition is met, the content portion of the message is displayed in the communication client. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125594 | Instant Messaging Intercom System - A method of communication via instant messaging that avoids some of the costs and disadvantages for doing so in the prior art. In particular, the illustrative embodiment enables instant messaging clients to function as an intercom, in which one user can cause audio signals, such as speech, to be output from a second user's instant messaging client without any action on the part of the second user. This is in direct contrast to a traditional telephone call in which the second user must take some action to “answer” the call before the first user's voice is heard. Such an instant messaging intercom capability will be especially useful for secretaries and others who collaborate on work. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125595 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGE PROCESSING - Intelligent message processing is provided for person to person (P2P) messaging by intercepting the message and processing the message before directing the message to the recipient. The messaging system then acts as a person to application (P2A) and application to person (A2P) system, wherein any P2P message can be intercepted and processed as necessary. Such functionality allows any desired processing of the message, such as to allow for transformation, charging, content filtering, screening, parsing, and any other such processing. Further, such an approach allows the message to be received from the sender and directed to the recipient on different channels. A messaging enabler allows the message to be processed using application logic and/or Web services, for example. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORWARDING EMAILS TO PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS - The illustrative embodiments of the present invention described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for forwarding a reply email message. The process dynamically inserts email addresses associated with a plurality of recipients of an original email message and with an email address associated with the sender of the original email message into a recipient field of the reply email message. The email address associated with the sender of the original email message is identified to form an identified email address, wherein a copy of the reply email message is unsent to the identified email address. However, the identified email address remains part of the recipient field. In response to receiving a send command, the reply email message is sent to the email addresses associated with the recipient field excluding the identified email address. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125597 | EMAIL ANNOTATION - A method of creating an annotation to an email. The method includes: receiving an email; receiving a predefined user input; creating an annotation in response to the predefined user input, the annotation linked to the email; receiving a further user input; and defining a permission for the annotation according to the further user input, the permission defining user access to the annotation. When transmitting a second email as a response to the received email, the second email is linked to the annotation. The method further includes displaying at least a part of the annotation linked to the received email, for example when a user hovers over the email. The structure of the annotations allows the associating of the annotation with one or more further annotations. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125598 | METHOD, CLIENT AND SERVER FOR IMPLEMENTING QUESTION AND ANSWER SERVICES - The invention discloses a method, client and server for implementing the question and answer services. The method includes: by a first client, putting a question into presence information for publishing so that a second client obtains the presence information that contains the question; receiving an answer to the question sent by the second client through an instant message; and displaying the received answer together with the corresponding question. The invention fully utilizes the interpersonal network information in an instant messaging system, and implements the question and answer services based on the presence service and the instant messaging service in the instant messaging system. Therefore, users can ask questions and obtain answers conveniently based on the widely applied instant messaging system. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125599 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE - A disclosed multifunctional input/output device has an e-mail client function for sending/receiving e-mails to/from a mail server. The multifunctional input/output device includes a storing unit configured to store a first e-mail acquired from the mail server; a printing unit configured to print the first e-mail stored by the storing unit onto a print medium and to add code information to the print medium, wherein the code information is obtained by encoding a source e-mail address of the first e-mail; a reading unit configured to read the code information printed onto the print medium by the printing unit; and an e-mail sending unit configured to send a second e-mail to the source e-mail address acquired from the code information read by the reading unit. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125600 | E-MAIL ROLE TEMPLATES FOR CLASSIFYING E-MAIL - An e-mail categorization system can include a plurality of role templates, each role template being associated with an e-mail account and defining a plurality of categories for categorizing e-mail messages. An authorized account holder can establish the plurality of categories and can designate programmatic actions that are to be selectively executed by an e-mail receiving application upon the receipt of e-mail messages. The selection of actions can be based upon categories of the received e-mail messages. Role templates can be distributed to e-mail originators so that when e-mail originators direct e-mail messages to an account associated with a role template, the originators are prompted to select one of the categories defined by a corresponding role template. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090132658 | Apparatus and method for filtering electronic messages - A method for handling electronic messages comprising: determining if a stored email addressed to a user includes an identifier; determining by an email server if an email addressed to a user includes an identifier; determining if the identifier is valid upon determining the email includes the identifier; and filtering the email upon determining either the email does not include the identifier or the identifier is not valid. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132659 | Enhancing Collaboration Opportunities for a Reply to an Electronic Message - It is not unusual for an e-mail message to request replies from multiple addressees. To enhance the opportunities for collaborations on a reply to the e-mail message, each of the messaging servers supporting the addressees maintains a message record identifying each addressee that signals he has begun working on a reply. When the message record indicate that at least two addressees are working on a reply, a notice that multiple addressees are concurrently working on a reply is immediately sent to each of the addressees, creating a collaboration opportunities for the addressees. The notice may take the form of a system-generated instant message. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132660 | NETWORK CHAT DEVICE AND METHODS THEREOF - A server device can receive availability inquiries from chat programs via a network. The server device determines a first user's availability to a second user based on whether that second user is a member of one of a set of groups identified by the first user. Based on the determination, the server device communicates information indicating the first user's availability to a chat program which displays an indicator, such as an icon, based on the information. Accordingly, a user can identify his availability to other users on a group-by-group basis, providing a flexible way for a user to target his interactions via the chat program to a limited group of users. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132661 | Forwarding Un-responded to Instant Messages to Electronic Mail - A method of forwarding an instant message to electronic mail can begin with determining availability of an instant messaging client for a recipient. The method can continue with sending the instant message to the instant messaging client for the recipient. The method can include not receiving a reply to the instant message within a pre-defined period of time. The method can further include sending an electronic mail message including the instant message to the recipient upon reaching the pre-defined period of time. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132662 | Managing Delivery of Electronic Messages - In certain embodiments, a method for managing delivery of electronic messages includes receiving an electronic message, the electronic message having an intended recipient, and analyzing the electronic message to determine a priority for the electronic message. The method further includes determining, based on the determined priority for the electronic message; whether to deliver the electronic message to the intended recipient at the current time. If it is determined, based on the determined priority for the electronic message, that the electronic message should be delivered to the intended recipient at the current time, delivery of the electronic message to the intended recipient is initiated. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132663 | ACTIVE REMOVAL OF E-MAIL RECIPIENT FROM REPLIES AND SUBSEQUENT THREADS - A data processing system, computer implemented method, and a computer program product prevents the delivery of undesired e-mail message. A remove request is received from a non-desiring client. The remove request identifies a first subject line or a first body text from a previous e-mail message. An active request is updated with the remove request. Responsive to updating the active requests, the non-desiring client is redacted from a previously received message within a message file. The previously received message includes a second subject line that matches the first subject line, or a second body text that matches the first body text. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132664 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOVING A PERSON FROM AN E-MAIL THREAD - A method for automatically removing a user from an e-mail thread is provided. An e-mail client receives a reply e-mail message. Responsive to a determination that the reply e-mail message is a message to opt-out of an e-mail thread, the e-mail address of a sender of the reply e-mail message is associated with the e-mail thread to form a listed e-mail address. The listed e-mail address is stored. When a new e-mail message is generated that is part of the e-mail thread, the listed e-mail address is automatically excluded from a list of recipients of the new e-mail. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132665 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING INVITATIONS AND RESPONSES TO AN EVENT WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - The invention provides a communications system comprising an event server computer system, an event creation module on the event server computer system for permitting the creation of an event from an event host computer system over the network, and a storing module on the event server computer system for storing the event on the event server computer system, a transmissions module on the event server computer system for transmitting a signal relating to the event from a first computer system to a second computer system over a network, and a location selection module on the event server computer system for selecting at least one location from the event host computer system and associating the location with the event on the event server computer system. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132666 | Method and apparatus for implementing a network based debugging protocol - Techniques for automatically triggering debug sessions across a network are described herein. In one embodiment of the invention, at a first code module in a first computing device, a detected event is determined to constitute an automatic start network debug session condition, wherein the detected event is an occurrence of significance to the first code module, and wherein the automatic start debug session condition is a set of one or more start criterions of which the detected event is a part. One or more actions for that automatic start network debug session condition are determined, wherein each action includes properties of a different one of the one or more debug sessions. A destination of at least one of the actions is determined to be a second computing device. An automatic network debug message is formed for each action destined for the second computing device, wherein the automatic network debug message is based on that action and wherein the automatic network debug message indicates the properties of the debug session. Each automatic network debug message destined for the second computing is transmitted to the second computing device. Upon receiving the automatic network debug messages, the second computing device processes each received automatic network debug message, wherein processing includes reforming the action from the received automatic network debug message and sending the reformed action to a local code module upon determining that the local code module should automatically start a debug session. One or more flags are set according to each reformed action to start the debug session corresponding to each reformed action, and a set of one or more debug messages are generated corresponding to the flags that are set. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132667 | Adaptive filtering of annotated messages or the like - A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining an indication of one or more message filtering rules and accepting text-containing content after obtaining the indication of the one or more message filtering rules and after a value acceptance of a delivery evaluation of the text-containing content. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132668 | APPARATUS FOR POST DELIVERY INSTANT MESSAGE REDIRECTION - An instant messaging (IM) server provides post delivery instant message redirection when a first device having a first media access control (MAC) address is logged onto the IM server and subsequently a second device having a second media access control address logs onto the IM server. An instant message is transmitted to a recipient at the first MAC address. The second device is logged onto the IM server. The instant message is retransmitted to the second MAC address of the recipient before the notification that the recipient is typing in the chat window and before the notification that the chat window has been closed. The first device is automatically logged off in response to the second device being logged onto the IM server, and the instant message is not read on the first device before the first device is automatically logged off the IM server. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132669 | HASH-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND PREVENTING TRANSMISSION OF UNWANTED E-MAIL | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132670 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRECLUDING E-MAIL DISTRIBUTION - E-mail addresses are converted by a hashing function into hash codes. An e-mail mass mailer that can have millions of addresses hash codes all addresses to which a message might be sent to form a first list. An entity that wishes to exclude delivery of a message to various e-mail addresses, hash codes such addresses to form a second list. Hash codes in the first list that are also in the second list are purged from the first list to yield a third list of hash codes, each of which represents an e-mail address to which a message may be sent. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132671 | MESSAGE STATE MAINTENANCE AT A CURSOR - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for maintaining message state at a cursor. A message consumer requests messages from a cursor. The cursor can maintain state information for the message consumers separately from a message log that stores messages. Any of a variety of message delivery assurances can be used when delivering a message to a message consumer. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132672 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR A MEDIATION PROCESSING NODE TO UPDATE A MESSAGE - A mediation processing node computer processor updates a message. A message is received for processing by a mediation processing node computer processor. It is deduced from a declared interface of the mediation processing node computer processor that one or more message values will be updated by the mediation processing node computer processor as a result of its processing. The interface of the mediation processing node computer processor is then used to obtain the one or more updated values and the updates are then applied to the message. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090138556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING QUICK RESPONSE REPLIES ON A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A system and method for implementing quick response replies on a data processing system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a user drafts a current message within a current window of an instant messaging (IM) client, wherein the current message is targeted to a current user. In response to receiving a new message when the current message is partially drafted, the user drafts a new reply message to respond to the new message while preserving the partially-drafted message. The IM client sends the new reply message to respond to the new message. The user completes the partially-drafted current message and the IM client sends the completed current message to the current user. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138557 | DELEGATION OF E-MAIL RETURN RECEIPTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for e-mail return receipt delegation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for e-mail return receipt delegation can include composing an e-mail message by a sender of the e-mail message, selecting a return receipt for the e-mail message, specifying a delegate for the return receipt other than the sender, and forwarding the e-mail message to an addressed recipient along with a directive designating the delegate to receive the return receipt when the addressed recipient opens the e-mail message. Alternatively, the method can include receiving an e-mail message from a sender of the e-mail message, opening the e-mail message, identifying a request for a return receipt for the e-mail message, locating a delegate for the return receipt other than the sender, and generating and sending a return receipt to the delegate. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138558 | Automated Methods for the Handling of a Group Return Receipt for the Monitoring of a Group Delivery - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a methodology for monitoring the delivery of mail pieces to a predetermined grouping of recipients and notifying the sender of the completion of the delivery tasks to the group of recipients. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138559 | E-MAIL MANAGEMENT FOR HIDDEN RECIPIENTS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to e-mail message reply handling and provide a method, system and computer program product for hidden recipient management in e-mail replies. In an embodiment of the invention, a hidden recipients e-mail reply management method can be provided. The method can include composing an e-mail message in a message thread by a composer, identifying and displaying hidden recipients previously blind carbon copied on a progenitor e-mail message for the message thread by the composer, and routing the composed e-mail message to selected ones of the hidden recipients. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138560 | Method and Apparatus for Automated Record Creation Using Information Objects, Such as Images, Transmitted Over a Communications Network to Inventory Databases and Other Data-Collection Programs - A method, process and apparatus for automating software record creation are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, although not limited thereto, the present invention uses a unique email address as a proxy for and to correspond to a specific database table that in turn is associated with a specific user. In the context of an inventory system and this preferred embodiment the present invention enables an information object, such as a photograph, to be captured remotely and transmitted over a communications network to a proxy email address where it is automatically processed into an inventory record on the desired inventory list without the user needing to have any further interaction with the inventory system than the transmission of the object. Additionally, in this preferred embodiment that utilizes email as the transportation method, inclusion filtering is employed to restrict data submission thereby preventing or greatly mitigating false record entries. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICE ORIENTED EMAIL CLIENT APPLICATION - A system to facilitate a service oriented email client application. The system includes a service registry, a service address book coupled to an email client, and an email composer coupled to the service address book. The service registry includes service information. The service information describes how to invoke a web service. The service address book includes a web service entry linked to the service information for the web service in the service registry. The email composer generates a user input form with a custom input field corresponding to the service information for the web service. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138562 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A system and method for aggregating and delivering electronic messages is provided. The method includes periodically retrieving electronic messages associated with a single user from a plurality of source electronic mail servers via an aggregation server, storing the retrieved messages from the plurality of source electronic mail servers in an aggregated message store, generating an aggregated electronic mail message containing an aggregated list of the retrieved messages, and delivering the aggregated electronic mail message to a single destination mailbox for retrieval by the user as a single e-mail message, wherein the aggregated electronic mail message contains at least a portion of each of the retrieved electronic messages. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138563 | DYNAMICAL ROUTING FOR TEXT MESSAGING - Routing text messages. A mobile message (MM) is received from an application program or other message source, and includes a destination identifier, such as a phone number. Based on the destination identifier, a routing server determines whether the MM is to be locally routed to a destination carrier, or forwarded to a remote server that provides access to the destination carrier. For local routing, the routing server determines a channel to the carrier based on predefined carrier information, the destination user information, and the carrier gateway dynamic information. The predefined carrier information indicates predicted availability or reliability of each of a plurality of channels to the carrier. The destination user information indicates availability of the destination user to receive messages, and includes a destination user criterion for determining one of the channels. The carrier gateway dynamic information indicates current and statistical traffic information for each of the channels. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138564 | APPARATUS FOR AND A METHOD OF DELIVERING A MESSAGE TO A USER - Apparatus for delivering a message to a user comprising means for communicating with service providers and means for communicating with device agents operating on respective user devices, wherein the service provider communicating means is configured to receive a request to communicate with a specified user and to selectively output a message for the user to said device agent communicating means and wherein the device agent communicating means is configured to maintain a list of connected device agents, to receive information, from one of said connected device agents, for identifying a preferred device agent for sending a message to the user, to store information for identifying the preferred device agent and to transmit the message to the preferred device agent. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138565 | Method and System for Facilitating Content Analysis and Insertion - Disclosed is a system and method for facilitating the analysis and classification of content, and the selection and insertion of relevant content into messages. According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a system and method that may allow for the selection and insertion of relevant content into messages in a computerized network. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138566 | PRESENCE SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT, DYNAMIC BUDDY LIST GENERATION METHOD IN PRESENCE SYSTEM, AND PRESENCE NOTIFICATION DESTINATION CONTROLLING METHOD AND ITS PROGRAM FOR USE WITH PRESENCE SYSTEM - A presentity service client has a presentity that issues presence information to a presence service and a watcher which observes presence information for other presentities; a presence change rule holding part holds a presence change rule; and a presence calculating part changes the presence information for the presentity, using as a trigger a change in presence information of other presentities, based on the presence information of other presentity acquired by the watcher and in accordance with the presence change rule held by a presence change rules holding part. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090144370 | ACTIVE POLLING TECHNIQUE - Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for soliciting and facilitating a response to an electronic communication. According to one embodiment, a method of soliciting and facilitating a response to an electronic communication can comprise receiving from an originator a request for the electronic communication with one or more recipients. Based on the request, a determination can be made as to whether to solicit a response from the one or more recipients. In response to determining to solicit a response from the one or more recipients, one or more possible responses to the electronic communication can be determined, at least one message that includes the one or more possible responses can be generated, and the at least one message can be sent to the one or more recipients to initiate the communication. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144371 | SPLIT TRANSCRIPT VIEW FOR BUSINESS OBJECT INTEGRATION INTO MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a chat session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the instant messenger. The method further can include generating a message transcript for the messaging session with a split view of the message text and the business object and applied action. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144372 | CORRELATING MESSAGING TEXT TO BUSINESS OBJECTS FOR BUSINESS OBJECT INTEGRATION INTO MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include identifying a pronoun in the message text referencing the business object and visually distinguishing the identified pronoun in the message text to draw a correlation between the business object and the pronoun. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144373 | INDEXING A MESSAGING SESSION FOR BUSINESS OBJECT INTEGRATION INTO MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the instant messenger. The method further can include indexing the messaging session with keywords in the message text and tags for the business object. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144374 | System and Method for Unsolicited Electronic Mail Identification and Evasion - A method and system are disclosed for the identification of and avoidance of unsolicited email or Spam mail. The present invention is a system and method for channeling email to prevent unsolicited email and to identify the sources of unsolicited email by creating a new layer to a common email exchange. The present invention is not spam filtering, though it can be used in conjunction with spam filters to increase the effectiveness of such filters. The present invention may work off of a client and server methodology to keep email identifiable through select channels that are agreed upon with the client and server. The present invention is not dependent upon specific operating systems or implementations of an email protocol. The present invention may be comprised of multiple configuration settings that may ask, allow, deny, and remember implementation level features. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144375 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR TRANSMITTING MAPS BY MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICE - Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmitting maps via multimedia messaging service (MMS). The methods, systems, and computer program products include acquiring a map, displaying the map on a display screen of a device, initiating an MMS formatting application to format the map in an MMS format, and transmitting the MMS formatted map over a network. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144376 | Adding Tiles to a Graphical User Interface - A software application having a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays content tiles along with the use of an electronic device to add tiles to the GUI is described in this disclosure. A predefined key on an input device is selected to indicate to display available tiles. One of the displayed available tiles is selected and the user designates a location on the display of the content tiles where to place the selected displayed available tiles. The selected tile is then inserted into the display with the plurality of tiles at the designated location and a tile previously at the designation location on the display is deleted and placed in a delete directory. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144377 | SOCIAL NEWS FORWARDING TO GENERATE INTEREST CLUSTERS - Embodiments are directed towards managing messages based on generated interest clusters. A message may be analyzed to determine one or more interest clusters associated with the message. The message may be automatically sent to members within the determined interest cluster(s), or if no members are in the interest cluster(s), to those identified in the sender's contact list. As recipients of the message respond to the message, the membership to the interest clusters may be revised. Responses used to revise the membership may include forwarding, reading, ignoring, or deleting the message. Subsequent revisions to the membership may be made based on responses to subsequent messages sent to the members of the interest cluster. Display of the message may be in a rank order based on a determined hop distance for the message. Third parties may use the interest cluster and/or sneezers to direct advertisements, or the like. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144378 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR THE DELIVERY OF EMAIL TEXT MESSAGES AND IMAGE ATTACHMENTS TO AN IPTV DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method for the delivery and display of an email text message and image attachment to an IPTV enabled display device. The method comprises retrieving an email message and at least one image attachment from an email account, and saving the email message and at least one image attachment. The method further comprises analyzing the retrieved email message to determine if an IPTV account is associated with data that is comprised within the email message, and transmitting a notification to the IPTV account in the event that the email data that is comprised within the email message is determined to be associated with the IPTV account. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144379 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR THE DELIVERY OF EMAIL TEXT MESSAGES AND AUDIO VIDEO ATTACHMENTS TO AN IPTV DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method for the delivery and display of an email text message and audio/video attachment to an IPTV enabled display device. The method comprises retrieving an email message and at least one audio/video attachment from an email account, and saving the email message and one audio/video attachment. The method further comprises analyzing the retrieved email message to determine if an IPTV account is associated with data that is comprised within the email message, and transmitting a notification to the IPTV account in the event that the email data that is comprised within the email message is determined to be associated with the IPTV account. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144380 | PEER-TO-PEER EMAIL - A peer-to-peer email system and methods are provided for distributed email distribution, prevention of SPAM, and efficient email storage. Each email client also serves as a node in the peer-to-peer system, relaying email messages and/or attachments. Large attachments may be transmitted directly from sender to receiver, and if the receiver is not online at the time the sender sends the attachment, the receiver can request the attachment from the sender at a later time. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144381 | Method and system for data formatting - A system includes a data store and a server in communication with the data store. The server includes formatting modules having a plurality of formatters, validation modules having a plurality of validators, and a streaming module. The server is configured to receive messages containing financial transaction data from one or more electronic communication networks or one or more client devices. The formatters are configured for each of the electronic communication networks or client devices and convert the messages into an internal format of the streaming system. The validation modules are configured to perform a validation check on the one or more formatted messages. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144382 | METHOD FOR CERTIFYING AND UNIFYING DELIVERY OF ELECTRONIC PACKAGES - A method of verifiably transmitting an Electronic Package such as an email and associated attachments, from a sender to a recipient through a system that utilizes a certifying authority via a communications network. The certifying authority consists of trained personnel capable of verifying the authenticity and detailed history of the electronic package. The method involves the steps of transmitting an Electronic Package from a sender to the System via the communications network; storing a first set of particulars relating to the Electronic Package on a server operated by the certifying authority for use in subsequent verification of the particulars relating to the Electronic Package; delivering the Electronic Package and generating an encrypted hash value based on selected particulars; creating an Electronic Certificate of Service that allows verification to and proof of particulars and integrity of the original message. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144383 | Apparatus and Method for Providing Remote Access Redirect Capability in a Channel Adapter of a System Area Network - A method and apparatus for providing remote access redirect in a host channel adapter of a system area network are provided. The apparatus and method provide a mechanism by which a host channel adapter, in response to receiving a marker message, places selected channel(s) of the host channel adapter in a remote access redirect (RAR) mode of operation. During the RAR mode of operation, memory access messages received by the host channel adapter that are destined for portions of an application memory space marked as being protected are converted to RAR receive messages and redirected to a queue pair associated with an operating system rather than the queue pair for the application. The operating system is responsible for serializing access to application memory pages outside of the host channel adapter. The mechanisms of the present invention may be used to perform a checkpoint data integrity operation. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144384 | DOMAIN MANAGING METHOD, DOMAIN EXTENDING METHOD AND REFERENCE POINT CONTROLLER ELECTING METHOD - A method of managing a domain, a method of extending a domain, and a method of selecting a reference point controller are provided. The method of operating the domain includes: receiving a request for authenticating a reference point controller from a reference point controller candidate; invalidating a membership of the stored reference point controller; generating a unique reference point controller membership for verifying that the reference point controller candidate is a new reference point controller; and transmitting the generated reference point controller membership to the reference point controller candidate. Accordingly, even when an error occurs in the reference point controller, the function of the reference point controller can be rapidly replaced by using the reference point controller candidate. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144385 | Sequential Message Transmission System - A computer system transmits a sequence of messages to multiple users. The first user subscribes to the sequence at a first time. In response, the system transmits each message in the sequence to the first user in sequence and at predetermined intervals (e.g., every month), beginning at the first user's subscription time. A second user subscribes to the sequence at a second time (e.g., a week after the first user's subscription time). In response, the system transmits each message in the sequence to the second user in sequence and at predetermined intervals (e.g., every month), beginning at the second user's subscription time. As a result, the system may transmit the same message in the sequence to different users at different times, and transmit different messages in the sequence to different users at the same time. Advertisements may be dynamically inserted within the messages based on their delivery times. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090150493 | Transmission Apparatus, Reception Apparatus, Control Method Thereof, Communication System, and Program - A transmission apparatus transmits e-mail to a reception apparatus through a network by selecting one of a communication method via a mail server and a communication method without intervention of a mail server. This transmission apparatus generates the e-mail and transmits, to the reception apparatus, the e-mail and information representing the reply method of a transmittal confirmation request in response to the e-mail. The transmission apparatus receives, from the reception apparatus in accordance with the reply method, a transmittal confirmation result in response to the transmitted e-mail. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150494 | JUST-IN TIME MAILING LIST TRAFFIC INDICATOR - Traffic of email messages sent to an email list is monitored, and a number of email messages sent to the email list per day is determined. An average number of email messages sent to the email list per day is determined over a number of days. The determined average number of email message sent to the email list per day is updated every day. In response to a user request to send an email message to the email list on a given day, the user is presented with a traffic indicator. The traffic indicator includes an updated average number of email messages sent to the email list per day and a number representing how many email messages have been sent to the email list on the given day at the time the user requests to send the email message. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150495 | Chain-Scoped Dynamic Electronic Mail System and Method - A method, system and program product allow an originator of an electronic mail message to create and attach different topics to messages. Recipients of messages can view different topics from an electronic mail message and can take actions on specific topics and related content. Electronic mail messages can be organized based on topics. Each topic in a string of electronic mail messages is chain-scoped with its lifetime bounded by an electronic mail chain. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150496 | AUTOMATED TRANSLATOR FOR SYSTEM-GENERATED PREFIXES - A method is provided for localizing a prefix in a subject header field of an incoming electronic message. The method comprises receiving a value string of a subject header in an electronic message; identifying a system-generated prefix in the value string by parsing the value string and accessing a database storing a plurality of system-generated prefixes and a corresponding comparable local prefix for each of the plurality of system-generated prefixes; and converting the system-generated prefix to its corresponding comparable local prefix in the database. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150497 | ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE HANDLING AND PRESENTATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with electronic mail messages. In one exemplary method, electronic mail messages may be presented in an order based, at least in part, on a presentation scores associated with each message. The presentation score may be based, at least in part, on presentation knowledge information associated with an attribute profile. The attribute profile may, for example, be established and maintained based, at least in part, on non-selective user engagement parameters that may be determined based on a presentation of the electronic mail messages and/or identifiers associated therewith. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150498 | Identifying a Plurality of Related Electronic Messages and Combining the Plurality of Related Messages Into a Composite View - A program product, an apparatus, and a method that identify a plurality of related electronic messages and combine the plurality of the related electronic messages into a composite view are provided. Also provided is a method that searches a first account of a first user to identify a plurality of related electronic messages stored in the first account and searches a second account of a second user to identify at least one other electronic message that is associated with the plurality. By doing so, a user may be provided with a more complete email chain, often leading to an increase in productivity, improved collaboration, and a reduction of duplicate data. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150499 | METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION OVER AN INSTANT MESSAGING NETWORK - A method for sharing information in applications via instant messaging (IM), the method includes: receiving a representation of an item in a first IM window on a sending device; recording metadata associated with the item with a sending plugin; sending the item and the associated recorded metadata to one or more receiving devices; receiving the item and the associated recorded metadata in a second IM window at the one or more receiving devices; opening the item with a receiving plugin; and wherein in response to the associated metadata the receiving plugin determines how to position and display information from the item; wherein the item is one or more of the following: a uniform resource locator (URL) and files generated with application software; and wherein the application software comprises word processors, spreadsheets, planning and scheduling, presentation, drawing, financial, statistical, and gaming. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150500 | System and method for automatically generating request-specific backup contact information in an out of office message - A system for automatically generating request-specific backup contact information in an out of office message that automatically generates an out of office message with specific backup contact information based on an automatically determined correspondence between the contents of a received e-mail message and one or more responsibilities of the user an e-mail message is addressed to. A user interface object allows a user to specify one or more keywords for each different one of their roles/responsibilities, and to also specify corresponding backup contact information for each role/responsibility. Incoming e-mail messages are analyzed to detect the user's keywords used to identify one or more corresponding roles/responsibilities. Based on this detection of keywords in the received message and the correspondence of the detected keywords with role/responsibility back up contact information in the persistent storage, only relevant backup contact information is retrieved and included in the out of office reply. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150501 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONAL DELIVERY OF MESSAGES - The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with deliver conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where” from any “Who, What, When, Where” upon the detection of an occurrence of one or more “Who, What, When, Where” delivery conditions. A message (which may be any data object including text-based messages, audio-based message such as voicemail or other audio such as music or video-based prerecorded messages) is delivered in accordance with delivery conditions based on any available data, including topical, spatial, temporal, and/or social data. Furthermore, because the systems coordinate delivery of messages via multiple communication channels and through multiple devices, the communication channel for delivery of a message may be dynamically determined based on the delivery conditions. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150502 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL PUBLISH AND SUBSCRIBE SERVER - A system and method for providing a publish and subscribe server that includes channels to allow web based clients to send and receive asynchronous messages. In accordance with an embodiment, the system provides a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) publish and subscribe (pub/sub) server that includes a channels-based means to allow web based clients to send and receive asynchronous messages over HTTP, including in some embodiments messages published by a JMS provider. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150503 | METHOD AND DEVICES TO SEAMLESSLY INJECT SERVICES IN CONTENT FLOWS - A method for automating service invocation in message flows between a client ( | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150504 | AUTO-CONFIGURATION OF AN INTERNAL VLAN NETWORK INTERFACE - Apparatus and storage media for auto-configuration of an internal network interface are disclosed. Embodiments may install an internal VLAN manager in a logically partitioned computer system along with network agents in each of the partitions in the logically partitioned system to facilitate configuring an internal communications network and the corresponding internal network interfaces in each participating partition. In particular, an administrator accesses internal VLAN manager, selects an internal VLAN ID, selects each of the participating partitions, and configures the communications network with global parameters and ranges. The internal VLAN manager then generates partition parameters and incorporates them into messages for each of the partitions selected to participate in the internal network. Each of the participating partitions receives one of the messages and, in response, invokes the corresponding network agent that extracts partition parameters from the message and creates or re-configures an internal network interface based upon the parameters. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150505 | E-MAIL SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS MAIL SERVERS - A method or system for synchronizing e-mail messages for a user, particularly for POP3 protocols. E-mail messages addressed to the user are received at an e-mail control at a local server, from an external e-mail server. The e-mail control stores each e-mail message in a consolidated e-mail storage at the local server. The e-mail control stores a message identifier for each e-mail message, in a message identifier storage at the local server. It is determined whether an e-mail message in the consolidated e-mail storage has been deleted from the external e-mail server, and if so, then the e-mail message is deleted from the consolidated e-mail storage. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090150506 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING EMAIL NOTIFICATION - A system, method and apparatus for implementing email notification are disclosed. The system and method ensures that an email notification (EMN) generation module is able to generate refined email information for a received email according to a configured refined email information format and transmit the generated refined email information to a parsing module. The systems and methods further allow the parsing module in a user equipment to parse out refined email information from the EMN generation module according to a configured refined email information format. An apparatus for implementing email notification includes an email server having the EMN generation module and user equipment (UE) having the parsing module. The system, method and apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention all ensure the UE to be able to receive the refined email information to which the detailed email information in the UE's mail account corresponds. The UE may be able to flexibly perform subsequent email operation according to the received refined email information. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090157816 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANT MESSAGE TRANSMISSION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Provided is a system for delivering an instant message in which instant messaging systems of different types interwork. The system includes a transmitter mobile communication terminal and an interworking server. The transmitter mobile communication terminal connected to a first instant messaging system transmits a request for an instant message receipt report to a receiver mobile communication terminal connected to a second instant messaging system. The interworking server converts the delivery format of the instant message into another suitable for the second instant messaging system and transmits the instant message to the receiver mobile commnunication terminal. The interworking server also converts the delivery format of the instant message receipt report generated accorrding to the receipt result of the instant message by the receiver mobile communication terminal after completion of the delivery of the instant message to the receiver mobile communication terminal into another suitable for the delivery format of the first instant messaging system to which the transmitter mobile communication terminal is connected, and transmits the instant message receipt report to the transmitter mobile communication terminal. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157817 | USING AN UNSYNCHRONIZED EVENT POOL TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF AN EVENT DRIVEN IM GATEWAY - The present invention discloses a solution for using an unsynchronized event pool in an IM gateway. In the solution, a set of object pools can be established, each including a set of event objects ordered relative to each other in a circular fashion. The IM gateway can detect an incoming message. A CPU processing thread for handling the incoming message can be determined. One of the unsynchronized event object pools associated with the thread can be ascertained. A current one of the ordered event objects within the pool can then be determined. The current one can be an object ordered after a last event object used from the pool. The thread can utilize the determined event object to handle a task for the incoming message, which negates a need and a time to create a new event object for the thread. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157818 | METHOD TO IDENTIFY AND DISPLAY CONTRIBUTIONS BY AUTHOR IN AN E-MAIL COMPRISING MULTIPLE AUTHORS - A method, system and computer program product for displaying authorship and time stamp data within an electronic mail (e-mail) message comprising multiple contributors. The recipient of a multiple author e-mail may view an e-mail inclusive or exclusive of an author's comments. The e-mail client is capable of identifying the author and insertion date of content included within an e-mail message by hovering on or near the word(s)/or phrase utilizing a pointing device. E-mail content may be viewed in chronological order of contribution(s) as selected by the recipient. Contributed content may be displayed chronologically, or color coordinated to avoid displacing key information. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157819 | LIVE CONNECTION OF EMAIL THREADS TO DISCUSSION FORUM - A method, apparatus and program product are provided for making a live connection between an email thread and a discussion forum thread. An email plug-in receives a nomination of an email thread for conversion to a discussion forum thread. The plug-in copies the emails in the email thread as a discussion forum thread with a set of replies as discussion forum messages, where the thread and messages comprising details from the emails. The plug-in then sends the discussion forum thread and messages to a discussion forum server. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157820 | EMAIL CHANGE TRACKING - Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product for email change tracking. In an illustrative embodiment the computer implemented method comprises receiving an email having an annotation defining an annotated portion within the email to form a received email. The received email is parsed with a first parser, the first parser capable of ignoring the annotated portion to form a parsed first portion and a second parser capable of parsing the annotated portion to form a parsed annotated portion. The first parsed portion and parsed annotated portion are each processed to form a respective result which is combined and displayed, indicating changes to a user. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157821 | SYSTEM AND METHODS TO DETERMINE A RECIPIENT FOR AMBIGUOUSLY ADDRESSED MAIL - According to some embodiments a system and a method are provided to determine a correct mail recipient are disclosed. The method comprises receiving an incorrectly addressed mail piece from a sender, scanning the mail piece, analyzing the scanned mail piece to produce analysis results, determining a correct address for the mail piece based at least in part on the analysis results, printing a correctly addressed label based on the determination, adhering the correctly addressed label to the mail piece, sending the mail piece comprising the correctly addressed label to a mail recipient, and transmitting a notification of the correct address to the sender. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY TUNNELLING FOR AGILE MEETINGS - A method and system provides sub-electronic meetings by: providing the main electronic meeting for a group of attendees over a first channel in a network, the main electronic meeting managed by a moderator; sending a request from the moderator to an electronic meeting service to create sub-electronic meetings for a subgroup of attendees; and providing the sub-electronic meeting over a separate second channel in the network for the subgroup, the sub-electronic meeting occurring simultaneously within the main electronic meeting without disconnecting the subgroup from the main electronic meeting. A first graphic user interface (GUI) for the main electronic meeting is provided to each of the group of attendees. A second GUI for the sub-electronic meeting is provided to each of the subgroup of attendees. The subgroup of attendees is able to communicate privately in the sub-electronic meeting while maintaining their view of the main electronic meeting in progress. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157823 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING SECURE EMAIL SERVICES USING MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to identify when a security policy cannot be applied by a supported secure email machine to a received email message and thus the email message is routed to an auxiliary secure email machine. Secure email policies are applied to the email message at the auxiliary secure email machine. The email message is then routed from the auxiliary secure email machine to the supported secure email machine. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157824 | AGGREGATE COMMUNICATIONS WITH INTELLIGENT SOURCING - Selecting a source account for an outgoing communication content of a user is described. A collection of source accounts is associated with the user. Each source account has an individual content storage storing communication content associated with the corresponding source account. A user's authentication is validated for using the collection of source accounts. One source account in the collection is designated as a primary source account. The source accounts in the collection are aggregated to a primary content storage. The user is authenticated to sign in to the primary source account. Instructions are received from the user for generating a communication content from the primary source account and the primary content storage. Instructions are received from the user for selecting one of the source accounts in the collection as the source account for the generated communication content, and the user is signed in to the primary source account. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157825 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROVIDING A COLLAPSIBLE SECTION IN AN INSTANT MESSAGE DIALOGUE - A technique for displaying instant messages includes creating a collapsible section in an instant message dialogue. Information is incorporated into the collapsible section of the instant message dialogue. The information is then selectably displayed in the instant message dialogue. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157826 | MANAGING UNUSED MEDIA STREAMS - A content processing device is configured to selectively receive a media signal via a network. The content processing device is further configured to receive a bandwidth check request. The content processing device is further configured to receive a first status indicator, and determine if the streaming media signal is likely to be in use based on the first status indicator. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157827 | System and method for generating response email templates - Disclosed is a method and system for generating a response email template from previously transmitted response emails for use in responding more efficiently to a client email. The response email template is generated by identifying text strings common to the transmitted response emails and creating the template from at least some of the text strings. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157828 | TECHNIQUES FOR SPECIFYING RECIPIENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) SYSTEM - Techniques for specifying recipients in an electronic email (email) system are presented. A sender of an email includes a rule in a sender field of the email, rather than a recipient address, an alias address book identifier, or a distribution list identifier. The rule is evaluated to dynamically identify multiple recipient email addresses for the email. The multiple recipient email addresses then replace the rule included within the sender field and the email is sent over a network to recipients associated with the multiple recipient email addresses. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157829 | Peer-to-peer service system and method using e-mail service - A peer-to-peer service method and system are provided. The peer-to-peer service method include advertising E-mail address information and service and sharing resource information through a peer-to-peer network at peers, determining whether a peer requesting a service and a peer providing the service are in online state or in offline state on the peer-to-peer network, and providing a peer-to-peer service through an E-mail server when the peer requesting the service or the peer providing the service is in offline state. The peer-to-peer service system and method using an E-mail service are capable of providing a variety of P2P services (e.g., a message exchange, a file exchange, a remote control, etc.) to peers, which are in online state or temporarily in offline state, by using the E-mail in the P2P network environment which manages the connection information of the peers joined to the corresponding service or the indexes of the sharing resources. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157830 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF GENERATING A MULTIMEDIA EMAIL - An apparatus for and method of synthesizing multimedia email including an audio file and a video file, and a computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program to execute the method. The apparatus for synthesizing multimedia email includes an email analysis unit to analyze the content of an email, an audio file synthesis unit to synthesize an audio file by using the analysis result by the email analysis unit, a video file synthesis unit synthesizing a video file by using the analysis result by the email analysis unit, and an audio/video file combining module to combine the audio file and video file. The multimedia email synthesized by the method and apparatus can provide more user-friendly and more various types of information than conventional technology, and increases utilization of an apparatus. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157831 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING EMAILS THROUGH DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - The present invention discloses a method, a system, and an apparatus for processing emails through data synchronization. The email synchronization server receives an email or email status sent by the email server and synchronizes it to the email synchronization client; alternatively, the email synchronization server is adapted to receive an email from the email synchronization client and forward it to the email server for sending the email out, or receive an email status from the email synchronization client and forward it to the email server for updating. The email synchronization client is adapted to send an email or email status to the email synchronization server; or synchronously receive emails or email status from the email synchronization server, or obtain emails and email status from the email synchronization server after receiving an email notification. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157832 | HOW TO ENABLE "OUT OF BOX" MESSAGES TRACKING IN MESSAGING SYSTEM - A tracking system includes a business system using a plurality of application modules each including a computer for processing a transaction including a plurality of steps. A messaging system includes a messaging computer program embodied in a computer readable medium in each of the computers for communicating between the computers. The messaging system generates queues of messages being communicated between the computers. The messaging system can be configured by an administrator to generate tracking data about the messages being communicated between the computers. A tracking module is included in one of the computers, and has the messaging computer program and a tracking computer program embodied in the computer readable medium for specifying status data for retrieval from the messaging queues, receiving the status data from the messaging queues into a tracking queue, and storing the status data in a data storage system. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157833 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING EMAILS - A method for sending email is provided. The method receives an email to be sent from a sender computer that is connected to an application server, sends a search instruction to email communication servers for obtaining a total number of emails to be sent in each of the email communication servers. The method further selects an email communication server which has the least total number of the emails, sends the obtained email to be sent to the selected email communication server, and receives a result generated by the selected email communication server. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157834 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LEVEL DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION CACHE MANAGEMENT IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for updating memory content in a mobile client are disclosed. For example, an exemplary method includes maintaining a list of first attributes relating to a set of first messages on the mobile client, wherein each of the set of first messages resides on the mobile client, maintaining a list of second attributes relating to set of second messages on the mobile client, wherein each of the set of second messages does not reside on the mobile client, identifying target attributes associated with a message request by the mobile client, selecting by the mobile client a selected message from one of the set of first messages and the set of second messages by applying a set of selection rules to the target attributes, and in the situation where a second message is selected, requesting the selected second message from a remote server using a wireless link. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157835 | Presence Enabled Instance Messaging for Distributed Energy Management Solutions - A method and system is described for real time communication in a network of distributed energy resource management devices (EMDs). Presence-based real time communications are established between at least one distributed energy resource management device (EMD) connected to an electric utility grid and a network operations center (NOC) application. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157836 | Messaging Proxy System - A messaging proxy system is disclosed for the purpose of delivering data in the form of a portable message format from a producer running on a mobile or non-mobile computer, over any wireless network, by passing this data through an intermediary proxy computer program, to one or more recipients running on mobile or non-mobile computers. The system includes a message proxy computer program with at least one pluggable transport protocol adapter. The proxy contains a command subsystem for sending and receiving command- and message-tokens to and from the mobile clients. The system further includes a thin messaging middleware client to run on mobile devices. The thin messaging middleware client includes at least one pluggable protocol adapter. The client also comprises a command subsystem for sending and receiving command- and message-tokens to and from the proxy. The proxy also contains a communication subsystem for sending and receiving messages via a state of the art message oriented middleware. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157837 | NDMA SOCKET TRANSPORT PROTOCOL - Data transferred between devices | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090157838 | ELECTRONIC MAIL COMMUNICATING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM USING FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION PROCEDURE - A safe electronic mail system for electronic mail communication, realizing connection between mail servers using a dial-up line not through the Internet. The transmitting party is provided with a transmission mail server, a transmission client for generation electronic mail information, and a transmission agent, which is a client for transmitting via a dial-up line. The receiving party is provided with a reception mail server, a reception client which can be the final destination of electronic mail information, and a reception agent, which is a client for receiving via a dial-up line. The transmission agent transmits electronic mail whose final destination is a designated reception client to the reception agent via the dial-up line as a facsimile image, and the reception agent transfers a received electronic mail to the reception mail server. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090164585 | SHARE WEB FEEDS THROUGH MESSAGING - A method may include creating a message having a web feed uniform resource locator (URL), providing an indicator in the message that the web feed URL is included in the message, the indicator being in addition to the web feed URL, identifying that the message includes the web feed URL based on the indicator, and associating the web feed URL to a contact entry. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164586 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING THE RECEPTION OF MESSAGES IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and system for managing the reception of messages in a communication network ( | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164587 | METHOD AND COMMUNICATION SERVER FOR GROUP COMMUNICATIONS - A method and communication server for creating a communication group are provided, wherein the server detects a group communication, such as for example, a text-based group communication, or a voice or video based group communications. The server not only sets up the group communication toward the participants, but also creates a communication group, comprising an identifier and identities of the participants, in response to the group communication detection. Participants to the group communication receive from the server a communication group identifier, which they can store and use in order to facilitate subsequent group communications. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164588 | EMAIL CATEGORIZATION METHODS, CODING, AND TOOLS - An electronic mail management system is operable to receive electronic mail message components from a user. Prior to sending of the email message, a plurality of predetermined categories for classifying the electronic message are presented to the user. The email system receives a user selection from the predetermined categories. A determination is made as to whether or not the email recipient is a member of a predetermined class of recipients. The electronic mail is then sent to the recipient. The user selection is embedded within the email message if the recipient is a member of the predetermined class of recipients. Finally, the email is stored in a manner dependent upon the user selection. Similarly, the email management server may also be operable to categorize received email messages. Further, email messages may be selected or programmed to automatically be deleted upon certain events. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164589 | Virtual electronic card based networking - The computer implemented method and system disclosed herein enables online networking based on exchange of virtual electronic cards between a plurality of users. An online networking environment is provided to a user. The user creates a personal profile in the online networking environment. Further, the user may create a company profile or link with an existing company profile. A virtual electronic card of the user is automatically created in the online networking environment. The virtual electronic card is one of a personal electronic card and a company electronic card. A personal contact network of the user is established in the online networking environment by exchanging personal electronic cards between the user and the plurality of users. Further, a company contact network of the company of the user is established by exchanging company electronic cards between the company of the user and a plurality of companies. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164590 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME EVENT UPDATES - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to collect information from a community of event updaters regarding an ongoing event. The information is sent to a recipient community of users that has requested ongoing event updates. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164591 | Method and Server for Invoking Application Servers in a Sip Network - The invention concerns a method for invoking at least one service application server (AS) during a communication between an originating user agent (O_UA) and end user agent (T_UA). It consists at least in opening (A) two separate dialogues, between a service selecting function (SIF) and, respectively, the originating agent (O_UA) and the end agent (T_UA). The function (SIF) is substituted to the user agent (T_UA) in its dialogue with the user agent (O_UA) and to the user agent (O_UA) in its dialogue with the user agent (T_UA). The messages from the user agents during the two opened dialogues are stored (B) and at least one service conditional triggering criterion on the two dialogues is verified (C). If the triggering criterion is verified, at least part of the messages is restored (D) to the server so as to trigger the invocation thereof. The invention is useful for invoking application servers in a SIP network. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164592 | NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM - Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to interpret or translate the application code written in an XML programming language into code that is suitable for execution across computer platforms. Moreover, the XML virtual machine supports the Model View Controller (MVC) design paradigm that facilitates true data abstraction from applications to a common data model. Multi-instance applications, with each instance potentially supporting multiple views, may be created and executed. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164593 | DERIVING OVERLAY INFORMATION FROM A USER INPUT FOR A BASE MESSAGE SCHEMA ASSOCIATED WITH A NODE IN A MESSAGE FLOW - There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program for deriving overlay information from a user input for a base message schema associated with a node in a message flow. The base message schema is presented to the user and has at least one variable portion. A user selection of a variable portion of the base schema is received. The user is then provided with possible overlay schema information for the selected variable portion. A user selection of the schema to be overlaid on the selected variable portion is received. The selected overlay schema is associated with the base schema. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164594 | Instant messaging market interface - Enabling anonymous negotiations between counterparties via instant messaging protocols, without the need to use client based software, to occur on a fully anonymous basis, through the provision of counterparty credit intermediation and threading of conversations via a masking mechanism. In implementation, the instant message traffic is intermediated by an automated server-based interface which interprets requests for bids or offers and submits such offers to a defined distribution list. The interface then can direct negotiations on an anonymous and automated basis through directed responses and ultimately totally private instant messaging channels. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164595 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND SENDING HANDWRITTEN OR HANDDRAWN MESSAGES VIA MOBILE DEVICES - A handwritten or handdrawing messaging system employs a handwriting messaging component operable with a messaging client of a mobile device connected to the data transmission network to set up a handwriting data capture area in the messaging client into which the user can enter handwritten or handdrawn input through a suitable manual input device, and then operates to capture the handwritten or handdrawn input and send it as a handwritten electronic message to the intended recipient. It also sets up a graphical data viewing area within the messaging client for viewing handwritten electronic messages sent to the user. Preferably, it is a small-footprint software module installed with the messaging client of the mobile device. The mobile device can be any type of wired or wirelessly-connected portable device operating on a computing platform, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) device, game console or player device, or other mobile messaging device. The manual input device can be a touch-sensitive screen, tablet with pen input, stylus pad with stylus input, or an attached drawing pad. The system is particularly useful for messaging via mobile game player devices, so that people all over the world can send handwritten messages, chat, and play handdrawn games with each other. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164596 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA ENCRYPTION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention transmits to a mail server a notification email inquiring to a client apparatus of an address whether encrypted data is to be received, and if a reply email is received from the mail server in response to the notification email, wherein the reply email is sent from the client apparatus of the address and indicates to receive the encrypted data, and a password is assigned to the received reply email, the image processing apparatus encrypts data using the password, attaches the encrypted data to an email to be sent to the address, and transmits the email to the mail server. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164597 | Content Restriction Compliance Using Reverse DNS Lookup - A method for alerting Internet content providers of the age or other personal information of a computer user, which includes receiving a reverse DNS lookup query from an Internet content provider; and providing the age information of the computer user, in addition to a host name, from a reverse map zone file in response to the request. The personal information may be used by the content provider to select appropriate content for the requesting host, for example for complying with content restrictions. A system of alerting an Internet content provider of the age or other personal information of a computer user is also provided. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164598 | Program Product and System for Performing Multiple Hierarchical Tests to Verify Identity of Sender of an E-Mail Message and Assigning the Highest Confidence Value - The identity of the sender of an e-mail message is verified by performing a plurality of tests on DNS information. The DNS information is based on a client IP address or a sender address. Each test performed has a corresponding intrinsic confidence value representing the degree of confidence the test provides of the sender identity relationship. If multiple tests are successful the test result with the highest confidence value of the hierarchy of confidence values is used. The confidence value is optionally used in subsequent identity tests as specified by the subsequent test. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090172102 | PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES WIRELESSLY SENT TO A VEHICLE - A processing system and method for controlling the distribution of certain types of electronic messages, such as SMS messages, instant messages, emails, etc., that are wirelessly sent to a vehicle. In one embodiment, a messaging application installed on a communication device diverts to a call center outgoing messages destined for the vehicle. Once the electronic message is properly checked and authenticated at the call center, it is wirelessly forwarded on to the vehicle where its contents can be displayed to the passengers. By controlling the distribution of these types of electronic messages to the vehicle, the processing method can reduce or mitigate the effects of unauthorized third party communications. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172103 | EVENT BASED INSTANT MESSAGING NOTIFICATION - A message is received in a device, the message is analyzed to determine a type of a content of the message, and a notification is provided to a user of the device, the notification being dependent on the type of message. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172104 | INSTANT MESSENGER SUBSET MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messenger subset management. In an embodiment of the invention, an instant messenger subset management method can be provided. The method can include selecting a set of names for different open chat sessions of an instant messenger, providing a single responsive posting to the selected set, and persisting the set for subsequent processing. Additionally, the method can include annotating the single responsive posting in a chat log to indicate the names in the selected set having received the single responsive posting. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172105 | Roaming Instant Messaging - A computer-implemented method of instant messaging can include determining location information for at least one user of an instant messaging system, determining when the user is no longer proximate to a home instant messaging client, and determining when the user is proximate to a guest instant messaging client. The computer-implemented method also can include dynamically updating a status of the user within an instant messaging system according to the proximity of the user to at least one of the home instant messaging client or the guest instant messaging client. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172106 | Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Provision and Use of a Media Source Bundle - One provides ( | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172107 | PROXY CONTENT FOR SUBMITTING WEB SERVICE DATA IN THE USER'S SECURITY CONTEXT - A computer implemented method provides a web service to a client. A document request identifying a web service on a web service server is sent from the client to an application server. The document request is stored at a first location. The application server then sends a proxy document request back to the client, wherein the proxy document request identifies the first location. The client then forwards the proxy document request to a web service. The web service generates a web service response, by resolving the proxy document request to the first location. The web service response is stored at a second location. A proxy web service response can then sent from the web service back to the client, wherein the proxy web service response identifies the second location. The client then forwards the proxy web service response to the application server. The application server generates a document response, by resolving the proxy web service response to the second location. The application server then forwards the document response to the client. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A TELEPHONE-ACCESSIBLE MESSAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided for providing voice access to an electronic-mail system. A voice command is received from a call-center user to compose an electronic-mail message. The call-center user is prompted to begin vocally recording an electronic-mail message. The electronic-mail system records the vocal message recited by the call center and translates the recorded vocal message to a text message. The electronic-mail system sends an electronic-mail message to an electronic-mail address containing the translated text message. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172109 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENFORCING SINGLE-THREADED CONVERSATIONS - A method and computer program product for enforcing single threaded conversations includes defining a single threaded status for an email chain including one or more emails. If a received email belongs to the email chain, the single threaded status of the email chain is enforced. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IDENTIFY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EMAIL - A system may include reception of an internet electronic mail message, parsing of a header of the internet electronic mail message to identify zero or more routing devices from which the internet electronic mail message was received, and a determination to accept or to reject the internet electronic mail message based on the identified zero or more routing devices. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172111 | INSTANT MESSAGING TRANSCRIPT SHARING FOR ADDED PARTICIPANTS TO AN INSTANT MESSAGING SESSION - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messaging transcript sharing for added participants to an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for instant messaging transcript sharing for added participants to an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include establishing an instant messaging session as between a set of initial parties, aggregating postings from the initial parties into a transcript, adding a new party to the instant messaging session, and sharing at least a portion of the transcript in a transcript view for the new party. Optionally, an ability of the new party to log shared portions of the transcript can be limited or prohibited. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172112 | INSTANT MESSAGING BASED SOCIAL INTRODUCTIONS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messenger based social introductions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for instant messaging based social introductions can be provided. The method can include selecting contacts from a buddy list of an instant messenger, retrieving attributes for each of the selected contacts, and generating introduction text for each of the selected contacts. Specifically, the introduction text can introduce a particular one of the selected contacts and can incorporate attributes for the particular one of the contacts. Finally, the method can include instant messaging the introduction text for each of the selected contacts to another of the selected contacts. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLIENT-SIDE INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT - A method and computer program product for determining that a user of a client electronic device is in do-not-interrupt mode. A message directed to the user is routed to a client-based storage queue for subsequent delivery. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172114 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVER-SIDE INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT - A method and computer program product for determining that a user of a client electronic device is in do-not-interrupt mode. A message directed to the user is routed to a server-based storage queue for subsequent delivery. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172115 | NAME RESOLUTION IN EMAIL - An email recipient input name is received. It is determined if the email recipient input name is ambiguous. If the email recipient input name is ambiguous, one or more employee attributes of a plurality of possible intended email recipients are compared with one or more employee attributes of an email sender to determine a probable intended email recipient. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172116 | MAINTAINING COMMUNICATION CONTINUITY - On a client electronic device, a message in a first format configured to be communicated over a first communication channel. The message in the first format is modified, on the client electronic device, to form a message in a second format, in which the message in the second format is based upon the message in the first format. The message in the second format is transmitted, from the client electronic device, over a second communication channel. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172117 | METHODS FOR USING MESSAGE QUEUING TELEMETRY TRANSPORT FOR SENSOR NETWORKS TO SUPPORT SLEEPING DEVICES - Methods support a sleep mode for an embedded device. Embedded devices like sensors and actuators used in wireless sensor networks have a limited power supply. To conserve energy and thus increase the lifetime of these devices, the devices should be put into a stand-by mode (also called sleep-mode) when they are not used. These methods support the sleep mode at a higher level than the MAC layer, thus avoiding the problems of prior art approaches. Methods are exemplarily described for the case of the message queuing telemetry transport protocol for sensor networks. They can easily be adapted to other protocols. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172118 | Conditional communication - Conditional communication settings may be defined by a user of a communications device to be transmitted with a communication to a receiving device, where the receiving device may be restricted from performing a user-specified type of communication operations with a user-specified contact until the conditional communication settings are satisfied. The conditional communication settings may include a condition value setting, which may be a task to be performed by a recipient, a date and/or time, a location, an operation to be performed by a third party contact, or other suitable criterion. The receiving device may detect whether such condition value setting has been satisfied. Unless the condition value setting has been satisfied, the receiving device may be prevented from performing the user-specified type of communication operation with the user-specified contact. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172119 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGING USING APPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL - The invention relates to a low latency transport of an Internet message over a connection from an Internet message-sending node to an Internet Message-receiving node. Said Internet Message-sending node determines the size of the Internet message ( | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172120 | MANAGING PARTICIPANTS IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING MEETING - There is disclosed a system and method for managing participants in an instant messaging meeting. In an embodiment, the method comprises: scheduling an instant messaging meeting in a calendar module; communicating information about the scheduled instant messaging meeting to an instant messaging module including information necessary to contact confirmed participants; and at a specified time, signalling the instant messaging module to automatically start the instant messaging meeting by initiating contact with the confirmed participants. In an embodiment, the method further comprises defining an instant messaging meeting group containing the information necessary to contact the confirmed participants. The method may further comprise linking the instant messaging meeting group to its corresponding scheduled event in the calendar module. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172121 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, E-MAIL TRANSMISSION CONTROL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - In an information processing system which includes a transmitter terminal and an E-mail transmission control apparatus, the transmitter terminal sets an application classification of an E-mail to be transmitted, and transmits the E-mail to which the set application classification has been added, to the E-mail transmission control apparatus. Further, the E-mail transmission control apparatus receives the E-mail to which the application classification has been added, from the transmitter terminal, identifies, from approval request information in which the application classification and an approval request destination are made corresponding to each other, the approval request destination corresponding to the application classification added to the received E-mail, and transmits an approval request to the identified approval request destination. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172122 | Message Transmission Method, Message Transmission Device, and Storage Medium Recorded with Message Transmission Program - Provided is a method of transmitting a message in a business process management system that includes a service execution device providing services and a business process management device. The business process management device executes a business process defined by combining the services, the business process includes a definition of the message transmitted to the service execution device, the business process management system includes preceding transmission part management information that includes a preceding transmission part which is a part or an entirety of the message that can be divided and transmitted and information for identifying a processing in which contents of the preceding transmission part can be determined, and after the processing in which the contents of the preceding transmission part can be determined has been executed, according to the preceding transmission part management information, before the service is called, the preceding transmission part is transmitted to the service execution device. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172123 | PROVIDING APPLICATION-LAYER FUNCTIONALITY BETWEEN ONE OR MORE DATABASE CLIENTS AND ONE OR MORE DATABASE SERVERS - One embodiment includes a system providing application-layer functionality between one or more database clients and one or more database servers. The system includes one or more decoders residing at a decoding layer above a network layer. The decoders reside at a first network location between one or more database clients residing at one or more second network locations and one or more database servers residing at one or more third network locations. The decoders receive database messages communicated from the database clients and intended for the database servers and database messages communicated from the database servers and intended for the database clients, decode the database messages, and extract query-language statements from the database messages. The system also includes an application residing at an application layer above the decoding layer. The application resides at the first network location. The application receives and processes query-language statements extracted at the decoders. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090177746 | Terminal managing method, terminal managing apparatus, and mobile communication terminal - Data indicating information relating to a mobile communication terminal is sent from the mobile communication terminal at a designated opportunity and the status of the mobile communication terminal is managed by a server apparatus. An AP managing server | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177747 | MAILING LIST EXPANSION TRACE - A method is disclosed for providing a trace of mailing list expansion performed on an electronic message delivered to an electronic mailing list. The method comprises receiving an electronic message addressed to an electronic mailing list having a set of recipients; inserting an informational header line in a message header of the electronic message that is indicative of the electronic mailing list; and relaying the message for delivery to the set of recipients on the electronic mailing list. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177748 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC OPPORTUNISTIC DATA AND IMAGE SHARING - A system for requesting data from another includes means for automatically appending a request for certain information to an outgoing message. In one embodiment, an e-mail editor includes an on-screen “radio button” for causing a request for missing contact information to be appended to the message being composed. The system may automatically parse incoming messages for the requested information which may be extracted and stored automatically. Information may be associated with a date which triggers an automatic request for updated information. Certain embodiments of the invention may be one-sided—implemented on a single programmed system. Other embodiments are implemented on multiple systems such that the process may be automated on both the requesting and replying systems. In yet other embodiments, a website or file server is employed to upload and download requested information. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177749 | STATUS AND TIME-BASED DELIVERY SERVICES FOR INSTANT MESSENGERS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to unattended status and time-based messaging in an instant messaging (IM) environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for unattended status and time-based messaging in an instant messaging (IM) environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for unattended status and time-based messaging in an instant messaging (IM) environment can be provided. The method can include receiving a request from an IM user to queue an unattended status and time-based message, retrieving a recovery trigger for the unattended status and time-based message, and assigning the unattended status and time-based message to a message queue. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177750 | Text-based communication control for personal communication device - Systems, devices, and methods are provided for enabling a user to control the content of text-based messages sent to or received from an administered device. In some embodiments, a message will be blocked (incoming or outgoing) if the message includes forbidden content. In other embodiments, the objectionable content is removed from the message prior to transmission or as part of the receiving process. The content of such a message is controlled by filtering the message based on defined criteria. The criteria may be defined according to a parental control application. These techniques also may be used, in accordance with instructional embodiments, to require the administered devices to include certain text in messages. These embodiments might, for example, require that a certain number of Spanish words per day be included in e-mails for a child learning Spanish. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177751 | Mail transmission method - A mail server unit receives an electronic mail sent by a mail sender, the mail being received via a mailer of a terminal of the mail sender, sets a browsing privilege for an attachment of the mail and encrypts the attachment, controls the browsing privilege for the attachment, executes error processing when control items are set to the attachment, and executes processing to decrypt an encrypted attachment. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177752 | System and Method for Processing User Input - Systems and methods for processing user input are provided. In one example method, a method for accepting at least one contact identifier as input data in a social networking system is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a text box to a first account holder, the text box enabling the first account holder to input the at least one contact identifier as an input string; receiving the input string from the first account holder; parsing the input string to identify each of the at least one contact identifiers contained within the input string; categorizing each contact identifier by category; associating each contact identifier with the first account holder; and storing each contact identifier for use at a subsequent time. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177753 | RETAINED PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method comprising steps of: a broker software application receiving a first published message on a topic from a publisher application and storing the first published message in a local storage location along with an indicator which indicates that the first published message originated from a publisher application that is local to the broker software application; the broker software application receiving a second published message on the topic from another broker software application and storing the second published message in the local storage location in place of the previously stored first published message, along with an indicator which indicates that the second published message originated from a publisher application that is remote to the broker software application; and the broker software application delivering the second published message, from the local storage location, to a requesting subscriber application which has requested a last retained publication message on the topic. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090177754 | Presentation of Organized Personal and Public Data Using Communication Mediums - Systems, methods and computer program products for providing information associated with an attachment (e.g., attachment received through an instant message system, online collaboration tool, electronic message and the like). A sidebar may allow a user to view comprehensive profile and content information associated with the attachment using an attachment information viewer. The sidebar also may allow the user to switch between a message attachment information view (e.g., to facilitate browsing of the document or attachment) and a person profile information view (e.g., to facilitate browsing of personal or public data). | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090182815 | ACCELERATING PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - The acceleration of peer-to-peer downloads of content files wherein a tracker performs a condition based peer selection that is dynamically adjustable. A further feature relates to the use of enhanced message scheme for communications. One embodiment is a system in a swarm having at least one origin seed capable of at least initially storing the content files with at least one tracker maintaining a list of peers wherein the tracker uses at least one dynamically adjusting peer selection algorithm to generate a condition based peer-list and provides the condition based peer-list to a requesting peer. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090182816 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING J2EE AND .NET INTEROPERATING APPLICATIONS - A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code for managing a transaction between a service client and a service provider is provided. A request from a Web services client application is received. A correlation token and a unique transaction handle associated with the correlation token are extracted from the request, forming an extracted correlation token and an extracted transaction handle. A child correlation token is generated using the extracted correlation token as a parent correlation token. A unique transaction handle associated with the child correlation token is generated. A timer associated with the unique transaction handle and child correlation token is started. The request is performed. The timer associated with the unique transaction handle is stopped. The extracted transaction handle is inserted in a response to the request. The response with the extracted transaction handle is transmitted to a Web services client application. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090182817 | Architecture for online communal and connected experiences - Various aspects are disclosed herein for an architecture for online communal and connected experiences. This architecture can be embodied in an application running a host computing device, where the application provides functionalities such as finding modules on local devices or hosted on online services, launching such modules, switching between a plurality of such concurrently running modules, and providing many-to-many text, voice, and video functionality. This application can also interface with managed runtime code on the host computing device, thereby providing inputting, outputting, and network communication means among a plurality of computing devices having different platforms. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090182818 | HEURISTIC DETECTION OF PROBABLE MISSPELLED ADDRESSES IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems for detecting suspicious electronic communications, such as electronic mail (email) messages containing, originated or purportedly originated from misspelled and/or deliberately misleading addresses, are provided. According to one embodiment, an electronic communication, such as an electronic mail (email) message, is scanned to determine whether the electronic communication contains one or more suspicious addresses or represents a suspicious traffic pattern. If the electronic communication is determined to contain one or more suspicious addresses or is determined to represent a suspicious traffic pattern, then the electronic communication is handled in accordance with an electronic communication security policy associated with suspicious electronic communications. For example, an event may be logged, the electronic communication may be dropped or quarantined, the communication may be tagged as spam or possible phishing and/or an end user may be alerted to the existence of the one or more suspicious addresses. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090182819 | TECHNIQUES TO SELECTIVELY SHARE MESSAGES - Techniques to selectively share messages are described. An apparatus may comprise a trusted delegate server having a message sharing module. The message sharing module may be operative to selectively retrieve messages for a primary message recipient from a unified messaging server based on a message type defined by a message sharing policy. The messaging sharing module may send the messages to a secondary message recipient for the message type as defined by the message sharing policy over a packet-switched network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090182820 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY MODIFYING ELECTROINIC DISTRIBUTION LISTS USING PREDEFINED RULES - An initial distribution list is dynamically modified using criteria determined from the current entries in the list. After an originator generates a distribution list and prior to submission of the message to entries on the generated list, the method of the present invention examines the entries in the created distribution list. From this list, the invention identifies features of the entries. From these features, the method generates criteria that can be used to generate additional entries that may be included in the list. In one approach, the generated criteria are presented to the user for review and approval. If the originator approves the criteria, the generated list is modified to add additional entries to the distribution based on the generated criteria. If the originator rejects the criteria, the initially generated list is submitted and the message is sent to the entries on the initial list. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090182821 | APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK BASED ADDRESS BOOK AND SHARING AND SYNCHORNIZING ADDRESS BOOK INFORMATION AT MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Apparatus, and associated methodologies for facilitating sharing and distributing contact, calendar, and scheduling information amongst communication devices. The information is distributed using presence information maintained at a presence server, thereby obviating the need for a user manually to enter the information, or changes to the information, at the different devices that are to be provided with the information. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090182822 | SOCIAL COLLABORATIVE SCORING FOR MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION ACCORDING TO AN APPLICATION INTERACTION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SENDER AND RECIPIENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to message prioritization and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for social collaborative prioritization of messages in a messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for social collaborative prioritization of messages can be provided for a messaging system. The method can include receiving a message from a sender as directed to a recipient, determining a value for a different social collaborative criterion based upon an application interaction relationship between the sender and the recipient, transforming the value into a priority for the message, and associating the priority with the message in the messaging system. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090187629 | EMBEDDING A UNQUE SERIAL NUMBER INTO THE CONTENT OF AN EMAIL FOR TRACKING INFORMATION DISPERSION - The present invention discloses a solution for tracking email dispersion through content substitution. In the solution, a set of entities to receive an email can be identified, where the email can contains textual content. A subset of words contained within the textual content can be programmatically selected. A set of replacement words for each of the determined words can be determined. For each email receiving entity, at least one replacement word can be programmatically substituted for it's equivalent to generate an entity specific message. Each entity specific message can contain a unique combination of substitutions so that no two entity specific message are identical. A record of which email receiving entities are associated with which entity specific message can be maintained. The entity specific messages can be sent to the associated set of email receiving entities. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187630 | Method for Interacting With Infrastructure Devices Via Instant Messaging - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for interacting with and controlling infrastructure devices within an IM environment. The method comprises registering at least one infrastructure device at an IM server, registering at least one computing device at the IM server, and delivering one or more of infrastructure device characteristics, status information, and service information from a registered infrastructure device to the IM server, wherein the IM server is configured to publish and update the infrastructure device characteristics, status information, and service information from the at least one registered infrastructure device to registered computing devices. The method also comprises maintaining and displaying a contact list at an IM client application executing at a registered computing device, wherein the contact listing is populated with a listing of registered infrastructure devices and the infrastructure device characteristics, status information, and service information that is associated with the infrastructure device. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187631 | AGGREGATED MESSAGE TRACKING STATUS NOTIFICATION MECHANISM - A notification mechanism that aggregates multiple email tracking status updates into a new type of aggregated message, and transports this new type of message according to a configured interval. The tracking status transported in this aggregated status message can be a positive delivery event, a negative delivery event, hand-off of ownership, or any information to be communicated. This information can be delivered to email users to provide information about the message delivery and, routed to messaging system applications such as journaling (to allow rich delivery information in a journal report) and/or high-availability transport (to allow resubmission of a message in case of hardware failure). | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187632 | Mail Object Migration - A mail enabled object may be migrated from one hosting server to another by using a temporary buffer that may capture incoming mail during the migration operation. A new mail enabled object may be created and enabled on a target server, and the old mail object may be disabled and forwarded to a buffer that may collect incoming messages. While the buffer receives incoming messages, the contents of the old mail object may be copied to the new mail object. After verifying the transfer of the contents, the buffer may be released to forward any collected messages to the new mail object. The old mail object may then be cleaned up. The migration may be performed from one server to another, from one forest to another, and to and from a remotely hosted messaging service. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187633 | Capability broker and messaging system - Disclosed are a capability broker, a related messaging system and methods. The capability broker is placed in new network architecture between traffic proxies and enabler servers. The capability broker is equipped with a capability interface adapted to receive a capability request pertaining to a request of at least one capability. The capability broker is adapted to use one or more messages to obtain the requested at least one capability from one or more enabler servers responsive to receiving said capability request, and to provide a response to said capability request on the basis of the obtained capability. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187634 | METHOD FOR FILTERING MESSAGES IN AN INSTANTANEOUS MESSAGING SYSTEM OF MOBILE TERMINALS, SYSTEM OF INSTANTANEOUS MESSAGING AND A SERVER TO IMPLEMENT THIS METHOD - The invention relates to a method for filtering messages in an instant method system for mobile terminals, said system including an instant message server managing the exchange of messages between clients provided with mobile terminals and other users, said method being characterised by the fact that, upon reception of a message intended for the mobile terminal of a client, the message server directly analyzes said received message and:
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| 20090187635 | MESSAGE PROCESSING CONTROL IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM - Messages in a publish/subscribe system can be processed after they leave the original publisher and before they are delivered to an ultimate subscriber. Each published message has an associated topic string and a PubLevel value initially assigned by the original publisher. Subscribers are assigned different SubLevel values. These subscribers register their subscriptions with a broker. When a published message having the appropriate topic string is received, the broker performs a subscriber selection process using the message topic string, the current message PubLevel value and the assigned SubLevel values of subscribers registered for the topic string. When a subscriber is selected, the broker changes the message PubLevel value and transmits the message only to the selected subscriber. The subscriber may be an intercepting subscriber that processes the published message and then re-publishes it back to the broker. The broker may repeat the subscriber selection process multiple times with the published message being sent to multiple intercepting systems, each of which processes and republishes the message before the processed message is finally sent by the broker to an ultimate subscriber. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187636 | MAIL SENDING AND RECEIVING APPARATUS AND MAIL SENDING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - An apparatus of a mail sending and receiving system includes an authentication unit, an account determining unit, and an operation-instruction accepting unit. The authentication unit authenticates a login by a user to an entry account. The account determining unit reads account information, and determines one or more other accounts for which e-mail operations may be performed by an authenticated user. The operation-instruction accepting unit accepts an operation instruction causing an operation to be performed on an email in one of the determined accounts. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187637 | INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and apparatuses for processing an instant message from a source wireless communication device to a destination device are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes receiving the instant message from the source wireless communication device, the instant message having a source wireless communication identifier, a destination instant messenger identifier, and data contents; extracting the source wireless communication identifier, the destination instant messenger identifier and the data contents from the instant message; retrieving a source instant messenger identifier corresponding to the source wireless communication identifier; binding the source instant messenger identifier with the source wireless communication identifier; and transmitting the data contents with the source instant messenger identifier to the destination device over a communication network, based on the destination instant messenger identifier. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090193084 | Method and apparatus for obtaining information from a plurality of network elements - In one aspect, a method for obtaining information from a plurality of network elements via a management system is provided. According to one embodiment, a plurality of network elements join a broadcast group associated with a broadcast channel. A management request message is broadcasted to the group and is processed by each of the elements in the broadcast group. The network elements add the processed information to a response message in turn. When the response message reaches a threshold or no all the elements have added the processed information the response message is sent to the management system. If some elements have not added the processed information, a new response message is formed so that plurality of network elements that have not added the processed information may add the information. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193085 | Patient informational exchange - Described herein are systems and methods for patients to exchange information related to medical conditions and systems and methods to provide a discussion forum by which patients may converse by posting and reviewing electronic messages. The stored messages may be indexed and moderated by a medical expert. The content of the messages may be mined for useful information, such as to identify a new treatment or syndrome or reaction to a drug. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193086 | CONTROL OF AN INSTANT MESSAGE SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS MULTIPLE CLIENTS WITH IDENTICAL CREDENTIALS - A method and system for improving control of an instant messaging system. Multiple instant message (IM) instances are initiated with identical credentials of a user of multiple users participating in an IM session controlled by an IM server. A front-of-screen representation enables the user to manage instance attributes and allows any user to view conversational connectivity information. The IM server receives the user's selection of a graphical element that represents a remote IM instance of the multiple IM instances. Via the first IM instance, the IM server receives the user's request for a computing device to perform an action that includes an interaction with the remote IM instance. The computing device performing the action is located remotely from the user and is executing the remote IM instance. The action is performed by controlling a remote system function of the computing device. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193087 | System and method for configurable meeting invitation notification on unopened/unaccepted invitations - This presentation enhances current meeting/calendar programs, so that the user will receive alerts via cell or regular phone in the event that a user chooses to receive these alerts or is unaware of receiving a meeting invitation via an electronic mail or calendar system. Voice alert can be sent to cell or regular phone, and text alert can also be sent to cell phone. The user can select to get alerts via voice or text to any phone, and can type in the phone number via a configuration tool. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193088 | Dynamic message correction - A system is presented to allow users in an instant messaging environment to edit already-exchanged messages dynamically, and resend the edited version of the message to the target users, as an example. The newly edited message received by the second user is clearly understandable because the corrected parts of the message have been tagged. Depending on the implementation, either a new complete and corrected message is sent, or the sent message indicates the recent editions. The altering user should go over the communication text, change or edit the text, and press ENTER. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193089 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus transmitting and receiving electronic mail within a network includes an identification information storage unit, a loop mail judgment unit, and a loop mail process control unit. The identification information storage unit stores identification information. The loop mail judgment unit judges whether or not the electronic mail is loop mail based on the identification information stored in the identification information storage unit. The loop mail process control unit executes a process arranged beforehand with respect to the electronic mail received based on judgment of the loop mail judgment unit. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193090 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE DELIVERY IN MESSAGING NETWORKS - A method and system for message delivery in messaging networks is provided. The system provides a group of replicated queues for messages that are operable to be identified by an application before a message is read. The group of replicated queues are defined in association with a group of message managing systems, where a message is sent to each of the group of replicated queues to be accessible using any one of the group of message managing systems. The method includes creating a message including a unique identifier, and sending the message to each of a group of replicated queues with the message identifiable by the unique identifier information prior to the message being consumed. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193091 | Message Delivery Using a Plurality of Queue Managers - A method and system for message delivery in a messaging network are provided for enabling scaling. A messaging network includes a group of a plurality of queue managers, each of which includes means for carrying out a method comprising: receiving a message at a queue manager, removing at least some of the original message data to form a link message, adding a reference to the link message referring to the queue manager, sending the link message to a link message queue, and putting the original message to a local queue on the first queue manager. A link message queue may provided on each of the queue managers in the group, or single link message queue may be provided on one queue manager and accessible by the other queue managers in the group. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193092 | Method And System For Intercommunicating Chat Information Between Instant Messaging Group And Chat Room As Well As Intercommunication System - The present invention involves Instant Messaging, IM, fields, and provides a system and method for intercommunicating chat information between an IM group and a chat room, and an intercommunication system. The system for intercommunicating chat information between an IM group and a chat room includes an IM group system, a chat room system, and an intercommunication system located between the IM group system and chat room system, the intercommunication system being adapted to establish a connection channel between the IM group system and the chat room system and forward chat information between the IM group system and the chat room system according to the connection channel. By adding an intercommunication system between the IM group system and chat room system to manage connections and forward information for the two parties, the intercommunication between the IM group system and chat room system can be implemented effectively with low costs. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193093 | REDUCING UNWANTED AND UNSOLICITED ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BY EXCHANGING ELECTRONIC MESSAGE TRANSMISSION POLICIES AND SOLVING AND VERIFYING SOLUTIONS TO COMPUTATIONAL PUZZLES - The present invention provides for generating inputs that can be provided to a message classification module to facilitate more reliable classification of electronic messages, such as, for example, as unwanted and/or unsolicited. In one embodiment, a sending messaging server provides an appropriate response to address verification data thereby indicating a reduced likelihood of the sending messaging server using a forged network address. In another embodiment, it is determined if a messaging server is authorized to send electronic messages for a domain. In yet another embodiment, electronic message transmission policies adhered to by a domain are identified. In yet a further embodiment, a sending computer system expends computational resources to solve a computational puzzle and includes an answer document in an electronic message. A receiving computer system receives the electronic message and verifies the answer document. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090198777 | System and method for a messaging assistant - A system and method for utilizing a message assistant. A contact list is updated by retrieving one or more contact lists. Preferences are received for communicating with contacts on the contact list. A message is received to be sent to a group listed in the contact list including one or more contacts at a time specified by a user. The message is sent to the group at the time specified by the user based on the preferences. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090198778 | Method and system for managing discourse in a virtual community - There is provided a method of managing discourse in a virtual community. The method comprises receiving a message from a virtual community user, the message being addressed to one or more recipient users of the virtual community; examining the message to identify any of a plurality of key expressions associated with virtual community forbidden communications; editing the message in response to identifying a forbidden key expression of the plurality of key expressions; determining a corrective prompt corresponding to the identified key expression; and issuing the corrective prompt to the virtual community user for managing discourse in the virtual community. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090198779 | METHOD FOR AN EFFICIENT ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SYSTEM - A computer implemented method and computer program product for efficiently managing messages handled by electronic messaging systems. A unique header is associated with a first electronic message and a link is created, which is associated with the unique header. The link is embedded in a second electronic message as part of an electronic message chain originating with the first electronic message. The second electronic message is transmitted with the embedded link to a set of recipients without the first electronic message. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090198780 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO FACILITATE SELECTION OF CONTACTS AND FILE ATTACHMENTS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Selection of contacts and files for electronic messaging are facilitated by displaying a first set of graphical indicia for each of a plurality of contacts on a user contact list, displaying a second set of graphical indicia for each of one or more files stored in a data storage device, detecting a manipulation of a user interface device wherein a first graphical indicia from the first set of graphical indicia and a second graphical indicia from the second set of graphical indicia are made to at least partially overlap, and generating an electronic message for sending to a contact associated with the first graphical indicia wherein the electronic message includes a file associated with the second graphical indicia. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090198781 | SOLUTION THAT OPTIMIZES A WEBSPHERE CORE GROUP BRIDGE TO HANDLE PEER CORE GROUP MESSAGING FOR A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH A LARGE TOPOLOGY - The present invention discloses a solution to optimize a manner in which core group communications are handled. In the solution, a message to be conveyed from one core group to a different core group can be identified. The message can be encased in a bridge wrapper. This encasing does not alter a format or content of the identified message. The encased message can be conveyed to the different core group. A processing of the encased message by the different core group can be dependent upon the bridge wrapper and can be dependent upon a network topology connecting the core groups. For example, the bridge wrapper can permit bridges to selectively forward posts, subscriptions, and status messages to non-sending core groups in a chain topology implementation. In a mesh topology, use of the bridge wrapper can enable a bridge to resent and/or remove local posts. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090198782 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING EMAIL ATTACHMENTS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for retrieving email attachments. An email module receives an attachment selection from an attachment interface appended to an attachmentless email. The attachmentless email comprises a body of an original email. The original email comprises an attached file. A target communication module communicates an attachment request from a target email server to a source email server. A source communication module communicates the original email from the source email server to the target email server. A replacement module replaces the attachmentless email with the original email on the target email server so that only the original email is accessible. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090198783 | METHOD OF REMOTE CONFIGURATION OF AUTOMATIC RESPONSE SETTINGS FOR A FIRST EMAIL ADDRESS USING AN EMAIL SENT FROM A SECOND EMAIL ADDRESS - A method of providing remote configuration of autoreply message settings includes providing for an autoreply message configuration rule to be defined in terms of one or more specified conditions and one or more specified actions configuring autoreply message settings for a first email address; receiving a first email message addressed to the first email address and sent from a second email address; examining the first email message for the one or more specified conditions; executing the one or more specified actions configuring autoreply message settings if the one or more specified conditions are met by the first email message; and generating an autoreply message in accordance with the autoreply message settings configured by executing the one or more specified actions in response to receiving a second email message addressed to the first email address if the one or more specified conditions are met by the first email message. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090198784 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY REMINDING USERS OF UPCOMING EVENTS - The method is for reminding a user of an upcoming event. A mobile communication device is provided that is in communication with a server. An event is programmed in a calendar that is stored in the communication device. A picture is associated with the event to describe the event. A clock device of the communication device is used to trigger the event. The picture is automatically retrieved from the communication device and displaying on the device. A user of the communication device is requested to confirm that the event has been accomplished. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090198785 | MAIL SENDING AND RECEIVING APPARATUS, METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM - A method to facilitate sending and receiving e-mails, the method including: providing a memory including mail-status-information indicating whether a received e-mail has been opened; detecting opening of the received e-mail; updating the mail status information stored in the memory upon detection of the opening of the received e-mail; accepting a status request for the mail status information; and reading the mail status information from the memory and providing the same upon acceptance of the status request. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090204675 | RULES EXTENSIBILITY ENGINE - Techniques described herein allow applications that are separate from a mail client to provide conditions and actions for rules to be run upon messages received by or sent from the mail client. That is, these techniques allow a user to create a rule that includes an action and/or a condition that is provided by an application that is separate from the mail client. This created rule may then be run upon either or both of messages received by or sent from the mail client. When a rule includes a condition or an action that is provided by a separate application, the mail client exposes the message to the separate application to allow the application to test the condition and/or perform the action. As such, these techniques allow applications to seamlessly create and provide conditions and actions that are tailored to each particular application. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090204676 | CONTENT BASED ROUTING OF MISADDRESSED E-MAIL - An e-mail routing system includes an e-mail program on a plurality of computers using a network for an e-mail system to minimize receipt of misaddressed e-mails. A knowledge base or database contains reference data associated with each of the recipient e-mail addresses in the e-mail system. A content analyzer program analyzes e-mail content data. A relevancy score generator program generates a relevancy score for each e-mail recipient. The relevancy score is derived from associating the reference data corresponding to each possible recipient e-mail addresses with the e-mail data. A specified minimal relevancy score is selected and low relevancy score recipient e-mails are associated by the content analyzer program with a plurality of possible recipient e-mail addresses having high relevancy scores. The relevancy score generator program selects at least one recipient from the possible recipient e-mail addresses and initiates sending the selected recipient the corresponding e-mail(s) using the e-mail program. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090204677 | CONTEXT BASED FILTER METHOD AND APPARATUS - A context sensitive filter method and apparatus is provided. In particular, information regarding the context in which a request for content is made is gathered, and is used to select filter parameters for application to content returned in response to the request. Context information can include information from a calendar application, location information, user preferences or other inputs. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090204678 | System and method for enabling collaboration among invitees - A method and system to enable dialogue and collaboration among event participants for an event request. Event participants collaborate within the context of the event request, for example a meeting request. The participants are allowed to send their responses on a event request to other participants and not limit or restrict the responses to the event organizer. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090204679 | MAIL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MAIL MANAGEMENT METHOD - An electronic mail management system for managing electronic mail includes an obtaining unit, an assigning unit and a memory. The obtaining unit obtains electronic mail whenever the electronic mail is sent or received. The assigning unit assigns at least one serial number to the electronic mail obtained by the obtaining unit. Each assigned serial number is a number from a sequence of numbers associated with at least one mail address included in the obtained electronic mail. The memory stores the obtained electronic mail in connection with the at least one assigned serial number. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090204680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMAIL NOTIFICATION - Email subscribers are notified of the receipt of new email messages when they are not at their computers via voice or page. An email notification server polls the email server corresponding to the subscriber's email account for the presence of new email messages. New email messages are obtained. Header information is extracted. If new email notification is by voicemail, the extracted header information is converted from text to voice. A voicemail message containing the extracted header information is saved on the voicemail system corresponding to the subscriber for whom the email message was intended. The email notification server can also send a page to notify the subscriber of the presence of new email. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090204681 | METHOD, SERVER AND CLIENT FOR PROCESSING EMAILS - A method, server and client for processing emails are disclosed. The method includes: receiving and delivering an email sent by a client; and sending a notification upon receiving a new email if determining that the received new email is a reply to the email. Through the foregoing technical solution, the user can obtain a notification in time upon arrival of a reply to a specific email, and retrieve the reply information in time. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090210496 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEAVING AND RETRIEVING ELECTRONIC MESSAGE NOTES - Methods and apparatus for allowing a message to be left for an expected user of a network application are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method includes determining when a first user has requested access to a first application, and determining if there is a message for the first user when it is determined that the first user has requested access to the first application. The method also includes informing the first user of the message if it is determined that there is the message for the first user, as well as providing the first user with access to the first application after informing the first user of the message and after the first user acknowledges that the first user has been informed of the message. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210497 | SELECTIVE INSTANT MESSAGING (IM) NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON SENDER/RECEIVER RELATIONSHIPS - The present invention presents a solution for prioritizing instant messaging (IM) communications based on sender/receiver relationships and for presenting selective notifications based upon the established priorities. The invention can include a data store, a message prioritization engine, and a client-side IM application. The data store can manage information describing relationships among people and recipient configurable IM prioritizing information. The message prioritization engine can determine a priority value for IM communications based upon the relationships and recipient configurable IM prioritizing information of the data store. The client-side IM application can receive IM messages that have an associated priority value established by the message prioritization engine. The client-side application can present an indicator of the priority value for associated IM messages within a user interface. In one embodiment, the information describing relationships used by the prioritization engine can be acquired from at least one social networking system. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210498 | METHOD, SERVER AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING HTML-BASED CONTENT - A method, server and system for optimizing and delivering HyperText Markup Language (HTML)-based content such as HTML-based email messages to mobile communication devices is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving an email message comprising an HTML portion comprising an HTML header and an HTML body; determining if the HTML header includes a reference to a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) document comprising one or more rules; if the HTML header includes a reference to a CSS document, replacing the reference with the CSS rules of the CSS document, and sending the transformed email message to a destination mobile communication device. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210499 | Service Identification And Decomposition For A Health Care Enterprise - In embodiments, a health insurance computer application enterprise system is provided employing a service oriented architecture (SOA) with a service granularity component that dynamically customizes a reusable service based on one or more of user identity element, service data elements, and service action elements parsed from service request parameters. The health insurance enterprise system includes a plurality of applications making use of functionality provided by a reusable service. In an embodiment, the health insurance enterprise system includes a customer service application, a consumer web portal application, and an integrated voice response (IVR) application. The applications provide different channels of communicating health insurance data to various health insurance system constituents by presenting customized views of the data tailored to a given communications method, user access rights, as well as other factors. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210500 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD OF ENABLING INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS TO SYNERGISTICALLY IDENTIFY AND CONTROL SPAM E-MAIL - Presently, when an e-mail message is identified as SPAM, it is deleted and the process ends. According to the system, computer program product and method provided herein, upon identifying an e-mail message as SPAM, source information, identity and data stream of the e-mail message are transferred to a database accessible by trusted ISPs. The trusted ISPs may compare the transferred data stream to data stream of incoming and outgoing e-mail messages to determine whether they are also SPAM and the transferred source information and identity may be used to determine an original sender (i.e., a spammer) of the message. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210501 | BLOCKING OF SPOOFED E-MAIL - Embodiments are directed towards detecting and reporting use by a domain of a message authentication mechanism, such as DomainKeys (DK), and/or DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and enabling subsequent blocking of messages based, in part, on its usage. When a message is received by an inbound message server, a message source is determined for the message. In one embodiment, the message source is a domain name associated with the sender of the message. Statistics are recorded about the message, including the message source, whether the message is suspect, includes a forged source identifier, employs DK/DKIM message authentication, and the like. The reports may then be sent to various message sources to enable them to determine the extent of use of DK/DKIM message authentication, and to selectively block, re-direct, or forward the messages based, in part, on the use of DK/DKIM message authentication mechanism. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210502 | System and method for bypassing uploading of data from a wireless device using outbound attachment caching - A method comprising: storing outbound attachments uploaded from a wireless device in a cache memory of a wireless service; receiving, over the wireless network, an electronic message that includes an attachment from a wireless device; determining whether the attachment is stored within the cache memory; and sending the electronic message to one or more addressees based on the determining. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210503 | Website presence - Website presence includes receiving aggregated website presence information describing website presence information for one or more objects of a website, and displaying the aggregated website presence information based at least in part on a website object profile for an object of the website. The website presence information describes one or more of the state of a website object regarding its participation in a communication session, the ability of the website object to participate in a communication session, and the willingness of the website object to participate in a communication session. Each of the one or more objects represents an entity associated with the website. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210504 | ERRONEOUS ADDRESSING PREVENTION FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - An electronic mail client includes features for preventing addressing errors in electronic messaging such as those caused by predictive text features. A messaging client tracks addressing parameters including the length of time since each previous addressee has been messaged, the quantity of times selected addressees have been co-addressees on messages, if any, whether the addressees are designated as sensitive and whether the messages contain sensitive subject matter. If a high risk of addressing error is determined, the client delays transmission of the message to permit the user to review the message recipient addresses and correct any erroneous addressees. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210505 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING SMART MAIL - Methods and systems provide for creating and generating dynamic mailings which include providing for static and dynamic content to be included in a dynamically generated e-mail; establishing filters for determining dynamic content; establishing a generic e-mail including static and dynamic content; selecting dynamic content using the filters; generating a dynamic e-mail based upon the generic e-mail and the dynamic content selected; and transmitting the dynamically generated e-mail. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210506 | COMPRESSIBLE DISPLAY OF E-MAIL MESSAGE STRING TO FACILITATE READABILITY - A displayed string of emails is effectively compressed for improved readability by deleting some or all headers and/or by skipping the cursor from one message body to another in response to “hot” key actuation (s) by a user. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090210507 | Method and Apparatus for Scoring Unsolicited E-mail - A method for filtering spam is disclosed comprising the steps of: assigning weights to a plurality of recipient e-mail addresses; determining a set of similar e-mails from a plurality of e-mails sent to the recipient addresses; calculating a score based for each set of similar e-mails; placing the score in the header of the e-mail; determining whether the score exceeds a threshold; and responsive to determining that the score exceeds the threshold, tagging and/or filtering the e-mail. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090216839 | Electronic Business Card Exchange System and Method - To provide a user with better experience of cooperation between an electronic business card processing program and a communication program when exchanging electronic business cards. Electronic business cards are stored in a DB server, which is one of storages for a communication program, as well as an electronic business card local file. Thus, even if a PC is a company's PC, for example, the electronic business cards can be viewed by accessing the DB server from another PC or the like outside an office. Further, the electronic business card processing program operates with the communication program as back-end, however, the electronic business card processing program may not be installed on a PC in some cases. Even in such a case, the communication program alone can display received electronic business cards that are stored in the communication program local file on the screen of a display. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216840 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICES TO USER INTERFACES - A method for providing access to a platform independent service involving transmitting a message to a communications device the method including identifying a device category based on at least one parameter from a first group having information extractable from the communications device; mapping the device category to a user interface process, in which the user interface process describes which user interface that currently is associated with the communications device; and transforming the message format of the message from a first message format to a second message format, the second message format being associated with the user interface process, thereby providing access to the platform independent service. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216841 | IDENTIFYING IP ADDRESSES FOR SPAMMERS - Detecting and blocking spam messages using statistical analysis on distributions of message sizes for a given IP address. Mail volumes are examined to model a distribution of volumes to cluster IP addresses. The messages sizes may distributed across ranges of message sizes, which is then used to determine an entropy of message sizes for the given IP address. The entropy of the given IP address may be compared to entropies of known good IP addresses, and if a difference between the entropies is statistically significant, then the given IP address may be determined to be an IP spammer. User feedback may also be employed to further characterize an IP address. For example, a number of messages from the IP address may be sent to intended recipients. User feedback may then be monitored to determine whether to the IP address should be reclassified. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216842 | REPORTING ON SPOOFED E-MAIL - Embodiments are directed towards detecting and reporting use by a domain of a message authentication mechanism, such as DomainKeys (DK), and/or DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and enabling subsequent blocking of messages based, in part, on its usage. When a message is received by an inbound message server, a message source is determined for the message. In one embodiment, the message source is a domain name associated with the sender of the message. Statistics are recorded about the message, including the message source, whether the message is suspect, includes a forged source identifier, employs DK/DKIM message authentication, and the like. The reports may ten be sent to various message sources to enable them to determine the extent of use of DK/DKIM message authentication, and to selectively block, re-direct, or forward the messages based, in part, on the use of DK/DKIM message authentication mechanism. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216843 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE EMAIL REVIEW - A method and computer program product for enabling a user to compose a draft email. The user is enabled to send the draft email as a draft email for review to one or more specified reviewing recipients. A copy of the draft email is saved. The saved copy of the draft email is configured to be sent to one or more additional recipients as an original email. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216844 | Systems And Methods For Instant Communication In A Clinical Setting - Embodiments of the present technology provide a system and method for instant communication in a clinical setting. The system includes a database wherein the database contains clinical data points; at least one bot wherein the bot receives a query and returns a result from the clinical data points; at least two workstations having a clinical instant messaging interface wherein the clinical instant messaging interface displays users that are using the clinical instant messaging interface, allows one of the users to input a message to other users and displays messages from the other users; and a clinical instant messaging network wherein the clinical instant messaging network accommodates messaging between the workstations and also between the workstations and the bots. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216845 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR E-MAIL SERVICE IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - For downloading e-mails into a mobile node ( | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216846 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SESSION INFO QUERY FOR USER PLANE LOCATION - Techniques for querying for information on location sessions in a user plane location architecture are described. In an aspect, a location server may send a query message to a terminal to query for information on active location sessions, e.g., when at least one location session for periodic triggered service or area event triggered service is deemed to be active. The terminal may return a response message containing a list of session identifiers (IDs) for the active location sessions, parameters for the active location sessions, capabilities of the terminal, etc. The location server may compare the information received from the terminal and information stored at the location server. The location server may terminate each location session deemed to be active at only the terminal or only the location server. The location server may restart or terminate each location session having inconsistent parameters at the terminal and the location server. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216847 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE VALUE CALCULATION IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for determining a suitability for a mobile client to display information are disclosed. A particular exemplary method includes generating a first value for a first targeted content message based on at least a first weighted sum of first user profile attributes, a user profile attribute being a numeric quantity relating to at least one of a preference and a demographic of a user of the mobile client, comparing the first value with a stored list of second values related to respective stored messages in a cache memory of the mobile client to produce a comparison result; and updating the cache memory based on the comparison result by storing the first targeted content message in the cache memory if the comparison result indicates a higher desirability of the first targeted content message over at least one stored message. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216848 | ADJUNCT USE OF INSTANT MESSENGER SOFTWARE TO ENABLE COMMUNICATIONS TO OR BETWEEN CHATTERBOTS OR OTHER SOFTWARE AGENTS - A user's chatterbot participates in a chat session with other users and the other users' chatterbots. The originator of an incoming instant message is identified to such a degree that a buddy on a buddy list is able to determine that the instant message was sent by a user's chatterbot (e.g., “Jackie's chatterbot”), and not the user (“Jackie”). The chatterbots can communicate with other chatterbots while the chatterbots' users listen to the chatterbots converse. The chatterbots may respond to messages originated by other chatterbots' messages and buddies' (users') messages. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216849 | METHOD FOR USER-SPECIFIED ERROR CORRECTION IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method and system enter a correction for a previously sent message, determine whether to send a complete corrected message or a message correction specification, and send the selected message to a messaging server. The messaging server receives the message correction specification and a message identifier (ID), and sends the message correction specification and the message ID to a recipient client system if a message with a corresponding message ID has previously been sent to the recipient client system. Then, the recipient client system receives the message correction specification and message ID, retrieves the message with a corresponding message ID from its conversation log, corrects the message, updates the conversation log, and activates an alert to notify a user of an update. If the message has not previously been sent, the messaging server corrects the message and sends the corrected message and the message ID to the recipient client system. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216850 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CATEGORIZING FAILURE MESSAGES THAT RESULT FROM EMAIL MESSAGES - Techniques for classifying failure messages received from email messages that are sent are provided. A plurality of rules are created that are used to classify a plurality of failure types for email messages. Email messages are sent to an email address associated with an Internet service provider. When an email message fails, a failure message is determined. A rule that applies to the failure message is then determined and based on the rule, a failure type associated with the rule is determined. Once a failure type is determined, an action may be performed based on the failure type. For example, the email address associated with the email message may be marked as invalid. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090216851 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES USING AVAILABILITY DATA FROM COMMUNICATION THROUGH AN EXTERNAL INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A system and method for immediate and delayed real-time communication activities using availability data from and communications through an external instant messaging system, that operates to obtain aggregated user online presence information through its own client software, through interception of client-server communications between an external instant messaging client and server, and through other available interfaces to user account information on such external instant messaging systems. The system operates to gather user online presence information in part by intercepting communications between an instant messaging client and the Internet. The aggregate presence data, as well as other information describing the availability of a user, is used to intelligently route real-time communications, such as instant messages and phone calls. The disclosed system further implements a technique for waiting for changes in a user's availability status, and for performing actions on a user's behalf in response to such changes in availability status. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090222521 | Method for Managing Messages In a Peer-To-Peer Network - A message management method, for use when a depositor (X) wishes to send a message (M) to an addressee (Y), includes a step of the depositor (X) sending a call invitation (INV | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222522 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ORGANIZING AND SUGGESTING ACTIVITIES BASED ON AVAILABILITY INFORMATION AND ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS - Activities may be automatically organized and suggested to members of a network based at least on interest information and availability information. A suggested activity may be confirmed or canceled based on attendance information received from the members. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222523 | Method for receiving and displaying segments of a message before the message is complete - A method for messaging based communication includes enabling a first message to be entered into a message entry area of a first messaging application, receiving at least one segment of a second message from at least one remote messaging application before the message is completed, displaying the received segment of the at least one second message in an in process message display area of the first messaging application, receiving the second message completely from the at least one remote messaging application, and displaying the completed message in a designated completed message display area of the first messaging application. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222524 | SIGNALLING OPTIMISATIONS USING HASH FUNCTIONS - A method for configuring a connection between first and second peer entities in a wireless telecommunications network comprises sending a hash value between the first and second peer entities, the hash value being a compact representation of information relating to a connection configuration procedure between the first and second peer entities. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222525 | METHOD OF PROVIDING QUICK ANSWER SERVICE IN SIP MESSAGE SERVICE SYSTEM - Disclosed is an SIP based message service. If a message service server receives a quick answer addition request from a user terminal, the server detects a quick answer text and a quick answer ID, assigned corresponding to the quick answer text, in the quick answer addition request, and stores the detected quick answer text and quick answer ID in a quick answer list corresponding to the user terminal's user, thereby implementing quick answer addition. Further, if the message service server receives a quick answer sending request from the user terminal, the server detects a quick answer text, corresponding to a user ID contained in the quick answer sending request, in the quick answer list, configures a message containing the detected quick answer text, and sends the configured message to a recipient user terminal, thereby implementing quick answer sending. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222526 | USING GENDER ANALYSIS OF NAMES TO ASSIGN AVATARS IN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - A data processing system includes a processor, a memory, and computer readable instructions stored in the memory for execution by the processor to perform a method comprising receiving a username for a first user having a first user account registered with an instant messaging system; performing an anthroponomastic analysis of the username to assign a probable gender selected from male, female, and neutral; displaying a current contact area in a communication session window of a user interface provided by an instant messaging application on a client system operated by a second user having a second user account; and displaying the username for the first user and an avatar representation indicative of the probable gender in the current contact area while the instant messaging application is accessing the instant messaging system to allow the second user to participate in instant messaging communication with the first user via the user interface. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222527 | USEFUL DATA AND CONTENT FEEDS IN THE ENTERPRISE - In a new Notification Service, applications can publish data and allow users to subscribe to that data how they wish, with methods for secure redaction and secure authentication. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222528 | Resource sharing method and system - A resource sharing method for a resource sharing system for a plurality of edge peers that individually store a resource and a plurality of super peers that manage the plurality of edge peers or resource information including a name of the resource that includes at least one key word is provided. In the resource sharing system, the super peers distribute and manage resource information of the edge peers according to a key word. Therefore, if a resource is requested using part of a name of a resource desired by a certain edge peer, the super peer searches for resources including the resource desired by the edge peer. Therefore, a user of an edge peer may acquire a desired resource even using part of a name of a desired resource. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090228560 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - A system for classifying an electronic mail message is presented. During operation of the system, type tags are included in an electronic mail message, wherein the type tag can be used to classify the electronic mail message. Furthermore, specified actions can be performed based on the type tags included in the electronic mail message. | 09-10-2009 |
| 20090228564 | ELECTRONIC MAIL FORWARDING SERVICE - A system and method are disclosed that enable an email service provider to implement an email forwarding service without losing associated page views. In one embodiment, rather than forwarding the entire email message, the email forwarding service generates a summary email message, and sends this summary email message to the forwarding email address pre-specified by the subscriber. This summary email message includes a link that is selectable by the user to view the original email message on a web site of the email service provider. Thus, even if the forwarding email address is hosted externally, the subscriber still views the full email message on a web site of the provider of the email forwarding service. | 09-10-2009 |
| 20090234928 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE DELIVERY - The present invention is directed to an apparatus, system, methods, and computer-program product for message delivery in a publish/subscribe network is provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for message delivery in a publish/subscribe network includes defining a group of publish/subscribe engines as a subset of a set of fully connectable publish/subscribe engines, wherein the group provides a function which can be carried out by any one of the publish/subscribe engines in the group. Each of the publish/subscribe engines in the group sends a group proxy subscription including a topic, an indication of the publish/subscribe engine sending the group proxy subscription, and an indication of the group. A publish/subscribe engine outside the group sends a single publish message to one of the group of publish/subscribe engines with a group proxy subscription for a topic. If the one of the group of publish/subscribe engines to which the single publish message is being sent also has an individual proxy subscription, the publish message for the group is included in the publish message for the individual proxy subscription. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090234929 | RECORDING MEDIUM WITH ELECTRONIC MAIL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM RECORDED, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND ELECTRONIC MAIL MANAGEMENT METHOD - An address set in a forwarding mail of an electronic mail received from a sender is obtained, a receiver having a delete program for deleting the forwarding mail is identified as the obtained destination, and the electronic mail is related to the sender and the receiver of the identified delete program. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090234930 | E-MAIL RELAY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING E-MAIL RELAY SYSTEM - An e-mail relay system including a first information processing apparatus that receives a first e-mail with a first identifier and stores the received first e-mail in a first storage device and notifies the first identifier to a second information processing apparatus, and the second information processing apparatus receives a second e-mail with a second identifier and stores the received second e-mail in a second storage device with the second identifier, and compares the first identifier notified with the second identifier stored in the second storage device, and extracts the second e-mail having the second identifier same with the unnotified first identifier from the second storage device, then transfers the extracted second e-mail to the first information processing apparatus. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090234931 | System and Method for Selecting Messaging Settings On A Messaging Client - A system and method of selecting messaging settings on a messaging client are provided. A data store configured to operate in conjunction with the messaging client stores records comprising messaging settings or characteristics for previously received and/or sent messages. The messaging client is configured to send outgoing messages, each of the messages having message characteristics, to determine whether a record for an addressed recipient of an outgoing message exists in the data store, and to select messaging settings to control the message characteristics of the outgoing message based on the record where a record exists. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090240774 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURELY PERFORMING MULTIPLE STAGE EMAIL PROCESSING WITH EMBEDDED CODES - A system and method for performing email processing at multiple stages along an email delivery chain. A first embodiment uses an email filter to receive information about an email message from a message transfer agent and then perform limited email pre-processing on the email message. The email filter then stores instructions and data such as the results from the email pre-processing into an internet email header added to the email message. The instructions and data placed into the email header may be encrypted for privacy and security. A later email program may extract the instructions and data from the internet email header and continue the email processing. One disclosed application of the multi-stage email processing system is email authentication. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090240775 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, A METHOD OF DISPLAYING MAIL INFORMATION - An electronic device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of e-mails having a message body and an attached file, a determination unit configured to judge whether or not the message body and the attached file of each e-mail thus received by the receiving unit have been checked, a mail management unit configured to manage mail information with respect to the plurality of e-mails, including at least determination results obtained by the determination unit, a display unit, and a display control unit configured to display the mail information on the display unit. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090240776 | XML2 X-MAIL (TM) 2 - The Mother invention, XML1, covers certain improvements to the Internet methods of handling “stray” email messages, which are sent to old “invalid” email addresses. It provides means and methods to salvage such stray messages. It proposes to establish a depository data center, which could be referred to as the XMAIL™ Center, with appropriate infrastructure, to store information in database files, correlating old “invalid” email addresses of participating users to their corresponding new “valid” email addresses. On demand and according to the wishes of the participants, the XMAIL™ Center can provide the necessary information to help in forwarding/delivering such stray messages to their intended recipients. The present invention combines the above XMAIL™ approach with the prior art spam filters and sniffing filters, in order to improve the effectiveness of the system and to create certain additional efficiencies in the total email traffic system. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090240777 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROTECTING MESSAGING CONSUMERS - The present invention is directed to a system, method, and computer-program product for protecting messaging consumers. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for protecting messaging consumers can be provided. The method can include intercepting a message prior to arrival at a destination, comparing the message to one or more known message structures to determine the message structure, and determining if a message has a valid message structure for the destination. Intercepting a message prior to arrival at a destination may intercepts a message on a queue before the message is consumed by a consumer. Comparing the message to known message structures compares a message to message schemas, for example, XML schema, Java object definition or C structure format. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090240778 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA FROM A SENSOR OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK, CORRESPONDING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFORE - The invention concerns a method for transferring data from a sensor over a computer network, wherein the method comprises the steps of receiving from the sensor a signal representing a physical quantity, encoding the signal, converting the signal into a message, and transmitting the message over the computer network, wherein the conversion of the signal into the message comprises the step of generating the message by combining a first message header with a message body, wherein the first message header comprises the encoded signal and the message body comprises application data. The invention further concerns a device and computer program product therefore. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090240779 | WIRELESS DEVICE DETECTION - A method includes but is not limited to detecting a wireless-device capability. Related systems include but are not limited to circuitry for effecting the foregoing-described method; the circuitry can be virtually any combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware configured to effect the foregoing-described method depending upon the design choices of the system designer. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090240780 | High Performance Electronic Message Delivery Engine - In a messaging system interfaced through the Internet, a method for processing a message from a sender and intended for delivery to at least one recipient, which sender is interfaced to the Internet through a sender server and which recipient is interfaced to the Internet through a recipient server, where the message includes at least recipient information and message body, is disclosed. The method includes testing the recipient information by establishing a temporary test connection through the Internet from the sender server to the recipient server, before relying on the recipient information for sending the message, so as to provide an indication of deliverability of the message to the recipient without using an SMTP VRFY command. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090248806 | System and method for dynamically changing item status in static email messages - A system and method that allows dynamic updating of a static email message by maintaining the status of the content of the email message on a server and remotely serving images or stylesheets relaying the current status to a user's email client when the static email digest is displayed. Other applications of the system and method include, but are not limited to, updating the status of online message board postings contained in an email digest once the original poster has accomplished what was requested in the posting, so he will not subsequently be contacted about the post by users reading the email digest. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248807 | System and Method of Matching Presence for Subscribers in a Social Network - A social network allows subscribers to build and maintain a network of friends. The network includes a server that maintains travel information for the subscribers and for their friends. The server analyzes this travel information to determine whether a given subscriber will be geographically near a friend for a predetermined amount of time. If so, the server notifies the subscriber, and possibly the friend as well, so that the two can arrange to meet during that time. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248808 | Methods and Apparatus for Transmitting Attachments Using a Mail Send/Receive Program - Techniques for transmitting attachment data through a network are provided. Attachment data from an attachment sender is obtained. A copy of the attachment data is stored at a storage location as stored attachment data. The obtained attachment data is replaced with program code. The program code is transmitted to at least one recipient designated by the attachment sender. The stored attachment data is accessible by the at least one recipient under control of the program code. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248809 | Instant Message Session Transfers - A method facilitates instant message (IM) session transfer of messages intended for an IM user to a new IM session being established by the user. Existing IM sessions may be queried for active IM sessions when the user is connecting to an instant message service. If there is an active session for the user, the IM server will request the content and sender of active messages waiting for the user, and transfer this information to the new IM session being established for the user. In this way, the user does not “miss” IM message(s) intended for him or her while going between existing, active IM sessions and new IM sessions. As used herein, session or sessions refer to IM session or IM sessions. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248810 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUERYING STATUS OF PEER-TO-PEER MULTIMEDIA CONNECTIONS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Status information associated with a peer-to-peer multimedia connection can be queried by the network. A queried terminal can provide responsive status information including, for example, a type and/or amount of data which has been sent over the peer-to-peer multimedia connection and/or a type and/or amount of data which is yet to be sent over the peer-to-peer multimedia connection. This status information can, for example, be used to assist in charging or billing the customer using the multimedia service. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248811 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATIC RETRANSMISSION OF ELECTRONIC MAIL - Disclosed are systems and methods of automatic retransmission of electronic mail. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248812 | COMPOSING, FORWARDING, AND RENDERING EMAIL SYSTEM - The present invention provides a computer implemented method for communicating a signature in a received email. Initially, a server receives a source email from a source client, the source email comprising a signature index entry, and a body. The server determines for a first recipient that a first associated destination client is capable of rendering a signature of the signature index entry in response to a selection of an indexed signature. The server, responsive to a determination that the destination client is capable of rendering the signature index entry, forwards the source email to the first recipient as a delivered email using the body of the source email such that an indexed signature is present in the body of the delivered email. In addition, a method for generating a signature header is shown that provides a many to one correspondence between indexed signatures and a signature index entry. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248813 | Download of Current Portions of Email Messages - In general, this disclosure describes techniques of enabling devices to download only current portions of email messages without downloading historical portions of the email messages. For instance, when an email client generates a reply email message to an original email message, the reply email message includes a current portion and a historical portion. The current portion of the reply email message includes new information and the historical portion of the reply email message includes the original email message. The techniques of this disclosure enable devices to download the current portions of email messages without downloading the historical portions of the email messages. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248814 | Increasing spam scanning accuracy by rescanning with updated detection rules - A method, system, and computer program product for processing email messages rescans emails messages that have already been scanned for spam and delivered to user inboxes with updated spam detection rules. This increases the accuracy of spam scanning and reduces the need for users to submit missed spam in emails that was not detected at the time the emails were received, but would subsequently be detected with newer anti-spam rules. A method of processing email messages comprises receiving email messages in a local inbox or in an inbox on an email server, or both, the received email messages having been scanned using spam detection rules to determine whether or not they include spam, obtaining updated spam detection rules, and rescanning at least some of the received email messages using the updated spam detection rules to determine whether or not they include spam. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248815 | MOBILE APPARATUS - According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a mobile apparatus including: a mail storage unit configured to store a history of email communications; an address storage unit configured to store a first email address associated with a certain name and a second email address associated with the certain name and an additional identifier; and a display unit configured to display the certain name in a first manner to represent the first email address in the history; wherein the display unit is configured to display the certain name in a second manner to represent the second email address in the history. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248816 | Passive Personalization of Buddy Lists - Personalizing communications for a first communication platform includes accessing status information for communication sessions by a communication identity that leverage a first communication platform other than an instant messaging platform. A participant list associated with the communication identity and the first communication platform is passively configured to persistently reflect a list of participant identities from communication sessions in which the communication identity recently participated using the communication platform. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248817 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - An electronic messaging device adapted to receive electronic messages from a sender. The electronic messaging device has a controller, a transmitter and receiver unit connected to the controller, a user interface connected to the controller, and a body detection device connected to the controller. After receipt of a notification message from the sender, the transmitter sends an acknowledgement message to the sender when the body detection device detects the presence of a recipient of the notification message. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248818 | COOPERATING SYSTEM, CHAT SERVER, PROGRAM, AND COOPERATING METHOD - A cooperating system includes a chat server and a blog server, the chat server includes an extracting part for, when detecting a URL related to a blog in a message received from outside, extracting the received message, an acquiring part for acquiring a trackback URL from a blog server based on the detected URL, and a storage part for storing a message and the trackback URL extracted by the extracting part in association with a newly created URL; and the blog server including a receiving part for receiving the created URL transmitted based on storage of trackback URL to the storage part with the storage part. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248819 | EMAIL ROUTING - A method of routing an email message comprises receiving a message to be routed, receiving details of a first recipient of the message, receiving an indication of a second recipient of the message, the indication defining a relationship to the first recipient, obtaining an address for the first recipient, obtaining an address for the second recipient, and transmitting the email message to the first and second recipients. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248820 | INTERACTIVE UNIFIED ACCESS AND CONTROL OF MOBILE DEVICES - An interface between mobile devices and computing devices, such as a PC or an in-vehicle system permits a user to use the better user interface of the computing device to access and control the operation of the mobile device. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248821 | MICROSCOPE IMAGE TAKING SYSTEM - A camera takes an observed image of a sample acquired by a microscope. A disk device stores image data representing the observed image taken by the camera A CPU generates e-mail including the image data and information indicating the settings of the microscope or the camera during taking the observed image represented by the image data using as a destination an e-mail address entered in advance. A communication control device transmits the e-mail to a communication network. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248822 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING PEER-TO-PEER EMERGENCY SERVICE AND NODE FOR PROVIDING PEER-TO-PEER EMERGENCY SERVICE - The present invention relates to a method for providing peer-to-peer emergency service in a peer-to-peer network. The method comprises receiving a peer-to-peer emergency request ( | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248823 | METHODS FOR SENDING AN EMAIL AND DISTRIBUTING AN EMAIL AND AN EMAIL SERVER - The present application relates to methods for sending an email and distributing an email, and an email server. According to the application, a summary is generated for an email to be sent, with the email stored in a sender side server; the summary of the email is sent to a receiver side server; and the email is sent to the receiver side server in response to receiving, by the sender side server, a request for sending the email, the request being sent by a recipient based on the summary. Thus, the network bandwidth, the storage space of the email server and user terminals may be saved. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248824 | THEME-BASED INSTANT MESSAGING COMMUNICATIONS - Instant messaging communications are controlled using themes. A theme is a definition of properties and features of a specific instance of an instant messaging communications environment. Themes are stored at a server computer and may be requested by users of a client computer. Themes may be made available to users based on enterprise policies established by the owner of the server computer. Once downloaded to the client computer, a theme may be personalized by the user of the client computer provided personalization is consistent with the enterprise policy. Inheritance techniques may be used to provide personalized themes that remain consistent with enterprise policy while extending functions not defined in the enterprise policy. A user may select different themes manually. Alternatively, theme selection may be automated based on system detection of events such as time of day, user location, availability of network connections and the like. Changes in a downloaded theme may be returned to and stored by the server for future use by the user of the client computer. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248825 | Method for Tagging and Tracking Non-Hypertext Markup Language Based E-Mail - A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for tagging and tracking non-hypertext markup language based e-mail. An e-mail is converted from a non-hypertext markup language format to an encoded format. An item is identified in the e-mail. A tag is added to the item in the e-mail. The e-mail is converted from the encoded format back to the non-hypertext markup language format. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090248826 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying, Managing, and Controlling Communications - A method and apparatus for sorting, prioritizing, identifying, managing, and otherwise controlling (collectively, “controlling”) a communication. A frank may be used to associate a value and a class with a communication. The communication may be associated with the frank through the method of selecting a frank associated with a value from among a plurality of frank types, each of the frank types having a pre-assigned value, associating the frank with the communication, and initiating transmission of the franked communication across a network. Value may include anything important of having meaning to the parties, including, for example, money, credit (or a promise to pay), frequent flier miles, and so forth. “Franking” a communication generally associates some indicia of value and/or a service class with a communication. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090254618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME/DYNAMIC RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION RELATED TO AN ON-GOING INSTANT MESSAGE COMMUNICATION - A method, system and computer program product for enabling retrieval and display from an information resource of additional information corresponding to topics within current, real-time communication between an instant message (IM) contact and a local user. Content is dynamically (or manually) retrieved from the contact's IM message during an ongoing IM session/communication. A searching facility, when turned on, dynamically performs the search for additional information related to the content retrieved from within the communication exchanged during the on-going IM session. Returned information is then visually presented in real-time to the local user to enhance the local user's knowledge of the particular topic. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254619 | STATUS-BASED FILTERED EMAIL ALERTS - The disclosure is directed to status-based filtered email alerts. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining a current availability status of a user; determining whether an email filter is associated with the current availability status of the user, the email filter comprising at least one condition; determining, when an email filter is associated with the current availability status of the user, whether a new email meets each condition of the email filter; and alerting the user of the new email when the new email meets each condition of the email filter. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254620 | NOTIFYING CO-RECIPIENTS OF OTHERS CURRENTLY REPLYING TO COMMUNICATIONS - A mechanism for notifying co-recipients of a communication that other recipients are currently composing a reply to the received communication is provided. The notification may be provided regardless of which type of communication application is being used to reply to the communication. With this mechanism, attribute information for a communication currently being composed on a client communication device using one of a plurality of different communication types is obtained. The attribute information may include an identifier of a communication type currently being used to compose the communication. A previously distributed communication related to the communication currently being composed is identified and one or more recipients of the previously distributed communication are identified. A notification message is sent to one or more communication devices associated with the one or more recipients of the previously distributed communication. The notification message may identify a communication type currently being used to compose the communication. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254621 | PEER-TO-PEER MESSAGING OF FACSIMILE MESSAGES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for peer-to-peer fax messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a multi-modal peer-to-peer messaging method can include receiving in a processing node a job request to process a message by way of an ingress node from one type of messaging system for delivery to another type of messaging system by way of an egress node. The method also can include extracting metrics from the job request pertaining to availability of peers to the node and updating a local data store of metrics in the processing node with the extracted metrics. The method yet further can include processing the message according to the job request and setting an availability for the processing node in the local data store of metrics. Finally, the method can include forwarding the processed message and the metrics in the local data store to the egress node for transmission to the different type of messaging system. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254622 | ELECTRONIC MAIL RECEIVING APPARATUS - In an e-mail receiving apparatus, a user management table arranged to include each combination of a user ID that is used for identifying a plurality of users and a unique ID that is newly set each time a new user is registered in an S/MIME gateway apparatus. A received e-mail management table is arranged to include a plurality of records each indicating an association relation between each e-mail received from an e-mail server apparatus, and the user ID and the unique ID of a destination user of the corresponding e-mail. A main control unit is arranged to read out each record of the received e-mail management table, determine whether or not the unique ID related to the read-out record is in the user management table, and delete the read-out record from the received e-mail management table when the unique ID is not in the user management table. Accordingly, a system is provided in which, when a registration of a user of a distribution destination is deleted, received e-mails are properly processed. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254623 | MESSAGING DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A display device configured to display and/or playback information received from a remote computer over a network. The device includes a processor coupled to a visual display and a memory storing computer-executable instructions and a device identifier. The device is coupled to the network by a network interface configured to send a request including the device identifier periodically to the remote computer. The remote computer is configured to receive messages from other remote computers for display and/or playback by the display device. In response to each request, the remote computer uses the device identifier to identify messages for the display device stored in a device account, which are subsequently downloaded by the display device for display and/or playback thereby. The processor is operable to display and/or playback information in the downloaded message. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254624 | E-MAIL MESSAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An e-mail program having a message deferment feature for postponing the time for taking action on incoming mail message until a specified future time, an auto-filing feature, a find similar feature, a message tokenizing features, and a suggest reply feature. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254625 | METHOD FOR DISCOURAGING UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL - A protocol-based method for email forwarding by an email server is performed as follows. An initial email is received from a sender, and checked to ensure that the initial email includes a reusable electronic paying means. If the initial email carries a reusable electronic paying means, the initial email is forwarded to the recipient. An acceptance email containing a reusable electronic paying means is later received from the recipient of the initial email, and forwarded to the sender. Email not carrying an electronic paying means is rejected. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254626 | NETWORK INVITATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD - Method and arrangement for enabling communications between an entity operating a network including a first user, and a second user includes sending a message from the first user to the entity informing the entity of identification information of the second user interested in joining the network, sending from the entity to the first user a key to allow the second user to communicate with the entity, providing a message from the first user directly to the second user containing the key, sending a message from the second user to the entity using the key, determining whether the key sent by the second user corresponds to the key provided by the entity to the first user, and if so enabling communications between the second user and the entity. The ability of the first user to obtain a key to enable the second user to join the network is time-limited. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254627 | Method, System, And Data Structure For Providing A General Request/Response Messaging Protocol Using A Presence Protocol - A method and system are described for providing a general request/response protocol using a presence protocol. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method is described for using the presence protocol for receiving from a requesting entity a descriptor of a resource associated with a responding entity and a request related to the resource. The descriptor and the request are sent to the responding entity using the presence protocol. Using the presence protocol, a response is received from the responding entity replying to the request. The response is sent to the requesting entity using the presence protocol. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254628 | Method, System And Apparatus For Instant Messaging - The present invention discloses a method and a system for implementing instant messaging using a browser. The method includes: a browser logs in an instant messaging background server, when receiving an instant message sent from a user, the browser establishes an HTTP link with an access server to send the instant message, the access server adds the instant message into an upload queue and checks whether there is an instant message to be sent to the user in a distribution queue, if there is, sends the instant message at the head of the distribution queue via the HTTP link and disconnects the HTTP link after the instant message is sent; otherwise, disconnects the HTTP link; when detecting that the HTTP link is disconnected, the browser re-establishes the HTTP link with the access server. The system includes a webpage server, a browser module and an access server. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090259721 | IMS quietude manager - IMS Quietude Manager is a method and device for unifying reaction to an undesired contact regardless of communication means. In the preferred embodiment, the methodology involves utilizing a quietude key integrated in the IMS client that activates a quietude manager of an IMS. The quietude manager is capable of accessing the reachability server, the Group List Management Server (GLMS) and the presence server of the IMS to provide an appropriate response to any given communication. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090259722 | Method and System for Previewing of Forwarding File Attachments Received During a Chat Session - A method and system for improving the functionality of real-time messaging (chat) applications and services. The method and system may use temporary storage directories to enhance user experience and provide new functionalities, such as instant previewing and forwarding of electronic files received via the chat application. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090259723 | CACHING AND EXPOSING PRE-SEND DATA RELATING TO THE SENDER OR RECIPIENT OF AN ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE - Technologies are described herein for caching and exposing pre-send data relating to the sender or recipient of an e-mail message. A mail client program is configured to cache recipient and configuration mail tips at a client computer. The configuration mail tips may be retrieved from a server computer and cached when the mail client program is started. Recipient mail tips may be retrieved and cached as each recipient of an e-mail message is identified. When subsequent e-mail messages are created, cached mail tips for an e-mail recipient are utilized instead of retrieving the mail tips from the server computer. The cached mail tips may be updated after a predefined period of time has elapsed. The cached mail tips may also be utilized when the client program is offline or unable to establish a connection to the server computer. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090259724 | METHOD OF ORGANIZING AND DISPLAYING E-MAILS - A method of organizing and displaying e-mails. The steps of the method include providing a computer having a server that receives e-mails from a remote server and providing software on the computer that collects the e-mails received by the server into an e-mail account. The next step is organizing the e-mails in the e-mail account into a plurality of groups with the software based upon a predetermined criteria determined by a user. Next, the e-mails are displayed in a group with the software when actuated by the user. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090259725 | EMAIL CONSUMER REPUTATION - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with email address consumer reputation are described. One example method includes detecting a provision of an email address to an email address consumer. The example method may also include warning a user that the email address consumer may be associated with undesirable email traffic upon determining that the email address consumer satisfies a standard based on data acquired from a reputation system. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090259726 | REMOTE ELECTRONIC MAILBOX ACCESS - An apparatus for retrieving electronic mail messages via a wireless network. The apparatus comprises a gateway for sending an electronic mail retrieval reply message to a wireless device in response to receiving an electronic mail retrieval request message from the wireless device. The apparatus further comprises an application module. The application module has computer readable instructions. The computer readable instructions convert the retrieval request message into a format capable of transmission over an external computer network and the computer readable instructions convert the retrieval reply message into a format capable of transmission over a wireless network. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090259727 | DELIVERING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Delivering electronic content includes providing instructions that might cause a computer to collect information including a network address and transmitting the collected information to a receiving computer. The computer that receives the transmitted information selects electronic content based on the received information and sends the selected electronic content to the network address included in the received information. Access to the electronic content might be selectively granted based on criteria. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090259728 | COMPUTER-AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSESSING THE ORIENTATION, AWARENESS AND RESPONSES OF A PERSON WITH REDUCED CAPACITY - A system and method for scheduling, and reminding people receiving care (PRC) about upcoming events uses a remote computer-based interface that allows a Caregiver at a remote location to schedule the events for the PRC. The PRC has in their residence (or other location) a device that prompts the PRC, by an audio and/or video prompt, so as to “nudge” the PRC, asking whether they intend to participate in a pre-scheduled event. A man-machine interface, such as a two input keypad containing one button labeled “yes” and another button labeled “no”, the remote Caregiver is able to monitor the responses of the electronic “nudges” offered by the system to the PRC. In turn, the device used by the remote Caregiver accumulates the responses and creates a history of the level of activity the person has indicated in which they wish to participate. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090265431 | ENDORSING E-MAIL MESSAGES USING SOCIAL NETWORK VERIFICATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for e-mail message endorsement in an e-mail management system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for e-mail message endorsement in an e-mail management system can be provided. The method can include comparing a sender and a recipient of an e-mail message in a social network to identify linking relationships between the sender and the recipient, scoring the e-mail message based upon the identified linking relationships, and visually distinguishing the e-mail message based upon the scoring. In one aspect of the embodiment, the method further can include repeating the comparing to identify new linking relationships, updating the scoring based upon the identified new linking relationships, and updating the visual distinction of the e-mail message based upon the updated scoring. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265432 | Communication system and communication terminal - There are provided a communication terminal and a communication system as follows. In a communication network connected to the communication terminal having an address book, an access right to a content disclosed on the network by a user of the communication terminal is judged according to the address book data of the communication terminal. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265433 | Message notice reply system and method thereof - A message notice reply system and a method thereof are disclosed. A message reply scheme functioning a deadline, address and verification for replying is introduced into an electronic mail system. As a sender transmits the message, a message-to-reply field will be incorporated to the message, and a reply field will be added after the recipient opens it. More, a reminder, which can be configured to send to a mobile phone or telephone via VoIP connection, will be launched before the deadline. The reply field won't be checked until the recipient replies the message. As well, the message-to-reply field won't be checked until the sender receives the reply. Further, a multimedia apparatus and a handwriting device are utilized to transmit a multimedia message from the sender and reply from the recipient. The invention is applied to substitute the conventional appointment between people that can not trace the schedule precisely. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265434 | Systems and Methods for Dynamically Adaptive Multi-Way Message Conversion - Multilateral, dynamic and coordinated message conversion between different messages composed using different protocols, e.g., Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) are described. For each message pattern or set of messages between coordinated peers, a conversion session is established. Incoming messages are correlated to their respective conversion sessions so that a common set of conversion rules can be used to convert messages within a particular session. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265435 | Email Server Cooperative Management for Automatic Routing of Emails Based on Preferences - Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for managing the routing of an email at the server level to an email client by preferences set in a routing application located on the server. One embodiment includes querying, by a routing application located on a server and associated with an email system, the email by comparison to conditions for each preference set in the routing application, wherein a preference comprises a routing action. Further, the method includes identifying, based on the querying and by the routing application, a match between the email and at least one of the conditions. Further still, the method includes performing, based on the match and by the routing application, the preference associated with the at least one of the conditions of the email, whereby the email is transmitted to an email client. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265436 | Data Through Community Feedback - A method, system and computer program product for providing a framework to enable a builder to construct a situational application, wherein the framework provides access to one or more background data sources. A graphical user interface is displayed to receive feedback inputs, including one or more inputs which describe the problem detected within a data item of a situational application, by an end-user. Feedback inputs may include a unique identifier of the problem data item and identification details of the service from which the data originates. A second input may be of a note, which provides suggestions for improving the data within the data item. Preference information is provided to a notification agent within the framework of the situational application about whether the owner of the data allows direct correction of the data and whether feedback input has to be stored in a problem cache. The feedback input is passed to a notification agent of the framework, which identifies the owner and/or builder of the data. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265437 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND MODIFYING INFLUENCERS AND STRESSORS - The present invention is directed to a method and system of managing stress comprising identifying factors with which a user interacts; listing the factors with which the user interacts into an inventory form; making notations and/or making journal entries into a journal form regarding experiences with the factors; entering the factors into a categorization grid, based at least in part on the notations and/or journal entries; and developing rules and a plan for reducing, changing or eliminating exposure to factors and/or impact of factors located in a negative category in the categorization grid and increasing exposure to factors and/or impact of factors located in a positive category in the categorization grid. The system is provided in electronic form as well as in paper form. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGING SERVICES IN A MULTI-FUNCTION PERIPHERAL DEVICE - A multi-function peripheral device (MFP) is configured to receive messages from a mobile device such as a mobile phone. The messages may be received via a network interface on the MFP which communicates with a mobile telephone network. The messages may be text messages which are delivered by the MFP to an output destination. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265439 | E-MAIL REPEATER AND RELAY METHOD OF THE SAME - To grant an access permission to an attached file of an e-mail stored in a file server. An access permission to the attached file is set based on information included in a first e-mail. The attached file is stored in the file server. The second e-mail that is the first e-mail from which the added file is deleted and to which reference information for accessing the added file stored in the file server is added is transmitted to a receiver side mail server and a sender side mail server. In response to an access request to the attached file based on the reference information from either of a mail sender and a mail receiver, the file server controls the access to the attached file based on an access permission that was set. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265440 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BILLING ONLY FOR E-MAILS ACTUALLY DELIVERED TO RECIPIENTS' INBOXES - A method for conducting an e-mail campaign is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) sending e-mails to a plurality of intended recipients; (b) determining a number of the e-mails that have been indicated as nondeliverable; (c) determining a number of the e-mails that have been identified as bulk and not delivered to the intended recipients; (d) determining, from the determinations made in steps (b) and (c), a number of the e-mails that have reached the intended recipients; and (e) billing only for the number of e-mails determined in step (d). | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265441 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR FILTERING EMAILS - [Object] To inspect emails without having to restrict the use of an email encryption function or the attachment of a file for which a password has been set. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265442 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HIDING MESSAGES - Based on user configuration, a main messaging user interface screen on a messaging device either presents a list of references to messages stored on the device based on a complete index of references to the stored messages or based on a filtered index of references to the stored messages. References to stored messages of a predetermined type are not maintained in the filtered index. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090271482 | Message Character String Output System, Control Method Thereof, and Information Storage Medium - A message string output system which can prevent users from feeling uncomfortable due to repeated input of a particular string by another user is provided. A judging unit ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271483 | METHOD FOR REPUBLICATION OF PUBLISHED MESSAGES AS APPENDS ON A SEPARATE RETAINED TOPIC - A method for republication of published messages includes receiving a published message on a topic from a publisher, storing the published message as an appended retained message, republishing the appended retained message on a history topic, receiving a request from a subscriber to view at least a portion of the appended retained message, and transmitting the republished message to a subscriber subscribing to the topic after the published message has been published via the history topic. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271484 | FACEMAIL - Systems and methods are provided for generating, sending, and delivering a message addressed using an image of an intended message recipient of the message. In one embodiment, a sending user captures or otherwise obtains an image of an intended message recipient. A message to the intended message recipient is then generated, addressed using the image of the intended message recipient, and sent to a central server. The central server identifies the intended message recipient based on the image of the intended message recipient and optionally a location and time at which the image was captured. Optionally, the identity of the intended message recipient may be verified by one or more users such as one or more friends of the intended message recipient. The central server then sends the message to the intended message recipient using known contact information such as a username or email address of the intended message recipient. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271485 | LOAD BALANCED STORAGE PROVISIONING - Available performance capacities of storage servers and storage devices in a storage infrastructure are determined using a plurality of metrics, wherein each of the storage devices is managed by one of the storage servers. Each aggregate is hosted by a storage server and includes multiple storage devices. A relationship between the plurality of metrics is analyzed. An aggregate from which to allocate storage capacity to a volume from a plurality of aggregates is selected based on the available performance capacities and the relationship between the plurality of metrics. The selection is performed without information about properties of the volume. Storage capacity of the selected aggregate is automatically allocated to the volume. After said allocation, the plurality of aggregates is approximately load balanced. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271486 | MESSAGING DEVICE FOR DELIVERING MESSAGES TO RECIPIENTS BASED ON AVAILABILITY AND PREFERENCES OF RECIPIENTS - A messaging device facilitates delivery of messages to recipients based on availability and preferences associated with recipients. In some embodiments, messages are composed by a user via a touchscreen display. Icons representing potential message recipients are displayed, and the user may deliver a message to a recipient by associating the message with the icon that represents the desired recipient. The facility uses availability information—which reflects recipients' availability and willingness to communicate—and system- and recipient-defined preferences to determine the best method(s) of delivery for a message and other features of message delivery. Recipients' availability and preferences may be displayed to users on an interface. Users may make decisions regarding delivery method, timing, and other details of message delivery based on the displayed availability and preference information. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATIC RETRANSMISSION OF ELECTRONIC MAIL - Disclosed are systems and methods of automatic retransmission of electronic mail. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271488 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGING FOREIGN HOLIDAYS FOR A COMPUTER APPLICATION BASED ON EMAIL - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for managing foreign holidays. The system includes a processor configured to receive email information relating to foreign countries that a user communicates with, calculate based on the email information a respective count for each foreign country, and compare the respective count to a threshold. The processor is also configured to offer the user an option to add foreign holidays corresponding to a particular foreign country to the computer application when the respective count for the particular foreign country exceeds the threshold, and offer the user an option to specify a different country than an actual originating country. The respective count is respectively calculated for the actual originating country and for the different country to allow consideration of both a home country as the different country and a visiting country as the actual originating country for a particular individual. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271489 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM AND METHOD - An electronic mail server processes large numbers of electronic messages. The server includes software which detects various status conditions relating to each message. One or more user-defined software modules are attached to the server software, such that upon detection of a given condition, the associated module is executed. Thus, the modules are executed in real time, i.e. while the main server software is operating. In one example, the user-defined modules can be used to update a database of addresses in real time, when messages to certain addresses in the database are returned as undeliverable. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271490 | Communication Protocols Based on Mutuality - A communication system that conditions initiation of communication and delivery of messages on party mutuality, and optionally, other mutuality conditions such as topic mutuality. One of the advantages of the present system is its ability to deliver messages otherwise undeliverable due to the lack of a unique and specific recipient address. The present system achieves this by matching messages that employ fuzzy addressing schemes. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090276495 | CHAT SYSTEM, CHAT DEVICE, CHAT SERVER CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided are a chat system, a chat device, a chat server control method, and an information storage medium for realizing sound communication between users. When a message transfer unit ( | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090276496 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR BUILDING A USER'S BUDDY LIST THROUGH PUBLIC GROUP MEMBERSHIP - Systems, methods and computer program products for hardware assists for building a user's buddy list through public group membership. Exemplary embodiments include identifying a member from the user's buddy list, identifying a skill possessed by the member of the user's buddy list, searching for a group having the skill, selecting the member from the user's buddy list, sending a request to an instant messaging server to obtain a list having all the public groups for the member, receiving a response from the instant messaging server, the response including the list having the public groups for the member, selecting from the list of public group including members that have the skill and performing at least one of adding the public group to a contact list and searching for additional public groups based on users included in the list of public groups of the member. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090276497 | Click to Create Meeting Makers from Electronic Messages - A method and system for generating meeting maker requests as efficiently and with as few steps as possible. Here, a software API or program automatically generates and populates a meeting maker request by using information already located within an electronic message, such as an e-mail, to compose the meeting maker request. One embodiment includes a method for converting an electronic message into a meeting maker. The method comprises receiving an electronic message. Meeting information is located within the received electronic message. Invited attendees to the meeting are determined based on information within the electronic message. A meeting maker request is automatically generated using the determined information. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090276498 | SPECIFYING DURING MEETING ESTABLISHMENT WHEN RESPONDENTS ARE TO BE PROMPTED FOR ATTENDANCE INTENTIONS - A meeting initialization request for a meeting can be identified. The meeting initialization request can specify a prompt time for attendance intentions. A programmatic trigger, referred to as a prompt trigger, can be established for the prompt time. A firing of this prompt trigger can occur when a current time equals the prompt time. At this time, at least one potential attendee for the meeting can be determined. A set of potential attendees is typically defined by the meeting initiator within the meeting initialization request. An intention message can be sent to the determined potential attendee responsive to a firing of the programmatic trigger. This intention message can be sent at a time close to the prompt time. The intention message can prompt the potential attendee to indicate whether the potential attendee intends to attend the meeting. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090276499 | INTERWORKING METHOD FOR MESSAGE SYSTEMS AND MESSAGE INTERWORKING GATEWAY - An interworking method for message systems and a message interworking gateway are provided. When a session initiation protocol (SIP) message system sends a message to a non-SIP message system, the message is first sent to the message interworking gateway through a message session relay protocol (MSRP) channel established between the SIP message system and the message interworking gateway, and then sent to the non-SIP message system by the message interworking gateway. Further, when the non-SIP message system sends a message to the SIP message system, the message is first sent to the message interworking gateway, and then sent to the SIP message system through the MSRP channel by the message interworking gateway. As the MSRP channel established between the SIP message system and the message interworking gateway may transmit large or small messages, the method of interworking message systems and the message interworking gateway provided by embodiments of the present invention may be adopted to achieve the interworking between the SIP message system and the non-SIP message system. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090276500 | MICROBLOG SEARCH ENGINE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, system and an apparatus of Microblog Search Engine and method are disclosed. In one aspect, a computer implemented method includes accessing a Short Message between a Broadcaster and a follower through a first Microblog Server and processing the Short Message through a Microblog Search Engine. The processing of Short Message further includes parsing the Short Message with the Microblog Search Engine, generating a Context Metadata of the Short Message, associating explicitly the Context Metadata to the Short Message. In addition the method includes, delivering the Short Message and the Context Metadata to a Requestor through the Microblog Search Engine. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090276501 | STORAGE DEVICE, STORAGE SYSTEM AND CONTROL THEREOF - The present invention discloses a storage device connected through an internal network with an external network. The storage device includes a storage medium for storing files and an access unit for carrying out data communication of an e-mail with an attached file for accessing the storage medium with a terminal that is coupled with the external network. The access unit accepts access to the storage medium from the terminal by carrying out the data communication of the e-mail. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090282106 | CONTEXT-AWARE CONTENT TRANSMISSION UTILITY - A method is disclosed. The method includes monitoring a user interface for a data item delivery request. In response to receipt of the data item delivery request, a data type for a data item selected for a delivery is determined, and a schema for performing the delivery is selected. Content of the data item for the delivery is selected, and the content is sent using the schema. The delivery is recorded in an activity log. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282107 | Adaptive Electronic Introductions - A method for providing electronic introductions includes providing, with an electronic communication, an electronic introduction that gives additional information regarding a party to the electronic communication that is in addition to the electronic identification of that party. A system for providing an electronic introduction may include a computer configured to search at least one database for information about a party being introduced and compile an electronic introduction for the party incorporating the information; and an electronic communication function configured to provide access to the electronic introduction to a recipient of an electronic communication sent by the party using the electronic communication function. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282108 | E-MAIL MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION AND MARKING EXTENDING STANDARDS COMPLAINT TECHNIQUES - A system and method for e-mail authentication. The method includes aggregating a plurality of headers associated with an e-mail message and transmitting the aggregated plurality of headers to a validation service. A validation response is then received from the validation service. The e-mail is authenticated based on the validation response. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282109 | Method to Invite Users to a Virtual World Using Instant Messaging - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for initiating a session in a virtual world. An instant messaging system (IMS) comprises a registry of IMS user identifiers cross-referenced to their corresponding virtual world user identifiers. A first IMS user implements a virtual world invitation module as a result of an IMS session to invite a second IMS user to participate in a virtual world session. The first IMS user selects the IMS user identifier of the second IMS user, followed by selection of a target virtual world and a virtual world identifier. Once completed, the invitation is sent the IMS user identifier of the second IMS user, who receives the invitation and signifies their acceptance or declination. If accepted, the cross-referenced virtual world user identifiers of the first and second IMS users are used to log them into the agreed-upon virtual world venue and initiate a virtual world session. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282110 | CUSTOMIZABLE DYNAMIC E-MAIL DISTRIBUTION LISTS - A computer-implemented method for generating a customized dynamic distribution e-mail list is provided. The method includes determining a predefined addressee-selecting rule in response to a user-executed command to send an e-mail. The method also includes selecting at least one addressee from an electronic data file based upon the addressee-selecting rule. The method further includes, for each addressee selected, inserting a corresponding address into a predetermined field of an e-mail prior to conveying the e-mail over a data communications network. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282111 | Methods and Apparatus for Referring Media Content - Methods, devices, computer program products and systems are provided for referring media content at communication devices, such as wireless communication devices. The methods, systems and devices allow for all forms of media content to be referred, such as audio, video, multimedia content and the like and, in particular advertising content. In addition, the methods, systems and device provide for the content providers to optimize the delivery schedules and/or methods of delivery based on the volume of referrals. In addition, by tracking the volume of referrals, content providers can alter billing structure, such as advertising rates associated with advertising content. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282112 | SPAM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of reports from a community of users, each of the plurality of reports including a derivative of an email message to uniquely identify the email message, and suggesting the email message as being spam. The e-mail message is determined to be spam based on the plurality of reports received from the community of users, and a respective trust factor associated with each user of the community of users. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282113 | Apparatus and method for providing a photocopier with e-mail capability - An apparatus and method provides a photocopier with E-mail capability by integrating a system into the photocopier. The system is made to be compatible with the software programming of a multi-functional product (MFP) to allow the MFP to communicate with XML web pages. In this way, the MFP is permitted to ask an external application running on a server to do desired tasks and to see and interact with the application from the touch screen of the MFP which is typically populated with light emitting diodes (LEDs). When the features of the system are provided in the MFP and when those features are selected from the touch screen, a special screen opens up on the MFP allowing the user to enter one or more e-mail addresses as well as a subject line and a message as would be the case in any e-mail. When a send feature is activated, the MFP's settings are used to create an electronic file which has been scanned and create an e-mail attachment which is then sent through an external server using “File-Max Mail,” the present invention's trademark. The system is provided with an Internet connection so that when using the features of the present invention, an e-mail plus attachment can be sent to one or more third party recipients. A copy of the e-mail as sent is also forwarded to a designated account or a plurality of designated accounts of the user. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282114 | System and method for generating suggested responses to an email - Disclosed is a method and system for responding to a client email. A new client email is received and analyzed, and a response email is determined from the analyzing of the client email and from analysis of stored email-response pairs. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282115 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING INSTANT MESSAGING CONVERSATIONS - A system and method are provided for updating multiple active conversations in an instant messaging application. A menu item may be provided that, when selected enables the user to enter a common message that, when sent is applied to each of the active conversations. This allows the user to convey the same information to multiple parties, e.g. when they suddenly become unavailable. The user may also use one or more default messages to further speed up the process. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282116 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING CLUSTER MEMBERSHIP BY USE OF STORAGE AREA NETWORK FABRIC - Managing cluster membership and providing and managing locks in the switches forming the interconnecting network. To manage the cluster membership, a zone is created, with indicated members existing in the zone and the zone being managed by the switches. The nodes communicate their membership events, such as alive messages, using an API to work with the switch to which they are attached. The desired membership algorithm is executed by the switches, preferably in a distributed manner. Each switch then enforces the membership policies, including preventing operations from evicted nodes. This greatly simplifies the programs used on the nodes and unburdens them from many time consuming tasks, thus providing improved cluster performance. In a like manner, the switches in the fabric manage the resource locks. The nodes send their lock requests, such as creation and ownership requests, to the switch to which they are connected using an API. The switches then perform the desired lock operation and provide a response to the requesting node. Again, this greatly simplifies the programs used on the nodes and unburdens them from many time consuming activities, providing improved cluster performance. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282117 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A destination table is updated on the basis of the use record of destination information in adaptation to the environment of a user. A device management server collects a destination table managed by each device from a device on a network. Then, the device management server checks the use record of the destination table collected from each image forming device, and determines a candidate to be deleted. Then, the device management server does not delete the destination table determined to be a deletion candidate when a number of times operations have been performed by the image forming device in a predetermined period is less than a threshold value. The device management server deletes the destination table of the determined candidate when the number of times operations have been performed by the image forming device in the predetermined period is greater than or equal to the threshold value. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282118 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSTANT MESSAGING - A method and apparatus for stored message delivery are taught. The method and apparatus can be configured to accomplish the steps of receiving a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message, as a received SIP message, encapsulating the received SIP message in a Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) message, as an encapsulated SIP message; and transmitting the encapsulated SIP message to an intended recipient. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282119 | METHOD OF FILTERING SECTIONS OF A DATA STREAM - A method of filtering sections of a data stream involves determining a set of characters of interest, testing each section of the data stream for the presence of one or more of the set of characters of interest and extracting sections in which at least one of the characters is present. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282120 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A networked computer system provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users. For example, in one embodiment, users can identify other users based on their affiliations with particular schools or other organizations. The system also provides a mechanism for a user to selectively establish contact relationships or connections with other users, and to grant permissions for such other users to view personal information of the user. The system may also include features for enabling users to identify contacts of their respective contacts. In addition, the system may automatically notify users of personal information updates made by their respective contacts. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090282121 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A networked computer system provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users. For example, in one embodiment, users can identify other users based on their affiliations with particular schools or other organizations. The system also provides a mechanism for a user to selectively establish contact relationships or connections with other users, and to grant permissions for such other users to view personal information of the user. The system may also include features for enabling users to identify contacts of their respective contacts. In addition, the system may automatically notify users of personal information updates made by their respective contacts. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090287776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOGENERATED EMAIL FOLLOW-UP - A system and method for transmitting an electronic mail message to one or more intended recipients, which allows the user to designate that an electronic mail message contains a request for information which requires a reply from the one or more intended recipients, monitors electronic mail messages incoming to the sender to detect whether a reply has been received within the response period, and upon receiving a reply from any of the one or more intended recipients, presents the reply to the sender with one or more user-selectable icons which allow the sender to accept the reply as sufficient or request more information from the one or more intended recipients in response to selection of a user-selectable icon. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287777 | OFF-LINE SMARTPHONE FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOTS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for distributing a file by email from a mobile device. An email is composed on the mobile device. A user selection is received of a file to be attached to the email. The selection is made from an off-line snapshot of a remote file system in which the file is located. A link corresponding to the location of the file in the remote file system is embedded into the email. The email with the link is placed in a queue on the mobile device. The email with the file corresponding to the link is sent in response to the remote file system becoming available to the mobile device. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT-SENSITIVE EXCHANGE OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for context-sensitive exchange of electronic information, is provided. One implementation involves maintaining multiple signatures for a sender; associating each signature with a recipient address or communication content pattern described based on a rule; sending an electronic communication to a recipient address by automatically selecting a most appropriate signature among the multiple signatures based on the recipient address or content pattern in the communication; and including the selected signature in the electronic communication. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287779 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO SELECTIVELY MARK EMAIL AS PARTIALLY REVIEWED - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for selectively marking email as partially reviewed are described. An extent to which a user has reviewed an email is estimated, and a review value is assigned to the email based upon the estimated extent of review. A visual indicator associated with the email is displayed, wherein the appearance of the visual indicator is determined at least by the review value. In an exemplary embodiment, the email contains one or more recipient email addresses, wherein each recipient email address is associated with a recipient review value. In the exemplary embodiment, a visual indicator is displayed corresponding to the recipient review value associated with each recipient email address. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287780 | MANAGEMENT OF EMAIL THREADS - A method and system are provided for managing email threads. The method includes receiving a plurality of separate email threads. The method further includes generating associations between at least two email threads of the plurality of separate email threads. The method further includes displaying the associations of the at least two email threads. As a result, users can conveniently view the associated email threads and perform operations on particular email threads. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287781 | GROUPING MESSAGES USING PATTERNS IN A MESSAGING SYSTEM - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for handling messages. A plurality of messages that have failed to be sent to a set of destination applications is identified. The plurality of messages is grouped based on a pair of associated identifiers in headers for the plurality of messages into a set of groupings. The set of groupings is sent to a set of recipients associated with the set of groupings. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287782 | Interactive Multimedia Timeline - A method and system for allowing a plurality of users to collaboratively interact via a dynamic timeline that presents a plurality of events in an interactive multimedia format. The method and system allows a user to define a computer network group by setting access parameters, add additional individual user to a network group, create a timeline to receive and display a plurality of events, display a timeline to all of the users of the network group, place an event on the timeline in a chronologically ordered manner, allow the individual user to interact with a plurality of events on the timeline, and to send a notification of the individual user timeline interaction to all of the users of the network group. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287783 | METHOD OF SOCIAL INTERACTION BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICE USERS - A method of social interaction between communication device users across a network ( | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDING MEDIA CONTENT TO ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method includes receiving an electronic message by a communication entity; determining if an indicator in the electronic message identifies the communication entity as an entity to retrieve a content referenced in the electronic message; and retrieving the content from a storage unit if the indicator identifies the communication entity as an entity to retrieve the content. An address of the content is identified in the electronic message. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287785 | Systems and Methods for Sending and Receiving E-Mail on a Network Community Platform - A network platform for supporting a network-enabled application, comprising a plurality of communication channels to respective plurality of wireless network carries, each of the wireless network carriers having a plurality of users, the network platform comprises at least one processor, at least one interface having access to the internet, a mobile desktop applications, at least one email application, an address book widget, a private view widget, a fake public view profile, and a real public profile. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287786 | MESSAGE BOARD AGGREGATOR - Web content representing a first message is displayed in a window of a computer program. The first message is one of a plurality of messages posted to an online forum. A plurality of message summaries are displayed in the same window of the computer program, contemporaneously with the first message. The plurality of message summaries include first information derived from the first message and second information derived from a second message in the plurality of messages. The web content representing the first message may, for example, be displayed in a first frame of the window and the information derived from the first message may be displayed in a second frame of the same window. The online forum may, for example, be a web-based financial message board. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287787 | Process for transmitting data between at least one cockpit display screen and at least one remote client system - A process for transmitting data between at least one display screen in a cockpit and at least one remote client system includes at least one computer, in which the display screen displays a first request to send a message in a first communication protocol; this message is sent to the remote client system over a first link using a second communication protocol. A request to confirm a message is generated and displayed on the display screen via a communication interface designed to receive and generate messages in this first communication protocol, and to receive and generate messages that can be received by the remote client system. The request to confirm the message from the first request is validated by activating a confirmation device separate from the at least one display screen; activating this confirmation device sends a confirmation message via a router system to the remote system awaiting confirmation; this confirmation message, not generated in the first protocol, can be received by the remote client system awaiting confirmation; the router system includes at least one second link separate from the first link. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090287788 | NETWORK ASSET TRACKER - A network attached apparatus, system, method and computer program product for identifying users of networked computers is provided. The apparatus is installed at core network uplink points and analyzes packets as they traverse the network and intelligently correlates the contents of the traffic with user contact and system access information. The resulting information is used to identify the user of the networked computer for security or accounting purposes. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090292774 | Method and Apparatus for Electronic Message Delivery - Timely delivery of electronic messages during a presentation is a valuable tool. The embodiments describe a method and apparatus for delivering electronic messages. One method includes creating the electronic message by identifying auxiliary media content associated with a main presentation and marking temporal locations within the main presentation to allow delivery of electronic messages based on auxiliary media content. Another method includes receiving a package containing first and second content, separating the first content from the second content, providing the first content on a first medium, and providing an electronic message based on the second content on a second medium. Finally, a composition playlist includes a main presentation file and an auxiliary content file containing temporal links associated with the main presentation with the auxiliary content file to be delivered as an electronic message at a predetermined time based on the temporal links during presentation of the main presentation file. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292775 | Method and process for the Forensic Inspection of real time streams FIRST Engine - The present invention relates generally to a business method, computer system and software implemented method in the field of internet based security for facilitating the analysis and inspection of real time data streams, which will allow a user to actively monitor chat and email information. The present invention will inspect a plurality of user browsing information such as, but not limited to, the web pages and search queries respectively visited and submitted by users, the emails sent and received by users, and the manner in which users browse the Internet and search for content. More particularly the present invention facilitates the real time forensic inspection of data streams using pattern and keyword matching techniques. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292776 | SELECTING EMAIL SIGNATURES - In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting a request to append a signature to an outgoing email, wherein the email is addressed from a sender to a recipient. The method can also comprise determining one or more temporal conditions associated with the email and determining one or more social relationships associated with the recipient. The method can also include selecting the signature from a predefined list of signatures, wherein the selecting includes comparing a group of signature rules to the one or more temporal conditions and the one or more social relationships. The method can also comprise appending the signature to the outgoing email and transmitting the email to the recipient. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292777 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MESSAGING SYSTEM - Systems and methods of controlling a messaging system are provided. A particular method includes generating an n-times-use network address to access a control interface in response to receipt of a message addressed to a subscriber at a messaging system. The method further includes determining a notification address associated with the subscriber and generating a notification message addressed to the notification address. The notification message includes at least a portion of content of the message and the n-times-uses network address. The n-times-use network address is selectable a predetermined number of times at a browser application to send a control message to the control interface to control disposition of the message. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292778 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEM - The present invention is uniquely designed to interact with web retailer's customers with real agent reaction times as they give astute answers directly concerning web retailer's products and goals. The entire process is manageable through a third-party website which includes scripting, settings and other parameters selected by the web retailer. An artificial intelligence engine uses the combination of Bayesian probability keyword selection, natural language parsing and regular expression processing. The technology updates its response database with every client interaction-learning always takes place as it simulates a live agent, in real time. Every client interaction is recorded and analyzed, and as a result of the analysis the changes in the answer database are made. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292779 | Method and System for Supervising Electronic Text Communications of an Enterprise - A method and system for supervising electronic text messages in an enterprise allows for storing organizational information related to the enterprise, identifying a source and a target of the electronic text message, invoking communication screens between the identified source and target, each of the invoked communication screens being determined by the organizational information for the identified source and target, analyzing the electronic text message by a set of rules corresponding to said invoked communication screens to provide a supervisory score, and applying supervisory action to the electronic text message based on the supervisory score, including any of blocking transmission, redirecting the electronic text message to a supervisor or a supervisory file, and copying the electronic text message to the supervisory file. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292780 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVE APPLICATION OF A FEATURE TO MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS OF AN EMAIL MESSAGE - A system and method of selectively utilizing a feature with an email message. The method includes processing, by a mail client within a user's computer, a single email message for a plurality of recipients. The mail client receives a designated first set of recipients of the plurality of recipients for receiving the email message with a specific feature and a designated second set of recipients of the plurality of recipients for receiving the email message without the specific feature. In addition, a copy of the email message is generated without the specific feature. The email message is then sent with the specified feature to the first set of recipients and a copy of the email message without the specified feature is sent to the second set of recipients. The specific feature may be an attachment, an encryption of the message, or any other feature associated with the email message. In another embodiment, an extension header may be applied to the header of the email message to distinguish the first set of recipients from the second set of recipients. The message may then be sent to an email server which reformats the message into two messages according to the header extensions. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292781 | METHOD FOR FILTERING E-MAIL AND MAIL FILTERING SYSTEM THEREOF - A method for filtering e-mails and a mail filtering system thereof are provided. In the present invention, two filters are used to filter a first mail class and a second mail class respectively. And these filters are connected in serial or in parallel to execute a filtration of the e-mail. Accordingly, a structure of the filters can be more flexible, so as to cope with different requirements of a user, and a misjudgement rate of the e-mails can be reduced. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292782 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF MANAGING MEETING INFORMATION USING THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method of managing meeting information using the same are provided. The method of managing meeting information using a first mobile terminal includes acquiring meeting information including identification data of at least one location data sharing mobile terminal existing within a meeting distance from the present location of the first mobile terminal in response to a request to acquire meeting information, and displaying the meeting information in response to a request to search the meeting information. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292783 | System, apparatus and method for event management - A system, apparatus and method may perform event management by creating an electronic event based on received event data corresponding to an event, where the event data includes information pertaining to the event and invitees to be invited to the event, storing one or more responses received from one or more of the invitees, where each respective response includes an indication of whether the respective invitee will attend the event, storing post-event content pertaining to the event and associating the post-event content with the electronic event, where the post-event content is received from an invitee or a creator of the electronic event, and transmitting the post-event content to a requesting invitee or the creator of the electronic event at the request of the requesting invitee or the creator of the electronic event. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292784 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE FILTERING - A collaborative messaging system and method includes, in a communications engine, a plurality of message interrogators to process a message from a sender to a receiver. The plurality of message interrogators includes a message adjudicator configured to compare message information from the sender with message information obtained by the message adjudicator and to modify the message information from the sender to a more restrictive value. The plurality of message interrogators further includes a message validator configured to allow or deny the message based upon the modified message information. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292785 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CONTACT LISTS - A collaborative messaging system includes a communications engine for sending and receiving messages among a plurality of users, including a contact generator to generate at least one user contact, a plurality of user filters, each associated with at least one of the plurality of users, and a plurality of user contact lists, each associated with at least one of the plurality of users and adapted to contain at least one user contact. In response to a comparison between user filters, the contact generator is configured to update at least one of the plurality of user contact lists. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292786 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods for providing a report describing the status of an electronic envelope. The electronic envelope includes a first electronic document to be distributed for electronic signature and an electronic signing template defining a set of at least one task that must be performed by an executor of the first electronic document to complete the electronic signature. The first electronic document is subject to a workflow including a plurality of events. The method includes receiving from a monitoring entity a selection of an identifier of an event of the plurality. The progress of the first electronic document through the workflow is monitored. That the at least one event has occurred with respect to the first electronic document is determined. In response to determining that the at least one event has occurred, the monitoring entity is notified of such. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292787 | PROCESS AND COMPUTER FOR COLLECTIVELY TRANSMITTING UNIQUE MESSAGES, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM FOR COLLECTIVELY TRANSMITTING UNIQUE MESSAGES - A recording medium storing a program for performing collective communication of unique-messages by a computer. According to the program, a space in which nodes are arranged is equally split into regions according to directions from the origin of a relative coordinate system, and a region to which each node belongs is determined on the basis of the relative coordinates of the node. When the computer receives an instruction to execute collective communication of unique-messages, messages are submitted to nodes in turns so that the numbers of messages addressed to the respective regions and submitted per predetermined unit time are equated, and each message submitted to one of the nodes contains data unique to the node. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090300116 | APPLICATION GATEWAY DEVICE - In an embodiment, a data processing system comprises application workflow optimizing logic and which when executed is operable to receive first workflow data that defines a sequence of processing operations to perform on an application-layer message; rewrite the first workflow data by separation of dependent update operations to result in creating rewritten workflow data; and store the rewritten workflow data in a data repository. Application gateway logic may be operable to receive one or more packets; construct a received message from one or more payloads of the packets; classify the received message to identify a particular workflow associated with the message; apply the particular workflow, using the rewritten workflow data, to the received message to result in identifying a destination application server and creating an outgoing message; send the outgoing message to the destination application server. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300117 | FEDERATED MOBILE MESSAGING APPLIANCE - A federated mobile messaging appliance can be provided. The appliance can include a hidden partition including different images of a mobile messaging system each corresponding to a particular e-mail server type. The appliance also can include federated mobile messaging configuration logic. The logic can include program code enabled to identify an e-mail server type for a coupled e-mail server, to select one of the images to be revealed based upon the identified e-mail server type, and to configure and activate a corresponding mobile messaging system in the selected one of the images in the hidden partition for interoperation with the coupled e-mail server. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300118 | SUBSCRIBER AUDIT FEATURE FOR MOBILE MESSAGING - In an embodiment of the invention, a method for subscriber auditing in a mobile messaging system can be provided. The method can include deploying a mobile messaging system for use in cooperation with a communicatively coupled e-mail server, pushing e-mail from the e-mail server to wireless devices belonging to different subscribers through the mobile messaging system, counting the subscribers and comparing a number of the subscribers to a permitted number of licensed subscribers for the mobile messaging system, and alerting an administrator of the mobile messaging system when the number of the subscribers counted crosses a threshold value less than the licensed subscribers. In one aspect of the embodiment, the threshold value can be zero thus an alert is only sent when the number of subscribers counted exceeds the permitted number of licensed subscribers. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300119 | BACKUP AND RESTORE FEATURE FOR MOBILE MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managing a mobile messaging server deployment and provide a method, system and computer program product for a backup and restore feature for a mobile messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for backup and restore in a mobile messaging system can be provided. The method can include deploying a mobile messaging system for use in cooperation with a communicatively coupled e-mail server and pushing e-mail from the e-mail server to wireless devices belonging to different subscribers through the mobile messaging system. The method also can include acquiring a snapshot of the deployed mobile messaging system exemplary of a contemporaneous state of the mobile messaging system, and storing the snapshot for subsequent retrieval and restoration of a subsequently prior state of the mobile messaging system. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300120 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A PRESENTATION MESSAGE FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and system produces a presentation message for a mobile device. The method involves retrieving syndicated content from a content source; and generating from the syndicated content the presentation message for sequentially presenting on the mobile device one or more content items of the syndicated content. The syndicated content may be a RSS or ATOM web feed. The method may involve receiving a user selection of a web feed and an invocation parameter; determining supported media types, display dimensions, maximum presentation message size and presentation parameters; retrieving the syndicated content; selecting the one or more content items; converting the one or more content items to one or more presentation objects; assembling the presentation objects into the presentation message; and delivering the presentation message to the mobile device such that viewing the presentation message causes the presentation objects to be sequentially displayed on the mobile device. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300121 | Method, system, and apparatus for truncating markup language email messages - Truncating markup language email messages involves receiving a markup-language-formatted, source email having a message size that exceeds a predetermined size limit. The source email is truncated to conform to the predetermined size limit. The existence of unclosed tags in the truncated email is determined, and a suffix is appended to the truncated email. The suffix includes closing tags that correspond to the unclosed tags to the truncated email. A truncation index indicating where the truncation occurred is added to the message, as is a unique identifier usable to uniquely identify the source email stored on an email server. The truncated email is then sent to a recipient email client | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300122 | AUGMENTED REALITY COLLABORATIVE MESSAGING SYSTEM - An augmented reality messaging platform is provided which interacts between one or more mobile device and a server via a communication network. The augmented reality platform includes an image recognition application located on the mobile device which receives a live, real-time image and identifies objects, such as markers or logos, within the environment to determine the pose (position and orientation) of the camera. The data, in combination with user information, is used to send, retrieve and display digital, spatialized (those registered with the physical world) multimedia messages, including audio, video, text and virtual object. A server application provided on the server may receive and store the messages from the client application or may deliver appropriate messages to a receiving mobile device, based on a set of privacy rules. The client application on the mobile device processes and renders this content thereto and forms an augmented reality image on a display of the mobile device based on the live, real-time image and the content. The client application is further capable of uploading new message content to be stored on a centralized server through methods which are specific to the medium of the message. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300123 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from at least one other information processing apparatus, an electronic mail for which a notification time at which notification of receipt of the electronic mail is to be provided is specified; a storage unit configured to store the electronic mail received by the receiving unit; a clock unit configured to provide time information; a notification-time determining unit configured to determine whether a current time obtained by the clock unit has passed the notification time specified for the electronic mail; and a reception notification unit configured to read out, if the notification-time determining unit determines that the specified notification time has been passed, the electronic mail stored in the storage unit and provide notification of receipt of the electronic mail. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300124 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE HANDLING METHOD BASED ON A MESSAGE SYSTEM CLIENT AND SYSTEM TO IMPLEMENT THE METHOD - The invention concerns a management method applying to electronic messages in an inbox associated to a user ( | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300125 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING TEXT MESSAGE - The present invention discloses a method for transmitting a text message including: receiving a text message to be transmitted, which is encoded with a first character set encoding scheme; determining whether a final receiver of the text message supports the first character set encoding scheme; and in response to the situation in which the final receiver of the text message does not support the first character set encoding scheme: converting the text message to be transmitted into an image; and transmitting the converted image. With this method, parties involved in transmission of a text message can enable convenient and efficient transmission of the text message without requiring each party involved in the transmission of the text message to satisfy specific prerequisites normally necessary for proper reproduction of the text message transmitted from an opposite party. One of the specific prerequisites is that the parties involved in the real time communication should support a specific character set encoding scheme. The invention further provides a device for transmitting a text message capable of implementing the method for transmitting a text message, a device for processing a text message provided with the device for transmitting a text message, and a system for transmitting a text message through the device for processing a text message. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300126 | Message Handling - A mechanism is provided for handling a message being transmitted from a sender to a recipient. A processing component receives a message from the sender and information identifying the recipient. The processing component access a first predefined ruleset for the identified recipient and applies the first predefined ruleset to the message. The processing component identifies infringements of the first predefined ruleset within the message. Based on identifying a set of identified infringements of the first predefined ruleset within the message, the processing component either corrects the identified infringements of the first predefined ruleset within the message or presents the identified infringements of the first predefined ruleset within the message to the sender. The processing component transmits a corrected message to the recipient. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300127 | E-MAIL FORWARDING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Systems and methods for allowing a user who has multiple e-mail accounts to read all of the e-mails sent to the multiple accounts from a single account are disclosed. The user may have the ability to reply to the sender of an e-mail such that the original sender is unaware that the user read the e-mail from an account that may be different than the account to which the e-mail was originally sent. The ability to reply to an e-mail in such a manner may not be dependent on the specific e-mail account the user is using to read the e-mail. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300128 | E-MAIL AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL OR MAP - Disclosed is a system and method to eliminate undesirable electronic mail (email) communications sent via the Internet. The invention eliminates undesirable email prior to delivery of the email message, thereby minimizing the negative impact of undesirable email while adhering to established Internet protocols and processes regarding email Delivery Status Notifications. The system does not require evaluation or scrutiny of the actual contents of an email message, thereby avoiding false positives (blocking of desirable email) and the real or perceived invasion of privacy issues associated with scanning personal and business email communications. The system can execute unilaterally and can be universally adapted as it evaluates the TCP/IP and SMTP protocol and transmission data attendant with every email message. The system operates independently, is not dependant on any third party lists or definitions of spam and does not require any pre or post delivery coordination between senders or recipients. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300129 | System for Determining Email Spam by Delivery Path - A spam detector for determining likelihood of forgery of a source in an email addressed to a destination is provided, comprising extraction means for extracting delivery path information from one or more packets in the packet flow of the email, and comparison means for comparing the extracted delivery path information with trusted delivery path information from the source to the destination. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300130 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE THREAD COMPRESSION - A method for compressing electronic mail messages each having a message thread for storage in a storage device, comprising: identifying one or more sections of each message thread; assigning a respective identifier to each section; storing one occurrence of each section in the storage device for retrieval using its identifier; replacing each section in each thread by its identifier to thereby compress the messages; and, storing the messages in the storage device. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090307313 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SPAM - The disclosure describes systems and methods for determining spam. A spam detecting system identifies potential spam messages by checking the relationship between a sender of a message and a recipient of the message. The spam detecting system identifies the relationship between the sender and recipient as ‘unknown’ or ‘trusted’. If the message is ‘trusted’, the message is transmitted accordingly to the recipient. If the message is classified as ‘unknown’, then the message is analyzed in view of other identified potential spam messages where an count is tallied against a threshold value to keep track of the probability a message is spam. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307314 | MUSICAL INTEREST SPECIFIC DATING AND SOCIAL NETWORKING PROCESS - A method for determining dating compatibility of users of an online system based on music interests includes obtaining music preferences of users by ranking different genres of music according to the desirability of those genres of music to the first user and comparing the music preferences of the users to provide users with potential matches. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307315 | FACILITATING CORRECTION OF INCORRECT IDENTITIES IN PROPAGATED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - An electronic communication is sent from a first tier sender to a first tier of one or more recipients. A first tier recipient propagates the communication to a second tier of one or more recipients. The first tier sender determines that the communication includes an incorrect identity. The first tier sender notifies the first tier recipients of the error and of the corrected identity. Responsive thereto, the first tier recipients send corrections to selected second tier recipients. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307316 | MINIMIZING INCORRECTLY ADDRESSED COMMUNICATIONS WHEN WORKING WITH AMBIGUOUS RECIPIENT DESIGNATIONS - Sending communications to incorrect recipients is minimized. Recipients that have ambiguous names or other designations are marked as ambiguous. Then, in response to including one of those names or designations in a communication, the originator of the communication is automatically warned of the ambiguity. This enables the originator to re-confirm that the communication is being sent to the intended recipient. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307317 | AUTOMATICALLY MODIFYING DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATIONS - Modifications are made to communications that have been distributed to one or more recipients. These modifications include at least one of adding a new recipient to the communication, deleting one or more recipients from the communication or moving one or more recipients from one or more of the fields of the communication to one or more other fields. These modifications may be performed automatically and/or transparently for the existing recipients. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307318 | Systems and Methods to Plan Events at Different Locations - Systems and methods are provided to specify a location of a planned event via a selection of a listing that has location information. For example, in response to a search request a listing may show a business entity at a geographic location; and the user may select the listing as a way to specify the location of a new event or an existing event. In some embodiments, one event can have multiple listings specifying multiple locations. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307319 | Administering Instant Messaging ('IM') Chat Sessions - Computer-implemented methods, apparatus, and products for administering IM chat sessions including: identifying, by an IM module in dependence upon a merger policy, a plurality of IM participants to merge into a group IM chat session, the IM module providing IM services to one of the participants; and merging, by the IM module, the identified participants into the group IM chat session. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307320 | ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCESSING UNIT INCLUDING SILVERLIST FILTERING - Systems and methods of filtering received messages to discard unsolicited messages using silverlist filters and combinations of silverlist filters and other types of filters are disclosed. In many embodiments, an appliance remote from a mail server is used to filter messages using at least a silverlist filter prior to forwarding messages to the mail server. In a number of embodiments, a mail server applies a filtering process that includes a silverlist filter and a challenge response filter. One embodiment of the method of the invention includes receiving a message envelope sent from a sender IP address, where the message envelope includes a sender address and at least one recipient address, determining the reputation of the sender IP address, allowing the message when the sender has a reputable sender IP address, irrespective of the sender and recipient addresses, and performing a test when the sender IP address has unknown reputation. In addition, the test includes issuing a temporary failure to the sender, detecting as a retry a message envelope received within a predetermined time period, where the sender and recipient addresses of the original message envelope and the received message envelope correspond, and allowing the retry message. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307321 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING AN AIR TRAVEL MESSAGE - A system and method are disclosed for communicating transactional and informational messages among air travel service providers and other participants. The technique implements a public protocol in a network having a service oriented architecture. A message in a source format is converted to a public format message with a payload, wherein the payload is the message. The open source message is parsed and communicated over a network, such as the Internet Protocol network, to a switch. The switch authenticates the message, extracts the payload, and communicates the message to the destination, where the message may be converted into a destination format and communicated to a user interface. The message may be processed by the switch and/or the destination to obtain statistical and/or other useful data. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307322 | Digital Camera - A digital camera comprises an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject and acquires image data, a communication unit for sending and receiving electronic mail data including image data, a recording control unit that records the image data acquired by the image-capturing unit as photographed image data upon a recording medium, an email for sending creation unit that creates an email for sending, to which is attached an image based upon the photographed image data recorded upon the recording medium, and an email address setting unit that sets an email address as the destination of the email for sending. The email for sending creation unit creates a title or a text of the email for sending, based upon at least one of the photographed image data and the email address that has been set. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307323 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SETTING OF DESTINATION OF EMAIL - In a client | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307324 | System and A Method For Implementing A Plurality of Interface Definitions - The present disclosure provides systems and method for implementing a plurality of interface definitions. The system and methods provide for a message to be received according to a first definition, sent to a component for processing according to a second definition and returned to the requester according to the first interface definition. The system and method strip information from the return message that is not contained in the first interface definition. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307325 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENT IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - A method and system for sharing content in an instant messaging application are disclosed. According to one embodiment a computer-implemented method comprises logging content accessed by a first client, and a list of accessible content is updated and provided to the first client. A request is received from the first client to share first content of the list of accessible content with a second client, and a message is delivered to the second client, the message containing a link to the first content. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307326 | MANAGING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A recipient computer system may receive one or more electronic messages. The recipient computer system may send one, two, or more challenge messages to the sender of the electronic messages in determining whether to deliver the electronic message. The recipient computer system may accept or reject an electronic message based on the response, or lack of response, to the challenge messages. The recipient computer system may send two or more challenge messages at intervals. A sender computer system may record activity of the sender computer system for a recipient computer system to use in determining whether to deliver an electronic message. A sender computer system may provide a summary of that activity with an electronic message. A sender computer system may provide an authorization key for a recipient computer system to use in determining whether to deliver an electronic message. The authorization key may be generated by a third party. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307327 | Instant Messaging Architecture and System for Interoperability and Presence Management - A computer network system establishes an instant messaging (IM) session between a first user registered with a first ISP (ISP) and at least one user registered with a second ISP when the two ISPs operate using different IM protocols. The ISPs each contain a Local IM server connected to each registered user. Each ISP also contains a Universal IM server that is connected to the distributed network. The Universal IM server includes a database that stores routing information and Presence information for each user registered with the second ISPs and facilitates communications between the first and second user using a universal format, such as XML. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090313332 | Layering destination-dependent content handling guidance - A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance and presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313333 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COLLABORATIVE JUNK MAIL FILTERING - A method, system and computer program product for collaborative filtering of junk electronic mail (e-mail) are provided. The method includes receiving an e-mail message at a service provider, where the e-mail message includes a source address and a recipient address. The method further includes searching a collaborative junk register (CJR) for the recipient address in a group member list, where the group member list includes multiple member addresses and a junk address. The method additionally includes comparing the source address to the junk address. The method also includes filtering the e-mail message at the service provider to prevent delivery of the e-mail message in response to locating the recipient address in the CJR and identifying source address as the junk address. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313334 | INSTANT MESSENGER CONVERSATION TOPIC TABS - A method and system provides for separating conversation topics within a user's chat by tabs. Authorized users may organize and control access to IM conversations organized by topics. An existing instant messaging user with access to an instant messaging conversation may tag one or more portions of the instant messaging conversation as their tagged conversation topics. Existing instant messaging users may control access to the tagged conversation topics by inviting one or more new instant messaging users to selectively participate in the tagged conversation topics and not the instant messaging conversation in its entirety. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313335 | Managing Software Component Versions within a Service Oriented Architecture - In one embodiment the present invention includes a method for managing versions of various software components in a service-oriented architecture. A software component representing a service provider includes a message dispatcher to analyze a service request message received from a service consumer, and to determine whether the service request message specifies version mapping information. If the message does include version mapping information, a conversion algorithm is selected based on the version mapping information specified in the service request message. The message is then converted according to the selected conversion algorithm before being processed by the processing logic of the service provider. A service reply message is similarly converted before being sent to the service consumer. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313336 | TRANSMISSION OF INSTANT MESSAGES ACCORDING TO AVAILABILITY - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to presence awareness for instant messaging and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for adaptive instant messaging awareness. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for adaptive instant messaging awareness can be provided. The method can include receiving an instant message for transmission to a user of an instant messaging system and determining that the user is not currently available to receive an instant message. The method can further include delaying transmission of the instant message to the user until a later determination that the user is available to receive an instant message. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313337 | Method for Generating Extended Information - A method for displaying a set of results in a client system comprises first sending an information request having at least a word string to a server system. The server system then selects an application service, which provides a set of results. The server system then transmits an information package corresponding to the application service. Finally, the client system displays a set of results corresponding to the application service in a display area in the client system based on the information package, and also sends a user package having the set of results back to the server system. This user package is processed by at least identifying zero or more application services attributable to the word string based on the set of results. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313338 | JMS Provider With Plug-Able Business Logic - The invention provides plug-in framework, enabling embedding of content-based processes to in a messaging paradigm provider service. In the preferred embodiment, the messaging paradigm is JMS and the invention provides a plug-able framework embedded in a JMS Provider. The plug-able server is particularly suited for efficient and secure transmission of real-time, streaming data. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313339 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACING PACKETS - A system and method for performing source path isolation in a network. The system comprises an intrusion detection system (IDS), a source path isolation server (SS | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313340 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A data processing system includes a memory, a position information generation unit, a position information sending unit and an electronic data deletion unit. The memory stores electronic data. The position information generation unit generates position information of the electronic data to acquire the electronic data which is stored in the memory through a communication line. The position information sending unit sends the position information to users of the electronic data through the communication line. The electronic data deletion unit deletes the electronic data from the memory when the electronic data are sent to all of the users to which the position information generated by the position information generation unit is sent. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313341 | ELECTRONIC IN-APPLICATION POSTCARDS - A system, method and apparatus are disclosed for generating a composite message representative of an application experience to be sent to a remote recipient by receiving a user input selecting multimedia information provided by an application, generating a message form from within the application to receive message information, combining the selected multimedia information and the message information into a composite message, and sending the composite message to the intended recipient. A composite message is created by any or all of the following: capturing a current image, linking an associated audio file to the message, removing extraneous user interfaces from the image, scaling the image to a more appropriate display size, adding corporate logo or other identifying information to the message, and receiving text to be transmitted to the remote recipient. The electronic mail address of the sender is automatically retrieved and placed in the message form, the recipient's name and address are received, and the address information, message text, and multimedia information are displayed to the sender to allow the sender to decide whether or not to send the composite message. A predetermined third party can be notified of the identity of the recipient of the composite message to use the information to market the application to the recipient if the recipient is not currently an owner of the application. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313342 | Email handling system comprising Meta-data storage - An email handling system comprising an email receiving device for receiving an email having meta-data, the meta-data comprising at least a recipient, a storage device for storing the email wherein, the system further comprises a meta-data extractor for obtaining the meta-data from the email, and a storage handler for storing in a recipient's mailbox the meta-data and a pointer to the email in the storage device. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313343 | MESSAGE PROCESSING IN A MESSAGING SERVICE CLIENT DEVICE - A method of processing a message in a messaging service client device that has a user interface device includes with the messaging service client device, ascertaining a proposed recipient for a message entered by a user with the user interface device; determining a set of potential recipients for the message with the messaging service client device, the set of potential recipients including the proposed recipient; determining whether, among the set of potential recipients, the proposed recipient is a most likely recipient of the message; and responsive to a determination that the proposed recipient is not the most likely recipient, providing a notification to the user through the user interface device that the proposed recipient is not the most likely recipient. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313344 | Self-Distribution Methods, Coded Self-Distribution Methods, and Systems for Distributing Information - A self-distribution method for distributing information content among network connected devices of a communications network includes receiving a query having a code against a database from a wireless communications device, the code uniquely representing one of an advertising campaign, a product, or a service. The method also includes generating a result set by querying the database with the code, forwarding a link associated with the result set to a user-preferred remote location, the link being sent in an electronic message, wherein activation of the link directs a user to a first version of information content of the result set. A plurality of options to purchase user-preferred items from the first version of information content, the options including at least “purchase now” and “purchase later” features. A reminder message is forwarded to the wireless communications device if a user at the remote location selects the “purchase later” feature. The user is enabled to conduct a purchase transaction from at least the remote location or the wireless communications device. Systems for self-distributing information are also provided. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313345 | CLEARINGHOUSE FOR MESSAGES BETWEEN DISPARATE NETWORKS - A system and method are directed towards managing interoperability between disparate IM networks. A clearinghouse server is provided that receives IM messages from disparate IM networks. The clearinghouse server examines the IM message to determine it is in a compatible protocol for a destination IM network. If the IM message is incompatible a translation service is used to translate the message into a compatible protocol. The translation service further determines if the destination IM network supports a feature employed by the received IM message. If the feature is supported or can be translated to a supported feature, the translation service will also perform the feature translation. Otherwise, the translation service may return an error message indicating that the received IM message includes an unsupported feature for the destination IM network. Upon satisfactory translation, the clearinghouse server forwards the translated IM message towards the destination IM network. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090319614 | Triage of Electronic Mail - A method for processing electronic mail messages (emails), including receiving a first batch of the emails, and displaying a first listing of the first batch to a recipient of the emails for selection by the recipient for viewing. The method further includes recording an order of the selection by the recipient of the emails from the first listing, and receiving a second batch of the emails subsequent to the first batch. The method also includes formulating and displaying to the recipient a second listing of the second batch responsively to the order of the selection from the first listing. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319615 | PERSISTENT PERSONAL MESSAGING IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - A persistent personal messaging system provides tuple space functionality supporting a user changing between a plurality of client devices, even within a loosely coupled, distributed system for persistent personal messaging. A user, irrespective of which messaging client they are using, logs on to the system. The act of logging on places a tuple, representing the user, into the tuple space. A “contacts” service agent finds the friends and groups that the user belongs to and notifies other users that the user has logged on. Given the on-line status of other users and groups, a “history” service agent will retrieve previous messages from the tuple space that formed the user's conversations with users and groups, as if the user had never logged off or switched devices. When the user adds a new message to any conversation, the message is added as a tuple to the tuple space. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319616 | LOCATION-AWARE INSTANT MESSAGING - A method includes receiving, at a carrier network provider, a request from a requestor's mobile device to locate an instant messaging (IM) friend from the requestor's IM friends list; authenticating the request for use of location-based services on the carrier network; receiving geographic location coordinates from the requestor's mobile device; adding random error to the geographic location coordinates; sending the request to locate an IM friend and the geographic location coordinates with random error to an IM portal; receiving a list of the requestor's IM friends within a particular region near the geographic location coordinates with random error; and sending to the requestor's mobile device the list of IM friends within the particular region near the geographic location coordinates with random error. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319617 | EXTRACTING PREVIOUS MESSAGES FROM A LATER MESSAGE - A message extraction system is described that extracts a previous message from a current message in a conversation thread. The message extraction system receives a current message and identifies a previous message candidate within the current message. The system determines a checksum of the previous message candidate and compares the determined checksum to a previously stored checksum of the previous message. If the two checksums match, the system extracts the previous message from the reply message rather than from the server. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319618 | DISPLAYING A LIST OF FILE ATTACHMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH A MESSAGE THREAD - Technologies are described herein for displaying a list of file attachments associated with a message thread an email application. The messages associated with the message thread are identified, along with any file attachments attached to those messages. An aggregated attachment list is generated containing an entry for each file attachment associated with the message thread. The aggregated attachment list associated with the message thread is then displayed in a window of the email application. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319619 | AUTOMATIC CONVERSATION TECHNIQUES - Automatic conversation techniques are described. An apparatus may comprise a computing device having an incoming message module operative to receive an incoming message, a conversation identification module communicatively coupled to the incoming message module, the conversation identification module operative to determine the incoming message is part of a conversation thread, and associate the incoming message with the conversation thread by setting a conversation identifier property of the incoming message to a conversation identifier for the conversation thread, and a conversation manager module communicatively coupled to the conversation identification module, the conversation manager module operative to determine a conversation rule is associated with the conversation thread, and apply the conversation rule to the incoming message. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319620 | PROGRAM-SENSITIVE LINK IN CONTENT - Context-sensitive content may be created that may be recognized by a particular program but ignored by other programs. For example, in an e-mail message or other type of message, content could be created that advises the user to download a particular client for an enhanced content-viewing experience, along with a link pointing to a site where the client may be downloaded. This content and link could be surrounded by tags that would not be recognized by most clients, but that would be recognized by the client that provides the enhanced experience. Thus, most clients would render the advice and link, but the client that provides the enhanced experience could be configured to omit the link when it recognizes the surrounding tags, since a recipient who is viewing the e-mail with that client already has access to the enhanced experience. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319621 | Message Flow Control in a Multi-Node Computer System - Embodiments of the invention provide for controlling message flow across a parallel computer system having multiple compute nodes by selectively grouping compute nodes of such a system into node pools and assigning message flow control policies to nodes in the node pools. The message flow control policies specify logging and/or tracing activities to be performed by instances of applications running on nodes assigned to the node pools. As the application is executed, logging and/or tracing messages are generated on the compute nodes according to message flow control policies assigned to the nodes. Optionally, the message flow is analyzed, the message flow control policies are adjusted, and duplicate messages are eliminated. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319622 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENTING GROUP HISTORY AND EVENTS - An approach is provided for documenting family history in a central location and enabling family members to create messages for delivery to other members in the future based on the occurrence of specific events (e.g., family activities, special occasions, holidays, etc.). | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319623 | RECIPIENT-DEPENDENT PRESENTATION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A message originator, such as an author of an email, can designate “section access settings” which can selectively permit or deny access of portions of the email's content. Recipients who are not authorized may not exercise the access right upon the designated portion of content. For example, an access right may allow displaying a section of text in an email message only for specified recipients and not to other recipients. In a preferred embodiment, the entire email content, including restricted portions, is provided to all recipients, including unauthorized recipients. Unauthorized recipients are prevented from exercising the access right even though the restricted portion has been received. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319624 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF ELECTRONIC MAIL DELIVERY - A method for the elimination of duplicate or multiple electronic mail (email) to one or more recipients, the method includes: generating table entries in a mail server that identify users of the mail server; receiving an email at the mail server; determining whether this is the first time the email is received at the mail server; wherein in the event this is the first time the email has been received: recording information about the email in the table; storing a copy of the email in a repository; forwarding the email to the intended recipients; and wherein in the event the email has been received previously: determining which of the intended recipients has not received the email; sending a copy of the email from the repository to the recipients who have not already received the email; and recording which of the recipients have now received the email in the table. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319625 | Interactivity in a digital public signage network architecture - The current invention is a method and device for allowing a customer to interact with a public signage display to obtain additional information about a product or service at a retail location or the like that does not require additional equipment for user interaction attached to the public signage on the retail floor. The current invention involves a connection between the public signage content distribution and its management architecture with the cellular wireless network that can enable flexible, dynamic user interaction with displays in public spaces. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319626 | Method for networking a plurality of convergent messaging systems and corresponding network system - The present invention relates to a method for networking a plurality of providers (KMS | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE SERVICES BASED ON NETWORK - A system to provide various content services based on a network to users includes a service provider to provide a service using the network, a user to receive the service, and a service framework to provide the service to the user through the network. The service framework includes a messenger device that manages the service transmitted between the service provider and the user. Content services, which are being provided based on a network, can be provided to various terminals including not only a PC and a mobile phone, but also a robot. Thus, extending services is easy and the user can conveniently receive desired information from a knowledge provider or website without performing repetitive operations. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319628 | MESSAGING SYSTEM, A MESSENGER SERVER, A METHOD AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The present invention relates to a method for a messaging system, a messaging system, a messenger server and a computer program product. The messaging system comprises a messenger server, a sending client and at least one receiving client, and a data transfer network formed therein between. A message comprising at least a link to web content is created and sent from the sending client to at least one receiving client. The messaging system is configured to determine whether the said at least one receiving client has already received the message, and if not, to deliver an identification referring to the message to said at least one receiving client, and said at least one receiving client is configured to retrieve the message on the basis of the identification from the messenger server, whereby the messaging system is configured to automatically display the content in the message. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319629 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RE-EVALUATNG DATA - A method and a system re-classify a delivered message to permit an action to be taken on the delivered message, based on the re-classification. In an example embodiment, a mail transfer agent may receive a message directed to a mail store and a message classifier may generate a representation of at least a portion of the message and classify the message using a representation of the message and a characteristic associated with the representation. In some example embodiments, the mail transfer agent may deliver the message to a message store, based on the classification of the message. Subsequent to the mail transfer agent delivering the message to the message store, a message re-classifier may access a further characteristic associated with the representation and re-classify the message based on the representation and the second characteristic. In an example embodiment, the mail transfer agent may initiate performance of an operation on the message in the message store, based on the re-classifying of the message. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319630 | Header Compression in Messages - Compression of message headers. A message including an uncompressed header, a message including a compressed header or a request to support header compression is received. In response, a determination of the impact of header compression on performance is determined. If the determination is favorable, then header compression is supported for subsequent communications. However, if the determination is not favorable, then header compression is not supported for subsequent communications. If the impact of header compression on performance is determined to be favorable, then an identifier for a reference header is returned. The identifier is for use in a subsequent compressed header. The subsequent compressed header comprises the identifier and changes relative to the reference header. A server receives a message including a compressed header. The server determines whether it has sufficient memory or storage to support header compression. If so, the server handles the message, but if not, the server refuses to handle the message or notifies a sender of the message that it will not support header compression for subsequent messages. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319631 | COMPOSING, BROWSING, REPLYING, FORWARDING E-MAIL - Method for composing, browsing, replying, forwarding e-mail's in an e-mail system and an e-mail client that can reduce e-mail traffic by not sending the original e-mail content in replying or forwarding e-mail's. In accordance with this invention, each e-mail has a Global-ID and each reply e-mail has a Reply-to-ID which corresponds to the Global-ID of the original e-mail, thereby the content of the original e-mail is not contained in the reply e-mail. During browsing e-mail's, the original e-mail is retrieved from repositories which stores sent and received e-mail's, and is incorporated into the browsed e-mail. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319632 | COMPOSING, BROWSING, REPLYING, FORWARDING E-MAIL - Method for composing, browsing, replying, forwarding e-mail's in an e-mail system and an e-mail client that can reduce e-mail traffic by not sending the original e-mail content in replying or forwarding e-mail's. In accordance with this invention, each e-mail has a Global-ID and each reply e-mail has a Reply-to-ID which corresponds to the Global-ID of the original e-mail, thereby the content of the original e-mail is not contained in the reply e-mail. During browsing e-mail's, the original e-mail is retrieved from repositories which stores sent and received e-mail's, and is incorporated into the browsed e-mail. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090319633 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TEMPLATE REPLIES TO ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - A method for responding to an electronic mail (“email”) message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system, comprising: receiving a command from the user to generate a reply to the email message using content from one or more template replies, the reply having a subject line and a body; presenting a choice of the one or more template replies to the user; receiving a command to select a template reply from the choice, the template reply having a subject line and a body; and generating the reply by inserting content from the body of the template reply into the body of the reply. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090327427 | METHOD OF AGGREGATING BUSINESS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method and system for facilitating relationships across multiple networks is described. The meta-network includes relationship information describing users, the networks to which such users belong, and the relationships that they have established within such networks. When a relationship is established in a network, it can be used to propagate relationships across any number of networks with the same or different users. The meta-network enhances the users' ability to search for information and manage their relationships across multiple networks. A user can search for other users according to one or more user-specified attributes. One or more users satisfying the user-specified attributes are identified, and a similarity measure may be determined for each of the identified users. A mapping interface is displayed to the user to enable the user to visually compare the identified users having a similarity measure within the displayed range. The mapping interface allows the user to invite one or more of the displayed users to establish a relationship with the user. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327428 | MULTIMODAL CONVERSATION TRANSFER - In one embodiment, a user may transfer a multimodal conversation. A multimodal conversation may have a first mode communication session and a second mode communication session. A first user point of presence may execute a first transfer of the first mode communication session with a first partner point of presence from the first user point of presence to a first target point of presence. A second user point of presence may execute a second transfer of the second mode communication session with a second partner point of presence from the second user point of presence to a second target point of presence. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327429 | COLLABORATIVE ALERT MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING - Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically monitoring, processing, and managing alerts are described herein. In an embodiment, the method operates by receiving messages that are either alerts or responses to existing alerts. The messages are parsed to determine if whether they are alerts or responses to alerts. Actions including updating alert states and storing alert data are executed, and then the method sends notifications regarding the alert messages and responses to a collaboration list of registered subscribers that dynamically expands over time based upon alert escalations. The method then determines whether additional messages have been received; and performs actions associated with these additional messages until there are no remaining alerts or alert responses to process. The method stores updated alert and response data in a repository so that the alerts and responses can be monitored and managed. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327430 | DETERMINING EMAIL FILTERING TYPE BASED ON SENDER CLASSIFICATION - Determining email filtering type based on sender classification. Incoming email is accessed and a sender of the incoming email is identified. The reputation of the sender of the incoming email is determined. An email sender classification is made based on the reputation of the sender. A determination of the type of filtering operations to be performed by an email filter on the email is made based on the classification. The parameters of the type of filtering operations to be performed are determined. The parameters of the type of filtering operations to be performed are provided to the email filter. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327431 | AUTOMATIC DOWNLOAD OF IMAGES FROM ONLINE STORAGE - Various technologies for automatically downloading one or more high resolution image files from online storage. In one implementation, an e-mail client desktop application (stored at a sender's computer) may receive a request from the sender to send an e-mail with one or more high resolution image files added to the e-mail. Although the high resolution image files may be uploaded to a server, the files may be added as lower resolution image files with hidden Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses that may indicate the location on the server of the corresponding high resolution image files. Prior to sending the e-mail, the e-mail client desktop application may concatenate each high resolution image file's URL address with an extension or tag such as “?download” so that the address may later be easily identified. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327432 | SOCIAL NETWORK NOTIFICATIONS FOR EXTERNAL UPDATES - Various technologies for notifying users of a social network service of updates to services external to the social network service by members of the social network. The external service may be a typical web service, such as blogging, and video and photo sharing services. In one implementation, a member of a social network may register the external service with the social network service. Thereinafter, updates that the user makes on the external service may trigger notifications to members of the user's social network. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327433 | Displaying Images for People Associated with a Message Item - Technologies are described herein for displaying a list of people associated with a message item along with images and other personal context information in a PIM application. The people associated with the message item are identified and a list is generated containing a name, an image, and other personal context information for each. The list of people associated with the message item is displayed in a window of the PIM along with the information regarding the message item. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327434 | Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product for Anonymous Polling - An apparatus for anonymous polling may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive an input message and identify whether the input message includes a request or a response to the request and, if the input message includes the request, the processor may be further configured to identify a source of the input message. The processor may also be configured to provide for transmission of an output message. In this regard, based on the whether the input message includes a request or a response, and based on the source of the input message, the apparatus may operate as a referral agent, a responder, or a forwarding agent. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327435 | METHOD FOR PEER TO PEER SUBSCRIBER REGISTRATION AND AFFILIATION - A method for subscriber registration and affiliation in a peer to peer wide area network is provided. The peer to peer wide area network includes at least one Subscriber and a plurality of Peers. The method includes: communicating a registration and affiliation message including a Subscriber Registration Affiliation Index from a Subscriber to a Peer of the plurality of Peers; routing a registration and affiliation update message including a Peer Registration Affiliation Index equal to the received Subscriber Registration Affiliation Index from the Peer to other Peers of the plurality of Peers; comparing the received Peer Registration Affiliation Index with one or more other received Peer Registration Affiliation Indexes by each of the plurality of Peers; and selecting by each of the plurality of Peers a Peer Registration Affiliation for the Subscriber corresponding to a highest value Peer Registration Affiliation Index. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327436 | INSTANT MESSAGING NETWORK CONTROL MODULE - An instant messaging network control module has a processor, a network connecting module, a connecting interface and a memory. The network connecting module is used to connect to an instant messaging server. The connecting interface is used to electronically connect to an outer controlled device. The memory stores a local machine account and a password of the network control module for logging on to the instant message service, a client account and an automatic operating process. The automatic operating process is executed by the processor to allow the network control module to log on to the instant messaging service, receive instant messages sent from a client device logged on to the instant messaging service with the client account and send a corresponding operating command to the outer controlled device. Therefore the network control module provides an easy and cheap way to remotely control the outer controlled device. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327437 | REAL TIME MEDIA-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK NOTIFICATIONS - Real time media-based social network notifications are utilized to provide updates of events that occur in a social network in real time. By providing a data feed of events which are monitored in the social network to a real time media system such as a presence-based messaging network, users can be kept up to date with events as they occur in the social network with alerts or instant messages. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327438 | AUTOMATICALLY CREATING CONTACT GROUPS AND FOR SUGGESTING AN E-MAIL SENDING LIST - There is provided a solution for automatically creating contact groups, a method of the solution comprising: tracking an email sending history of a user, and automatically recording email sending data, wherein the recorded email sending data comprises contact groups, each of which consists of the email addresses and all the receivers of a sent email and corresponding receiving types. There is further provided a solution for suggesting an email sending list to a user, a method of the solution comprising: retrieving one or more contact groups from the recorded email sending data when the user composes a new email; and, presenting to the user the retrieved one or more contact groups as possible sending lists. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327439 | MOBILE PHONE AND COMPUTER MESSAGE SYSTEM - A computer and mobile phone user interface system that includes a computer, a mobile phone, and a messaging system where the messaging system displays messages on both the computer and on the mobile phone that notify the user as to from where the messages were opened or sent and that further deletes messages from the mobile phone when they are deleted from the computer. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327440 | System and Method for Securing a Wireless Network - Methods and systems for configuring a network are provided. A method may include monitoring properties of a connection between a network device and a network. The method may also include detecting a change in the properties of the connection. The may also include verifying the connection to the network is provided by a service provider when the change in the properties is detected and providing network configuration options based on the change. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327441 | INSTANT MESSAGING AS A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL FOR A CONTACT CENTER - A system, method, processor and client device for an instant messaging (IM) system including an IM server and a user device operationally coupled to the IM server. The IM server provides an availability indication element to the user device indicating if any one of a plurality agents are available for an IM communication session. The user device enables selection of the availability indication element to initiate the IM communication session. The IM server routes the IM communication session to the available agent if the availability indication is selected by the user. The user device may provide a user interface including the availability indication. The user interface may display an IM buddy indication associated with the plurality of agents. The availability indication may be displayed in the user interface overlapping with the IM buddy indication. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327442 | Method and System for Providing Backup Messages to Wireless Devices During Outages - The method and system of the present invention provides an improved technique for providing email to a wireless device during an outage. Email messages are redirected from the primary email system to a secondary email system during an outage such as, for example, a natural disaster. Email messages are accessible from the secondary email system through a wireless device. A notification message is sent to the user's wireless device alerting them that their email messages are available on the secondary email system through their wireless device. After the termination of the outage, email messages received during the outage are synchronized into the users standard email application. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100005144 | METHOD, SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DOCUMENT OVER NETWORK, VIRTUAL PRINTER APPARATUS AND RESTORATION APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a method system for transmitting a document over a Network including the steps of a document sender converts a sharing document to be transmitted into a GDI (Graph Device Interface) document by performing virtual printing. The document receiver receives the graph device interface document sent from the document sender through the network The document receiver restores the received GDI document. The contents of the restored GDI document are the same as that of the sharing document. The present invention also provides a system, a virtual printer apparatus and a restoration apparatus, the transmission of the document is not restricted by the application using the method, system and apparatus of the present invention. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100005145 | CONFIGURABLE E-MAIL REGIONS THAT ALLOW RECIPIENT READ PERMISSIONS - The present disclosure is directed to a method for reconfiguring message permissions based upon a recipient. The method may receive a message. Then, the method may allow the user to set a read permission associated with a region in the message that may allow the region to be displayed only to specified recipients. This method may allow a user to save time by creating only one message that contains different content that is intended for different recipients to view. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100005146 | FACILITATING TRANSMISSION OF EMAIL BY CHECKING EMAIL PARAMETERS WITH A DATABASE OF WELL BEHAVED SENDERS - Facilitating email transmission by extracting email parameters, requesting data in the form of a dns query, and receiving a sender reputation as an IP address. Querying a database by sending a plurality of arguments concatenated to a dns request and receiving an IP address in reply. Operating a remote database as a dns server, receiving queries as domains and transmitting replies in the format of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Filtering email by querying a database with email parameters comprising an IP address and a domain of an email sender which may be extracted from an email header in the HELO, EHLO, MAIL FROM, or RETURN PATH. The smtp session is continued, modified or interrupted according to the result of the query submitted to a database operating as a dns server. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100005147 | Ordered message processing - Messages are processed to guarantee proper work scheduling and allow for cyclic and conditional processing. A processing node requiring ordered processing of messages is configured to operate within a plurality of successive processing nodes not requiring ordering processing of messages. Nodes upstream of the ordered node (i) monitor skew between the messages being processed and messages that are ordered after the messages still being processed and that have been forwarded downstream of the node and (ii) pause processing upon reaching skew limits. The nodes upstream of the ordered node limit output of messages to be within a delta of other messages as defined by message IDs. In addition, messages removed from a flow path are replaced by Null messages for ordered processing. Child messages are encoded to incorporate parent IDs preserving ordering systems. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100005148 | EMAIL SMS NOTIFICATION SYSTEM PROVIDING ENHANCED CHARGE ACCOUNTING FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one wireless communications device and at least one electronic mail (email) server for storing email messages for the at least one wireless communications device. An email relay server may detect a new email message on the at least one email server and, based thereon, send a short message service (SMS) notification with an original SMS identifier to the at least one wireless communications device. The at least one wireless communications device may detect the SMS notification and send an instruction to the email relay server to thereafter send any subsequent SMS notification with a different SMS identifier rather than the original SMS identifier. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100005149 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING EMAIL MESSAGES - Multiple modules are provided, each one of which is configured to analyze email messages in a different manner than other ones of the modules. For a received email message, a plurality of the modules are used to determine one or more module outputs indicative of a level of sameness of the received email message with one or more prior email messages. At least two of the modules being used are each assigned a non-zero weight indicative of the performance level of the module. An overall level of sameness of the received email message with one or more prior email messages is determined by combining the module outputs of at least two of the plurality of modules using the non-zero weights assigned to the modules. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100011063 | System for remote management of machine via internet protocol links - The so-called M2M solutions for the remote management of a machine or a process by users of a telecommunication network are addressed using an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem platform by equipping both authorized users and a machine to be controlled with IMS clients supporting presence and messaging services as minimum requirements. The client of an authorized user sees the client of the machine as a buddy of its contact list, and interaction between the users and the machine takes place by publishing presence information by the apparatus and via instant messaging between the users and the apparatus. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011064 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FUTURE DEFINED EMAIL RECIPIENT - Methods, systems and devices are provided for automatically sending e-mail to a future-designated recipient. E-mail servers accordingly send an e-mail categorized with respect to a target project group to each of a plurality of e-mail clients associated with each defined member of the target project group; add the sent e-mail or a copy thereof to a future-designated role recipient e-mail batch in a storage means, wherein the batch is categorized with respect to the group; define an identity of an undefined role member of the target project group, the defining providing an e-mail address; and automatically forward the categorized e-mail batch to an e-mail client associated with the provided e-mail address in response to the identity defining. Service methods are also provided, for example, by a service provider who offers to implement, deploy, and/or perform functions for others. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011065 | INSTANT MESSAGING CONTENT STAGING - The invention provides a method, system, and program product for staging content for an instant messaging (IM) chat session. In one embodiment, the invention includes entering content into a staging area and transferring the entered content from the staging area to an input area. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011066 | CONTROLLING EMAIL DISTRIBUTION LISTS USING POLICIES - A policy can be established that is associated with an email distribution list. The policy can specify an extent that email addresses contained in the email distribution list are visible to recipients. An email message to be conveyed to at least the email distribution list can be identified. A set of recipient messages can be created from the identified email message—one recipient message for each of the recipients. The policy can be applied to each recipient message to determine an extent that email addresses contained in the email distribution list are visible to that recipient. Different ones of the recipient email messages can have different visibility regarding email addresses of members of the distribution list based upon the applied policy. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011067 | Transmitter Instant Messaging Interface in a Distributed Control System - A distributed process control system and method, includes a control component, a field device, and a process control network communicably coupling the control component to the field device. A first instant messaging (IM) component and IM user interface is associated with the control component, a second IM component and IM user interface is associated with the field device. The first and second IM components are configured to enable users respectively located at the control component and the field device to generate, send and receive IM communications via the process control network. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011068 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATION OF CALENDAR EVENT MESSAGES - An electronic device and a method implemented within the electronic device for controlling notification of calendar event messages by receiving a message having an attachment; examining the message to identify the attachment; and in the event that the attachment relates to a calendar event then activating the notification. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011069 | EXCHANGE OF MESSAGES AND SESSIONS - A Conversation-ID indication, a Contribution-ID indication and an optional In-reply-to-Contribution-ID indication are contained in individual standalone CPM Messages and the CPM Session Invitation messages only. The Conversation-ID indication allows assigning the CPM messages and media to the CPM conversations. The Contribution-ID identifies the individual standalone CPM message or the CPM session Invitation. Usage of the Contribution-ID indication and the In-reply-to-Contribution-ID indication allow associating the CPM session messages and the standalone CPM messages belonging to the same CPM conversation (i.e. having the same Conversation ID) into a tree view representing the CPM Conversation. The media and CPM Messages within a CPM session is implicitly linked to the CPM session invitation and further organized based on the time to form a list. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011070 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR NOTIFICATION MESSAGE PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for Notification message processing is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a Data Synchronization (DS) server, a Notification message for trigging the establishment of a session connection, the Notification message carrying instruction information for instructing a DS client to perform at least one action. The DS client performs a corresponding action according to the instruction information carried in the Notification message. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011071 | Systems and methods for reporter-based filtering of electronic communications and messages - Methods and apparatuses for filtering electronic communications in a communication system. The method includes receiving a message report from a user in response to an electronic message received by the user, and identifying a confidence value associated with the user from whom the message report is received. The method also includes adding, if the confidence value exceeds a predetermined confidence value threshold, the confidence value to a signature value associated with the electronic message, and determining if the signature value exceeds a signature value threshold. The method further includes filtering the electronic message if the signature value exceeds the signature value threshold. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011072 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION IN A LARGE GROUP - Systems and methods are disclosed for actively all-to-all exchanging messages in a large group of individuals, comprising accumulating messages from individuals in at least one hub, processing and reorganizing accumulated messages and their groups into short representations of the messages, and selectively actively delivering short representations according to a distribution pattern found as a maximum of a goodness function. Processing and reorganizing accumulated messages into short representations, that is summarization, is performed by constraining the stream of messages to a hierarchical stream format, having a hierarchy of messages linked by a directional parent-child relationship, and iteratively replacing the parent messages in such hierarchy with a representative message chosen among all children of that message. Distribution pattern of the messages containing short representations is found by constrained maximization of a predetermined goodness function depending on the entire distribution pattern jointly for all messages and all users. The process of summarizing messages into short representations, and the process of calculating goodness function for distribution patterns are formulated in terms of statistical model of individuals' expertise and interests, which is learnt from observing past individuals' activity. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011073 | USER-DEPLOYABLE DATA TRANSFORMATION AND EXCHANGE PLATFORM INCLUDING ON-DEMAND ITEM SYNCHRONIZATION AND USER-DEPLOYABLE ORDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A user-deployable data transformation and exchange platform includes on demand item synchronization formed by a user buildable dynamic link library associating incongruent article identifiers to reference common articles; and a user deployable order management system for generating, sending, receiving, and tracking the status of documents, such as purchase orders and invoices, facilitating commerce between the user and at least one other party. The platform may include an on-line network exchange. The system may include member originated, participant invitation for new member registration, including electronic notification to prospective members, and wherein new member registration utilizes data generated by the member originating the invitation. Searchable transaction histories may be maintained for member users, with each transaction having a current status identified and the ability to be flagged by a member user. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011074 | PUBLICATION OF INFORMATIONAL MESSAGES TO SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for publishing information to a plurality of software applications are provided. The methods may comprise identifying a plurality of records to transmit to the software applications based on a last sequential identification code in a high watermark table of a persistent store. The plurality of records may be generated subsequent to a previous record corresponding to the last sequential identification code. A plurality of corresponding messages each corresponding to a record of the plurality of records may be prepared. Each of those messages may then be transmit to at least one software application and may include a most recent message corresponding to a most recent record. In the high water mark table of the persistent store, an updated last sequential identification code may be stored as a pointer for subsequent reference. The updated last sequential identification code may correspond to the most recent message transmitted in the plurality of corresponding messages. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011075 | DELIVERY OF EMAIL MESSAGES IN MULTIPLE PARTS - A method, server and system for managing the delivery of email messages in multiple parts is provided. A method for sending email messages in multiple parts to a mobile communication device, comprises receiving a request for additional content from a mobile communication device in respect of an email message for which a selected part of the content has been previously sent to the mobile communications device; and determining if processing technology used to provide the previously sent selected part is compatible with currently available processing technology, and if compatible then processing additional content from the email message using the currently available processing technology and sending the processed additional content to the mobile communication device. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011076 | OPTIMIZING THE DELIVERY OF FORMATTED EMAIL MESSAGES - A method, server and system for the delivery of email messages is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving a Markup Language email message, the email message including a displayable content portion and a markup portion; determining whether the markup portion of the email message is too large; if the markup is too large, extracting plain text portions of the email and obtaining a plain text email from the extracted plain text portions and transmitting the plain text email to the mobile communication device; and if the markup is not too large, transmitting the email to the mobile communication device. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011077 | DELIVERY OF EMAIL MESSAGES WITH REPETITIVE ATTACHMENTS - A method, server and system for the delivery of email messages with repetitive attachments. In one example embodiment, the method comprises determining a unique identifier for a content item that is referenced in an email message; determining, in dependence on the unique identifier, if an attachment corresponding to the content item is present in an attachment cache, and if a corresponding attachment is not present in the attachment cache then processing the content item to create the attachment and storing the attachment in the attachment cache identified by the unique identifier, and if the corresponding attachment is present in the attachment cache, then retrieving the corresponding attachment from the attachment cache; and sending the corresponding attachment to the mobile communications device. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011078 | OPTIMIZING THE DELIVERY OF EMAIL MESSAGES CONTAINING ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS OF CONTENT - A method, server and system for optimizing the delivery of email messages is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving an email message containing at least two alternative versions of content, each version being in a different format; obtaining a reduced email message from the received email message, the reduced email message containing fewer versions than the received email message; and sending the reduced email message to the mobile communication device. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011079 | INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVER MANAGER, AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING OPERATION OF MULTIPLE ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVERS - Provided are an electronic mail server manager, and a system and method for coordinating operation of multiple electronic mail servers to efficiently store, process, and forward a high volume of electronic mail. The system for managing operation of multiple email servers in accordance with one embodiment may comprise an email message queue; a plurality of receiving email servers; a plurality of sending email servers; and an email server manager having a memory and a processor configured by the memory to perform the steps of storing received email messages in an email message queue; extracting destinations from the email messages; and delivering the email messages to the destinations by way of the sending email servers in correspondence to feedback received from the sending email servers and/or the destinations. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011080 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE MODERATION AND CORRECTION OF MESSAGE HISTORY IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SESSION - A system for providing collaborative moderation and correction of instant messaging session transcripts in an instant messaging session that includes an improved instant messaging client user interface that allows collaborative editing and moderation of an instant messaging session transcript in order to correct for errors. An instant messaging client operates to seek approval of changes to the session transcript during the session, and stores transcript changes such that the modifications are conveniently viewable by all session participants. The instant messaging client can be configured to automatically accept requests to modify the session transcript. Alternatively, the instant messaging client can be configured to explicitly notify and seek approval from all other participants when a participant attempts to make a modification to the session history. The time of each modification, and the identity of the participant making each modification, are stored within the session history. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011081 | Location-Based Social Software for Mobile Devices - A method of establishing connection between users of mobile devices includes receiving at a computer a location of a first user from a first mobile device, receiving from a second mobile device a location of a second user having an acquaintance relationship to the first user, and sending a message to the first mobile device based on the proximity of the first user to the second user. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100017475 | System and Method Enabling Future Messaging Directives Based on Past Participation via a History Monitor - A system and method for controlling the flow of documents by associating Globally Unique Identifiers with each original document, each reply document, each copy document and each forwarded document, such as email messages. Historical analysis is performed on a locally stored history records containing the Globally Unique Identifiers extracted from received documents to determine which recipients are active participants and which are inactive participants, according to user preferences and thresholds. Lists for direct recipients (e.g. “To” list), carbon copy recipients, and blind copy recipients are automatically proposed to a user of a document handling system when authoring a new document, replying to a document, or forwarding a document, according to the results of the historical participation analysis, thereby stemming information flow to participants who are not active in an ad hoc asynchronous conversation. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017476 | ANTI-SPAM PROFILE CLUSTERING BASED ON USER BAHAVIOR - A user can be assigned to one of a plurality of filtering profiles to filter the user's incoming email messages. Each filtering profile in the plurality of filtering profiles filters the incoming emails according to a different set of filtering rules. The filtering profiles are applied to incoming emails, and the emails are delivered according to the rules of the currently-assigned filtering profile. The user's actions on the received email is tracked to determine a first performance score for how accurately the first filtering profile is filtering incoming emails of the user, and if the first performance score is less than a score value, the user might be assigned to a different filtering profile. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017477 | Performance and Reduce Network Traffic for Remote Hardware Data Scan Operations - According to one embodiment of the present invention, multiple data scan operations are compacted into a single network message. A plurality of requests to perform a data scan operation on a remote node controller is received, forming a set of received data scan operation requests. A set of data scan operations are generated based on the set of received data scan operation requests, forming a set of generated data scan operations. A network message comprising the set of generated data scan operations is generated, forming a first compacted data scan operation network message. The first compacted data scan operation network message is sent to the remote node controller. A second compacted data scan operation network message is received from the remote node controller, wherein the second compacted data scan operation network message comprises a set of completed data scan operations. The set of completed data scan operations are separated into individual completed data scan operations. Each individual completed data scan operation is sent to the user that issued the request. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017478 | DYNAMIC GROUPING OF EMAIL RECIPIENTS - A method, system, and computer usable program product for dynamic grouping of email recipients are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first recipient and a second recipient of a first email are identified and an association is formed between them. A selection of the first recipient is detected in a second email. Using the association, the second recipient is suggested as a recipient of the second email. The first email may be a previously sent email, and the second email may be an email being composed. A characteristic of the first email is identified and the characteristic may be used as a basis for the association in forming the association. The characteristic may be a phrase in, a type of content in, an attachment in, or a periodicity of the first email. Strength of the association may be modified based on the third email. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017479 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PROXY FUNCTIONALITY IN A MESSAGE CLIENT - A method and system for communicating electronic messages among clients in a network is provided. One implementation involves marking an electronic message to indicate that the message is to be routed to recipient clients identified by a user group definitions, sending the marked message from a sender client to a proxy client, parsing an incoming message at the proxy client to detect an indication that the message is to be routed to recipient clients in a user group, and routing the message from the proxy client to one or more recipients in the user group based on the user group definition. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017480 | RECIPIENT SIDE GROUPING OF ADDRESSES - A method for grouping addressees of a message based on groups defined by a recipient of the message includes receiving a message including a plurality of addressees; determining the addresses of the addressees; comparing the addresses to one or more groups maintained by the recipient of the message; and displaying the message, wherein the message includes one more of the groups maintained by the recipient in place of one or more of the addressees. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017481 | System and Method for Sectional E-Mail Transmission - A process of segmenting a single email so that portions of it may be directed to or away from select recipients is disclosed. The sender highlights portions of the email and right clicks (or key command, button, or menu item) and selects an option to select recipients. The operator interface then provides the sender with the option of selecting recipients from their address book or the server's address book. To speed the process along, the sender may select those already on the To, Cc, or Bcc distribution lists. The sender then selects whether those chosen will receive the highlighted portion or if they will be excluded from receiving it. Lastly, the sender will have the option of providing text that is unique to each of the selected groups. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017482 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION AWARE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - A method and system for location aware electronic communication. One implementation involves receiving an electronic communication at a receiving client, upon detecting that the communication includes location-based information, retrieving criteria for processing the communication from a location profile, and automatically processing the communication utilizing the retrieved criteria and the location-based information from the communication. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017483 | MULTI-TOPIC INSTANT MESSAGING CHAT SESSION - The invention provides a method, system, and program product for establishing a multi-topic instant messaging (IM) chat session. In one embodiment, the invention includes sending a first message to at least one participant or receiving a first message from at least one participant; receiving a second message from at least one participant or sending a second message to at least one participant; determining whether the first and second messages pertain to different topics; and in the case that the first and second messages pertain to different topics, splitting the IM chat session into multiple parts based on the different topics. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017484 | E-Mail Response Time Estimation on Compose or Send - An e-mail application calculates a dynamic estimate of an e-mail response time. A recipient address module, a status module, a processing module, and a presentation module interact to generate a first and a second estimated response time. The first estimated response time is determined from sender side data. The second estimated response time is generated using recipient mailbox status data after the e-mail is received by the recipient. The second estimated response time is used to dynamically update the estimated response time displayed to the sender. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017485 | ENFORCING CONFORMANCE IN EMAIL CONTENT - In an email message method and system, an email server receives at least one user-defined constraint for a first email message, where the user-defined constraint comprises at least one of an expected format and expected content of a reply email message. The email server associates the at least one user-defined constraint with the first email message and sends the first email message to a recipient. In response to receiving the reply email message, the email server validates the reply email message against the at least one user-defined constraint. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017486 | SYSTEM ANALYZING PROGRAM, SYSTEM ANALYZING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM ANALYZING METHOD - A system analyzing apparatus obtains a message group including a message ID, a protocol, a type, and a transmission time of messages transmitted/received in a system where a hierarchical structure of protocols is defined. The apparatus detects pairs of a request message and a response message of the same message ID from the obtained message group. The apparatus identifies a request time and a response time of each of the detected pairs. The apparatus searches for a child-layer pair that has a request time and a response time between the request time and the response time of a parent-layer pair arbitrarily selected from among the pairs and that has a protocol in a layer lower than the protocol of the parent-layer pair on the basis of the identified result. The apparatus outputs the found child-layer pair as a candidate pair having a call relationship with the parent-layer pair. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017487 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR CLUSTERING AND CLASSIFICATION - The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for classification and clustering electronic data streams such as email, images and sound files for identification, sorting and efficient storage. The method further utilizes learning machines in combination with hashing schemes to cluster and classify documents. In one embodiment hash apparatuses and methods taxonomize clusters. In yet another embodiment, clusters of documents utilize geometric hash to contain the documents in a data corpus without the overhead of search and storage. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017488 | Message Classification Using Allowed Items - A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying all items of a certain type in the message, determining whether each of the items meets a criterion, and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determining a classification of the message. The system includes an interface configured to receive the message, a processor coupled to the interface, configured to identify all items of a certain type in the message; determine whether each of the items meets a criterion; and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determine a classification of the message. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017489 | Systems and Methods For Haptic Message Transmission - Systems and methods for haptic message transmission are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of receiving a sensor signal from a sensor configured to sense a physical interaction with a messaging device, determining a virtual force based at least in part on the sensor signal, and applying the virtual force to a virtual message object within a virtual message environment. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017490 | Serial Communications Device with Dynamic Allocation of Acceptance Masks Using Serial Implementation - A CAN module or a microcontroller comprises a CAN module which receives a serial bit stream. The CAN module comprises a filter register with a bit select input and a single bit output, a bit select unit for selecting a bit of the filter register in accordance with the serial bit stream, a comparator coupled with the single bit output and with the serial bit stream for generating a comparison signal, and a register receiving the comparison signal for accumulating a plurality of comparison results and for generating an acceptance signal. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017491 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOTIFICATION OF DIGITAL IMAGES TO BE SHARED VIA A SERVICE PROVIDER - A method and system for organizing and sharing digital images over a communication network wherein an image server at a service provider stores digital images for a customer which may have more two more electronic addresses which may receive e-mail. The server automatically forwarding all electronic mail having an address from one of the registered two or more electronic addresses to the primary electronic address that is received over a communication network. The e-mail includes a link to the share images and/or images folder. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE PACING - A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits messages from multiple sources to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by the type or priority of the message. The system permits the volume of messages to be reduced by aggregating messages according to a set of rules and by discarding or delaying messages that are sufficiently similar and sent too close together. In addition, the system allows message sources to be notified when a recipient has not received a message within a designated time period. The system can be implemented as a centralized pacing system or through use of a data storage system accessible by the message sources. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017493 | SYSTEM FOR PUBLISHING MESSAGES FROM IDENTIFIED, AUTHORIZED SENDERS TO SUBSCRIBERS - A message publishing system processes a message from a sender in a first format and comprises a central processor, a sender account, a storage area to store at least a portion of the message, and software executing to configure the central processor. The processor identifies the sender as an authorized sender based on information associated with the message in comparison to data in the sender account, wherein the identification is dependent upon the first format, and publishes the portion of the message so as to be viewable only if the sender has been identified as an authorized sender. The software can further configure the processor to allow a requester to subscribe to receive new messages from one or more senders including the identified sender; and send a copy of a new message from the identified sender to one or more notification devices associated with the subscribed requestor. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017494 | FORMALIZING, DIFFUSING AND ENFORCING POLICY ADVISORIES AND MONITORING POLICY COMPLIANCE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKS - An apparatus and method for centralized policy management of large-scale networks ( | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017495 | Fast Byzantine Paxos - A distributed computing system can operate in the face of malicious failures on the part of some of its constituent devices, and provide a minimum of message delays between receiving a client request and providing a response, when each device within the system verifies the sender of any message it receives, and the propriety of the message. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100023583 | Efficient Presentation of Related Messages in a Computer Network-Based Messaging System - Efficient presentation of related messages in a computer network-based messaging system, including a message parser for parsing related messages into sub-messages, a comparator for comparing each sub-message identified by the parser to each sub-message in a set of unique sub-messages previously identified by the parser within any of the related messages, and adding to the set any of the sub-messages identified by the parser that are not members of the set, and a message presenter for marking with a visual indicator each of the related messages that contributes any sub-messages to the set, where the marked messages are visually distinguishable from all other of the related messages that do not contribute any sub-messages to the set. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023584 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A PERSONALIZED SOCIAL NETWORK IN A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention describes a method and system for creating a social network in a telecommunication network. The method includes extracting one or more contact information stored in a telecommunication device of a user. The one or more contact information is added to the social network of the user in response to extracting the contact information stored in the telecommunication device of the user. The method also includes organizing the contact information based on a degree of separation between the user and the contact information. The method further includes enabling the user to perform a set of operations by using the telecommunication device in the social network. The set of operations includes posting and searching a review corresponding to an object in the social network. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023585 | PRIVILEGED AND RESTRICTED EMAIL PROCESSING TO MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS BASED ON SENDER DEFINDED VISIBILITY SETTINGS - A method is provided for email processing to recipients based on user defined visibility settings. Input of email addresses for recipients in a privileged list and for recipients not in the privileged list is received. An email message is transmitted to recipients in the privileged list and to recipients not in the privileged list. The recipients in the privileged list are able to visibly distinguish recipients in the privileged list from the recipients not in the privileged list. The recipients not in the privileged list are unable to visibly distinguish the recipients in the privileged list. Input of email addresses for recipients in a restricted list and for recipients not in the restricted list is received. An email message is transmitted to recipients in the restricted list and to recipients not in the restricted list. Recipients in the restricted list are unable to visibly see recipients in the restricted list. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for correlating questions and answers in an instant messaging environment. First creating an instant messaging client at least two zones, each zone of the at least two zones corresponding to a unique end user, each zone of further comprising at least one textbox. After creating the instant messaging client, providing the instant messaging client to each end user of at least two end users. Receiving a message from an end user, the message comprising a first value and a second value and text. Finally, sending the text received in the message to each instant messaging client not being controlled by the sending end user, the text therein being displayed in a textbox having the second value and being located in a zone corresponding to the sending end user. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023587 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING RETENTION OF DATA MESSAGES - Subscribers connected to a publish/subscribe message broker receive messages on topic names to which they have subscribed. The subscribers receive any number of messages on each topic to which they have subscribed. When the broker receives a message on a second, pre-specified, topic, associated with a first topic, the broker removes any existing retained message related to the first topic. Thus any subsequent subscribers to the first topic do not receive the retained message when they subscribe, and thus do not receive out-of-date information. If, at a later date, a new message is published on the first topic subscribers will receive the new message if they are still subscribed. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023588 | DOCUMENT DATA COMMUNICATION IN AN IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus includes a first SOAP processing section and a first communication processing section. When the first communication processing section receives a data transmission request message from a client apparatus, the first SOAP processing section generates a response message described in XML. The response message includes document data specified by the data transmission request message. The first SOAP processing section instructs the first communication processing section to transmit the response message to the client apparatus. The client apparatus includes a second SOAP processing section and a second communication processing section. The second SOAP processing section instructs the second communication processing section to transmit the data transmission request that specifies the document data to the image forming apparatus. Upon receiving the response message from the second communication processing section, the second SOAP processing section extracts the document data specified by the data transmission message from the response message. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023589 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a data storage device that stores list data, and a simple object access protocol (SOAP) processor. When a partial-list-data-request message is received from a client apparatus by a communication processor, the SOAP processor generates a response message including a partial list data items that have not been sent among the plurality of partial list data items that are generated by dividing the list data, and causes the communication processor to send the response message to the client apparatus. The client apparatus includes a SOAP processor that causes a communication processor to send the partial-list-data-request message to the image forming apparatus, and that, when the response message including the partial list data item is received from the image forming apparatus by the communication processor, extracts the partial list data item from the response message. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023590 | System, Method and Apparatus for Communicating Via Instant Messaging - A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a number of distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A user, such as through a personal digital assistant device, may select one or more instant messages for transmission to one or more other users in the network. The instant messages may be sound instant message and/or text instant messages. During messaging, message status indicators provide users with the status of their respective messages. In one embodiment, the messages may be deemed to be either pending or received as distinguished by a pending status indicator and a received status indicator. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023591 | Method and Apparatus for Debugging Protocol Traffic Between Devices in Integrated Subsystems - A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a storage subsystem. This subsystem includes controller devices, storage devices, and a communications network. The communications network connects the controller devices and the storage devices. The communications network also includes a set of diagnostic outputs. The set of diagnostic outputs is configured to output data sent between two devices from the controller devices and the storage devices for monitoring. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100023592 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION BY PROXY - A system and method of proxy domain name registration permits a would-be domain name registrant anonymity. A registrar affords customers the opportunity to use the proxy registration. If the customer seeking registration of a domain name requests, the registrar obtains contact information needed for registration from a proxy entity established for this purpose. The registrar completes the registration of the domain name with the appropriate registry (i.e. “.com, .net” etc.). The contact information published in WHOIS is that of proxy entity. Contractually the customer is afforded control over the domain name. Emails intended for the customer are received by the proxy entity who may filter them if the customer requests. Emails sent by the customer are sent to the proxy entity who in turn sends them to the indicated addressee. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100030856 | INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATIONS IN SECURITY SYSTEMS - A method of operating a security system by generating an instant message at a first location, the instant message including security system data, then transmitting the instant message from the first location over a computer network to a second location via an instant message server computer. The instant message is received at the second location, and a security system function is initiated at the second location based on the security system data from the instant message. Security system configuration data may be provided with an instant message in order to enable remote programming of the security system via the instant messaging channel. Half-duplex audio communications may also be achieved by providing digitized audio files with instant messages that may be communicated between locations. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100030857 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE - A method and apparatus for assisting a user to formulate, apply and adhere to a changed behaviour program. The user's commitment is established by presenting a number of potential barriers to implementing a desired behavioural change; asking a user to select one or more potential barriers; presenting a selected number of possible solutions to the barriers, receiving user input selecting at least one solution; and prompting the user to enter a commitment to one or more actions intended to assist the behavioural change. Maintenance of an exercise regime is assisted by displaying a selection of options for activities to be included in the exercise regime; allowing a user to select activities; displaying a schedule of planned exercise activities; and sending an electronic alert message to the user in advance of the scheduled activity. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100030858 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CENTRALIZED CONTACT MANAGEMENT - Disclosed is a method and system for managing contacts for a communication system by storing contact information in a centralized storage system and permitting receiving users to access the centralized contact information storage system using a token passed with communications from a sending user. The communications system may be a trusted network with trusted sending and receiving members. Each communications system member provides contact information the member may wish to make available to other parties. The member may also create a policy defining which contact information may be made available to different classes of users. A member of the communications system generates a message to send to a receiving user. A token that identifies the sending user to the communications system is embedded into the message to be sent to the receiving user. The receiving user, after identifying the message as a message containing a token, may request contact information for the sending user from the communications system using the token identifying the sending user to the communication system. The communication system delivers a subset of the sending user's contact information to the receiving user based on the sending user's contact information and policy definitions stored in the centralized contact information storage system of the communication systems. The system and method are especially adaptable to e-mail communications, but other forms of electronic communications may also be included in an embodiment, either solely or in combination. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100030859 | Method for collaboratively tagging and highlighting electronic documents - One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for allowing a first user to view a collaboratively annotated electronic document. During operation, the system identifies a set of users based on the similarities of online behavior between the identified users and the first user. The system further ranks the identified users based on degrees of similarities between these users and the first user. The system then retrieves an electronic document selected for viewing by the first user and determines whether at least one of the identified users has annotated the electronic document. Based on the determination, the system augments the electronic document with annotations from the identified user and displays the annotated electronic document to the first user. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100030860 | Digital Camera - A digital camera comprises an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject and acquires image data, a communication unit for sending and receiving electronic mail data including image data, a recording control unit that records the image data acquired by the image-capturing unit as photographed image data upon a recording medium, an email for sending creation unit that creates an email for sending, to which is attached an image based upon the photographed image data recorded upon the recording medium, an email address setting unit that sets an email address as the destination of the email for sending, and an upper limit setting unit that sets an upper limit of data amount or an upper limit of the number of images, for the image to be sent, according to the email address that is set by the email address setting unit. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100030861 | METHOD AND TRANSMITTER FOR PRODUCING A DATA STREAM, METHOD AND RECEIVER FOR CALLING AT LEAST ONE DATA SEGMENT IN A DATA STREAM - A method produces a data stream. The data stream is subdivided into at least one data segment. A key which is associated unambiguously with that data segment is created. A node is selected from a set of nodes in a network for that data segment on the basis of the key associated with that data segment, and the data segment is transmitted to the node selected for that data segment. Furthermore, a method calls at least one data segment in a data stream by a receiver node. A key which is associated unambiguously with that data segment is produced. A node is selected from a set of nodes in the network for the data segment on the basis of the key associated with that data segment. A request message is sent to the selected node to transmit the data segment associated with the key, and the data segment is received by the receiver. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100030862 | TESTING A NETWORK SYSTEM - A network system uses a staging server. The network system comprises an existing server and a client device that transmits session traffic comprising an HTTP request message. The HTTP request message is duplicated to form duplicated HTTP request messages. It is determined whether the HTTP request message has a first session identifier. If so, a mapping relation between the first session identifier and a second session identifier is searched for. The duplicated HTTP request messages to the existing server and the staging server, respectively, are transmitted, wherein the session identifier of the HTTP request message to the staging server is replaced with the second session identifier based on the first session identifier and the mapping relation. One embodiment may also comprise receiving an HTTP reply message from the existing server and an HTTP reply message from the staging server. The HTTP reply message from the existing server and the HTTP reply message from the staging server are compared. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100030863 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING BINDING INFORMATION ON NETWORK SIDE - A method, apparatus, and device for managing binding information on the network side are provided. The method includes the following steps: an entity on a network side sends a Binding Revocation Indication (BRI) message to an entity which stores binding relations of mobile nodes (MNs), where the binding relation includes a mapping between a home of address (HoA) of an MN and plurality of care of addresses (CoAs) of the MN and the BRI message includes at least one CoA ID; and the entity which stores the binding relations of MNs deletes the corresponding binding relation of at least one CoA ID in the BRI message after receiving the BRI message from the entity on the network side. Thus, with the present invention, the network side can delete the binding relation between a specified CoA and an HoA in the case of plurality of CoAs, which makes it easier to maintain corresponding binding relations. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100030864 | Zero-Minute Virus and Spam Detection - Disclosed are systems and methods for detecting unwanted electronic message transmissions on a communications network. These include establishing a database for storing metadata associated with message traffic according to at least the source addresses of the senders of electronic message transmissions. The disclosed principles also include monitoring electronic message transmissions at the certain location on the electronic communications network. Also, included is populating the database with metadata derived from analysis of the monitored electronic messages, where the metadata includes metadata derived by analyzing the contents of the monitored electronic messages. Based upon the populated database, it is determined whether certain received electronic messages are likely to be unwanted based on an examination of the metadata associated with the source addresses of the senders of the received electronic messages and based on the analysis of the content of monitored electronic messages at least in part without reference to a promulgated database of “signatures” of known unwanted electronic messages. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100036915 | Client, Computer-Readable Medium, and Method for Acquiring URI - A client, a computer-readable recording medium, and method for acquiring a uniform resource identifier are provided. The client includes a message reception unit which receives a plurality of naming authority pointer (NAPTR) records from a domain name service (DNS) server, each of the NAPTR records comprising a URI and an identifier of a user of the URI; and a URI selection unit which chooses one of the URIs respectively included in the NAPTR records by referencing the identifiers respectively included in the NAPTR records. Accordingly, it is possible to choose a URI to be used by a client from among a plurality of URIs included in URI information received from a DNS server. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036916 | Facilitating an Extended IM Session in a Secure Way - A method includes steps of: receiving a prompt from a user to activate a message interface in order to begin a session; activating the message interface such that said message interface is presented to the user and is able to receipt input from the user; receiving user input from the message interface, including: a user selection of at least one target correspondent; and a first message to be sent to the at least one target correspondent; identifying the session with a unique identifier; and sending the first message to a messaging system for delivery to the target correspondent when the target correspondent is available. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036917 | ELECTRONIC MAIL REPLY WITH UPDATE - When a user reading a received e-mail message selects a reply with revisions option, a user interface object is generated that allows the user to directly revise the contents of the received e-mail message, and to provide a reason for the revision. The resulting reply message is a revision of the original message, and is transmitted to original sender and all other recipients of the original message, with indications of how and by whom the original message was revised. When multiple revisions of a message are received, the multiple revisions are automatically merged into a single user interface object such that all the revisions can be read simultaneously by the receiving user. The user viewing the merged revisions can select a show revision details user interface option that causes the details of the merged revisions to be displayed. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036918 | MESSAGE FILTERING SYSTEM - A message filtering system is provided including a message management unit and a message monitoring unit in communication with the message management unit. The message management unit is configured to send and receive message over a network and to route messages to the message monitoring unit based on a message source, and the message monitoring unit is configured to parse the message and locate identifiers in the message and to re-route the message based on the identifier located in the message. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036919 | MANAGEMENT OF MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE SERVICE USING DEVICE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE - A technique for remotely managing a message service of a terminal (device) is disclosed. Resources or parameters, especially for parameters related to a message service, of the terminal are provided in the form of a tree to a device management server, so that the device management server can remotely manage the message service of the terminal. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036920 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE CREATION OF A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON CAN COMMUNICATION CONTROLLERS FEATURING AN INCREASED DATA THROUGHPUT - Disclosed is a method for transmitting CAN messages via a CAN bus in a communication system including several network nodes with at least one respective CAN controller. According to the method, the authorization of a network mode to send a CAN message is arbitrated, an arbitration decision being made in a higher protocol layer than the transmission of the CAN message, and the CAN message is already sent by the transmitting network node, the latter providing a dominant level in the ACK field of the message. A network node which receives the CAN message does not generate a dominant level in the ACK field and does not send a complete error frame. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036921 | PROCESSING OF A MOBILE TERMINATED DATA OVER OVER SIGNALING MESSAGE - Systems and methods for processing a data over signaling (DoS) message at an access terminal are disclosed. A message is received at an access terminal. The message is decoded to determine if it is a DoS message. Upon detecting the DoS message a sleep delay timer is set to prevent the access terminal from entering a sleep state for a predetermined time. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036922 | System for Email Advertising - A system that bounces misdirected electronic mails for notification and monetization purposes or otherwise submits a series 550-error email, via a computer, back to the original sender. The system also relates to breaking down, collecting, and analyzing specific keywords included in sent emails where value is assigned to such keywords, which in turn compares the subject category that is most relevant to that email. From there, the advertisements are pulled from this subject category to include within the particular email. In this manner, the advertisements are tailored to individual sent emails based on the content contained within the email message. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036923 | Methods and Systems for Dynamically Migrating Electronic Messages From A First Messaging Platform To A Second Messaging Platform - Methods and systems for dynamically migrating electronic messages from a first messaging platform to a second messaging platform are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods and systems include the following: assigning a category to each electronic message from the first messaging platform; extracting messaging data from each of the electronic messages from the first messaging platform; collating the messaging data extracted; archiving the messaging data to generate archived messages; converting the messaging data to generate converted message data; transferring the converted message data to the second messaging platform; retrieving the electronic messages to generate shortcut collated data; locating the electronic message corresponding to the shortcut collated data; searching the electronic messages that were archived thereby generating a list of the electronic messages that meet the search criteria; converting messages to a format compatible with the second messaging platform; and transferring each of the electronic messages to the second messaging platform. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036924 | System and method for providing electronic reminders - A system and method is disclosed for electronically registering an event and reminding interested persons of the said event. The system comprises a client device with means for entering and sending event information, a client device with means for expressing interest in an event and receiving a reminder message, a server system with means for communicating with the client devices, storing event information, scheduling reminders, and dispatching reminder messages, and a telecommunications network through which event information and reminder messages are transferred between the client devices and server system. The server system contains a software module that uses rules, heuristics, and statistical data to calculate reminder time when not explicitly specified by the reminder recipient. The disclosed invention handles any event with a predefined time and supports different electronic data types, client devices, client software applications, and communication protocols through which event information and reminder messages are transmitted. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036925 | ALIAS MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS - Systems and methods of managing alias are disclosed. An alias management system can provide for creating distribution lists comprising one or more addresses. A list owner can utilize the system to retain ownership and control of the addresses by creating aliases for the list. Additionally, an alias policy can be established that includes rules and metrics that govern the use of the alias. The alias can be provided to alias users or members of a message distribution chain, preferably in exchange for a fee. The alias users can then use the alias to send message content, while the system can enforce the alias usage policy or provide an auditing trail on how the alias is used. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036926 | PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR CROSS-CHANNEL COMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to the provision of a trans-communication hub. The hub allows users who use different communication mechanisms to cross-connect, thus facilitating communication. This invention will be especially valuable for intergenerational communication where different levels of technological capability are involved. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036927 | Information Submission Tool for Website Development - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for developing a website. One such method transmits a questionnaire to a website client. The questionnaire includes questions for developing the website. A response to the questionnaire is received and examined for unanswered questions. For at least one unanswered question a calendar entry for a calendaring application is created. The calendar entry corresponds to an event and a rule, with the event describing the unanswered question and the rule comprising a reminder of the event. The calendar entry is transmitted to the calendaring application to remind the website client of the unanswered question. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100036928 | Personalized Location Information for Mobile Devices - Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device that has provided the signal. A geographic location for the mobile device is calculated by using the information contained in each of the received signals. A representation of the geographic location of the mobile device is generated. The representation of the geographic location is included within an electronic message that provides information describing a user of the mobile device to other users of an electronic communications system. The electronic message is transmitted to another device to provide an indication of the geographic location for the user to one of the other users of the electronic communications system. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100042687 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBATING PHISHING - In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method and system for combating phishing. A computer receives an email comprising a sender email address and a link. The computer determines a sender domain name from the sender email address and ascertains a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) corresponding to the link. The computer then determines a link domain name from the URL. The computer then determines whether the sender domain name is different than the link domain name, so as to classify the URL as a potential phishing URL. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042688 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVISION OF CONTENT DATA - A method for content data management and provision. The method includes receiving a registration message from a user, the registration message containing user identification information. The user may registered, the registering including storing the received user identification information. A blank message may be received, the blank message being addressed to a number associated with a broadcast entity. A user identity is determined based upon the received blank message, at least one of a date or a time of transmission of the blank message is determined, and a broadcast entity is determined based upon the blank message. The at least one determined date or time is compared with content broadcast information associated with the broadcast entity, and at least one piece of content data is identified based upon the comparing. The at least one piece of identified content data is transmitted to the user. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042689 | In-Line Security Device - Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses, systems, and computer readable media for providing security to an end device ( | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042690 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING SELECTIVE ENHANCED PRIVACY AND CONTROL FEATURES TO ONE OR MORE PORTIONS OF AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A method, system and program product for providing selective enhanced privacy and control features to multiple portions of an electronic message. The method includes creating an electronic message on a device having an enhanced data messaging tool installed thereon, and further selecting, using the enhanced data messaging tool, one or more enhanced privacy and control features for different portions of data contained in the message created, such that, different privacy and control features can be selected for different portions of data contained in the message. The method further includes transmitting the message created to respective devices of one or more intended recipients, such that, the message received on a respective device of a respective recipient notifies the respective recipient regarding the privacy and control features selected by the sender for one or more portions of data contained in the message. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042691 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGE RECEIVING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention relates to the field of mobile communications and in particular to messaging methods and systems using mobile communications terminals. In particular, but not exclusively, the invention relates to email messaging and in accordance with the invention there is established a connection between at least one mobile communication terminal and a server for a specific period of time which allows messages to be communicated to the terminal. The duration of the connection is typically such as to allow more than one message to be received in any specific time period. The connection time periods are interspersed with periods of non connection and the duration and frequency of said connection time periods may be controlled with respect user selected modes of operation and/or an operating parameter of the mobile communication terminal. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042692 | Widget execution device and associated application for use therewith - A method of controlling a widget execution device configured for use with a television includes: using a control application on a mobile terminal to wirelessly identify one or more widgets in a data network environment, such that the one or more widgets are suitable for download to the widget execution device; and using the control application to cause the download of the one or more widgets to the widget execution device. The method may - involve identifying the one or more widgets on a remote server, the remote server being in communicable relation with the widget execution device; and causing the download of the one or more widgets by selecting the one or more widgets. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042693 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DELIVERING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Method for delivering electronic messages to a user including: receiving an electronic message from a sending party, said message containing a destination identity associated with said user, retrieving an IP address currently assigned to a terminal used by said user, based on said destination identity associated with said user, and delivering the electronic message to said terminal with the retrieved IP address as the destination address. A corresponding arrangement is also described. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042694 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING BULK ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method and system for sending massive e-mail messages that include test messages sent to selected small portions of the global targeted audience. A message containing the text or content part of the message can be stored and retrieved for inclusion in each test message so that the content does not need to be repeatedly retyped. The audience members are selected randomly for each test so that the tests provide statistically valid results. The test results are conveniently grouped for ease of evaluation of the test feedback. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042695 | MESSAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS - The invention discloses a message playback apparatus. The message playback apparatus includes a receiving module, an analysis module, a storage module, and an output module. The receiving module is used for receiving a plurality of external messages. The analysis module is used for selecting at least one target message from the external messages. The storage module is used for storing the at least one target message. The output module is used for reading out the at least one target message and transforming the at least one target message to an output signal. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042696 | CELLULAR MESSAGING ALERT METHOD AND SYSTEM - An efficient method and system for utilizing existing wireless communication devices and networks, such as cellular phones and carriers, as an underlying infrastructure in providing emergency information to a targeted percentage of the population in a specified geographical location, without requiring individuals to subscribe to an alerting service and without using information solicited from or provided by the intended recipients of the alert. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CUSTOMIZING ANIMATED ENTITIES FOR USE IN A MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION APPLICATION - In an embodiment, a method is provided for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient. An image file from the sender may be received by a server. The image file may include an image of an entity. The sender may be requested to provide input with respect to facial features of the image of the entity in preparation for animating the image of the entity. After the sender provides the input with respect to the facial features of the image of the entity, the image of the entity may be presented as a personal animated entity to the sender to preview. Upon approval of the preview from the sender, the image of the entity may be presented as a sender-selectable personal animated entity for delivering the multi-media message to the recipient. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042698 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY MANAGING "MESSAGES SENT" FILE AND RESENDING OF MESSAGES FROM MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An enhanced email system incorporating mobile wireless communication devices includes program logic for efficiently managing (i.e., at least partially synchronizing) “messages sent” files in the mobile device and in a related message server. The exemplary program logic also more efficiently handles resending of previously sent email messages from the mobile wireless communication device (especially in the context of synchronized messages sent files) by sending to the message server only abbreviated unique message ID in the first instance. In this way, wireless bandwidth is conserved as is the device battery. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100042699 | Autonomous Routing of Network Messages - Messages from a network are processed so that each received message is received in one of a plurality of message formats, the content of each message is determined, and a network destination to which the message will be directed is selected, based on the determined message content. The message can be transformed to encompass a variety of format changes. Once content of the message is determined, if image data is detected in the message, then image analysis on the image data can be performed to detect message content that is used in selecting a destination. It can be determined if the message has been received for greater than a predetermined time limit without being directed to a selected destination and, if so, a notification action can be performed if the predetermined time limit has been exceeded. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100049804 | Instant Messaging - An instant-messaging system (IM) includes messaging devices equipped with individuating addresses, which include a client functionality and a transceiver or data-transmission-reception means for performing instant messaging between the messaging devices, and each of which messaging devices is equipped with messaging capabilities, which messaging capabilities differ at least partly between the messaging devices, and a server functionality arranged to maintain information on the messaging devices belonging to the instant-messaging system. The server functionality is arranged to maintain information on the messaging capabilities of the messaging devices. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049805 | Selection and Delivery of Messages Based on an Association of Pervasive Technologies - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for selectively delivering messages. In one embodiment, the process identifies a set of pervasive devices using detection data. The detection data comprises an electronic signature transmitted from the set of pervasive devices associated with a set of users in a monitored location. The process then assigns a demographic profile to each user of the set of users based on an identity of a pervasive device from the set of pervasive devices which is associated with the user. Thereafter, the process presents a set of messages to the set of users, wherein the set of messages are selected using the demographic profile assigned to each user of the set of users. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049806 | TIME-BASED MESSAGING RULES - Embodiments of the present invention may provide the ability for a user to efficiently and automatically organize an email inbox without the lack of attention that can result from prior art methods by providing time-based organization rules and/or organization rules that may be executed after an email message has been viewed. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049807 | SECURING OUTBOUND MAIL - Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for client-based filtering of email content. According to one embodiment, a method for providing client-based filtering of email content can comprise detecting an outbound email with a filter implemented on an email client application. A determination can be made with the filter whether the outbound email is addressed to a recipient outside of an organization. In response to determining the outbound email is addressed to a recipient outside of the organization, a determination can be made with the filter whether to allow the email to be sent. Determining whether to allow the email to be sent can comprise scanning the content of the email, and/or any attachments, and determining whether the content of the email contains protected information. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049808 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING INSTANT MESSAGING TO SCHEDULE CONFERENCE CALLS - In one embodiment, a method includes engaging in real-time communications using a first application, and dynamically granting permissions that enable a second participant to access a tool associated with a first participant through the first application. The real-time communications involve a plurality of participants that include the first participant and the second participant. The permissions are dynamically granted using the first application. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049809 | System and method for determining source of an email - A system and method for determining if a received email is human or machine generated. Each received email is stored temporarily after the sender's address is extracted. A record from a database of challenges is randomly selected. Each record in the database is an image of a commonly known object. Associated with each object is an easily answered question about the object. The answer to the question about the object is also stored with the question. Next a set of image transformations is randomly selected and applied to the randomly retrieved image. The transformed image is sent to the email sender with the challenge (question about the object in the image.) The challenge question is constructed so that answering the challenge is beyond the capabilities of current computing technology. The email is queued until a response to the challenge is received from the sender. When received, the answer provided by the sender is extracted and compared to the answer stored with the randomly retrieved image. If the two answers are the same, the email is moved to the receiver's inbox. Otherwise the email is treated as spam. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049810 | Server apparatus - A server apparatus includes a recording means in which first and second recording areas for recording a captured image transferred from an electronic camera have been set; a registration means for performing user registration for the electronic camera in response to a registration instruction by a user; and a record control means for recording the captured image in the first recording area before the user registration is performed by the registration means, and for moving the captured image that has been recorded in the first recording area into the second recording area and recording the captured image in the second recording area after the user registration is performed by the registration means. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049811 | Proxy email method and system - A system and method of proxy ( | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049812 | E-Mail Messaging System and Method for Enhanced Rich Media Delivery - A multi-user e-mail messaging system is described that is interfaced through the Internet and includes a first user group sharing a first server, which first server is interfaced to the Internet. In this system, after an e-mail message has been originated by an originating user of the first user group, the e-mail message is directed onto an e-mail enhancement path, and additional content is added to the e-mail message using the e-mail enhancement path to produce an enhanced e-mail message. Thereafter, the enhanced e-mail message from the e-mail enhancement path to the intended recipient. In one feature, the path taken by an incoming e-mail message is different from an outgoing path taken by an e-mail message sent from the first user group. The outgoing path defined to the intended recipient includes the enhancement path. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049813 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A CONTEXT OF A MESSAGE - The present invention relates to a system and method for determining a context of a message which has one or more domain names associated with it. The method comprises extracting the domain names from the message. The domain names correspond to a sender of the message, a recipient of the message and/or one or more users marked on the message. The domain names are then analyzed and a context of the message is determined based on the analyzing step. In an embodiment, the method further comprises inserting in the message commercial content that is relevant to the context of the message. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049814 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ONE OR MORE COMMERCIAL CONTENT ON A BOUNCE EMAIL - The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying one or more commercial content on a bounce email. The method comprises determining a failed delivery of an email originating from a first user and destined for a second user. In response to the failed delivery, a bounce email is sent to the first user. One or more commercial content is inserted within the bounce email before sending it to the first user. In an embodiment, the commercial content relevant to the content of the email is inserted in the bounce email. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049815 | Programmable and Extensible Multi-Social Network Alert System - Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are presented regarding alert processing. An alert may be received or generated with respect to one or more portals, such as social-networking websites, enterprise servers, and other data sources. Requests associated with one or more portals may be received at an MTproxy. The request may come from an MTclient and may include state information about alerts. At the MTproxy, a user monitor thread is generated in response to the request. The user monitor thread may be associated with a user of the MTproxy. One or more alertlets associated with the user monitor thread may be generated. Each alertlet may be associated with a feature, or specific type of information, and a portal. At the alertlet, information concerning the portal may be determined. A mashup may be generated and sent based on the information. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049816 | Methods, Computer Programs, And Apparatus For Performing Format Conversion Of Files Attached To Electronic Messages - Methods, computer programs, and apparatus for performing format conversion of a file attached to an electronic message. A message entered by a user is accepted. The user's selection of a file is also accepted, and the file is copied for accompanying the message as a file attachment. The file attachment is in a first file format of a file category. The file attachment is converted from the first file format to a second file format of the file category. The message entered by the user is transmitted, and the transmitted message is accompanied by the converted file attachment in the second file format of the file category. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049817 | Method and messaging system for managing media contents in uniform storage - A method for managing media contents in a uniform storage includes: storing media contents and media content metadata corresponding to the media contents at a messaging system network side, performing management operations on the media contents by a user client based on the media content metadata. A messaging system for managing media contents in a uniform storage includes a user client and a network uniform storage entity, wherein the user client is configured to send a request for managing media contents to the network uniform storage entity; the network uniform storage entity is configured to store the media contents and media content metadata, and perform operations corresponding to the management request from the user client based on the media content metadata. Therefore, the user client may perform various management operations on the media contents stored at the messaging system network side. Accordingly, the user experience is improved. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049818 | EMAIL SERVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - An email system comprises a plurality of email servers connected by a data communications network. The email system avoids single points of failure by employing multiple email servers which self configure, without requiring dedicated servers, through self addressing and discovery and announcement protocols. An email server can act as a primary email server by executing an administration tool allowing an administrator to modify the configuration data set which the email servers utilize, and the primary email server will then announce the resulting change in the version level of the configuration data set to other email servers. Each email server will then determine and request any needed updates to its respective configuration data set from the primary email server or another email server. The resulting email system is: robust, avoiding single points of failure; scalable, as additional email processing capacity can be achieved by adding additional email servers; and is simple to administer as changes to the configuration data set can be made at any email server with a copy of the appropriate administration tool and such changes automatically propagate through the email system. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100057854 | REFERENCES TO HISTORY POINTS IN A CHAT HISTORY - A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program code for managing messages. Responsive to receiving a message at a data processing system, wherein the message comprises a number of message identifiers and metadata identifying the message as pointing to a number of messages in a message history store in the data processing system, the number of messages in the message history on the data processing system is identified to form an identified number of messages. A presence of the identified number of messages in the message history is displayed on a display in the data processing system. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057855 | TRACKING SUBJECT MATTER IN AN E-MAIL DISCUSSION - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for tracking subject matter of an e-mail discussion are described. A query e-mail is received, wherein the query e-mail includes an initial request and wherein the query e-mail commences the e-mail discussion. At least one marked response e-mail is received, wherein the at least one marked response e-mail includes information responsive to the query e-mail and is marked with an indication that the initial request has been resolved, and wherein the at least one marked response e-mail is appended to the e-mail discussion. At least one visual indicator in the e-mail discussion is provided that distinguishes at least one of the query e-mail and the at least one marked response e-mail when the e-mail discussion is opened at a later time. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057856 | MANAGING URGENCY INDICATORS IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - A rating is applied in connection with a sender of an electronic message and a use of an urgency indicator for the electronic message. A different electronic message is received from the sender, and an urgency indicator established for the different electronic message is modified responsive to the applied rating. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057857 | CHAT MATCHING - Techniques for communicating via an instant messaging service are provided. In one technique, a user of an instant messaging application selects a particular status that indicates that the user wants to chat. In response to the selection, the instant messaging application displays a list of references to other users that have also selected the particular status. In another technique, the user selects a topic about which the user wishes to discuss. References to other users that have selected the same or similar topic are displayed to the user. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057858 | LEVERAGING COMMUNICATIONS TO IDENTIFY SOCIAL NETWORK FRIENDS - A method for determining whether to recommend a social relationship between a social network member and another party is disclosed. Electronic communication activity of the social network member and the other party is monitored. Based on a number of characteristics of the communication, a determination is made as to whether to recommend the party to the member as a social network friend. The characteristics can include how the parties communicate—whether through email, instant messaging and/or voice communication, whether the parties send direct email messages to each other, whether they communicate as part of a group email message, the location of each parties address in the email message and whether communication includes sharing activity. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057859 | EMAIL CONFIRMATION PAGE FOR SOCIAL NETWORK NOTIFICATIONS - A communication confirmation message provides social networking events in combination with information regarding addresses to a member. The message can be used to suggest additional social network friends to members of a social network. The communication confirmation message is utilized to provide additional information on the social network member's friends, information from third party social networks, and recommendations to add individuals or second parties with whom the social network member communicates as friends. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057860 | CONFIRMATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF TRANSMISSION RECEPTION - Systems and methods of conveying feedback concerning transmissions sent using a one-to-many protocol are disclosed. Such feedback includes information indicating whether a message was received by anyone, by whom, whether the message was accessed, and whether a receiver of the message has acknowledged the message. A receiver is configured to provide such feedback, either in response to receiving a request to send feedback, or automatically. The feedback is sent via the same communications channel the message was sent on, or via a different communications channel. A message's sender is informed that feedback has been received for a given message, and a searchable log is kept of the feedback. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057861 | Dynamic Email Recipients Based on Entered Subject - A method is provided for dynamically inserting email recipients based on entering a subject. A subject is received being typed by a user for an email. The subject being typed is parsed. It is recognized that the subject has been previously stored with corresponding email addresses related to the subject. In response to recognizing that the subject has been previously stored, the previously stored corresponding email addresses that relate to the subject are inserted. The subject and the corresponding email addresses were previously typed by the user, such that the subject and the corresponding email addresses could be stored. The corresponding email addresses are respectively inserted in TO fields, carbon copy (CC) fields, and/or blind carbon copy (BCC) fields of the email in accordance with a manner in which the corresponding email addresses were previously typed by the user. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057862 | SOLUTION THAT LEVERAGES AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM TO MANAGE AD HOC BUSINESS PROCESS WORKFLOWS - A process definition entered into a user interface that is coupled with an instant messaging client application can be identified. The process definition can represent an ad hoc business process. The process definition can utilize entities defined in a contact of the instant messaging (IM) client application. The process definition can execute. Upon reaching a terminating condition defined within the process definition, results of executing the process definition can be presented via the user interface. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057863 | COMPOSING MESSAGE PROCESSING PIPELINES - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for composing message processing pipelines. Embodiments utilize intra-pipeline communication links to physically and/or temporally decouple pipeline stages, configure branching message flows, and bridge protocols. The use of intra-pipeline communication links permits composition of a message processing pipeline without having to alter the pipeline components or application. Each communication link is itself an application with incoming and outgoing message processing pipelines that bridge messages across time and/or space and application logic for satisfying message processing requirements. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057864 | EMAIL MESSAGES - The described implementations relate to email messages. One technique detects a link to a web-site in an email message. The technique causes content from the web-site to be visualized on a common display area with the email message for a recipient of the email message. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057865 | Transferable Debug Session in a Team Environment - Methods, systems and computer program products for transferring debug sessions in a team environment. Exemplary embodiments include a method for transferring a debug session, the method including receiving a message that a first machine is to transfer the debug session, establishing a connection with a target machine to receive the debug session, receiving a message from the target machine that the debug session is accepted, terminating a connection with the first machine and sending debug session connection information to the target machine. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057866 | DELIVERING AND REPLYING TO EMAIL USING HIDDEN ADDRESS - A method for use when an original email is sent from an originator to a receiver, having a real email address, at a destination email address, which includes a concatenation of an alias and a magic number, is provided and includes replacing the destination email address with the real email address of the receiver, adding a new header field to the original email indicating that the destination email address was an original destination of the original email and forwarding the original email to the receiver at the real email address. If the receiver replies with a reply email, the method further includes setting a from header field in the reply email with a new header field indicating that the destination email address was an original destination of the original email, and if the original email is appended, removing the new header field from the original email. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057867 | Method and System for message processing - Processing a message includes receiving at a message processing system the message that is distributed by a message distributor, the message having a message type, based at least in part on the message type, locating among a plurality of subscriber groups a subscriber group that subscribes to the message type, each of the plurality of subscriber groups having a unique identifier and comprising one or more message subscriber nodes, at least some of the one or more message subscriber nodes in each of the plurality of subscriber groups being connected to the message processing system, and transmitting the message to a message subscriber node that belongs to the subscriber group that is located. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057868 | Method For Delivering Primary Information That Exists in At Least One Electronic Form - The invention relates to a method for delivering primary information that exists in at least one electronic form, comprising the following steps: transmission of the primary information via at least one communication network ( | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057869 | Event Driven Email Revocation - An email revocation in which transmitted email can be recalled before a recipient is able to read the transmitted email is provided. An event server stores a transmitted email for a given time period or until being retrieved by a receiving email client. If the given time period expires or the email is recalled, the receiving email client is unable to retrieve the email. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057870 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LEVERAGING IDENTIFIED CHANGES TO A MAIL SERVER - A method and system for identifying changes to a data set, such as data within a mailbox, and performing actions based on the identified changes is discussed. In some examples, the system receives an indication of a change to a mailbox, creates a change journal entry for the change, and identifies data to be copied via the change journal entry. In some examples, the system leverages the change journal to associate messages with changes to a mailbox. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057871 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING SECONDARY VENDING OPTIONS - A system and method for communicating secondary vending options for a vendible media product having entertainment content therein is provided. The system comprises a transaction network, and a database in communication with the transaction network, wherein the database stores a plurality of digital video disc titles and a plurality of locations and release dates corresponding to the digital video disc titles. A vending controller at a vending location receives a user request signal for a digital video disc, and determines whether the digital video disc is available in a vending inventory at the vending location. A central controller receives a first signal from the vending controller, wherein the first signal comprises a secondary vending option and a user electronic mail address. The central controller receives a second signal from the vending controller, wherein the second signal comprises an indication that the digital video disc is available in the vending inventory. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057872 | MEDIA TRANSFER SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A media transfer system includes a media transfer messaging application stored on a central server to be downloaded by a plurality of client devices and stored thereon. The plurality of client devices are communication with a network. The plurality of client devices having the media transfer messaging application stored thereon are enabled to transmit media between one another via the network and are defined as a receiving client device when receiving media and a sending client device when sending media. The sending client device is authenticated prior to sending media to be defined as an authenticated sending client device, and media sent from the sending client device is received by the receiving client device as a message. The receiving client device is adapted to accept, reject or delay delivery of the message, and is adapted to send a message received from a sending client device to at least one receiving client device. The media transfer messaging application may include a network traffic load awareness system to determine optimal delivery times of the message. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057873 | CONTROL DEVICE AND ANALYZER - The present invention quickly resolves troubles in an analyzer and performs effective external quality control management. An analyzer ( | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057874 | Preventing wrongful transmission of message content - A method of restricting transmission of a message (step A) to an addressee unless said message contains previously specified data associated with the addressee, in which case the message is transmitted (STEP B) to the addressee. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057875 | MOOD-BASED MESSAGING - A method for social interacting, including using a portable messaging device for designating, from time to time, a plurality of friends, selecting a mood, sending one or more representations of the selected mood to each of the plurality of designated friends, further selecting an updated mood, and further sending one or more representations of the updated mood to each of the plurality of designated friends, to supersede the previously sent one or more representations of the mood. A user interface is also described and claimed. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057876 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SUPPRESSING UNDESIREABLE EMAIL MESSAGES - A system for suppressing delivery of undesirable messages through vulnerable systems. The system includes an emulator that emulates one or more of the vulnerable systems. A module associated with the emulator intercepts undesirable messages, which were originally intended to be sent through a vulnerable system. One embodiment includes plural emulators, which include one or more servers that are part of a network of servers. A controller communicates with one or more servers. In this embodiment, the controller includes a database capable of storing statistics pertaining to undesirable messages blocked by one or more of the servers. The statistics may include information pertaining to the sender(s) of the undesirable messages. Undesirable messages intercepted by the network of servers include email spam. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057877 | Method for Online Game System Triggering Instant Messaging Operation and Online Game System - A method for an online game system triggering an IM operation includes: setting a game user identification and a corresponding IM user identification in an online game server; detecting, by an online game client, whether an IM operation instruction regarding a game user identification is received, and querying for the IM user identification corresponding to the game user identification if it is determined that the IM operation instruction is received; and, invoking, by the online game client, an operation interface of an IM client, the IM user identification being taken as an invoking parameter and the operation interface corresponding to the IM operation instruction and being to trigger a corresponding IM operation. An online game system is also provided. Thereby, the IM operation can be triggered in an online game, and thus the process for triggering the IM operation is simplified and the IM client's system resources are saved. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057878 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION BY PROXY - A system and method of proxy domain name registration permits a would-be domain name registrant anonymity. A registrar affords customers the opportunity to use the proxy registration. If the customer seeking registration of a domain name requests, the registrar obtains contact information needed for registration from a proxy entity established for this purpose. The registrar completes the registration of the domain name with the appropriate registry (i.e. “.com, .net” etc.). The contact information published in WHOIS is that of proxy entity. Contractually the customer is afforded control over the domain name. Emails intended for the customer are received by the proxy entity who may filter them if the customer requests. Emails sent by the customer are sent to the proxy entity who in turn sends them to the indicated addressee. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057879 | RETRIEVING AND SNOOZING CATEGORIZED CONVERSATIONS IN A CONVERSATION-BASED EMAIL SYSTEM - A method and system for processing messages includes receiving a plurality of messages directed to a user. Each of the plurality of messages is associated with a respective conversation and list of conversations is displayed in an order determined in accordance with second predefined criteria, as a set of rows, where each row corresponds to one of the listed conversations and includes at least a sender list, a conversation topic and a date/time value. A user is enabled to identify one or more conversations in the list of conversations, to mark the identified conversations as belonging to a particular category, and to display another list of conversations comprising conversations marked as belonging to the particular category. A user may cause a conversation to be removed from certain displays, but to become visible again after the passage of a certain amount of time or the occurrence of an event. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100064010 | ENCOURAGING USER ATTENTION DURING PRESENTATION SESSIONS THROUGH INTERACTIVE PARTICIPATION ARTIFACTS - A presentation session can be identified in which at least one participant of the presentation session is associated with a computing device. A participation artifact can be conveyed to one or more participants. The participation artifact can be configured to solicit a response from a participant and to ensure that each artifact receiving participant is paying attention. The response can result from interactions between the associated participant and the computing device. The interactions can be specific to the participation artifact and can be responsive to a receipt of the participation artifact. A response to the participation artifact can be received from each participant receiving a participation artifact. The received response can be processed to assess an attention level of each participant receiving a participation artifact. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064011 | Automatic Non-Junk Message List Inclusion - Method to effectively include a transaction electronic mail (e-mail) message to a non-junk mail list of an email account of a user. The method includes interacting with the user to start to complete a business transaction at a transaction web site of a party. A confirmation step is defined to be a second to last step in a plurality of transaction steps to complete the business transaction. A request associated with the defined confirmation step is provided to the user and the request includes adding a transaction e-mail address to the non-junk mail list. The e-mail account is further received from the user, and properties of the received e-mail account are identified. The method further interacts with the user to log-in to the received e-mail account and interacts with the user to include the transaction e-mail address to the non-junk mail list of the e-mail account of the user. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064012 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS TO AUTOMATICALLY ADD SENDERS OF EMAIL TO A CONTACT LIST - A method for adding senders of email to a contact list, including: a user creating and storing a contact list in an email system; the user entering a rule into the email system defining when a sender of an email that is received by the user will be added to the contact list automatically by the email system based on text in the sender's email matching text required by the rule; the user receiving emails from a plurality of senders, some of the emails having the matching text required by the rule and others of the emails not having the matching text required by the rule; the email system automatically adding to the contact list only any of the plurality of senders that sent emails having the matching text required by the rule and that are not already included on the contact list. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064013 | E-Mail Monitoring System - A monitoring system is described which monitors the effect of down time of an e-mail server ( | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064014 | Distributing presence information - A method of distributing availability information from a first user terminal to at least one further user terminal connected via a communication network, comprising: executing a communication client at the first user terminal; the communication client accessing schedule data stored on a storage means relating to a user of the first user terminal; the communication client analysing the schedule data to determine a current status of the user; mapping the current status of the user to a selected one of a group of predefined availability settings at the communication client; and transmitting a message comprising the selected availability setting over the communication network to the at least one further user terminal. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064015 | System And Method For Collaborative Short Messaging And Discussion - A system and method for collaborative short messaging and discussion are described. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for collaborative short messaging and discussion, comprises grouping users into client networks based on existing shared attributes. System resources are partitioned for messaging across client networks. Users in a client network are allowed to view or respond only to messages within the client network. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064016 | Reduced Traceability Electronic Message System and Method - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. An electronic message is separated into a message content and container (header) information. In one aspect, the message content and header information are entered by a user separately and transmitted from the user computer separately. In another implementation, the message content and header information are displayed separately. In yet another implementation, an electronic message is permanently automatically deleted from the system at a predetermined time. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064017 | Labeling Messages of Conversations and Snoozing Labeled Conversations in a Conversation-Based Email System - A method system for labeling messages of conversations, where each conversation has a respective conversation identifier and comprises one or more messages sharing a common set of characteristics. A selected conversation has a plurality of messages associated with a first label. In response to an action specifying a second label to be associated with the selected conversation, the second label is associated with the messages of the selected conversation, such that the plurality of messages are each associated with both the first and second labels. An index entry for the second label is modified to account for the association of the second label with the messages. In some embodiments, a set of predetermined conditions is associated with the conversation; the first label is removed from the plurality of messages and is prevented from being automatically associated with newly received messages of the conversation until the predetermined conditions are satisfied. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064018 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Instant Messaging Information - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for processing IM information. The method includes: obtaining hyperlink information contained in IM information; obtaining original content information of a webpage corresponding to the hyperlink information; generating content abstract information of the webpage according to the original content information of the webpage; and displaying the content abstract information of the webpage. An embodiment of the present invention further provides an apparatus for processing IM information. According to embodiments of the present invention, when a user receives the IM information containing the hyperlink information, the user can obtain webpage contents corresponding to the hyperlink information contained in the IM information. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064019 | Method for Viewing Non-Image Attachments on a Portable Electronic Device - A method for viewing an attachment of an email message on a portable electronic device in which the attachment has a renderable format is provided. The method includes: requesting to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device, building a graph structure within an attachment server representing a map of the attachment, the graph structure including at least one renderable identifier corresponding to a page of the attachment, requesting rendering of the attachment, the rendering request being send from the attachment viewer to the attachment server and including the at least one renderable identifier, initializing a rendering library and storing rendering commands -corresponding to command types of the graph structure in the rendering library, drawing the rendering commands in an off-screen bitmap, saving the off-screen bitmap as a JPEG file, sending the JPEG file to the portable electronic device and displaying the JPEG file in the attachment viewer. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064020 | Method, apparatus and business system for online communication with online and offline recipients - The present invention comprises a method, apparatus and business system for allowing on-line communications with members of a group of recipients for whom the invention has been implemented. A group may, for example, comprise members of a particular business or profession. For example, a group may consist of doctors admitted to practice medicine in the United States. Individual members of the group may or may not have existing internet presences. The invention allows online users to communicate with each member of a given group regardless of whether or not the member has an existing internet presence. In one or more embodiments, the invention does so by setting up a database of contact information for members of the group, creating an internet presence for each member of such group, creating an on-line user interface allowing a user to access the member's created internet presence, and providing means of communications between the created internet presence and the member recipient. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100070581 | System and method using presence in a data network to facilitate communication - A method and system utilizing presence in a presence aware data/messaging network between a user and an organization for communication purposes to indicate when both parties are ready to engage in a dialog session or when one party has new information for the other party. The method and system can be further enhanced if the presence aware network also provides location information or other state information on the user. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070582 | Device Management Across Firewall Architecture - A technique that provides device management network for managing one or more devices located across a firewall. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by sending an Email, including an EDMP-PDU that uses SMTP, POP3, and/or IMAP as a transport mechanism, by a remote host. The Email sent by the remote host is then received by an agent as the firewall is configured to allow the Email. The agent then parses the received Email and reads it. The agent then initiates an action by creating an SNMP command, to be performed on one of the one or more devices, as a function of the parsed Email. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070583 | Method For Virtual Electronic Mail Address Generation and Usage - A method and system creates virtual email identifications and dynamically map the virtual email-ids to the real email identities. A virtual email identify will be described in a specific fixed syntax that is easy for the users to remember and implement. The virtual email-id is dynamically mapped to one or more real email-ids by using a database of employees or other personnel maintained by the organization. The database can have various configurations that will be a function of the organization of the entity and the relationships of the persons in the entity. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070584 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC E-MAIL VIEW CONVERSION - A method and system for dynamic e-mail view conversion. An e-mail inbox capable of displaying one or more e-mail messages associated with a particular thread can be dynamically consolidated. Next, the e-mail messages associated with the particular thread can be converted into a forum-like list. Thereafter, varying viewing options are provided with respect to the e-mail inbox in order to optimize user interaction with the e-mail inbox through the use of the forum-like list. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070585 | PRESENCE INDICATION CONFIGURATION METHODOLOGY - A presence model is maintained for a messaging system to message among a plurality of computing device users. A permission is maintained for providing to a first computing device a presence indication for a user of a second computing device. Based on an indication of a user of the first computing device not being in a messaging list for the user of the second computing device, the permission is maintained to provide only a basic presence indication to the first computing device for the user of the second computing device. From the first computing device, a message is caused to be sent to the second computing device. Based on the maintained permission, the basic presence indication for the user of the second computing device is provided to the first computing device and a user interface element is provided via which the user of the first computing device can be added to a messaging list for the user of the second computing device. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070586 | Asynchronous Queued Messaging for Web Applications - Various embodiments enable local web applications to communicate asynchronously with web based services and applications based on a local device's current state and a user's communications preferences. In at least some embodiments, a synchronization engine receives a message in a “Web Inbox” from a web based service or application. In at least some embodiments, the synchronization engine notifies a local web application of the message, sends the message to the web application, and/or loads the web application if it is not in session. The web application's response to the message may be transferred to a “Web Outbox” where it resides until being sent to the web service. The synchronization engine then determines a time to transmit the response to the web service by querying the local device for its current state and a user's communication preferences. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070587 | EMBEDDING RESURFACING TRIGGERS IN CLIENT SIDE RECIPIENT ELECTRONIC MAIL - A method for utilizing embedded resurfacing logic in electronic mail (email), the method includes: receiving an email with embedded resurfacing logic at a recipient's email client; determining whether the recipient has opened the email; wherein in the event the email has not been opened: determining whether a triggering event has occurred; wherein in the event a triggering event has occurred and has not exceeded a maximum number of triggering events: generating a resurfaced email entry at the top of the recipients email inbox, and wherein the triggering event is a predefined time interval in which the recipient has not opened the email. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070588 | RELIABILITY FOR INSTANT MESSAGING BASED ON END POINT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - A reliable IM system is disclosed including an end-to-end mechanism to make sending and receiving IM text messages more reliable. The reliable IM system may include a reliability-enabled client device server device, each including a reliability-enabled messenger component for adding message ID numbers to outgoing IM messages and sending message-specific acknowledgments (ACK) back to a sending client. The reliable IM system may resend a sequenced message N times when the message is identified as missing. The reliability-enabled client and server may be used to communicate with either reliable or non-reliable clients (for example, clients that do not have the reliability-enabled messenger component). An offline storage may be used to accept and store IM messages for offline clients while sending ACKs back for the received messages. Duplicate and lost sequenced messages are handled by deleting duplicate messages and resending lost sequenced messages at the client and/or server to maintain normal IM transactions. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070589 | INTELLIGENTLY ANTICIPATING AND/OR PRIORITIZING EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH A WIRELESS CLIENT - The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can anticipate relevant events associated with a profile derived from a wireless service account provision. In addition, the architecture can provide one or more recommendation for confronting the event, and further prioritize both the event and the associated recommendation(s). In an aspect of the disclosed subject matter, the priority ascribed to a particular event (or recommendation associated therewith) can be dependent upon the unique profile of the client and can further be dependent upon other contemporaneous events. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070590 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - Methods and apparatus for communication by electronic mail have been provided, for example, communication by sending an electronic message to primary (To) and courtesy copy (Cc) recipients, and sending a message and comment to one or more blind copy (Bcc) recipients while withholding the comment from the primary (To) and courtesy copy (Cc) recipients. An embodiment of the invention is a method of communicating by electronic mail. The method comprises forming a message, acquiring a comment window, forming a comment within the comment window, selecting which of recipients is a first recipient and which of the recipients is a second recipient, sending a first electronic mail to the first recipient, and sending a second electronic mail to the second recipient. The first electronic mail comprises the message. The second electronic mail comprises the message and the comment. The comment is only sent in the second electronic mail. The invention enables, for example, private communications with selected recipients of an electronic communication without having to compose two separate communications. For example, a single composed email may be sent to all recipients, while a comment may be sent to only selected recipients. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070591 | ADDRESS REPLACEMENT IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - Methods and apparatus for communication by electronic mail have been provided, for example, communication from a blind copy recipient responding to an email while protecting the identity or existence of the Bcc recipient. An embodiment of the invention is a method of communicating by electronic mail. The method comprises the steps of forming a first original electronic mail by an originator, replacing a second recipient address associated with a second recipient with a third recipient address associated with a third recipient, sending the original electronic mail to a first recipient, and forwarding, by the third recipient, a first electronic mail to the second recipient. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070592 | RECEIVING EMAIL WITHIN AN EMAIL THREAD - Methods and apparatus for communication by electronic mail have been provided, for example, allowing or disallowing a blind copy (Bcc) recipient, of an original electronic mail, to receive reply electronic mail. An embodiment of the invention is a method of communicating by electronic mail. The method comprises forming a decision to allow or to disallow a first recipient to receive a first reply electronic mail, and forwarding the first reply electronic mail to the first recipient. An originator of an original electronic mail forms the decision. The invention enables, for example, enabling a Bcc recipient to receive reply electronic mails or reply email on a selective basis and doing so while not disclosing the identity or existence of the Bcc recipient to the other recipients. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070593 | VISUALIZING FEATURES OF MESSAGES COMMUNICATED BETWEEN USERS - In a computerized method of visualizing features of messages communicated between a first user and a plurality of other users, a topic is identified and a visualization based upon messages containing at least one of the topic and a resource related to the topic is created. More particularly, the visualization is created to include at least one of user graphical representations and message graphical representations, and a resource graphical representation, such that, a user may easily identify features of the messages. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070594 | ELECTRONIC MAIL TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM - An electronic mail transmission/reception system is provided, capable of maintaining the confidentiality of attachments, thereby ensuring the security of the attachments. A system management server | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070595 | CONTENT UPDATE FROM A SERVER TO A CLIENT TERMINAL IN A DYNAMIC CONTENT DELIVERY (DCD) SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for content update from a server to a client terminal in a dynamic content delivery (DCD) system, comprising receiving a first message containing an identification information of one or more contents available for update from the server by the client terminal, sending a second message containing the identification information of an specific content to be updated among the one or more contents to request content update to the server; and receiving a third message containing the content or the address thereof corresponding to the identification information contained in the second message to respond to the second message. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070596 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An information management server includes an information provision request receiving unit which receives an information provision request together with request information, a probe information provision requesting unit which performs the probe information provision request to the probe information providing apparatus, a probe information obtaining unit which obtains the probe information from the probe information providing apparatus, a message information provision requesting unit which performs the message information provision request to the message information providing apparatus, a message information obtaining unit which obtains the message information from the message information providing apparatus, a response-to-request information generating unit which generates response-to-request information corresponding to the request information by using the probe information and the message information, and a response-to-request information providing unit which provides the response-to-request information to the information provision requesting apparatus. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING RELIABILITY OF DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS - A system and method are disclosed that separate control functionality from the management functionality for conducting electronic transactions. The control functions are performed by a third party resulting in a low overhead since significant overhead is incurred in response to an anomalous event, thus facilitating high throughput electronic transactions when anomalous events are infrequent. Further, the third party does not need to have access to confidential information since it only controls by observing, validating and certifying the observed communications in a specified manner to prevent confidential information from leaving the context of the transaction. Management of the transactions based on consideration of substantive information is provided by the participants. A preferred system of the invention comprises a validation authority, a logical boundary at which validation authority undertakes control of communications, and validation rules specifying parameters for observation and the nature of comparisons. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070598 | System and Method for Exchanging Connection Information for Videoconferencing Units Using E-mails - A videoconferencing system includes a first videoconferencing unit coupled to a network and associated with a first e-mail address. The first videoconferencing unit receives a second e-mail address and automatically sends a request e-mail requesting connection information to the second e-mail address. A second videoconferencing unit is coupled to the network and is associated with the second e-mail address. The second videoconferencing unit receives the request e-mail and automatically returns a response e-mail including connection information to the first e-mail address. The first videoconferencing unit receives the response e-mail and automatically obtains the connection information from the response e-mail. Using the connection information, the first videoconferencing unit initiates a videoconference call with the second videoconference unit. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070599 | System and method for monitoring informational resources - A system and method are provided to monitor informational resources, such as websites. A plurality of host units support one or more informational resources accessible over a network, such as the Internet. A plurality of monitoring units located on a distributed computer system are coordinated to access the network and monitor the informational resources to determine if they are accessible and to evaluate their performance. Preferably, a central control unit manages the monitoring units. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070600 | METHODS AND MEDIA FOR EXCHANGING DATA BETWEEN NODES OF DISCONNECTED NETWORKS - Methods and media for exchanging data between nodes of disconnected networks are provided, including: determining a query type based on whether a query received at a first node includes at least one keyword or at least a portion of a uniform resource identifier; performing a search of a cache based on the query and the query type; converting the query into a formatted query document; storing the formatted query document in a database, if the search of the cache does not yield at least a predetermined number of data items; retrieving the formatted query document from the database at a predetermined interval; multicasting the retrieved formatted query document from the first node to at least a second node; and receiving, at the first node, a formatted response document from the second node, the formatted response document resulting from a search of a cache of the second node. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070601 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC MAIL OR MESSAGING SYSTEM IN WHICH INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH AN ATTACHMENT IS SENT TO A DESTINATION FOR EVALUATION BEFORE SENDING THE ATTACHMENT - An electronic mail/messaging system is operated by compiling information associated with an attachment for an electronic mail at a source. The information includes initial information and descriptive information. The initial information is sent to a destination. A determination is made whether the destination has a file that matches the attachment based on the initial information. The attachment is sent to the destination if the destination does not have the file. The descriptive information is sent to the destination if the destination has the file. A determination is made whether the file matches the attachment based on the descriptive information. The attachment is sent to the destination if the file does not match the attachment based on the descriptive information. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070602 | Composing Packages of Electronic Mail Attachments - The present invention is directed to a method and system for composing a package of application files to be sent as e-mail attachments in e-mail communications. A plurality of data structures are created, wherein each data structure groups together a plurality of different user application files designated as attachments to an e-mail communication. Application files designated from within user applications are associated with selected data structures, such that each designated application file is associated with a selected data structure. During composition of an e-mail communication having attachments, a list of the data structures containing application files are provided. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100077032 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED MATCHING BASED ON QUESTION RESPONSES - In one example embodiment, an apparatus is provided that includes a central website that interfaces with one or more end users to establish a profile for each of the end users to be used in matching the end users to each other for a potential relationship. Information is provided in the profile and the information includes relevant characteristics of corresponding end users. A first end user is asked one or more questions after their profile is established, the questions being posed to a second end user whose respective profile has also been established and whose profile has already been matched to the first end user's profile. Answers for the questions from the first and second end users are compared and a subsequent message is sent to the first end user if the answers provided by the first end user and the second end user are compatible. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077033 | Method and System for Facilitating Contacting People Using Electronic Devices - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using improved approaches to contact users that can be contacted in a variety of different ways are disclosed. According to one aspect, one user is able to be automatically informed of an appropriate (e.g., preferred) way to contact another user. Once informed of the appropriate way, another user can be contacted (automatically or on user request) using the appropriate way. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077034 | MODIFYING ENVIRONMENTAL CHAT DISTANCE BASED ON AVATAR POPULATION DENSITY IN AN AREA OF A VIRTUAL WORLD - A mechanism for modifying a chat distance associated with an environmental chat based on the avatar population density of an area of a virtual universe associated with the environmental chat. An initial environmental chat distance may be determined based on the avatar population density, i.e., the number of avatars, in the area of the virtual universe associated with the environmental chat. The environmental chat distance may be modified in response to a change in the number of avatars in the area of the virtual universe associated with the environmental chat. The environmental chat distance may be modified such that the environmental chat distance is inversely proportional to the detected number of avatars in the virtual universe area associated with the environmental chat. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077035 | Optimized Polling in Low Resource Devices - Methods and systems for optimizing server polling by a mobile client are described, thereby allowing mobile terminals to conserve battery life by more efficiently using resources such as the processor and transceiver in the mobile terminal. A broker system may be used to minimize wireless communication traffic used for polling. A broker stub intercepts server polling messages at the client, multiplexes the sever requests together, and forwards the multiplexed message to a broker skeleton that de-multiplexes and forwards the messages as appropriate. Polling may also be dynamically adapted based on user behavior, or a server guard may be used to monitor changes to data, and notify a client to poll its respective server when the server guard detects new or updated data on that server for that client. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077036 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVELY OBTAINING ACCESS TO RESTRICTED CONTENT - The present invention is directed to a system, method and program product for interactively obtaining access to restricted content. A system is disclosed that includes a first device operable by a restricted party to transmit an access request to a restricting party. The access request requests access to the restricted content or to restricted event. A server receives the access request and relays it to the restricting party. A second device that is operable by the restricting party receives the access request from the server and transmits an access request response to the first device via the server. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077037 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING EMAILS TO A RECIPIENT IN THE FASTEST POSSIBLE FASHION - The present invention relates generally to a method and system for delivering a message from a sender computing system to a recipient computing system and specifically to a method and system for delivering the message directly to the recipient or as close to the recipient's location as possible in order to enhance the recipients experience. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077038 | Method and Arrangement For Handling A Subscription For Client Data - A method and arrangement for temporarily withholding notifications with client data of at least one observed client to a watching client when the watching client has an ongoing subscription for receiving the notifications from a client data server. When the watching client receives a subscription suspend trigger, the watching client sends a subscription suspend message to the client data server indicating that client data notifications should be temporarily withheld while retaining the subscription. When the watching client subsequently receives a subscription resume trigger, the watching client sends a subscription resume message to the client data server indicating that the suspended subscription shall be resumed and allowing client data notifications to be delivered again. The watching client then subsequently receives client data notifications according to the subscription. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077039 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLAYING VIDEO ON A MOBILE DEVICE - The invention provides a system and a method for automatically switching from a local storage to a remote storage for recording a broadcast video stream, the switching being triggered by the fact that the local storage is almost full, and for automatically switching from a local storage to a remote storage for playing a broadcast video stream in a delayed manner, the switching being triggered by the fact that the video frames in the local storage are exhausted. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077040 | DETECTION OF OUTBOUND SENDING OF SPAM - The invention provides for at least three processes for detecting the probability of abusive use of a message account for sending large amounts of unsolicited messages, such as spam, to other message accounts. For example, information provided at registration for a new message account can be processed to determine the likelihood of abusive use of that message account. Also, inbound messages can be processed to determine if the message account that sent the inbound message is abusing the use of that message account. Additionally, outbound messages can be processed to determine if the message account that is attempting to send an outbound message is abusing the use of that message account. Each of these three processes can operate separately or in any combination with each other to further improve the probability that abusive use of a message account will be detected promptly and accurately. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077041 | Ranking Messages in an Electronic Messaging Environment - The present invention provides methods and systems to score messages exchanged over a network. The methods and systems may gather message interactions of a recipient. A message originating from a sender and destined for the recipient may be received at an email client. A sender score of the message may be determined based on one or more of sender information, the gathered message interactions, and one or more attributes associated with the message. The message may be marked with the determined score in a user interface associated with the email client. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077042 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ONE OR MORE PROCESSES IN A BUSINESS CENTER - The present invention provides a system and a method for managing a customer contact center. The system includes a one click sign-in module, a client-host, and a control module. The one click sign-in module enables one-click authentication of an agent for logging in to a plurality of applications during a data transaction. The client-host displays the plurality of applications to the agent on a single screen to enable access to critical information related to the data transaction from the plurality of applications. Further, the control module records the critical information of the data transaction for data analysis to manage one or more processes related to the data transaction. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077043 | DETECTING SPAM FROM A BULK REGISTERED E-MAIL ACCOUNT - The invention provides for at least three processes for detecting the probability of abusive use of a message account for sending large amounts of unsolicited messages, such as spam, to other message accounts. For example, information provided at registration for a new message account can be processed to determine the likelihood of abusive use of that message account. Also, inbound messages can be processed to determine if the message account that sent the inbound message is abusing the use of that message account. Additionally, outbound messages can be processed to determine if the message account that is attempting to send an outbound message is abusing the use of that message account. Each of these three processes can operate separately or in any combination with each other to further improve the probability that abusive use of a message account will be detected promptly and accurately. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077044 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A controller of a mobile communication apparatus, such as a cellular phone, that detects whether an external apparatus is connected to an interface, and transmits an email received from a base station to the external apparatus when the external apparatus is connected to the interface. The controller of the mobile communication apparatus also sets an email address of the mobile communication apparatus to a sender address of an email created by the external apparatus connected to the interface, and transfers the email created by the external apparatus to a base station. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077045 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING MESSAGING BETWEEN USERS OF DIFFERENT SOCIAL NETWORKS AND BETWEEN USERS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS AND USERS OF OTHER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for enabling messaging between users of different social networks is disclosed. Additionally, a method for enabling messaging between users of social networks and users of other communication systems which are not social networks is displosed. This is done by providing an identification mechanism to allocate unique user IDs guaranteeing user ID uniqueness across the different social networks and the other communication systems and by a mediation system comprised of social network specific and communication system specific interfaces and a mediation server connected to these interfaces. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077046 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MANAGING MAINTENANCE INFORMATION IN AN AIRCRAFT - The invention in particular has as an object a method and a device for management of maintenance information items in an aircraft comprising a centralized maintenance system. After a maintenance message has been received ( | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077047 | System and method for broadcasting messages to user sessions - Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program product for broadcasting a message to multiple users in a terminal server environment. Messages can be sent from the administrator to one or more user sessions using a communication path such as a file, a pipe, a socket, or a system protocol, such as Mach messaging. By using such a communication path rather than a central messaging system daemon or driver, user sessions can remain isolated from one another and established boundaries between user sessions can be maintained. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077048 | INTERNET IDENTITY GRAPH AND SOCIAL GRAPH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A server computer provides to a client computer a web page permitting an internet user to enter an internet identity to be secured. The server receives an input indicating that an internet user has entered an identity and requested that the identity be secured on a plurality of web sites. The internet identity is registered on the plurality of web sites and the registration is verified to said internet user. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077049 | Reconfiguring an Electronic Message to Effect an Enhanced Notification - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077050 | Tracking of Electronic Mail Messages - Electronic mail messages are tracked for the sender by allowing the sender to flag the electronic mail messages. Flagging the electronic mail messages allows for various notifications to be provided to the sender. For example, notification may be provided to the sender by placing an item in a to-do bar for the sender that corresponds to the electronic mail message. As another example, notification may be provided to the sender by firing a reminder at some future time that corresponds to the electronic mail message. As another example, notification may be provided to the sender by including an indication in a related incoming electronic mail message that the incoming electronic mail message is related to the electronic message sent by the sender. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077051 | Phonetic Filtering of Undesired Email Messages - Several embodiments, among others, provided in the present disclosure teach a filtering of email messages for spam based on phonetic equivalents of words found in the email message. In some embodiments, an email message having a word is received, and a phonetic equivalent of the word is generated. Thereafter, the phonetic equivalent of the word is tokenized to generate a token representative of the phonetic equivalent. The generated token is then used to determine a spam probability. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077052 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOGNIZING DESIRED EMAIL - A system and method for recognizing an incoming email as a desired email examines outgoing email messages to arrange the email into fragments for which representations are created and stored. When an incoming message is received, the message is arranged into fragments for which representations are created. The representations of the incoming message are compared to the stored representations and if the matches between stored representations and the representations of the incoming message meet a predefined threshold test, the incoming message is recognized as being desirable. An incoming email message which has been recognized as being desirable can be subjected to a lesser examination to recognize a SPAM message, or to no further examination to recognize a SPAM message. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077053 | Alias Management Platforms and Methods - Systems and methods of managing aliases are disclosed. An alias management system can be configured to offer access to one or more aliases that point to distribution lists, where aliases can be managed as distinct objects relative to distributions lists or addresses. An alias user can submit desirable criteria for content distribution chain that includes properties of a desirable alias. An alias management server can be used to identify distributions lists that satisfy at least some of the desirable criteria. Additionally, an alias can be created that adheres to at least some of the properties or attributes of the desirable alias. Alias users can be permitted to utilize the alias subject to any rules or polices in place. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100082748 | System and Method for Improving Scalability and Throughput of a Publish/Subscribe Network - Improving scalability and throughput in publish/subscribe messaging systems by allowing the spoke systems to vary the member of the hub collective that is attaches to. The scalability is improved because the spoke systems do not have to have a long lasting attachment to a specific hub system. Instead, the spoke systems can be redistributed more evenly when new spoke systems are added or removed. The throughput is increased by distributing workload and fan-out responsibilities within hub collectives. Availability is improved because single points of failure are removed. Ease of administration is also improved over a hierarchy by allowing child nodes to automatically change parent nodes if a parent node is modified or removed. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082749 | RETROSPECTIVE SPAM FILTERING - A mail system and mail delivery method wherein messages are tracked even after delivery and can be removed from a spam folder post delivery. In a disclosed embodiment mail features indicative of spam or normal email are analyzed and appended to the message header, which is later examined and used to move a reclassified message. False negative and false positive classification can be rectified. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082750 | DYNAMICALLY TRANSFORMING DATA TO THE CONTEXT OF AN INTENDED RECIPIENT - A sender can create a message for transmission to an intended recipient. During creation of the message, the sender may insert data into the message that is expressed with reference to the context of the sender. When the sender inserts data into a message that is expressed with reference to their own context, they may be asked whether the data should be dynamically transformed to the context of the intended recipient. If the sender indicates that the data should be transformed to the context of the intended recipient, the context of the intended recipient is determined. Once the context of the intended recipient has been determined, the data in the message is transformed to the context of the intended recipient and the message containing the transformed data is transmitted to the intended recipient. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082751 | USER PERCEPTION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Determining user use context for electronic messaging and disseminating a subset of the user use context to recipients and/or senders of such electronic message is disclosed herein. By way of example, the user use context can be based on a general context of recipients, such as speed with which a message is disseminated or consumed, number of child messages spawned, rate at which such messages are spawned, and so on. Additionally, user use context can also be based on individual context, by comparing individual interaction to a message (e.g., time to read, time to delete, number of child messages, etc.), with a baseline usage context determined for the individual. The context can be disseminated to recipients of the message or to the sender, to provide an overview of perception of the electronic message. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082752 | QUERY LOG MINING FOR DETECTING SPAM HOSTS - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for detecting spam hosts. In one embodiment, one or more graphs are generated using data obtained from a query log, where the one or more graphs include at least one of an anticlick graph or a view graph. Values of one or more syntactic features of the one or more graphs are ascertained. Values of one or more semantic features of the one or more graphs are determined by propagating categories from a web directory among nodes in each of the one or more graphs. Spam hosts are then detected based upon the values of the syntactic features and the semantic features. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082753 | ROLE-INDEPENDENT CONTEXT EXCHANGE - Technologies for conversations between various parties, the conversations including context information that can be persisted to maintain the conversation when the parties or the communications media they communicate over operate intermittently. In such a conversation, any party can embed its view of the context into a message and any party can send the next message regardless of role and regardless of the underlying network, transport, or application message exchange pattern. Such technologies provide for durable services. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082754 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INSTANT MESSAGES - Various aspects relate to using structured messages within one or more systems that implement instant messaging function in a distributed computing environment. In particular, structured information may be encoded and embedded in unstructured instant messages and communicated among one or more computer systems, networks, applications or other entities. In one aspect, instant messaging may be leveraged as middleware for application integration. Other aspects relate to using structured message information to perform functions in a distributed instant messaging system. For example, structured message information may be used to control the display of instant message information to a user, or may be used to control how the instant message information is distributed, processed, or otherwise handled by a receiving system, application or process. Other aspects relate to an interface for displaying information relating to a number of instant messaging conversations to a user. Further, aspects relate to using instant messaging in a trading environment. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082755 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INSTANT MESSAGES - Various aspects relate to using structured messages within one or more systems that implement instant messaging function in a distributed computing environment. In particular, structured information may be encoded and embedded in unstructured instant messages and communicated among one or more computer systems, networks, applications or other entities. In one aspect, instant messaging may be leveraged as middleware for application integration. Other aspects relate to using structured message information to perform functions in a distributed instant messaging system. For example, structured message information may be used to control the display of instant message information to a user, or may be used to control how the instant message information is distributed, processed, or otherwise handled by a receiving system, application or process. Other aspects relate to an interface for displaying information relating to a number of instant messaging conversations to a user. Further, aspects relate to using instant messaging in a trading environment. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082756 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INSTANT MESSAGES - Various aspects relate to using structured messages within one or more systems that implement instant messaging function in a distributed computing environment. In particular, structured information may be encoded and embedded in unstructured instant messages and communicated among one or more computer systems, networks, applications or other entities. In one aspect, instant messaging may be leveraged as middleware for application integration. Other aspects relate to using structured message information to perform functions in a distributed instant messaging system. For example, structured message information may be used to control the display of instant message information to a user, or may be used to control how the instant message information is distributed, processed, or otherwise handled by a receiving system, application or process. Other aspects relate to an interface for displaying information relating to a number of instant messaging conversations to a user. Further, aspects relate to using instant messaging in a trading environment. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082757 | ADDRESS QUALITY ENGINE - A method and system for communicating a message in an electronic messaging environment is provided. A method employed by the system may include generating a personalized communication model related to a user, determining the validity of a token associated with an intended recipient of the message based on information in the personalized communication model, extracting entities from the message, determining whether the entities extracted match the intended recipient, and indicating to the user whether the token is valid and whether the entities match the intended recipient. The tokens correspond to email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses associated with intended recipients. The personalized communication model includes the names and tokens associated with those individuals with whom the user communicates. The personalized communication model is seeded with information including social, spatial, temporal and logical information related to the user. The personalized communication model is generated by a network processor. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082758 | GLOBAL EMAIL ADDRESS REPUTATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods of filtering received messages to discard unsolicited messages using Silverlist filters and combinations of Silverlist filters and other types of filters are disclosed. In many embodiments, an appliance remote from a mail server is used to filter messages using at least a Silverlist filter prior to forwarding messages to the mail server. In a number of embodiments, a mail server applies a filtering process that includes a Silverlist filter and a challenge response filter. One embodiment of the invention includes a plurality of mail servers configured to maintain user mail accounts from which electronic mail messages can be exchanged via a network, a plurality of mail processing units connected to the network, where each mail processing unit acts as a gateway for at least one of the mail servers that filters incoming electronic mail messages, a global address reputation server connected to a global address reputation database and configured to communicate with the mail processing units via the network. In addition, at least one of the mail processing units is configured to track events associated with the filtering of electronic mail messages and forward tracked event information to the global address reputation server, the global address reputation server is configured to store event information received from the mail processing units in the global address reputation database, the global address reputation server is configured to develop sender reputation information concerning message senders from the event information stored in the global address reputation database, the global address reputation server is configured to provide sender reputation information concerning message senders to mail processing units, and at least one of the mail processing units that receives sender reputation information from the global address reputation server is configured to utilize the sender reputation information when filtering messages based upon the message sender. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082759 | COMMUNICATIONS GROUPED AS CONVERSATIONS - Described are embodiments for displaying groups of communications, such as messages, as a conversation. Conversations are groups of communications that can be traced back as related to an original communication. The embodiments allow a user to select a conversation mode for displaying communications, e.g., messages, as conversations. In response to the user's selection, embodiments provide for displaying a graphical element associated with a conversation. The graphical element can be selected to display the messages associated with the conversation. Additionally, embodiments provide for selecting a conversation and applying actions to the conversation, resulting in the application of the action to the messages that are associated with the conversation. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082760 | PERSONALIZED STORAGE ACCOUNTS IN AN ELECTRONIC FILE DELIVERY SYSTEM - An electronic file delivery system reduces the bandwidth an electronic mail server must dedicate to large files and decreases the storage space required for attachments in an electronic mail inbox. The system uploads the large file to the recipient's personalized storage account. The recipient receives an electronic notification of the file in their storage account. The recipient may access the file without additional burden on the electronic mail server resources. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082761 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADDRESS BOOK CONTACT MANAGEMENT - A method comprises receiving a notification to share contact information for a contact in an address book of a sender with a recipient; retrieving the contact information for the contact; and delivering the contact information to the recipient. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100088377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMAIL THREAD MANAGEMENT - A method and computer program product for defining a main email thread having a main thread distribution list defining one or more main email thread participants. One or more email messages may be associated with the main email thread. A sub email thread may be defined based upon, at least in part, the main email thread. The sub email thread may have a sub distribution list defining one or more sub email thread participants. The one or more sub email thread participants may include one or more of the main email thread participants. One or more email messages may be associated with the sub email thread. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088378 | MESSAGE MANAGEMENT BASED ON METADATA - A method includes receiving a message, determining at least one of a message importance level or a message delivery alert level based on one or more message characteristics associated with the message and generating metadata that indicates the at least one of the message importance level or the message delivery alert level with the message. The method further includes transmitting the message and the metadata toward a destination, receiving the message with the metadata, and providing notification and user interface indication corresponding to the at least one of the message importance level or the message delivery alert level or a storing of the message in an inbox folder corresponding to the at least one of the message importance level or the message delivery alert level. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088379 | SINGLE TOUCH E-MAIL MANAGEMENT - Responsive to receiving a user input to perform an email action on a selected email, a number of single touch buttons are displayed in association with the selected e-mail. Further, a plurality of operations associated with the single touch button on the selected e-mail is executed, wherein the plurality of operations manipulate the selected e-mail. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088380 | MESSAGE RENDERING FOR IDENTIFICATION OF CONTENT FEATURES - Architecture for detecting and removing obfuscating clutter from the subject and/or body of a message, e.g., e-mail, prior to filtering of the message, to identify junk messages commonly referred to as spam. The technique utilizes the powerful features built into an HTML rendering engine to strip the HTML instructions for all non-substantive aspects of the message. Pre-processing includes pre-rendering of the message into a final format, which final format is that which is displayed by the rendering engine to the user. The final format message is then converted to a text-only format to remove graphics, color, non-text decoration, and spacing that cannot be rendered as ASCII-style or Unicode-style characters. The result is essentially to reduce each message to its common denominator essentials so that the junk mail filter can view each message on an equal basis. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088381 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AN E-MAIL FLOW - A method for managing an e-mail flow between a plurality of messaging accounts ( | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088382 | DOCUMENT MANAGER INTEGRATION - A computer-implemented document management method is discussed. The method includes displaying in a messaging application a plurality of folders for storing electronic mail messages, analyzing content one or more of the electronic mail messages to locate identifiers associated with matters in a document management system, and generating a user-selectable object that, when selected, automatically causes the generation of a document management display for a user of the messaging application. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088383 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION APPARATUS FOR MESSAGE AND METHOD OF DATA EXTRACTION - A reception apparatus which receives a first and second message includes a determination unit configured to determine correspondence between the first message and the second message, an acquisition unit configured to acquire data length information expressing a data length from the first message, and an extraction unit configured to extract data which has the data length based on the data length information from the second message when the determination unit determines that the first message corresponds to the second message. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088384 | AUTOMATED DIGITAL MATCHING OF MESSAGES - A method and system of mediating an exchange of a series of digital messages between parties to ensure compliance with a predetermined messaging protocol associated with a transaction process. The mediation is achieved via an intelligent gateway located between an internal and an external communication network and comprises a component for monitoring messages passing through the gateway and determining whether the messages comply with or deviate from the predetermined messaging protocol, which may be coded in a global description language. The monitor may act passively and provide a notification of the degree of compliance or may actively block non-compliant messages. A mechanism is provided for replaying and fixing non-compliant messages. A system comprising several intelligent gateways includes a router for routing messages to a particular intelligent gateway according to destination. Information about the messages and their compliance can be tracked and sent to a central correlation unit for reconstituting a global picture of the transaction. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088385 | E-MAIL CERTIFICATION SERVICE - A method is provided to handle an electronic mail message such that the receiver of the e-mail message can verify the integrity of the message. A request is provided from a sender's side to a service. The request includes information regarding the e-mail message. The service processes at least a portion of the request to generate a result. For example, the service may encrypt the portion of the request, according to a public/private key encryption scheme, to generate a digital signature as the result. The service provides the result to the sender's side. At the sender's side, the result is incorporated into the e-mail message and the result-incorporated message is transmitted via an e-mail system. At the receiver's side, the result-incorporated e-mail message is processed to assess the integrity of the received e-mail message. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088386 | Preventing Execution of Programs that are Embedded in Email Messages - Systems and methods are presented which generate modified email messages, which are largely devoid of embedded functions, from original email messages, which have embedded functions. The embedded functions are amenable to self-executing codes such as viruses, worms, and Trojan programs Thus, the modified email message without these embedded functions, and any argument associated with these functions, provides a more secure email environment. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100094939 | TRANSIENT NETWORKS - The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate creation and management of an event-oriented transient network and can further manage decommission of the transient network. In particular, the architecture can construct temporary communities based upon a particular event, project, or activity; manage (e.g., filter, prioritize, or control) communications and content associated with the community; and disband the community by deconstructing the transient network according to an aging function that controls how the network decays. In addition, the architecture can leverage existing information (e.g. profile data) and content feeds associated with disparate social networking services or communities for the benefit of the temporary community. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094940 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING COMMUNITY NETWORK SERVICE INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method and system for sharing community network service information, characterized in that users can send their community network service information and their friend lists for real-time communication to a data server, and share the community network service information with the friends in the friend lists who have logged onto the data server. Thus, the users can share the community information from different community network service platforms with their friends. Additionally, the data server can periodically confirm whether the users and their friends update the community network service information or not and send the updated information to the users and their friends. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094941 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing method for acquiring entity information or reference information including information for specifying the entity information, the method includes: outputting the entity information when accepting an output request for outputting the entity information;
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| 20100094942 | AUTHENTICATION OF ELECTRONIC DATA - Systems and techniques for transmitting electronic data by receiving, at a communications system host, electronic data transmitted from a sender and addressed to an intended recipient; authenticating the electronic data based on attributes of the electronic data and appending information to the electronic data indicating that the electronic data has been authenticated. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094943 | ON-DEMAND SPAM REPORTING - A communications device is configured to report spam on demand. The spam is reported to a spam reporting service center in a communications network. As content is received by the device, the user of the device analyzes the content to determine if the content comprises spam. If the user determines that the content comprises spam, the user triggers the device to report the spam. The content can be of any type of content or combinations of content type, such as SMS, SMS, VM, email, VVM, VVM, and advertisements. The device comprises multiple clients configured to processes, respectively, each content type. In response to receiving the trigger, the appropriate client encapsulates the content. The encapsulated content is sent to a Report Spam client to generate a spam report. The spam report includes the encapsulated content and a disposition instruction. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094944 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM ANALYSIS SUPPORT PROGRAM, SYSTEM ANALYSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND SYSTEM ANAYLSIS SUPPORT METHOD - A system analysis support system supports analysis of status of operation of a network system. A storage unit stores an actual processing time taken by a server at a destination of a request message. When the response message is not found as a result of the search, a decision unit reads the actual processing time and makes a decision from an instant of sending of the request message as to whether or not the actual processing time for the request message has elapsed. When the actual processing time is judged to have elapsed, a determination unit determines an estimated instant of sending based on the instant of sending of the request message and on the actual processing time on the assumption that the response message has been sent. An associating unit associates the determined estimated instant of sending with the request message. An output unit outputs results of the association. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094945 | CACHING CONTENT AND STATE DATA AT A NETWORK ELEMENT - Methods are disclosed for caching content and state data at a network element. In one embodiment, data packets are intercepted at a network element. An application layer message, which specifies a request for specified data from a server application, is determined from the data packets. A first portion of the specified data contained in the network element's cache is determined. A message that requests a second portion of the data not contained in the cache is sent toward a server application. A first response that contains the second portion, but not the first portion, is received. A second response, which contains the first and second portions, is sent toward a client application. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094946 | Methods And Computer Programs For Formulating Messaging Platform Capacity Projections - Computer-executable methods and programs for formulating a planning recommendation for a messaging platform. Mailbox data is received specifying a projected maximum number of mailboxes. Growth assumption data is received that specifies a change in average message size of messages. Traffic assumption data is received that identifies a portion of message traffic projected to occur during any recurring time interval for which message traffic has previously exceeded a threshold. Baseline data is received specifying maximum performance capabilities of the messaging platform. Messaging platform data is received specifying a quantity of messages accepted, stored, deleted, and/or retrieved. A planning recommendation is generated by applying an algorithm to the mailbox data, traffic and growth assumption data, baseline data, and messaging platform data. The planning recommendation is placed into a physically tangible, humanly discernible form by printing the recommendation, displaying the recommendation, or outputting the recommendation in audible form. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100094947 | Address Book for Integrating Email and Instant Messaging (IM) - Systems and methods for integrating instant messaging (IM) services and email services are described. In one embodiment, the email services and IM services are integrated through an address book database. The address book database correlates email information of a contact with a reference identifier (ID). Additionally, one or more IM addresses of the contact are also correlated to the reference ID, thereby permitting further correlation of a contacts IM information with the contacts email information. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100100595 | SELECTIVE PUBLICATION OF E-MAIL ACCOUNT ACCESS FREQUENCY - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to e-mail account management and provide a method, system and computer program product for selective publication of e-mail account access frequency. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for selective publication of e-mail account access frequency can be provided. The method can include determining access frequency data for different e-mail accounts of a first e-mail user in a messaging data processing system, receiving a request from a second e-mail user in the messaging data processing system for the access frequency data, applying publication rules for the first e-mail user to the second e-mail user to determine whether or not to publish the access frequency data to the second e-mail user, and publishing at least part of the access frequency data to the second e-mail user if permitted by the application of the publication rules. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100100596 | Sharing Media Content with Multiple Recipients - A computing device may provide a credential related to a service. Responsive to a validation of the credential, an identification of the service may be added to a contact listing associated with the computing device. Thereafter, a user of the computing device may select the service from the contact listing in order to upload a content object to the service. Similarly, the user of the computing device may select one or more peer devices from the contact listing. Responsive to the peer device selections, the content object may be transmitted to the one or more peer devices. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100100597 | Point Code Emulation For Common Channel Signaling System No. 7 Signaling Network - The present invention relates to a point code emulation apparatus and method for dividing a Common Channel Signaling System No. 7 (or SS 7) signaling network into two or more networks. The point code emulator is adapted to receive TCAP messages from two or more subnets and converts, for the messages crossing over the subnets, the information of the TCAP messages, including originating point code, destination point code, and transaction identifier, (and optionally, calling party number and called party number), and forwards to the other one of the two or more subnets. Correspondence among the two or more subnets may be provisioned by an authorized user of the system, may be learned automatically by the system based on ISUP message correspondences or previous TCAP transactions, or may be automatically discovered by the system broadcasting messages to nodes in the destined one of the two or more subnets. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100100598 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA IN TERMINAL APPARATUS - According to an aspect of the present invention, a terminal apparatus includes: a limiting module that determines a limiting data size that is receivable data size by a destination terminal of a mail from the terminal apparatus; a editing module that generates a plurality of scenes from an original file to be send when data size of the mail including the original file is larger than the limiting data size; and a sending module that combines the generated scenes so that the data size does not exceed the limiting data size and sends the mail including the combined scene. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100100599 | Mass Email and Text Message Text Individualization and Email and Text Message Private Commenting - The present disclosure relates to novel and advantageous systems and methods for email, text messages, and the like, and particularly relates to systems and methods for email and text message text individualization and private commenting. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to novel and advantageous systems and methods for email and text message text individualization and private commenting, wherein text of a single email or text message can be directed to, personalized for, specialized for, or otherwise individualized for each recipient. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100100600 | DISTRIBUTING DATA MESSAGES - A method of automatically distributing data messages to members of a user community involves selecting, from a list of distribution rules, a rule which meets certain criteria in terms of message distribution characteristics. The selected rule determines which members of the user community will receive the message and when. For example, in a first round, a first subset of the user community receive the message and each is prompted to provide feedback data in relation to the message, for example to say that the message is offensive, already answered or if there is someone else who can deal with the message. This feedback data is applied to the selected distribution rule to determine to whom the message is sent in the next round. The process continues over a number of rounds until a termination criterion is met. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100100601 | MEDIA CONTENT TRANSMISSION METHOD AND NETWORK-SIDE EQUIPMENT - A media content transmission method disclosed herein includes: The network-side equipment receives a first message containing the media content, includes the received media content into a second message, and then transmits the second message. A network-side equipment is also provided herein. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100100602 | INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM, COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR ADDITIONAL SERVICE - An IM system for an additional service includes: an IM client and at least one IM component adapted to support at least one additional service, between which a common interface is configured. The IM client triggers the at least one IM component via the common interface when a local IM user logs on; and the at least one IM component obtains an identity of at least one IM user other than the local IM user via the common interface, and query, according to the identity, whether the at least one IM user subscribes to one of the at least one additional service supported by the at least one IM component. A component and method for an additional service are also provided. By utilizing the IM system, component and method, extensibility of the IM system can be improved, and costs for extending the IM system can be reduced. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100106781 | AUTOMATIC UPDATE OF CONTACT INFORMATION IN MESSAGING - Methods and systems for automatically updating contact information or executing other commands via a messaging system can automatically associate a command tag with a message. The command tag can, for example, have a value indicating that the message contains contact information, or have another value corresponding to a command. Based on the value of the command tag, the message receiving component can automatically extract the contact information and apply it to a contact database, or can execute the command. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106782 | PERSISTENT SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT MESSAGE NOTIFICATION - Persistent synthetic environment message notification is described, including retrieving synthetic environmental data associated with an event occurring within a synthetic environment, identifying one or more formats to configure the synthetic environmental data and to transmit the synthetic environmental data, generating a message comprising the synthetic environmental data, the message being generated based on at least one of the one or more formats, and sending the message comprising the synthetic environmental data to an endpoint. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106783 | CONTINOUS SUPPORTING SYSTEM USING COMPUTER - Problems to be solved are to provide a novel epoch-making system that can help a person to obtain his or her goal and that can improve profitability and customer satisfaction for an enterprise or a party. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106784 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH AUTOMATIC SOFTWARE UPDATE FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device for automatically updating software and a method thereof are provided. The method includes steps of: reading an email; detecting whether the read mail should be used for updating the software of the electronic device, comprising: identifying whether the server ID number of the remote server, which sends the read email, matches one of the authorization numbers; detecting whether parameters of the read email are acceptable according to predetermined rules; detecting whether a file of an email content is a software file if the parameters of the read email are acceptable according to the predetermined rules; determining whether to update the software of the electronic device; acquiring the software file from the read email, storing the acquired software file in the storage unit, and running the acquired software file to update the software of the electronic device. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106785 | SYSTEM FOR MULTIPLE SIGNERS ON AN ELECTRONIC CARD AND GIFT - The current invention is a viral group greeting cards Internet service. It is a method and process that is an electronic greeting card service that utilizes the distributed access afforded by the Internet or local area networks (LANs) to enable the collection of greetings from multiple users on a single greeting card and its delivery to a recipient. It also allows for the pledges and collection of funds from multiple parties for a gift. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106786 | Methods and systems for automatically presenting users with option to call sender responsive to email message - A mail server collects messages from a number of user accounts and presents them to the user from a single location. Forwarded messages are automatically reformatted for the receiving device, while a copy of the original message is retained. Messages may be reformatted to include the phone number of the message sender. The reformatted message can then present the user with an option to return the message via a phone call. The reformatted message can include more than one phone number, in which case the sender's phone numbers can be prioritized for presentation to the user. The reformatted message can also present the user with an option to review notes or other contact-specific information prior to responding to the message. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106787 | COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING NETWORK - The disclosure provides an HVAC data processing and communication network and a method of manufacturing the same. In an embodiment, a system device configured for use in the network includes a physical layer interface and a communication module. The physical layer interface is configured to interface to a data bus. The communication module is configurable to send and receive messages over the data bus via the physical layer interface. The system device also includes a non-volatile memory configured to store configuration data. The messages include a first class of messages that address the system device using only a device designator of the device, and a second class of messages that address the system device using a message ID formed from a portion of the device designator and an offset. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106788 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - The present invention relates to generating time relevant content for electronic communications, such as electronic mail (e-mail). The time relevant content is delivered when the electronic communications are acknowledged by the recipient based upon receipt of an electronic indicator, such as a returned request(s), at a home server. In the case of electronic mail, the time relevant content is dynamic, as it is assembled at the time the e-mail is opened, as opposed to the time when the e-mail is sent, as is the case with conventional or static e-mail and other similar electronic communications. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106789 | Chatting System, Method And Apparatus For Virtual Pet - Embodiments of the present invention provides a chatting system for a virtual pet, including a pet client, configured to receive a natural language sentence of a pet master, and send the natural language sentence to a virtual pet server; the virtual pet server, configured to forward the natural language sentence to a questioning and answering server, and return a natural language response to the pet client; the questioning and answering server, configured to perform processing of natural language understanding on the natural language sentence, obtain language characteristics of the pet master, generate the natural language response according to a natural language understanding result and the language characteristics of the pet master, and return the natural language response to the virtual pet server. Embodiments of the present invention further provide a chatting method for a virtual pet and a questioning and answering server. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106790 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING METADATA PASSING IN A PUSH CONTENT PROCESSING PROTOCOL - A method and system of optimizing content delivery at a processing element in a dynamic content delivery architecture, the method having the steps of: receiving a content and metadata envelope at the processing element; checking the content and metadata envelope to determine whether the content and metadata envelope includes metadata for the processing element; if the content envelope contains metadata for the processing element, extracting and caching the metadata; if the content envelope does not contain metadata for the processing element, retrieving metadata for a content provider associated with the content from a cache on the processing element; and applying the extracted or retrieved metadata to the content and metadata envelope. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106791 | PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR QinQ TERMINATION CONFIGURATION - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a processing method for 802.1Q in 802.1Q (QinQ) termination configuration, where the method includes: creating QinQ termination configuration for a user when determining that the user is online; and deleting the QinQ termination configuration of the user when determining that the user is offline. A processing device for QinQ termination configuration is also provided. With the present invention, the dynamic configuration can be implemented for QinQ termination devices, which facilitates user management and effectively improves the resource usage. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106792 | Instant Message User Management - Techniques are disclosed for improving management of user information in instant messaging systems. Expiration criteria are defined, whereby one or more users or user groups may be considered as having “expired” from consideration by instant messaging functions such as presence determination. In particular, instant messaging activity is preferably used as an expiration criterion. Absence of inbound or outbound messages for a specified amount of time (or since a particular date/time) can therefore be used as a trigger for treating a user or group of users as expired. As a result, efficiency of an instant messaging system is improved by omitting the expired users and groups from subsequent management operations. Optionally, an expired user or group may be revived upon occurrence of certain events (such as a newly-arriving instant message from, or a change in presence status of, the user or group). “On-demand” expiration and revival are preferably provided as well. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106793 | PROXY EMAIL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A system and method of proxy domain name registration permits a would-be domain name registrant anonymity. A registrar affords customers the opportunity to use the proxy registration. If the customer seeking registration of a domain name requests, the registrar obtains contact information needed for registration from a proxy entity established for this purpose. The registrar completes the registration of the domain name with the appropriate registry (i.e. “.com, .net” etc.). The contact information published in WHOIS is that of proxy entity. Contractually the customer is afforded control over the domain name. Emails intended for the customer are received by the proxy entity who may filter them if the customer requests. Emails sent by the customer are sent to the proxy entity who in turn sends them to the indicated addressee. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106794 | PROXY EMAIL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A system and method of proxy domain name registration permits a would-be domain name registrant anonymity. A registrar affords customers the opportunity to use the proxy registration. If the customer seeking registration of a domain name requests, the registrar obtains contact information needed for registration from a proxy entity established for this purpose. The registrar completes the registration of the domain name with the appropriate registry (i.e. “.com, .net” etc.). The contact information published in WHOIS is that of proxy entity. Contractually the customer is afforded control over the domain name. Emails intended for the customer are received by the proxy entity who may filter them if the customer requests. Emails sent by the customer are sent to the proxy entity who in turn sends them to the indicated addressee. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100115033 | DO NOT DISTURB FILTER FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Data is received defining a time period during which a notification of receipt should not be provided when an electronic message is received. Data may also be received defining certain types of messages for which notification of receipt should be provided during the time period. During the duration of the time period, no notification of receipt is provided for received electronic messages that are not within one of the specified types. After the time period has elapsed, notification of receipt is provided for electronic messages received during the time period and for which no notification of receipt was previously provided. Electronic messages may be sent during the time period and electronic messages received prior to the time period may be displayed for reading during the time period. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115034 | Systems and Methods for Transmitting Subject Line Messages - A system and method of sending subject line messages is provided. A particular method includes receiving a call setup signaling message. The call setup signaling message includes a message identifier. The method further includes determining a subject line message associated with the message identifier of the call setup signaling message. The message identifier is replaced with the subject line message. The method further includes transmitting the call setup signaling message to a called party. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115035 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED MOBILE MESSAGING SERVICES - Various embodiments for providing enhanced mobile messaging services are described. In one or more embodiments, a mobile computing device may send messages of different types. The mobile computing device may allow a sender to compose a message independently of message type. The mobile computing device may automatically determine both a message type for the message and the transfer medium by which to send the message. The mobile computing device may consider factors including message contents, network availability and reliability, historical data, cost, sender preferences, recipient preferences, etc. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115036 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING A COMPOSITE MEDIA FILE - An apparatus for generating a composite media file which may comprise a processor is provided. The processor may be configured to receive an indication of information associated with at least a first media file and submit a search request for information associated with at least a second media file based at least in part on the information associated with the at least first media file. The processor may also be configured to receive the information associated with the at least second media file and generate a composite media file based at least in part on the information associated with the at least one additional media file. The processor may further be configured to provide for display of the composite media file. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115037 | CONTENT-RECOMMENDATION MESSAGE - Digital content items are shared using content-recommendation messages by recognizing an indication of a digital content item to be recommended and recognizing an indication of an intended recipient of the digital content item. A content-recommendation message for that digital content item is then built. The content-recommendation message includes first instructions for displaying, with a first visual appearance and a first feature set, information relating to the digital content item if the intended recipient belongs to a first class. The content-recommendation message includes second instructions for displaying, with a second visual appearance and a second feature set, information relating to the digital content item if the intended recipient belongs to a second class. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115038 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM PROVIDING MESSAGE CHARACTER SET FORMATTING FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - An electronic messaging method may include storing at least one information field to be included in electronic messages on a message server in one of a plurality of different character set formats, and receiving electronic message body text at the message server to be included in an electronic message for a given communications network from among a plurality of communications networks. The body text may have a respective character set format. The method may further include comparing the character set format of the body text with the character set format of the at least one information field and, if the at least one information field is displayable in the character set format of the body text, then formatting the at least one information field in the character set format of the body text. Otherwise, the body text and the at least one information field may be formatted in a default character set format associated with the given communications network. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115039 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION SERVER, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING COMMUNICATION TOOL - A communication system and a communication method of recommending a communication tool based on a state of a counter party are provided. In the communication system a server may be connected with at least one terminal over a network. The server may estimate a current state of a user of a first terminal from an expanding profile received from the first terminal and recommend a communication tool corresponding to the current state. A second terminal may receive the current state of the user of the first terminal and a recommended communication tool from the server. Accordingly, it is possible to perform communication according to the state of a counter party. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115040 | Systems And Methods For Creating And Updating Reputation Records - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is provided for generating a reputation record and filtering electronic messages, each reputation record including a reputation score and a reputation key. The method includes receiving at least one incoming event notification, including a reputation key; determining, based on the reputation key, whether a corresponding reputation record exists; creating a new reputation record if the corresponding reputation record does not exist; determining a trust determination function based on the incoming event notification; calculating a reputation score based on the determined trust determination function, the incoming event notification, and an attribute associated with the reputation key; storing the calculated reputation score along with the reputation key in either the new reputation record or the corresponding reputation record; and filtering one or more electronic messages based on the calculated reputation score. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115041 | CREATING A MESSAGE READABLE BY A PLURALITY OF HETEROGENEOUS RECIPIENTS - Transforming an original message from an application executed by a physical computing device to create a message readable by a plurality of heterogeneous recipients includes: creating with the physical computing device a first sub-message having data from the original message that is readable by each of the heterogeneous recipients; creating with the physical computing device a second sub-message having data from the original message that is not readable by each of the heterogeneous recipients; and generating with the physical computing device a composite message including both the first sub-message and the second sub-message. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING DIGITAL CONTENT - A computer-readable medium including computer-executable code for enhancing an electronic document with one link and being served via a network responsively to a request received via the network and correspondent to an electronic document. The chat application may be for use with a mobile device and be less computing resource intensive. Certain embodiments of the present invention may not require a code or applets to be inserted to provide chat functionality. Advantageously, only a link may need to be inserted, for example. This may provide particularly well suited for use with websites where traditional chat code or applets may not be inserted. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115043 | DEMAND BASED DOMAIN NAME AUCTIONABILITY - A method for identifying a registered domain name as auctionable is provided. The registered domain names may be pulled from a database of desired domain names, such as a collection of domain names that one or more interested entities have requested to register using a domain name registration system. Requesting a domain name may be probative of demand for the domain name. Accordingly a domain name receiving a threshold level of interest may be tagged as auctionable. For example a domain name may be tagged as auctionable when a total number of interested entities is at least equal to a minimum threshold of interested entities. Tagged domain names may be acquired by an escrow agent when a current registration expires and auctioned among interested entities. In addition, the owner of a tagged domain name may be notified to see whether the domain name can be auctioned before expiration. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115044 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING A MESSAGE - A method and device is disclosed. The method includes performing a deadlock check on a received message of a recursively triggered service; and stopping triggering the service for the message if the deadlock check fails. The method provided by the invention may prevent looping transfer of messages and save network resources. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115045 | MOBILE INSTANT MESSAGING CONFERENCING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A server-based architecture for instant messaging conferencing is presented. Session-based instant messaging conferencing is established by transmitting necessary server network address information through page-mode based messaging services to establish connections among the various mobile devices with the server. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100121922 | AUTO-RESOLVE RECIPIENTS CACHE - In embodiments, mobile devices request and utilize recipient caches. Recipient caches store information regarding previous recipients of communications. The information on recipients includes when the recipient was last contacted and the frequency with which a recipient is contacted. In embodiments, a mobile device requests a recipient cache from a server. When a user types a string of text, the mobile device then uses the recipient cache as well as the contacts and emails on the mobile device and resolves a recipient list. In other embodiments, a recipient cache on a server is updated when a mobile device sends a message with new recipient information. In another embodiment, a server resolves conflicting messages by using recipient information | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121923 | MULTI-TENANCY ENGINE - According to one general aspect, in one embodiment, a method may include establishing a relationship with a plurality of external tenant systems configured to utilize an internal ERP service provider system. In one embodiment, the method may also include receiving an external tenant message from one of the external tenant systems. The method may further include, in various embodiments, converting the received external tenant message to an internal provider message. In some embodiments, the method may include transmitting the converted internal provider message to at least a portion of the internal ERP service provider system. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121924 | ASSOCIATION OF A GROUPWARE OBJECT WITH SEQUENTIALLY-UPDATED CONTENT ITEMS - A system may include identification of a relation between a standards-compliant groupware object and one or more sequentially-updated content items, and creation of the groupware object. The groupware object may include a first Uniform Resource Identifier for subscribing a feed reader of a client device to a channel including the one or more sequentially-updated content items, and a second Uniform Resource Identifier to access a copy of the one or more sequentially-updated content items stored on the client device. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121925 | Prioritizing Electronic Messages Based upon Geographical Location of the Recipient - A computer-implemented method of sorting electronic messages can include, for each of a plurality of electronic messages received in an electronic messaging client, determining availability of a sender of each electronic message and determining an order for the electronic messages within the electronic messaging client according to availability of the sender of each electronic message. The method further can include displaying the electronic messages within a view of the electronic messaging client in the order. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121926 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR PROVIDING A RECOGNITION AWARD - A method and apparatus to provide a recognition award, having steps of creating a computer communication to one of a group and an organization, querying a group to enter an additional message to the one of the group and the organization, compiling the additional messages from the members of the group and the computer communication into a personalized message, and sending the personalized message to the one of the group and the organization. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121927 | SECURE INTER-PROCESS COMMUNICATION FOR SAFER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS AND SYSTEMS - Techniques for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) in a more secure manner are disclosed. A communication component operating outside of an operating system can obtain operating-system data pertaining to processes that also operate outside of the operating system. The operating-system data can be more reliable than information that may have been provided by the processes, thereby allowing more secure IPC and consequently a more secure computing environment and/or system. A communication component can also be operable to make control decisions regarding the IPC data (e.g., IPC messages) based on the information provided and/or originated by the operating system (or operating-system data) and/or effectively provide the operating-system data pertaining to a sender process to its intended recipient process. A recipient process can also be operable to obtain the operating-system data pertaining to a sender process. Moreover, a recipient process can make control decisions regarding the IPC data originated by the sender process based on the operating-system data effectively provided and/or originated by the operating system rather than the sender process, thereby allowing the recipient process to make control decisions based on information provided by a more reliable (e.g., Trusted) source. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121928 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATING AND INDICATING TRUSTWORTHINESS OF SECURE COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention enable allocating and indicating the trustworthiness of a message, especially messages that comprise content that has been digitally signed. In some embodiments, a provider of assurance services and assurance software provides trust attestations related to messages and may manipulate the user interface used to view these messages. The trust attestations may be computed by various methods. The trust attestations may then be presented when the message is displayed to the user using the assurance software. For example, the trust attestations may be displayed as user interface elements in a designated portion of the chrome of a messaging service, such as a webmail service. In one embodiment, the assurance software can run on the webmail service and the trust attestations in the chrome are served up via techniques for delivery of client-server presentation data. In another embodiment, the assurance software is implemented as software that runs on the client and may perform some computations on the client in order to manipulate the messaging service's chrome. In yet another embodiment, the assurance software may run as an extension to an e-mail client that runs on a user's machine. The assurance software is configured to work with the presenter of the message, but independently of the presenter. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121929 | System And Method For Information Risk Management - The present invention provides a system and method for evaluating risk associated with information access requests. The information access requests are collected, assigned a risk level according to user defined policies, a total risk is calculated and presented to user. The user can select a high risk event for further analysis. The system will break down the event into basic elements, so the user can ascertain the risk. The system allows a user to customize a report and the customized report can be saved as a template for future use. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121930 | MESSAGING SERVER TO REDIRECT AN INSTANT MESSAGE TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A messaging server is configured to receive an instant message comprising a message address and to store a mobile device ID associated with the message address. The messaging server is configured to redirect the instant message to a mobile device associated with the mobile device ID and to send the instant message to the mobile device. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121931 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DIGITALLY SIGNED MESSAGES TO DETERMINE ADDRESS MISMATCHES - A method and apparatus for processing digitally signed messages in which address mismatch errors are detected. In at least one aspect, the number of address mismatch errors reported to a user for a message may be minimized for messages that properly incorporate message portions signed by someone other than the sender of the message, as may be the case where the message contains a conversation thread for example, by performing at least one pre-determined action for digital signatures corresponding to signed data appearing after a message separator. The message separator may indicate that the message contains data from an older forwarded message or from an older message that has been replied to, for example. The at least one-predetermined action may comprise bypassing verification of address matches for those digital signatures, or verifying address matches for those digital signatures but suppressing user notification of any address mismatch errors, for example. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100125634 | Autonomous management of a communication network - A method, system, and computer program product for autonomous management of a communication network are provided. The communication network includes a community of registered and unregistered users. The method includes segmenting a body of data according to pre-defined aspects that identify related subject matter and a volume of data stored for each of the segments based on the volume of data. The method also includes classifying each of the registered users according to the segments, and identifying from the classification: a population size of users associated with corresponding segments and a proportion of users to corresponding segments. The method further includes assessing aspects of an unregistered user, based upon a communication, in view of pre-defined growth criteria established for the communication network and, upon determining the aspects fall within limits specified by the pre-defined growth criteria, presenting the unregistered user with an invitation to register with the community. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125635 | USER AUTHENTICATION USING ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - Techniques are provided for authenticating a user to a server (and vice-versa) through an Instant Messaging (IM) communication channel instead of through the primary communication channel, e.g., using a web browser. User/server authentication through an IM channel may occur as part of the login process and/or before any transactions are completed. Thus, a client device sends, via the primary communication channel (e.g., using HTTP) a request for a service provided by a server. After the server receives the request, the server establishes an IM communication channel with the client device. The IM communication channel is different than the primary communication channel. Both the server and the client device execute an IM client. The server then uses the IM communication channel to authenticate a user of the client device. The server completes the request. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCORPORATING USER INTERACTION BASED PRESENCE IN EMAIL SYSTEMS - In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a network arrangement and an email arrangement. The network arrangement is configured to enable the apparatus to communicate across a network. The email arrangement cooperates with the network arrangement to send and to receive emails. The email arrangement includes presence logic that monitors user interaction based presence with respect to a first email. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125637 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING A VAULT SERVER IN CONJUNCTION WITH A CLIENT-SIDE RESTRICTED-EXECUTION VAULT-MAIL ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are methods, media, and vault servers for providing a secure messaging system using vault servers in conjunction with client-side restricted-execution vault-mail environments. Methods include the steps of upon activating a vault-mail message containing sensitive content, removing the content from the vault-mail message; placing the content on a vault server; creating a link in the vault-mail message to the content on the vault server; sending the vault-mail message to a designated recipient; and upon activating the link, allowing the content to be only viewed in a restricted-execution session of a client application, wherein the restricted-execution session does not allow the content to be altered, copied, stored, printed, forwarded, or otherwise executed. Preferably, the activation of the vault-mail message is performed by a network-security gateway, and can be performed on a per-message basis. Preferably, the activation of the link requires user authentication which may be designated during activation of the vault-mail message on a per-message basis based on said content. Preferably, the restricted-execution session enforces a security policy. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125638 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING CREATING CALENDAR ENTRIES IN CLIENT DEVICES - A method for facilitating creating one or more calendar entries in one or more client devices. The method may include includes receiving an iTIP message from a first client device associated with a first user and having a first calendar application. The iTIP message may be addressed to at least a second user, wherein the second user may be associated with a second client device having a second calendar application. The method may also include generating an iMIP message using the iTIP message. The method may also include providing at least one of a copy of the iTIP message and a copy of the iMIP message to a least one of the second client device and a second communication server device connected to the second client device for enabling the second calendar application to generate a calendar entry in the second client device. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125639 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH EMAIL FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR SETTING EMAIL ACCOUNT OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for setting account of an electronic device is provided. The method includes steps of: receiving emails; reading a received email; detecting whether parameters of the read email are consistent with a predetermined rules; setting the origination email account, which sends the read email, as an available email account of the electronic device if the parameters of the read email are consistent with the predetermined rules. The electronic device with email function is also provided. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125640 | Traffic Management Apparatus - A traffic management apparatus for connection within a data transmission network is disclosed, that is arranged to manage the distribution of data traffic between data serving computers and the data relaying devices by analysing client requests. The apparatus has an input device ( | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125641 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIRTUALIZING RESOURCES - The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for virtualizing resources. The apparatus is configured to store resource descriptions of a number of resources operatively connected to the apparatus, the resource descriptions including resource identification information, generate and store alternative descriptions of received resource descriptions by changing at least part of the identification information of the descriptions, publish at least some of the resource descriptions in a network, and handle resource data requests from the network relating to the resources. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100125642 | System And Method For Integrating Electronic Mail Accounts - In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for integrating a plurality of electronic mail (email) accounts. A plurality of email services may be used to send and receive electronic messages over a wide area network, one of the email services being a preferred email service and another of the email services being a secondary email service. An email integration service may be used that is coupled to the wide area network and that is independent of the plurality of email services. The email integration service may be operable to receive account information regarding the preferred email service and the secondary email service and use the account information to configure a means for forwarding electronic messages from the preferred email service to the secondary email service. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100131597 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SETTING UP AN INSTANT MESSAGING COMMUNICATION WHILE BEING PUT ON HOLD DURING A TELEPHONE OR MULTIMEDIA CALL - A device (D) is dedicated to the control of communications of communication terminals (T | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131598 | USER ALERT IF A PERSON WILL BECOME UNAVAILABLE - A method of implementing user alert if a person will become unavailable includes sending, using a calendar program, information to a messaging program about an event scheduled in the calendar program by a user, wherein, during the event, the user will be unavailable to communicate with other persons; receiving, using the messaging program, the information about the event from the calendar program; creating, using the messaging program, a list of recipients who need to be informed of when the user will become unavailable to communicate with other persons; and creating and sending, using the messaging program, an alert message about the event to the recipients. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131599 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products For Instant Messaging - Systems, methods and computer program products for monitoring the receipt of instant messages between two or more participants in a messaging environment are described herein. An embodiment of the invention operates by receiving a message from a sender. The message is displayed in a chat client of a recipient. Such message is displayed in an encrypted form to prevent human intelligible display of the message. An indication of selection of the message by the recipient is received. Thereafter, the message is displayed in the chat client in an unencrypted form, and an acknowledgement is sent to the sender. The sender updates a message status identifier by filling the message status identifier with a color or updating an icon or any other visual cue or identifier, uniquely identifying the message recipient, to thereby note the selection of the message by the recipient. In this way, the recipient of a message must select the message in order to view the message in its unencrypted form. When the recipient selects the message with a mouse pointer or any other interaction method, an acknowledgement is sent to the sender, indicating that the message has been viewed by the recipient. This prevents an assumption by the sender that the message has been viewed by the recipient until it is actually viewed in its unencrypted form. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131600 | MESSAGE MASKING IN MIDDLEWARE ENVIRONMENTS - In the context of middleware products, an arrangement wherein a sender tags messages with authorization information identifying those users or groups who are authorized to view or receive the messages. Thus, even if multiple users will be connected to the same queue for reading messages, only specific receivers/consumers will be able to get the messages. Not only is a comfortable degree of security ensured, but the need to waste system resources, e.g., by using multiple queues for different kinds of messages, is summarily avoided. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131601 | Method for Presenting Personalized, Voice Printed Messages from Online Digital Devices to Hosted Services - A computer implemented method presents a personalized multimedia message to a user. A text based message is received from a sender. Responsive to receiving the text based message, a sender profile is identified within a digital device host registry, the sender profile corresponding to the sender identifier. Responsive to identifying the sender profile within a digital device host registry, a set of corresponding personalized media channels associated with the sender profile is identified. The set of corresponding personalized media channels includes at least one of a voice profile, a static image, and lip synchronization data. The text based message is then augmented with the set of corresponding personalized media channels to create a multimedia message. The multimedia message comprises an audio file of the text message rendered by using the voice profile, a “video” file of text message rendered by using the voice profile, and the static image with the lip synchronization data, or a combination thereof. The multimedia message is then presented to the user. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131602 | Correlating data indicating at least one subjective user state with data indicating at least one objective occurrence associated with a user - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring subjective user state data including data indicating at least one subjective user state associated with a user; acquiring objective occurrence data including data indicating at least one objective occurrence associated with the user; correlating the subjective user state data with the objective occurrence data based, at least in part, on a determination of at least one sequential pattern associated with the at least one subjective user state and the at least one objective occurrence; and presenting one or more results of the correlating. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131603 | IMAP Fetch Diff - An apparatus and a method for processing messages at a mail server. In one embodiment, the mail server receives and compares at least two messages, where each message has a same message identifier. The mail server generates a single message having the same message identifier and a differential message based on the comparison of the messages. The single message and the differential message are delivered to a mail client where the single message is assembled with the differential message. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131604 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT CONTAINED IN AN ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE - A system, method and program product for sharing content contained in an e-mail. The method includes determining, using a tool, presence of any file attachments in an e-mail created in an e-mail application, removing, responsive to the determination, any file attachments from the e-mail prior to queuing the e-mail message for delivery, posting, using the tool, the e-mail as a feed document on a feed server on a network, publishing, using the tool, any file attachments removed from the e-mail on a network drive on the network, and sending, using the tool, respective links to the feed document posted and any file attachments published on the network to one or more recipients specified for the e-mail, wherein the respective links notify the one or more recipients of the e-mail and any file attachments. Further, the e-mail application includes a tagging tool for creating tags for the e-mail. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131605 | Soliciting data indicating at least one objective occurrence in response to acquisition of data indicating at least one subjective user state - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring subjective user state data including data indicating at least one subjective user state associated with a user; soliciting, in response to the acquisition of the subjective user state data, objective occurrence data including data indicating occurrence of at least one objective occurrence; acquiring the objective occurrence data; and correlating the subjective user state data with the objective occurrence data. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131606 | Soliciting data indicating at least one subjective user state in response to acquisition of data indicating at least one objective occurrence - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring objective occurrence data including data indicating occurrence of at least one objective occurrence; soliciting, in response to the acquisition of the objective occurrence data, subjective user state data including data indicating occurrence of at least one subjective user state associated with a user; acquiring the subjective user state data and correlating the subjective user state data with the objective occurrence data. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131607 | Correlating data indicating subjective user states associated with multiple users with data indicating objective occurrences - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to acquiring subjective user state data including data indicating incidence of at least a first subjective user state associated with a first user and data indicating incidence of at least a second subjective user state associated with a second user; acquiring objective occurrence data including data indicating incidence of at least a first objective occurrence and data indicating incidence of at least a second objective occurrence; and correlating the subjective user state data with the objective occurrence data. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131608 | Hypothesis based solicitation of data indicating at least one subjective user state - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: soliciting, based at least in part on a hypothesis that links one or more objective occurrences with one or more subjective user states and in response at least in part to an incidence of at least one objective occurrence, subjective user state data including data indicating incidence of at least one subjective user state associated with a user; and acquiring the subjective user state data including the data indicating incidence of at least one subjective user state associated with the user. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131609 | E-MAIL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, E-MAIL COMMUNICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - To provide an e-mail communication apparatus, an e-mail communication method and a program capable of, in the case of receiving e-mail which is split e-mails including request-to-send (RTS) information for transmitting the e-mail to a predetermined destination, suitably performing transmittal confirmation without transmitting to a source the e-mail of the transmittal confirmation as to each of multiple pieces of the split e-mails. First, an MFP | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100138496 | METHOD FOR DIGITALLY RECORDING PROGRESS NOTES - A computer implemented method for digitally recording progress notes, including establishing a content database cooperable with software, the content database being populable with identifying information relevant to patients and care providers. The software is customizable such that a user can input items to be displayed on a screen and is operable to cause questions and the allowable answers thereto to be displayed. The software is customizable to allow a user to determine at least a portion of the questions and the answers that are displayed and is operable to cause text to be input into a letter. The software is customizable to allow a user to determine at least a portion of the text that will be input into the letter upon selection of at least a portion of the answers and is operable to generate the letters in accordance with the answers chosen by a user. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138497 | Fresh Product System - A method is used for enabling fresh products related information to be sent to potential customers, where fresh products become available at one or more locations at different times during the day. The method comprises receiving at a server from said locations information regarding freshness of the fresh products that are or will become available at said locations; and presenting the information and said locations on a webpage by means of a server. A storage may be used to store information regarding one or more locations where fresh products are or will become available, and regarding freshness of the fresh products at the locations. A processor may be used to present the webpage that displays the stored information. Fresh products may include cookies, fresh produce and flowers. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138498 | Method and Apparatus for Opening a Program Based on a Communication That Has Not Been Accessed - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, comprising a processor configured to receive a communication, the communication having not been accessed, activate an interactive area based at least in part on the communication not being accessed, and receive a signal from a selection of the interactive area. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138499 | Method and Apparatus for Aggregating E-Mail Reply Data - A method is disclosed comprising sending an original e-mail message to a plurality of recipients, and receiving a plurality of received e-mails. For each of the plurality of received e-mails, the method includes determining if each received e-mail is a reply to the original e-mail message, and extracting data from each received e-mail that is a reply to the original e-mail message. The extracted data is aggregated to form aggregated data, and information relating to the aggregated data is displayed. The information may be displayed on a computer monitor along with the original e-mail message. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138500 | Online Archiving of Message Objects - This disclosure is directed to automatically moving message objects, such as email message objects, from online source mailbox databases to online archive mailbox databases. As described herein, each email message in a source mailbox database is directly or indirectly associated with a retention policy tag. The retention policy tag associated with a message object in a source mailbox database specifies a retention period. The message object remains in source mailbox database until the retention period expires for the message object. When the retention period for the message object expires, the message object is automatically moved to an archive mailbox database. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138501 | END-TO-END VALIDATION IN A PUSH ENVIRONMENT - In a push environment having a communication path along which a service provides messages to a computing device via a gateway, an inactivity timeout value and a registration timeout value enable the computing device to detect failures in the communication path. An application executing on the computing device registers an application endpoint with the gateway. The application separately subscribes to the service to receive the messages. If there is inactivity in accordance with the inactivity timeout value, the application de-registers and re-registers with the gateway, and unsubscribes and re-subscribes with the service. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138502 | CLIPBOARD OBJECT SHARING FOR INSTANT MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to cut and paste object processing for instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for clipboard object sharing for instant messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for clipboard object sharing in an instant messaging session can include requesting transfer of a clipboard object from a source instant messaging client to a target instant messaging client in an instant messaging session, determining whether or not the target instant messaging client supports a format of the clipboard object, and transferring the clipboard object to the target instant messaging client only if the target instant messaging client supports the format of the clipboard object. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138503 | EXCHANGING MESSAGES DURING A CHAT SESSION - Message display control means updates and displays messages sequentially on a message list screen each time message receiving means receives a message. When input detection means detects a response message, identification means identifies the latest message at the time of detection and the response message. Response message sending means sends the response message as a response to the identified message to other participants upon completion of input of the response message. Therefore, even in the case where the message list screen is updated due to receiving the subsequent message during the input of the response message, the completed response message is able to be sent back to the response object message. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANT MESSENGER TO MAKE FRIEND BY CYBER PET - A method by which a service system including an instant messenger server provides users with a service for raising a cyber pet and making friends through the cyber pet, includes the service system's providing and installing an instant messenger program to a user; receiving, storing and managing the user's friend list; displaying a cyber pet on the user's client terminal when an instant messenger active window is opened; and in the case that the user does not raise the cyber pet for a predetermined time, receiving the user's friend list and friend lists of another users hierarchically linked thereto, forming a potential friend list from the collected friend lists of another users, moving the cyber pet to the friend list and the potential friend list of the user, and displaying the cyber pet to another user executing the instant messenger. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138505 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK DEVICE COMMUNICATION - The disclosure is directed to a method for communicating with a monitoring device. The method includes sending an unsolicited-type message from a client program resident on the monitoring device coupled to a first secure network. The unsolicited-type message is sent to a computing system coupled to a second network separated from the first secure network by a firewall. The method also includes receiving a response message to the unsolicited-type message from the computing system. The response message includes an embedded unsolicited-type message. The client program is resident on the monitoring device receiving the response message. The method further includes providing the embedded unsolicited-type message to a server program resident on the monitoring device. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138506 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC GREETINGS - The present invention relates to electronic communications, and more particularly to electronic greetings, notes and interpersonal exchanges facilitated by electronic communications such as gifts, music and video. According to some aspects, the present invention provides a platform for users to browse, select, save and send out electronic greetings According to other aspects, the present invention provides a platform for businesses to sponsor and create electronic greetings, and to use such greetings to promote their businesses and products. According to other aspects, the present invention provides a platform for targeting gift ideas using electronic greetings. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138507 | Method for processing pager model messages and user agent thereof - A method for processing pager model messages is disclosed according to the present disclosure. The method includes receiving a first pager model message; receiving a second pager model message containing an indication of replacing the first pager model message; and replacing the first pager model message with the second pager model message according to the indication; returning a replacement result notification after replacement operation. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138508 | MESSAGING PROTOCOL IN ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products implementing a messaging protocol. The messaging protocol may be a messaging protocol for transporting a message across a messaging landscape in a collaborative network. Techniques include sending a message that is defined to include a structured message header with information related to at least one component from a set of components defined by a protocol, including protocol version information in a message such that a component of a messaging landscape can interpret the message based on the version information, defining a message as one of a class of messages, end-to-end acknowledgement for messages, and security for headers and payloads of messages. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138509 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATING WITH AN IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE OVER A NETWORK - In an image display device figured to be connected to a network, a method of communicating over the network with a remote device on the network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a message sent to a multicast address on the network by the remote device, wherein the message includes an instruction to the image display device to perform a function; and performing the function instructed by the message. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100146055 | Multiplexed Data Sharing - A computing device may receive multiple recordings or transmissions from one or more source devices. The recordings may include geo-tag information to relate the recordings to a specific event. The computing device may receive from a client device a request for the recordings. Responsive to the received request, the computing device may transmit the recordings to the client device. The computing device may receive from the client device an identification of which recording(s) are preferred over the course of the event, and may compile statistics related to the preferred selections over the course of the event as received from a plurality of client devices. The computing device may generate a “best-cut” recording or summary version of the event based on the most preferred recording at various points in time during the event, based on the compiled statistics. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146056 | Searching An Email System Dumpster - A method is presented for searching for email messages that on a server computer. A request is received on the server computer to search for one or more email messages in one or more mailboxes on the server computer. Each of the one or more mailboxes includes a dumpster folder. The request includes search criteria including a parameter indicating whether the dumpster folder associated with a mailbox should be searched. The dumpster folder stores one or more email messages that have been deleted from a deleted items folder in the mailbox. One or more mailboxes that satisfy the search criteria in the request are identified. If the parameter indicates that the dumpster folder should be searched, the dumpster folder of each of the identified mailboxes that satisfy the search criteria is queried and any email messages in each dumpster folder that satisfy the search criteria are identified. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146057 | Alert Broadcasting to a Plurality of Diverse Communications Devices - A system for the broadcast of alert messages to selected groups of recipients and their communications devices of a plurality of different types and communicating through a plurality of different communications means. Recipient profiles or characteristics are received variously from databases, directories, and communications nodes accessible by the system. These sources are queried for the identification of selectable groups which are then presented to a dispatcher for choosing the recipients. The alert message is then provided to delivery means which employ a plurality of included means each of which is particularly configured to communicate the alert message to a corresponding target device type. A response handler module then receives responses from the target devices for later reporting. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146058 | Method for Providing a Meeting Scheduling Service | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146059 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC MAIL - A method and system for managing email between a sender and a recipient wherein the method and system provide the recipient with control over routing an email message, wherein the control includes predefining directions to be executed upon the receipt of an email message, and wherein the directions are dependent upon the properties of the email message. The recipient may enable or disable the control at any time. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146060 | COLLABORATIVE AUTHORING METHOD FOR VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT - A video game development system adapted for collaborative game authoring. The system includes a video game platform with a game engine running or providing video game instance based on a set of game data (e.g., defined game logic or game assets such as animations, objects, and game settings). A communications hub module is communicatively linked to the video game platform, and first and second game development tools are linked to the communications hub module. The tools are operated to modify the set of game data and to transmit authoring messages including content based on modifications to the game data to the communications hub module. The communications hub module generates game data update messages from these tool-generated authoring messages, which may be sent concurrently, and forwards the update messages to the video game platform. The game engine runs the video game using the set of game data including updates. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146061 | SESSION PROCESS AND SYSTEM - A process for establishing a session between a first node and a second node of a communications network, the process including receiving a first request addressed from the first node and addressed to the second node; sending, in response to receipt of the first request, a response addressed to the first node to cause the first node to send a second request addressed to the second node, the response including first validation data; receiving the second request sent by the first node, the second request including second validation data; and determining, on the basis of the second validation data, whether to establish the session. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146062 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DELIVERING ELECTRONIC STATE MESSAGE INFORMATION - A method, executed in a messaging server handles electronic messages for a user, handles electronic state messages for at least one terminal, and delivers electronic state messages to at least one terminal. A state change is identified in or at the messaging server, the state change relating to at least one electronic message associated with the user, the at least one electronic message containing a destination identity associated with the user. A terminal address associated with the at least one terminal used by the user is retrieved based on the destination identity associated with the user. An electronic state message is delivered to the at least one terminal using the terminal address as destination address. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146063 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A COMMUNICATION SESSION INITIALIZATION IN A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A first terminal residing telecommunication network is arranged for initializing media sessions of at least two media types such as voice and messaging to a second terminal. The first terminal is known by a message server as a message client. The first terminal submits a request for a media session set up by means of a message protocol for a media session of a different media type. The request is sent to the message server which forwards the message to a network node. The network node is also known message server as well as to the terminal as a message client. After receiving the media session set up request the network node either sets up the requested media session to both the terminals and bridges the connections for a media session or instructs the first terminal to setup the media session. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146064 | SOURCE APPARATUS, SINK APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION THEREOF - The present invention relates to platform architecture of smart devices according to information sharing, a sink apparatus, and a source apparatus, and more specifically, to platform architecture of smart devices capable of sharing information commonly used between daily living devices and thus, providing intelligent services, a sink apparatus, and a source apparatus. The source apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: a sensing unit that generates sensing data; a sharing information processing unit that generates sharable information based on the sensing data and converts the sharing information into sharing messages and transmits them to at least one sink apparatus by a wired and wireless network; and a source communication unit that notifies the sharing information from the sharing information processing unit to at least one sink apparatus through the wired or wireless network. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146065 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REALIZING INSTANT MESSAGING BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF MEMBERS IN AN INSTANT MESSENGER GROUP - The invention provides a technical solution for instant messaging among multiple members of an instant messenger group. An instant messenger group server is independent of an instant messenger server. At least one group identification and a member list of each group identified by the corresponding group identification are prestored in the group server. The instant messenger group server logs in to the instant messenger server as an instant messenger client, using each of said at least one group identification as an instant messenger identification, and receives instant messages sent by an instant messenger client and sends the instant messages respectively to each of the instant messenger clients corresponding to the instant messenger identifications of other members the instant messenger server. Since the instant messenger group server is independent of the instant messenger server, the instant messenger group server can support multiple instant messenger platforms. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146066 | Method, system and apparatus for message interworking - A method for message interworking, a Session Initiation System messaging server, an interworking gateway and a system for message interworking are disclosed. The method for message interworking includes: receiving, by an SIP messaging server, an SIP message, and routing the SIP message to a recipient; receiving an SIP response to the SIP message; sending the SIP message to an interworking gateway when it is determined that message interworking is required, so that the interworking gateway may perform a protocol conversion on the SIP message and send the converted non-SIP message to a corresponding non-SIP messaging system, or, so that the interworking gateway may establish a session between the interworking gateway itself and a sender terminal, receive an SIP session message via the established session, perform a protocol conversion on the SIP session message and then send the converted non-SIP message to a corresponding non-SIP messaging system. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100153499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE CONTEXT FOR AN AUTOMATED AGENT TO SERVICE MULITPLE AVATARS WITHIN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - A system and method to interact with business systems through the use of automated agents and provide context for an automated agent to service multiple avatars within a virtual universe. The system comprises a chat engine, a communications subsystem, and a channelizer configured to mediate one or more communications between the chat engine and the communications subsystem. The channelizer is further configured to map at least one channel to an application. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153500 | COLLABORATIVE EMAIL FILTERING - A first filter input is received from a first recipient of an email including a plurality of recipients. The first filter input is associated with the email. Further, the first filter input is propagated to at least another of the plurality of recipients of the email. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153501 | BUSINESS PROCESS INFORMATION SYSTEM - A data structure, such as a business object, is monitored to detect changes. Upon detection of the changes, a push service is initiated. Thereafter, the push service packages determines if such changes are relevant, and if so, data characterizing the save event in a message in a predetermined format. The message is later transmitted to an output management module so that the output management module initiates delivery of a notification message to at least one predetermined recipient by a predetermined communication channel. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153502 | TEXT CHAT FOR AT-RISK CUSTOMERS - Apparatus and methods for supporting text chat for at-risk customers are provided. A method for operating an electronic information processing platform may include receiving, via the electronic information processing platform, information indicating that a customer exhibits behavior indicative of a desire to terminate a relationship with an entity. The method may further include, transmitting to the customer a text chat invitation, via the electronic information processing platform, in response to the received information. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153503 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DISCREET COMMENTS IN A MESSAGE - This disclosure provides a technique for allowing the sender of an electronic message to create a discreet comment electronic message to at least one discreet recipient. The discreet recipient may be a blind copy recipient. The discreet message consists of a discreet comment section specifically address to one or more designated recipients. To create a discreet comment message, a sender would select a discreet recipient. A discreet comment is then inserted. An association is made to link the discreet recipient with a designated discreet comment. The discreet comment is appended to the electronic message upon sending. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153504 | RECURSIVE IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS FOR CASUAL COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCING - A method for real-time communication among two or more individuals separated in space. The method includes the steps of determining that a first individual is likely to be interested in communicating with a second individual via a first communications link; retrieving information via the first communications link about one or more additional individuals from electronic memory means associated with the second individual; and establishing communication with at least one of the additional individuals based on the retrieved information. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153505 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING INSTANT MESSAGE DISPOSITION NOTIFICATION REQUEST AND RESPONSE IN A CONVERGED-IP MESSAGING SERVICE AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method is provided for sending an Instant Message Disposition Notification (IMDN) request to a receiving terminal by a sending terminal in a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service. The sending terminal generates an instant message to be sent to the receiving terminal, inserts an IMDN request message into the generated instant message, the IMDN request message including a predetermined response limit time, and sends the instant message with the IMDN request message to the receiving terminal through a CPM server. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153506 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOGGING IN TO INSTANT MESSENGER - A method and system logging in to an Instant Messenger (IM) a includes: registering login schedule information to an IM server; transmitting, by the IM server, login information to an IM client when a login time included in the login schedule information arrives; and logging in, by the IM client, to the IM server using the login information. A user of the mobile terminal presets the login schedule information so that the mobile terminal may login automatically to an IM community at a preset time. If the user of the mobile terminal forgets to log in at the preset time, the mobile terminal may log in to the IM community automatically. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153507 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC DATA - A method of processing electronic data includes receiving electronic data, and scanning at least a portion of the electronic data against a first signature, wherein the first signature is not data-type dependent. A method of processing electronic data includes receiving electronic data to be scanned, identifying a portion of the electronic data, wherein the portion is represented as an object, and assigning one or more procedures to scan the portion based at least in part on the object. A system for processing electronic data includes an input for receiving electronic data, a processor configured for identifying one or more portions of the electronic data, each of the one or more portions represented as a typed object, and a buffer configured to store data associated with no more than one object at a time. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153508 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - Disclosed is a communication apparatus in which it is possible to change the size of data transmitted at one time, the data size being changed to one size in case of transmission of e-mail via a mail server and to different size in case of transmission that is not performed via a mail server. E-mail data having image data as an attached file is generated and it is determined whether a predetermined server will intervene when e-mail is transmitted to a transmission destination. When it has been decided that the destination will be a mail server, it is determined whether the e-mail data has exceeded a prescribed size. E-mail data for which it has been determined that the prescribed size is exceeded is divided into a plurality of segments and then the e-mail data is transmitted to destination decided. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153509 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Abusive Email Based on Number of Hops - A classifier is implemented to determine the number of message transfer agents (MTAs) through which an email message has traveled. If the number of MTAs through which the email message has traveled is below a predetermined threshold and the email message is not otherwise authenticated, the classifier will designate the email message as abusive. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100153510 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AN IMAGE BY ELECTRONIC MAIL - A communications device and method for transmitting e-mail with image data attached as an attachment file can select whether to send the e-mail directly to the recipient or via a mail server, depending on the address of the e-mail to be transmitted. As a result, the disclosed device and method can reduce the load on the mail server and transmit large volumes of data reliably. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100161732 | Methods, Systems, And Computer Program Products For Maintaining Consistency Between Non-Geospatial And Geospatial Network Directory Systems - Maintaining consistency between non-geospatial and geospatial directory systems is described. A directory service, representing a domain in a domain space, updates a record associating location information identifying a location with a network identifier of a node and sends a message to a second directory service representing a second domain identifying a region at least partially including the location, in a geospatial domain space, for updating a record identifying the node at the second directory service. In another aspect, a directory service, representing a geospatial domain identifying a region in a geospatial domain space, updates a record associating a geospatial identifier identifying a geospatial location at least partially included in the region with a network identifier of a node and sends a message to a second directory service representing a second domain in a second domain space for updating a record identifying the node at the second directory service. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161733 | CONTACT-SPECIFIC AND LOCATION-AWARE LEXICON PREDICTION - Word predictions in a message are selected or prioritized based on the recipient of the message and a previous location of use by a user. An input history is created based on messages sent to the recipient from the user at a particular location (e.g., global positioning system coordinates). As the user composes subsequent messages, a current location of the user is determined. Word predictions are performed based on a comparison of the current location to the previous locations, and based on the recipient(s). In further embodiments, location-aware spell-check functionality is provided for the messages. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161734 | DETERMINING SPAM BASED ON PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EMAIL ADDRESSES OF A USER - Embodiments are directed towards identifying a message as spam or non-spam based on a number of messages in given category or combination of categories that exceed at least one threshold. As messages are received at a network device, they may be examined, and categorized. Various counts for each of the categories and/or combinations of categories may then be compared to various respective thresholds. If a threshold is exceeded for a given message, the message may be defined as a spam. In one embodiment, such classification of messages sent by that message sender address may be blocked from being delivered. In another embodiment, such classification of messages having substantially similar content independent of having the same message sender address may be blocked from being delivered. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161735 | EMAIL ADDRESSEE VERIFICATION - The disclosure is directed to email addressee verification. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining an email message including at least one email address; evaluating each email address of the email message against at least one email rule, and assigning a score to each email address based on the evaluation; and comparing the score assigned to each email address to a threshold, and flagging any suspect email address based on the comparison. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161736 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IMPLEMENTING A COMMUNICATION SERVICE - Methods, system, and computer program products for implementing a communication service are presented. The communication service provides customized communications on behalf of subscribers to the communication service. A method includes defining an event, the occurrence of which forms a first portion of a condition for executing a communication. The method also includes providing a destination for delivery of the communication. The method further includes configuring elements of the communication, which include content and a transmission date. The transmission date forms a second portion of the condition for executing the communication. The method further includes monitoring sources of information for the event and, upon determining the condition has been met, generating the communication using the configured elements and sending, on the transmission date, the communication to the destination. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161737 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE ELECTRONIC MAIL PERSONAL ARCHIVES - Techniques to manage email personal archives are described. A computer-implemented system may comprise a primary mailbox component, associated with a user, and operative to receive and send email. The computer-implemented system may further comprise an alternate mailbox component separate from the primary mailbox component and associated with the user and the primary mailbox, operative to store email. The computer-implemented system may also include a mail client operative on a client computer to access and display contents of the primary and alternate mailboxes substantially simultaneously. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161738 | CONVERSATION MESSAGE ROUTING SUPPORTING DYNAMIC CLASS TRANSITIONS - The claimed subject matter provides for systems, devices, and methods for dynamic transitioning between messaging conversation classes including 1:1, 1:Many, and Many:Many (N:M) conversation protocols. These messaging topologies can be transitioned based at least in part on the number of conversants, a predetermined threshold value, and both determinations and inference related to the conversation topology, message, and conversants. The claimed subject matter can provide for effective seamless messaging conversations in unified messaging environment by reducing the overhead associated with changing numbers of conversants. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161739 | Mail Manufacturing Virtualization - Mail manufacturing virtualization is performed at a centralized routing site. This includes receiving, from at least one mailing source, electronic mailing data associated with at least one mailing and determining a mail routing distribution for the received electronic mailing data. Similarly, mail manufacturing virtualization includes routing the electronic mailing data to a plurality of output centers according to the determined mail routing distribution, where the plurality of output centers are configured to generate physical mail from the electronic mailing data and facilitating sending the physical mail to at least one respective recipient. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161740 | Batch Size Opitmization - Batch size optimization is provided at a centralized routing site. This includes receiving electronic mail data corresponding to a plurality of mail pieces and determining at least one commitment date for the plurality of mail pieces. Batch size optimization also includes categorizing the received electronic mail data into a plurality of categories, where categorization is distinct from the at least one commitment date and determining whether the electronic mail data in at least one of the plurality of categories can be processed for one mailing by the at least one commitment date. Additionally, in response to determining that the electronic mail data in the at least one of the plurality of categories cannot be processed for mailing by the at least one commitment date, at least one of the plurality of mail pieces according to an individual commitment date is removed. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161741 | USING A SERVER'S CAPABILITY PROFILE TO ESTABLISH A CONNECTION - A network device connects between a client and a server. The network device is configured to store information regarding a capability of the server; receive a first message, from the client, intended for the server; obtain the stored information regarding the capability of the server; generate a second message that includes the information regarding the capability of the server; send the second message to the client; receive a third message from the client; and establish, based on the third message, a connection between the client and the server. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161742 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus including: an input module configured to receive input of figures and/or characters; a communication module configured to send and receive an e-mail; a memory configured to store an e-mail created by using the input module; and a controller configured to read, from the memory, a first reply mail that is a reply mail to a first reception mail received by the communication module and to add the read-out first reply mail to a second reply mail in creating the second reply mail as a reply mail to a second reception mail that is received before sending the first reply mail, if a source address or a destination address of the first reception mail is included in a source address or a destination address of the second reception mail. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING MESSAGE STATUS IN AN ASYNCHRONOUS MEDIATED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and method for mediating the routing of asynchronous messages includes routing the asynchronous message to a first recipient, determining whether the first recipient opened the asynchronous message, and re-routing the asynchronous message to a second recipient who is qualified to receive and respond to the message if the first recipient fails to open the message (i.e., read, listen, display, act upon the message). In an embodiment, the message is re-routed to the second recipient if the first recipient fails to open the message within a deadline automatically imposed by the system when the message is of a certain type. In an embodiment, a mediator monitors if any recipient accepts responsibility for the asynchronous message and informs the other recipients that the asynchronous message may be deleted from their message queues. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOVING DIGITAL CONTENTS AMONG HETEROGENEOUS DEVICES - Provided are a system and a method for moving digital contents among heterogeneous devices. The system moves digital contents among heterogeneous devices using a remote controller and includes a movement instructing device that moves digital contents from a first device to a second device a server that is connected with the first device and the second device by a network and performs wireless communication with the movement instructing device. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161745 | Communication System and Terminal Registration Method Thereof, Server Unit, and Terminal Device - According to one embodiment, there is provided a communication system includes endpoints and server units. The endpoints include a transmitter and an information assignment module. The transmitter transmits a message of the registration request to one of the server units. The information assignment module assigns information used to discriminate a cause of generation of the registration request to the message. The server units include a specification module, a determination module and a registration processor. The specification module specifies the cause based on the information assigned to the received message. The determination module determines whether or not permit registration of the endpoint as a source of the received message based on the specified cause and priority level. The registration processor registers the endpoint when the registration is permitted. The registration processor instructs the endpoint to redirect the message when the registration is not permitted. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161746 | EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION REPUTATION - A method of controlling a system of monitoring messages in a network is described. A message sent by a user of the network to one or more recipients is received and a weight is applied to any text from any previous message that appears in the message. A measure of language content used in the message is formed and stored in one or more data stores. Information identifying the sender of the message is also stored. The stored measure of the language content and the stored information identifying the sender is reported to an administrator of the system. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161747 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TWO-WAY ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION - Some embodiments of a system and a method for two-way anonymous communication comprise a server adapted for Internet communication with a first electronic device operated by a user and a second electronic device operated by an observer. The server replaces identifying address information in messages sent from the first electronic device with a first alias. Identifying address information in messages sent from the second electronic device is replaced with a second alias. A user of the first electronic device is therefore unable to see identifying address information for the second electronic device in messages sent to the first alias from the second electronic device. Likewise, a user of the second electronic device is unable to see identifying address information from the first electronic device in messages sent to the second alias from the first electronic device. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161748 | Apparatus, a Method, a Program and a System for Processing an E-Mail - An e-mail processing system includes an e-mail received from an external apparatus through a network and a managing center that manages the information regarding spam mails. An e-mail system detects a spam mail from the received e-mail based on the information received from the managing center, and user PCs that receive a legitimate e-mail other than spam mails, through the e-mail system. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161749 | BODY-LESS EMAIL FOR ASYNCHRONOUS CHAT-LIKE COMMUNICATIONS AND EMAIL-CHAT INTEGRATION - A system and method integrate synchronous electronic (e.g., chat) communications with asynchronous electronic communications in the form of body-less electronic mail messages (emails). Body-less emails have a subject line but lack a message body capable of receiving message content. When converting a synchronous electronic communication into a body-less email, a processor places each text message of the synchronous electronic communication into the subject line of the body-less email. When converting a received body-less email into a synchronous electronic communication, the processor places each text message in the subject line of the body-less email into a chat format. A user can readily transition between asynchronous and synchronous communications. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100169424 | METHOD AND ARRANGMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING MESSAGES TO A RECIPIENT - The described messaging arrangement for delivering communication messages to recipients in a communication system comprises a number of messaging servers ( | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169425 | Electronic Mail Delivery System And Electronic Mail Delivery Program - A mail address acquiring section ( | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169426 | EXPERTISE REFERRALS USING A REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method of providing expertise based referrals can include receiving, from a first user, a voucher specifying a second user seeking expertise and a third user as a potential subject matter expert. Responsive to execution of the voucher, an instant messaging session between the second user and the third user can be established and an input from the second user indicating whether a posed question from the second user is resolved can be received. When the posed question is resolved, a role of maven can be assigned to the first user and a role of subject matter expert can be assigned to the third user. A transcript of the instant messaging session between the second user and the third user, a reference to the first user with the assigned role, and a reference to the third user with the assigned role can be stored as part of a referral transaction. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169427 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADDING ADVANCED CONTENT TO COMPUTERIZED MESSAGES - The subject matter discloses a content server for managing advanced content related to computerized messages, comprising a processing module adapted for associating the advanced content to with a computerized message, wherein the content server resides within an open network. In some cases, the content server is connected to a first communication device used for sending the computerized message and a second communication device used for receiving the computerized message. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169428 | MASTER-SLAVE INTERACTIONS SYNCHRONIZATION USING INSTANT MESSAGING - Systems, methods, and computer program products for facilitating synchronized, two-way communications between a server application and one or more client applications. In one embodiment, the server application and client applications are provided with instant messaging (IM) clients that are supported by an IM server in a networked computing environment. A method disclosed includes registering at least one client application IM client in an IM registry, generating an event in the server application, and converting the event into an operation command that is independent of the states of the server or client applications. The method can also include transmitting the command to each client application IM client. The method can also include, at the client application, receiving the command, reconstituting an event from the command, and processing the event. The method can additionally include transmitting from the client application to the server application a completion notification upon completion of the processing of the event by the client application. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169429 | SHARING EMAIL - A trust relationship may be established between a first email user and at least a second email user. At least one email message received by the second user is automatically propagated to the first user based upon, at least in part, the trust relationship. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169430 | Trust -Interactive Communication Applications - A communication software module executing on a computerized appliance from a machine-readable medium includes functionality enabling a user to direct a communication event to a particular destination by an address of the destination, functionality for transmitting the destination address to a remote trust authority, functionality for initiating the communication event, and functionality for receiving trust information from the remote trust authority, the trust information associated with an enterprise or a person associated with the destination address. Various communication modules are provided, such as email clients, instant messaging systems, chat systems, and voice communication systems. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CIRCUMVENTING INSTANT MESSAGING DO-NOT-DISTURB - A system and method for circumventing a do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user including defining requesting, from one or more do not disturb circumvention mediators, do-not-disturb status circumvention of an instant messaging user. Circumvention permission for the do-not-disturb status of the instant messaging user is received. The do-not-disturb status of the instant messaging user is circumvented based upon, at least in part, the circumvention permission. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169432 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING ELECTRONIC MAIL IN A VEHICLE - Systems and methods are disclosed for wirelessly communicating electronic mail messages at a vehicle. A computer processor is in communication with a memory device having software for an e-mail service, and electronic mail account credentials enabling access to one or more electronic mail accounts. A transceiver is in communication with the computer processor, and is capable of pairing with one or more wireless communication devices (e.g. cellular phone, etc.) for wirelessly communicating data between the processor and electronic mail servers located remotely from the vehicle. The processor operates the transceiver to wirelessly access the one or more electronic mail accounts at the electronic mail server(s) to wirelessly send or receive electronic mail messages at the vehicle. The computer processor convert received electronic mail messages to speech signals for playback. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169433 | Extending Name Space Size of Legacy Group Communication Systems - Techniques for facilitating communication between a first group communication system and a second group communication system. A naming convention of the first group communication system allows at least one name which contravenes a naming convention of the second group communication system. A communicator is joined to the second group communication system. The communicator was previously joined to the first group communication system and has a first name at the first group communication system. The communicator has a second name at the second group communication system. The second name can be requested from the second group communication system. The second name can also be generated by applying an algorithm to the first name. A processor performs translation between the first name and the second name in a communication between the communicator and the second group communication system. The translation is performed based on a translation data structure. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169434 | CONCATENATING MESSAGES FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES IN A NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A method for sending messages within notifications to a recipient is disclosed. The method includes receiving information related to at least one recipient and receiving a selection of at least two messages from a plurality of messages. The method also includes associating the at least one recipient with the at least two messages, and transmitting at least one notification to the at least one recipient, the at least one notification comprising the at least two messages. A system for sending messages within notifications to a recipient is also provided. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR JOINING A CONVERSATION - A method and computer program product for receiving a join request, from a requestor, to join an online conversation in which an online user of an instant messaging system is participating. A notification is provided to the online user that the requester would like to join the online conversation. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169436 | Method for Facilitating User of a Communication Device to Control Multiple Concurrent Communication Sessions - A method of operating a communication device to facilitate a user to control multiple concurrent communication sessions. In operation, the communication device receives a plurality of incoming communications from a plurality of recipients, in which each recipient corresponds to at least one of the multiple concurrent communication sessions. The communication device further detects a user response from a user interface of the communication device in response to receiving the incoming communications. Next, the communication device correlates the user response with at least one of the received incoming communications or previously received communications corresponding to the recipients. Further, the communication device selects at least one of the plurality of recipients based on the correlation and sends the user response to the selected at least one of the plurality of recipients. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169437 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING A RECORD OF ACTIVITY WITHIN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - An indication of a creation of an electronic message is received. An activity report is generated in response to, at least in part, the indication, wherein at least a portion of the activity report is based, at least in part, upon a determined activity level of a computing system. The activity report is associated with the electronic message. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CIRCUMVENTING INSTANT MESSAGING DO-NOT-DISTURB - A system and method for circumventing a do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user including defining a trusted user. A do-not-disturb status of an instant messaging user is identified. The trusted user is allowed to circumvent the do-not-disturb status of the instant messaging user. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169439 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOWING ACCESS TO CONTENT - A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an indication of an email being generated by a composer for at least one recipient. The email includes a link to a piece of content on a remote resource and the at least one recipient does not have sufficient rights to access the remote resource. The recipient may be allowed to access the remote resource via the link using the rights of the composer. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169440 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CACHING LINKED EMAIL DATA FOR OFFLINE USE - A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving an indication of a data caching request. A local copy of a piece of remote content that is defined by a link within an email is cached onto an accessible storage device. The remote content is stored on a remote resource. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169441 | TEXT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING PREDICTIVE TEXT ENTRY AND TEXT COMPRESSION AND APPARATUS FOR USE THEREIN | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169442 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PEER-TO-PEER PROXY SERVICE WITH TEMPORARY STORAGE MANAGEMENT AND TRAFFIC LOAD BALANCING IN PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS - A network gateway device is provided, including a P2P meta-descriptor detector detecting an original P2P meta-descriptor file, a P2P proxy control unit modifying the original P2P meta-descriptor and forwarding the modified P2P meta-descriptor file to a computer, an internal tracker receiving an inquiry message and replying when receiving a response, a storage unit storing shared file segments, an emulated external P2P client loading the original P2P meta-descriptor file, and an emulated internal P2P client performing an internal inquiry procedure and a load balancing procedure, determining whether the storage unit has the shared file segments, wherein if so, the shared file segments are retrieved and forwarded to the computer. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169443 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING E-MAIL FOR MOBILE DEVICES - A software and/or hardware facility that allows users to enable e-mail on a mobile device in an automated fashion. Using a mobile device, a user selects an e-mail service that they desire to access. An access request is made from the mobile device to a configuration management server. The configuration management server sends an e-mail, SMS message, or other message to the user or to a system administrator with the access request. The user or system administrator is presented with a form that allows the user or administrator to provide sufficient information to enable e-mail service for the mobile device. The configuration management server may store the received information in a database so that the information can be re-used by other mobile device users having the same e-mail domain. The information is transmitted to the mobile device and is used to enable e-mail service on the device. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169444 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSIGNING A RESPONDER TO A REQUESTER IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A method, system and program product for assigning a resource to a client in a collaborative environment. The method includes defining, using a tool, a threshold value for collaborative attributes for each resource responding to one or more clients and calculating on a periodic basis, using the tool, an updated value for the collaborative attributes for each resource. The method further includes comparing, upon receipt of a collaboration request, the updated value with the threshold value defined for collaborative attributes for a first resource and, if the updated value is less than the threshold value for the first resource, connecting the client to the first resource for establishing a collaborative session. If not, repeating comparing the updated value with the threshold value for the collaborative attributes defined for a next resource and connecting the client to the next resource whose updated value is less than the threshold value. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169445 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SUPPORTING CREATION OF REPLY MAIL - A device and method are described to create a reply message in which, even in a case where electronic messages are exchanged among a plurality of users, a past electronic message to be referred to as a desired reply message can be efficiently retrieved, and trouble in creating a reply message can be reduced. When a first electronic message that has been stored most recently has been extracted from history information, and when an instruction indicating that the body part of the first electronic message is necessary has been accepted, the body part of the first electronic message is temporarily stored. A second electronic message that has been stored next most recently is extracted from the history information. When information on a source in the header part of the second electronic message does not match information on the author of a reply message, the address of the source is set to the address of the destination of the reply message, the temporarily stored body part is added to the reply message, and history information preceding the second electronic message is added. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169446 | Cluster Architecture and Configuration for Network Security Devices - A computing device may be joined to a cluster by discovering the device, determining whether the device is eligible to join the cluster, configuring the device, and assigning the device a cluster role. A device may be assigned to act as a cluster master, backup master, active device, standby device, or another role. The cluster master may be configured to assign tasks, such as network flow processing to the cluster devices. The cluster master and backup master may maintain global, run-time synchronization data pertaining to each of the network flows, shared resources, cluster configuration, and the like. The devices within the cluster may monitor one another. Monitoring may include transmitting status messages comprising indicators of device health to the other devices in the cluster. In the event a device satisfies failover conditions, a failover operation to replace the device with another standby device, may be performed. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169447 | METHOD OF MANAGING A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS BY MEANS OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method of managing a collaborative process using a computing system. The method includes: receiving a first message from a first user, generating a second message, inserting into the second message an information taken from the first message and at least one selection link of a response choice to the message in relation with all or some of the information taken from the first message, and inserting into the link a response address and at least one first identifier to identify a response choice corresponding to the link and to the information taken, the link being configured to generate a response message containing the first identifier when it is selected by a user that has received the message. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169448 | Recipient Control of Source Audio Identifiers for Digital Communications - Enabling a recipient to control presentation of an audio identifier informing the recipient of an arrival of a digital communication from a sender in a communication session includes receiving a digital communication from a sender directed to a recipient. A sender-designated first audio identifier or sender-related information that identifies the sender to the recipient is accessed upon arrival of the digital communication. The first audio identifier or sender-related information is presented to the recipient contemporaneous with receipt of the digital communication. The recipient is able to specify, upon presentation of the first audio identifier or sender-related information, whether to enable subsequent presentation of the first audio identifier prior to or concurrent with receipt of a future digital communication from the sender. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169449 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN INTERFACE FOR A MESSAGING MAILBOX - A method and apparatus for accessing messages from a message server. Messages are stored on the message server in their current format without transcoding. When a client opens a session with the message server, a data transfer rate is determined for the client. In response to a message retrieve request, the bit rate of the message is compared to the data transfer rate, and if less than the data transfer rate, the message is downloaded to the user terminal without transcoding. If the bit rate is greater than the data transfer rate, then the message is transcoded to a lower bit rate according to a codec supported by the user. The codec may be selected from a set of codecs supported by the user terminal. The user is provided with the capability to override the system selected codec, for example, to pick a codec for secure encoding or encryption. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169450 | MESSAGING PROTOCOL FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES WITH ATTACHMENTS - A message that is to be processed according to an electronic messaging protocol is associated with a sender of the message. The message also includes an attachment from an attaching entity. The attachment is associated with a unique property of the attaching entity. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100174784 | Systems and Methods for Analyzing Electronic Communications - Methods and systems are provided for analyzing e-mail communications. E-mail messages and/or associated information (e.g., senders, recipients, message IDs) communicated through an e-mail system are captured and analyzed to identify e-mail threads. Based on the e-mail threads, scores are generated that are indicative of e-mail usage of e-mail users. Based on the scores, an action may be performed such as, for example, notifying individual(s) or their manager(s) that e-mail user(s) are generating or initiating e-mail conversations that generate an excessive amount of e-mail traffic. As another example, the e-mail account of at least one user may be at least partially restricted based on the scores. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174785 | Dynamic sender blocking based on accumulated content violations - A content distribution gateway configured for connection between one or more content senders and at least one message center operates to dynamically block certain senders based on accumulated content violations. The content distribution gateway receives one or more electronic messages from a content sender, evaluates the messages for indicia of accumulated content violations and, responsive to the indicia exceeding a blocking criteria, blocks certain messages from the content sender. In the case where a sender is blocked based on accumulated content violations, further messages from the sender are blocked without undertaking further evaluation of content violations. The blocking feature is adaptable to accommodate different tolerances of different end users, user groups or networks. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174786 | Programmatic Message Forwarding - Illustrative embodiments present a computer-implemented method for programmatic message forwarding. The computer-implemented method initiates a messaging session on a primary device and identifies device priority preferences for a set of secondary devices. The computer-implemented method further monitors for a presence of the mobile device, wherein the presence of the mobile device is indicated as a heartbeat, and responsive to a determination of the absence of the heartbeat is detected, identifies one of the set of secondary devices as a target device, and responsive to locating the target device, forwards a message to the target device. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174787 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MODIFY SETTINGS IN ONE OR MORE APPLICATIONS BASED ON SETTINGS IN ANOTHER APPLICATION - A system and method for updating one or more application settings based upon an availability setting, including determining if a first availability setting is activated for a first application associated with a user. In response to the determination that the availability setting is activated for the first application associated with a user, a second availability setting may be modified for a second application associated with the user | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174788 | HONORING USER PREFERENCES IN EMAIL SYSTEMS - In a distributed email system, user preferences respected more effectively by presenting messages marked for deletion to secondary messaging servers having access to user preferences. Messages marked for deletion by inbound servers are presented to secondary level servers having access to user white lists and the choice of whether to delete the suspect message is made by the secondary server. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174789 | RESTFUL FEDERATION OF REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION SERVICES - A computer-implemented method that includes determining whether a predetermined collaboration client application is available locally at a local client, and using a proxy to integrate the collaboration client application into a web application of a web browser at the local client when the collaboration client application is unavailable locally at the local client, providing real-time presence awareness information of a plurality of users to a first user via the web application at the web browser, receiving, from the first user via the web application, a selection of at least one user of the plurality of users, with whom the first user desires to perform one or more real-time collaboration services, and determining at least one real-time collaboration service that is available via the web browser for use between the first user and the selected user, based at least in part on the real-time presence awareness information of the selected user. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174790 | Apparatus, System, and Method for Wireless Presyncing of Data - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for wireless presyncing of data. A scan module scans a partial email stored on a mobile electronic device. The partial email comprises subject text, address data, and a specified quantity of message text. A complete version of the partial email resides on a server. The server is in communication with the mobile electronic device over a wireless network. A download module determines if the partial email satisfies a priority policy. In addition, the download module downloads the complete email to the mobile electronic device if the partial email satisfies the priority policy. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174791 | SHORT DISTANCE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING INSTANT MESSENGER - The present invention discloses an access system and an access method that enable a wireless slim terminal device accessing to at least one instant messenger (IM). The access system consists of a wireless slim terminal device and a wireless access point. The wireless slim terminal device notifies the wireless access point the type of a desired IM to be accessed and an associated instant message user identifier, the wireless access point accesses to the IM with the instant message user identifier so as to enable the wireless slim terminal to communicate with a remote terminal device. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174792 | GROUP FORMING SYSTEM - Each of client terminals stores a history of users of the other client terminals invited to a predetermined group, and the history has the identification information of the group, topic information of the group and the identification information of the users invited to the group so as to be associated with each other. In a group forming system, the first client terminal of a user who desires restoration of a deleted group transmits an invitation request, which includes topic information of the deleted group, identification information of the deleted group and identification information of the users invited to the deleted group, to the client terminals of the users invited to the deleted group. In a case where the history stored in the terminal includes the same topic information as the topic information indicated in the invitation request and includes the corresponding group of the same identification information as the identification information of the group indicated in the invitation request, the second client terminal that has received the invitation request transmits the invitation request to users, who are not included in the invited users indicated in the invitation request, among the users invited to the corresponding group by the terminal. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174793 | Updating Hierarchical Whitelists - A system and method are disclosed for maintaining a whitelist, including: obtaining message data based on an email message sent by a user; extracting recipient information from message data; updating the whitelist using the recipient information. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174794 | ELECTRIC MAIL PROCESSING APPARATUS - An electric mail processing apparatus includes a communication control unit for receiving a mail from the mail server; a main storage unit for storing the mail; a determining unit for determining process contents of the mail; a process performing unit for performing the process contents on the mail; and a mail deletion instructing unit for sending a deletion instruction to the mail server to delete the mail. The determining unit determines whether a first received mail is a subsequently received mail. The communication control unit deletes the subsequently received mail when the determining unit determines that the first received mail is the subsequently received mail. The communication control unit controls the mail deletion instructing unit to send the deletion instruction to the mail server to delete the subsequently received mail. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174795 | TRACKING DOMAIN NAME RELATED REPUTATION - Disclosed systems and methods provide for tracking of domain name related reputation by a domain name Registering Entity (e.g. Registry, Registrar, Reseller, etc.). The Registering Entity maintains a database with reputation data that can be accessed by the requesters. A domain name may be registered through the Registering Entity or a third party. The reputation data may be tracked on the domain name itself, URLs, domain name purchaser or registrant, or email addresses associated with the domain name. The reputation data may include various categories, such as email practices, website content, privacy policies and practices, fraudulent activities, domain name related complaints, digital certificates associated with the domain name, overall reputation, etc. The reputation data may be digitally signed for authenticity. The requester may decide whether to allow email messages or to visit URLs based on the domain name related reputation. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174796 | LOW POWER EMAIL FUNCTIONALITY FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Low power email capabilities are provided for an electronic device, such as a hand-held portable computer having capability to operate an application during a low power mode. During the low power mode, portions of hardware, software, services, and/or other components of the portable computer that are not necessary for email-related operations, such as polling a server for new email, are suspended or otherwise deactivated. At least a portion of a new email is stored in a memory of a low power display module (LPDM) of the portable computer. The LPDM is provided with its own low-power processing unit, user interface, and other components to allow access to and manipulation of the stored email while other components of the portable computer remain deactivated. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174797 | Method for Recoverable Message Exchange Independent of Network Protocols - A method is described to allow a device to retrieve a message, that is separated into a plurality of fragments, from a data source, wherein the method involves: establishing a first network connection with the data source; receiving a subset of the plurality of fragments; determining the first network connection has ended before completion of said message; establishing one or more subsequent network connections with the data source; and receiving any of the plurality of fragments not within the subset. The characteristics (for example: application protocol, security, speed, reach, bandwidth capability, cost of usage, network type, physical layer type, data-link layer type, or IP address of one or both of the first and second devices) of the first network connection can be potentially different than the subsequent network connections. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174798 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND SERVER FOR POPPING E-MAIL - A method for popping an E-mail is disclosed, the method includes: obtaining a mail popping parameter of a first mailbox; determining whether the mail popping parameter meets a mail popping rule of the first mailbox; triggering to pop an E-mail of the first mailbox according to information of the first mailbox when the mail popping parameter meets the mail popping rule of the first mailbox; popping the E-mail of the first mailbox into a mail server corresponding to a second mailbox according to the information of the first mailbox. A system and server for popping an E-mail is also disclosed. By embodiments of the present invention, the E-mail of the first mailbox can be popped into the second mailbox automatically without the participation of a user, so that the user can receive the E-mail of the first mailbox through the second mailbox without waiting after logging on the second mailbox. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174799 | MANAGING AND COLLABORATING WITH DIGITAL CONTENT - A universal digital content system provides a dynamic user interface having a viewing area, an action menu area, and an organizing area. A user can create, organize, send, receive, access, collaborate with and otherwise manage digital content through a single user interface. The universal digital content system provides multiple ways of viewing and organizing all of the digital content accessible through the dynamic user interface. In addition, a user can create a collaboration session with one or more contacts using one or more digital content files. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174800 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEVELOPING AN INSTANT MESSAGING NETWORK - An instant messaging (IM) system has an IM server connected to a communication network, and logic operable on the IM server enabling a first user to browse contacts associated with a second user. In some cases the first user can add and list contacts accessed by browsing the contacts associated with the second user. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100179991 | Iconic Communication - A method of controlling an external display using a personal communication device, comprising:
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| 20100179992 | Generatiing Context Aware Data And Conversation's Mood Level To Determine The Best Method Of Communication - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing information related to a user address as used in a communication session. A tag processing module is implemented for processing tags related to a user. A first user selects a second user to receive a message to initiate a communication session. The message recipient's tags, along with their preferred communication method(s) are displayed within the message sender's messaging client. The message sender then composes and sends a message to the message recipient, using the message recipient's preferred method of communication. The message is received by the message recipient and the message sender's tags are displayed within the message recipient's messaging client. If the message recipient decides to respond to the message, then a communication session is conducted. Once the communications session is ended, a linguistic analysis of the communication session is performed by the tag processing module. The message sender's tags are then updated. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100179993 | EMAIL PRODUCTIVITY MONITORING FACILITY - A method is presented for monitoring electronic communications to facilitate productivity. The method may include detecting the opening of an electronic message on a computer and storing a start time corresponding to the opening. Metadata associated with the electronic message may be recorded. Such metadata may include, for example, a recipient, a sender, a subject, and a number of words typed. The method may further detect the closing of the electronic message, and may store an end time corresponding to the closing. Efficiency metrics associated with the message may be calculated based on the start time, the end time, and the metadata. Efficiency metrics may include, for example, total time spent, total word count, and number of words typed per minute. A report reflecting the metadata and the efficiency metrics may be generated. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100179994 | PRESERVING MESSAGE ORDER USING A MESSAGE ORDERING MANAGER - A method and system for preserving a message ordering while processing message are discussed. A message ordering manager records an order in which electronic messages arrive at an input queue. An application server processes the electronic messages out-of-order or in parallel. The message ordering manager commits the processed electronic messages in the order in which electronic messages arrive at an input queue. If a processed message cannot be committed because older message(s) are not completely processed, then application server determines whether processing older message(s) is critical or not. If the processing the older message(s) is critical, the application server rolls back the processed message and the older message(s). Otherwise, the message ordering manager commits the processed message before the older electronic messages are committed. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100179995 | INSTANT MESSAGE FORWARDING TO SELECTABLE ACCOUNTS - Various embodiments are directed towards enabling a user to forward messages, such as IM messages, or other text messages, from a forwarding account to a different account, where messages are received by the recipient account on behalf of the forwarding account, and reply messages are viewed as having been sent by the forwarding account rather than the recipient account. A message sender may send a message towards the intended (forwarding) account. A message forwarding service, based on forwarding rules, determines the recipient account, and forwards the received message towards the recipient account on behalf of the forwarding account. The message forwarding service may receive a reply, and modify a reply header, such that the reply appears to have been sent by the forwarding account, rather than the recipient account. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100179996 | MULTI-MESSAGE TRIGGERED SUBSCRIPTION NOTIFICATIONS - A publisher, a subscriber or a message broker sets a messaging engine in the message broker to send or forward one or more messages to subscriber(s) after receiving a specific number of messages on specific topic(s) within a specific time interval. A plurality of publishers publishes messages on the specific topic(s). A messaging engine receives the published messages. If the number of the published messages on the specific topic(s) becomes the specific number of messages within a specific time interval, the messaging engine sends or forwards a single or plural message(s) on the specific topic to the subscriber(s). Otherwise, the messaging engine does not send or forward any message on the specific topic to the subscriber(s). | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100179997 | MESSAGE TRACKING BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS - Architecture that facilitates cross-boundary message tracking based on a trust relationship in existence between a sender network and a recipient network. A tracking service is deployed in each network as a proxy to obtain message events for each hop that passes the message on to the recipient. Tracking can include a search task and a get task. Messages can be found in reports that match message search criteria. The search task returns an array of search results objects, each object identifying a single tracking report. A selected object is pipelined into the get task to return the detailed tracking report for the selected message. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100179998 | STATEFUL SERVER BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING USING MOBILE DEVICES - The present invention provides methods and systems for using a stateful server for social networking using mobile devices. In one embodiment, a user uses a mobile device to register for a networking service offered by the stateful server. The stateful server transmits several tiers of service options to the user, and generates responses based on the user's selection to the service options. The stateful server establishes a unique state for each session initiated by the user, and stores all information related to the session in association with the unique state. The stateful server removes hyperlinks from text messages transmitted to the user's mobile device. The stateful server stores correlation information of the removed hyperlinks in association with the unique state. The stateful server enables the user to establish a friend network and to transmit information associated with the unique state to contacts within the friend network. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100179999 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MESSAGE AGGREGATION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include a plurality of source message servers for storing messages for delivery to a user, a target message server having a target message box associated therewith, and an aggregation server for periodically aggregating the messages from the source message servers to the target message box for retrieval by the user. The target message server may provide a delivery failure message to the aggregation server based upon a failure to deliver a message to the target message box. As such, the aggregation server may increase a period of sending messages to the target message box based upon a delivery failure message therefrom, and thereafter decrease the period of sending messages to the target message box based upon a successful delivery of a message thereto. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100185734 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING RESPONSE MESSAGES - This present invention relates to a method for processing response messages, comprising a transmitter, first communication gateway, second communication gateway and a receiver, wherein the transmitter is connected with the first communication gateway, while the receiver is linked with the second communication gateway. When a message is transmitted by the transmitter via a mobile communication network to a remote receiver, the second communication gateway will transmit a response message to the transmitter after the transmitter receives the message. The first communication gateway will determine that the receiver does not receive the message successfully if it does not receive the response message within a given time period, and then transmit the message again or inform the administrator. In this way, it can help reduce the loss of property and life to enterprises and their employees caused by loss of messages. In addition, the second communication gateway will decide if the message is valid or not upon receipt. If the message is invalid, transmission to the receiver will be terminated. This can prevent sending a packet repeatedly due to failure of the transmitter, or prevent hogging of receivers' bandwidth by messages from unknown sources as a result of hackers' intrusion. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185735 | EXTENSIBILITY FOR HOSTED MESSAGING SERVERS - Architecture for messaging server extensibility without the need to update or make changes to the messaging server by routing selected messages to a remote location for processing by custom code or third-party code. The messaging server routes the selected messages based server analysis of the messages and in view of configuration data (or conditions) for routing messages. The remote location processes the message and can instruct the messaging server to accept, reject, or redirect the message. Additionally, the remote location can modify the message and instruct the messaging server to process the modified message. The hosted organization can configure triggers to have the messaging server call to a web service with the messages, which extends the functionality of the messaging server. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185736 | INTERDEVICE TRANSMISSION OF DATA - The invention relates to a method of transmitting data from portable electronic devices to a communication network, such as the Internet, or a mobile phone network, and to a corresponding device and computer program product. An initiating device with a wireless link to the communication network is configured to access data on a subsidiary device using a local wired, or wireless connection. Reduced size representations of the data on the subsidiary device, such as thumbnails images, or filenames, are downloaded to the initiating device for selection. Having selected the data for transmission, and the mode of transmission, such as e-mail or MMS for example, the data is transmitted by streaming it from the subsidiary device over the local connection and into the outgoing data stream to the communication network. In this way, the initiating device need never store a complete copy of the file being transmitted. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185737 | METHOD OF SENDING ELECTRONIC GREETING CARD FROM DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME - A method of sending an electronic greeting card from a digital photo frame (DPF) is disclosed. The method includes selecting at least one stored electronic greeting phrase from a template module of the DPF to the electronic greeting card. The DPF sends the greeting card as an email to a mail server through Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The DPF stores the electronic greeting card in a mail box of the mail server according to the destination address. The electronic greeting card is received from the mail box through Post Office Protocol (POP). | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185738 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, SERVER, AND PRESENCE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - An information processing terminal which can differentiate the content to be distributed according to each member instead of distributing the same content when distributing some information to a plurality of members with a presence notification. The information processing terminal of the present invention is an information processing terminal | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185739 | DIFFERENTIATED SPAM FILTERING FOR MULTIPLEXED MESSAGE RECEIVING DEVICES - More than one message recipient devices are configured to receive electronic messages (e.g., e-mail) addressed to a single electronic address. The recipient devices may be multiplexed. Each device may use independently determined spam filtering parameters, and may therefore receive different mail sets. The filtering parameters may automatically adjust based on the monitored activities of the recipient devices. For example, the respective spam thresholds for the recipient devices may be switched based on the monitored activities of the recipient devices. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185740 | METHOD FOR DELIVERING MESSAGE BASED ON CPM SERVICE AND SERVER THEREOF - A method for delivering a message from a converged IP messaging (CPM) server include: checking registered target terminals that can receive a message from a source terminal based on a user preference; determining whether to deliver a message from the source terminal to the checked target terminal based on the user preference; when the message is determined to be delivered, determining whether to store the message in a message storage server based on the user preference; when the message is determined to be stored, requesting the message storage server to store the message; receiving a response message including information regarding the stored message from the message storage server; and including the information in the message and transmitting the same to the target terminal. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185741 | METHOD FOR DELIVERING CPM MESSAGE AND SERVER THEREOF - Disclosed is a method for delivering a message in a converged IP messaging (CPM) server. The message delivery method may include determining whether to reject a CPM message based on the access policy if the CPM message is received; checking a user preference of a target terminal to determine processing of the CPM message if it is determined that the CPM message is not rejected; determining whether to reject, defer or store the CPM message based on the user preference if the target terminal is not registered or in an unreceivable state; storing the CPM message in a queue if it is determined that a transmission of the CPM message is deferred; determining whether to discard or store the CPM message based on the user preference if a timer for the CPM message is expired; requesting to store the message to a message storage server if it is determined to be stored; receiving a response message including information on the stored message from the message storage server; and transmitting a message including the information on the store message to the terminal. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185742 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An information distribution system | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100191809 | Capability to capture and share image displayed from multicast video - The present invention provides a method and device for an IPTV subscriber viewer to capture and store a snapshot of the image displayed on a, television screen. An IPTV subscriber has the capability to capture, using a special button on the remote control, the current video image content displaying, for example, contact information in an advertisement. This information can be stored on the subscriber's set-top box and can be sent as an e-mail attachment to the subscriber's e-mail account. The subscriber can then save this information in his own e-mail account and access it via any device having e-mail capabilities. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191810 | TRANSPORT HIGH AVAILABILITY FOR SIDE EFFECT MESSAGES - Architecture that protects side effect messages by associating the side effect messages with a primary (redundant) message that was received by a transport mechanism (e.g., a message transport agent). Side effect messages are considered “side effects” of a primary message that caused generation of the side effect messages. The primary message is only considered fully delivered after the primary message and all associated side effect messages are delivered, after which the source of the primary message is ACK'd (sent an “ACKnowledgement” message). Hence, in case of hardware failures after the primary message was delivered, but before delivery of side effect messages, the redundancy approach used triggers re-delivery of the primary message and re-generation and delivery of the side effect messages. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191811 | Social Networking Runtime - Provided are apparatuses and methods for social networking applications and services. New applications and services based on a common runtime may be developed. Such applications and services may allow scripts to be loaded and interpreted. Furthermore, dynamic links generated by the scripts may be sent to an application engine for execution. The dynamic links may also be sent (e.g., shared) with other devices and/or users in a social networking environment. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191812 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLIENT-BASED INSTANT MESSAGE MONITORING FOR OFF-LINE USERS - A computer-based system for providing electronic monitoring and management services for an instant messaging (IM) user. The system can include a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions. The system can also include an IM server, wherein the IM server accepts connections from one or more IM clients. Additionally, the system can include a bot program configured to execute on the processor. The bot program can be configured to receive a request from a first user to manage messages on behalf of the first user and further receive a token from the first user and a user name associated with the first user, wherein the first user is logged into the IM server via an IM client of the one or more IM clients. Also, the bot program can be configured to receive a notification indicating that the first user is logged off the IM server. Furthermore, the bot program can further be configured to utilize the token and the user name to log into the IM server on behalf of the first user upon receiving the notification. Moreover, the bot program can be configured to receive and store a message intended for the first user from a second user utilizing another IM client of the one or more IM clients. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191813 | AUTOMATICALLY RELEASING RESOURCES RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBER DEVICES WITHIN A BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORK - In general, techniques are described for automatically releasing network resources reserved for use by network devices within a network. In particular, a network device, such as a router, may include an interface card that receives a first and a second message from respective first and second client devices requesting reservation of network resources. The first message may include a first identifier, while the second message may include a second identifier. Both messages however may also include the same additional context information that identifies the same context in which the first client device operates. The router may include a control unit that determines whether the additional context information included within the first and second messages is the same. Based on a determination that this information is the same, the control unit may automatically release resources reserved for use by the first client device within the network. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191814 | System-On-A-Chip Employing A Network Of Nodes That Utilize Receive Side Flow Control Over Channels For Messages Communicated Therebetween - An integrated circuit an array of nodes linked by an on-chip communication network. Messages are communicated between nodes utilizing logical channels representing hardware resources at the associated nodes. A given logical channel is associated with a receiver node and a transmitter node. The receiver node is adapted to send flow control messages to the transmitter node. The flow control messages include credits that identify hardware resources of the receiver node that are available for receiving messages over the given logical channel. The transmitter node is adapted to maintain a running total of the credits included as part of the flow control messages communicated from the receiver node and to initiate transmission of messages to the receiver node in accordance with the running total of credits maintained at the transmitter node. In the preferred embodiment, the transmitter node is adapted to initiate transmission of a message to the receiver node only if the total number of credits maintained at the transmitter node is sufficient to store the message at the receiver node. A given credit can include an address generated by a receiver node and representing an address in the local memory of the receiver node for storing data. The transmitter node transmits the address of the given credit to the receiver node for storing data therein. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191815 | Internet facsimile and control method thereof and communication instruction terminal - In an Internet fax, to receive an electronic mail document for fax transfer, if a password related to a control command for indicating a facsimile communication function is encrypted and set in the destination field or the main body of the received electronic mail, the encrypted password is decrypted and using the decrypted password, facsimile transfer of the electronic mail document is executed following the control command. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191816 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC MAILING OF DATA UTILIZING A DATA REFERENCE - A mobile device for electronic mailing of data utilizing a data reference, the mobile device having: a communications subsystem for communicating with a wireless gateway; a user interface; a processor interacting with the user interface and the communications subsystem; an electronic mail application adapted to run on the processor; a data application adapted to run on the processor; and memory adapted to be accessed by the electronic mail application and the data application, the memory storing a data reference identifier for data in the data application, the data reference identifier capable of identifying the data on a data server remote from the mobile device, wherein the data application is adapted to interact with the electronic mail application to send data in an electronic mail message, and wherein the data is replaced in the electronic mail message with the data reference identifier. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191817 | Multimedia Message Transfer - A method for multi-media message transfer transmits a message to multiple recipients. The method includes receiving a message addressed to multiple recipients. The method also includes determining an indication of a state of each recipient. The method also includes transmitting an acknowledgement. The acknowledgment includes at least one message identifying at least one recipient and the associated state of the at least one recipient. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191818 | Automatic Grouping of Electronic Mail - Automatic sorting and grouping of electronic mail items in an electronic mail system is provided. An automatic mail grouping property may be selected for electronic mail received, sent or stored in a variety of storage folders. For a given mail location (e.g., received mail, sent mail, or a given mail storage folder), a selected automatic grouping property causes mail to be displayed to a user in one or more categories that make location of specific mail items easier and more efficient. Visible dividers with optional headings may be provided between mail categories to quickly draw a user's attention to a given mail category and to separate large numbers of mail into logical groupings that make location of specific mail items more manageable. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191819 | Group Based Spam Classification - An e-mail filter is used to classify received e-mails so that some of the classes may be filtered, blocked, or marked. The e-mail filter may include a classifier that can classify an e-mail as belonging to a particular class and an e-mail grouper that can detect substantially similar, but possibly not identical, e-mails. The e-mail grouper determines groups of substantially similar e-mails in an incoming e-mail stream. For each group, the classifier determines whether one or more test e-mails from the group belongs to the particular class. The classifier then designates the class to which the other e-mails in the group belong based on the results for the test e-mails. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191820 | Forwarding to Automatically Prioritized IM Accounts Based Upon Priority and Presence - Systems for forwarding incoming instant messages comprise a primary IM processing device configured to send and receive IM messages. The primary IM processing device is further configured to forward incoming IM messages to an available secondary IM processing devices based upon presence information and availability information on a plurality of secondary IM processing devices. A router is configured to route IM messages between the primary IM processing device and the secondary IM processing devices. An IM server is coupled to a communications network and is configured to send and receive presence information from the primary IM processing device and the secondary IM processing devices. The primary IM processing device is further configured to maintain presence information on the secondary IM processing devices including the secondary IM processing devices that were unavailable to receive a forwarded instant message. Other systems and methods are also provided. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100198919 | MESSAGE-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR SHARING DISTRIBUTION LIST CONTENTS WITHIN ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SYSTEMS - Prior to transmission, distribution list data associated with a user-defined distribution list can be embedded within an electronic message. The recipients of the electronic message should be members of an electronic communications system. The distribution list data can include a copy of the user-defined distribution list or a reference to a storage location containing the user-defined distribution list where access control policies can be applied. The electronic message can be conveyed to the recipients. In response to the user-selection of a user-defined distribution list during presentation of the electronic message, the recipient can be presented with distribution list options within a user interface. The distribution list options can represent actions to be performed upon the contents of the user-selected user-defined distribution list. Prior to execution of a user-selected distribution list option, the contents of the user-selected user-defined distribution list can be accessed using the embedded distribution list data. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198920 | HIGH PERFORMANT INFORMATION SHARING AND REPLICATION FOR SINGLE-PUBLISHER AND MULTIPLE-SUBSCRIBER CONFIGURATION - A method for sharing information between a publisher and multiple subscribers is provided. The publisher uses a latch-free, single publisher, multiple subscriber shared queue to share information. Logical change records representing changes made to a database are enqueued in the shared queue as messages in a stream of messages, and subscribers read the logical change records. Subscribers may filter logical change records before sending to apply processes for processing. An identifying property of the source instance of a change encapsulated in a logical change record may be included with each message enqueued. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198921 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROACTIVE NOTIFICATION OF AVAILABILITY STATUS IN EMAIL COMMUNICATION - A computer implemented method, a tangible computer medium, and a data processing system proactively share current and upcoming schedule information. When the data processing system detects an outgoing e-mail from an e-mail client; a calendar entry is retrieved from a calendar application. The calendar entry indicates an availability of a user of the e-mail client. The calendar entry is attached to the outgoing e-mail, and the e-mail client then sends the outgoing e-mail. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198922 | METHODS FOR USING THE ADDRESSING, PROTOCOLS AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF EMAIL TO SUPPORT NEAR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION - A method for transmitting time-based media across a network. The method involves receiving a message including time-based media intended for a recipient using a globally addressable email address associated with the recipient. Once the email address is defined, the method involves initiating a first DNS lookup of the globally addressable email address associated with the recipient to determine if the recipient receives a near real-time communication service and to ascertain a delivery route to deliver the time-based media of the message to the recipient using a near real-time communication protocol. If the first lookup result is positive, the time-based media of the message is progressively and simultaneously transmitted to the recipient as the time-based media is being created using the ascertained delivery route and the near real-time communication protocol. If the first DNS lookup is negative, then a second DNS lookup is performed to determine if the email address receives an email service. If so, then the time-based media of the message is sent to the recipient in a file attached to an email. If both the first and second DNS lookups are negative, an error message indicating that the time-based media of the message is undeliverable is generated. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198923 | METHODS FOR USING THE ADDRESSING, PROTOCOLS AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF EMAIL TO SUPPORT NEAR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION - A method of progressively and simultaneously transmitting time-base media over a network to a recipient. The method involves addressing an email message to the recipient using an email address associated with the recipient. Once the email is addressed to the recipient, the method involves progressively and simultaneously transmitting to the recipient time-based media associated with the email message as the time-based media is being created along a delivery route discovered using the email address associated with the recipient. At the receiving end, the recipient may simultaneously render the time-based media of the email message as the time-based media of the message is delivered by removing any restrictions used by access protocols that require the media of the message be received in full before the media can be accessed by the recipient. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198924 | INTERACTIVE AVATAR IN MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - A sender sends an email message to a receiver. The message includes an avatar representing the sender. Upon receiving the message, if the receiver has a question related to the message, the receiver sends the question to the sender via the avatar. After receiving the question, the avatar remote server device correlates the question with the message through a MSG-ID associated with the receiver or avatar. The avatar remote server device parses and analyzes the question and then searches mailboxes, agendas, previous answers, toDoLists, folders, resumes, and/or address books of the sender to find a corresponding answer for the question. Then, the avatar remote server device provides the answer to the receiver via the avatar. Alternatively, upon receiving the question, the avatar remote server device sends a notification to the sender. If the sender has an online connectivity, the sender provides the answer to the receiver via the avatar. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198925 | EMAIL CLIENT CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING NEAR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION - An email client capable of supporting real-time communication of time-based media. The email client includes a session element configured to establish a session with a server when an email address addressing a recipient within a domain is defined. As soon as the email address is defined, a transmitting element of the email client is configured to progressively and simultaneously transmit time-based media as the time-based media is being created to the recipient via a route at least partially discovered by a lookup of the domain of the email address. By at least partially discovering the route to the recipient as soon as the email address of the recipient is defined, the transmitting element may progressively deliver the time-based media to the recipient. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198926 | Method and an apparatus for providing more of the same - A system and a method where a client, which usually is portable, derives information relating to an event experienced by a user and communicates this event information to one or more providers which return with information relating to corresponding or similar events. In one situation, the client stores the event information if communication with the providers is not possible, such as if the client is out of reach of a wireless network. In another situation, the providers may store the event information and act as search agents performing searches also in the future on the basis of the event information. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198927 | Enhanced Email System - An enhanced email system integrates office applications to track information related to the office application documents and emails within the email system, so as to monitor the work status and productivity of office work and to improve efficiency. The enhanced email system enables the creation of automatic folders amongst a group of people (e.g., team members) to manage emails, forms, and office application documents related to specific projects or assignments, thus making it easier to manage and locate emails and office application documents within the email system. The enhanced email system also allows only the latest email and office application documents generated from “reply” or “forward” to remain in the “inbox” and the related “automatic folder”, the prior version emails and office application documents are either moved to a separate folder or deleted from the individual's email account, and therefore, maintains a neat and easy navigable mailbox. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198928 | Virtual email method for preventing delivery of unsolicited and undesired electronic messages - A method is used to filter an electronic message using virtual email sent to a server using a virtual email address created by the server for a recipient-identified. The virtual email address comprises a sender identification in combination with the recipient's non-encoded email address. The server identifies the email recipient using the recipient's non-encoded email address, identifies the email sender as authorized, stores the email sender's identification, stores email comprising the virtual email address; enables the recipient to access the email; enables the recipient to create a virtual email address, receives the virtual email; receives a second electronic message from a non-user-identified sender at the server, responds to the non-user-identified sender requesting an answer that only a human could provide; and, receives the answer from the non-user-identified sender and if the answer is correct, then creates an electronic account on the server for the non-user-identified. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198929 | Client Messaging in Multicast Networks - A messaging system may enable a server to assign unique identifiers to a plurality of clients. These identifiers enable a client to determine whether a message is specifically targeted to that client or, as an alternative, whether the client is a member of a group of targeted clients. In one embodiment, each client includes a client identifier that may include code portions that are common to other members of a particular addressable client group. In addition, the client may include agents devoted to particular functions that may be uniquely addressable by the server. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198930 | E-Mail Client with Programmable Address Attributes - A method enables a single agent to respond to incoming emails as representing a plurality of different entities, using the following steps: (a) receiving an incoming email by an email application executing on a computerized appliance from a machine-readable medium; (b) preparing by an agent having access to the email application an outgoing email in response to the incoming email; (c) accessing a data table associating “send to” addresses of incoming emails with “from” addresses for outgoing emails; and (d) automatically entering for the outgoing email, by the email application, the “from” address associated with the “send to” address in the incoming email. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198931 | CHECKING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES FOR COMPLIANCE WITH USER INTENT - Intention data is used to determine an intent of a sender of a message, or other participant, in an electronic communication system such as an email system. For example, a message that is designated for sending can be compared to the sender's intention data and if a discrepancy or deficiency is detected between the sender's determined intent and the actual message then an action is taken such as providing an alert to the sender or to another person, process or device; requiring an action by the sender such as confirming the message, making an edit, checking information, etc. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198932 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION CONTROL - Computer program products, apparatus, and methods for processing digital messages to recipients at destination domains is provided. A plurality of profiles are established, each profile for handling digital to a specific domain or set of domains. A request to process a plurality of outbound digital messages is handled by, for each given digital message, processing the given digital message by (i) determining a destination domain for digital messages, (ii) reading a profile for the determined destination domain for the digital messages and (iii) based on at least one parameter set in the profile: (a) sending the given digital message to the determined destination domain in accordance with the profile when permitted by the at least one parameter set in the profile, or (b) not sending the digital message to the determined destination domain when required by the at least one parameter set in the profile. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198933 | ELECTRONIC MEDIC ALERT - A device and method for sending medic alert information electronically. The device may have a memory component and a processing component. The memory component may store medic alert information. The processing component may generate an electronic message containing the medic alert information and send the electronic message via a communications network. The device may also have an input component for receiving a user request to initiate a connection with an emergency contact, such as a 911 dispatcher. The electronic message may be automatically generated and sent in response to the user request. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198934 | WORKFLOW SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - The present invention relates to workflow systems and methods. In one embodiment, the invention relates to integration of a calendar system with a workflow system where a calendar event can initiate a workflow by sending a message to a form route manager. The completion of a workflow or step in the workflow can result in sending a message to a calendar system to generate an event. In another embodiment, the invention relates to the integration of workflow with a project management system that includes project segments, which are processes that can be defined and controlled by workflow routes. The project management system sends a message to the workflow system to initiate workflow and the workflow system sends a message to the project management system, for example, at the completion of the workflow route. The relationship between the workflow routes can maintain the relationship between the project segments. If the relationships between project segments change, the relationship between the workflow routes changes without added effort. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100205253 | System and Method for Sending Messages to a Plurality of Recipients - In a method for sending messages to a plurality of recipients, for at least one first recipient in a non-empty set of first recipients of a message, a search is conducted in at least one directory for an address of a second recipient associated with said first recipient in said directory. If at least one address of a second recipient is found, the search result is supplemented to a set of second recipients before the message is submitted to recipients included in any set of recipients of said message. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205254 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRACKING CONTENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - The system and method according to the invention allows users of a social network to determine the geographical dissemination of content within the network and the speed with which the content is disseminated and the extent of the dissemination, both in geographic terms and number of users experiencing the content. The dissemination is tracked by determining the number and location of other users to whom a user sends the content, and that experience the content. The geographic location of the recipient is determined using the IP address of the recipient or the geographic location provided. The impact of a particular user on the dissemination of the content can result in the awarding of points for the user. The invention also allows the impact of a particular user in disseminating a particular piece of content to be measured and ranked. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205255 | MOBILE GAMING ALERT - Various embodiments of alerts on mobile devices are described. Other embodiments are described. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205256 | ASSET STATE CHANGE EVENT PROCESSING - Asset state change events are processed using an asset-state identifier corresponding to a combination of the current state for the asset and the asset. The asset-state identifier uniquely identifies the combination from all other possible combinations of assets and states being monitored. When a new asset is identified, the asset-state identifiers can be generated and stored for subsequent use in updating the current state of the asset. In an embodiment, an event source in a business activity monitoring (BAM) system can send an update message that includes one or more asset-state identifiers for processing by a messaging system. Multiple asset-state identifiers can be processed by the messaging system and/or a monitoring system within a single transaction. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205257 | TRANSPORT HIGH AVAILABILITY VIA ACKNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT - Architecture that facilitates transport high availability for messaging services by providing the ability of a receiving entity (e.g., receiving message transfer agent (MTA)) to detect if a sending entity (e.g., sending MTA or client) is a legacy sending entity. When the receiving entity detects that the sending entity is a legacy system, by advertising transport high availability capability to the sending entity, if the sending entity does not opt-in to this capability, the receiving entity keeps the sending entity client “on hold”, that is, waiting for an acknowledgement (ACK) until the receiving entity delivers the message to the next hops (immediate destinations). This approach maintains at least two copies of the message until the message is successfully delivered (to the next hop(s)). Hence, if the legacy sending entity or the receiving entity fails, the message is still delivered successfully. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205258 | MANAGING A UNIFIED COMMUNICATION STORAGE SERVER FROM AN END USER EMAIL READER - An efficient article and method for automating the process of changing the status of a voicemail (or other multimedia message or object) that is stored in a multimedia server (such as a voicemail server), when the voicemail has been associated with an email, and the email has been opened by the intended recipient. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205259 | EMAIL MANAGEMENT BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - Methods for assisting email users manage email messages received in an email account. An event is triggered by an action performed by an email user with respect to an email message in an email account. The event identifies an entity associated with the email message (e.g., sender address, domain, keyword, etc.). A determination is made whether to assist the user manage their email based on a heuristic. The heuristic assigns weights based on prior events associated with the same entity to determine whether the user is interested in receiving emails from the sender. Based on the heuristics, the method may add the sender to the user's block-list or unsubscribe the user from a mailing list. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205260 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATING COMMUNICATIONS - The present invention provides for method, system, and apparatus for facilitating communication between a first set of networked devices, such as client devices, and a second networked device, such as a server. A query message is transmitted from a representative device of the first set of networked devices, to the second networked device. The representative device may be selected in several ways. A response message may be transmitted from the second networked device, the message comprising an indication of devices from the first set of networked devices for which communications are pending. The response message is processed and devices identified in the response message are notified. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205261 | MANAGEMENT AND DELIVERY OF PROFILE DATA - Aspects of the invention relate to systems and methods for securely retaining profile data and the use of such data for the targeted delivery of content. In one embodiment, a unique profile that represents the user location and is keyed to profile attributes selected from both a first set of data collected from the user location and the second set of profile data collected from an external source, is generated. The key does not allow a third party to identify the end-user location or a user associated with the end-user location. Electronic content transmitted to end-user locations may be encoded such that it may only be accessed by an authorized user and/or on a specific electronic device at the user location. A graphical user interface may be utilized to allow a third-party to provide selection criteria for determining user locations to receive targeted content. Further aspects of the invention relate to an electronic device configured to present targeted content to a user at a user location. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205262 | System, method and computer-readable medium for provision of real time support to a computer user - A system, method and computer-readable media for enabling verbal communications between a computer user and a support representative are provided. In a computer network comprising a computer and a support workstation, the method includes (a.) receiving a support request at a workstation via a computer network, (b.) initiating a communications session between the computer and the workstation; and (c.) establishing a real time verbal discussion between a user of the computer and an operator of the workstation, wherein the operator attempts to support the user in achieving a goal by means of the computer network. Optionally, the support representative may send and/or receive graphical and textual information, to include screen shots and graphical user interface instructions. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205263 | SIP SERVER ARCHITECTURE FOR IMPROVING LATENCY DURING MESSAGE PROCESSING - Systems and methods are provided for improving latency during message processing in a network environment via the use of SIP server architecture. The SIP server can be comprised of an engine tier and a state tier distributed on a cluster network. The engine tier can send and receive messages and execute various processes. The state tier can maintain in-memory state data associated with various SIP sessions. The state tier can store various long lived data objects and the engine tier can contain short lived data objects. The state data can be maintained in partitions comprised of state replicas. When processing messages, the engine can pull state data objects from the state tier, use the objects and push them back to the state tier after processing is complete. If one state replica is unavailable, such as during garbage collection, the engine can retrieve the objects from another replica in the partition. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205264 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION BETWEEN EXCAVATORS AND OTHER ENTITIES ASSOCIATED WITH UNDERGROUND FACILITY LOCATE AND MARKING OPERATIONS - Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing information regarding a locate and/or marking operation to identify a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. At least one notification indicating a status of the locate and/or marking operation is electronically transmitted and/or stored so as to inform at least one party associated with requesting the operation (a “requesting party,” e.g., an excavator, a property owner, a facility owner, a regulatory authority, a damage investigator, etc.) of the status of the operation. In one aspect, a requesting party may designate a preferred format, content, and/or method of receiving notifications regarding the locate and/or marking operation. In another aspect, a computer-generated GUI is provided to facilitate submission of requests, generation of “virtual white line” images to indicate one or more dig areas on a digital image of a work site, and/or selection of notifications and preferences for same. In yet another aspect, a requesting party may provide an acknowledgement of receipt (e.g., a “return receipt”) for one or more received notifications. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205265 | HASH-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND PREVENTING TRANSMISSION OF UNWANTED E-MAIL | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205266 | APPEARANCE PACKAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE - An appearance package management method is provided, which includes the following steps. An appearance package is received, and a unique appearance package identifier (ID) of the appearance package is obtained. A corresponding relation between the appearance package and the appearance package ID is stored. An operation message of an appearance package is received, and an appearance package corresponding to an appearance package ID obtained from the operation message is operated according to the appearance package ID obtained from the operation message and the stored corresponding relation between the appearance package and the appearance package ID. An appearance package management system and an appearance package management device are also provided. Through the method, the unique ID for the appearance package is established between the server and the terminal, so that the terminal can identify the object of the operation instruction delivered by the server and manage the corresponding appearance package. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205267 | Instant Messaging Device/Server Protocol - A generic IM device/server protocol permits a single implementation of a IM application on client devices for communicating with different enterprise IM servers types. The protocol defines a server maintained tag to identify the currency of a contact list it is managing for a client device. The client device receives and persists the tag and provides it at login. The server automatically sends a contact list update only if the tag indicates the client devices contact list instance is not current. Presence updates may also be sent automatically at login and the client device need not separately request contact list or presence updates at login. The client device may be pre-provisioned with respective graphics, text and server capabilities for multiple server types. A specific IM configuration may be selected in response to service information. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205268 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Messages between Heterogeneous Networks - A method and apparatus for transmitting messages between heterogeneous networks are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) message from an IMS network; converting the format of the IMS message into the format of a non-IMS message and converting the sender terminal ID of the IMS message into the sender terminal ID of the non-IMS message; and sending the non-IMS message that includes the content and sender terminal ID of the non-IMS message to a receiver terminal of the non-IMS message through the home network of the non-IMS message. The disclosure can implement message interworking between an IMS user terminal and a non-IMS user terminal. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205269 | Actionable Email Documents - A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205270 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WIRELESS INSTANT MESSAGING - Instant messaging clients transmit, to a server, presence information indicating that the respective client is in a communicative state in which the client is receptive to communicating with the other clients. A server determines, for each client, that the respective client is in a communicative state if presence information was received from the client over a preceding predetermined time period, and that the client is in an unknown state if presence information was not received from the client over the preceding predetermined time period. The communicative state and the unknown state are possible presence states of the clients. The server transmits a notification to a second client of the presence state of a first client when both the first client and the second client are in a communicative state. But the server refrains from transmitting the notification to the second client when the first client is in the unknown state. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205271 | RELIABLE MESSAGING INSTRUCTION - The subject invention provides reliable messaging with and within a control environment. The systems and methods utilize a message broker that facilitates message exchange. The message broker can be located within an industrial controller, as a dedicated entity within a control environment and/or an entity external to the control environment. Messages transmitted from an industrial controller and/or the external entity can be routed through the message broker prior to reaching a destination, wherein the message can be stored in the message broker and subsequently obtained by a recipient. The message broker decouples the message sender (e.g., an industrial controller, an external entity . . . ) from the message recipient (e.g., an industrial controller, an external entity . . . ) such that messages can be successfully transmitted (to the message broker) regardless of a state of the recipient, and messages can be retrieved (from the message broker) regardless of a state of the sender. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205272 | Systems and processes to manage multiples modes of communication - A computer-implemented system and method to manage the communication of a user are disclosed. In one embodiment, when a person tries to electronically convey a message to the user, the status of the user, the identity of the person, and the urgency of the message can be identified. The access priority of the person can be determined based on the person's identity. Then, the message can be managed using one or more rules and in view of the status of the user, the access priority of the person and the urgency of the message. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100211639 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SERVING ANNULAR MESSAGES TO LOCAL BROWSERS - A system to enable a local area network operator to optimize bandwidth by controlling annular display surrounding sourced content. An apparatus for storing content sponsor messages locally to a user's network. A method for selecting among locally served messages, images, and applications to support delivery of content provider's intellectual property. In short, optimizing and tuning the delivery of the message annulus surrounding the “news hole” of a webpage. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211640 | UNSOLICITED MESSAGE COMMUNICATION CHARACTERISTICS - A mail server makes use of characteristics of the transport and/or application layer flow (e.g., TCP and SMTP) of received email to determine whether those characteristics are consistent with spam, for example, exhibiting behavior consistent with traffic competing for link access, large round trip times and resource constrained hosts. In some examples, a statistical technique is used to process flow characteristics of a message, optionally with other characteristics of the message, to characterize the message as spam versus a valid message. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211641 | PERSONALIZED EMAIL FILTERING - Techniques and systems are described that utilize a scalable, “light-weight” user model, which can be combined with a traditional global email spam filter, to determine whether an email message sent to a target user is a desired email. A global email model is trained with a set of email messages to detect desired emails, and a user email model is also trained to detect desired emails. Training the user email model may comprise one or more of: using labeled training emails; using target user-based information; and using information from the global email model. Global and user model scores for an email sent to a target user can be combined to produce an email score. The email score can be compared with a desired email threshold to determine whether the email message sent to the target user is desired or not. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211643 | Transmitting Notification Messages for an Electric Vehicle Charging Network - An electric vehicle charging station network server which manages a plurality of charging stations receives subscriber notification message preferences for a subscriber (e.g., electric vehicle operator) which indicate one or more events of interest that the subscriber wishes to receive notification messages for. A set of one or more contact points associated with the subscriber is also received. The server authorizes the subscriber to use one of the plurality of charging stations. The server receives data associated with the subscriber from that one of the charging stations which indicates that a charging session has been established for an electric vehicle associated with the subscriber. The server detects an event of interest for the subscriber and transmits a notification message for that event to at least one of the set of contact points associated with the subscriber. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211644 | PRIORITIZATION OF RECIPIENT EMAIL MESSAGES - A conveyed set of recipient email messages can be identified. An event triggering the conveyed set of email message to be prioritized relative to each other can be detected. Responsive to the detected event, a priority score for each of the emails in the conveyed set can be determined based upon recipient specific criteria. The recipient specific criteria can be based upon recipient behavior regarding a set of previous email messages. The priority score can be calculated base upon prioritizing factors determined from patterns discovered in the recipient behavior regarding the set of previous email messages. At least one programmatic action can be performed based upon the determined priority scores of the email messages. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211645 | IDENTIFICATION OF A TRUSTED MESSAGE SENDER WITH TRACEABLE RECEIPTS - Embodiments are directed towards identifying trusted senders and their trusted sender accounts within a household network for use in at least managing spam activities. Primary trusted sender accounts are determined based on a traceable relationship between a network account and a known trusted source, such as a communication of qualified electronic statements. Coverage of trusted senders may be expanded by including other network accounts that might not receive qualified electronic statements but are detected as being owned by a primary trusted sender and/or their household members. The other household members being definable as secondary trusted senders with secondary trusted sender accounts. Various anti-spam filters and/or other activities may be modified based on the determined trusted sender status of a network account, including, minimizing an amount of spam analysis performed for a message, training of spam filters, or the like. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211646 | MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE SYNCHRONOUS RESPONSES TO SINGLE QUESTION IN COMMUNITY-BASED INSTANT MESSAGING - A computer-implemented method includes sending an instant message communication from a first device of a first person to a plurality of other persons in a topic-based community, and receiving a number of instant message communications at the first device. The method further includes placing each of the response instant message communications in a separate display that is viewable by the first person, and sending a second instant message communication from the first device of the first person to the plurality of other persons after a certain number of response instant message communications have been received by the first device from the plurality of other persons, wherein the second instant message communication is an indication that the first person is satisfied with at least one of the response instant message communications. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211647 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONCENTRATING MESSAGES FOR THE INTEGRATION SIMULATION OF COMPONENTS - The invention in particular has as an object a method and a device for concentration of messages transmitted by at least two separate transmitters in a communication network to which there are connected these transmitters and an addressee of the data contained in the messages. After receiving ( | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211648 | EMAIL RECIPIENT BEHAVIOR TRACKING - A system in which a message from a server is transmitted to a recipient device, the message including an image reference that identifies the location of an image. A request is received for the image file from the recipient device. The image file is transmitted to the recipient device and a start time of the transmitting is noted. Upon detecting that the image file has ceased being transmitted, an end time of the transmission is noted. The end time and start time are compared to make a determination of whether the message was read. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211649 | Method and System for Sending Message with Geographic Reference - Methods and systems for sending messages with a location token as a geographic location reference. A method for sending a message with location token from a sending station in a communications network, where user initiates a request by selecting a location, the sending station sends a request to a server for location token for the location selected by the user, the server generates a location token and returns the location token to the sending station, the sending station creates and sends the message with the location token sent by the server, a receiving station receives the message along with location token, user operating the receiving station requests the server to retrieve location by accessing the location token. The capabilities of the server may be co-hosted wholly or partially on the sending station, wholly or partially on the receiving station, or wholly or partially on both the sending and receiving station. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211650 | INTERACTIVE, MULTI-USER MEDIA DELIVERY SYSTEM - An interactive, multi-user media delivery system having a number of media storage mediums, each of containing a particular media selection, and a number of media players structured to selectively deliver the media selection to users. Each of the media players includes a control assembly structured to selectively control and regulate delivery of the media selection to the user, and at least one of the media players is selectively designatable as a slave unit. A master control assembly is further provided and is operatively associated with the media players, a connectivity assembly being included to establish a communicative link at least between the slave unit(s) and the master control assembly. The master control assembly is further structured to receive synchronization data from each of the media players, and to simultaneously and uniformly control the delivery of the media selection by the | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100217804 | Collaborative draft forum-messages - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with collaborative draft forum-messages are described. One example method includes receiving draft forum-message data from a drafter. The draft forum-message data may identify a set of entities to whom the drafter seeks to grant edit privileges. The example method may also include providing a portion of the draft forum-message data to one of the identified entities and allowing them to view and/or modify the draft forum-message data. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217805 | ASSOCIATING MULTIPLE PHYSICAL MAILBOXES WITH SAME USER OBJECT IN MESSAGING SYSTEM - Architecture that employs an abstraction of a mailbox store that allows clients to connect to alternate mailboxes associated with a single mail-enabled user, using the same mechanism the user utilizes to connect to the user's main mailbox. On top of this basic infrastructure, new features can be built, including server-hosted e-mail archives and mailboxes mirrored from other e-mail systems. In support thereof, the architecture also includes a mechanism for mailboxes to expose all or only a subset of mailbox features, and to advertise which mailbox features are supported. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217806 | Email Based Remote Management of Network Connected Entities - Managing a device using email messages. New messages of an email address of the device may be checked on a server. An email message may be downloaded from the server based on said checking. The email message may be addressed to the email address of the device. The body of the email message may include one or more commands for the device. The one or more commands contained in the email message may be executed. The one or more commands may include at least one command for initiating or joining a videoconference. Accordingly, execution of the one or more commands may result in the device joining or initiating a videoconference. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217807 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OBFUSCATING QUEUE MANAGEMENT - The present invention is generally directed to a method, system, and article of manufacture that avoid exposing the sensitive information (e.g., infrastructure details) to untrusted clients. For example, in one embodiment of the present invention, message destinations are protected from a client in an HTTP bridged scenario. Thus, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the replyTo message destination are obfuscated (e.g., via a hash function) and sent to the client as a replyTo address. Consequently, the embodiments of the present invention negate the requirement to expose the sensitive information to the untrusted client applications. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217808 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN CONVERSATIONS IN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - A system and method are provided for switching between conversations in instant messaging applications. The instant messaging application is configured for displaying a list of conversations upon detecting selection of the option within a menu or link within the conversation screen and permit navigation to another conversation. The conversations may be prioritized based first on whether the conversation has any unread messages and within the grouping of those conversations having unread messages, may be prioritized based on when the last activity occurred. In this way, the user has easiest access to conversations with the most recent activity with the ability to scroll down the list of conversations to continue an older conversation if desired. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217809 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN MESSAGING CLIENTS - A system and method for managing multiple instant messaging (IM) clients associated with a single contact in an IM application for a mobile device is provided. A unified IM contact list associates multiple available IM clients with each contact listing. In one aspect, the current default IM client may be conveniently switched to another default IM client by receiving a first input to display a toggle list listing the available IM clients associated with the particular contact, and then receiving a second input indicating the selection of the desired default IM client. In another aspect, the current conversation IM client may be conveniently switched to a standby IM client when a contact in the conversation logs off. In yet another aspect, the current default IM client may be switched to another default IM client upon the occurrence of one or more external events. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217810 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVER - The invention provides an e-mail server, with which e-mails are communicated between a member belonging to the server and a communication mate of the member under the protection of function or performance for preventing SPAMs from being received by an improved white list system and e-mail addresses can be surely prevented from undesirably leaking out. The server comprises received e-mail filtering means for forming destruction judgment and delivery judgment on a received e-mail for causing the received e-mail to be delivered in accordance with a delivery permitting decision and transmission e-mail filtering means for conducting processing on a transmission e-mail by which a group of letters representing an e-mail address discordant with an addressee's e-mail address contained in the transmission e-mail is replaced with another group of letters representing an open e-mail address or eliminated. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217811 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERING - A message processing apparatus ( | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217812 | INTERCONNECTION OF VIRTUAL WORLDS BY MEANS OF MOBILE MESSAGE SERVICES - The invention relates to a method for connecting data processing systems and/or computer networks that simulate virtual environments ( | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217813 | DIVIDING E-MAILS BETWEEN TWO USERS WITH THE AID OF A SERVER - The invention relates to a method and a communication system for operating a communication connection (KV) between a first communication transmitting unit (T | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217814 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENABLING NETWORK-COMPATIBLE CAMERAS TO OPERATE IN INSTANT MESSAGING NETWORKS - The invention relates to an apparatus including a first processing module that is configured to provide data, a network services module, an instant messaging module including a streaming module integrated in the instant messaging module, and an instant messaging controller. The instant messaging module is configured to support execution of a first instant messaging client. The streaming module is configured to process the data to generate processed data and to send the processed data to the network services module in response to the instant messaging controller. The instant messaging controller is configured to control the instant messaging module. The first instant messaging client is configured to log on to an instant messaging service, log off from the instant messaging service, exchange information with the instant messaging service, and transmit the processed data via the instant messaging service. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217815 | CACHING EMAIL UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS - Accessing, via an end user device, email messages of an external mail source. A direct access proxy is operative to reconcile the email contents of external email sources with the email contents of user devices through the use of lists of unique email identifiers (UIDs). A Partition Database returns UID lists reflective of the UIDs of email messages previously received from the external email source and forwarded to a network server of the system (forwarded UID lists). A memory cache external to the direct access proxy and its corresponding Partition Database returns forwarded UID lists. The direct access proxy determines the data reliability of the Partition Database and memory cache, and obtains forwarded UID lists from the memory cache when it determines that the memory cache is at least as reliable as the Partition Database. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217816 | VIDEO VOICEMAIL AND MENU SYSTEM - A method, system, and computer program product for receipt, storage, playback of video voicemail and a menu for controlling playback of voicemail and other video content provides enhanced features. A method for delivering messages may comprise storing a message including both audio and video, determining an audio and video capability of a device requesting delivery of the message, and transmitting either the audio and video or the audio only to the requesting device based on the determined audio and video capability of the requesting device. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217817 | MESSAGE DELIVERY IN MOBILE NETWORKS - When a device is switched off, all messages for that device are stored in different distributed service centres. For example, the message from user A may be stored in SMSC A and a message from user B in SMSC B where both subscribers and respective SMSCs can even belong to different networks. When the device is switched on again it notifies its presence to the network (performed by the MSC indicating this to the HLR). As a result of this alert, different service centres that have messages pending for that device will be notified that the device has come on-line again (performed by the HLR notifying SMSC A and SMSC B). Instead of directly sending out all messages, as in the prior art, each service centre instead schedules the messages in an internal queue for delivery according to a local control scheme, which achieves synchronised delivery from multiple distributed SMSCs even though there is no centralised control. Each service centre maps the ‘age’ of the message on its time axis as the time-to-deliver the message to the device. The deliveries are then sent out according to the derived schedule. As independent service centres all will base their decisions on the same length of the delivery schedule and same maximum retention time, the message deliveries of the different service centres will be interleaved with one another. This ensures that for significant time differences, messages from different service centres will still arrive in order at the device. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217818 | MESSAGE REPLY AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a message reply and performance evaluation system, which are introduced into an electronic mail system. The message reply scheme has some control entries including a deadline for replying the message, an address for replying the message, and a field for verifying the reply. The performance evaluation scheme is provided for a sender performing evaluation corresponding to the replied message. As a sender transmits the message to a recipient, the email system of the sender will incorporate a message-to-reply field to the message. In addition, when the recipient receives the message, a reply field will be added to the email system after opening it. More, a reminder will be launched before the deadline. In particular, after receiving the reply, the sender may perform evaluation to the reply, and the evaluation will be recorded for future review. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217819 | System and Method to Associate a Private User Identity with a Public User Identity - The inventive system includes a host, a network including a security gateway, and a public application. Established are an access session between the network and the host and an application session between the public application and the network. An application session record is created for the application session, and includes the user's public user identity used to access the public application, the user's private user identity used to access the network, a host identity, and an application session time. To determine the private user identity for the application session, the security gateway sends a query with the host identity and the application session time. These are compared with the host identity and access session time in an access session record. If they match, then the private user identity in the access session record is returned, and it is stored as the private user identity in the application session record. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217820 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING MESSAGES - A system and method for enabling the interchange of enterprise data through an open platform is disclosed. This open platform can be based on a standardized interface that enables parties to easily connect to and use the network. Services operating as senders, recipients, and in-transit parties can therefore leverage a framework that overlays a public network. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217821 | APPLICATION SERVER-CENTRIC QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT IN NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - An application server-centric approach for managing quality of service in network communications involves an application server causing the modification of an existing communications session with a device, via a layer-2 change to a communications link used by the session, so that the session supports a different quality of service level for the device. The process starts when a request to initiate a communications session is received from a device. A session is initiated with the device, wherein the session supports a first quality of service level. In response to detecting the occurrence of an event, an application server determines that a second quality of service level is to be supported based upon the detected event and service criteria data. The application server then causes the existing session to be modified, via a layer-2 change to the communications link, so that the existing session supports the second quality of service level for the device. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100217822 | TELECOMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100223338 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES - A sender creates a multi-part message having a recipient field including identifiers of recipients of the message and an identifier of the sender. The multi-part message comprises a main message having a content A. Further, the multi-part message comprises an auxiliary message, having a recipient field including identifiers of recipients of the auxiliary message, and a content B. The message is split into two messages: a main message having a header and a content A; and a first auxiliary message having a header and a content B. Association data for associating the main message to the first auxiliary message is created. The first and second messages are transmitted together with the association data. The messages are received and are dynamically re-combined according to the recipients. Recipient | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223339 | DIAS-DYNAMIC IMPU ASSIGNMENT SERVICE - A method and arrangement in a multimedia gateway connected to a multimedia service network, for providing access to multimedia services for communication devices connected to a private network. In the multimedia gateway, a communication unit receives a request from a device in the private network for a public identity associated with the multimedia gateway. An identity manager then selects and allocates an associated public identity from a pool of public identities associated with the multimedia gateway which have been predefined as valid in the multimedia service network. The communication unit then registers the device by activating the allocated associated public identity in the multimedia service network. Thereby, the multimedia gateway can establish a multimedia session on behalf of the device, using the allocated associated public identity. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223340 | SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY SCANNING A DOCUMENT - A method and system for acquiring an image and transmitting the image from an image processing apparatus to a computing device. The method includes executing an application program by the computing device; indicating, using the application program, that an image is to be acquired using the application program; transmitting an XML message from the computing device to the image processing apparatus over a computer network using HTTP, the XML message indicating that the image is to be acquired; receiving the XML message by a web service application executing on the image processing apparatus; translating the XML message into at least one command compatible with a scanning application of the image processing apparatus; acquiring the image by the scanning application of the image processing apparatus using the at least one command; transmitting the image over the computer network from the image processing apparatus to the computing device; and storing the image on a storage medium of the computing device. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223341 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGING TAILORED TO USER INTEREST - Providing for electronic messaging tailored to contexts or interests of one or more participants of electronic communication is described herein. By way of example, a message can be analyzed during or after compilation to determine a context of the message. Message participants can be identified and a context for such participants determined. Based on the message context or participant context, the message can be modified to be consistent with interests, preferences or other context of one or more participants. In some aspects, the message can be modified upon receipt by a recipient's communication device or messaging application. According to other aspects, the message can be modified at compilation, or transmission. In accordance with still other aspects, message modifications can be output as suggested feedback to improve receptivity or utility of a message. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223342 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING HEADER FIELDS IN A MESSAGE - Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein facilitate the transmitting, receiving, and processing of encoded messages wherein the header fields in the message header are protected. In one embodiment, the contents of the header fields to be protected are inserted into the message body as one or more additional lines of text, for example, prior to encoding and transmitting the message to a message recipient. Upon receipt of the message, the message recipient processes the encoded message such that the contents of the protected header fields can be extracted from the message body. Accordingly, by inserting the contents of the header fields to be protected into the message body, the header fields may be protected using existing standards and protocols for facilitating secure message communication. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223343 | System and Method for Communicating from an Electronic Device - A method of communicating on a computing device is provided in which a message is presented and user attention thereto verified before the communication is initiated. In one embodiment the method comprises receiving a first input indicating a request for initiating a communication using the computing device. The message is presented. While presenting the message, a cue is presented to request a second input to proceed with the communication. A second input is received. The communication is initiated only after the presentation of the message is completed and only if the second input is responsive to the cue. In a second embodiment, the message and cue are combined such that presenting the message presents the cue. The message and cue may be combined before transmitting to the communication device. Cue presentation information may be transmitted with the combined message and cue to assist with verification of the second input. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223344 | USING FORUMS AS A MESSAGE TRANSPORT IN AN ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS - A forum service that is hosted by a server in an enterprise service bus receives a message from a client, the message being directed to a service in the enterprise service bus. The forum service acts as a message transport in the enterprise service bus. A thread is generated in a forum managed by the forum service for communications between the client and the service. The message is stored in the thread. The service is notified of the message, wherein the service to receive the message, process the message and post a response message to the thread. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223345 | COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATION HAVING CONVERSATION AND MEETING ENVIRONMENTS - Architecture for a communication system providing a user experience that includes a conversation environment and a meeting embodiment in a single application. A navigation menu enables the user to select between multiple communications environments, including a conversations environment. Multiple conversation threads can be accessed in various conversation formats, including formats associated with instant messaging, group chat, a telephone call, voice, video, email, application sharing, or an online meeting. A meeting environment can be navigated for accessing one or more meetings. Other suitable communications environments can be also be navigated from the same navigation menu, besides the conversation environment and meeting environment. The communications system and application also includes a selection pane for displaying a list of the conversation threads or meetings, depending on the environment selected by the user. A preview pane can also be included in the communications system. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223346 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR PROCESSING FEEDBACK INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM MOBILE DEVICES RESPONDING TO TONE TRANSMISSIONS - Systems, methods, and devices for processing feedback information received from mobile device responding to tone transmission are provided. One system may include a memory for storing computer-executable instructions, and an information source processor in communication with the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to associate a location identifier with user prompting information and transmit the location identifier to a tone transmission device, where the location identifier is embedded in a tone. The processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to receive the location identifier that was sent from a mobile device that received the tone from the tone transmission device, retrieve, from the memory, user prompting information based on the location identifier, and transmit the user prompting information to the mobile device. The system may further include receiving feedback information from the mobile device and transmit additional content based on the received feedback information. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223347 | PEER-TO-PEER DATA RELAY - Methods and apparatus for relaying data in a peer-to-peer network. In one implementation, a wireless device includes: an antenna; a wireless communication interface connected to said antenna and supporting wireless communication across a wireless connection provided by said antenna; storage supporting storing data; and a controller connected to said wireless interface and to said storage, supporting an application service, a message service, and a relay service for relay messages; wherein said application service provides execution and management of one or more application programs accessible by said controller using application data stored in said storage, said message service provides building messages and processing received messages, and said relay service provides building a new relay message indicating a selected recipient to which the wireless device does not have a direct wireless connection, sending a built new relay message, and sending a received relay message that indicates a recipient other than the wireless device. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223348 | Establishing a Multimedia Communications Session - The invention relates to a method of enabling use equipment to establish a communication session over an IMS network. The communication session is enabled by one or more call/session control functions in the network in accordance with media characteristics that define the network resources to be utilised for the session. The method comprises: receiving with the IMS network a subscriber registration request originating from the user equipment and, in response thereto, sending to the user equipment an identification of allowable media characteristics. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223349 | System, method and apparatus for message targeting and filtering - A system, method and apparatus for message targeting and filtering are provided to deliver bulk messages to demographically selected audiences of willing recipients while preserving each recipient's anonymity and control over his private personal data, accomplished by means of a radically distributed database technique in which all operations requiring unencrypted data access are distributed to individual client devices. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100228827 | STORAGE MODEL FOR MAINTAINING STRUCTURED DOCUMENT FIDELITY - Architecture that introduces storage of an extra (skeleton) property of a document as well as default document properties on a server. In a specific messaging implementation, a MIME skeleton property is stamped on an arriving MIME messages. An incoming MIME message is shredded and all content that is currently saved to MAPI properties continues to be saved. The remaining message content that is not saved to the MAPI properties is stored in the skeleton property. The skeleton property includes all body part headers and any body part content that was not saved as a property on the item by the server. On retrieval of this message by a MIME client, the MIME message is regenerated in full fidelity by using the default set of properties in combination with the skeleton (or extra) property and the stored body content. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228828 | VCC SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a system and method for preparing modified copies of outgoing electronic communications to secondary individual recipients and groups of secondary recipients. The system is referred to as a “Visible Carbon Copy” (“VCC”). Modifications can be made to the content of the communications and additionally to attachments included with the communications. Any number of differently modified copies can be sent to any number of secondary recipients or groups of recipients. The system can be interfaced into the users existing electronic messaging system or embedded into the electronic messaging system by the manufacturer thereof. In a first embodiment, the VCC is utilized with email messaging systems. In a second embodiment, the VCC is utilized with instant messaging systems. Additional embodiments allow utilization of the VCC with any type of electronic communication system that allows for messaging to one or more recipients. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228829 | MOBILE DATABASE NETWORK - A method and a system for mobile distributed processing are presented. The method includes the steps of receiving, from a server, a message contained in a database and determining a type of the message for presenting the message. If the message is of a multi media type, at least displaying images contained in the message on a display. If the message is of a data type, displaying data contained in the message on the display. If the message is of an audio type, reproducing audio associated with the message in an audible fashion. The method further including the steps of terminating receiving of the message and sending an active request to the server to set a status of the message in the database to execution done. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228830 | E-MAIL MANAGEMENT DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND E-MAIL MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - E-mail can be inspected even when a communication device on the receiving side is in a disconnected state. When a communication unit ( | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228831 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRANTING DEPOSIT-CONTINGENT E-MAILING RIGHTS - An Email guarantee deposit method, system, and program product, with the method comprising in one embodiment, the steps of: receiving from a sender a request to send to a recipient an Email; receiving a deposit or an authorization to obtain a deposit of something of value; sending the Email to the recipient only if a deposit of authorization for a deposit is received; determining if the recipient has accepted the deposit; and if the recipient has accepted the deposit, then facilitating the disposal of the deposit. In an important alternate embodiment, a deposit can be required before an Email with a auditory or visual enhancement is provided, or before routing to a designated type of device occurs. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100228832 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND OPERATING CONFERENCES - A method, an apparatus, and a system for creating a conference are provided to implement smooth handover from a two-party service to a three-party service in a reserved conference. A method, an apparatus, and a system for operating a conference are disclosed to implement overall operations for an Ad hoc conference. The method for creating a conference includes: an MP creates a conference context according to a received instruction, and adds a conference control termination on the conference context; and the MP applies for conference resources according to a received instruction of modifying attributes of the conference control termination, and modifies current attributes of the conference control termination to create the conference. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100235447 | EMAIL CHARACTERIZATION - Email users may feel overwhelmed with the abundance of emails they receive. Many current email management techniques require at least some manual intervention that may be time consuming and/or otherwise frustrating to a user. As provided herein, emails may be characterized based upon content of the email and domain classification data (e.g., a company name, business category, or a website name associated with the domain name of the sender). One or more viewing panels may be populated with the characterized emails. A viewing panel may present emails corresponding to a particular characterization (e.g., a shopping viewing panel may display emails characterized as shopping). To enhance characterization, rules used to characterize emails may learn from a user's actions. For example, a user may move an email from a shopping viewing panel to a travel viewing panel, thus altering the characterization of the email from shopping to travel. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235448 | Methods, Systems, And Computer Program Products For Reporting A Change In Presentable Content Of A Communication Message - Methods and systems are described for reporting a change in presentable content of a communication message. In one aspect, an indication is received that presentable content transported via a communication message is changed along a network path traversed by the communication message. The indication is received by a network node outside the network path from a node along the network path. Responsive to the received indication, a change message indicating the change to the presentable content of the communication message is generated. The generated change message is transmitted separately from the communication message to a node along the network path. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235449 | DISPLAYING OR HIDING FOLDERS IN AN E-MAIL CLIENT BASED ON USER DEFINED TIMINGS - Techniques for managing electronic mail. Folder rules for associating electronic mail messages with folders are received. The folders are managed by an electronic mail client and stored in a computer usable memory. Electronic mail messages are also received. Each of the electronic mail messages is associated with at least one of the folders according to the folder rules. Furthermore, a visibility condition is received. The visibility condition specifies when a specified folder is visible in a user interface of the electronic mail client. A processor causes the specified folder not to be visible in the user interface when the visibility condition is not satisfied. A visibility condition may instead specify when a specified folder is not visible in the user interface. In this case, the specified folder is caused not to be visible in the user interface when the visibility condition is satisfied. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235450 | Service Management System - A service management system includes a plurality of user service platforms corresponding to a plurality of user groups, each including a plurality of server devices, for providing a plurality of server functions for a user group of the plurality of user groups, a plurality of secondary server management devices, for providing a plurality of service functions, and a primary server management device for managing the plurality of user service platforms and the plurality of secondary server management devices, for providing the plurality of service functions of the plurality of secondary server management devices to the plurality of user groups via the plurality of user service platforms. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235451 | INSTANT MESSAGING INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An instant messaging interaction system and method work by: analyzing communicative information sent by a remote user to create emotional messages and analyzing information about the remote user's identity; storage in a storage module behavior weight value preset and corresponding to the information about the remote user's identity; determining, by a learning module, interactive responses according to the emotional messages and the behavior weight values; outputting, by an output module, the interactive responses; detecting if receiving a feedback signal from an local user; if the feedback signal is not received, the learning module stores the behavior weight value in the storage module; if the feedback signal is received, the feedback module generates a modification value corresponding to different levels of the feedback signal; generating, by the learning module and according to a detection result, modification values for modifying the behavior weight values. As a result, the messaging interaction system is capable of presenting rated interactive responses in a personalized, artificial intelligence-based manner that meets the local user's expectation. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235452 | Email wrong transmission preventing apparatus and method - An email wrong transmission preventing apparatus calculates memory ratios of addresses of emails in a transmission log by a model expression in which the memory ratios decline over time, compiles the memory ratios of the emails for each destination to set weights, and records the weights in a user weight list. When receiving a planned outgoing email, the apparatus compares the weight of the destination of the planned outgoing email obtained by referring to the user weight list with a predetermined threshold and determines that the destination is “reliable” only if the weight is over the threshold. If even one of the destinations of the planned outgoing email is not “reliable”, the apparatus causes a sender terminal to display an address check screen to prompt address checking. When “checked” is inputted, the apparatus transfers the planned outgoing email to an email transmission server. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235453 | Monitoring of instant messaging and presence services - The present invention relates to a methods and arrangements for monitoring instant messaging and/or presence activity at application level in a telecommunication system, which method comprises the following steps:—A request to monitor instant messaging and/or presence activity information related to a target subscriber, which information is obtainable from any type of access and not limited to SIP clients connected to a public IMS core system is sent from an agency to a receiving entity.—A requested activity involving the target subscriber is received from an Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) system to the receiving entity.—Information related to the requested activity is delivered from the receiving entity to the agency. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235454 | APPLICATION COMMUNICATION WITH EXTERNAL ACCESSORIES - Embodiments of the present invention provide various communication techniques for communication between a mobile computing device and an accessory. An accessory protocol that is generic to the mobile computing device can be used for some communication. An application executing at the mobile computing device can communicate with the accessory using an application communication protocol. In some embodiments, the application communication protocol can be different from the accessory communication protocol. In other embodiments the application protocol may only be recognized by the application and the accessory. In some embodiments, messages conforming to an application protocol can be communicated between the application and the accessory by packaging the messages inside a message conforming to the accessory communication protocol. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235455 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives messages, and a control unit that sends an editing message indicating that a reply message responding to a received message received by the receiving unit is being edited, to a sending source of the received message. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235456 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A MAIL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND MAIL MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A storage medium storing a mail management program, the mail management program causing a computer to execute: receiving from a first user, a designation of a first electronic mail addressed to the first user as an open mail, which is made open to a second user, first setting a receiving date and time at which the designation is received as date and time information corresponding to the open mail, second setting another receiving date and time at which a second electronic mail which is not the open mail and is addressed to the second user is received by the computer, as the date and time information corresponding to the second electronic mail and outputting, upon receipt of an output instruction from the second user, the open mail and the second electronic mail in accordance with the date and time information. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235457 | ADAPTIVE ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - In accordance with embodiments of the invention, adaptive electronic message services are provided for generating and supplementing adaptive electronic messages with digital content items. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235458 | METHOD OF RETRACTING AN INSTANT MESSAGE - Described is a method for retracting an instant message from a receiver in an instant messaging session. A request is made to retract the instant message from the receiver. If the receiver is present in the session, the instant message is removed from the user interface of the receiver. Notification is sent to the requestor to indicate whether the instant message was successfully retracted and whether the instant message was saved by the receiver. Optionally, the method allows an entry made in an instant messaging log to be retracted when the corresponding instant message is retracted. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235459 | Proxy Object - Embodiments are discussed for methods, systems, and computer readable media for creating a proxy object, comprising calling a second functionality in a proxy class, creating a proxy object by the second functionality, calling a third functionality by the second functionality, calling a fourth functionality by the third functionality, creating a reference object by the fourth functionality, returning the reference object to the third functionality, associating the reference object to the proxy object by the third functionality, and returning the associated proxy object by the second functionality to a first functionality. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100241712 | Method and System for a Distributed and Extensible Communication Framework - A system for communication within an industrial control system has a node that includes an associated messaging system and a service consumer with an associated messaging gateway. The node is communicatively connected to a physical network. The service consumer is operable to send a service request for a service, the messaging gateway associated with the service consumer is operable to optimize the service request, and the messaging system associated with the node is operable to host one or more transport plug-ins. The one or more transport plug-ins is operable to provide abstraction of the request for a network protocol. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241713 | INFORMATION PROPAGATION ANALYZING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROPAGATION ANALYZING APPARATUS, METHOD OF INFORMATION PROPAGATION ANALYSIS AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An information propagation analyzing system and method of information propagation analysis. Information propagation analyzing apparatus ( | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241714 | MOBILE TERMINAL - The mobile terminal | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241715 | METHOD OF REALIZING UNIQUENESS ASSURANCE AND METHOD OF DETERMINING MESSAGE DESTINATION - A method of realizing uniqueness assurance includes: selecting a server to which a first message is to be transferred from multiple servers and transferring the first message to the selected server when the first message is received from a terminal apparatus by a load sharing apparatus; storing a second message that should be transferred to the same server as that of the first server when the second message is received from the terminal apparatus by the load sharing apparatus after the first message is transferred; generating uniqueness assurance information corresponding to the communication protocols corresponding to a session generated by the server to which the first message is transferred, the uniqueness assurance information indicating the correspondence between the session and the message corresponding to the session; and transferring the second message in accordance with the generated uniqueness assurance information if the stored second message exits. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241716 | System for interconnecting manifold entities across a real-time Meshed Information Exchange network - A meshed information exchange network of uniquely addressable nodes—where any node in that network may act as a client or a server and independently maintain, expose or transfer entity attributes (consisting of any kind of data or media). Each node may independently and simultaneously interact with a multiplicity of other nodes to communicate, process or distribute any data over any protocol—such that any person, consumer appliance, product, service, computer, device, machine or other entities may instantly interact, share, process, consume, distribute or exchange any kind of data with pluralities of any other kind of entities in real-time across networks and the Internet. The invention enables the creation of a universally cross-linked real-time information-space of structured data, instrumentation and services | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241717 | Message Brokering in a Consuming Broker Device - Message brokering in a consuming broker device of a publish-subscribe system having at least one processor includes: designating in the consuming broker device a first producing broker device as a sole provider of messages having a topic to which the consuming broker device has subscribed; and in response to a determination that a measured livelihood of the first producing broker device is less than a defined threshold, designating with the consuming broker device a second producing broker device as the sole provider of the messages having the topic to the consuming broker device. The second producing broker device has a measured livelihood that is greater than the measured livelihood of the first producing broker device. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241718 | Providing Access to a Conversation in a Hosted Conversation System - A server system hosts a plurality of conversations, each having an identified set of participants. For a respective conversation, the server provides content of the conversation to the participants of the conversation. The server receives content from each of a plurality of participants of the conversation and transmits the received content to the other participants of the plurality of participants. Upon an additional participant being added to the conversation, the server provides content of the conversation to the additional participant that includes all content provided to the identified set of participants, and adds the additional participant to the identified set of participants. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241719 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION PARTY RELATED INFORMATION - Method of sharing contact lists, address books, buddy list between users that subscribe to a social networking service via voice calls, data calls (SMS/MMS) or instant messages /chat. Alledged goal is to provide an improved mechanism of providing communication party related information similar to caller ID for voice calls, the information being more than the telephone number. Only example given of this information is number, name, relationship and degree of separation. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241720 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PIN-TO-PIN NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - A system and method is provided for enabling wireless access to a computer network via communication between a remote (client) wireless device and a wireless device physically linked to the computer network. A bank of one or more wireless gateway devices may be cradled and connected to a network server. The wireless gateway devices may then act as a node on the wireless network, and remote wireless devices may send and receive messages to and from the wireless gateway devices using PIN-to-PIN messaging. The wireless gateway devices, when cradled, may communicate with any attached server or other network equipment, and may therefore act as a wireless gateway to the server or other network equipment. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100241721 | Method and apparatus for setting up an audio conference connection - A method for setting up an audio conference connection disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention includes: allocating at least two Media Servers (MSs), with the quantity of the MS dependent on the quantity of User Equipment (UE) involved in audio conference; selecting an MS as a root node MS, and treating the remaining MSs as leaf node MSs; allocating the UEs to the MSs, and setting up a connection between each UE and the MS that serves the UE; and setting up a connection between each leaf node MS and the root node MS. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for setting up an audio conference connection. The present invention enables concatenation of multiple MSs if a single MS is not enough for meeting the conference requirements, so as to implement a large conference with unlimited quantity of UE. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100250680 | Routing mechanisms for messaging applications using an enhanced gateway control function - Exemplary method and apparatuses for routing messaging traffic from a calling party in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network to a server in a destination network that serves a called party via the most direct route are provided. A telephone number mapping (ENUM)/Domain Name System (DNS) database, pre-provisioned to receive and respond to query messages based on an identifier of the called party and an application specific service type, e.g., short message service (SMS) or instant messaging (IM), may be accessed by a node in the calling party's IMS network to determine an address of the server in the destination network. Messaging traffic may be routed to the destination network or server based on content type or destination digits when ENUM/DNS database based routing mechanisms fail. Furthermore, routing of messaging traffic originating in an enterprise network and routing through the public switched telephone network (PSTN) is enabled. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250681 | DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM WITH TRUSTED OR VERIFIED IMAP-IDLE IMPLEMENTATION - A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of a user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network for sending and receiving emails. A direct access server is connected to the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of users from an email source and retrieving electronic messages from the electronic mailboxes and pushing any electronic mailboxes to the network engine to selected users subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. The direct access server communicates with an email source using the internet message access protocol (IMAP) and IMAP-Idle supportable connections in a communications channel to accept real-time notifications. The direct access server verifies an Idle command functionality on the communications channel before relying on the communications channel for new mail notifications. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250682 | UTILIZING E-MAIL RESPONSE TIME STATISTICS FOR MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE USER COMMUNICATION - A method of increasing email correspondence responsiveness may include detecting a first set of email messages transmitted by a first correspondent to a second correspondent, creating a tracking record based on the responsiveness of the second correspondent to each email message of the first set of email messages, performing a first statistical analysis of the tracking record, generating a set of responsiveness metrics based on the first statistical analysis, detecting new outgoing email messages addressed to the second correspondent, and providing a user-configurable email message format for each detected outgoing message, the user-configurable email message format. According to the example embodiment, the user-configurable email message format is configured to increase effective email response time from the second correspondent and the user-configurable email message format is based on the set of responsiveness metrics. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250683 | AUTOMATIC CONVERSION OF EMAIL THREADS INTO COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACES - Automatic conversion of an email thread (or another form of electronic communication, such as IM chat content) into a collaborative workspace can begin with the detection of the addition of a reply message to an existing email thread by an email conversion handler. The existing email thread can include a main message and one or more reply messages. Satisfaction of user-defined or administrator-defined conversion criteria can then be assessed for the existing email thread. When the conversion criteria are satisfied, the existing email thread can be automatically converted into an artifact of a collaborative workspace contained within a collaborative environment. The collaborative workspace can be specific to the existing email thread. The designated participants of the existing email thread can be members of both the email and collaboration systems, and can be provided access to the collaborative workspace. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250684 | HIGH AVAILABILITY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARED RESOURCES - A method, system and article of manufacture that provides a control queue that regulates access to a shared resource, a software component that manages a clients interest in the shared resource and a registration mechanism in various messaging topologies; for example, within a message-oriented middleware framework where the messaging topology is configured as a point-to-point message topology within the MOM framework or a publication-subscription messaging topology within the MOM framework. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250685 | CONTENT CHANNELS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Techniques are described to provide content channels for electronic messaging. In an implementation, a content channel may be configured to contain multiple content portions having various types of content for delivery to one or more clients. The content channel may be associated with an electronic message such as an email or instant message. The content channel and updates to the content channel may be pushed to the clients as electronic messages in an electronic messaging environment. The clients may expose a user interface having one or more portions that are arranged to present and provide interaction with the content channel. The content channel may be pinned within a designated portion of the user interface to enable repeated access to the content channel via the designated portion. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250686 | PROPAGATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - An email message that is addressed to a plurality of recipients is defined on a first client electronic device. A first set of downstream response rights is assigned, on the first client electronic device, to a first recipient chosen from the plurality of recipients. A second set of downstream response rights is assigned, on the first client electronic device, to a second recipient chosen from the plurality of recipients. The second set of downstream response rights is different from the first set of downstream response rights. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250687 | Systems and Methods to Process Transactions Based on Social Networking - Systems and methods to verify and process requests received via social networking websites. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility to store data associated with a first phone number; and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of controllers of mobile communications. The converters communicate with the controllers in different formats and with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor receives a request from a first user via a social networking website, identifies a first phone number of the first user and a second phone number of a second user, based on the social networking website, and uses the converters to communicate with at least one of the mobile phones at the first and second phone numbers to confirm and/or approve the request. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250688 | Reservation and admission of access resources for access selection in multi-access networks - A multi-resource management entity is described herein which optimizes access to at least one access network that is located in a multi-access network environment by performing the following steps: (a) obtaining information about a potentially required access resource of one of the at least one access networks; (b) determining that more than a certain number of user networks may potentially use the access resource to establish a connection with the one access network; (c) obtaining information indicating an availability of the access resource; and (d) limiting a number of the user networks that may potentially access the access resource in view of the obtained availability information. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250689 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A FIGURE OF MERIT FOR USE IN TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES IN A MULTI-LEVEL SECURE ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus that generate a figure of merit for use in transmission of messages in a multi-level secure environment. The method may include receiving a message having a data provenance wrapper, examining each data provenance record of the message and any attachments for discrepancies, identifying any discrepancies in the examination of each data provenance record of the message and any attachments, generating a figure of merit based on objective and subjective information, substituting the figure of merit for the data provenance information, and transmitting the figure of merit with the message across the security domain. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250690 | HANDLING MEETING INVITATIONS AND CALENDAR SYSTEM - A calendar system handles meeting invitations. Associated entries are determined in a received meeting invitation of a calendar system. A forwarded invitation is generated according to the associated entries. An association is generated between the forwarded invitation and the meeting invitation. The forwarded invitation is then sent. In this way, the calendar distributes meeting arrangements relatively independently, so that meeting invitations and forwarded invitations can be managed relatively independently. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Third party verification of the content and delivery of an electronic message such as an e-snail, is provided using a server that receives an e-mail sent or forwarded to a specified addressee, and “tags” the message to indicate that it is “registered” with the service provider. The server establishes a direct connection with the addressee's Mail User Agent (MUA), and transmits the tagged email to the addressee's MUA, as well as to the MUA's of any other addressees. After receiving responses from the receiving MUA's that the message was successfully received, the server creates and forwards an electronic receipt to the message originator. The system operators can provide independent third party verification that the receipt is a genuine product of their system and that the information pertaining to content and delivery of the message is accurate, without the need to archive either the original message or the receipt. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250692 | Managing Status Information for Instant Messaging Users - Techniques are disclosed for managing instant messages, including the display of windows for incoming messages, as well as for managing status information for instant messaging users. In one aspect, an instant messaging user defines policy information to programmatically determine a response to an arriving instant message. As an example, the policy may control whether a new window will pop up for a newly-arriving message, and may specify other attributes of the window if desired. In another aspect, an instant messaging user defines attributes pertaining to how his instant messaging status will be presented to others. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250693 | METHOD, APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING GROUP MESSAGE AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING GROUP MESSAGE - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for converting group message and a group message exchanging system. The apparatus includes: a parsing unit, adapted to obtain a group identifier of group communication information of a first type; a member information obtaining unit, adapted to obtain an address of each of at least one group member of a group for communicating group communication information of a second type according to the group identifier obtained; and a converting unit, adapted to convert the group communication information of the first type into the group communication information of the second type according to the address for communicating the group communication information of the second type obtained. The apparatus, method and system provided by the present invention enable information exchanging between different network communication systems. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250694 | MULTI-COMMUNITY INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND DEVICE - This relates to a method of operating a mobile device. The method includes providing groups data comprising information for each of a plurality of instant messaging services operable on the mobile device. The groups data is stored in a database and used with a multi-community service. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250695 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ASYNCHRONOUS NOTIFICATIONS USING SYNCHRONOUS DATA SOURCES - A method for providing access to one or more notification-based Web services using a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of transmitting to Web service proxy a subscription request for a requested Web service, the Web service proxy supporting asynchronous communication with the mobile device, storing a device identification and subscription request at the proxy, the proxy polling the Web service with the request, receiving at the proxy a response message determined by the Web service and in response to the polled request, continuing to poll the Web service and transmitting the response message to the mobile device only when the response message satisfies a predetermined criteria. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100262660 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING A SERVERLESS PRESENCE SYSTEM - A method, system and mobile communication device for implementing a serverless presence system are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of sharing presence information between a group of mobile communication devices configured to communicate over a wireless network, the mobile communication devices defining the group members of the group, the method comprising: sending a data packet from a sending group member to at least one of the other group members; determining a presence status in accordance with whether a delivery acknowledgement is received by the sending group member from each of the other group members to which the data packet was sent within a predetermined duration from the sending of the data packet; storing the determined presence status in memory; and sending a presence update comprising the determined presence status of at least some of the group members to all of the group members. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING A PRESENCE CONTEXT WITHIN A PRESENCE PLATFORM - A method within a computing execution environment for the establishment of a context for a watcher, the method receiving a subscription request including a service identifier; associating the service identifier with a service context for a service; and applying the service context to information returned to the watcher. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262662 | OUTBOUND SPAM DETECTION AND PREVENTION - A usage control mechanism is disclosed for use in deterring automated “bot” access. When implemented within an email or messaging system, the mechanism and system prevents generation of spam by the bots, while also minimizing collateral deterrence of desirable human usage. In a disclosed embodiment, a reference image is part of a message composition screen, and a message may be composed but not sent unless a user selects, from a plurality of screening images, an image containing an alphanumeric string or other object that matches that of the reference image. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262663 | UNIVERSAL STATE-AWARE COMMUNICATIONS - A communications system for general business environments that exploits knowledge of user state to provide advantages of efficiency and control for individual users and for the business. The communications system also provides particular advantages in environments where users have multiple communication devices and for communications of a business with external parties. In other aspects, the communication system provides features of application flexibility and system fault-tolerance with broad applicability to communication systems. The communication system includes a controller that receives requests for establishing communications when a user is in an appropriate state to receive communications and communicates state of the user to other users. The controller receives a user request for establishing a communication when the user is not in the appropriate state for communication, receives a user request for a state change to the appropriate state to receive the communication, and initiates the communication without changing state of the user. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262664 | Transmission of Status Updates Responsive to Status of Recipient Application - Selecting and modifying the transmission rates and sizes of status update messages transmitted by a mobile communications device to a recipient application based on use of the updates by the recipient application improves resource utilization or accuracy. During one mode of operation, a mobile communications device transmits status messages using a conservative message transmission mode. This allows the mobile communications device to transmit a greater number of status updates for future processing by the recipient application while conserving resources. When the recipient application is actively processing status updates from the mobile communications device, the mobile communications device transmits the status messages using an accelerated message transmission mode with a different number of status updates in each status message and different delay between status messages, which may reduce delay or improve accuracy. Similarly, the mobile communications device may reduce the number of status updates transmitted by applying algorithm-based filters described herein based on the expected usage by the recipient application. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262665 | CLASSIFIED PROCESSING METHOD FOR EVENT MESSAGE OF INFORMATION HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES - The invention provides a classified processing method for an event message of an information household appliance including: a house gateway server sends an event occurrence message to an information household appliance data management server; according to an event class and a policy of classified notification of event, the information household appliance data management server sends an event occurrence notification message to an instant communication terminal, or sends an event occurrence notification message to an instant communication terminal and notifies a communication device at a preset communication destination; according to an event class and a policy of classified prompt, the instant communication terminal performs an operation of prompting the user. The method in the invention, the user can obtain the current status of the information household appliances, and the user or the related department may know the emergency or abnormal events in time, thus reducing the potential threat against safety. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262666 | System and Method for Silencing Notifications for A Message Thread - Methods, systems, and computer programming products are provided for silencing message threads. Incoming messages related to the same matter are grouped into one or more message threads. A user can select to silence a message thread. Once a message thread has been silenced, the user will no longer receive notifications of new messages added to the thread. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262667 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FEDERATED MESSAGINGS - The invention relates to a system for managing messagings comprising a plurality of messagings and adapted for receiving and storing messages intended for at least one user furnished with a plurality of terminals for accessing said messagings. Such a system furthermore comprises: means for centralized management of any event specific to any message stored with said respective messagings; means for processing messages stored by at least one of said messagings to render said messages compatible with at least one second messaging of said plurality of messagings. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262668 | EMERGENCY INFORMATION SERVICES - A method for providing user data to an emergency service provider includes enrolling a user in an emergency information system, including configuring a communication device associated with the user to deliver an access identifier to an emergency service provider when the user contacts the emergency service provider using the communication device. The method also includes maintaining, in a data storage module of the emergency information system, a database including user data associated with the user. The user data is associated with the access identifier. The method further includes receiving, via a communication network linked to the emergency information system, an access request from the emergency service provider, the access request including the access identifier; and providing, via the communication network, at least some of the user data associated with the requested access identifier to the emergency service provider. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262669 | CONNECTION DEVICE, CONNECTION METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - A connection device according to an aspect of the present invention is a server ( | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262670 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF UNDERGROUND FACILITY LOCATE AND MARKING OPERATIONS TO EXCAVATORS AND OTHER ENTITIES - Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing information regarding a locate and/or marking operation to identify a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. At least one notification indicating a status of the locate and/or marking operation is electronically transmitted and/or stored so as to inform at least one party associated with requesting the operation (a “requesting party,” e.g., an excavator, a property owner, a facility owner, a regulatory authority, a damage investigator, etc.) of the status of the operation. In one aspect, a requesting party may designate a preferred format, content, and/or method of receiving notifications regarding the locate and/or marking operation. In another aspect, a computer-generated GUI is provided to facilitate submission of requests, generation of “virtual white line” images to indicate one or more dig areas on a digital image of a work site, and/or selection of notifications and preferences for same. In yet another aspect, a requesting party may provide an acknowledgement of receipt (e.g., a “return receipt”) for one or more received notifications. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100268779 | SHARING OF AUDIO/VISUAL CONTENT WITH A SELECTED USER - A method of sharing audio/visual content is presented. In the method, the audio/visual content is received from an audio/visual content source at an audio/visual content receiver by way of a content channel selection resource of the receiver, and stored therein. A message is transmitted from the receiver to a communication node, wherein the message indicates that the audio/visual content is available for viewing by a selected user. The communication node notifies the selected user of the message by way of a communication device associated with the selected user. In response to receiving a request for the audio/visual content from the communication device, the communication node facilitates a communication connection between the receiver and the communication device. The audio/visual content is transmitted from the receiver to the communication device over the communication connection. At the communication device, the audio/visual content is then presented to the selected user. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100268780 | Situational Application Creation Based on Observed User Behavior - A system and method of creating a situational application provides for identifying content from a plurality of sources, where the content is associated with a user's interaction with the plurality of sources. Data associated with the identified content is gathered, and a situational application is generated based on the gathered data. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100268781 | PRESERVING A MESSAGING SERVICE IN A HIGHLY AVAILABLE ENVIRONMENT - A system receives an identifier for a temporary destination in response to messaging software at a client requesting that a messaging server create the temporary destination. The messaging software uses the identifier to indicate the temporary destination as a destination for responses to messages from the messaging software. The identifier is logged. A disconnection from the messaging server is disconnected. A second request for a temporary destination is created. The identifier is indicated in the second request. The second request indicating the identifier is transmitted to the messaging server to preserve a messaging service in a highly available environment. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100268782 | System and method for re-directing requests from browsers for communications over non-IP based networks - A method and system for deploying content to client applications is provided. Inbound messages are accepted from a client application running on a client device via a proxy IP/port. The inbound messages are packaged into an internal message format with an HTTP redirector. The packaged message is forwarded to a back-end server via a message router. A response is received form from a web server. The response is packaged into the internal message format with the back-end server. The response is then forwarded to the HTTP redirector via a message router. The response can then be transferred to the client application running on the client device, via the proxy IP/port. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100268783 | Content Delivery System, Delivery Server, Receiving Terminal, and Content Delivery Method - A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal ( | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100268784 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system for synchronizing data between a network of electronic devices comprising sending one or more messages in the form of a message sequence from a provider to a consumer, each message having descriptive data, a sequence identifier, and a sequence number, verifying by the consumer the presence, format, and continuity of each sequence identifier and sequence number in each message, and upon verification, updating the consumer with the descriptive data in each message. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100268785 | Apparatus and Method for Delivering Content Relating to a Desired Habit Change - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to deliver content relating to a desired habit change. The executable instructions include executable instructions to receive from a user an input relating to a desired habit change. Primary content relating to the desired habit change is invoked. The primary content is supplemented with diversion modules, where each diversion module is invoked at a specified primary content location and returns to the specified primary content location. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100268786 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR REQUESTING UNDERGROUND FACILITY LOCATE AND MARKING OPERATIONS AND MANAGING ASSOCIATED NOTIFICATIONS - Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing information regarding a locate and/or marking operation to identify a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. At least one notification indicating a status of the locate and/or marking operation is electronically transmitted and/or stored so as to inform at least one party associated with requesting the operation (a “requesting party,” e.g., an excavator, a property owner, a facility owner, a regulatory authority, a damage investigator, etc.) of the status of the operation. In one aspect, a requesting party may designate a preferred format, content, and/or method of receiving notifications regarding the locate and/or marking operation. In another aspect, a computer-generated GUI is provided to facilitate submission of requests, generation of “virtual white line” images to indicate one or more dig areas on a digital image of a work site, and/or selection of notifications and preferences for same. In yet another aspect, a requesting party may provide an acknowledgement of receipt (e.g., a “return receipt”) for one or more received notifications. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100274855 | SCHEDULING EVENTS WITH LOCATION MANAGEMENT - A computer-implemented method may include associating each of a plurality of guests with an event time and an event location, wherein the association of each of the plurality of guests includes information indicating whether the guest is expected to be present at the event location at the event time, and wherein the event time and the event location is the same for each of the plurality of guests. The method may also include associating each of a plurality of mobile devices with a different one of the plurality of guests that is associated with information indicating that the guest is expected to be present at the event location at the event time. Further, the method may include receiving a location update message from each of the mobile devices, wherein each location update message indicates a location of the corresponding mobile device, and displaying an indication of the location of the each of the mobile devices as indicative of the location of the associated guest. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274856 | MANAGING OVERSIZED MESSAGES - A query is sent, from a message sender to a message recipient, asking for a maximum size of incoming messages that is acceptable to the message recipient. If a proposed message from the message sender to the message recipient exceeds the maximum size, then the proposed message is ameliorated by size before being sent to the message recipient. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274857 | AUTOMATED DUPLICATE MESSAGE CONTENT DETECTION - Message content associated with at least one message received by a message processing server is stored in association with the message processing server. The message content within an incoming message is compared with the stored message content. A determination is made as to whether the stored message content is duplicated by the message content associated with the incoming message. A duplicate message content management action is performed based upon the determination as to whether the stored message content is duplicated by the message content associated with the incoming message. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274858 | MID-SERVICE SHARING - An approach is provided for mid-service sharing and includes selecting an icon in a display on an apparatus. The icon represents an application, such as a network resource, in a particular state of interaction with the apparatus. Sending a message is initiated. The message specifies icon data for presenting the icon within a different user device. According to another embodiment, an approach includes receiving a message that specifies state data for a first user device to access a network resource in a state of interaction with a second user device. A media stream is transmitted to the first user device. The media stream is synchronized with a media stream being transmitted to the second user device. In some embodiments, once a collaborative session is evoked, the action of either user augments the state presented on other user's device, for the duration of the joint action. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274859 | Method And System For The Creation, Management And Authentication Of Links Between Entities - Methods and systems for establishing relationships and creating links between entities (such as users, devices, organisations etc) are described. The method comprises receiving at a device over a short range communication means, an identifier which relates to a nearby device. This identifier is sent to a server associated with the device and at least an identifier for a data object is also sent to the server. The server makes the data object available to an entity associated with the nearby device by associating the identifier for that entity and the identifier for the data object. The data object may comprise a packet of data (e.g. a file or document), a link to data stored elsewhere or a collection of data (e.g. a collection of contact details). The nature of the relationship established is determined by the data packet. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274860 | CHECKING DESTINATION EMAIL ADDRESSES AGAINST HISTORICAL ADDRESS INFORMATION - An email is created that includes one or more destination email addresses, plus historical information regarding previously exchanged emails. Before sending this email, each of the destination email addresses is checked against the email addresses in the historical information and, if a destination email address (or the domain name of that destination address) is not found in the historical information, then a warning is displayed to alert the user to the fact that this historical information may be sent to an unintended recipient. In response to this warning, which may include a list of unapproved destination email address, the user may approve a previously unapproved destination email address, change the unapproved destination email address to one that has been previously approved, or enter a new distribution email to be substituted for the unapproved one. When creating the email, the user may also specify other approved email addresses. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274861 | COMMUNICATIONS ROUTER - Communications router for anonymously routing messages between a source communication device ( | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274862 | METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING LEGITIMACY OF COMMUNICATIONS - A sender-side process directed to processing an electronic message destined for a recipient, comprising producing a solution to a computational problem involving at least a portion of the message. A degree of effort associated with solving the problem may be assessed. The message is further processed according to the degree of effort by determining whether the degree of effort was within a range set by the sender or the recipient and if not, the computational problem is adjusted and solved again. The message is then transmitted to a recipient, who is informed of both the problem and solution. The recipient executes a recipientside process, comprising: assessing the degree of effort associated with generation of the message based on the problem and solution; and further processing the message in accordance with the degree of effort. The degree of effort is indicative of the legitimacy of the message; e.g., is it “SPAM”. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274863 | Automatic Document Exchange and Execution Management - The exchange of documents for signature can be performed efficiently using an automatic routing system that associates a document with appropriate identifying metadata. The routing can be facilitated through facsimile in which the metadata is encoded on a return facsimile cover sheet that is routed with the document. Appropriate central exchange servers have appropriate input and out subsystems to perform the document routing. The executed documents can be conveniently archived for efficient document storage and access, such as network access to one or more of the parties. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274864 | System and Method for Distribution and Redistribution of Electronic Content - A system and method for enabling the recordation of electronic content that has been published via a network, such as the Internet, so that the electronic content may be stored, retrieved, shared, and manipulated by individual users. Furthermore, the system and method of the present invention enable the content publisher of the electronic content to analyze activity associated with its storage and sharing. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100281117 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Business Contacts - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory includes computer program code. Further, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following associate an organization with a user and update a contact associated with the organization based at least in part on a contact change made by the organization. Further, the apparatus comprise a user interface configured to display the contact to the user based at least in part on at least one of the following: geographic location of the user or the updated contact. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281118 | Maintaining Connections Between Mobile Devices and Servers - A system, method, and computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for maintaining connections between a mobile device and a server are described herein. In an embodiment, the method operates by receiving a data request from the mobile device, the data request identifying at least a timeout interval. The method comprises sending the data request to a data server and then determining whether the timeout interval has passed. The method also comprises sending a keep alive message to the mobile device indicating that the request has timed out if it is determined that the timeout interval has passed. The method then receives a re post request from the mobile device, the re post request identifying a timeout interval. The method further comprises receiving a response from the data server, the response including at least data requested by the mobile device and then sends the response to the mobile device. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281119 | Deferred Reading of Email Database In Mobile Environments - Systems, methods, computer program product embodiments for deferred reading of email databases are described herein. An embodiment includes an event listener configured to poll (or query) the email server and selectively read an email database associated with the email server. Such a selective database read operation is based on the priority of an event occurring in the email server. If events of a low priority occur, the event listener does not open the email database immediately to retrieve additional information related to the low priority event but defers reading the email database by a pre-determined amount of time. If a higher priority event occurs, the email database is immediately read to retrieve details related to the high priority event from the mail server database. In another embodiment, event listener reads the email database based on when event timestamp information is updated by the email server. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281120 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGES USING THE MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE SERVICE (MMS) - The invention relates to a method for transmitting messages from a user application of a subscriber to a user application of another subscriber with the aid of the Multimedia Messaging Service MMS, the message being in the format of an external application and is identified as such by an application identifier that is transmitted along with the message. According to the invention, the multimedia message service is used by the external application as a transport system for transmitting the message. The message is identified by a network element of the Multimedia Messaging Service using the application identifier and is transmitted in an unmodified state via the Multimedia Messaging Service and forwarded to the external application. The invention also relates to a subscriber terminal and a communication system for carrying out said method. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281121 | DYNAMIC DIGITIZED VISUAL ICON AND METHODS FOR GENERATING THE AFOREMENTIONED - There is provided a dynamic digitized visual icon appearing on a sender's and recipient's display with the icon being used to represent at least one word in a language that is being used by the sender during text messaging. The icon may include a static base image; and at least one component image overlaid onto the base image. The at least one component image may vary in accordance with determining an aspect selected from the group consisting of, for example, the at least one word, a preferred characteristics of the sender/recipient or a combination of both the aforementioned aspects. It is advantageous that the icon alters appearance whenever the at least one word is used by the sender/received by the recipient during text messaging. Corresponding methods to generate the aforementioned icons are also disclosed. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281122 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING EMAILS - The present invention provides a method and system for processing emails. The method comprising: receiving a correction request including an identifier of an original email and an incorrect recipient; in response to the correction request, creating a correction record including the identifier of the original email and the incorrect recipient; in response to receiving relevant emails of the original email, determining whether recipients of the relevant emails include the incorrect recipient; and in response to determining that recipients of the relevant emails include the incorrect recipient, processing the relevant emails based on the correction record. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281123 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETED COMMUNICATION - Aspects of the present invention can include a method for targeted communication of a message to one or more users. The example method described herein can include the steps of in response to a first input, selecting a predetermined message and in response to a second input, selecting a predetermined user group to receive the predetermined message. Further steps of the example method can include in response to a third input, selecting a predetermined time for transmission of the predetermined message to the predetermined user group; and transmitting the predetermined message to the predetermined user group in response to the predetermined time. Other aspects of the present invention can be configured as computer program products and systems and/or devices adapted to perform one or more steps of the example methods. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281124 | Routing Messages - This invention relates to a method of routing for a message via an IMS system is disclosed. A message is received at an ICSCF. Address information is obtained for one of an application server, server or gateway for which said message is intended. The message is sent to said application server, server or gateway in accordance with said address information. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281125 | SYSTEM, METHOD, DEVICE AND MAIL SORTING MACHINE FOR ENABLING THE DELIVERY OF DISPATCHES IN A POSTAL OPERATOR'S MESSAGING NETWORK - A system for enabling the delivery of a dispatch in a postal operator's messaging network, wherein the applied receiver's address is a receiver-specifying virtual address. The system is adapted to signal the virtual address to a first database carrier and to return, in response to signaling, an operator's server address relevant to the virtual address. In addition, the system is adapted to send the dispatch to the operator's server address, as well to use a delivery address, which matches the virtual address on a second database carrier, for enabling a delivery of the dispatch in a postal operator's messaging network. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281126 | Mobile Communication Terminal - A mobile communication terminal has an e-mail automatic reply function. The mobile communication terminal is set as to an allowable time difference, ringing and an e-mail automatic reply by an e-mail automatic reply function, and performs a domain analysis, etc. on the header information of the received e-mail message if the setting is made valid. Then, in the domain analysis, it is determined whether or not the time difference between an area (region) set by the roaming function and a region from which an e-mail message is sent is equal to or less than an allowable time difference, and if it is equal to or less than the allowable time difference, the mobile communication terminal notifies the receipt of the e-mail message by ringing. On the other hand, if the time difference is larger than the allowable time difference, the mobile communication terminal automatically sends a reply mail without notifying the receipt of the e-mail message. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281127 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING COMPLETE RESPONSES TO TRUNCATED ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Implementations of systems and methods allow mobile users to send replies to, or to forward, truncated electronic mail messages, and yet still send the entire body of the original electronic mail message, without having to download the entire body of the mail message locally to the mobile device and then re-transmit the entire message from the mobile device. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES BEING COMPOSED BY A USER - A system and method for processing messages being composed by a user of a computing device (e.g. a mobile device). Embodiments are described in which the performance of certain tasks is initiated before a direction is received from a user to send a message being composed by the user. This may involve, for example, “pre-fetching” security-related data that will be required in order to send a message that is in the process of being composed by the user securely. Such data may include security policy data, certificate data, and/or certificate status data, for example. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281129 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING FILE SHARING IN AUDIO AND VIDEO CONFERENCE - A method for implementing file sharing in an audio and video conference includes: receiving a message sent by a file sharing initiator in the audio and video conference for requesting to create a file sharing data conference; creating the data conference for the initiator, and adding the initiator into the data conference; and carrying Session Description Protocol (SDP) information of a monitoring port distributed to the data conference in a response message, and sending the message to the initiator. A device and system for implementing file sharing in an audio and video conference are also provided. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100287241 | Enhanced Messaging Feature - The present disclosure provides various systems and methods for providing enhanced messaging features. An exemplary method for providing a predictive response messaging feature includes receiving a message from a first device ( | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287242 | Method for Providing a Conference System Allowing Advisors to Offer Conference Sessions to Clients - A Conference System that allows Advisors to offer conference sessions to Users who buy conference session time through the system. All conference sessions shall be conducted over the phone. During the conference session, the Advisor shall be talking while all the Users shall be in listening only mode in order to maintain the Users privacy. Advisors and Users can email each other through the system message center before the conference session. During the conference session, the User and Advisor can chat real time online to answer specific questions. The Advisor and Users information such name, address, bank information, credit card info, email, phone numbers, etc are kept confidential through out the process and only “Account Name” is disclosed. The price per conference session varies from conference session to conference session. Each Advisor sets their individual conference session rate. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287243 | INTERACTIVE MESSAGE SERVICE - A set-top box of a first subscriber facilitates creation of a first message to alert a second subscriber to content, e.g., a live broadcast, then occurring. The first message is sent to a server on the Internet. The server creates a second message based on the first message and sends the second message to a set-top box of the second subscriber. The set-top box of the second subscriber alerts that subscriber to the second message. Upon opening the second message, the second subscriber can interact with interactive features contained in the second message so as to facilitate tuning to the content indicated by the first subscriber. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287244 | Data communication using disposable contact information - Methods and apparatuses for establishing a trusted group of users to prevent undesirable communication by employing authenticated contact information. In an embodiment, the present invention embeds authenticated contact information to data communication composed by members of the trusted group. Authenticated contact information is preferably disposable contact information, changeable as desired, at a regular interval, or one-time contact information. In another embodiment, the present invention discloses a process of expanding an existing trusted group of users to an outsider, comprising embedding authenticated contact information of a member within the trusted group to a data communication composed by the outsider to a member of the trusted group. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287245 | METHOD FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME - A method for remotely controlling a digital photo frame is provided. The method includes the following steps: the digital photo frame and an instant messaging client are connected to a network; establish communication between the digital photo frame and the instant messaging client; the instant messaging client sends a command to the digital photo frame by the instant; the digital photo frame receives the command and performs the command. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287246 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES WITH SPECIALLY ENCODED ADDRESSES - A method for processing an electronic mail message is disclosed comprising the steps of: accepting a request for e-mail server address information for an electronic message having an address, the address having an electronic mail receiving system domain with a recipient name encoded therein; providing an e-mail server address for the recipient name in response to the request; accepting the electronic message at the e-mail server address. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287247 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE WEB SERVICE DATA TRANSFER - Data transfer and staging services are common components in Grid-based or more generally in service-oriented applications. Security mechanisms are playing a central role in such services, especially when they are deployed in application fields like for instance e-health. The adoption of WS-Security and related standards to SOAP-based transfer services is, however, not straightforward. With MTOM, SOAP messages can be processed with WS-Security in a straightforward manner. The present invention provides an improved method for signing an MTOM-optimized SOAP message. A non-blocking signature generation approach is proposed enabling a stream-like processing with considerable performance enhancements. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287248 | METHOD AND OBJECT FOR EXTRACTING CONTENT HAVING A COMMERCIAL ASPECT FROM A MESSAGE EMITTED IN A RADIOCOMMUNICATION NETWORK - In order to broadcast a commercial content corresponding to the centres of interest of a user of a communicating object, the disclosed method involves generating a message including at least one piece of commercial content associated with at least one piece of meta-information characterising the subject concerned by the commercial content. The method is implemented by the object for extracting a piece of commercial content from the message only if the piece of meta-information of the content corresponds to a piece of meta-information characterising a centre of interest of the user. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287249 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EXPIRATION HANDLING IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are described for electronic message expiration processing, in which a message originator or recipient can set an expiration time/date attribute for individual emails, short messages, or other electronic messages, and the messages are automatically deleted from the recipient's system or handled according to other user-selected processing rules when the expiration time/date has past. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287250 | Merchant Alert Based System and Method Including Customer Presence Notification - Embodiments of the present invention disclosed herein include systems and methods for sending merchant alert messages. The merchant can specify criteria indicating the types of customers for which he desires to receive alerts. Merchant alert messages can be sent based on characteristics of a customer, including the customer's proximity to the merchant. The merchant can use the alert message to provide better service to the customer or prevent the customer from engaging in transactions, depending on the contents of the merchant alert message. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287251 | System and Method for IMS Based Collaborative Services Enabling Multimedia Application Sharing - A system and method for enabling multimedia sharing with IMS based collaborative services are provided. A method for application server operations includes receiving a first message from a first communications device, the first message including a request to initiate a collaborative session, forming the collaborative session with a second communications device, sending a second message to the first communications device, the second message confirming an establishment of the collaborative session, merging control information from the first communications device and media descriptions from the first communications device and the second communications device, and sharing media between the first communications device and the second communications device. The second communications device is specified in the first message. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287252 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MAILBOXES - A system and method for configuring access to an electronic mailbox based on limited configuration parameters received from a user. A database stores configuration conventions for a mail domain. A mailbox interface module receives configuration information from a user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox. The module retrieves configuration conventions for the mail domain from the database and generates sets of potentially valid configuration parameters based on the retrieved configuration conventions and user supplied configuration information for accessing the mailbox. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287253 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - A method for data synchronization includes: receiving a message comprising data synchronization parameters from a server; parsing the message to obtain the data synchronization parameters; and receiving data modification information, synchronizing the received data modification information according to a data filter rule carried in the data synchronization parameters. By using the method of the present invention, the client synchronizes the data according to the received data synchronization parameter. In the data synchronization process, the data synchronization parameters is easily set for the client, without manual operations, thus improving the operability of the data synchronization. An apparatus and system for data synchronization are also provided. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287254 | NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOMAIN NAME OPTIONS - A system and method of the present invention allow communication via electronic messages between a Customer and a domain name Registrar, avoiding traditional electronic mail (email) communication. Email messages may not be delivered to the Customer for various reasons including the situations where the Customer employs anti-SPAM protective technologies. The system and method of the present invention establish a Communication Link between a Customer's Computer and Registrar's Server, which avoids anti-SPAM protective technologies and email messaging altogether. Information relating to the communication may be stored on a database and the system may present the Customer with various options relating to a domain service. The implementation of this invention would result in a higher rate of delivered messages to the Customer. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100293230 | Multilingual Support for an Improved Messaging System - One or more illustrative embodiments provide a method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing a session of electronic communications. In one illustrative embodiment, a language is identified using a processor for an incoming electronic communication received from a sender computer in the session. It is determined whether the language differs from a desired display language. The incoming electronic communication is translated into the desired display language using a translation service to form a translated incoming electronic communication responsive to a determination that the language differs from the desired display language. The translated incoming electronic communication is displayed in the session on a display device. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293231 | System and Method for Quality of Presence - A rating of the quality of the presence information of a user at a communication device is determined by an aggregation client by determining a direct indicator of presence of a user at the communication device, determining a presence likelihood at the communication device, determining a time delay characteristic related to input on the communication device, and determining a quality of presence rating based on these factors. A graphical or numerical indication of the quality of presence rating is sent to other users' communications devices. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293232 | Unified Messaging Accessibility Architecture - A system and method for depositing and retrieving message using an accessibility service, such as TTY, within a unified messaging platform. A unified messaging platform is configured to receive accessibility service signals and convert those signals into a text-based encoding that is then stored as a message within the unified messaging platform for later retrieval. The unified messaging platform is further configured to retrieve messages and re-encode the message into a format compatible with the accessibility service. Audio recordings can be converted to a text-encoding via an automated speech recognition module, and text encodings can be converted to accessibility signals, which are transmitted to the user of the accessibility service. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293233 | CUSTOMER EDGE DEVICE AUTO-CONFIGURATION - A customer edge device is automatically configured. A request for customer edge device configuration data may be transmitted to a provider edge device via an Ethernet-layer operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P) protocol. The request for configuration data may be relayed from the Ethernet-layer OAM&P protocol to a configuration protocol. The request for configuration data may be transmitted from the provider edge device to a configuration repository server via the configuration protocol. The configuration repository server may transmit the requested configuration data to the provider edge device via the configuration protocol. The provider edge device may relay the configuration data from the configuration protocol to the Ethernet-layer OAM&P protocol and transmit the configuration data to a customer edge device via the Ethernet-layer OAM&P protocol. The customer edge device may automatically configure itself using the configuration data. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293234 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCORPORATING USER INPUT INTO FILTER-BASED NAVIGATION OF AN ELECTRONIC CATALOG - Various embodiments are presented which comprise an electronic catalog of products, wherein the catalog comprises a taxonomy of product categories and products within the categories, wherein various users input filter parameters to construct user constructed filters. These user constructed filters allow custom, dynamically updated access to the catalog and are shared by users in a community. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293235 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING THE ORDER OF MESSAGES - A method of ordering a plurality of messages received from a sender to be sent to a receiver in a sequence based on the dependency of one message on one or more other messages, the method comprising the steps of: receiving one or more messages from a stream of messages and storing them in a database; identifying a characteristic (P-Key-Order) of each message which is common to a group of messages; identifying a message dependency for the messages in the group of messages from a parameter of the message; reviewing a particular stored message in the database to determine if the stored message can be sent by; determining whether the stored message is dependent on a previous message and determining a status of the previous message; updating the status of the stored message based on the status of the previous message; sending the stored message after acknowledgement that the previous message has been sent. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293236 | Electronic Communication Clarification System - A computer implemented method and system is provided for clarifying electronic communication between an originator and a recipient. The originator declares characteristics of an originating message by specifying intent and linguistic type of communication using an application software provided on an originator communication device. The originator transmits the originating message to the recipient via a communication network. The application software on the recipient communication device recognizes the properties and declared characteristics for classification and categorization of the transmitted originating message. The application software determines requirement of a first response message as a reply to the transmitted originating message and generates response message templates that declare characteristics of the first response message based on the categorization. The recipient creates the first response message by selecting one of the response message templates and transmits the first response message to the originator. The communication loop continues until the electronic communication is declared complete. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293237 | METHOD FOR INTERNET-BASED MESSAGING - The invention relates to a method and a system for sending a message on the basis of an Internet protocol to an arbitrary call number of a recipient, wherein the recipient address is formed from the call number of the recipient and a domain addition, and the message is stored on a message server ( | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293238 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR RECEIVING AN UPDATE TO A PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED EMAIL MESSAGE - A method and computer program product enable an email user to receive an update to a previously received email message. An email client receives an update to the previously received email message is received. Privacy information in the update is identified and that privacy information is associated with a first portion of the previously received email message. The privacy information indicates whether the user is permitted to view that first portion of the previously received email message. The privacy information may be used to update the previously received message. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293239 | MAINTAINING INSTANT MESSAGING CONVERSATIONS WHEN A RECIPIENT IS NOT AT THEIR PRIMARY WORKSTATION - An instant messaging client apparatus and method for use with a data processing system associated with a data processing network. The apparatus comprising: an input/output component for receiving from the data processing network a first instant message; a presence component for determining whether a user is locatable at the modified instant messaging client in order for the user to transmit a response to the received first instant message; a first location component for analysing an information source associated with the user for determining a list of locations where the user is locatable for communication; a second location component for polling the list of locations to determine whether the user is present at a location identified on the list; and a communicator component for initiating a communication for sending the received first instant message to a remote device associated with the user at the identified location. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293240 | METHOD FOR STORING CONVERSATION UPON USER'S REQUEST IN CPM SYSTEM, AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method for storing a conversation upon a user's real-time request in a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service is provided. The method includes storing a conversation in a message storage server on a network or stopping the storage of the conversation upon a user's request. A target that can be stored within a conversation includes a pager mode message, a large message, and media delivered through the session. In this manner, media in the conversation may be limited to media selected by a user. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293241 | Internet/intranet-connected apparatus - A method and apparatus that uses the Internet protocol, TCP/IP, for a home control network. The invention also provides embedded servers, email clients at the electrical boxes. The invention integrates the Internet to the electrical outlet, switch, or appliance boxes using a low cost embedded web server. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293242 | Conversation-Based E-Mail Messaging - A method and system for searching messages is disclosed that includes searching a message repository to identify a plurality of conversations that each include at least one message that is relevant to a search query. Alternatively, conversations as a whole may be relevant to a search query rather than individual messages. Each of the plurality of the identified conversations includes one or more messages sharing a common set of characteristics that meet predefined criteria and a conversation identifier. A list of conversations is created representing at least a subset of the identified conversations and a conversation is selected from that list. In that selected conversation, first messages are differentiated from second messages which may differentiate portions of text or messages that are relevant to the search query from those that are not. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100299392 | Method for controlling remote devices using instant message - A method for controlling remote devices using an instant message is disclosed. The invention is to receive messages from the remote network devices, which are monitored through an instant messaging protocol. The instant messaging software, such as the MSN messenger, is used by a user receiving the messages. The user uses a MSN chat window to send commands to the remote devices and request a response. Preferably a step to establish a connection between a connection apparatus and the devices to be monitored is used. Next, a network connection for the software is established. Then the software is standby for an incoming message. As the connection apparatus detects message sent from the devices, the message is transmitted to the user and the software after translation. Moreover, the user can issue commands to the connection apparatus through the software, and the device's operational status is fed back via a chat window. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299393 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND HANDLING MESSAGE COLLISIONS IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - Collisions are detected between multiple instant messages that are sent to a given user at the same time. In response to detecting a collision, the sending users are put into a real-time, on-line negotiation that enables the sending users to determine among themselves whose instant message will be delivered next to the receiving user. This allows the sending users to make a determination of which message is most important based on their relative needs at the time. A collaborative communication session, such as a group chat, is initiated for the negotiating sending users so that they can exchange information regarding the purposes of their messages. Based on the results of this on-line negotiation between message senders, a limited number (e.g. one) of the colliding messages are next delivered to the receiving user. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299394 | USER-CONFIGURED ALTERNATE EMAIL RENDERING - A method of rendering email includes receiving with a networked computing device at least one filter criterion; receiving with the networked computing device an email message; and, responsive to a determination by the networked computing device that the email message meets the at least one filter criterion, diverting the email message from delivery to an inbox and providing an immediate display of the email message in its entirety to a user. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299395 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROPORTIONAL SETTING OF FONT ATTRIBUTES - A method and handheld electronic device for displaying text in accordance with a user-specified font attributes are provided. Where the text comprises formatted sections of varying font sizes, the font size settings are set according to a default font size specified for the device to provide a readable display of text. Text with a font size above a maximum threshold is set to a large font size appropriate for the device display. Text with a font size below a minimum threshold is set to a small font size appropriate for the device display. Text with a font size between the minimum and maximum thresholds is set to the default font size for the device. The font face of the text may be set to a user-specified font face, however, fixed-width fonts are unchanged in order to preserve spacing and formatting associated with text in fixed-width format. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299396 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING A SELECTION STATUS FOR CONTACTS CONTAINED IN AN ELECTRONIC ADDRESS BOOK - A method and system for configuring a selection status with respect to one or more contact items in an e-mail address book is disclosed. The e-mail address book related to an e-mail editor includes the contact items from which a list of intended e-mail recipients can be selected for e-mailing via a number of actions (e.g., “To:”, “Cc:”, or “Bcc:”). A status indicator can be utilized to indicate actions applicable to each of the contact items in a current work flow. The status indicator can be displayed alongside each contact item from the address book that permits a user to easily identify the selection status related to the contact items at a glance when scrolling through the list of intended recipients. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299397 | MANAGING ELECTRONIC ADDRESSES BASED ON COMMUNICATION PATTERNS - Managing electronic addresses based on communication patterns. A method includes tracking metadata of a plurality of electronic communications of a user. One or more lists of electronic addresses of recipients are generated for the user based on the metadata. Electronic addresses of potential recipients are identified from the one or more lists in response to an input indicative of selection of an electronic address of a recipient. The identified electronic addresses are recommended to the user. An input indicative of one or more electronic addresses selected by the user from the identified electronic addresses is received. Further, an electronic message is sent to the selected electronic addresses. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299398 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS - The present invention provides a technique for outputting an appropriate message to a terminal. A communication control apparatus | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299399 | System and Method for the Management of Message Policy - A highly advantageous message policy management system and method are disclosed for managing email message flow with a sender set of policies which recommend actions to be taken by receivers based on characteristics of the email message. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299400 | Linking Sounds and Emoticons - A method and apparatus for linking sounds and emoticons to allow a recipient of a message containing an emoticon to hear audio associated with the emoticon. In one aspect of the invention, a first user or sender establishes a link or association between the emoticon being sent and a sound file to be associated with that particular emoticon. The emoticon is then transmitted from the sender to the recipient along with the link or association such that the recipient can hear the audio when the emoticon is displayed. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100306318 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR A GRAPHICAL CODE-SERVING INTERFACE - The present disclosure details apparatuses, methods, and systems for a Graphical Code-Serving Interface and Code Triggered Information Server (“GCSI/CTIS”). The GCSI/CTIS connects information encoding symbologies to graphical interface elements, thus expanding the useful information content and interactivity of graphical displays, advertisements, publications, broadcasts, and/or the like. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for displaying information in an electronic system having a graphical interface that comprises displaying a first visual token and animating the first visual token to reveal a second visual token comprising a coded symbol. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306319 | Network Event Triggered Software Updates - Systems and methods may provide for identifying a network event trigger generated in response to a network event being identified due to receipt of a message, from a client device, comprising a request for or to extend a configuration parameter. The systems and methods may further provide for identifying a software update for software of the client device in response to the network event trigger, and communicating a software update message comprising the software update to cause updating of the software of the client device. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306320 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING COMMUNITIES OVER AN AD-HOC MESH NETWORK - An approach is provided for locating communities over an ad-hoc mesh network. Community identifiers are used to locate communities and community members over an ad-hoc mesh network. The community identifiers are also associated with keys to authenticate members of the community and to protect the privacy and anonymity of information exchanged between the members. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306321 | DELIVERING MESSAGES USING USER-DEFINED AGENTS - User-defined agents and connectors are defined to process messages for a messaging application. The user-defined agents are configured to extend the capabilities of the messaging application. Each user-defined agent is associated with a connector that is configured to route messages for a particular address space according to the specified protocol. Upon receipt of a routed message within the particular address space, the messaging application on the server invokes the associated user-defined agent to process the message. The user-defined agent utilizes an API that is associated with the messaging application to assist in processing the message. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306322 | DISTRIBUTED DELIVERY OF NOTIFICATIONS IN A MASS NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A method for distributing notifications to a plurality of recipients is disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one notification for distribution to the recipients, and identifying a distributor configured to transmit the notification to the recipients. The method also includes determining a notification distribution capacity of the distributor, and transmitting the notification to the distributor based on the notification distribution capacity of the distributor. A system for distributing notifications to a plurality of recipients is also provided. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306323 | DETAILED END-TO-END LATENCY TRACKING OF MESSAGES - Latency information is collected for each message as it moves through an organization. The latency information includes latency information for components processing the message. When the message is routed to the next server within the organization, the collected latency information for the server sending the message is included with the message. The collected latency information is written to a message tracking log when it either is delivered within the organization or when the message leaves the organization. The message tracking log may then be viewed such that the collected latency information may be viewed and analyzed. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306324 | ANONYMOUSLY AND AUTONOMOUSLY BRIDGING RETURN SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and arrangement to facilitate a direct, anonymous communication between an owner and a finder regarding an article. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306325 | Animated Wedding Collection System and Method - An animated wedding collection system and method is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a request from a user to create a wedding collection for a wedding, authenticating the user, and prompting the user to enter wedding information for the wedding. The method further includes generating an electronic wedding message, where the electronic wedding message includes digital animation, and transmitting the electronic wedding message to an invitee. In addition, the method includes selectively sending a paper wedding message to the invitee, where the paper wedding message is similar in appearance to the electronic wedding message, generating an electronic save the date card, transmitting the save the date card to the invitee, generating an electronic place card, and transmitting the electronic place card. The method further includes generating an electronic thank you card, and transmitting the electronic thank you card to an invitee of the wedding. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306326 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING APPLICATION MESSAGES BETWEEN COMPUTOR NETWORKS - The inventive method for transmitting application messages between computer networks relates to information engineering and computer information processing. The method is carried out by means of an additional hardware-software input unit which is positioned between the external and internal networks of a computerized system and is used as a unit in the form of a protective gateway (gateway) which transmits information between networks. The inventive method consists in waiting a message from the external network at the input of an external gateway network interface, in loading the message in the core memory of the gateway and in transmitting the message to the internal network of the gateway via the internal network interface. The messages are received via the input gateway network interface in the form of a packet sequencing according to the gateway receiving protocol. The message is loaded into the gateway core memory prior to the reception of the entire message, only one message being loaded into the gateway core memory at one time. The message data is transmitted from the core memory via the internal network interface by means of the gateway in the form of a packet sequencing according to the gateway transfer protocol. Said method ensures the operational stability of the software for internal networking. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306327 | SCHEDULE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - In response to a request from a user, multiple reply mails are accessed and a changed portion for each of the reply mails is determined. Here, when the reply mail has a quotation from a past mail in the body and when the quotation includes newly-added information, a part where the information is added is determined as the changed portion. Otherwise, an original reply part in the body of the current mail is determined as the changed portion. Then, schedule information on a schedule is extracted from the changed portion. Based on the schedule information, summary information including a schedule of each person is created. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306328 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION INVITATION RELATING TO A MEDICAL DICOM IMAGE - A method for transmitting an invitation to a communication relating to a medical image in a DICOM data record from a person who has access to the image to a partner is proposed. The invitation is stored as information in the DICOM data record of the image. The DICOM data record is transmitted to a server. With reference to the invitation, the server determines a message channel which leads to the partner. The server transmits the invitation to the partner via the message channel. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306329 | MAIL RELAY SERVER - To solve the problem with mobile phone carriers that increasing mail traffic increases storage capacity of a mail server and network load, a relay server which relays a mail transfer (SMTP communication) and a mail fetch (IMAP communication) is installed in a carrier facility network. The relay server compresses a mail including a header transferred from a mail transfer server, adds a new header to encapsulate the mail, and transmits the encapsulated mail to an IMAP server as a compressed mail. In response to a mail fetch request from a communication terminal, the relay server decapsulates and restores the compressed mail fetched from the IMAP server, and transmits the restored mail to the communication terminal. The relay server changes parameters such as the mail size, so that no inconsistency of IMAP commands occurs in compressing/restoring the mail. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306330 | SELECTION OF EMAIL ATTACHMENT STORAGE LOCATION - When an email server has a message from a sender to multiple recipients with an attachment file, an attachment application is activated. The attachment application stores preferences of email users for online storage locations. The method carried out extracts details of an email sender and recipients for the email message to be sent with an attachment file and compares the email sender and recipients with the stored preferences for online storage locations to select a common online storage location for the sender and recipients. A directory is created at the common online storage location for uploading the attachment file to the selected online storage location and the address of the attachment file at the selected online storage location is added to the email message. If a common online storage location is not available, a new account can be generated for the recipients at an online storage location. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306331 | PRINTER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED PROGRAM - A printer connected to an information processing device via a network so as to communicate with the information processing device and a method of controlling a printer. The printer includes, a receiving unit configured to receive first information including a transmission destination address from the information processing device in accordance with a printing request from the information processing device, an information obtaining unit configured to obtain information relating to at least one of a state of the printer and the printing request from the information processing device and an electronic mail transmission unit configured to transmit second information via an electronic mail to the transmission destination address included in the first information received in accordance with the printing request from the information processing device, the second information relating to the at least one of the printing request and the state of the printer. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306332 | INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SENDERS WITH A RECIPIENT'SMESSAGING PREFERENCES - An information delivery system includes a web server in operative communication with a plurality of recipients and a plurality of senders, the plurality of senders desirous of generating messages intended for the plurality of recipients, respectively. The web server includes a plurality of recipient preference profiles corresponding to the plurality of recipients, respectively, and a plurality of sender profiles corresponding to the plurality of senders, respectively. Each of the recipient preference profiles includes respective information directed to the recipient's preferences for receiving messages and the web server provides the plurality of senders with access to the plurality of recipient preference profiles. The web server maintains a relationship between a log of recipient preference profiles out of the plurality of recipient preference profiles that have been accessed by a particular sender. For each of the recipient preference profiles in the log of recipient preference profiles, the web server provides a change notification to the particular sender of a change in the recipient preference profile. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100312835 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA BETWEEN LOCALLY NETWORKED HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING SAID METHOD - A method for communicating data in an aircraft between at least a first data processing system and a second data processing system locally networked, each processing system being capable of executing at least one application, wherein the data to be exchanged are organized in messages, the aforementioned messages as well as the processing systems and the applications being defined in files stored in a backup unit connected to the network and accessible by the data processing systems. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100312836 | TRAVERSING BETWEEN ELECTRONIC MAIL AND REAL TIME COMMUNICATIONS - Users are enabled to traverse seamlessly between electronic mail and real time communications such as text messaging, group chats, and similar forms. A context of communications such as a history of the email exchange, attached or related documents, links, trail of exchanged text messages, and comparable information is used to automatically determine addressees for the communication form after the traverse and to provide context information. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100312837 | Methods and systems for determining email addresses - Disclosed herein is a method and system for a user to find an email address using the Internet. The user inputs the information that he wants to be verified or completed. A seeking unit determines the missing fields in the input information. The seeking unit may determine the missing information in the email address from various sources on the Internet, using a set of rules. The rules may be specified by the user or present in the database. The obtained search results are ranked by a ranking unit, based on the relevance of the scores. The seeking unit may also display the found email information along with the ranks to the user. The user has the option to sort the email information. The user may then select the most accurate email information, according to him, which is then used to populate the field in the information. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100312838 | Dynamic Communication Integration With Calendar - A system and a method are disclosed for dynamically generating a contextually desirable message ready for a user to send out to other participants of a scheduled event. A user context is determined for a scheduled calendar event and then logic rules applicable to the user context are identified and used to identify contextually desirable messages. Options for dynamically generating the contextually desirable messages are provided to the user along with information about the scheduled event. Upon a user selection of one of the options, the corresponding contextually desirable message is generated and its content is pre-populated according to the applicable logic rule. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100312845 | LATE BINDING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION OF TIME-BASED MEDIA - A system and method for the late-biding of time-based media in real-time With late binding, the sender may create time-based media before or at the same time an active delivery route to the recipient is discovered. As soon as the route becomes available, the media is transmitted. The existing DNS and email infrastructure is possibly used for route discovery, while any real-time transmission protocol may be used for the actual delivery of the media. “Progressive” emails may also be used for the real-time delivery of time-based media. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100312846 | METHOD FOR RELEASING BUFFERED DATA OF A SERVING GATEWAY - A method for releasing buffered data of a Serving Gateway is disclosed□ the Serving Gateway (Serving GW) buffers downlink data sent to a user and sends a data notification message to a Mobility Management Entity (MME); after receiving the data notification message, the MME initiates a paging to the user and sets a paging timer, if the paging timer expires and no paging response of the user is received, the MME sends a notification message to the Serving GW to inform the Serving GW that there is no paging response from the user; and after receiving the notification message, the Serving GW releases the buffered downlink data. With this method, the Serving GW can release buffered data in time without causing wrong release of the buffered data, so the system efficiency can be improved. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100318611 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING SHARED CONTENT - Tracking content shared over a network is described. Content with a mailing identifier and a recipient identifier can be transmitted to a recipient. The mailing identifier and the content can be associated with the recipient identifier. A request from the recipient to provide an application with access to the content can be received. The request can include the mailing identifier and the recipient identifier. A web page can be generated. The web page can include the content and can be associated with a second recipient identifier and a link. The request and the second recipient identifier can be associated with the recipient identifier using a forward identifier. A request to access the web page by a recipient friend using the link and the application can be received. The request to access can be associated with the recipient identifier. Reports can be generated and outputted. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318612 | Apparatus and Method for Email Storage - Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for storing emails, comprising a neural network arranged to receive information associated with an email, to determine a storage location of the email according to one or more of the attributes of the email and to output information identifying the determined storage location. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318613 | SOCIAL GRAPHING FOR DATA HANDLING AND DELIVERY - Architecture that enables data handling according to types of social relationships. A social graph is used to categorize the types of the social relationships of the tagged messaging users. The social graph can include social relationship categories for friends, family, coworkers, and blocked individuals of the recipient, for example. The social graph can also include metadata related to the tagged users. The metadata defines the social relationship of the tagged users to the recipient. Delivery of messages to the recipient from the tagged messaging users is managed based on the social graph. Delivery management can include blocking messages, allowing the messages through, or delivering the messages with high or low priority, for example. Email messages can be delivered to respective email locations based on the social graph. User information can be imported and/or mined from external sources to augment the social graph. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318614 | Displaying User Profile and Reputation with a Communication Message - A method of coordinating communication between a sender entity sending a communication message and a recipient entity receiving the communication message over a communication network, wherein the method comprises registering the sender entity based on registration data indicative of an identity of the sender entity and comprising assigned user profile data of the sender entity, determining a reputation of the sender entity based on the identity, and transmitting the user profile data and the reputation to the recipient entity for display of the user profile data and the reputation together with the communication message, the transmitting being triggered in response to a request of the recipient entity including the identity. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318615 | METHOD, DEVICES AND SYSTEM HAVING OUT OF OFFICE BASED PRESENCE - A method, devices and system having out of office based presence are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of sharing presence information, comprising: receiving input to enable an out of office utility for a first email account; notifying a messaging server managing the first email account that the out of office utility has been enabled; and providing to one or more recipients a presence status data packet indicating a presence status of “out of office” for a user associated with the first email account in response the enabling of the out of office utility. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318616 | MESSAGE REDIRECTION WITHIN A MESSAGING INFRASTRUCTURE - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for redirecting client messages between hosts within a messaging infrastructure. When a host receives a client message, it can refer to lock information in a shared database to determine if it is the correct host to receive the client message. The lock information includes a redirect endpoint. The redirect endpoint identifies an endpoint where client messages can be sent for delivery to the appropriate workflow instance. The redirect endpoint can be included in a redirect fault message, that is returd to a host when a host attempts to process a client message that is already locked to another workflow instance. Using the redirect endpoint, a host receiving a redirect fault message can use the redirect endpoint to send a client message to the correct host. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318617 | Local Loop For Mobile Peer To Peer Messaging - Techniques described herein describe a proxy used in an instant messaging system. The proxy, upon receiving an instant message (IM) from a first mobile device and addressed to a second mobile device, dynamically determines whether, and for how long to store the IM on a local proxy. Otherwise the IM is forwarded to a server. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318618 | DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR TRANSITION-INDEPENDENT WEB FEATURES - Computer-storage media, systems, and methods for facilitating development of web pages with cross-communicating tags are provided. The libraries and controls do not require a page transition or refresh operation to update information or instantiate features because the tags subscribe to a server for the information supplied to them. The update information can be requested by a first set of tags or pushed by a second set of tags. A package available online to developers includes development components for execution as part of a web page. These applications utilize APIs and a set of tags that are at least a portion of a markup language library. The tags are for initiating and executing web features, including instant messaging features. There is a developer interface to code the web page with the web application. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318619 | Publish/Subscribe Mashups For Social Networks - Described herein is a mashing technology that facilitates mashup creation over a plurality of publish/subscribe social network data stream. These mashing techniques that are tailored to managing content from disparate social networks. As described herein, these techniques include creating and using a set of operations that facilitate the creation of “mashups” over multiple publish/subscribe social network data streams. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318620 | Instant Messaging Monitoring and Alerts - Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture embodied as computer program products for facilitating the avoiding of sending a message to an unintended recipient. In some embodiments of the invention, in an instant messaging (IM) environment, the relatedness of a first entry in a first IM session to previous entries in the first IM session is determined. In response to the entry not meeting a first pre-determined relatedness threshold, an alert is issued. In one embodiment, the relatedness of the first entry to previous entries in a second IM session is determined, in response to the entry meeting a second pre-determined relatedness threshold, an alert is issued. In one implementation, relatedness is determined based on a matching of keywords between the first entry and the previous entries. In another implementation, relatedness is determined based on a matching of topics associated with one or more IM sessions, which topics can be associated with keywords. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318621 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A transmission side terminal | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318622 | Identifying Users Sharing Common Characteristics - Displaying electronic information in an instant-messaging application includes accessing a first electronic message providing information describing a first user that has an identifier included in a set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application. A second electronic message providing information describing a second user that has an identifier included in the set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application is accessed. Content contained within the first and second messages is analyzed to determine that at least a portion of content is common to the first and second electronic messages. Based upon the content analysis, an indication that the first and second messages include common content is provided to the user. Alternatively or additionally, an indication that two users are in physical proximity to a geographic location may be provided in response to detecting that the two users are within a threshold distance from the geographic location. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318623 | Method of Controlling Access to Network Resources Using Information in Electronic Mail Messages - A method and apparatus for controlling access to network resources referenced in electronic mail messages comprises the computer-implemented steps of receiving an electronic mail message that comprises one or more hyperlinks; determining sender information that identifies a sender of the electronic mail message; creating and storing a record that associates the sender information with each of the one or more hyperlinks; receiving a request to access a specified hyperlink among the one or more hyperlinks; retrieving, based on the specified hyperlink, the record; retrieving, based on the sender information associated with the specified hyperlink, sender reputation information associated with the sender; determining, based on the sender reputation information, a particular action among a plurality of allowed actions; and issuing a network request to access the specified hyperlink only when the particular action is allowing user access to the specified hyperlink. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100325213 | MULTI-TIER, MULTI-STATE LOOKUP - A correlation data structure that correlates each address of a set of addresses to a corresponding state of multiple possible states. The correlation is maintained by correlating entire groups of addresses to a corresponding group-level state. If all of the addresses in a corresponding group of addresses have the same address-level state, then the group-level state at the root-tier state reflects that. Thus, if an address is accessed that is within that group, no further inquiry is needed. The system concludes the address-level state of the address from the group-level state of the group in which the address resides. If there is a mix in the address-level states amongst the addresses in the corresponding group, then the group level-state at the root-tier correlation may indicate that as well. Thus, further inquiry may be made to identify the address-level state of the address. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325214 | Predictive Collaboration - Architecture for enabling the definition of candidates of a collaboration session, and the manner or modality of communication that identifies collaboration opportunities, including meeting time, place, and modalities, for example. The modality of communication can include an online meeting, a telephone conference call, or a face-to-face meeting. Meta information of the candidates is aggregated from multiple sources to identify collaboration opportunities and compute an opportunity window for the collaboration session. The meta information can include online presence, availability information, a calendar schedule, geographic location, time zone, expertise, and profile related information. Candidates for the collaboration session can be tagged based on common interest, team membership, or project information. In this way, a predictive model for availability is built for the collaboration session candidates. The candidates are notified of the opportunity window for scheduling of the collaboration session. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325215 | MESSAGE REQUIREMENTS BASED ROUTING OF MESSAGES - Architecture for enabling messages to be routed between network servers based on message requirements related to version, capabilities, and features, for example. The message requirements designate delivery over a transport path compatible with the message requirements. The message requirements can include a particular version or other features related to different software applications that require compatibility in message handling. Routing information is maintained related to a transport server or other network transport entity compatible with the message requirements and through which the message can be routed. The message is routed to the compatible transport server for delivery to the destination while avoiding delivery to transport servers incompatible with the message requirements. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325216 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MANAGED INSTANT COMMUNICATION (OR CHAT)-BASED HELPDESK SERVICES - An approach is provided for managed instant communication (or chat)-based helpdesk services. An inquiry for a support service is received, at a helpdesk management platform, from a customer requesting assistance, the inquiry including one or more parameters defining the support service. A response is generated to the inquiry based on the one or more parameters, the response indicating a plurality of helpdesks associated with at least one service provider. An instant communication session is established between the customer and one of the helpdesks. The instant communication session is placed into a queue for an agent associated with the one helpdesk. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325217 | System and Method for Improved In-Browser Notification - Systems and methods for sending/receiving improved in-browser notification messages are provided. The notification messages are overlaid on HTTP traffic on port 80 for IP addresses provisioned to receive the notification messages from various sources, including weather, emergency broadcast, and police stations. A load balancer within the end-to-end system allows HTTP traffic on port 80 to be forked from non HTTP traffic on port 80 to selectively insert notification messages. The notifications are inserted by an internet content adoption protocol (ICAP) server in communication with other devices within the system. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SOCIAL NETWORKING RELATIONSHIPS - An approach is provided for recognizing one or more people from media content and determining if the one or more people are associated with a social networking service. A request is received from a user equipment specifying a media content. Electronically processing of the media content to recognize one or more people is initiated. It is determined whether the one or more people are associated with a member account of a social networking service. A prompting of the user is initiated with an option based on the determination. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325219 | ADDING CONFIGURABLE MESSAGING FUNCTIONALITY TO AN INFRASTRUCTURE - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for adding configurable messaging functionality to an infrastructure. Embodiments of the invention provide a common infrastructure for management and one way message routing that can accommodate a set of related but conceptually different message delivery protocols. Junctions can be simultaneous created and configured at a location within a namespace. As a result, messaging related functionality can be more efficiently and uniformly added to a namespace. Additionally, embodiments of the invention include junctions that indicate roles and store behaviors and constraints for roles locally. Thus, computer systems desiring to utilize messaging related functionality can access the junction and utilize messaging related functionality provided at the junction without having to refer to other locations in a namespace (e.g., to perform lookups). Thus, resource and network bandwidth consumption associated with adding and utilizing messaging related functionality to a network infrastructure. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325220 | Systems and Methods for Subscribing to an Information Feed - Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving and processing a subscription request by e-mail to an information stream. The systems and methods involve a network-based information storage and distribution system for receiving, storing, and distributing an information stream to a subscriber of the information stream over a network. The system receives an e-mail subscription request from a subscriber seeking to subscribe to an information stream, where the e-mail subscription request includes stream-identifying information identifying the information stream to which the subscriber wishes to subscribe; and an e-mail address for the subscriber, which may simply be determined by way of examining the return e-mail address of the e-mail sender from the e-mail. The e-mail is used to determine which information stream is to be subscribed to from the stream-identifying information, and the subscriber's e-mail address is used to provide access to the information stream to the subscriber. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325221 | METHOD FOR INSERTING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT INTO A COMPUTER COMMUNICATION BY INSTANT MESSAGING - A method for the insertion of a multimedia content into a computerized communication by an instant messaging service between a first session executed on a first computerized device and at least one second session executed on a second computerized device, the method including on the one hand, prior to the insertion of the multimedia content, the following steps: the multimedia content is constituted by at least one instant messaging user; the multimedia content is stored in a third computerized device, and on the other hand, during communication, the following steps: the execution of the content is activated by the first session; the multimedia content is automatically executed, following the activation, based on data received from the third computerized device. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325222 | CONTACT LIST DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique for contact list aggregation across networks involves logging into low level networks through a high level network. A system constructed according to the technique may include a network interface coupled to the different low level networks. The system may further include a contact aggregation engine coupled to the network interface and a network contacts database. In operation the system logs into one or more of the low level networks (or facilitates login for a user). To the extent that the data in the network contacts database is not current, the contact aggregation engine updates the networks contacts database contact information, then provides an aggregated contact list including the contact information to a display device. A method according to the technique may include logging into a high level network and displaying contacts from the one or more low level networks in an aggregated contact list. The method may further include logging into the one or more low level networks. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325223 | Method & system for facilitating the integration of a plurality of dissimilar systems - The present invention is related to a host system for full customization of functional process logic in an integrated system having multiple nodes, each node being independent of other nodes in said system, said system capable of handling standard markup language data. The system has functional process logic that uses one of agents and agent management services approach and a payload processor approach. Each unit of functional process logic is a service, multiple services are grouped together to form an agent, and incoming standard markup language data is processed as a document object method and system for facilitating the integration of a plurality of dissimilar systems by allowing networks of integration framework installations and/or other compatible B2B servers to inter-operate across corporate enterprise boundaries to integrate the disparate systems operating within each corporate enterprise. In the payload processor approach the functional process logic units are tied to predefined elements within the incoming standard markup language data document and processed used an event based model. The functional process logic uses a web-based scripting language which allows for remote administration and customization of the functional process logic. The API of the host system is in code accessible to the web-based scripting language used. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325224 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING STORING OF MESSAGES IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and system for storing of CPM messages in a communication network. The method includes receiving a CPM message that is to be delivered to a CPM client, identifying a user preference, sending the CPM message to the CPM client through a SIP channel, converting the CPM message into an IMAP, storing the IMAP message in the message storage server, receiving a UID associated with the IMAP message stored in the message storage server, and sending information associated with the CPM message and the UID to the CPM client. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325225 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO FORWARD DOCUMENTS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods and apparatus to forward documents in a communication network are disclosed. An example method to forward a resource in an extensible markup language (XML) document management (XDM) system disclosed herein comprises receiving an XML document command protocol (XDCP) forward request specifying a first identifier corresponding to the resource to be forwarded and a list of recipients to be notified, the first identifier comprising a uniform resource identifier (URI), and notifying a recipient in the list of recipients that the resource is available. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325226 | Message Processing in Communication Systems - A method and apparatus for use in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of, at a user agent receiving a configuration message from an access device, where uplink time synchronization at the user agent has been lost when the configuration message is received, using at least a portion of the configuration message information to configure the user agent and after time synchronization has been restored, communicating with the access device. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325227 | Systems and methods for composite data message - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to communicate composite data messages using conventional messaging systems, particularly email systems, while preserving the integrity of the composite data messages without losing any information in the messages. More specifically, the structured data in a composite data message from a sender is serialized and converted into image data, where the resulting image data encodes the structured data. The converted image data is then attached to the free text portion of the composite data message as an embedded image to form a recomposed message. The recomposed message is then communicated to one or more recipients through a heterogeneous messaging environment comprising of one or more collaborating messaging systems. Upon receiving the second recomposed message, each recipient reconstructs the composite data message by converting the embedded image data into structured data. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325228 | Systems and methods for distributed activity management system - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support context-sensitive presentation of activity management data. Under the approach, a user's current activities are monitored and relevant data in a computer-based activity management system is retrieved if the monitored user activities meet certain criteria. A signal is then provided to the user indicative of the existence of data in the computer-based activity management system relevant to the current work of the user. Once the user indicates his/her intent to access such relevant data, that data is made accessible to the user. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325229 | Methods and Apparatus for Exchange of Electronic Communications - Methods and apparatus may provide enhanced functionality for the exchange of electronic communications. A group message response content processor ( | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325230 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF POLLING ELECTRONIC MAILBOXES - A communications system includes a polling agent that can be part of a mobile office platform for polling an electronic mailbox to retrieve unique identifiers (UID's) of electronic messages. A database stores the UID's resulting from the polling operation. The polling agent is operative for polling the electronic mailbox and retrieving only those UID's that are newer than the UID's from a previous polling to determine that new messages are available. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325231 | WIRELESS EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING DEVICE CAPABILITY SET UPDATE FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each having a subscriber account associated therewith including a respective personal identification number (PIN) and a device identification (ID). Each device ID may have associated therewith a device capability set from among a plurality of device capability sets. The system may further include at least one electronic mail (email) server including a database of subscriber accounts and for sending emails to and receiving emails from the mobile wireless communications devices based upon the PINs and device IDs. The at least one email server may compare a given PIN and device ID, based upon a communication from a given mobile wireless device, with a corresponding PIN and device ID for the corresponding subscriber account in the database, and update a corresponding device capability set for the corresponding subscriber account based upon a discrepancy. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325232 | METHOD FOR COLLECTING DATA AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREOF - A method for collecting data is provided. The method for collecting data discloses receiving indicating information sent by a server or setting, if the indicating information is not received from the server, indicating information at a mobile terminal. The method further discloses collecting data information of a broadcasting network and reporting the collected data information through a mobile network, such that the collecting or reporting the data information is triggered according to a trigger condition set in the indicating information sent by the server or the indicating information set at the mobile terminal. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100325233 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a condition judgment unit which judges whether a received email satisfies a predetermined condition. Moreover, the display device includes a data deletion unit which deletes attached data in an email from a recording unit if the condition judgment unit detects that the email does not satisfy the predetermined condition. Moreover, the display device includes a condition registration unit which receives a condition for storing attached data. The condition registration unit receives a transmission source email address of an email which a user desires to store. When an email is received by the email reception unit, the condition judgment unit judges whether the transmission source email address coincides with a part or whole of the reception-enabled address. If yes, the attached data is stored. Otherwise, the data is deleted. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100332600 | System and Method to Enhance User Presence Management to Enable the Federation of Rich Media Sessions - A method and system is provided to enhance user presence management to enable the federation of rich media sessions. The method is implemented on a system and includes a presence manager server receiving a notification of user activity of one or more users taking place on one or more participating ecosystem sites in a participant ecosystem. The method further includes processing the user activity of the one or more users based on preferences of the one or more participating ecosystem sites established during a registration process and stored in a preference repository. The method further includes sending a notification of the user activity of the one or more users to the one or more participating ecosystem sites in the participant ecosystem to enable the participating ecosystem sites to at least one of communicate the user activity of the one or more users to one or more users and maintain a session of the one or more users. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332601 | REAL-TIME SPAM LOOK-UP SYSTEM - A system and method of managing unsolicited email sent to an email system over a network. Email messages are received at an message at an inbound mail transfer agent. A determination is made as to whether the email message is suspected to be an unsolicited suspect message. One or more queries for additional information on one or more characteristics of the message is initiated. Determinations are made based on replies to the queries before issuing a message accepted for delivery indication to a sending server. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332602 | CONTROLLING LOCATION AND TIME PREFERENCES FOR MESSAGES - A system and method for controlling preferences for messages that includes receiving a message from a sender to a recipient, determining if the message will be received by the recipient based on message policies for the recipient, and notifying the sender that the message will not be received by the recipient and when it will be received responsive to the determination that the message will not be received by the recipient. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332603 | Session Collaborator - A method and system for establishing an electronic communication channel between at least one agent of a first entity and a second entity is provided. The method includes linking the second entity to the at least one agent of the first entity when a trigger is sent by the second entity. Providing one or more software programs over the electronic communication channel to the second entity; initiating an exchange by the at least one agent of the first entity to the second entity. And sending one or more messages over the communication channel between the at least one agent from the first entity and the second entity. The system includes a database containing a link between the agent of the first entity and the second entity. The system also includes a server configured to establish an electronic communication channel between the agent of the first entity and the second entity when a trigger is sent by the second entity. The server is further configured to provide at least one software program for sharing between the agent of the first entity and the second entity over the electronic communication channel. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332604 | MESSAGE SELECTOR-CHAINING - Methods, systems, and computer program products for selecting messages in an enterprise computing environment are described herein. In one embodiment, a method is provided for selecting one or more of a multitude of messages in an enterprise computing environment. The method comprises forming a message-selector chain from a plurality of message selectors, each of the message selectors identifying at least one criteria, and using said message-selector chain to select one or more of said multitude of messages that satisfy the message selector chain. In this embodiment, using said message-selector chain to select one or more of said multitude of messages includes identifying a first of the multitude of messages that satisfies a first of the message selectors, and selecting one or more of the multitude of messages that has a defined relationship to said first of the messages and that satisfies a second of the message selectors. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332605 | MESH NETWORK BRIDGE ROUTING - A wireless mesh network server is operable to receive a message to one or more mesh network nodes from a client external to the mesh network, the message comprising an alias identifying the one or more mesh network nodes. The server is further operable to identify the one or more receiving mesh network nodes by the received message alias via an alias table, and forward the received message to the one or more mesh network nodes identified by the alias. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332606 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SENDING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC MAIL SENDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An electronic mail sending system that includes: a sending terminal that sends an electronic mail; a maintenance unit to maintain a mail address of a mailing list; a difference determination unit comprising: a determination unit that determines a difference between a first mail address provided from the maintenance unit on the basis of a mailing list and a second mail address of a same mailing list as the mailing list used at previous sending time when the electronic mail is sent from the sending terminal with the mailing list being specified as an address of the electronic mail; and a display controller that displays a determination result by the determination unit on the sending terminal; and a sending controller that controls sending of the electronic mail on the basis of an instruction given based on the determination result displayed on the sending terminal. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332607 | SPAM CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOIP SERVICE - A spam control method and apparatus for a user equipment capable of receiving a VoIP service are provided. The spam control method includes obtaining at least one IP address corresponding to a target domain name, creating a whitelist for spam control using the target domain name and obtained IP address, and performing, when a message is received, spam control by determining whether the received message is a spam message based on the whitelist. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332608 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMAIL PROCESSING - An Email processing method and system comprising in response to obtaining an Email, parsing contents of the Email to obtain an Email subject identifier of the Email, at least one new interaction record, and interaction information corresponding to the at least one new interaction record; determining whether there is a merged Email, which has a merge Email subject identifier matching a subject identifier of the Email, and conforms to a predefined interaction content structure comprising at least one interaction record divided by interaction relationship of contents; and in response to that the determination result is yes, merging the at least one new interaction record of the Email into the merged Email to generate a new merged Email based on the interaction information corresponding to the at least one new interaction record. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332609 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES - A system and method for controlling the transport of articles comprises in one embodiment one or more communication devices for receiving and transmitting data, at least one primary server in communication with the primary server for allocating couriers for the collection and delivery of articles, a program for controlling the server, and at least one remote interface for placing orders for the collection and delivery of the articles, wherein the program, upon the execution of an order, compares stored historical travel times from one geographic location to another with actual travel times from one geographic location to another to thereby provide updated estimates for the collection time and delivery time of articles provided in subsequent orders. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110004661 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING NETWORK ELEMENTS - A system for managing networks includes a gateway capable of receiving a first TARP request from a requesting node and generating a second TARP request based on the first TARP request. The second TARP request includes an NSAP address of the gateway. The gateway is further capable of transmitting the second TARP request to a destination node. The gateway is also capable of receiving a first TARP response from the destination node and generating a second TARP response based on the first TARP response. The second TARP response includes the NSAP address of the gateway. The gateway is further capable of transmitting the second TARP response to the requesting node. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND DISPLAYING DATA MESSAGES - A system and method for managing and displaying data messages includes a computing device configured to receive stream data, assign data messages of the stream data to one or more display columns of a graphical user interface, and display the data messages in the assigned columns. The stream data may be embodied as short data messages such as text messages having predetermined maximum character length. The data messages may be assigned to the display columns based on meta-data associated with the data messages such as the author of the data message, the source of the data message, and/or the type of the data message. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004663 | System and Method for Archiving and Retrieving Messages - A method comprises establishing by a computer an audience element comprising a particular combination of one or more addresses. The method further comprises creating a first relationship between the audience element and at least one of the one or more addresses. The method also comprises creating a second relationship between one or more messages and the audience element. The method further comprises utilizing the first relationship and the second relationship to identify one or more messages associated with one or more particular addresses. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004664 | Device and Method for Distributing and Forwarding Requests to a Plurality of Web Servers in an Industrial Automation Arrangement - A device and a method for distributing and forwarding requests to a plurality of web servers in an industrial automation arrangement. The device is configured to receive requests addressed to a well-known port, and the web servers are addressable by at least one local address and by means of one port number. The device is also configured to evaluate the destination URLs of the requests, where each of the requests have the same host header of the request and the server addressing components of the destination URLs are possibly identical, a path component of the URL in each case defines one of the web servers, and the device is configured to forward the request to one of the web servers defined by the path information. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004665 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CONTENT-SHARING SERVICE, AND A DEVICE THEREFOR - A method and apparatus for providing contents-sharing services are provided. The method for providing contents-sharing services includes: receiving a contents-sharing request message for a contents sharer from a first contents reproducing apparatus of a contents sharing requester; transmitting a contents-sharing notify message generated using the received contents-sharing request message to a second contents reproducing apparatus of the contents sharer; and transmitting the received contents-sharing request message to a streaming server, wherein the transmitted contents-sharing request message requests the streaming server to transmit contents to the second contents reproducing apparatus of the contents sharer. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004666 | E-MAIL SERVER - An address determining means determines whether an e-mail address in an e-mail is an extended address or an original e-mail address of an e-mail account. The extended address is an e-mail address generated by adding an extension name to an account name in the original e-mail address. A receipt accepting means determines, based on the extended address, whether to accept receipt of an e-mail of which a destination address is the extended address or not. An e-mail receiving means receives the e-mail to the extended address as an e-mail to the e-mail account of the original e-mail address after the receipt accepting means accepts receipt of the e-mail. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004667 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ORDER STATUS INFORMATION USING AN UPDATE STATUS FLAG - A method and system for providing order status information using an update status flag to receive status information pertaining to an order placed by a customer with a merchant. It is determined whether the received status information is new relative to further status information pertaining to the order stored within a status record. The status record is updated to include the received status information if the received status information is new. The updated message indicating the received status information is then composed and sent to the customer. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110010423 | Systems and Methods to Provide Assistance During Address Input - Systems and methods to provide assistance for completion during address input. In one aspect, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as incoming and outgoing emails. Based on how the addresses of the persons are used in incoming and outgoing messages, the relevancy scores of the addresses are determined. When a user is typing an address, the profiles and the relevancy scores are used to identify and sort suggestions for the completion of the address input. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110010424 | UNIFIED ADDRESSING, SENDING, AND RECEIVING COLLABORATION SERVICE - Collaboration information can be sent by a collaboration team member in accordance with a sending communication modality. Another team member's unified messaging inbox/outbox can receive the collaboration information and provide the collaboration information to the other team member in accordance with a receiving communication modality. A unified messaging configuration specification can be used to specify the receiving communication modality. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110010425 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENABLING ANONYMOUS INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION - Techniques for enabling interactive (e.g., two-way) electronic communication between parties where one party remains anonymous. In one set of embodiments, a system is provided that can store anonymous and non-anonymous identifiers for a group of users. The system can receive, from a first user, an anonymous message addressed from the anonymous identifier of the first user and addressed to the non-anonymous identifier of a second user. The system can then deliver the anonymous message to the second user. The system can further receive, from the second user, a reply message in response to the anonymous message that is addressed from the non-anonymous identifier of the second user and addressed to the anonymous identifier of the first user. The system can then deliver the reply message to the first user. In this manner, the first and second users can communicate interactively while maintaining the anonymity of the first user. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110010426 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHENTICATING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - One embodiment provides a method for authenticating an electronic communication. The method includes parsing a header of the electronic communication to identify actual domain name data included in the header at a server receiving the electronic communication from a communication client; parsing the header to obtain purported sender data included in the header of the electronic communication; comparing the actual domain name data and purported sender data; and generating in response to the comparison an authenticity indicator, to provide a recipient of the electronic communication with an indication of the likelihood that the electronic communication was sent from a purported sender of the electronic communication. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110016181 | Reducing Errors in Sending File Attachments - The claimed subject matter comprises a technology to scan a document for file attachments, generate alternative file names corresponding to a particular attachment, determine whether or not the particular file attachment is the latest version of a file or has a name and/or file path that could be confused with the name and/or path of another file. In the event one of the above conditions are met, the technology provides the means for a user to verify that the file attachment is the desired file and, if necessary, to select an alternative file for attachment. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016182 | Managing Gifts of Digital Media - An individual may wish to make a gift of digital media to a designated recipient. The digital media may be previously purchased by the individual or may be new, unused digital media purchased specifically as a gift for the recipient. The sender of the gift sends a gift notification. The sender is then verified to ensure that the sender is authorized to make the gift by matching an identifier of the digital media with an identifier associated with the sender. The digital media may be associated with a set of rights and privileges. Further rights and privileges associated with the digital media may be offered to the recipient. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016183 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AN APPARATUS IN SITU - The present invention refers to a method for remote configuration of at least one apparatus using a configuration server to configure the apparatus in situ via a network to which the apparatus and the configuration server are connected. The above method comprises exchanging information requests or and/or inform messages between the configuration server and the apparatus. The invention defines to sending from the configuration server the requested information indicated by the information requests and/or inform messages over the network to the apparatus where sending the information to the apparatus is prioritized. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016184 | Downloading a plug-in on an instant messaging client - Downloading a plug-in for an Instant. Messaging (IM) client includes receiving a request for the plug-in from a user of the IM client; detecting a directly accessible peer client that is currently online; sending a plug-in download request to the directly accessible peer client; and in the event that the plug-in is received from the directly accessible peer client, installing the plug-in on the IM client. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016185 | Session Initiation Protocol Stack Optimisation - Apparatus comprising a Session Initiation Protocol agent ( | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016186 | MESSAGING AND SERVICE SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMPUTER - A service sends rich content messages including text and photos between any mobile device and potentially across a heterogeneous network. Furthermore, to enhance the user experience, content can be delivered based on personal preferences and device display capabilities. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016187 | USER INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR VIEWING SHORT MESSAGES ON A WIRELESS DEVICE - A method is performed by an electronic communication device. The method includes storing electronic messages, and storing criteria for determining whether a stored message is related to a current message. A current electronic message is displayed to a user of the communication device, including the current message's outside address and message body. The relevance of each of the stored messages to the current message is assessed based on the previously-stored criteria. Those messages that meet the criteria are selected and displayed along with the current message. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016188 | Email Conversation Management System - A system and method are disclosed for producing a list of conversations as the result of a search query. Messages are received and associated with a conversation. Each of the conversations has a respective conversation identifier and includes one or more messages. Messages, and related message information, are indexed for text searching and information about the message is stored in a memory to associate the message to its respective conversation identifier. The index can be searched to identify one or more messages relevant to a search query. At least some of the conversations to which the one or more messages belong are identified and produced as the search result. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016189 | Email Conversation Management System - A system and method are disclosed for producing a list of conversations as the result of a search query. Messages are received and associated with a conversation. Each of the conversations has a respective conversation identifier and includes one or more messages. Messages, and related message information, are indexed for text searching and information about the message is stored in a memory to associate the message to its respective conversation identifier. The index can be searched to identify one or more messages relevant to a search query. At least some of the conversations to which the one or more messages belong are identified and produced as the search result. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016190 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REALIZING MESSAGE SERVICE - A method for realizing message service is provided, and the method includes: receiving, from a receiving terminal, a response message of the transmission failure of a message of the first type ; generating, according to the response message, a message of the second type to be retransmitted by means of the flash short message; and transmitting the message of the second type to the receiving terminal. Correspondingly, an apparatus for realizing the message service is also provided. The present disclosure may upgrade the success rate of the message transmission of the MSC, thereby improving the satisfactory degree of the customer as well as the service quality of the operator. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110016191 | E-MAIL RECEIVING DEVICE, NETWORK SERVER, AND EXPIRATION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR RECEIVED E-MAIL - A mail receiver includes: a mail receiving unit that receives a mail to which an attached file and a reference time limit of the attached file are appended; a monitoring unit that monitors whether the attached file was referred to by a user; and a warning unit that warns the user of one which the reference time limit is approaching among a non-referenced attached file. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110022662 | EVENT TRIGGERED NOTIFICATIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES - Notifications that serve as “hints” related to activity associated with a collaborative process are propagated to an originator to alert the originator of activity on the collaborative process. A collaborative process server computer receives an indication that the originator has initiated a computer implemented collaborative process that generates collaborative content to be tracked. The collaborative process server computer is utilized to share the collaborative content associated with the collaborative process with at least one recipient. Computer implemented event(s) associated with the shared collaborative content by recipients are detected. Information associated with the collaborative process is automatically transformed in response to detected event(s) associated with the shared collaborative content, wherein a notification of the occurrence of the event(s) is propagated to the originator. The notification is generated in response to detected event(s) and is based upon the transformed information. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022663 | Partially and Completely Duplicative Messages Handling - A first queue stores messages to be consumed. A second queue temporarily stores completely duplicative messages that have message identifiers equal to message identifiers of messages currently being processed s and that have times equal to times of the messages being processed; processing of the completely duplicative messages never occurs. By comparison, a partially duplicative message has its processing delayed until the message of which it is partially duplicative has been finished being processed. A partially duplicative message has a message identifier equal to a message identifier of a message referenced within the non-persistent store and has a time unequal to a time of the message referenced within the non-persistent store is moved from the first to the second queue. A non-persistent store stores references to the messages currently being processed. Once the messages are finished being processed, the references to them are removed from the non-persistent store. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022664 | Cost Based Email Management System - A method for managing email costs includes: identifying a participant of an email message in an email thread; assigning a cumulative cost to the email message; and presenting the email message and the cumulative cost to a recipient of the email message. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022665 | DEVICE IDENTIFIER SELECTION - Systems and methods of device identifier selection are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving an enumeration message via a host interface of a device operatively coupled to a host device as well as to one or more other devices and identifying the enumeration message as a command originated by the host device or as a response message from one of the other devices. The method includes, in response to identifying the enumeration message as a command, selectively sending an enumeration response message to the host device. The enumeration response message indicates a distinctive device identifier value. The method also includes, in response to identifying the enumeration message as a response message from one of the other devices, reading from the response message an identifier value used by such other device and at least temporarily storing this identifier value at the device to enable the device to select the distinctive device identifier value. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022666 | DEVICE IDENTIFIER SELECTION - Systems and methods of device identifier selection are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes, at a hub device having a plurality of ports including a first port, a second port, and a third port, receiving a first message from a host device. The first message including a broadcast indicator. The method also includes, in response to determining that the first message requests enumeration, emulating a ring communication topology by serially propagating messages including an enumeration indicator to a first device via the first port and to a second device via the second port. The method further includes, in response to determining that the first message does not request enumeration, selectively sending the first message to the first device substantially concurrently with sending the first message to the second device. Emulating the ring communication topology enables the hub device to provide a first distinctive identifier value of the first device and a second distinctive identifier value of the second device to the host device. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022667 | TECHNIQUE FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE MANAGEMENT RESPONSE MESSAGES - A device for use in a communication system and a method for its operation are provided. The method of operating a Device Management (DM) client of a device in a communication system includes receiving an out-of-band DM message from a DM server, determining if out-of-band message response (OOBMsgResponse) reporting is inhibited based on an OOBMsgResponse node in a Management Object (MO), and if it is determined that OOBMsgResponse reporting is not inhibited, sending a response message in response to the out-of-band DM message received from the DM server. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022668 | ELECTRONIC TICKETING SYSTEM AND APPLICATION METHOD THEREOF - A user can book a ticket in advance and after that by means of wireless or/and wire-line transmission a service center replies an acknowledge message which contains a first Internet address to a user-designated portable hand-held device. While the user clicks the web site/address, a corresponding ticket appears or an identification signal appears for identification. After the web site being clicked, the content appeared on the web site is being transferred to a second web site, and while the same application or booking procedure is done again, the first Internet address stored in the electronic ticketing system and a second Internet address will be compared. By means of web site exchanging, the web site being transmitted to the user-designated portable apparatus are non-identical, hence, the tedious process of logging/encryption/decryption can be evitable and improper duplicate utilization of the electronic tickets can be saved. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022669 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING MOBILE NETWORK OPERATOR CONTROLLED CONTENT TO MOBILE SUBSCRIBERS USING SOCIAL NETWORKING MESSAGES - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing mobile network operator controlled content to mobile subscribers using social networking messages. According to one aspect, a method for providing mobile network operator controlled content to mobile subscribers using social networking messages is provided. The method includes receiving, at a mobile network operator node, a message or delivery to a mobile subscriber of the mobile network operator's network. The method further includes determining whether the message is a social networking message. The method further includes, in response to determining that the message is a social networking message, providing mobile network operator controlled content to the subscriber. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022670 | FACILITATING TRANSMISSION OF EMAIL BY CHECKING EMAIL PARAMETERS WITH A DATABASE OF WELL BEHAVED SENDERS - Facilitating email transmission by extracting email parameters, requesting data in the form of a dns query, and receiving a sender reputation as an IP address. Querying a database by sending a plurality of arguments concatenated to a dns request and receiving an IP address in reply. Operating a remote database as a dns server, receiving queries as domains and transmitting replies in the format of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Filtering email by querying a database with email parameters comprising an IP address and a domain of an email sender which may be extracted from an email header in the HELO, EHLO, MAIL FROM, or RETURN PATH. The smtp session is continued, modified or interrupted according to the result of the query submitted to a database operating as a dns server. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022671 | Resource List Management System - A system for providing group accessibility is provided. An example method includes storing a profile associated with a user in a database; maintaining a service group including a plurality of service representatives in the database; and in response to a session between the user and a first one of the service representatives: adding, with a processor, the service group to the profile associated with the user; and associating a rule with the profile to cause the service group to be indicated to the user as present on a network only when the first service representative is present on the network. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022672 | Method and Apparatus for Scalable Transport Processing Fulfillment System - A scalable fulfillment system is presented that supports business processes, manages the transport and processing of business-related messages or documents between a business entity and clients, such as customers, vendors, and business partners, and generally supports business document processing. The system intelligently manages the transportation of files from clients, through processing of files, to generating responses that return to the clients. To accommodate a heterogeneous interfacing and processing with different clients in a central system, a file normalization technique is used that captures a common meta-data format from the numerous heterogeneous file types used by numerous clients. The meta-data files, also referred to as messages, contain links to their associated data files and are processed separately. Once the messages are entered into the system, an intelligent queue scheduler (IQS) is used to schedule the processing of messages across a scalable resource of processing engines based on normalized file meta-data parameters. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022673 | System and Method for Controlling a Performance Environment - The present disclosure generally provides a system and method for affecting a result associated with an event. The method may include receiving one or more of a first data transmission associated with a first communication protocol and combining the first data transmissions to create a first data transmission stream. The method may also include receiving one or more of a second data transmission associated with a second communication protocol and combining the second data transmissions to create a second data transmission stream. The first data transmission stream and the second data transmission stream may be combined to create a first combined data transmission stream that may be used to affect a result associated with an event. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022674 | ENFORCING RULE SELECTION ON USER INBOXES - Rule selection is enforced on user email inboxes using an inbox monitor and administrative rules at an email server. The inbox monitor includes a first agent for identifying inactive user inboxes from email messages stored at the email database, and a second agent for identifying, from the inactive user inboxes identified by the first agent, user inboxes without appropriate user rules activated. For each user inbox identified by the second agent, administrative rules are applied to the user inbox if the user inbox has been inactive for at least a predetermined period of time. If the user inbox has not been inactive for at least the predetermined period of time, a notification message is sent to a user associated with the user inbox. The notification message informs the user that administrative rules will be applied to the user inbox if appropriate user rules are not activated. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022675 | PLATFORM INDEPENDENT IDN E-MAIL STORAGE TRANSLATION - A method is described for providing platform independent e-mail translation. The method comprising the following steps. An e-mail message is received for a recipient IDN username. An ASCII identifier corresponding with the IDN username is retrieved using a predefined mapping. The received e-mail message is stored in local storage using the retrieved ASCII identifier. An e-mail server configured to implement the method and a computer readable medium comprising instructions for implementing the method are also described. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110029614 | Event Notifications of Program Landscape Alterations - A first computer system is monitored for alterations of a program landscape which includes multiple applications configured to operate on the first computer system. An alteration of the program landscape is detected and aspects of the alteration of the program landscape are determined. A catalog of additional computer systems which are associated with the first computer system is accessed. That a second computer system of the accessed catalog of additional computer systems should receive an event notification is determined. An event notification including information corresponding to the determined aspects of the alteration of the program landscape is generated. The event notification including the event information is sent from the first computer system to the second computer system. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029615 | CONTROLLING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MESSAGES - In an example embodiment, described herein is an apparatus that comprises a user interface, a communication interface, and logic coupled to the user interface and communication interface. The logic is configured to receiving a request via the user interface to forward a message to a recipient to determine whether distribution of the message is restricted to a group. The logic is further configured to determine whether the recipient is a member of the group responsive to determining distribution of the message restricted to a group. The logic is configured to send the message to the recipient via the communication interface responsive to determining the recipient is a member of the group. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029616 | UNIFIED AUTO-REPLY TO AN EMAIL COMING FROM UNIFIED MESSAGING SERVICE - A system and method for providing an auto-reply message in response to an incoming message sent from a message sending device and delivered by a unified messaging service as an email encoded with information about the sending device's type and address. The incoming messages may be coming from email, fax, phone, text message, instant message, MMS, TV, or other communication devices. The auto-reply function of this invention is capable of replying to the messages regardless of what type of message sending device is used. The system is preferably implemented by integrating the new technologies of unified messaging service and unified message delivery service with the email tool, and by employing the new design methodology of cloud computing. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029617 | Managing Electronic Delegation Messages - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic delegation messages. Embodiments of the present disclosure allow a user of an electronic messaging system to designate messages as a delegation messages. Further embodiments facilitate tracking and management of the delegation corresponding to the message. The delegation functionality may be incorporated into existing electronic messaging systems. The invention includes a method including accepting from a user a designation of an electronic message as a delegation by the user. The user may designate the electronic message as a delegation by interacting with a user interface for an electronic message system modified to recognize the designation. The electronic message may be an email message, an instant message, or a text message. The interface may be a graphical user interface. Designating the message may be accomplished by selecting an icon, entering text, and so on. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029618 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL IDENTITIES IN THE INTERNET - The present invention discloses methods and systems for managing and maintaining identities over time within the practically anonymous Internet environment. Said system and methods provide protection by tracking identities of partners over time, within multiple relations and over-riding common practices for identity switching. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029619 | File Folder Transmission on Network - Disclosed are a method and a system for transmitting a file folder from the sending end to the receiving end. The system uses a file folder transmission unit at the sending end side to generate a directory structure file of the file folder. The directory structure file may have properties such as the size of the file folder, paths and path lengths of the files in the file folder. The sending end then sends the directory structure file to the receiving end through the file folder transmission unit to allow the system to determine which files in the file folder need to be transmitted. The needed files in the file folder are then transmitted to the receiving end according to the determination. The sending end and the receiving end may communicate using an instant messaging tool. The disclosed method and system allow a faster and more convenient file folder network transmission. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029620 | Systems and Methods for Profile Building - Systems and methods build a profile for a contact. In one aspect, missing information from a profile of a contact is identified. A determination is made regarding whether the missing information is necessary for the profile based on satisfaction of a threshold. In response to the satisfaction of the threshold, a user is prompted to request the missing information from the contact. The missing information is obtained. The missing information is added to the profile. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029621 | MAIL SERVER SYSTEM AND CONGESTION CONTROL METHOD - A mail server system includes a congestion control management section managing a congestion control over the mail server system, a congestion statistical information collection section collecting the congestion statistical information of each mail server, and a resend queue having enough capacity, wherein a retry server for performing a retry process is provided. The congestion control management section detects the mail server where a fault occurs from the collected congestion statistical information and gives an instruction of regulating the sending of a mail directed to the faulty mail server to each mail server. The mail server instructed the regulating the sending of the mail directed to the faulty mail server transfers all the mails directed to that destination to the retry server, and transfers the received mail directed to the faulty mail server to the retry server until there is a regulation dissolution instruction from the congestion control management section. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029622 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUP COMMUNICATIONS - Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for group communications. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029623 | TASKFLOW UNIT FOR CONTROLLING COMPUTER-AIDED MEDICAL TASKS WITHIN A MEDICAL COMPUTER NETWORK - A taskflow unit is disclosed including at least one of a device and module for controlling computer-aided medical tasks within a medical computer network. In at least one embodiment, tasks are assigned to different software units, wherein the tasks are merged to form at least one taskflow within the medical computer network. In at least one embodiment, the taskflow unit is installed on an application server within the computer network. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029624 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus including: a first email creator to create a first email including first header information and a message body based on a user's request; a second email creator to create a second email including second header information containing a request for acquisition of a status of an external apparatus when the first email is created and to send the second email to the external apparatus; an email analyzer to receive a third email containing a status response to the second email from the external apparatus and to analyze the third email to output an analysis result of whether the external apparatus can receive an email; and a controller to send the first email when the analysis result is that the external apparatus can receive and to notify the user that the external apparatus cannot receive when the analysis result is that the external apparatus cannot receive. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029625 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING EMAIL ATTACHMENTS - The present invention provides a method and system for processing email attachments. The method includes determining that a local file is attached as an email attachment in the email; creating a corresponding relationship record of the email attachment and the local file; determining that the email attachment is modified; and replacing the local file with the modified email attachment according to the corresponding relationship record automatically. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029626 | Method And Apparatus For Distributed Policy-Based Management And Computed Relevance Messaging With Remote Attributes - An embodiment of the invention provides a technique that extends relevance-based computation to include computation based on information accessed from or exchanged with other agents. Mechanisms are provided by which an agent accesses or exchanges information between or among other agents and may include one or more of: central bulletin board, broadcast, direct request—pull, direct request—push, and server-routed. Architectural models of distributed decision making to facilitate a distributed and policy-based management of IT infrastructure are provided. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING ELECTRONIC MAIL MISMATCHES - A system and method for handling e-mail address mismatches between the address contained within a user's certificate or certificate chain, and the account address actually being used is disclosed. In order to resolve address mismatches a canonical or generic domain name or user name may, for example, be used as a lifelong address of a user that is contained in the user's certificate. Upon detection of an address mismatch, the system and method disclosed herein may automatically re-check the certificate or search for a certificate containing the canonical or generic domain name and/or user name to attempt to resolve the mismatch. This mismatch resolution is preferably transparent to the user and occurs automatically. The canonical or generic domain and/or user names that are available to the device may be typically controlled by IT policy that is in place on the system for the device. While this system is suitable for any type of electronic messaging system, it has particular applicability to systems that use mobile wireless communication devices with electronic messaging capability. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029628 | Alias Management Platforms and Methods - Systems and methods of managing aliases are disclosed. An alias management system can be configured to offer access to one or more aliases that point to distribution lists, where aliases can be managed as distinct objects relative to distributions lists or addresses. An alias user can submit desirable criteria for content distribution chain that includes properties of a desirable alias. An alias management server can be used to identify distributions lists that satisfy at least some of the desirable criteria. Additionally, an alias can be created that adheres to at least some of the properties or attributes of the desirable alias. Alias users can be permitted to utilize the alias subject to any rules or polices in place. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029629 | UNIFIED COMMUNICATION ESCALATION - A method and system for providing message threads with messages of multiple modes of communication in a uniform manner is provided. A messaging system provides a unified communications user interface for message threads that include messages sent using different modes of communications. When a user wants to reply to a message of one mode with a message of another mode, the messaging system displays the communication client application context of the other mode so that the user can prepare and send the message using the appropriate functions. When the instant message is sent, the messaging system adds the instant message to the message thread so that it can be displayed as part of the message thread. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029630 | REDIRECTION OF NOTIFICATIONS TO A WIRELESS USER DEVICE - Redirecting a notification to a wireless user device includes registering for notification of incoming messages for an account on a message server, the incoming messages being directed to an account on the message server. The redirecting also includes receiving at least one notification and redirecting the at least one notification through a firewall to a wireless user device associated with the account. The remote message server is in communication with a network protected by the firewall. According to one aspect, a cradle is configured to perform the redirection. According to another aspect, the cradle is associated with a remote desktop computer in communication with the network. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029631 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION - The disclosure relates to a message distribution method, device, and system. A message distribution method includes: creating a session based on a received first type of session message and allocating a corresponding cluster node to the session; and upon receiving a second type of session message associated with the session, distributing the second type of session message to the cluster node corresponding to the session. With the technical solution according to the embodiments of the invention, both the first type of session message and the second type of session message may be processed on the same cluster node, smooth and dynamic capacity expansion may be achieved for the cluster, the system performance may be enhanced, and system maintenance may be facilitated. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029632 | METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING DATA OVER A DATA CONNECTION AND NETWORK COMPONENT - The invention relates to a method for transporting data over a data connection between a sending network component and a receiving network component via a network. The method solves a problem with the reliable data transport protocol according to which a number of data transport packets will be acknowledged in regular time intervals. When such an acknowledge message is lost, the sending network component will have to keep the data for the purpose of retransmission and cannot free its sending buffer. The invention proposes to repeat such an acknowledge message as a precaution for the case that it gets lost after a short time. The time for repeating is set to be less than an RTT (round trip time for the connection). The solution disregards the fact that no statement about the reception of the acknowledge message can get back to the receiver before the RTT has elapsed. For wide area connections in high bandwidth networks, where high RTT values exist, this has the advantage that significant delays in carrying on sending data or unnecessary retransmissions of significant amount of data can be avoided. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110035451 | Systems and Methods for Spam Filtering - Systems and methods to reduce false positives in spam filtering. In one aspect, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as incoming and outgoing emails. Messages flagged as spam can be checked against the profile to identify false positives. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035452 | System and Method for Automatic Social Messaging - A system and method for automatic social messaging is provided. The social networking device includes an automatic social messaging module and one or more applications configured to coordinate with the automatic social messaging module. In a social network device, the automatic messaging module receives, from an application, an indication that a predefined trigger event has occurred. The automatic messaging module then accesses a set of event parameters for the predefined trigger event. The set of parameters includes a set of recipients for a notification message associated with the trigger event. The parameters may also include update information, message details, a filter criteria for the trigger event. The automatic messaging module then transmits the notification message associated with the predefined trigger event to the set of recipients according to the trigger event parameters. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035453 | AUTOMATIC RULES-BASED MESSAGING SYSTEM BASED ON ANALYSIS OF TEXT AND/OR ASSOCIATED METADATA - In one embodiment, a rule is received that specifies an action to perform based on text of any instant messages received. An input is received to change from a first mode to a second mode. The second mode may be a virtual offline mode in which rules may be applied to incoming instant messages. When an instant message is received, text of the instant message is recognized. For example, text in the body of the instant message or metadata is determined. The rule is applied to the recognized text to determine if an action for the rule should be performed. For example, if a certain phrase is detected, then an action may be performed. The actions may include pre-configured auto-responses, allowing display of the instant message for certain senders even if the user has indicated he/she is busy, or storing of the message for later delivery. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035454 | E-MAIL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, E-MAIL TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The present invention is intended to reduce operation load of a responsible person corresponding to external address for transmission of an e-mail to the external address. In order to accomplish this, an e-mail transmission device transmits an e-mail based on an operation made by a user, comprising: a storage part for storing therein a destination address registration information in which a destination address of the e-mail, an address type information in which either of internal address or external address is registered as type of the destination address, and an address responsible for external address registered if the address type registered in the address type information is external address are associated with each other; and a transmission part for transmitting the e-mail to the destination address designated by the user from a plurality of destination addresses included in the destination address registration information. When the address type registered in the address type information associated with the designated destination address is external address, the transmission part reads the address responsible for external address associated with the designated destination address, creates the e-mail in which the address responsible for external address is set for a source address field and a return address field, and transmits the e-mail thereby created to the designated destination address. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035455 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CONTACTS - Methods and apparatus for providing messages, such as a recommendation, to one or more recipients may include receiving a message intended for one or more recipients. The methods and apparatus may further include determining the format of the message along with forwarding information for the one or more recipients. The methods and apparatus may also include forwarding the message to the one or more recipients based upon the forwarding information. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035456 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONTENT FILTERING - Systems and arrangements are provided for filtering language. As presently preferred, these are configured to filter inappropriate language, symbols, words, etc on web sites or used in chat rooms. Embodiments create one or more arrays of inappropriate character strings representing, for example, obscene words and character combinations. Embodiments identify the inappropriate character strings, for example in chat text, and edit them to an appropriate form, for example with cartoon characters, and/or delete the inappropriate character strings. Preferably, at least one embodiment applies the content filter via executing a program of instructions, stored on a tangible storage medium, to achieve this functionality. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035457 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN APPLICATION TO A DEVICE - The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for providing at least one electronic application to at least one device. In one embodiment, the method includes acquiring device information that relates to the device and determining whether the device supports the at least one application based on the device information. The method may further include generating an electronic message for the device wherein the message contains at least one link for acquiring the at least one application when the device supports the application. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035458 | System and Method for Targeting Advertisements or Other Information Using User Geographical Information - A request for information items may include content information associated with one or more electronic messages and geographical information associated with the requesting user. A set of information items is identified based on the user geographical information and the message content of the one or more electronic messages. In some embodiments, at least one of the information items is identified based on both the user geographical information and the message content. In some embodiments, if the user geographical information is different from the user's default geographical information, at least one of the information items is identified based on the user geographical information, but not the message content. A subset of the identified information items may be selected in accordance with a scoring or ranking function. The selected information items are transferred to the requesting client and displayed concurrently with (e.g., next to) the electronic messages. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110040837 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CLASSIFY TEXT COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and apparatus to classify text communications are disclosed. An example method includes determining a first conditional probability of a first feature occurring in a text given that the text belongs to a classification mode, wherein the first feature is included in the text, determining a second conditional probability of a second feature occurring in a text given that the text belongs to the classification mode, wherein the second feature is included in the text, determining a probability of the classification mode occurring, multiplying the first conditional probability, the second conditional probability and the probability of the classification mode to determine a product, and storing the product in a tangible memory as a score that the message belongs to the first classification mode. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040838 | INTERACTIVE SHORT MESSAGING SERVICE - In a system and method of session based short message service (SMS) communications a set of unallocated reply-to addresses that are freely assignable is stored. A first unallocated reply-to address from the set thereof is assigned to a first message dispatched from a first application. A reply to the first message is routed to the first application utilizing the first reply-to address assigned thereto. A second unallocated reply-to address from the set thereof is assigned to a second message dispatched from the first application. A reply to the second message is routed to the first application utilizing the second reply-to address assigned thereto. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040839 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSACTIONAL STORAGE OF EMAIL DATA - A software and/or hardware facility for storing email data. The facility includes an input component configured to receive emails, a first storage component configured to store a first set of email data, a second storage component configured to store a second set of email data, and a storage manager component. The storage manager component is configured to create a transaction to modify the first and second sets of email data, to modify the first and second sets of email data, to determine if the modification of the first and second sets of email data is successful, and if the modification of the first and second sets of data is successful, to commit the transaction. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040840 | EMAIL DELIVERY SYSTEM USING METADATA ON EMAILS TO MANAGE VIRTUAL STORAGE - E-mail system which organizes e-mails into queues based on their locations and characterizes the e-mails. Metadata, indicative of the e-mail, is appended to the e-mail. The queues are organized based on the metadata, and processed. The metadata is always stored in local storage; and the message body may be stored in local storage, or in remote storage, depending on how long it will be until the message is sent. A special server manages whether the information is stored in local or remote storage. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040841 | MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION AND PRESENTATION - The invention provides a method and system for entry and editing of multimedia objects for communication and presentation, associating multimedia objects with received sequences of keystroke or mouse action abbreviations. When an abbreviation is detected, the abbreviation is replaced with the associated multimedia object. Each multimedia object has editable properties, and each set of multimedia objects can be collected into an ensemble, which itself can have editable properties. One such ensemble property is a “theme,” which presents a variant of each multimedia object consistent with the theme. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040842 | System And Method For Implementing Interactive Operations Between Mobile Communication Terminal And Email Box - Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for implementing interactive operations between mobile communication terminal and Email box. The system includes a database (DB) server, a format transforming Email-box server and an intermediate processing server. The method includes the following: performing, by the mobile communication terminal, interactive operations with an Email-box server where the Email box located via an intermediate server; firstly determining, by the intermediate server, communication mode set by a corresponding user according to set user information, during process of performing an interactive operation procedure; and providing, by the intermediate server, an interactive-operations processing service for the user's mobile communication terminal and the user's Email box with determined communication mode. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040843 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETERMINE A USER SPECIFIC RELEVANCE SCORE OF A MESSAGE WITHIN A MESSAGING SYSTEM - The present invention refers to a method and system to determine automatically a user specific relevance score of a message within a messaging system in a client-server environment, the message being provided with message specific meta-information. The disclosed method includes analyzing by means of an analyzing component of the client-server environment the meta-information of the message with respect to correlations of the message with other messages, recording and classifying the correlations of the message with the other messages, deriving from such identified and classified correlations a message model reflecting the correlations of the message with the other messages, the messages being represented by accordingly linked nodes, monitoring by means of a monitoring component of the client-server environment how the message is processed, calculating by means of a calculating component a numerical relevance score for the message, the calculation using a user specific ranking scheme and being based on the message model and on the monitored processing, and assigning the calculated numerical relevance score by means of an assigning component of the client-server environment to the respective node within the message model. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040844 | Communication Systems and Methods with Social Network Filtering - A method for a computer system include determining a first social distance for a first user with respect to a second user, determining a second social distance for a third user with respect to the second user, determining a first trust-metric for the first user in response to the first social distance, determining a second trust-metric for the third user in response to the second social distance, and prioritizing a first communication from the first user over a second communication from the third user, in response to the first trust-metric and the second trust-metric. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040845 | MESSAGE RESTRICTION FOR DIAMETER SERVERS - Communication networks and methods are disclosed for providing a message restriction process used to control the transmission of Diameter messages. The communication network includes a Diameter server operable to serve a plurality of Diameter clients. The Diameter server detects a triggering event for initiating the message restriction process, such as detecting an overload condition. The Diameter server then generates control information that defines the Diameter messages that the Diameter clients are authorized to transmit during the message restriction process. The Diameter server generates a message restriction instruction that includes the control information, and transmits the message restriction instruction to one or more of the Diameter clients to initiate the message restriction process based on the control information. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110040846 | System and Method for Managing Discussions Using Messaging Services - System and method of creating online discussion sessions between users of messaging services, who do not necessarily know of each other prior to the discussion. The session includes exchanging messages between users in the context of a predefined subject. The method enables: embedding a communication interface (CI) to user's messaging services; initiating a discussion session, where the user initiates the discussion by using the embedded CI and defining the subject by creating a massage using the messaging service; transmitting the initial message, through the CI to the main discussion manager; searching for suitable other candidate users for participating the initiated discussion session, associated with the subject, according to predefined rules, where the suitability includes a combination of relevancy of the other user for participating in the defined discussion session, according to said defined subject, and availability of the other user to participate; creating and managing the online discussion session. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110047219 | MAINTAINING COMMUNICATION CONNECTIONS DURING TEMPORARY NETWORK DISRUPTIONS - Network disconnections are automatically detected between a client application and a server When a disconnection is detected by either the client or server, a determination is made as to whether the disconnection is a temporary disconnection or a longer-lasting disconnection. While disconnected, attempts are made to automatically reconnect the client and server. During the disconnected period, a subset of communication functions remain operable. When the connection is restored, presence/availability information is automatically delivered to the client. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047220 | EXTENDING BUSINESS PROCESSES TO MOBILE DEVICES - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for intercepting an e-mail from a backend system and converting the e-mail into a message which can be used by a mobile device to graphically represent a business process. The mobile device can interact with the graphic representation, or invoke a business method from a local graphic representation, in order to send a response message to the backend system for further communications. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047221 | MULTI CHANNEL, AUTOMATED COMMUNICATION AND RESOURCE SYNCHRONIZATION - Methods and systems that allow multiple channels of communication between multiple users via a platform that automatically integrates and synchronizes the resources of each user during the communication are described. The systems comprise a platform capable of handling multiple types of communications with multiple users and systems. The platform contains a browser, one or more servers for handling communications between the platform and user devices that are external to the platform, a speech engine for converting text to speech and vice versa, a chat server, an email server, a text server, a data warehouse, a scheduler, a workflow/rules engine, a reports server, and integration APIs that can be integrated with 3 | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047222 | RETROSPECTIVE CHANGING OF PREVIOUSLY SENT MESSAGES - Functionality can be implemented in email applications to allow sent messages to be updated, even if the sent messages have been read. When a request to update a sent message is received, a message update unit can update information in the message according to the notification. The message update unit can notify a recipient that the message was updated, and can indicate changed information in the sent message. The message update unit can also determine if the sent message has been forwarded, and forward the update notification to other recipients. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047223 | METHOD TO DISPLAY A VIDEO IN AN E-MAIL - The present invention provides a method and a system to display a video in an email without the need to execute a player on the computerized device. The video email allows video to be displayed in emails without flagging the emails as a virus or spam. The video emails get through most firewalls. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047224 | Apparatus and method for processing and/or for providing education information and/or education related information - A computer-implemented method, including processing, with a processor, a request by a person or entity to access, obtain, change, alter, or modify, an individual's or student's education record or file which contains education information or education related information personal to the individual or student or educator or administrator, generating a message containing information regarding the person or entity and/or identification information regarding the person or entity, and containing an actual change, alteration, or modification, sought to be made or made to the individual's or student's education record or file, and transmitting the message to a communication device of the individual or student or educator or administrator during, concurrently with, at a same time as, or prior to a completion of, an accessing, obtaining, changing, altering, or modifying, of the individual's or student's education record or file or a processing of the request. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047225 | Short message distribution center - A message distribution center (MDC) is interposed between content providers and a wireless carrier to subjectively examine and direct messages via SMTP based on desired rules (e.g., non-peak hours, paying subscribers only, etc.) using standard SMTP Gateway and other well-known protocols. The MDC includes an individual queue for each subscriber, and the provider is informed through conventional SMTP protocol messages that the short message has been accepted. If the carrier has specifically disallowed service for a particular MIN (e.g., in the case of churning), then the content provider is informed through an SMTP interchange that the recipient is invalid. An MDC provides a single mechanism for interacting with subscribers of multiple carriers, regardless of each carrier's underlying infrastructure. For the carrier, an MDC can protect their SS7 network by intelligently throttling messages and configuring message delivery parameters to be more network friendly. An MDC can receive outside a relevant wireless network recipient handset presence information. In the disclosed embodiment, a content provider communicates with the MDC using SMTP protocol messages, and the MDC communicates with wireless carriers preferably using RMI/SMPP techniques. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047226 | ENHANCED MESSAGING SYSTEM - A system for enabling enhancement of a text-based message with visual assets, the system comprising: input means for receiving message text; a data store comprising a plurality of visual assets; search means arranged to compare data related to the message text received at the input means against data related to the plurality of visual assets stored in the data store in order to identify at least one visual asset that corresponds to a portion of the message text; composing means arranged to receive the at least one visual asset identified by the search means and to compose at least one composed asset set in dependence upon the at least one visual asset identified by the search means and the message text received at the input means; output means arranged to output the at least one composed asset set. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047227 | MESSAGE-SERVICE AUDIENCE RESPONSE - A communication device may include a message-service communication logic configured to capture an incoming message-service message, where the message-service communication logic is further configured to compare at least a portion of the incoming message-service message to indicia to determine whether the incoming message-service message includes a user response to a polling question, and where the message-service communication logic is further configured to extract the user response from the message-service message. The communication device may further include a server communication logic configured to communicate to an audience response server response data including the user response. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047228 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGE MANAGER - A message manager is capable of analyzing a number of inputs to dynamically adjust rules used to delete messages as well as determine what kinds of messages are likely candidates to be deleted due to their being stale. If a message is determined to be a likely candidate for deletion, the message manager may query the user if they want to delete all messages with similar characteristics, e.g., sender, title, dates sent, time sent, recipients, content, context, and the like. If the user selects “yes” then the message manager may automatically update its deletion rules and further delete all messages in accordance with the user's selection. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047229 | SOCIAL NETWORK VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK - A system and method create an interconnection among users of different social networks. Each user can provide information about the social networks they use (e.g., username, passwords, etc.). An application may register with the social network and can inter-dispose the application between the user and the social network. Then, the system can interconnect the users into a “virtual private network” (VPN) where communications between the users and the social networks can be replicated to other social networks for the other users. As such, different users using different social networks can communicate. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047230 | Method / process / procedure to enable: The Heart Beacon Rainbow Force Tracking - The Heart Beacon is a method/process/procedure standardizing spontaneous reorganization converting military adhoc organizational mobility techniques. Net effects are enabled by periodic net management router updates via heartbeat messages followed by router and beacon protocol broadcast of node hop count changes emulating geospatial threshold radius and precedent conditions changes represented by audible tones/vibratory levels in the grid/cloud. A single, synchronized, unified event/alert trigger is achieved by instantiating a single XML schema described by child schema's, data islands/NIEM payloads linking disparate communities. Leader intent is emulated via mission thread/business logic representing medical triage, alert/event evacuation and alternate routing within adjustable geospatial zones. Temporally synchronous, statistically predictable data harvesting cycles sync seed clouds enhancing network forensics as shared fee for services. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047231 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STORING CONTENT FLIP LIST OF DIGITAL MEDIA SERVER USING USER INPUT FEEDBACK - Provided is a method for storing a content flip list of a digital media server using user input feedback. The method includes receiving a content request message from a user and transmitting the received request message to a media server, converting information received as a response to the request message into a page format, defining the converted information as a current page, and receiving and storing previous and next pages of the current page, and outputting the received current page through an output part. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047232 | NETWORK-INITIATED DATA TRANSFER IN A MOBILE NETWORK - A method for IP [=Internet Protocol] communication to/from a mobile terminal via a network element in a mobile network. The mobile terminal uses an in-band trigger for establishing an IP connection. The network element uses an out-band trigger ( | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047233 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERWORKING CONVERGED MESSAGING SERVICE - In a Converged IP Messaging (CPM) service, an arbitrary terminal generates a message based on a user input, and transmits the message to a CPM server. Upon receiving the message, the CPM server requests a presence server to provide presence information corresponding to a recipient of the message. The presence server searches for presence information corresponding to the recipient in response to the request of the CPM server, and transmits the searched presence information to the CPM server. Based on the transmitted presence information, the CPM server decides to perform interworking for the message, decides a type of a messaging service for interworking, and transmits the message to an Interworking Function (IWF) according to the decided type of the messaging service. The IWF receives the message, converts the message according to the decided messaging service, and transmits the converted message to the recipient. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047234 | HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEDIUM STORING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING PROGRAM AND READABLE BY COMPUTER - To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a variety of occupations or engaged in various technical fields and to obtain expert knowledge or information. The human relationships registering system comprises first data processing units | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047235 | HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEDIUM STORING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING PROGRAM AND READABLE BY COMPUTER - To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a variety of occupations or engaged in various technical fields and to obtain expert knowledge or information. The human relationships registering system comprises first data processing units | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047236 | Accessing Web Services - One Embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for accessing web services. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: receiving a request for a web service, the request being in an instant messaging format; converting the request into a native format utilized by the web service; and relaying the request in the native format to the web service. Other methods and devices are also provided. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110055330 | THIRD PARTY E-MAIL MARKETING INTEGRATION - A method for e-mail marketing includes the steps of (a) storing member information in a member database on a server, the member information including a set of member data fields; (b) selecting a subset of the member data fields; (c) providing the subset of member data fields to a third-party e-mail marketing service provider, wherein third-party e-mail service marketing provider stores the subset of member data fields in a distribution database; and, (d) distributing e-mail marketing material to one or more members using services provided by the third-party e-mail marketing service provider. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055331 | DOMAIN NAME CONTROL BASED SOCIAL WEBSITE ACCOUNT AUTHENTICATION - Methods of the present inventions allow for verifying the authenticity of social website accounts. An example embodiment of a domain name control based social website account authentication method may comprise the steps of receiving a request (that may include a business name and a business email address) to verify the authenticity of a social website account, determining whether the domain name used by the business email address is registered to and under control of the business, and—if so—certifying the authenticity of the social website account. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055332 | COMPARING SIMILARITY BETWEEN DOCUMENTS FOR FILTERING UNWANTED DOCUMENTS - A mechanism for efficiently determining similarity between documents. A set of reference data items is generated by processing a reference document. A similarity index representing similarity between a candidate document and the reference documents is obtained by counting segments of the candidate document matching the reference data items. The candidate document is a message transmitted in a communication system where the message is compared against one or more reference documents representing unwanted messages to filter and block unwanted messages from being transmittal or propagated. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055333 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGHLIGHTING EMAIL RECIPIENTS - A method and system for highlighting email recipients according to a user's social network are provided. The method includes receiving an email message at a user's email client, the email message having multiple recipients, one of the recipients being the user. The method further includes obtaining a social network list for the user and comparing the social network list for the user with the email message recipients and highlighting recipients in the email message who are also in the social network list. The social network list for a user may be obtained by different methods including using the user's contact resources, or using an aggregating social network system including weighting relationships between contacts. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055334 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING OUTBOUND MESSAGES - Methods and systems enable evaluating a message prior to transmission to one or more addressees. In an embodiment, a message element evaluator applies rules to message field elements which may include message addressee and content elements before the message is transmitted. When a message evaluation rule is violated, an alert may be presented to the user. A message evaluation rule may allow the sender to confirm sending of the message, initiate editing of the message, or cancel the message. A message evaluation rule may also prohibit the message from being sent until the message is modified to conform to the message evaluation rule. The methods and systems may be applied to a variety of message types including electronic mail, simple message system, multimedia message system, and instant message system messages. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTED SOCIAL NETWORKING MESSAGING - An approach is provided for augmented social networking messaging. A message is generated for posting to a social networking service. Address information is determined for a group of one or more devices associated with one or more users. At least one of the one or more users is a non-subscriber to the social networking service. The addressing information is used to send the message to the group. A reply to the message is received from one of the devices of the group. Posting of the reply to the social networking service is initiated. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055336 | Systems and methods for visual messaging - A system and method is disclosed for receiving user input data, such as voice data and text data, associating a visualization with the user input data; and creating an MMS message based upon the visualization. Optionally, the system is configured to analyze and process such user input data to generate linguistic, semantic, cultural or other contextual data for association with multimedia files. By using tagging and indexing, user input data is processed to generate one or more associations with visualizations. A processor or engine searches a database to find associated visualizations or multimedia files that match the user input data. The multimedia files may then be concatenated or streamed to communicate one or more series of multimedia files in lieu of the text data. Accordingly, users can transform textual and voice communication into a multimedia-rich means of communication with one another. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055337 | System and method for communicating among a plurality of users over a wireless communication network using location based messaging - A system and method is provided to alert users if another user has entered within a prescribed geographic region selected by the user. According to a method embodiment, a method for communicating among a plurality of users over a wireless communication network using location based messaging comprises: receiving at a central server a location based message from a user, said message including prescribed geographic region information, extracting the prescribed geographic region information from the location based message at the central server; determining at the central server whether another user has entered a prescribed geographic region corresponding to said prescribed geographic information included in said location based message, and transmitting an alert message from the central server to the mobile device of the user sending said location based message, alerting the user that another user has entered the prescribed geographic region. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055338 | System and method for distributing messages from users in a private network for public distribution to other users - Systems and methods are provided for distributing messages from registered users in a private network for public distribution over a general broadcast network to other registered users in the private network. Users can distribute messages that are made part of a public network. The messages are made available for delivery to people within a registered network of users. The types of messages received by users will be dictated by their preferences, and what a managing entity knows about those users. In one embodiment, the users sending messages can categorize the messages they send as belonging to a certain message category so as to increase the helpfulness and relevance to message recipients. In another embodiment, the users can search public domain messages for outstanding messages that are relevant to them and “pull” those messages down from the central server. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055339 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK TO A PUBLISHER - An apparatus for providing feedback to a publisher, comprising: means, responsive to receiving a published message from the publisher comprising an option requesting feedback, for comparing the message with subscriber data; and means, responsive to the publish operation and responsive to determining a matching subscriber associated with the published message, for selecting a notification for transmission to the publisher. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055340 | Mobile Social Networking Systems and Methods - Embodiments of the present disclosure generally provide a system and method for locating and communicating with a desired individual. The method includes receiving location information from a first communication device associated with a first user. A database is queried based on the received location information, and a result of the query is communicated to the first communication device. The result may be information associated with a second user. Communications from the first communication device may be relayed to a second communication device associated with the second user such that a first identifier associated with the first communication device is concealed from the second communication device. The location information may be a text message from the first communication device. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055341 | CONTENT PROVIDING APPARATUS AND CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD - A device search unit of a digital camera acquires type information of a device on a network. An attribute information determination unit, based on type information acquired by the device search unit, determines parameters of the content to be provided to the device corresponding to the type information. The content providing unit provides the content processed based on the determined parameters in response to a request from the device having parameters determined by an attribute information determination unit. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055342 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING A RESOURCE - A method for retrieving a resource such as a data file includes determining an email address of a user requesting the retrieval, and checking whether a characteristic condition associated with said resource is satisfied. If the characteristic condition is not satisfied, for example if the size of the resource exceeds a threshold, a message is returned to the user indicating that said request for retrieval of said resource has been received, and the request is placed in a queue. The queue is processed on the basis of a rule, and the resource retrieved when said queue has been sufficiently processed, when the user can be notified by means of the email address that the resource has been retrieved. Also disclosed is a similar process for uploading data files in response to a request. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055343 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERING EMAIL SPAM USING EMAIL NOISE REDUCTION - A method and system for filtering email spam using email noise reduction are described. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting, in an email message, data indicative of noise added to the email message to avoid spam filtering. The method further includes modifying the content of the email message to reduce the noise, and comparing the modified content of the email message with the content of a spam message. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055344 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND MODIFYING LISTS FOR ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION - A system in which an initial distribution list is dynamically modified using criteria determined from the current entries in the list. After an originator generates a distribution list and prior to submission of the message to entries on the generated list, the entries in the created distribution list are examined. From this list, features of the entries are identified. From these features, criteria are generated that can be used to generate additional entries that may be included in the list. In one approach, the generated criteria are presented to the user for review and approval. If the originator approves the criteria, the generated list is modified to add additional entries to the distribution based on the generated criteria. If the originator rejects the criteria, the initially generated list is submitted and the message is sent to the entries on the initial list. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055345 | METHOD OF PACKAGING AND DISPLAYING AN E-MAIL - A method of packaging and displaying an email, comprising the steps of creating an email having at least a first independent digital object and a corresponding first tag, and at least a first dependent digital object associated with the first independent digital object through said first tag; processing the email for extraction of said first dependent digital object for matching with the associated first independent digital object, thereby forming a first processed content; and displaying the email such that the first independent digital object and the first dependent digital object of the first processed content are presented simultaneously. According to the present invention both the sender composing the message, having at least an independent digital object and at least an associated dependent object, and the recipient to whom the message is presented, are faced with a user-friendly interface. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110060796 | E-MAIL ADDRESS VERIFICATION SYSTEM - A system for verifying a sender's intent to send an e-mail message to a recipient includes a sender computer having memory and a processor, a sender mail server having memory and a processor, wherein the sender mail server is connected to the sender computer, an e-mail program, wherein the e-mail program is stored in the sender computer's memory, an e-mail message, wherein the e-mail message is stored in the sender computer's memory, an e-mail address verification program, wherein the e-mail address verification program is stored in the sender computer's memory, and a sender correspondence database, wherein the sender correspondence database is stored in the sender computer's memory. A method for verifying a sender's intent to send an e-mail message to a recipient is also disclosed. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060797 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE SHARING OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION SETS - An approach is provided for selective sharing of semantic information sets in a smart space interoperable across platforms, devices, and equipment. A personal smart space application creates a personal information space for a user, wherein the personal information space includes a plurality of semantic information sets. Thereafter, the personal smart space application receives a request for selective sharing of the semantic information sets, and merges, in response to the request, a projection of the selected semantic information sets into a shared information space. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060798 | TERMINAL, SEED SERVER, AND TRACKER SERVER FOR REDUCING DELAY IN STREAMING SERVICE - A P2P network system for reducing streaming delay in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network is provided. The P2P network system may include at least one peer, a seed server, and a tracker server that manages the network. The seed server provides content to the at least one peer. The peer, the seed server, and the tracker server operate such that the P2P network is managed based on the distance of each peer from the seed server. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060799 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When a user selects an image, a control unit detects a face image from the selected image and acquires person data corresponding to the face image. Moreover, the control unit specifies address book data of the person and acquires an e-mail address from the address book data. When the user inputs an e-mail address, the control unit also has a function of detecting an image in which a person having the input e-mail address as a destination is an imaged object and creating an e-mail attached with the image. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060800 | METHOD OF GUARANTEEING THE DELIVERABILITY OF EMAILS AND OTHER MESSAGES - Systems, methods, computer program products, and networks for messaging including sending, receiving and/or tracking messages. In some cases tracking may include updating receipt statuses of sent messages for which receipt notifications were received. In some cases, additionally or alternatively, tracking may include resending messages for which receipt notifications were not received. In some cases, additionally or alternatively, tracking may include receiving receipt notifications for messages which indicate one or more characteristics of the respective receiving systems. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060801 | AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF A MAIL SERVER WITH INTERNET SERVER (IS) - A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network and configured to send and receive emails therefrom. A direct access server is operative with the network engine and comprises at least one module configured to identify a particular server during an account integration process and to query the particular mail server using a command that is supported by the particular mail server and receive from the particular mail server configuration parameters. A database stores returned configuration parameters used to subscribe to the server. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060802 | SYSTEM FOR ELIMINATING UNAUTHORIZED ELECTRONIC MAIL - A system for eliminating unauthorized email sent to a user on a network employs an email-receiving server connected between the network and the user's email client for receiving email addressed to the user and rejecting those in which the sender address does not match any of sender addresses maintained on an “authorized senders” list (ASL list). The ASL lists are maintained by an ASL manager in an ASL database operable with a spam processor module. A redirector module rejects the email if, upon sending a request for validation to the spam processor module, the sender's address does not match any authorized sender address on the ASL list. Email rejected by the redirector module is redirected to a web-based messaging (WBM) module which sends a message to the sender to confirm that the sender is a legitimate sender of email to the intended recipient. If the sender logs on to confirm their status, the WBM module executes an interaction procedure which can only be performed by a human, in order to ensure that the confirmation procedure is not performed by a mechanical program. The ASL manager maintains the ASL lists based upon sender address data collected from various sources and analyses of various email usage factors, including sent email, received email, contact lists maintained by the user, user preference inputs, third party programs, etc. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060803 | Message Notification Campaigns - Techniques for message notification campaigns are described. In an implementation, a messaging service may process a message received for delivery to a client to determine one or more notifications regarding the message to be sent to the client. The one or more notifications may be designated by way of a notification campaign that is associated with a sender of the message or directly with the message itself The messaging service may parse metadata fields within the message to identify the sender and/or other data sufficient to determine notifications designated to take place regarding the message. A variety of different types of notifications regarding a message may be sent to a client. The messaging service may cause one or more notifications to be sent to the client in conjunction with various resources from a service provider in addition to delivery of the message to the client. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060804 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods and apparatuses for processing electronic messages are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, for an outgoing message addressed to a mail address of a recipient, the mail client determines whether is an alternative messaging system available to the mail address of the recipient. If there is an alternative messaging system available, the mail client determines whether the recipient's alternative messaging system is online. If so, the mail client sends the mail message to the recipient via the alternative messaging system. Otherwise, the mail client sends the message via normal mail system. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060805 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MESSAGE THREADS IN CONVERGED IP MESSAGING SERVICE - A mechanism to enable multiple message threads management in the context of the Converged IP Messaging (CPM) service and in the context of CPM inter-working with SMS is provided. A CPM user can simply start a message-based conversation with another CPM or Short Message Service (SMS) user without explicitly establishing a session beforehand. All messages that belong to a given conversation are displayed in the corresponding conversational view (i.e. window) in the CPM user device, even if the conversation is stopped and restarted at a later time, and even if there are multiple message threads available (currently active or stored) in the CPM device. Message structures and behavior of the CPM system elements to enable the functionalities above as well as a mechanism makes the message threads management possible even between a CPM user and an SMS user are also provided. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110066685 | SENDING EMAIL FROM A DOCUMENT STORAGE SERVER OPERATING BY MOBILE DEVICE REMOTE FROM THE DOCUMENT STORAGE SERVER - An attachment server including a request reception unit that receives an email and a document request from a mobile terminal, a document obtaining unit that obtains the requested document from a document storage server, an attachment unit that attaches the document obtained by the document obtaining unit to the email received from the mobile terminal and a transferring unit that transfers the email including the attached document, to an email delivery server. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066686 | Public BOT Management in Private Networks - A system for managing the use of BOTs by computer network users, the system including a gateway-to-BOT communications manager configured to relay communications to a BOT on behalf of a computer user in a manner that prevents the BOT from associating the communications with the computer user, and a gateway-to-user communications manager configured to relay the communications from the computer user to the gateway-to-BOT communications manager, and relay to the computer user communications received from the gateway-to-BOT communications manager that originate from the BOT. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066687 | IMAGE RESCALE BASED ON DEFINED CHARACTERISTICS - A system and method automatically rescales an electronic message having one or more associated content. When the electronic message is generated and the associated content connected to the message, an agent of the electronic message application checks predefined settings/configurations of the message client. The sender's e-mail client checks a plurality of conditions, such as, the condition of the network, the type of network, the status or capacity of the receiving inbox of an intended recipient client, and the geographic destination of the message. Based on these dynamic content rescale settings, the sender's client dynamically and optimally rescales the associated content before forwarding the electronic message with the rescaled content to the recipient client. Rescaling of the associated content may be performed by the message exchange server or the recipient client. The recipient client may later request and receive a copy of the associated content without rescaling. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066688 | Presence information - A method, program and user node for use in a communication system implemented over a network comprising a plurality of user nodes, each being associated with a respective presence status indicating an availability of the user node for communication within the communication system. The method comprises, at each of a first one or more of the user nodes: transmitting repeated presence messages to each of a plurality of others of the user nodes, each of the presence messages comprising at least one of: a request for the presence status of the other user node, and a notification of the presence status of the first user node; determining a measure of resource usage in relation to at least one of the first user node and the other user nodes; and controlling a regularity of the repeated transmission of presence messages in dependence on the determined measure of resource usage measure. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066689 | REIMBURSEMENTS FOR ADVERTISEMENTS IN COMMUNICATIONS - A device may include network interfaces for relaying communication information from source devices to destination devices and a processor. The processor may be configured to compare each of a plurality of advertisements to a part of the communication information, identify, within the communication information, a portion that matches one of the plurality of advertisements, and send a message that describes the identified advertisement to a reimbursement device. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066690 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL ANTI-SPAM MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a communication system includes: establishing a geofence; setting a reception time period; and receiving a message originating within the geofence and within the reception time period for displaying on a device. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066691 | INFORMATION SHARING METHOD - An information sharing method for placing a communications device in connection with other communications devices located within a predetermined distance. This information sharing method allows users to instantly connect remotely, without face-to-face contact, and to instantly exchange and store contact information to each other's communications devices without manually inputting it. This interaction is facilitated via a conventional network plan coupled with a conventional software application programmed within the communications devices that serve as the hardware element of the present invention. The preferred embodiment for the communications devices relates to communications devices such as mobile phones, although a computing device or laptop configured to send and receive signals and data also may be used. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066692 | E-MAIL CONTAINING LIVE CONTENT - A system for introducing live content into an electronic mail message comprising at least one dynamic live content area sent through an e-mail service provider system comprises memory and a click manager. The memory includes live content comprising image data and expiration data. The click manager receives an indication of the opening of the message by a recipient, wherein the click manager accesses the memory to retrieve live content and send the retrieved live content for rendering in the dynamic live content area of the e-mail message opened by the one of the plurality of recipients. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066693 | MEDICAL MACHINE FOR FLUID TREATMENT - A medical machine for fluid treatment comprises a module ( | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110072089 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING SOFTWARE MODULE HOSTS - Disclosed is a method and apparatus that receives, over a network from a computing device being used by a user, a request to configure a first software module host with respect to a software module, the first software module host associated with the user. The apparatus transmits over the network to the computing device instructions to configure, for display by the computing device, the first software module host in accordance with the request. The apparatus computer transmits over the network to the computing device instructions to apply the same configuration with respect to the software module to a second software module host, the second software module host also associated with the user. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072090 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING EMAIL - A method and computer program product for providing an email navigation tool includes receiving, on an email server, an email thread including a sequence of email messages. A sender of each email message in the sequence of email messages is identified. At least one sender file associated with at least one identified sender of the email messages in the sequence of email messages is identified. The sender file is configured to provide a visual identification of the identified sender. A sequence of sender files is generated from the at least one sender file. The sequence of sender files has an order corresponding to an order of the sequence of email messages. The sequence of sender files is displayed on a computer display. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072091 | AUTOMATED CALENDAR-BASED INSTANT MESSAGING CONTROLS - An instant message addressed to a recipient associated with an instant messaging device is received at the instant messaging device. A configured calendar event for the recipient associated with a time period during which the instant message is received is determined. Authorization information associated with a sender of the instant message is received. The instant message is processed based upon the configured calendar event for the recipient and the authorization information associated with the sender of the instant message. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072092 | Message Mapping Management for Online Service Applications - The semantic message maintenance system provides a tool for a system with a backend and set of intermediate systems to maintain semantics of a message such that the end user can receive the information provided by the backend system in a manner that is comprehendible to the end user who has no specific knowledge of the functioning of the backend system. A message mapping system uses a series of mapping definitions and standardized identification fields. Both variable data textual data can be preserved. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072093 | FORWARDING SELECTED DOCUMENT PASSAGES FROM AN ELECTRONIC READER - A process for forwarding selected passages from an electronic document being presented on a portable electronic reader, where the electronic document has been previously downloaded into a memory of the electronic reader. The process permits a user of the electronic reader to electronically identify and select the passages from an electronic document being presented on the portable electronic reader. The process also includes the automatic association of metadata with a selected passage, where the metadata includes citation information identifying the presented electronic document as the source document. The selected passages and associated metadata are stored in the portable electronic reader, for subsequent transmission over the communications network to a designated recipient. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072094 | System and method for variable time scale for multi-player games - There is provided a system and method for facilitating variations in a time scale for a shared environment. There is provided a method for use by a processor of a server for facilitating variations in a time scale for a shared environment, the method comprising receiving a message generated by a first client of a plurality of clients in response to a variation in the time scale, for rendering the shared environment, caused by a user of the first client, and sending a second message to a second client of the plurality of clients in response to receiving the first message to communicate the variation in the time scale caused by the first client, so as to cause the second client to render the shared environment approximately synchronously in accordance with the variation in the time scale. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072095 | COMMUNICATION NETWORK UTILIZING EMAIL OR WEB ADDRESSES THAT DESCRIBE A PHYSICAL LOCATION - A communication network utilizing email or web addresses that describe a physical location includes a network for communicating a message to a user, the message having an electronic address that identifies a physical location; a module to send the message to the user utilizing the electronic address; a module for the user to read the message utilizing the electronic address; and a module to identify the user utilizing the physical location. The electronic address may be an email address or a website address, and the description of the physical location may be a nine-digit zip code or a latitude and longitude. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072096 | PROGRESSIVE REGISTRATION FOR MOBILE MEDIA SHARING - A media sharing system accommodates passively registered users, who receive information from the system but do not provide content media to the system, and actively registered users, who provide content to the system and then share it with others. The system collects and stores information about a user as the information is needed to accomplish a function, shielding the user from burdensome data entry. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072097 | EMAIL ATTACHMENT MANAGEMENT IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - An e-mail management system that includes an e-mail browser having a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of e-mail messages that have been received over time. The time variance interface of the e-mail browser also provides for retrieval, from the storage media, of the e-mail messages corresponding to a user specified date. The retrieved e-mail messages each include an indication of the presence of an accompanying attachment(s) in the e-mail message. An affirmative indication provides the user with an option of retrieving content of the attachment(s) from the storage media such that the content of the attachment(s) is retrieved by the e-mail browser only when specifically requested by the user. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072098 | PERSISTING A GROUP IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a request to create a persistent messaging group for an instant messaging application, wherein the request includes an indication of one or more entities that are desired to be members of the persistent messaging group. The system further includes a group creator component that creates the persistent messaging group based at least in part upon the received group creation request, wherein the persistent messaging group is persisted over multiple instant messaging sessions. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072099 | MESSAGE DELIVERY MECHANISM - When a messaging service network entity, such as an IP server, fails to deliver the message via a primary messaging service, such as an Internet Protocol based messaging service, the user device sends the message directly to the recipient user via a backup messaging service, such as a short message service, SMS. Thus message is delivered and the originating user bear the cost of the use of the backup messaging service. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072100 | Method for Communicating at Least One Targeted Message from a Service Provider to a User of a Portable Terminal - A method for communicating at least one targeted message from a service provider to a user of a portable terminal is provided. The terminal integrates a secure element including at least one information storage register and a system for enabling contactless communication of the secure element with a reader of the service provider. The method includes the creation of a user profile and the recording of same in the register of the secure element. The profile comprises personal data relating to the user with an associated confidentiality level. The method further includes, after identification of the user by contactless communication between his/her terminal and the reader, activation of the confidentiality level that the user accords to the service provider and the communication to the provider of the personal data corresponding to the activated confidentiality level. The personal data is processed to generate at least one targeted message which is communicated to the user. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072101 | NETWORK DISCOVERY AND SELECTION - Network discovery comprises discovering networks being available for a device and automatically providing communication settings for at least one of discovered networks to the device. The network discovery may be device initiated or network-initiated. The communication settings provision may be effected by network discovery functionality or another functionality such as device management functionality. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110078247 | System and Method for Message Recall in a Unified Messaging System - A method and system for managing messages in a unified messaging (UM) platform to enable message recall is disclosed. The UM platform deposits a message from a sender into a UM mailbox of a recipient. It is then determined whether the sender of the message is a UM subscriber. If the sender is a UM subscriber, a copy of the message or a link to the message is deposited into a UM mailbox of the sender. The UM platform then provides a message recall option with the copy of the message or the link to the message in the UM mailbox of the sender. If the sender is not a UM subscriber, a recall message including a randomly generated message recall URL is sent to the sender. This allows the sender to select the randomly generated message recall URL to send a message recall request to the UM platform, which deletes the message from the mailbox of the recipient in response to the message recall request. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078248 | IMPOSED POLICIES FOR HANDLING INSTANT MESSAGES - Chat sessions are managed between at least one sending computer and a receiving computer. A first chat session is initiated by a receiving computer in response to a first request from a first sending computer. A second chat session is initiated by the receiving computer in response to a second request from a second sending computer. The first and second chat sessions are prioritized in accordance with priority parameters to identify a higher priority chat session and a lower priority chat session. The lower priority chat session is restricted until the higher priority chat session is downgraded to a priority level that is below the lower priority chat session. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078249 | SHARED ADDRESS COLLECTIVES USING COUNTER MECHANISMS - A shared address space on a compute node stores data received from a network and data to transmit to the network. The shared address space includes an application buffer that can be directly operated upon by a plurality of processes, for instance, running on different cores on the compute node. A shared counter is used for one or more of signaling arrival of the data across the plurality of processes running on the compute node, signaling completion of an operation performed by one or more of the plurality of processes, obtaining reservation slots by one or more of the plurality of processes, or combinations thereof. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078250 | ROUTING INCOMING MESSAGES AT A BLADE CHASSIS - A pass-through module in a blade chassis receives an incoming message that utilizes a transmission protocol from one of multiple transmission protocols. The pass-through module determines which of the multiple transmission protocols is used by the incoming message by: comparing a physical component of the transmission protocol used by the incoming message with known physical components of the multiple transmission protocols, and, if necessary, comparing a logical component of the transmission protocol used by the incoming message with known logical components of the multiple transmission protocols. The incoming message is then routed to an optimal blade that is specifically adapted to process messages that utilize the transmission protocol used by the incoming message. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078251 | Instant Messaging Exchange Incorporating User-generated Multimedia Content - A method for displaying multimedia content created by a user of a first computerized messaging device to a user of a second computerized messaging device communicatively coupled to the first computerized messaging device by a network includes: displaying, with the second computerized messaging device, a textual instant messaging exchange between the user of the first computerized messaging device and the user of the second computerized messaging device; receiving the multimedia content at the second computerized messaging device over the network; and dynamically embedding a player for the multimedia content in-line in the display of the textual instant messaging exchange at the second messaging device. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078252 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A SOCIAL NETWORK MAP OF NON-VOICE COMMUNICATIONS - A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for creating a social network map using non-voice communications are disclosed. For example, the method registers employment data of an employee, monitors non-voice communications of the employee, generates a social network map of the non-voice communications of the employee and analyzes the social network map to provide at least one correlation. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078253 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING OVER A NETWORK WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE - A medical device is provided that performs a requested action. The requested action may be communicated, for example, to the medical device via email messages. After performing the requested action, a response that is dependent upon the requested action is generated. The generated response is then sent on a network from the medical device as an email message. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078254 | Method and System for the Conversion and Processing of Documents in a Hybrid Network Environment - A method of converting a document for a user. The method includes receiving the document in a first format from a first user device through a telecommunications network. The method also includes automatically producing a new version of the document upon receipt of the document. The new version of the document is in a second format, which is selected from a group including a plurality of formats distinct from the first format. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078255 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A CONNECTION IN A CONNECTION ORIENTED IN-ORDER DELIVERY ENVIRONMENT - To manage a connection in a connection-oriented in-order delivery environment, a connection is established between a client and a server in an in-order delivery environment where the message exchange is based on a reliable network and, an unreliable network, also taking traffic classes for real-time operation into account. In comparison to present examples message overhead sequence numbers can be saved and the number of messages can be streamlined and reduced. Further, some error cases are also discussed taking also the bandwidth allocation by forwarding of messages across routers into account. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078256 | ANALYZING CONTENT OF MULTIMEDIA FILES - A method for analyzing content of multimedia files is presented. The method comprises processing messages from mail servers, determining a type of the message, executing a convert module and obtaining text content of the message when said type is audio, extracting text from the text content or the message, creating a text version of components from the text, dividing the text version into different files, and analyzing the different files. Further, the messages can be captured, sent to a pending folder, retrieved from the pending folder. Creating the text version and dividing the text version can be performed by a mail engine. Natural language processing can be performed on the files. The text can be examined for compliance and, if appropriate, marked with quarantine violations. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078257 | Information security method and appparatus - A method and apparatus for ensuring that important confidential or proprietary information is not inadvertently released through email and similar transmissions. When file security firewall resident on a file security server or another network node receives an email intended for transmission, it determines whether the file revision history should be removed from any attachments. If so, the email is buffered and the attachments are extracted for file revision history by a file revision history remover associated with the firewall or an available proprietary file revision history remover. Once the file revision history removal is attempted, successfully or unsuccessfully, a reformed email is created, including either the original attachments or, in their place, a version of the attachment from which file revision history has been removed. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078258 | DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE CUE MODULES - A device includes a primary cue module, a secondary cue module, a processing module, and a wireless transceiver. The primary cue module obtains primary data regarding an object of interest and the secondary cue module obtains secondary data regarding the object of interest. The processing module is operably coupled to: convert the primary data and the secondary data into an outbound message; convert the outbound message into an outbound symbol stream; and convert an inbound symbol stream into an inbound message, wherein the inbound message includes information regarding the object of interest. The wireless transceiver is operably coupled to: convert the outbound symbol stream into an outbound wireless signal; and convert an inbound wireless signal into the inbound symbol stream. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078259 | Relationship Identification Based on Email Traffic - A method comprises identifying one or more relationships between a target individual and one or more persons based at least in part on a plurality of emails. The plurality of emails comprise one or more outbound emails, which may comprise emails sent to the target individual from the one or more persons. The plurality of emails further comprise one or more inbound emails, which may comprise emails sent from the target individual to the one or more persons. The method further comprises, for each of the one or more relationships, calculating an amount of outbound emails and an amount of inbound emails. The method further comprises assigning a classification to each of the one or more relationships based at least in part on the amount of outbound emails and the amount of inbound emails. The method further comprises sorting the one or more relationships based at least in part on the classification assigned to each of the one or more relationships. The method may further comprise storing information regarding the sorted relationships. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078260 | Intelligent Derivation of Email Addresses - A method comprises receiving, by a processor, a query comprising at least one name of a target individual. The method further comprises determining, by the processor, a plurality of email addresses. Each of the determined email addresses has a respective prefix based at least in part upon the at least one name of the target individual, and the determination is based at least in part upon statistical data regarding common syntaxes for email addresses. The method further comprises determining email traffic based at least in part upon the determined email addresses. The method further comprises determining, by the processor, one or more relationships of the target individual based at least in part upon the determined email traffic. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078261 | MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE - A multi-function device may be configured to receive a first electronic mail including a first attached file, analyze the first electronic mail, supply an image described by the first attached file to a print performing unit in a case where the multi-function device analyzes that the first electronic mail includes first command information including a first sort of a command and first designation information designating the first attached file, and send the first attached file to an other device in a case where the multi-function device analyzes that the first electronic mail includes second command information including a second sort of a command different from the first sort of the command and the first designation information. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078262 | ELECTRONIC MAIL ASSISTED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - An email-assisted communication method system that transmits emails to group members to elicit a response in return e-mails. The system receives the elicited return emails response and determines which portions of the elicited return emails are to be transmitted to which group members. The system routes the appropriate portions of the elicited return emails to such group members. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078263 | Email management apparatus, multifunction peripheral, and method of communicating emails - An email management apparatus manages emails. An email receiving section receives an email via a network. A separating section separates the email into an attachment and an email text. The separating section produces attachment data based on the attachment and email text data based on the email text. An associating section associates the email data with the attachment data. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078264 | E-mail proxy - A system and method for providing e-mail messages to a user in a more efficient manner. Specifically, the system and method of the present invention enable attachments to be downloaded separately from the text-part of the e-mail message, which requires less bandwidth to download. Instead, these attachments are represented by links in the message which is downloaded to the e-mail client of the user, such that the user can “click on” or otherwise select a link in order to retrieve the attachment. Preferably, the attachment is downloaded to the computational device of the user in a streamed manner. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078265 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING MESSAGE RECIPIENTS - A method and communications device is provided for determining a list of possible additional recipients to add to an electronic message that is composed by a user of the communications device for transmission to another communications device. Once the user indicates that there is an additional recipient for the distribution list of the electronic message, the device employs the method to create the list of possible additional recipients. The method may be implemented on a computer program product. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078266 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR ALERTING USER OF COMMUNICATION DEVICE OF ENTRIES ON A MAIL MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION LIST - Apparatus, and an associated method, for alerting a respondent that generates a reply to a received mail message of addressing of the reply message to a non-secure address. A detector detects reception of a received mail message, and a correlator determines whether any of the entries on a distribution list associated with the received mail message is of selected characteristics, i.e., non-secure. If determined to be non-secure, an annunciator generates an annunciation requiring the respondent to elect whether to include the identified address as a recipient of the reply message. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078267 | CONDITIONAL COMMUNICATION - Conditional communication settings may be defined by a user of a communications device to be transmitted with a communication to a receiving device, where the receiving device may be restricted from performing a user-specified type of communication operations with a user-specified contact until the conditional communication settings are satisfied. The conditional communication settings may include a condition value setting, which may be a task to be performed by a recipient, a date and/or time, a location, an operation to be performed by a third party contact, or other suitable criterion. The receiving device may detect whether such condition value setting has been satisfied. Unless the condition value setting has been satisfied, the receiving device may be prevented from performing the user-specified type of communication operation with the user-specified contact. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT POLLING - An e-mail distribution server may manage many pull e-mail accounts by periodically, as defined by an interval time, polling associated pull e-mail servers for new mail. If the e-mail distribution server receives an e-mail message destined for a recipient having a pull e-mail account managed by the e-mail distribution server, the e-mail distribution server may recognize an opportunity to poll the pull e-mail server associated with the pull e-mail account sooner than the expiration of the interval time. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078269 | EMPLOYING PIXEL DENSITY TO DETECT A SPAM IMAGE - A network device and method are directed towards detecting and blocking image spam within a message by performing statistical analysis on differences in edge pixel distribution patterns. An image spam detection component receives a message with an image attachment. Physical characteristics of the image are examined to determine whether the image is a candidate for further analysis. If so, then the image may be converted to a grayscale image, and then performing edge detection, followed by the elimination of non-maxima and thresholding of weak edges. Edge pixels and then employed to determine a normalized pixel density distribution (PDD). Various statistical analyses are applied to the resulting normalized PDD to determine a likelihood that the image is spam. A signature based exemption may be applied to images improperly identified as spam, based on trusted user feedback. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078270 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEAMLESSLY BRINGING EXTERNAL SERVICES INTO INSTANT MESSAGING SESSION - The invention provides a framework that allows a number of software application agents to be stacked on top of an instant messenger application. Each of the software application agents establishes a connection with a third-party Web service on the Internet or a local application in the user's computer. The user can share one or more third-party services or applications with other user(s) in an instant messaging session through the application agents. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078271 | PRESENCE SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT, DYNAMIC BUDDY LIST GENERATION METHOD IN PRESENCE SYSTEM, AND PRESENCE NOTIFICATION DESTINATION CONTROLLING METHOD AND ITS PROGRAM FOR USE WITH PRESENCE SYSTEM - A presentity service client has a presentity that issues presence information to a presence service and a watcher which observes presence information for other presentities; a presence change rule holding part holds a presence change rule; and a presence calculating part changes the presence information for the presentity, using as a trigger a change in presence information of other presentities, based on the presence information of other presentity acquired by the watcher and in accordance with the presence change rule held by a presence change rules holding part. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078272 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING SAME - The communication terminal device pertaining to the present invention has a touch panel, a display processing unit that displays information on the touch panel, a file identification unit that identifies a target file based on information displayed within a user specification range in the touch panel, the user specification range being specified by a user operation of the touch panel, and a file transmission unit that transmits the file identified by the file specification unit to an external device. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078273 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND MESSAGE AUTOMATIC CLEANING METHOD THEREOF - This invention provides a mobile communication terminal and a message automatic cleaning method thereof. The mobile communication terminal comprises a user interface unit, a man machine interface and a message module interface, a cleaning management unit, a timing trigger unit and a rule judgment unit. The message automatic cleaning method of the mobile communication terminal comprises the following steps: step a, setting message directory automatic cleaning frequencies and rules in a rule judgment unit; step b, setting a waiting period of a timing trigger unit; step c, judging whether current information accords with the cleaning rule when the set waiting period ends, and deleting the message if the information accords with the rule. With the mobile communication terminal and the message automatic cleaning method thereof provided in the present invention, messages can be automatically deleted in accordance with the time and manner set by the user, so insufficiency of memory space caused by the messages being not cleaned by the user for a long time is avoided. Hence, it facilitates the user. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110082906 | INSTANT MESSAGING TRANSMISSION AND DISPLAY - A method of enhanced message transmission includes receiving an anchor message request, the anchor message request referring to a message for transmission, embedding a logical anchor in the message for transmission to form an anchored message, the logical anchor referring to a portion of the message for transmission to be anchored inside or outside a displayable area of a messaging client, and transmitting the anchored message. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110082907 | Chat System Without Topic-Specific Rooms - A method, system and graphical user interface for a chat system is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes sending target messages to users based on the respective selection and filtering criteria selected by the respective users instead of having users enter topic specific rooms. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110087739 | Routing User Data Entries to Applications - A user data entry is received at a mobile communications device. After receiving the user data entry, user selections of a first application and a second application are received. In response to the user selections, the user data entry is routed to both the first application and the second application. Additionally, a list of user data entries can be maintained and displayed, allowing the user to select user data entries from the list and also select an application to which a selected user data entry is to be routed. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087740 | LEVERAGING POINT-IN-TIME KNOWLEDGE TO RESPOND TO E-MAIL - Point-in-time actions are leveraged between computers that receive the same asynchronous electronic message. A point-in-time action is performed at a first receiving computer in response to receipt of an asynchronous electronic message. The point-in-time action results in an action alert, which is transmitted to a second receiving computer that also received the asynchronous electronic message. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087741 | COST MANAGEMENT FOR MESSAGES - Messages are managed for cost. A processing device includes receiving a message designating a recipient and determining a cost associated with the message. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087742 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR RETAINING EMAIL RESPONSE TIME TRENDS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for retaining email response time trends. A send module determines a send time, the time that a user sends an email message to a recipient. A receive module determines a receive time, the time that the user receives a response from the recipient. A response time module determines a response time that corresponds to the email message based on an elapsed time between the send time and the receive time. A content identifier module determines a content identifier for the email message. A trend module determines a response time trend that corresponds to the recipient and the content identifier based on the response time and on a plurality of previous response times of the recipient. The plurality of previous response times correspond to a plurality of previous email messages between the user and the recipient that match the content identifier. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087743 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING EMAIL MESSAGES BASED ON RESPONSE TIME TRENDS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed to display a set of email messages based on response time trends. An email identification module identifies a set of email messages for a user. A response time identification module determines one or more response time trends and each response time trend corresponds to at least one email message in the set of email messages. An email display module displays the set of email messages to the user. A response time display module displays a visual representation of each response time trend to the user such that each visual representation is visually associated with the at least one email message in the displayed set of email messages. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087744 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR EMAIL RESPONSE TIME ESTIMATION BASED ON A SET OF RECIPIENTS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed to dynamically estimate a response time while composing an email. A recipient module determines a set of email recipients identified by a user. The set of email recipients comprises intended recipients of a new email message from the user. A response time identification module determines a response time trend for each email recipient. Each response time trend has information relating to previous email response times of an email recipient. An estimate module determines an estimated response time for the new email message based on the retrieved response time trends. A display module displays a visual representation of the response time to the user. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087745 | GROUP VOTING ACCESS CONTROL FOR MULTI-PARTY FORUMS - Group access control for a multi-party forum that includes receiving by a server a request from a party to access a multi-party forum, forwarding by the server the request to an approval group comprising at least two people, and approving or a denying the request by the server based on receiving votes from at least two persons of the approval group. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087746 | System and Method for Electronic Delivery of Mail - Systems and methods for providing digital distribution of mail to addresses based upon physical mailing addresses are described. In certain configurations, additional electronic mail addresses are provided based upon an associated physical address and another identifier such as the first and last names of individuals in a particular household. Additionally, an improved change of address process is implemented using information received from third parties to determine a confidence level that a particular individual or family has moved. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087747 | MANAGEMENT OF CONTACT INFORMATION ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method for the display and selection of contact data for inclusion in an address entry field in a graphical user interface of a communication device is provided. When a character string is input in an address entry field, a selection list such as a drop-down list is presented for selection of a contact having contact information matching the input string. The list is populated from both an address book and a contact data store. The contact data store comprises contact data mined from incoming and outgoing messages at the communication device. The contact data in the contact data store is aged or evaluated for frequency of use. A copy of the contact data store may be maintained in an enterprise system associated with the communication device. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087748 | DATA PROCESSOR AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer-readable medium for recording a program allowing a computer to execute: determining whether first identification information of the computer matches with second identification information stored in the computer-readable medium connected to the computer; executing a process stored in the computer-readable medium upon the determining that the first identification information and the second identification information do not match; selecting a communication unit from one or a plurality of communication units included in the computer; and transmitting third information regarding the execution of the process using the selected communication unit. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087749 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FACILITATING INFORMATION SHARING VIA COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media facilitating information sharing via a communication device are described. In some embodiments, a method includes: generating a text message shell; providing concurrent access to a plurality of different types of content, wherein the plurality of different types of content includes website information; receiving a signal indicative of content selected from the plurality of different types of content, wherein the content is to be included in the text messaging shell; and generating a text message including the content. In some embodiments, providing concurrent access to the plurality of different types of content comprises providing concurrent access to one or more of contacts information, media or geographical location information for the communication device, and wherein the website information comprises a uniform resource locator or a website title. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087750 | Resource Locators for Widely Distributed Systems - Implementations provide simple syndication, browsing, searching, and subscribing solutions to networks of friends. In at least some embodiments, the approaches utilize standard HTTP protocols for consumption, subscription, and interaction of data while using the local file system for publication. Some implementations overlay a URL address space that can be handled and routed interchangeably between multiple clients and servers or “locations”. In this manner, generated requests for user published content can be satisfied by local caches, servers, or peers through, for example, a peer-to-peer network. Accordingly, some implementations provide a platform to make this possible with a simple publishing model that is fully compatible with existing Internet enabled applications. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110093541 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING A DEVICE MANAGEMENT (DM) MESSAGE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Device Management (DM) client apparatus and DM server apparatus and methods for their operation in a communication system are provided. The method for operating the DM client apparatus in a communication system includes receiving a message from a DM server, determining if a response message should be suppressed based on the received message, if it is determined that the response message should be suppressed, suppressing the response message by not transmitting the response message to the DM server, if it is not determined that the response message should be suppressed, transmitting the response message to the DM server, and receiving another message from the DM server. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093542 | SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL (SIP) SIGNALING TO KEEP A VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VoIP) SESSION ACTIVE DURING A CALL HOLD - A device monitors a session description protocol (SDP) parameter associated with a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call provided via a network and a user equipment, and determines, based on the SDP parameter, whether the VoIP call changed from an active state to a hold state or from a hold state to an active state. The device also sends, after the VoIP call is determined to change from an active state to a hold state, a session initiation protocol (SIP) keep alive message to the user equipment to prevent the user equipment from entering a dormant state and to prevent a radio link connection between the user equipment and the network from being released. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093543 | MESSAGE SERVER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MESSAGE DELIVERY - An exemplary method of controlling message delivery includes receiving a message from a user at a message server. A determination is made whether the message requires a user-specified delivery criterion to be met prior to delivery of the message. The message is sent to an intended recipient if the message does not require the user-specified delivery criterion. The message is held in a specified delivery buffer if the message does require that the user-specified delivery criterion be met. The message from the specified delivery buffer will be automatically sent on behalf of the user to the intended recipient responsive to the user-specified delivery criterion being met. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093544 | Message Routing in a Unified Messaging System - A sender is identified based at least in part on originator identification information associated with an incoming communication. A message recipient is then determined based at least in part on the identified sender and one or more databases associated with message recipients by comparing the originator identification information to one or more entries in the one or more databases. The incoming communication is routed to the determined message recipient of a shared mailbox of a unified messaging system. An intended recipient is identified among the owners of the shared unified messaging mailbox owners. Only the determined message recipient is notified of the deposited message, based on the dynamic information derived from each deposited message. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093545 | VOICE-ACTIVATED ACQUISITION OF NON-LOCAL CONTENT - Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to enabling a vehicle user to obtain, via a voice-activated system, content that the user requests and that is not to be locally stored. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises, in a vehicle, a voice-activated computing device including a processor, and memory comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to receive from a user an input of a voice command requesting an item of content, determine whether the item of content is stored locally, and if the item of content is not stored locally, then send via a network the voice command to a remote service for analysis. The computing device is further configured to receive a response from the remote service comprising information regarding the item of content for presentation to the user, and present the information via an output to the user. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093546 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SORTING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - A method of sorting a message from a sender to a recipient based on a key code incorporated in, attached to, or logically associated with the message, and ascertaining the validity of the key code. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093547 | ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONFERENCE WITH A COMMUNICATION FLOW MIXING POLICY - To access a communication managed by a host communicating entity between participant communicating entities including the host communicating entity via a packet network (RP), a third-party communicating entity transmits a message (MI) to the host communicating entity, which message comprises at least one parameter (PM) associated with an identifier of at least one participant communicating entity. The third-party entity's access to a peer-to-peer communication established between the host entity and a participant entity may create a conference between the three entities. The third-party entity's access to a conference communication may cause a participant to be added to the existing conference. The host communicating entity applies a restrictive policy on mixing communication flows exchanged between the communicating entities as a function of the parameter and the identifier of the participant communicating entity associated with the parameter. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093548 | CONFERENCE-ENHANCING ANNOUNCEMENTS AND INFORMATION - A conference participant attempting to log into a conference that has been rescheduled is informed that the conference has been rescheduled to such-and-such date and/or time. If the login attempt is before or during the conference, the participant is offered information pertaining to the conference. If the login attempt is after the conference has ended, the participant is offered the information plus a recording of the conference. An identifier is associated with the conference and used by the host and the participants to uniquely identify the conference. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093549 | PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICE WITH INSTANT MESSAGING - A method, apparatus, and signal-bearing media for communicating information relative to the location of a mobile device via an instant message. A mobile device may request information from an instant-messaging server, which personalizes the information to the location of the mobile device. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093550 | PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICE WITH INSTANT MESSAGING - A method, apparatus, and signal-bearing media for communicating information relative to the location of a mobile device via an instant message. A mobile device may request information from an instant-messaging server, which personalizes the information to the location of the mobile device. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093551 | PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICE WITH INSTANT MESSAGING - A method, apparatus, and signal-bearing media for communicating information relative to the location of a mobile device via an instant message. A mobile device may request information from an instant-messaging server, which personalizes the information to the location of the mobile device. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093552 | Systems and Methods for Optimizing Smart Mail - Methods and systems provide for creating and generating dynamic mailings which include providing for static and dynamic content to be included in a dynamically generated e-mail; establishing filters for determining dynamic content; establishing a generic e-mail including static and dynamic content; selecting dynamic content using the filters; generating a dynamic e-mail based upon the generic e-mail and the dynamic content selected; and transmitting the dynamically generated e-mail. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093553 | Method, System and Computer Readable Medium for Addressing Handling from an Operating System - A method, system and computer readable medium for information handling within an operating system, including providing a record retrieval program; providing an input device within a window or screen of the operating system and configured to enter an execute command which initiates a record retrieval from local and remote information sources using the record retrieval program; using the record retrieval program to enter first information into search fields provided in the record retrieval program; entering the execute command using the input device after the step of entering the first information; searching, using the record retrieval program, the local and remote information sources for second information associated with the first information; and displaying the second information in the record retrieval program, when one of the local and remote information sources includes second information associated with the first information. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110099230 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING AN APPLICATION OVER A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Systems, methods, and an article of manufacture for delivering an application to a mobile station are shown and described. In some instances, a list of mobiles stations not currently executing a specific application is generated, processed, and used to send a solicitation message to certain mobile station. Various mobile stations receive different versions of the application based on characteristics of the mobile station. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099231 | System and Method of Controlling Access to Information in a Virtual Computing Environment - In one embodiment the present invention includes a method comprising specifying personal spaces in the virtual computing environment for first and second users and moving the personal spaces to encompass a virtual object, where the virtual object is associated with data on another system. A message is sent from a virtual server to one of the user's clients to access the data associated with the virtual object from the other system. Credentials necessary for accessing the data are stored on different user's clients, and the credentials are used to authenticate the user and perform the data access. The data associated with the virtual object may then be sent to the other user. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099232 | Systems and Methods for Controlling Retention of Publication - A method of controlling the retention of publications in a publish/subscribe system, the method comprising receiving, at a message broker, a first publication from a publisher on a topic; receiving, at the message broker, a second publication from the publisher on the topic; identifying, at the message broker, whether the first publication should be overwritten with the second publication and, if not, retaining at least payload data from both the first and second publications on the topic; and storing, for the second publication, if retained, data indicating when the second publication was published to the broker. Other methods, apparatus, and computer readable media are also provided. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099233 | SCALABLE QUEUES ON A SCALABLE STRUCTURED STORAGE SYSTEM - A cloud computing platform contains a structured storage subsystem the provides scalable queues. The cloud computing platform monitors message throughput for the scalable queues and automatically increases or decreases subqueues that provide the operational functionality for each scalable queue. A visibility start time and cloud computing platform time are maintained for each message to provide an approximate first-in-first-out order for messages within each subqueue. A message in a subqueue may be available for processing when the current cloud computing time is greater than the visibility start of the message. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099234 | Efficient utilization of read-ahead buffer by partitioning read-ahead buffer in correspondence with selectors - A server computing device receives an update message from a client computing device at which a read-ahead buffer has been partitioned into partitions corresponding to selectors. The selectors correspond to different types of the messages of interest to be consumed by a given consuming application running on the client computing device. The update message specifies a given partition of the read-ahead buffer that requires filling with new messages matching the selector of the given partition. The server computing device sends the new messages requested in the update message to the client computing device, to fill the given partition of the read-ahead buffer at the client computing device. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099235 | COLLATION OF MULTI-USER, MULTI-FORMAT, EMAIL COMMUNICATION WITH COMMON SUBJECT TITLES - A method includes monitoring, at a server, electronic messages transmitted across a network from any one of a group of participating users, determining if any of the electronic messages include any of a stored set of keywords, sending any electronic messages that include at least one keyword to a formatting module, extracting, at the formatting module, data relating to the keyword from the electronic message according to a previously-established rule stored in the network, and collating, at the formatting module, the data relating to the keyword into a second electronic message and transmitting the second electronic message to a supervising user. A system has a status server, the status server having a storage to store at least one group of participating users and at least one keyword associated with the group, a monitoring module to monitor electronic messages from the participating users to determine if the electronic messages contain the keyword, and a formatting module to receive electronic messages that contain the keyword, extract data related to the keyword and collate the data into a second electronic message. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099236 | CESSATION OF SENDING NETWORK STATUS MESSAGES TO A SERVER - A system comprises a processor, a network interface coupled to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The network interface is configured to receive network status messages from a plurality of agents across a network. Each network status message indicates a status of a network. The storage comprises a plurality of queues with each queue corresponding to one of the agents. The network status messages from a given agent are stored in a queue corresponding to that agent pending processing by the processor. Upon a number of network status messages in a queue for a particular agent exceeding an agent high water mark, the processor sends a stop message through the network interface to such agent to cause such agent to cease sending network status messages. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099237 | SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A SOCIAL NETWORK AND METHOD THEREFOR - A system for generating and managing messages in a social network comprises a virtual user suitable to generate messages in a thread. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099238 | User initiated and controlled delivery in hybrid mode of electromagnetically transmissible contents to recipients in designated delivery locations or apparatus - The present invention discloses a network communication system that includes a network processing center for receiving and converting an electronic or electro-magnetically transmissible data/content into a physically deliverable object and/or network transmissible content data files for carrying out a hybrid delivery of the data/content by a physical delivery process and/or a network electro-magnetic delivery process to a recipient or an ECRMA. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099239 | DYNAMIC SET OPERATIONS WHEN SPECIFYING EMAIL RECIPIENTS - A method for specifying email recipients that includes specifying a first set of email recipients, a second set of email recipients, and a set operation. A third set of email recipients can be automatically is generated by performing the set operation upon the first set and the second set. Email can then be sent to this automatically generated third set of email recipients. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099240 | Apparatus, System and Method for Forwarding Data Sent to a Wireless Device to Another Address - An apparatus for forwarding data sent to a wireless device having a first address to a second address. The apparatus includes a server in communication with a wireless network and an external network. The server includes a processor. The processor includes a data forwarding module for forwarding the data to the second address via the external network when the wireless device is not in communication with the wireless network. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON A RECEIVED COMMUNICATION FOR AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The disclosure relates to a system, method and device for providing information relating to a received communication for a device. The method comprises generating and providing a message on a display of the device indicating receipt of an inbound communication, after determining that the device is to receive the inbound communication while the device is composing an outbound communication and after determining the inbound communication is related to the outbound communication by an analysis of information of the inbound communication against information of the outbound communication. The message provides options for processing the inbound communication depending on whether the outbound communication is initiated as either a reply to the inbound communication or a forwarding of the inbound communication. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110099242 | Mechanism for Managing sequential Emails - A mechanism is disclosed for generating a composite email for an email conversation. The composite email includes content automatically extracted from a plurality of the emails in the email conversation, and may be generated in response to a user accessing just one of the emails in the email conversation. A mechanism is also disclosed for discovering and recovering lost emails in an email conversation. A mechanism is further disclosed for automatically moving emails from one container to another after an email has been read. These and other advantageous email generating, manipulation, and organization mechanisms are disclosed herein. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110106889 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING MESSAGING ADDRESSES FOR AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE COMPOSED ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for predicting messaging addresses for an electronic message composed on an electronic device is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving a request to compose an electronic message; automatically filtering the contacts based on filter criteria comprising a type of the electronic message to generate a first list of contacts; displaying a message composition user interface screen on a display screen of the electronic device, the message composition user interface screen including one or more address fields for inputting message recipients; displaying the first list of contacts, the message recipients being selectable from the first list of contacts; and selecting a messaging address in accordance with selection of a contact from the first list of contacts and populating an active address field in the message composition user interface screen with the selected contact. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106890 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR A MOBILE-TERMINATED MESSAGE SPAM RESTRICTOR - This disclosure details the implementation of methods, systems and computer program products for mobile terminated message SPAM control (hereinafter, “M-SPAM Restrictor”). In one embodiment, M-SPAM Restrictor systems implement a live application at a mobile network element that processes message service, whereby a message rate limit is set on the element, and a message source may be blocked from further messaging activity if the rate of message activity exceeds the rate limit, until the offending source has resolved the issue with the service provider (carrier). | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106891 | HIERARCHICAL PUBLISH AND SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM - A method of publishing a publication message includes receiving, at one of a plurality of first relays, a subscription request from a first client and transmitting the subscription request from the one of the plurality of first relays to only one of a plurality of central relays. The method also includes receiving, at another of the plurality of first relays, a publication request from a second client. The publication request includes the publication message. The method further includes transmitting the publication message from the another of the plurality of first relays to all of the plurality of central relays, transmitting the publication message from at least one of the plurality of central relays to the one of the plurality of first relays, and transmitting the publication message from the one of the plurality of first relays to the first client. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CALENDAR EVENTS FROM FREE-FORM EMAIL - A system and method are described for automatically detecting calendar events within a free-form email message. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention for automatically detecting calendar events within a free-form email message potentially including one or more attachments comprising: a pre-processor to detect one or more keywords within a free-form email message and/or free-form attachments, the keywords indicating whether the free-form email message or free-form attachments contain a calendar event, the pre-processor identifying the free-form email message and/or free-form attachments as potentially containing calendar data upon detecting the one or more keywords; and a natural language processor to further process text from the free-form email message and/or free-form attachments to determine whether the free-form email message and/or free-form attachments contain a calendar event, the natural language processor to parse the email message and/or attachments and evaluate the email message and/or attachments using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to determine the existence of one or more calendar events; and a calendar event generator to extract calendar data from the email message and/or attachments in response to the natural language processor detecting a calendar event, the calendar event generator to update a calendar using the extracted calendar data. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106893 | Active Email Spam Prevention - Active email spam prevention is not let email spam contents or block spammer send to mail server that is distributed to recipients. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106894 | Electronic messaging exchange - A computer-implemented system and method for secure electronic message exchange including coupling a control platform to a workstation of a plurality of workstations via a communications medium, where the control platform includes one or more apparatuses for monitoring, controlling, conversion, and billing, related to messages exchanged between a plurality of local users and a plurality of remote users. The system prevents forwarding or copying of a message sent by a local user of the plurality of local users and received by a remote user of the plurality of remote users, to another party by the control platform. The system and method also provides for authenticating the remote user with the control platform. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106895 | SOCIAL SEARCH ENGINE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a question from an asker in which the question is associated with one or more topics; selecting candidate answerers based at least partly on each answerer's respective relationship to the asker; sending the question successively to groups of one or more candidate answerers according to the ranking until an answer is received from a particular one of the candidate answerers; and sending to the asker the received answer and information that identifies the particular answerer. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106896 | VENUE-CENTRIC SOCIAL NETWORK - A venue may be registered with a venue-centric social networking service. The venue may be associated with a physical location where subscribers may congregate. Subscribers may join the venue by visiting the physical location, receiving an invitation, receiving a password (or other credential), or the like. The venue-centric social networking service may track which subscribers are at which venues and provide a “Who's here” listing to other subscribers. Subscribers at the same venue may be introduced to one another through the venue-centric social networking service by, inter alia, browsing the profiles of the subscribers in the “Who's here” list and/or initiating contact with other subscribers at the venue through the venue-centric social networking service. Subscriber visibility and contact preferences may be determined by subscriber privacy settings and/or privacy settings of the venues. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106897 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A server transmits a message from a sender to a destination address. During transmission, the server and the destination address have a dialog constituting an attachment, via a particular one of SMTP and ESMTP protocols, concerning the message, the server and the destination address. The message passes through servers between the server and the destination address. This passage is included in the attachment. Verifiers are provided for the message and for the attachments. The verifiers may constitute encrypted hashes of the message and of the attachment. The sender receives the message, the attachments and the verifications from the server before authentication and transmits the message, the attachments and the verifiers to the server to obtain authentication by the server. The server operates on the message and the message verifier to authenticate the message and operates on the attachments and the attachments' verifier to verify the attachments. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106898 | Personalized Location Information for Mobile Devices - Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device that has provided the signal. A geographic location for the mobile device is calculated by using the information contained in each of the received signals. A representation of the geographic location of the mobile device is generated. The representation of the geographic location is included within an electronic message that provides information describing a user of the mobile device to other users of an electronic communications system. The electronic message is transmitted to another device to provide an indication of the geographic location for the user to one of the other users of the electronic communications system. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106899 | Mechanism for Managing Email Markups - A mechanism is disclosed for generating a composite email for an email conversation. The composite email includes content automatically extracted from a plurality of the emails in the email conversation, and may be generated in response to a user accessing just one of the emails in the email conversation. A mechanism is also disclosed for discovering and recovering lost emails in an email conversation. A mechanism is further disclosed for automatically moving emails from one container to another after an email has been read. These and other advantageous email generating, manipulation, and organization mechanisms are disclosed herein. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106900 | MESSAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A third-party can subscribe to one or more electronic message group lists without joining the group lists by creating a trust relationship between the subscriber and a group list member. In particular, the subscriber can send a trust indicator to the group member, who can then determine whether to accept the trust indicator for all or specific groups that are associated with the group member, as appropriate. In at least one embodiment, the group member can send a trust indicator acceptance message to the subscriber that identifies the group member, and any or all group lists associated with the group member. The subscriber can then receive messages directed to the trusted group member or group lists, and can send group messages to the group lists subject to a receive setting associated with the group lists or group members of the group lists. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106901 | GROUP LIST EXCLUSIONS FOR MESSAGING - A message is received comprising a recipient list and an exclusion list. Recipients in the recipient list are identified, as are recipients in the exclusion list. A recipient is removed from the recipient list based on an identification of the recipient in the exclusion list. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106902 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF USERS IN A CONVERSATION OVER A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods and devices are disclosed for including a plurality of users in a conversation over a communication network. A conversation is initiated when a text message is received requesting the conversation. A conversation is established using conversation gateways currently unused by users to be included in the conversation. Communication may occur across gateways in order to conserve conversation gateway resources. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106903 | Second Person Review of E-Mail - An email review tool gives users a simple, quick, and safe method of initiating review of an email document. The email review tool may provide a window to a user which allows the user to select another person to review the email or skip the review process and send the email directly to the recipients. Transmission of the email is thus deferred until the email has been reviewed. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110113104 | FLAGGING RESOURCE POINTERS DEPENDING ON USER ENVIRONMENT - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for indicating a hyperlink in a message as being inappropriate for a specified user environment, such as an office or an educational setting. In one embodiment, a message may be received from a sending user and to a receiving user (e.g., by a sending mail client or by a mail server). The message may include a hyperlink. If a message includes a hyperlink determined to be inappropriate for the specified user environment, a property of the message may be set to indicate as such. Optionally, the sending user may be notified that the hyperlink is indicated as being inappropriate for the specified user environment. The receiving user may also be warned not to activate the hyperlink that is determined to be inappropriate. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113105 | BUSINESS DATA EXCHANGE LAYER - According to some embodiments, an account may be established for a user, and the account may be associated with a set of authorized combination identifiers, each authorized combination identifier including an authorized sending device identifier, an authorized destination device identifier, and an authorized file type identifier. A dynamically generated list of notification options may be displayed to the user, each option being associated with one of the authorized combination identifiers. The user may then select a notification option for each of the authorized combination identifiers. In addition, a business file may be received along with a received combination identifier that includes a sending device identifier associated with the sending device, a destination device identifier, and a file type identifier associated with the business file. Based on the received combination identifier, the business file may be forwarded to a destination device associated with the destination device identifier; and a notification message may be transmitted to the user based on the selected notification option associated with the received combination identifier. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113106 | THROTTLE ON PRESENCE - The present invention relates to throttle and rate limitation of notifications in a communication network, in particular to a method and devices for operating a communication network, e g a communication network comprising a presence system A method for operating a communication network for communicating with entities is provided, the method comprising the steps of receiving a first message from a first entity, the first message indicating delay parameter values for different parameters, receiving a second message from a second entity, selecting a delay parameter value in the communication network depending on the received second message and the delay parameter values in the first message, and sending a notification to the first entity according to the selected delay parameter value Further the present invention relates to devices implementing the method. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113107 | METHOD AND FILTER SYSTEM FOR STORING INFORMATION ABOUT MESSAGES COMING IN VIA A SERIAL DATA BUS OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK IN A USER OF THE NETWORK - A method and a filter system for storing information about messages coming in via a serial data bus of a communication network in a communication module of a user connected to the data bus, which are filtered using a filter system. In order to be able to implement a particularly simple and efficient storage of information about incoming messages even in the event of a great number of filter criteria, the invention provides for the filter system to include a list, which as list elements has one or multiple filter elements, which contain storage control information, and for a check to be performed on the basis of the storage control information as to whether information about an incoming message is to be stored, and information about an incoming message is stored if the check has determined that the information is to be stored. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113108 | E-MAIL PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM CONFIGURED TO STORE E-MAIL PROCESSING PROGRAM - An e-mail processing system including a terminal device registered in a mailing list, and an e-mail delivery device that forwards a received e-mail directed to a mailing list address registered in the mailing list, the terminal device includes an identification unit that identifies a category of the forwarded e-mail from the e-mail delivery device based on information included in the forwarded e-mail, a display unit that displays the forwarded e-mail, and a control unit that determines a display mode of the forwarded e-mail in the display unit based on the identified category of the forwarded e-mail. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113109 | Secure Electronic Mail System - An e-mail system is disclosed that overcomes many deficiencies of, but is backward compatible with, existing e-mail systems. An exemplary method for communicating e-mail messages includes receiving an e-mail message from a sender addressed to a recipient, receiving a request for access to the e-mail message from an e-mail client associated with the recipient, and providing the e-mail client with access to the e-mail message. The method further includes receiving a navigation notification indicating a navigation away from the e-mail message followed by a navigation return to the e-mail message, and in response, withholding access to the e-mail message by the e-mail client, and providing the e-mail client with a message placeholder. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113110 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE WITH ARCHIVING CAPABILITY - The exchange of documents for execution can be performed efficiently using an automated system that routes and archives documents. The system may facilitate the exchange of drafts between parties by highlighting changes of the current draft with respect to the previous draft. Documents may be conveniently archived for efficient document storage and access by providing one or more central archive databases accessible through a shared network to a plurality of organizations. The operating system of the database may provide systematic access to individuals associated with an organization with the privilege to access documents according to a specific organizational hierarchy. Routing and archiving documents may be accomplished through a central exchange server. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE PROCESSING AND ROUTING - A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of learning and executing new routing rules and message transformations in formats previously unrecognized by the system. The system enables precise and reliable logging of messages throughout processing and supports publication of enterprise-wide broadcast messages. The system further preferably employs cooperating inbound and outbound transport processes for consuming, routing, processing, safely storing and publishing messages in batches of logical units of work to ensure that the logical units of work are not lost in system transactions. The system also preferably utilizes a replay server for preserving and replaying messages that might otherwise fail to reach their intended destinations. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113112 | MULTIPLE-LAYER CHAT FILTER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer network-based messaging system includes a multiple-layer chat filtering system for controlling the content of messages sent by users. A computer receives a message including a plurality of words entered by a sender. A word database includes a plurality of permitted words which are allowed to be transmitted. A phrase database includes a plurality of prohibited phrases which are not allowed to be transmitted. At least one of the plurality of prohibited phrases consists of a plurality of individual words that are each included in the word database. A message sending part that transmits the message over a computer network only if all of the plurality of words entered by the sender are contained in the word database and none of the plurality of prohibited phrases are contained in the message. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113113 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION - A method of forming unique, private, personal, virtual social networks on a social network system that includes a database storing data relating to corresponding user entities. The method includes: a first user entity sending an invitation to a second user entity, recording in the database the second user entity as a direct contact of the first user entity and determining that third user entities, directly connected to the second user entity, are indirect contacts. A unique, personal, social network formed from direct and indirect contacts is thereby created for each user entity. Each user entity is able to control privacy of its data with respect to other user entities depending on the connection factor to that other entity and/or that other entity's attributes. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113114 | MANAGING INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS ON MULTIPLE DEVICES - Transferring instant messaging sessions includes receiving a selection, from a user within a user interface, of at least one instant messaging session from among multiple instant messaging sessions to transfer from a first instant messaging controller on a first device to at least a second instant messaging controller on a second device, where the user is signed on concurrently to the first instant messaging controller on the first device and the second instant messaging controller on the second device. At least a portion of the selected instant messaging session is transferred from the first instant messaging controller on the first device to the second instant messaging controller on the second device and the transferred portion of the instant messaging session is made perceivable on the second instant messaging controller on the second device. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110119336 | REMOTE COMMAND EXECUTION OVER A NETWORK - Embodiments of the present invention include methods, systems and computer program products. In one embodiment, a method described herein includes receiving, at a host terminal having a unique identifier, a message including at least an authentication field, an operation field, an entity field and an argument field; and authenticating a remote user in response to the authentication field. The first method can also include identifying an entity selected by the remote user in response to the entity field; identifying an argument selected by the remote user in response to the argument field; and performing an operation selected by the remote user in response to the operation field. Performance of the operation allows the remote user to perform and/or control tasks, communications and/or processes on the host terminal. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119337 | System and Method for Electronic Messaging and Voicemail Management - A method and system for electronic message management is provided. First and second messages are received at a computer messaging application and it is determined whether the second message is related to the first message. If the messages are related, the first message is incorporated into the second message and an indication that message have been incorporated into the second message is provided. Message incorporation can include selectively reproduction of the first message within the second message or a data base entry or meta-data indicating the determined relationship. An indication that the first message is related to the second message is displayed to the user of the computer messaging application. Incorporated messages can be moved to a designated storage location or deleted. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119338 | EMAIL COMPOSITION AND PROCESSING - A computer implemented user interface allows composition of an electronic mail message. A user selects at least one pre-existing email from an email inbox. An envelope is then created by parsing each of the selected pre-existing emails. The pre-existing email is displayed as a tree structure comprising an envelope with at least a label sub-node in a new email view. A new email is composed by selecting parts from the tree structure. The sub-nodes may further comprise a content sub-node. The content sub-node further comprises multi-media parts, and the new email body is composed by selecting parts from the content sub-node. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119339 | FACILITATING AND ENCOURAGING CAREGROUP COMMUNICATIONS VIA A CLOSED COMMUNICATION SERVICE AND HARDCOPY-BASED EMAIL APPLIANCES - Methods and systems are provided for promoting and managing communications from members of a caregroup to a target of the caregroup. According to one embodiment a method is provided for delivering digital gifts to a target of a caregroup. Information defining a caregroup, including a target of a care group, members of the caregroup that are permitted to send digital gifts to the target of the caregroup and one or more administrating caregivers of the caregroup, is received. Potential recipients of digital gifts from the members of the caregroup are limited to the target of the caregroup and targets of any other caregroups of which the members are a part. An indication of a digital gift desired to be generated and caused to be delivered in hardcopy form to a hardcopy-based email appliance of the target of the caregroup is received. The hardcopy-based email appliance is operable to receive digital gifts from the members of the caregroup and produce hardcopy output of the digital gifts for the target of the caregroup. For each content-containing component of the digital gift, default content items are selected based upon one or more of biographical information previously supplied by one or more members of the caregroup, information regarding communications history from the member of the caregroup to the target of the caregroup, ascertained preferences of the target of the caregroup, and a type of the digital gift. The member of the caregroup is allowed to initiate delivery of the digital gift with the selected default content items or is allowed personalize the digital gift prior to delivery by presenting the digital gift within a corresponding digital gift editor. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119340 | MESSAGE HANDLING IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and apparatus for handling a Session Initiation Protocol message in a communications network. When a network node receives a Session Initiation Protocol message, which comprises Request-URI header, the node rewrites the Request-URI header in the SIP message, and adds information to the SIP message useable by a remote node to determine the current target address of the message. The SIP message is then sent to a further node. In this way, the remote node that receives the message can determine the current target in the SIP message, even if the target has been re-written in the Request-URI as the result of, for example, a translation or re-routing operation. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119341 | Device-Service Affiliation Via Internet Video Link (IVL) - A registration request message for affiliation with a service provider using an Internet video link (IVL) communication feature hosted by an Internet video link (IVL) server is received from an IVL device by the IVL server, where the IVL communication feature utilizes an IVL communication module to provide a communication interface with the service provider. The IVL device is registered with the IVL communication feature. A registration response message is sent to the IVL device acknowledging the affiliation with the service provider using the IVL communication feature. IVL communication feature messages are processed between the registered IVL device and the service provider. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119342 | MESSAGE FILTERING METHOD - A message filtering method makes use of a database in which domain names of a network, such as the Internet, are associated with IP addresses, or with geographic locations. Electronic messages are tested for authenticity by comparing domain names and IP addresses for a message being tested with information in the database. If the sender information in the message does not have the same associations as information in the database, the message may be blocked, flagged as spam, or subjected to further filtering. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119343 | Apparatus and method for analyzing and filtering email and for providing web related services - The inventive methodology provides an integrated plug and play solution designed to protect home networks against spam, phishing emails, viruses, spyware as well as other similar threats. The described content filtering appliance can be used for processing of web and email traffic implemented and can be deployed as a stand-alone appliance. In one implementation, the content processing appliance utilizes backend content filtering provided by a remote scanning service accessed via a network. The system employs network level analysis and translation of content and executes various procedures to handle the network traffic. In an embodiment of the invention, the appliance is provided with an automatic remote updating capability, wherein the software and data used by the appliance can be updated remotely via a network. Finally, the appliance may also implement parental controls. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110125851 | Electronic message routing - An electronic message processing system in which routing tags are used to determine how electronic messages are routed, distributed, or otherwise processed by the system. The association of a routing tag with an electronic message indicates to the system that the tagged electronic message does not need to undergo classification in order to determine how to process the message. In particular, routing tags are associated with electronic messages which have already been classified and which are subsequently sent out of the system to return at a later time. The routing tag prevents the message from having to be re-classified upon its return to the system. Reducing the number of messages that are classified, or re-classified, is advantageous since the classification process, which typically involves text analysis, is a time consuming process. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125852 | KEYWORD FILTERED ALERTS FOR GROUP CHATS - A method and apparatus for processing messages. In one illustrative embodiment, a processor unit determines whether a predetermined number of keywords or a predetermined number of combinations of keywords associated with a recipient of a message is present in the message in response to receiving the message. In response to a determination that the number of keywords is present in the message, the processor unit generates an alert for the recipient. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125853 | System and Method of Handling Electronic Mail Having Attachments - The system and method for handling email messages having at least one attachment. The system checks each outgoing email for attachments that are larger than a predefined size, detaches each such attachment from the email message, and splits each such attachment into segments. The system sends each of the segments to the addressees in separate emails so that each sent email is of a size less than the predefined threshold size. The system also includes a function that screens incoming emails or an inbox for split mail messages with separated attachments. For each detected split mail message, the system reassembles the original email along with the attachments. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125854 | ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME WEB APPLICATIONS - A method and apparatus for providing real-time web applications is described. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining data for a topic with a server computer system. The method may also include determining a client that is rendering a framework widget with a subscription to the topic. In one embodiment, the method may further include transmitting a message including the data from an application framework to the client to enable the framework widget to process the data, the message transmitted to the client without the client issuing a request for an update. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125855 | Method and filter system for filtering messages received via a serial data bus of a communication network by a user of the network - A method and a filter system for filtering messages which are received, via a serial data bus of a communications network, in a communication module of a user connected to the data bus. To allow particularly simple and efficient filtering of incoming messages, even when there is a large number of filtering criteria, it is proposed that the filter system includes a list in which multiple identifier pairs are stored which define a range delimited in each case by a first identifier and a second identifier. The identifier for an incoming message is compared at least to selected identifier pairs from the list, and a query is made concerning whether the identifier for the incoming message is greater than, or greater than or equal to, the selected first identifier, and is less than, or less than or equal to, the selected second identifier. The incoming message is forwarded to the application or rejected, depending on the configuration bit specification, if the identifier for the incoming message is within the range delimited by the first identifier and the second identifier. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125856 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF PROVIDING EMAIL SERVICES IN THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit and a controller. The wireless communication unit communicates with an email server according to an email receiving mode and the email receiving mode includes a push mode and a polling mode. The controller controls receiving of an email such that the email is received in one of the push mode and the polling mode. The controller further controls switching between the push mode and the polling mode based on a pattern of receiving the email from the email server. The mobile terminal is continuously connected to the email server in the push mode, and the mobile terminal is periodically connected to and disconnected from the email server in the polling mode. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125857 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING E-MAIL ADDRESSED TO MULTIPLE DESTINATION ADDRESSES - To allow a receiver of e-mail addressed to a plurality of destination addresses to readily specify a message of his/her interest included therein. A device for processing e-mail containing a plurality of destination addresses, contents corresponding respectively to the destination addresses, and display attributes for displaying the corresponding contents on a display device is provided. The e-mail processing device includes a unit for acquiring the degree of association between a first destination address, which is one of the plurality of destination addresses and at least one of the other destination addresses, and a unit for modifying the display attributes for the contents in accordance with the degree of association. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125858 | SYSTEM, A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE AND A PROGRAM THEREOF - A system and method for correcting management information while unerringly reflecting a user's intent by a correction email from the user to the system. The correction processing of the management information is performed according to an extraction result of a difference between the latest management information and the correction email from the user. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE PROCESSING AND ROUTING - A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of learning and executing new routing rules and message transformations in formats previously unrecognized by the system. The system enables precise and reliable logging of messages throughout processing and supports publication of enterprise-wide broadcast messages. The system further preferably employs cooperating inbound and outbound transport processes for consuming, routing, processing, safely storing and publishing messages in batches of logical units of work to ensure that the logical units of work are not lost in system transactions. The system also preferably utilizes a replay server for preserving and replaying messages that might otherwise fail to reach their intended destinations. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125860 | MAIL CONVERSION METHOD, MAIL RETRIEVAL METHOD, MAIL SERVER, MAIL CLIENT AND MAIL SYSTEM - The present disclosure discloses a mail conversion method, a mail retrieval method, a mail server, a mail client device, and a mail system. The mail conversion method includes: converting a received mail according to the instruction of a CONVERT operation in a preset mail filtering language (SIEVE); and relating the original mail before conversion to the target mail after conversion. With the present disclosure, non-real-time conversion of a mail is enabled, and the time for a client user to retrieve the converted mail is saved. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125861 | SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING PEER REVIEW AND DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL CONTENT - A digital content review and distribution system and method are provided. In general, a number of authors of digital content register with a content review and distribution agent, which may be hosted by a central server. The authors agree to review digital content submitted by other authors in exchange for review and distribution of their own content. In operation, an author submits metadata associated with digital content to be reviewed and optionally the digital content to the content review and distribution agent. In response to the submission, the content review and distribution agent effects a review of the digital content by one or more groups of reviewers, where the groups of reviewers are selected from the other authors registered with the content review and distribution agent based on the metadata for the digital content and reviewer credentials of the other authors. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125862 | System and Method for Transmission of Data - A system and method for data communication connecting on-line networks with on-line and off-line computers. The present system provides for broadcast of up to the minute notification centric information thereby providing an instant call to action for users who are provided with the ability to instantaneously retrieve further detailed information. The notification centric portions of information is wirelessly broadcast to wireless receiving devices which are attached to computing devices. Upon receipt of the information at the personal computer, the user is notified through different multimedia alerts that there is an incoming message. Wirelessly broadcasted URL's, associated with the data, are embedded in data packets and provide an automated wired or wireless connection back to the information source for obtaining detailed data. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125863 | Methods And Systems For Managing Metadata In Email Attachments In A Network Environment - A method and system for removing metadata from email attachments sent from mobile devices includes receiving an email with an attached document. The attached document has metadata removed to create a cleansed version of the attached document. The attached document is replaced by the cleansed version of the attached document, and the email is sent according to the address or addresses included in the email. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125864 | Content adaptation realizing method and content adaptation server - The present invention discloses a method for realizing content adaptation and a content adaptation server, the method includes: receiving a multimedia message from a calling terminal, wherein contents of the multimedia message and a model of a called terminal are included in the multimedia message; determining the multimedia formats supported by the called terminal according to the model of the called terminal, and selecting an optimum multimedia format from them; and compressing the multimedia message according to the selected optimum multimedia format, and sending the compressed multimedia message according to the maximum size of the multimedia message supported by the called terminal. Based on the present invention, the presentation effect of the contents of the multimedia message can be enhanced and the user experience can be improved by selecting the optimum multimedia format to compress the multimedia message according to the model of the called terminal. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110131279 | Managing Electronic Messages - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic messages. A method embodiment for managing electronic messages includes processing message content of an electronic message with an automated content classification module to determine a classification for the electronic message; and applying a security policy to the electronic message in dependence upon the classification. The classification module may be configured for a particular sender. The security policy may be configured for a particular receiver. The system may associate the classification with the electronic message. The system may train the classification module. The electronic message may be an email message, an instant message, a text message, or a message sent in the context of a social networking platform. The security policy may include a display policy or a filtering policy. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131280 | Method and Apparatus for Managing an Electronic Messaging System - A rating is received, from a first user of an electronic messaging system, pertaining to a use by a second user of a reply-to-all function provided by the electronic messaging system. An etiquette value associated with the second user is updated based on the rating. An access by the second user to the reply-to-all function is controlled based on the updated etiquette value associated with the second user. The electronic messaging system may comprise an email messaging system, for example. Systems and apparatus are also described. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131281 | MESSAGE RECALL - There is provided a method for recalling a message. The method comprises receiving a message from a publisher, sending the message to a durable subscriber for queuing pending consumption by a subscriber. When a message recall request identifying the message is received, the unconsumed message is deleted from the durable subscriber. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131282 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY BUILDING UP TOPIC-SPECIFIC MESSAGING IDENTITIES - A method for automating interaction with a messaging system receives a first message from the messaging system, associates the first message with a topic, assigns the first message to an identity associated with the topic, maps content to the first message, creates a second message based on the content, and sends, via the identity, the second message to the messaging system. The first message may be screened for quality and assigned a quality score, and if the quality score does not exceed a predetermined threshold, then the second message will not be sent to the messaging system. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131283 | SUGGESTING A DISCUSSION GROUP BASED ON INDEXING OF THE POSTS WITHIN THAT DISCUSSION GROUP - A system and corresponding methods for recommending a discussion group as an appropriate place to post a message are provided. In one embodiment, the system searches a plurality of existing posts to identify the posts that are similar to a subject of a user's message. The system identifies the discussion groups that contain the identified posts and selects one of the identified discussion groups to recommend as an appropriate discussion group to post the user's message. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131284 | MESSAGE RECEPTION - Apparatus for handling received messages, the apparatus comprising: a communication-interface controller operable on behalf of a processor to intercept and screen received messages on the fly portion-by-portion during reception, and to submit those messages determined to have passed such screening to the processor for processing. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131285 | TASK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ASSOCIATING WITH CONTACT INFORMATION AND METHOD THEREOF - A task item can be stored in a collaboration database, wherein the collaboration database able to be accessed by a communication module and a task management tool, which both run on a client. The communication module can be able to access a communication server that provides a communication service to the client. The task management tool can be able to access a collaboration server that provides a collaboration service to the client. A collaboration item can be established that contains a task identifier associating with the task item and a collaboration identifier associating with contact information. The communication module running in a client can be called according to the contact information of the collaboration database. The task item can be displayed within a user interface of a communication application via the communication module. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131286 | Booking method and system - There is disclosed herein a method and system for communicating over a telecommunications network between a service provider and one or more users, wherein the service provider can have access to multiple distinct addresses in the telecommunications network and each user is identified by an address, more specifically where a first message can be sent over at least a portion of the telecommunications network to a user's address and based on a response from the user determining the message to which the response is a reply to. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110131287 | CATCHING USER INFORMATION IN AN INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted on a messaging server of a network. The interface module pulls various user information from the messaging server, including information relevant to at least the network that includes the messaging server. A cache couples to the communication server and to the interface module to hold information from the communication server and/or the user information pulled from messaging server. The interface module directs a message from the messaging server and/or the cache to at least one device on the networks using the user information. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110137998 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF NON-TEXTUAL CONTROLLER PILOT DATA LINK COMMUNICATIONS (CPDLC) FOR PILOT REVIEW - An avionics system comprises a control device having an input/output interface to receive a Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDLC) message; a textual-based Human-Machine Interface (HMI) coupled to the control device, the textual-based HMI operable to display textual content in the received CPDLC message based on instructions from the control device; and a graphical display unit coupled to the control device. The control device is operable to determine if graphical content is contained in the received CPDLC message. If the received CPDLC message contains graphical content, the control device is operable to send the graphical content to the graphical display unit and to provide instructions to the textual-based HMI to display a notification that the received CPDLC message contains graphical content. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110137999 | TAGGING COMMUNICATION FILES BASED ON HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF TAGS - To associate an email with a tag, an email client may receive a tag corresponding to an email attribute, wherein the email attribute is an historical email tag. The email client stores the tag to a record keyed by the email attribute, and receives an email tag request, the email tag request having a word attribute, and looks up at least one record based on the word attribute to find the tag. The email client presents the tag of the at least one record to a user. The email client receives a user selection of the tag to form a selected tag, and sends an email having the selected tag as part of the email header, wherein the email comprises the email tag request. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110138000 | APPLYING TAGS FROM COMMUNICATION FILES TO USERS - A method, data processing system, and computer program product for associating tags with a person or user. A computer receives a communication file. The computer determines a tag for the communication file to form a communication file association of the tag with the communication file. The computer identifies contact information for a user from the communication file. The computer forms a user association between the user and the tag. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110138001 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING WEB SERVICE INTEROPERABILITY - An apparatus and method for testing web service interoperability. The apparatus includes a state model generator generating a state model of a composition system expressing an operation of exchanging a message when web services interoperate with each other as a state machine on the basis of content of a simple object access protocol (SOAP) service description language (SSDL) web service specification, a test structure generator generating a web service test structure by including information about an operating environment in which a web service test is carried out in a composition system structure that includes structured information about web services performing a message exchange operation, a test case generator generating a test case including definitions of execution functions for testing whether or not the web services interoperate with each other according to a message exchange operation sequence defined in the SSDL specification, from the state model of the composition system and information about the web service test structure, and a test case executor inputting a value to the test case to cause test target web services to execute the test case and testing whether the web services interoperate with each other according to the message exchange operation sequence defined in the SSDL specification. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110138002 | INTERACTIVITY TEST APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BLOCKING IP APPLICATION SPAM - Disclosed is an interactive test apparatus and method to block an IP application spam. The interactive test apparatus may include a test determining unit to determine whether to perform an interactive test to block an IP application spam, a test level determining unit to determine a level of the interactive test to be performed to a service transmitting unit with respect to an IP application for which the interactive test determining unit determines to perform the interactive test, and testing unit to perform the interactive test at the level corresponding to the IP application based on the level determined by the test level determining unit. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110138003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OFFLINE BASED SIMPLE SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - In order to provide an offline-based social network service from a social network service system to a plurality of terminals, an online history identifier corresponding to an offline event is transmitted to a first terminal when an online history identifier creation request message is received from the first terminal that creates the offline events among the plurality of terminals. a participant registration confirming message is transmitted to the first terminal when information on a participant list including a second terminal is received from the first terminal, and the created online history identifier is transmitted to the second terminal, thereby providing the offline-based social network service to the first terminal and the second terminal. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110138004 | DIGITAL IMAGE SHARING ENABLED CHAT APPLICATION - A method, system, and computer program for remotely sharing digital photographic images. The method, system, and computer program comprising launching at least a first and second real-time chat clients, selecting at least a first digital photographic image, establishing a chat session between the at least first and second real-time chat clients, transmitting at least a first digital photographic image from the at least first real-time chat client to the at least second real-time chat client, and facilitating a chat session between the at least first real-time chat client and the at least second real-time chat client through which the at least first and second real-time chat clients converse with each other, wherein the subject of the conversation is the at least first digital photographic image. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110138005 | METHOD FOR DELETING SESSION INFORMATION IN DRA - The present invention discloses a method for deleting session information in Diameter Routing Agent, this method comprises: sending a request message for deleting the Diameter session to a visited Diameter Routing Agent DRA and a visited policy and charging rules function PCRF by a policy and charging control client; after the visited DRA receives the request message, the visited DRA marking the Diameter session as termination in the visited DRA; after the visited PCRF receives the request message, the visited PCRF sending a message requesting to delete the Diameter session information to a home DRA, the home DRA marking the Diameter session in the home DRA as termination. In the present invention, the session information in the DRA may be effectively deleted when the BBERF entity, the PCEF entity or the AF entity terminates the Diameter session between the local and the PCRF entities. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110145334 | System and Method Enabling Future Messaging Directives Based on Past Participation via a History Monitor - A system and method for controlling the flow of documents by associating Globally Unique Identifiers with each original document, each reply document, each copy document and each forwarded document, such as email messages. Historical analysis is performed on a locally stored history records containing the Globally Unique Identifiers extracted from received documents to determine which recipients are active participants and which are inactive participants, according to user preferences and thresholds. Lists for direct recipients (e.g. “To” list), carbon copy recipients, and blind copy recipients are automatically proposed to a user of a document handling system when authoring a new document, replying to a document, or forwarding a document, according to the results of the historical participation analysis, thereby stemming information flow to participants who are not active in an ad hoc asynchronous conversation. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145335 | PRESENTING A GEMSTONE IN A SETTING - A ring design machine receives one or more selections of gemstones and one or more selections of settings and allows a user to “mix and match” gemstones and settings and view a selected gemstone in a compatible setting for that gemstone. To present the gemstone in the setting, the ring design machine presents a combination image that depicts the gemstone in the setting. The ring design machine, which may be implemented using a computer programmed by software, may present the combination image to the user in response to receiving a selection of the gemstone and a selection of the setting from the user via a network. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145336 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVER AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING ADDRESS LISTS - An exemplary method of communicating includes receiving an electronic mail communication at a message server. The communication has an embedded script that indicates at least one characteristic of at least one intended recipient of the communication. A determination is made whether the embedded script corresponds to an identifier of at least one potential candidate recipient from at least one database provided by at least one facilitator that is independent of the message server. At least an indication of the identifier is forwarded to the database facilitator(s). An indication of identified candidate recipients corresponding to the identifier is received from the facilitator(s). An address list is automatically developed based on the identified recipients. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145337 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO CONTROL NETWORK ELEMENT MANAGEMENT TRAFFIC - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to control network element management traffic are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus to process an element management system (EMS) query message includes a receiver to receive the EMS query message from a managed network element, the EMS query message being redirected from an EMS server, a responder to select a pre-determined response to the EMS query message and discard EMS information contained in the EMS query message, wherein the pre-determined response is to delay the managed network element from resending the EMS query message to the EMS server for a time period, and a transmitter to send the pre-determined response to the managed network element. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145338 | Unified Location & Presence, Communication Across Real and Virtual Worlds - A method and system for providing unified location and presence information of and intercommunication among a plurality of networked users is disclosed, where the users may be real world people or virtual world personae. Generally, after receiving data representative of both a first and second user's presence or location in the real or a virtual world over a communications network, the users are permitted to view each other's presence in a virtual network. The users are identified by endpoint addresses, and may intercommunicate using various types of media via the communications network. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145339 | RECLAIMING LOST INTERNET CUSTOMERS - A system and method of reclaiming lost Internet customers may involve detecting an outage condition associated with a host of an electronic commerce (e-commerce) web site. Customer data can be extracted from packets destined for the host, wherein the packets could be associated with transactions between customers and the web site. The extracted customer data may be stored and, upon detecting a resolution of the outage condition, a customer database can be searched based on the extracted customer data in order to identify customer contact information. A customer reclamation message may then be sent to the customer, wherein the message can incentivize the customer to return to the web site and request completion of the transaction. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145340 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF PROVIDING REMOTE ACCESS TO AN EMAIL PLATFORM - A system for and method of providing remote access to an email platform. The system and method may include receiving, from a user system, authentication data that comprises an authentication code that is associated with a user of the user system via a network, receiving, from the user system, mail mimic message data that indicates at least one mail service operation to be performed by an email system, and outputting, to the email system, one or more command signals that initiate the performance of the mail service operation. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145341 | SERVER PLATFORM TO SUPPORT INTERACTIVE MULTI-USER APPLICATIONS FOR MOBILE CLIENTS - An application-agnostic server platform that can be used to support different interactive multi-user applications. The server platform enables an application client to create a new application group or select and join an existing application group. Inter-client interactions within the application group are managed through a dedicated slave process, which is created by the server platform by invoking and configuring a set of application-agnostic tools. By combining and customizing the application-agnostic tools in an appropriate manner, the server platform is capable of creating a suitable slave process for any compliant interactive multi-user application. Once created, the slave process enables the client members of the corresponding application group to (i) interact with one another in a manner defined by the application and (ii) achieve results that are consistent across the entire application group despite the fact that all application-specific processing is carried out by the client terminals, often concurrently and in parallel to one another. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145342 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING CONTACTS AND CALENDARS WITHIN AN ONLINE CARD SYSTEM - A system implemented by an online stationery/card service is described allowing a user to personalize and send non-electronic stationery/cards, the system comprising: a Web-based GUI for designing stationery/cards and envelopes for the stationery/cards comprising: an envelope design region for designing an envelope to be used for mailing the stationery/cards selected by the end user, the envelope design region comprising: a return address region comprising one or more text boxes for entering a return address of the end user; an address region comprising one or more text boxes for entering the address of a recipient, wherein the address region includes a first link to generate a list of contacts in the user's contacts database and a second link to generate one or more options for contacting the recipient when the user does not know the address of the recipient. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145343 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN USERS - A method and device are provided for creating and utilizing a database which enables ascribing a plurality of communication addresses to each of a plurality of users' entries comprised therein, and wherein each of the plurality of communication addresses is associated with a different communication application, allowing a user who wishes to communicate with another user while applying a certain communication application, to communicate with that other user who uses a different communication application. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145344 | Fault Tolerant Distributed Messaging Architecture for Computer-Aided Dispatch System - In one embodiment, a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system includes a database for storing data originated at a plurality of CAD stations; a manager that manages access to the data stored in the database; and the plurality of CAD stations communicatively connected to the manager and to each other. While the manager is available, each CAD station transmits the critical data and the non-critical data originated at the CAD station to the manager and receives the critical data and the non-critical data originated at one or more other CAD stations from the manager. While the manager is unavailable, each CAD station transmits the critical data originated at the CAD station directly to all other CAD stations and receives the critical data originated at the one or more other CAD stations directly from the one or more other CAD stations. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145345 | METHODS, SYSTEMS,AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR RETRIEVING A FILE OF MACHINE READABLE DATA - A user, wishing to retrieve a file of machine-readable data from a remote machine-readable data storage device, transmits a first e-mail message from a local station to a remote station via a packet switched network. The first e-mail message includes a first machine-readable instruction and a first machine-readable retrieval criterion. The remote station receives the first email message from the packet switched network. The remote station parses the first e-mail message to determine if it includes the first machine-readable instruction and the first machine-readable retrieval criterion. The remote station executes the first machine-readable instruction to transmit a second e-mail message from the remote station to the local station. The second e-mail message includes the file as an attachment. The local station receives the second e-mail message from the packet switched network. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145346 | MANAGING REDUNDANCY IN ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - A computer implemented method and system is provided for managing emails within an email system or email box. At the creation of a new email at the email system, an identification of its content (CID) is calculated, the result of that calculation being stored in a header of that email to be forwarded together with the new email. It is checked at the email system when receiving an email to determine whether the email includes a CID identifying the content of that email. If this is not the case, then a CID of the content of the received email is calculated, the resulting CID being stored in the header of that email together with the email. A comparison between the received email and the already stored emails at the email system is performed by comparing the corresponding CID of the received email with the CID of the stored emails. The email system is reorganized by superseding duplicate emails having the same CID. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145347 | GLOBAL PRESENCE - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing presence information for a principal without a presence or other user agent. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for publication of presence information independent of a presence agent or other user agent, presence network, or presence server as well as subsequent ways for authorized presence watchers to subscribe to presence and receive notification or query presence information for a principal. Stated another way providing presence information for a principal can comprise receiving presence information related to a first entity from a device without a presence agent at a presence information service and providing the presence information related to the first entity from the presence information service to a second entity. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145348 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING TERMS RELEVANT TO WEB PAGES USING SOCIAL NETWORK MESSAGES - Systems and methods for retrieving social network messages and/or web pages in response to search queries are described. One embodiment of the invention includes generating a word list from at least a portion of the content of the web page using a web and message server system, generating an initial list of relevant terms based upon the word list using the web and message server system, identifying additional relevant terms using messages posted to at least one social network based upon the initial list of relevant terms, and creating an updated list of relevant terms by using the web and server system to combine terms in the initial list of relevant terms with the additional relevant terms identified using messages posted to at least one social network. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145349 | ACTIVATING A DATA CONNECTION TO A DATA NETWORK VIA A MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method for activating a data connection from a mobile terminal device to a data network via at least one mobile telecommunications network. In this exemplary method, a connection request from the terminal device is forwarded to a switching unit, activation conditions for activating the data connection are determined based on receipt of the connection request in the switching unit, and a message containing the activation conditions is sent to the terminal device independently of the data connection that is to be established. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145350 | PERSONALIZED MESSAGING ON WEB INSERTS - A method is provided for rendering a personal message sent by a sender for a recipient. The method includes: receiving the personal message by a processing software component of a server of a communications network; detecting, by the server, a connection of the recipient to an information rendering space; and replacing an advertisement insert display by the message subsequently to the connection of the recipient as a function of at least one rendering parameter accompanying the message. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145351 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM BY USING E-MAIL TRANSFER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD BY USING E-MAIL TRANSFER - An image forming system using an e-mail transfer includes a device to transmit an e-mail to which a file is attached, a first server to receive the e-mail from the device and to store the received e-mail, a second server to receive the e-mail downloaded from the first server, to convert a format of the downloaded e-mail into a preset format, and to transmit a result of the conversion to the device, and an image forming apparatus to request the second server to print the received e-mail according to the result of the conversion and to print the received e-mail according to the request. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145352 | AUTOMATIC ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for publishing an electronic document. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. A distribution module retrieves a distribution list identifying at least one user that is to be notified about the publication of the electronic document. As such, when a transfer module sends the electronic document to a network location, a messaging module automatically notifies the at least user from the distribution list of the publication of the electronic document and provides instructions to the at least one user for retrieving the electronic document from the network location. Other systems and methods are also provided. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145353 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, METHOD OF MARKING MAIL AS READ, AND PROGRAM FOR MARKING MAIL AS READ - The present invention is an information communication terminal having a function of displaying, together with a received mail list, part or all of a message of a received mail in the selected state in the preview. The information communication terminal includes: a judgment unit judging whether all of the message of the received mail in the selected state fits in a predetermined area for the preview display; and an update unit performing an update in the case when the judgment is affirmative so that information indicating whether the received mail has already been read indicates that it has already been read. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145354 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD - A data communication system includes a video camera and a mail server. The video camera, which is provided with at least an e-mail sending/receiving function, attaches obtained original still image data to e-mail, adds a tag (editing tag), and sends the e-mail to a communication network. The mail server receives the e-mail sent from the video camera on the communication network, edits the original still image data attached to the e-mail based on the added tag, attaches the edited still image data to the e-mail, and sends the e-mail to a receiving personal computer. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145355 | System and Method for Improved Social Networking - A geographically defined social network is provided, the network including a personal communications device; a means for detection of data regarding a first networked user based on a predetermined geographic condition, and a means for delivery of said data regarding said first networked user to a second networked user in response to a geographically-defined user request. Other, “layered” options in which information originally concealed by the first user can be selectively revealed to subsequent users, and a wide variety of selection and data distribution criteria are also provided. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145356 | Communication Device - A communication device comprising a processor arranged to select a first communication address for sending a first message to a first communication device and selecting a second communication address for sending a second message to the first communication device unless the first communication device has responded to the first message before the second message has been sent. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110153749 | System and Method for Application Alert Tracking in an Internet Protocol Television System - A maintenance system for an IPTV network includes a logging module, a ticketing module, and an operations module. The logging module receives a fault alert from a service provider and sends the alert to the ticketing module. The ticketing module determines the urgency of the fault, generates a ticket, assigns priority to the ticket based upon the urgency, and sends the ticket to the operations module. The operations module allocates the ticket and sends a message to a mobile device regarding the ticket. A method includes receiving a fault alert from a service provider, sending the alert to a ticketing module, determining the urgency of the event, generating a ticket, assigning priority to the ticket based upon the urgency, sending the ticket to an operations module, allocating the ticket, and sending a message to a mobile device the ticket. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153750 | Computer To Mobile Two-Way Chat System And Method - Systems and methods are provided for a two-way chat. In one aspect there is provided a system including a processor, which further includes a memory. The processor and memory provide a web client application. The system further includes a mobile wireless device, and a centralized server. The centralized server provides a two-way chat between the web client application and the mobile wireless device. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153751 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for content management are provided. The systems and methods may include a dynamically scalable computing resource configured to increase or decrease computing capacity. Dynamically scalable computing resources can include processors, memory coupled to the processor for storing instructions, and other computing resources. The memory can store instructions and data. The instructions may cause the processor to process data to enable multiple suppliers to select multiple specific resellers of their products, process data to control permissions that allow the specific retailers access to product data, process data to allow an agent of the retailer access to supplier data, and cause the processor to transmit a notification based on a change in a data element. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153752 | Processing of Email Based on Semantic Relationship of Sender to Recipient - A method, system, and article are provided for processing solicited electronic mail messages responsive to a set of rules. Each received message is processed through the rules to determine if it meets at least one protocol in the set of rules, wherein the rules pertain to a method of communicating the message to the recipient. Upon a match of the message to at least one rule, the message is conveyed to the recipient in conformance with the rule. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153753 | E-MAIL AWARENESS ENHANCEMENT - A method for preserving e-mail messages. It is determined, by a processor, whether an event has occurred with respect to an e-mail message, wherein an occurrence of the event results in a consequence activity with respect to the e-mail message. Responsive to determining that the event has occurred, it is determined, by the processor, whether criteria is satisfied, wherein the criteria relates to a status of an e-mail user. Responsive to determining that the criteria is satisfied, the consequence activity is prevented notwithstanding that the event has occurred. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153754 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING TIME-SENSITIVE ALERTS IN A MOBILE DEVICE - In various embodiments, a method for receiving alerts through a network includes providing a device having a pop-up management module and a display; providing a communications interface between the device and one or more database systems located outside the network; providing a user interface configured to allow the user to selectively choose to display, on the display, one or more message types generated by the one or more database systems, wherein said one or more message types are received by said pop-up management module via the network and displayed on the display as a pop-up message. A related system includes a device registered in the network having a processor, a memory device, a transceiver, a user interface, and a display, wherein the processor is configured to control a pop-up management module for displaying one or more message types as a pop-up message. The device may be a WiMAX-enabled device and the network may be a WiMAX network. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153755 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A system and method of using the system for capturing and storing electronic messages is disclosed. The system includes a client device and a remote server in communication with the client device. The client device comprises a first processor, software running on the processor, a storage device, and a transmitter. The software captures electronic messages sent and received by the client device. The server comprises a processor, software running on the processor, a storage device and an output device. The software archives the electronic messages received from the client device. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153756 | Network-Based Service Access for Wireless Communication Devices - A device and method facilitates communication with a network-based service or application such as a Social Networking Service (SNS), for example. The device may be a cellular telephone that is not normally equipped to communicate with such services. However, a controller in the device selects a bearer service that can be used to communicate with the service. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153757 | PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF A PUBLISH OPERATION - A solution for performance optimization of a publish operation, for use with a system comprising a publisher to publish a message and to match a subscriber with the published message, embodiments of the solution comprising: in response to the publisher publishing a message, determining whether the matching subscriber is actively waiting for the published message; and in response to determining that the subscriber is not actively waiting, deferring delivery of the published message. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153758 | INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information terminal includes: a first controlling unit which controls a displaying unit to display a received mail icon indicating a received mail; a second controlling unit which controls the displaying unit to display a return mail icon indicating a return mail to the received mail; and a transmitting unit which transmits, when an operation of selecting a display area at which the return mail icon is displayed is performed, the return mail indicated by the return mail icon on which the operation is performed, to a source of the received mail indicated by the received mail icon. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153759 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED ONLINE COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION - A system for transmission, reception and accumulation of the knowledge packets to plurality of channel nodes in the network operating distributedly in a peer to peer environment via installable one or more role active Human Operating System (HOS) applications in a digital devise of each of channel node, a network controller registering and providing desired HOS applications and multiple developers developing advance communication and knowledge management applications and each of subscribers exploiting the said network resources by leveraging and augmenting taxonomically and ontologically classified knowledge classes expressed via plurality search macros and UKID structures facilitating said expert human agents for knowledge invocation and support services and service providers providing information services in the preidentified taxonomical classes, wherein each of channel nodes communicating with the unknown via domain specific supernodes each facilitating social networking and relationships development leading to human grid which is searchable via Universal Desktop Search by black box search module. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153760 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING CONVERGED ADDRESS BOOK SERVICE INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for notifying Converged Address Book (CAB) service information are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request message from a second CAB user; judging whether to notify a first CAB user according to the request message and/or instruction information of the first CAB user; and sending the notification message to the first CAB user if determining to notify the first CAB user. With the present invention, the CAB service information can be notified, and the user experience is improved | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153761 | Broadcasting In Chat System Without Topic-Specific Rooms - A method, system and graphical user interface for a chat system is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes broadcasting popular messages to users that have not previously received the popular messages and including with the popular messages one or more qualitative signals based on user feedback. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153762 | Systems and Methods for Messaging to Multiple Gateways - Systems and methods for providing message communication among multiple communication gateways. In particular, systems and methods for providing non-voice message delivery to intended recipients with increased speed and reliability to multiple users on multiple platforms. The systems and methods relate to non-voice messaging to multiple messaging gateways. In at least one embodiment, the systems and methods include Internet based electronic messaging using a messaging subsystem configured to optimize text message delivery to communication gateways. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153763 | Apparatus And Method For Provisioning Wireless Data Communication Devices - A system for provisioning wireless data communication devices for a plurality of users is provided in which the system includes a configuration server having an authorization program and a configuration program, and a database. The configuration server is connectable to a network for providing a network portal for the plurality of users to | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153764 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING GROUP MESSAGE SERVICE BASED ON CONVERGED SERVICE SYSTEM - A method and system for implementing a group message service based on a converged service system, and the method comprises: a sender converged service client sending a message to a sender's home participant session and message processing module, and the message including a group identifier; said sender's home participant session and message processing module forwarding said message to a controller session and message processing module according to said group identifier; the controller session and message processing module authorizing the sender, and forwarding said message to a destination user's home participant session and message processing module, the destination user corresponding to the group identifier; and said destination user's home participant session and message processing module forwarding said message to a converged service client terminal of said destination user. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153765 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ACTIVE COMMUNICATION SESSIONS, COMMUNICATION SESSION INFORMATION SERVERS, METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT ACTIVE COMMUNICATION SESSIONS AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SERVERS - A method for ascertaining active sessions may include receiving a request to ascertain active sessions by a session information server; transmitting respective challenges for document contents, which indicate whether sessions are currently active, from the session information server to at least one document management server which has a respective associated communication session server, wherein in the case of precisely one document management server the latter has at least two associated session servers; receiving respective challenge responses from the document management server, which indicate active sessions controlled by the session server associated with the respective document management server or which indicate that such sessions currently do not exist, by the session information server; and transmitting a first response, which indicates one or more active sessions controlled by the session servers associated with the document management server or which indicates that such sessions currently do not exist, by the session information server. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110161425 | Automatic Notification of Document Changes - Included are method, article of manufacture, and device that serve to identify one or more tracked categories in a document, the tracked category representing a portion of the document, identify a change in one or more of the tracked categories of the document, identify a client to notify of the change in the tracked category, and send a notification to a client, where the notification provides notice that a change has occurred in a tracked category of a document. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161426 | Control E-Mail Download Through Instructional Requests - Method, system and computer program product for requesting e-mail messages. Download instructions for sending e-mail messages from an e-mail message database storing a plurality of e-mail messages to an e-mail client are received at an e-mail messaging system, the plurality of e-mail messages having accumulated due to inattention by a user. The e-mail messaging system sends e-mail messages from the e-mail message database to the e-mail client in accordance with the download instructions. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161427 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION-AWARE MESSAGING - An approach is provided for insertion of location-related information into a communication message. A communication message is received from an application resident on a mobile device, wherein the communication message specifies location-related information that includes addressing information or point-of-interest information, and the application includes either an electronic mail application, an instant messaging application, or a social networking application. The location-related information is extracted from the communication message. The location-related information is presented as an actionable item that triggers an action to be executed. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161428 | TWO-WAY DATA AND RESOURCES SHARING METHOD - A two-way data and resources sharing method is disclosed. A sharing apparatus is provided to connect two computers for establishing two-way communication link between two computers. Firstly, a computer is configured as a master computer and the other computer is configured as a slave computer. The master computer and slave computer send a request instruction for executing data transfer, data synchronization or data sharing via an operating application installed in the master computer. The corresponding instructions requested are respectively executed on the connected two computers. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161429 | AUTOMATED RELATIONSHIP CLASSIFICATION - A method and computer program product for automatically classifying relationships in a social networking or email application is described. A method may comprise associating, via at least one of a client electronic device and a server computer, a first incoming communication type and a first outgoing communication type with a first contact group, and a second incoming communication type and a second outgoing communication type with a second contact group. The method may further comprise monitoring, via at least one of the client electronic device and the server computer, an incoming communication from a contact and an outgoing communication to the contact. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161430 | INSTANT MESSAGING BASED VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEM - An instant messaging system generates an instant messaging application user interface display object enabling the user to select one or more buddies, or a predefined group from their buddy list, and then to select a file to share with the selected buddies or group. The instant messaging system then controls sharing of the file within the selected buddies or group, by allowing only one of the sharing users to check out and modify the shared document at a given time. The instant messaging system user interface displayed to each user also displays the list of files that are shared with that user. The instant messaging system user interface further provides a current status for each shared file, including an indication of one of the sharing users that currently has the shared file checked out. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161431 | Interactive Query Tool - A chat room system interfaces with an automated processing system. When an interactive query message from a user is addressed to the automated processing system, the interactive query message is passed to the automated processing system. The automated processing system extracts one or more keywords from the interactive query message and obtains response information from a data structure based on the one or more keywords. The automated processing system then returns an interactive response to the user through instant messaging. When the interactive query message is not addressed to the automated processing system, the interactive query message is forwarded to a support group through a chat room system. When the interactive response exceeds a predetermined size, part of the interactive response may be sent through instant messaging and the remainder through e-mail. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161432 | LOCATION BASED SYSTEM WITH LOCATION-ENABLED MESSAGING AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a location based system includes: submitting a tagged message having a message content, a trigger, and a recipient identifier; determining a location reading for locating a recipient associated with the recipient identifier; determining a temporal reading associated with the recipient identifier; and displaying the message content on a device having the recipient identifier, the message content displayed based on the trigger with the location reading, the temporal reading, or a combination thereof. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161433 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING EMAIL AND EMAIL SERVERS - A message body carried by an Internet Protocol (IP) packet is identified; the message body is searched for features of an email message; and a result of the search is used to determine if the IP packet is associated with email. The features of an email message include multiple words usually associated with email messages. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161434 | SITUATION BASED PRESENCE NOTIFICATION LEVERAGING - Presence messages are managed for one or more members of a pre-defined group of e-mail users. An unavailability time period, during which a pre-defined group of e-mail users will be unavailable in the future, is established. A notice, which notifies the pre-defined group of e-mail users that an unavailability control instruction will be sent in the future to participating members of the group of e-mail users, is transmitted to the group of e-mail users. An acceptance signal, identifying the participating members, is received, indicating which members of the group of e-mail users agree to permit the unavailability control instruction to be received and implemented on their participating computers in the future. The unavailability control instruction is then transmitted to the participating computers at an initiation of the unavailability time period, in order to auto-generate an appropriate presence message for the participating members. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFERRED TRANSMISSION OF ATTACHMENTS - A first message may be received, wherein the first message may include a message body and an attachment. The first message may be processed to generate at least a second and a third message, wherein the second message may be generated based, at least in part, upon the message body and the third message may be generated based, at least in part, upon the attachment. A delay may be calculated based, at least in part, upon a network condition level. The second message may be transmitted. The third message may be transmitted based, at least in part, upon the calculated delay. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161436 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND PRESENTING PROGRAM MESSAGES - An approach is provided for a messaging interface between applications and a user. A plurality of messages associated respectively with a plurality of programs is stored in a common message database according to timing information corresponding to the messages. A subset of the messages is retrieved based on the timing information. The subset of messages is filtered based on message type. The filtered messages are output to a non-visual communication program for presentation of the filtered messages. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161437 | ACTION-BASED E-MAIL MESSAGE QUOTA MONITORING - E-mail applications can be extended to allow recipients to specify quotas indicating maximum numbers of e-mail messages from specific senders based on actions indicated for the recipients to take. A sender can set a quota specifying that no more than five action related e-mail messages should be sent by each sender per week. Quotas may also be set for a number of e-mail messages received that do not require action. Recipient quota information is accessible by senders' e-mail applications so that senders are aware of the quotas before sending an e-mail message. After determining recipients for an e-mail message, an e-mail application can determine quotas for the recipients based on an action indicated in the e-mail message for the sender. The e-mail application can determine if the e-mail message to be sent will approach or reach the quota, and display a notification before the sender sends the e-mail message. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161438 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A MULTI-APPLICATION FOLLOW-UP MECHANISM - A system that responds to a user setting a follow-up flag on a message within a first communication application by associating the flagged message with another user, such that the flagged message is available to a second communication application. When a user sets a flag on an electronic mail message contained in an electronic mail mailbox provided by an electronic mail application, the system responds by associating the flagged message with another user in a list of other users with whom flagged messages are associated. When a communication session occurs with the other user through another communication application, the system checks the list and determines that a flagged message is associated with the other user. The flagged message is then brought to the attention of the local user, for example within a list of flagged messages associated with the other user displayed simultaneously with the instant messaging session. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161439 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUERYING, MONITORING AND CONTROLLING A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK USING AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method for communicating with one or more sensor nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) over a network is disclosed. The method includes initiating communication with the sensor nodes by sending messages to the server application using the instant messaging system. The server application formats the received messages and communicates to the sensor nodes and in turn also receives responses from the sensor nodes and communicates them back to the IM client. The method also includes steps for enabling a WSN messaging client to converse with an instant messaging client over the network during communication with the one or more sensor nodes in the WSN. The method further includes identifying the IM client the user has employed for communication and the corresponding IM protocol. Also, the method includes the step of configuring the WSN messaging client with the same IM protocol to enable communication. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161440 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING DIGITAL CONTENT - A computer program product being tangibly embodied in a computer-readable medium and including computer-executable code for enhancing an electronic document including a plurality of advertisements, the computer program product computer-executable code including: code for receiving a request corresponding to an identifier associated with a given advertisement responsively to a user's interaction with the electronic document; and code for launching a clientless chat application that corresponds to the advertisement responsively to the receiving, regardless of whether the electronic document allows chat-application code to be embedded therein. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161441 | INTERWORKING BETWEEN MESSAGING SERVICE DOMAINS - An interworking function is provided between first and second messaging domains or technologies, when original address/identities of users in the first domain and the second domain are incompatible. Upon receiving from a sender in the first messaging domain a message addressed to a recipient in the second messaging domain, the interworking function provides, for an original sender address or identity received in the message, a new sender address which is valid in the second messaging domain, and inserts the new address in a header field of the message to be forwarded to the recipient in the second messaging domain. Moreover, the interworking function adds the original sender address into the specific header field of the message either as a part of the new sender address or as an attribute. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES - A method includes receiving at least an indication of a notification message through a first channel and receiving at least a part of the notification message through a second channel. The receiving at least an indication of a notification message may include a push-type delivery, and the receiving at least a part of the notification message may include a pull procedure. Alternatively, the receiving at least an indication of a notification message may include a poll-type delivery, and the receiving at least a part of the notification message may include a pull procedure. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161443 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Data management systems and methods for mobile devices are provided. The system includes at least a mobile device and a management system. The mobile device at least includes an image capture unit for capturing an image, and a processing unit for transmitting the image to the management system via a network. The management system at least includes a processing unit for retrieving data corresponding to the image according to the received image, and transmitting the data corresponding to the image to the mobile device via the network. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161444 | INTEGRATING AND MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORKING INFORMATION IN AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM - Some embodiments comprise integrating information from a social network into a multi-tenant database system. A plurality of information from the social network is retrieved, using a processor and a network interface of a server computer in the multi-tenant database system, wherein the plurality of information is associated with a message transmitted using the social network. Metadata related to the transmitted message is generated, using the processor. A conversation object is generated, using the processor, based on the plurality of information associated with the transmitted message and the metadata related to the transmitted message. The conversation object is then stored in an entity in the multi-tenant database system, using the processor of the server computer. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161445 | Method, Data Processing Program, and Computer Program Product for Handling Instant Messaging Sessions and Corresponding Instant Messaging Environment - An improved method for handling instant messaging sessions in an instant messaging server is disclosed. The method comprises providing global annotators for annotating instant messaging communications, wherein instant messaging users are being able to select for a private enhancement stack at least one of the following: annotators and look-up services; providing instant messaging users with a capability to obtain contextual information by activating enhancement functions provided by said private enhancement stack; establishing an instant messaging session between a set of instant messaging users; and supporting sharing said contextual information among said set of instant messaging users as part of the instant messaging session. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161446 | Apparatus and method for synchronizing data between instantmessaging clients in communication system - An apparatus and a method for efficiently synchronizing data between Instant Messaging (IM) clients in a communication system. A method for requesting to synchronize data of a terminal which uses an IM service includes when data synchronization with another terminal is requested during IM communication with the other terminal, generating Synchronization Markup Language (SyncML) request data to request to synchronize a corresponding data, inserting the generated SyncML request data to an IM message, and sending the IM message to the other terminal. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161447 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESPONDING TO MESSAGES - A method for responding to messages comprises the steps of: establishing a first database; establishing a second database; forwarding content of the first database to a first proxy device; forwarding content of the second database to a second proxy device; utilizing the first proxy device to respond to at least one first real message; and utilizing the second proxy device to respond to at least one second real message. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161448 | System and Method for Improved Synchronization Between a Server and a Client - A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161449 | INSTANT MESSAGING BASED VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEM - An instant messaging system generates an instant messaging application user interface display object enabling the user to select one or more buddies, or a predefined group from their buddy list, and then to select a file to share with the selected buddies or group. The instant messaging system then controls sharing of the file within the selected buddies or group, by allowing only one of the sharing users to check out and modify the shared document at a given time. The instant messaging system user interface displayed to each user also displays the list of files that are shared with that user. The instant messaging system user interface further provides a current status for each shared file, including an indication of one of the sharing users that currently has the shared file checked out. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161450 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING AND DELIVERING MEDICAL IMAGES TO MOBILE DEVICES AND REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A system for automated conversion and delivery of medical images, comprises a communication interface; a data storage system configured to store a plurality of medical images, meta data associated with the plurality of medical images, converted medical images, a plurality of standardized format specifications for a plurality of destination devices and services, and a plurality of message templates; a server coupled with the data storage system and the communication interface, the server configured to: receive a medical image file via the communications interface, the medical image file comprising medical data and meta data, the medical data having a medical data format, determine whether the medical data includes a medical image data, determine an output destination type, wherein the output destination type is an output device, service, or both, based on the meta data, correlate the output destination type with one or more of the plurality of standardized format specifications and with one or more of the plurality of message templates, convert the medical data format associated with the medical data based on the standardized format specifications that correlate with the output destination type, assemble at least one output message that includes the converted medical data based on the message templates that correlate with the output destination type, and transmit the output message to at least one destination via the communication interface. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161451 | SPECULATIVE DISTRIBUTED CONFLICT RESOLUTION FOR A CACHE COHERENCY PROTOCOL - A conflict resolution technique provides consistency such that all conflicts can be detected by at least one of the conflicting requestors if each node monitors all requests after that node has made its own request. If a line is in the Exclusive, Modified or Forward state, conflicts are resolved at the node holding the unique copy. The winner of the conflict resolution, and possibly the losers, report the conflict to the home node, which pairs conflict reports and issues forwarding instructions to assure that all requesting nodes eventually receive the requested data. If a requested cache line is either uncached or present only in the Shared state, the home node provides a copy of the cache node and resolves conflicts. In one embodiment, a blackout period after all responses until an acknowledgement message has been received allows all conflicting nodes to be aware of conflicts in which they are involved. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110167117 | FEATURE PROPAGATION - Software is propagated over a social network through an instant message client. The software is propagated to a computing device in the social network over the instant message client, wherein the software is based upon a rating system within the social network. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167118 | MESSAGE WAITING NOTIFICATION TO EXTERNAL MESSAGE CENTERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for notifying external message centers when a mobile device becomes available to receive a text message. One embodiment includes a message waiting system that identifies a failed delivery attempt of a text message to a mobile device that is unavailable, where the text message originated from an external message center. The system identifies routing information for the external message center based on the failed delivery attempt, generates a Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) record for the text message that includes the routing information for the external message center, and stores the MWI record. When the system identifies that the mobile device becomes available, the system identifies the MWI record that includes information on the failed delivery attempt to the mobile device, and sends a notification indicating that the mobile device is available to the external message center based on the routing information in the MWI record. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167119 | Systems and Methods for Processing Heartbeat Messages - According to one embodiment, a method for processing heartbeat messages includes processing heartbeat messages received at a first network interface integral to a first network element from a second network element to determine a first status parameter associated with the second network element. The method may also include processing heartbeat messages received at a second network interface integral to the first network element from the second network element to determine a second status parameter associated with the second network element. The method may further include determining a status of the second network element based on the first status parameter and the second status parameter. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167120 | ELECTRONIC-MAIL REMINDER FOR AN INTERNET TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE - An Internet television program guide electronic-mail (e-mail) reminder system is provided. The system allows a user at a multimedia system to order and receive e-mail message reminders of scheduled television events over the Internet. The user can order e-mail reminders after selecting a program from the program listings or by supplying (a program title directly) specific user program preferences without having to consult the program listings. The user can specify when and how often the reminders will be generated and received. If desired, the user can view a list of all currently requested e-mail reminders. Entries can be added to the list or the user can cancel a previously ordered reminder. The user can order e-mail reminders for scheduled pay-per-view programs using the system. The user can also have reminder information periodically updated and available directly on the user's multimedia system. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167121 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION OF DATA TRANSMITTED OVER A NETWORK - In a system comprising a server and a client device, wherein upon responding to a request for textual data stored therein, the server is adapted to return processed text containing at least one truncated element of the requested textual data, embodiments of the invention may provide for efficient and enhanced handling of processed data by a system and method comprising: obtaining a plurality of input texts from the client device to an intermediate module; processing the plurality of input texts at the intermediate module to obtain a respective plurality of processed texts; storing at least one unabridged processed element of the plurality of processed texts, respectively, in a storage device managed by the intermediate module; transmitting the plurality of processed texts to the server; upon request, receiving at the intermediate module returned processed text containing at least one truncated element of a requested processed record from the server; searching the storage device for at least one processed element matching each said truncated element; and using the at least one unabridged processed element to obtain unprocessed input text. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167122 | BUDDY LIST-BASED SHARING OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Instant messaging (IM) entities may be invited to an electronic calendar event using an instant message. Selecting the IM entities as invitees to the event may include dragging and dropping names of the IM entities from a buddy list of an IM application to an event from an electronic calendar application, or vice versa. A method of inviting an entity to a calendar event includes providing a calendar event from a calendar application and recognizing, by the calendar application, an IM entity as an invitee to the event. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167123 | Apparatus and Method of Wireless Instant Messaging - A wireless communication device declares one of a plurality of extended instant messaging states and transmits the declared states to a presence information server. Declared extended instant messaging states for destination devices are received, and an enhanced instant message based on declared extended instant messaging states is generated. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY MANAGING "MESSAGES SENT" FILE AND RESENDING OF MESSAGES FROM MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An enhanced email system incorporating mobile wireless communication devices includes program logic for efficiently managing (i.e., at least partially synchronizing) “messages sent” files in the mobile device and in a related message server. The exemplary program logic also more efficiently handles resending of previously sent email messages from the mobile wireless communication device (especially in the context of synchronized messages sent files) by sending to the message server only abbreviated unique message ID in the first instance. In this way, wireless bandwidth is conserved as is the device battery. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167125 | Interpersonal Spacetime Interaction System - The present innovation provides a method of establishing a connection between two individuals using an interpersonal spacetime interaction system, including enabling a first user to specify a spacetime event and to provide annotations for the spacetime event, maintaining a spacetime database comprising data objects, each data object corresponding to a spacetime event, querying a spacetime database, using a query that includes at least a specification of a desired spacetime event, said query being initiated by a second user, retrieving information from those data objects in the spacetime database whose corresponding spacetime events are proximate to the desired spacetime event, and providing the retrieved information to the second user. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110173267 | Spoken email-audio file integrated with text message as a new way of email for communication - A method of creating, transferring and comprehending the audio file integrated with text message in email system as a new way of email for communication. It makes working with email much more efficient, faster, and healthier. It greatly reduces the workload in typing and reading the traditional email. It also helps people who couldn't read and write much to use email system for communication. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173268 | TELECOMMUNICATION MESSAGING THROUGH A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Systems and methods are disclosed for displaying telecommunication messages through a social networking service. One embodiment includes a telecommunication messaging system that is implemented with a social networking service. The telecom messaging system receives telecommunication messages from a telecommunication network that are associated with a directory number assigned to a phone. The phone is operated by a member of a web-based social networking service. The telecom messaging system provides a telecommunication messaging page to display the telecommunication messages to the member as part of a website for the social networking service. Thus, the member is able to view telecom messages, such as voicemail messages, text messages, call logs, etc., through the social networking service. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173269 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and computing device for processing data are provided. Rule data for visually coding incoming data is stored. First and second profile data are stored, independent of the rule data. Each profile data comprises a respective range of time and a respective recurrence pattern that repeats indefinitely. Each profile data is associated with a respective subset of the rule data. Respective indications are received that first profile data and second profile have been activated. In response, the respective subset is automatically applied during the respective range of time such that incoming data is visually coded at the display device according to the respective subset during the respective range of time. Automatic application of the respective subset during the respective range of time repeats indefinitely according to the respective recurrence pattern until another indication that the respective profile data has been deactivated is received. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173270 | Conferencing Apparatus And Method - Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for processing data in an online conference and, in particular, for generating a desktop recording of desktop image data shared in an online conference. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173271 | ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method, a system and a computer program product of transmitting availability information in an electronic mail system are disclosed. The system includes a first system including a sender, the first system is adapted to activate an availability indicator having a start date, wherein the activation is performed by the sender and extract availability indicator metadata from the availability indicator. The availability indicator metadata includes the start date, an end date, and at least one availability indicator message. If an e-mail has not been sent to a receiver since activation and if a current date is prior to the start date, the first system is further adapted to attach the availability indicator metadata to the e-mail, and send the e-mail to the receiver. The electronic mail system further includes a scheduling system functionally coupled to the first system, and is adapted to define the availability indicator. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173272 | FILTERING OF ELECTONIC MAIL MESSAGES DESTINED FOR AN INTERNAL NETWORK - A perimeter network may be utilized to filter electronic mail messages destined for an internal network. A computer may be utilized to monitor an electronic mail mailbox for changes to a safe recipients list and/or a blocked senders list. The computer may further be utilized to automatically copy the safe recipients list and/or the blocked senders list to a network directory in the internal network. The computer may further be utilized to automatically send the safe recipients list and/or the blocked senders list to a network directory in the perimeter network for utilization by one or more agents executing on a computer in the perimeter network. The one or more agents may be configured to utilize the safe recipients list and/or the blocked senders list to filter electronic mail messages received by the perimeter network which are destined for delivery to the internal network. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173273 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INHIBITING PHISHING - A system according to the invention comprises a communication device | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173274 | Method and system for mapping organizational social networks utilizing dynamically prioritized e-mail flow indicators - A method to use dynamically prioritized email communications to establish and analyze organization social network maps includes selecting a dynamically prioritized email dataset based on network boundaries and contextual framework, establishing a one-way trusted relationship score between an email recipient and sender, establishing a one-way trusted relationship score between an email sender and recipient, establishing a two-way trusted relationship score between two communicating entities, establishing an atomic unit of entities based on a decreasing order of at least one of the one-way trusted relationship score and the two-way trusted relationship score, and establishing a social network based on arranging atomic units and entities based on one or more of an email prioritization score, a trusted relationship score, and an email productivity and collaboration metric, wherein the entities are email senders and email recipients. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173275 | Messaging Between Events - An event management system is configured to receive information from a person associated with a first event and provide a message to a second event that is associated with the first event. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173276 | Systems and Methods for an Identification Protocol Between a Local Controller and a Master Controller - Systems and methods for local and master management units in a photovoltaic energy system. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a computer system includes sending a first identification code from a local management unit to a master management unit. The first identification code is associated with the first local management unit, and the local management unit controls a solar module. An authentication of the first identification code is received from the master management unit. In response to receiving the authentication, active operation of the local management unit is continued (e.g., for a set time period). | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173277 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING A USER OF A SERVICE ON A MOBILE TERMINAL - In the held of the broadcasting of services, in particular video, on mobile terminals and more particularly that of the method of authenticating the user of a service from a mobile terminal, the invention proposes a procedure for authenticating the user of a service on a mobile terminal making it possible to refrain from manual copying of an identifier by the user. For this purpose, the user enters his mobile telephone number when he registers. A short text message or an e-mail is then sent to him on his mobile terminal. This short message or e-mail contains an identifier of this user's account. When initially launching the application dedicated to access to the service, said application then runs through the short messages or e-mails stored on the terminal, it identifies the message containing the identifier and extracts it. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173278 | Method and System for Sending Messages - The present publication discloses a method and system for sending messages in a telecommunications network ( | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173279 | Method and System for Vehicular Communications and Information Reporting - A method for vehicular communications and information reporting. First and second wireless Internet connections between respective first and second vehicles and a web-server are provided. First and second event information is transmitted, to the web-server, from the first and second vehicles. The first and second event information relates to the same event in visual range, respectively, of occupants of the first and second vehicles. The web server may transmit, to the first and second vehicles, confirmed event information derived from the first and second event information. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173280 | STATUS MESSAGES CONVEYED DURING COMMUNICATION SESSION TO SESSION PARTICIPANTS - At least two applications can be instantiated on a client device. Each of the at least two applications can include a user interface for interacting with a user of the client device. One of the applications can be a real-time communication application through which the user is participating in a real-time communication session with at least one remotely located user. Another of the applications can be referred to as a second application. Status information relating to user interactions with the second application can be determined. A status message can be generated that includes content from the determined status information. The status message can be generated without manually entered user input. The status message can be conveyed automatically and without manual user input to the at least one remotely located user via the real-time communication application during the real-time communication application. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173281 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A COMMUNITY OF INTEREST SERVICE - Methods and systems are provided for facilitating communications among persons sharing a common interest. Customers of a telecommunications provider are notified about the service via a notification included in a billing statement. A customer uses the information to access a web site capable of registering the customer and connecting the customer to other persons sharing a common interest. The service assigns aliases to respective participants so that the true identity of each person is not made available to others in the group. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173282 | INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - An interactive system and method for controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions involving a plurality of users including controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions, each of said communications sessions being for access by a plurality of users, wherein data identifying said plurality of communications sessions have been stored in association with data indicative of one or more characteristics thereof. The method includes receiving a request to initiate communications among members of a group of users, wherein said request includes data identifying the group of users, responsive to receiving said request, selecting a communications session on the basis of data identifying the group and at least some of said stored data indicative of characteristics of a given communications session, and transmitting messages to at least some members of the group. Each message has a message body including data providing access to the selected communications session and a destination address determined from data indicative of a given member of the group. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173283 | PEER DISCOVERY AND CONNECTION MANAGEMENT BASED ON CONTEXT SENSITIVE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In a method for automatically filtering communications, a new networking request from an initiating party is received. A social networking model for a recipient of the new networking request is retrieved. Context information related to prior communications between the recipient and the initiating party from the social networking model for the recipient is used to present the new networking request to the recipient. The social networking model for the recipient is dynamically updated based upon a response by the recipient to the new networking request. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173284 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VERIFYING AN ATTACHMENT FILE WITHIN AN E-MAIL - System, method and program product for managing a file attached to an e-mail. The attached file's file name is obtained. A voice message file address is received and encoded into a modified address to comply with file naming rules of a recipient computer. A composite file name results from inserting the modified address into the attached file's file name and is displayed in the e-mail. The recipient computer extracts the modified address from the composite file name in the e-mail and decodes the modified address to obtain the voice message file address. Using the voice message file address, the recipient computer requests and receives the voice message file. The voice message is analyzed and verified prior to accessing the attached file. Verifying the voice message includes comparing a voice of the voice message to a voice signature. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110179121 | Broadcast Message Management - A method for broadcast message management includes receiving, at a registration server, a registration comprising a first plurality of communication channels by a registration server, the first plurality of communication channels comprising a first communication channel and a second communication channel, the first communication channel being associated with a first service provider, the second communication channel being associated with a second service provider; and providing the registration by the registration server to the first service provider, such that a status notification for a broadcast message, the broadcast message being received by a second plurality of communication channels comprising the first communication channel and the second communication channel, is sent to the second service provider from the first service provider. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179122 | Method and Computer Program Product for Sending Messages - A method and computer program product includes displaying a plurality of recipient databases for enabling a user to select a recipient database. The recipient databases at least include contact names associated with elected offices and profiles of the contact names. Contact names contained within a selected recipient database are displayed for enabling the user to select at least one contact name from the recipient database to receive a message. A profile associated with a selected contact name is displayed. A plurality of communication templates is displayed for enabling the user to select a communication template for generating the message. A selected communication template is displayed for editing by the user. A plurality of delivery options is displayed for enabling the user to select a delivery option for the message. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179123 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING OVER A NETWORK WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE - A device is provided for connecting a medical apparatus to a network. The device collects data from the medical apparatus and performs a variety of processing functions, such as trending, protocol translation, generating reports, etc. related to the collected data. The device then transmits the collected data over a network to interested parties. In some implementations, the device can transmit the collected data as an email message. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179124 | Short Range Data Transmission Device For Social Networking and Related Method of Use - A method for social networking that involves registering a plurality of individuals who will be users of a social network. A plurality of electronic user devices may be provided that are adapted to be carried by each of the users. Each said electronic user device may have an identification code and may be able to wirelessly harvest the identification code of any other one of the electronic user devices when two or more of the electronic user devices come within a predetermined distance of one another. A host subsystem may be used to coordinate messaging and a transfer of predetermined types of information between the first and second users. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179125 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCUMULATING SOCIAL RELATION INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES - A system for accumulating social relation information for social network services, includes a user location profile management unit for collecting at preset periods location profile information of a user; a user profile management unit for collecting and storing user profiles preset by the user; and a social activity tracking unit for collecting profiles from social activities of the user. Further, the system for accumulating the social relation information for the social network services includes a social relation information generation unit for collecting pieces of information received from the user location profile management unit, the user profile management unit, the email tracking unit, the chatting tracking unit and the Internet phone call tracking unit, and extracting new social relation information based on correlations between the pieces of collected information to generate a social relation ontology. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179126 | Systems And Methods For Electronic Distribution Of Messages Over Communication Channels - Systems and methods are provided for electronically distributing messages over communication channels. In accordance with one implementation, a system is provided that comprises at least one database for storing instructions for operating an input field and transmitting messages over a plurality of different communication channels, and at least one processing system configured to execute the instructions, to perform a method. The method may include displaying to a user, over a network, an input field for entering messages and receiving from the user, over the network and by entry into the input field, a message, an identification of one or more recipients, and a selection of at least one communication channel. The method may also include determining whether an identifier is stored in relation to each recipient for the selected communication channel and electronically sending, to each recipient with a stored identifier, the message via the selected communication channel. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179127 | TRANSFER NOTIFICATION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE - A transfer notification method, system, and device are provided. The method includes the following steps. A first identifier and a second identifier of a first user are obtained. At least one user in touch with the first user is obtained as a second user. A transfer notification is sent to the second user. The transfer notification includes the first identifier and the second identifier of the first user. Therefore, by using the method for notifying contacts of address book transfer, the contacts in touch with a transferred user can receive a corresponding notification. Therefore, the two parties can update contact data in time and use rich functions provided by a Converged Address Book (CAB) after the transfer. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179128 | Electronic Mail Communication Device - An electronic mail communication device may be provided with a receiving device that receives an electronic mail, a sequence map creation device, and an output device. The sequence map creation device may create a sequence map in which correspondent objects corresponding to the correspondents of a series of electronic mails relating to the electronic mail received by the receiving device are arranged along an x direction, and transmission objects indicating from whom and to whom each of the series of electronic mails was transmitted are arranged along a y direction in order of the date and time of communication. The output device may output the sequence map created by the sequence map creation device. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179129 | TELEVISION MESSAGE SYSTEM - A television message system is provided that allows users at user television equipment devices that are connected to a television distribution facility to transmit messages to each other relating to a television program or other suitable subject. The television message system permits users to participate in evaluations, contests, promotions, and surveys related to a television program while watching that television program. The television message system also permits users to compose and send a message to a television program entity. The television message system also allows a user to purchase a gift related to television programming for a recipient. The gift may be an electronic gift certificate for pay-per-view programming. The television message system may be based on an interactive television program guide or a set-top box application implemented on a set-top box. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179130 | AUTOMATED MODERATION OF DISCUSSION LISTS - Within a network-based discussion environment, a moderation mechanism is implemented to encourage posts of high relevancy. The moderation mechanism is configurable so as to support distributed access control. In one case, the moderation mechanism is configured to support an allocation of a limited number of responses to a user based on the number of new threads the user has started. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110185023 | CONTENT USAGE TRACKING IN SUPERDISTRIBUTION - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for tracking the usage of digital content is provided. The method includes tracking the usage of at least one digital content by having a provider computer system prepare the content in an encoded format and allowing the provider computer system to distribute the content to a user computer system. The user computer system is made to generate at least one usage tracking message in response to the usage of the content by the user computer system in a uniform, fine-grained and format independent way. The user computer system is enabled to report the usage tracking message to the provider computer system. The provider computer system verifies the usage tracking message. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110185024 | EMBEDDABLE METADATA IN ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - Disclosed are apparatus and methods for annotating an electronic mail message and processing the annotated electronic mail message. More particularly, an electronic mail message may be generated and annotated such that the electronic mail message includes metadata identifying data provided in the electronic mail message. The electronic mail message may then be transmitted. When the annotated electronic mail message is received, at least a portion of the metadata may be obtained from the electronic mail message. At least a portion of the data in the electronic mail message may be identified using at least a portion of the metadata. At least a portion of the identified data in the electronic mail message may then be processed. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110185025 | FOLLOWING CONTENT ITEM UPDATES VIA CHAT GROUPS - A content item hosted by a content item source (such as a weblog post of a weblog) may receive updates (e.g., comments submitted by users), and may be discussed among users in a chat group of a chat service. The content item source and the chat service may coordinate to notify users of updates to the content item, and to share content regarding the content item. When a user requests to subscribe to updates of the content item, the content item source may invite the user to join a chat group of the chat service created for discussion of the content item. Additionally, updates to the content item received by the content item source may be automatically posted as messages in the chat group, and messages posted in the chat group regarding the content item may be automatically posted as updates to the content item at the content item source. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110185026 | Message Passing Framework for Audio/Video Streaming in a Topology of Devices - Resources may be managed in a topology for audio/video streaming. The topology includes audio/video sources and sinks and intervening branch devices. Messages between these sources, sinks, and branch devices may be used for resource management. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110185027 | MESSAGE DATA MANAGEMENT - A workflow manager application transfers message data received from an originating device via a communication network to a target application for processing. A graphical user interface displays the received message data and allows the user to view and designate one or more target applications for processing the message data. The workflow manger application is responsive to user input to transfer message data to the designated one or more target applications for processing the message data. Alternatively, the workflow manager application analyzes received message data to identify one or more target applications, and transfers the message data to the identified one or more target applications for processing. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110185028 | SORTING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES USING ATTRIBUTES OF THE SENDER ADDRESS - Systems and methods for sorting electronic messages using attributes of senders or of sender addresses. An electronic messaging server sorts electronic messages using attributes associated with the senders or sender addresses of the electronic messages. The sender addresses and associated attributes are stored in an accept list. A sorting module uses the accept list to sort the electronic messages into various folders. The sorting module can also access other data sources, such as a contact list, to assist in sorting the electronic messages. The attributes can be determined independently of the user or can be set directly by the user. The attributes can also identify a status of a sender such as whether the sender is authorized, unauthorized, or unconfirmed. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110191423 | REPUTATION MANAGEMENT FOR NETWORK CONTENT CLASSIFICATION - A system derives a reputation for a plurality of network addresses, the reputation of each network address determined by analyzing a plurality of high-level email features related to one or more emails originating from the network address. The plurality of high-level email features include domain registration analysis, hashed term frequency indexing, persistent communication, address age, correlation analysis, zombie detection, and hash vault matching. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191424 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OUT-OF-OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS - A method of controlling an electronic device, the method comprising detecting, at the electronic device, occurrence of an event for turning on an out-of-office assistant, for each account, associated with a respective PIM service, that is operational on the electronic device, determining if the PIM service is operable to receive updates, when the PIM service is operable to receive an update from the electronic device to turn on an out-of-office notification, sending the update from the electronic device to the PIM service, otherwise, sending an out-of-office notification, from the electronic device, in response to receipt of an email message at the electronic device, via the PIM service. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191425 | Geospatially Aware Message System and Method - Publishers inject messages containing geospatial data into a content routed network. The subscribers pre-register geospatial data defining an arbitrary geographic region of interest with their subscriptions. The messages are delivered to interested subscribers based on a comparison of the content data and the geospatial data contained in the messages with the corresponding data associated with said pre-registered subscriptions. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191426 | Communication technique - A venue provides one or more stickers or other visible indicia to one or more users of mobile devices, each of the one or more stickers bearing a identification number (“ID number”). A first user at the venue may register a mobile device at a server operated by a messaging service provider. Upon viewing a sticker worn by a second user at the venue, the first user may utilize the second user's ID number to cause a Short Message Service (“SMS”) text message or other content to be transmitted to the second user's mobile device via the server. The first user and the second user may thereby communicate via SMS messages without knowledge of each other's telephone numbers, and regardless of which wireless communication service providers the first user and the second user have adopted. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191427 | COMMUNICATION METHOD ADAPTED FOR USERS USING MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A communication method for sending a message to an addressee using a first and second communication device of a user is disclosed. The method includes steps of, by the second communication device, determining that a message is to be sent from the user to the addressee, and sending, to the first communication device, at least part of the message; and steps of, by the first communication device, receiving, from the second communication device, the at least part of the message, and sending, to the addressee, the message with information identifying the first communication device as sender of the message. A communication method for receiving a message and replying thereto using a first and second communication device of a user is also disclosed. Communication devices, systems and computer programs adapted therefor are also disclosed | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191428 | System And Method For Content Tagging And Distribution Through Email - A system and method for content tagging and distribution through email are provided. A user-to-tag record including content tags, each associated with one or more users, is maintained. An incoming email message with a tag address is received. The tag address is processed to identify a content tag, which is applied to the user-to-tag record. Users associated with the identified content tag are determined. The incoming email message is provided to the associated users. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191429 | METHOD FOR ADVANCED EMAIL THREAD MANAGEMENT - A method and device for managing e-mails to prevent thread splitting, comprising receiving and displaying a first e-mail thread, generating a notification of receipt of any further e-mail thread prior to sending a response to the first e-mail thread, generating a first prompt for saving the response to the first e-mail thread as a draft and displaying the further e-mail thread; and generating a further prompt for pasting the draft response as a reply to the further e-mail thread instead of the first e-mail thread. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191430 | DOMAIN SELECTION FOR MOBILE-ORIGINATED MESSAGE SERVICE - An indication is used to control how message service information is routed over different domains. For example, an access terminal may be configured with an indication that indicates that a message service is preferred to be invoked over an IP domain or that the message service is not be invoked over the IP domain. The access terminal then delivers message service information based on the value of the indication. In some cases, a network entity generates the indication and sends the indication to the access terminal. In some cases, a domain for delivery of message service information is selected based on a domain that was selected for particular type of traffic. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191431 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING DISPLAY SCREENS - A method and system for updating display screens. A first processor in a first terminal: receives a selection of at least one target browser; detects an event resulting from a user's operation on a first display screen at the first terminal; generates a message including the selected at least one target browser, a description of the event, and a parameter pertaining to the event; and sends the message to a server. Each terminal of the at least one terminal receives the message from the server. Each processor in no less than one terminal of the at least one terminal: has at least one web browser and a respective display screen; ascertains that the at least one target browser in the message includes the at least one web browser; and updates the respective display screen in accordance with the description of the event and the parameter pertaining to the event. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191432 | Location Derived Messaging System - The invention disclosed relates to the end to end system, the methods and apparatuses for delivering message content from publishers to recipients, such recipients being comprised of subscribers and non subscribers, based on the geospatial location of the recipients using a plurality of devices, stationary and mobile, to deliver geospatial location relevant message content to the recipients with dynamic display devices and a means to provide publishers with data and statistics related to recipient observation of message content. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191433 | ENHANCED E-MAIL AND MESSAGING SYSTEM WITH VISUAL PROFILE AND SELECTIVE UPDATE - Systems and methods for advanced e-mail and messaging are disclosed. Profiles which include visual keys enable more efficient communications between users. Profiles may be pushed out to recipients or may be pulled in by recipients, with control over updated elements shared between the profile owner and the recipient. Additional capabilities include the ability to delete e-mails sent to a recipient regardless of when sent, extended subject line support to enable more efficient communications, and Improved display of threaded e-mail messages. Furthermore, features to reduce necessary communications bandwidth are also disclosed. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191434 | OBTAINING CONSENT FOR ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF COMPLIANCE INFORMATION - A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual is prompted by the computer to consent to the computer-aided delivery of additional compliance information. Once consent is indicated, it is communicated from the individual's computer to another computer such as a server over, for example, a modem connection. Having secured the individual's consent, the additional compliance information can be delivered to the individual's computer as, for example, a file attachment to an email message. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191435 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION - A method and related system obtains consent from a user for electronic delivery of sensitive information. The user operating a first computer accesses a web page on a server system to input the consent. The web page prompts for the consent from the user. Once the consent is received at the server system, the consent is stored and sensitive information is delivered electronically to an e-mail address specified by the user. Once consent is indicated, it is communicated from the individual's computer to another computer such as a server over, for example, a modem connection. Having secured the individual's consent, the additional sensitive information may be delivered to the individual's computer as, for example, a URL attachment to an email message. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110196931 | MODERATING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - A method for moderating an electronic message includes intercepting the electronic message at a server computing device, and evaluating content of the electronic message at the server computing device to determine if the electronic message is required to enter a moderation workflow prior to delivering the electronic message to at least one recipient. The method also includes sending an approval request message from the server computing device to at least one moderator device, receiving a first moderation decision message at the server computing device from the at least one moderator, sending an update message from the server computing device to the at least one moderator to update the approval request message to include one or more properties of the first moderation decision, and removing the approval request message from the moderation workflow. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110196932 | STATUS MESSAGE DE-DUPLICATION - In one aspect, a computer-implemented method of de-duplication of messages in a micro-blog includes receiving a first message and posting the first message to the micro-blog, receiving a second message, and classifying the second message as a new message or an edited version of the first message. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110196933 | ACTIVE E-MAILS - A computer-implemented method can include accessing a micro-blog to retrieve a real-time copy of the micro-blog thread and delivering the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread for display in an e-mail message. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110196934 | Socket SMTP Load Balancing - A method is provided for load balancing SMTP, POP, and IMAP traffic over a plurality of backend SMTP, POP, and IMAP servers for sites that host a large number of electronic mail accounts. The method allows the total set of hosted mail accounts to be divided into subsets, where each subset is handled by one or more backend servers. The method ensures that each SMTP, POP, or IMAP connection is directed to a backend server that handles the subset to which the recipient email address associated with the connection is assigned. This method includes algorithms to interpret incoming SMTP, POP and IMAP connections in such a way as to identify the recipient(s) and establish corresponding connections to backend server(s) while giving the appearance (to the connecting party) of connecting directly to a backend server. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110196935 | Identification of Message Recipients - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for identifying a recipient for an electronic post. An electronic post that was authored by an authoring user is received. The post is detected to include text that partially, but not fully, identifies a target recipient for the post. The text that partially identifies the target recipient is determined to be associated with a valid first user account for a first domain or a valid second user account for a second domain. The first user account or the second user account is selected as a selected user account for the target recipient based on the determining. The electronic post is transmitted to a different remote computing device that is associated with the selected user account. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110196936 | Computer System Tools and Method for Development and Testing - The current invention allows a user to evaluate web pages, emails, or software across different operating systems without requiring the user to have the operating system being tested. The patent has a novel method to (1) generate screen captures in parallel, (2) create counter-anti-spam reporting and (3) a method to remotely interact any arbitrary operating system (DVA). | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110196937 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MESSAGE THREADS IN CONVERGEDIP MESSAGING SERVICE - A mechanism to enable multiple message threads management in the context of the Converged IP Messaging (CPM) service and in the context of CPM inter-working with SMS is provided. A CPM user can simply start a message-based conversation with another CPM or Short Message Service (SMS) user without explicitly establishing a session beforehand. All messages that belong to a given conversation are displayed in the corresponding conversational view (i.e. window) in the CPM user device, even if the conversation is stopped and restarted at a later time, and even if there are multiple message threads available (currently active or stored) in the CPM device. Message structures and behavior of the CPM system elements to enable the functionalities above as well as a mechanism makes the message threads management possible even between a CPM user and an SMS user are also provided. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110196938 | Method, System, And Storage Medium For Validating Users Of Communications Services And Messages Transmitted - Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to a method, system, and storage medium for validating users of communications services. The method includes generating records for communications service users by at least one service provider. The records store information relating to the communications service users including legal liability information, an originator type code, and a validation code assigned to selected originator type codes. The validation code facilitates validation of the communications service users. The method also includes storing the records in a subscriber classification database. The originator type code classifies the communications service users according to nature of use, communications type, business type, geography, and age. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110196939 | DEGREES OF SEPARATION FOR HANDLING COMMUNICATIONS - A sender's degrees of separation from a recipient may be used to aid in spam filtering or to otherwise handle a communication. The “degrees of separation” represent a metric used to quantify whether/how the recipient is linked to the sender through intermediary people or other entities. For example, a recipient may know a first user (first degree of separation) and the first user may know a second user (second degree of separation) who knows the sender of an e-mail. In this case, the sender is separated from the recipient by two degrees of separation (by two other contacts). A level of “trust” or “legitimacy” about a sender's communication can be inferred by looking at whether the sender is linked to an intended recipient. Typically, user contact lists (e.g., address book, buddy list, and/or white list) are evaluated to determine the number of degrees (or hops) are required to link or relate two users. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110202606 | SELECTIVE COMMUNICATION OF MESSAGES - A message originator may generate messaging data for selective communication by a messaging provider via an interface generated by a browser software application. The user may also interact with various content providers such that event data is generated based on the user interaction with each content provider. The messaging provider can then obtain the messaging data and the event data to determine a target set of messages to be published. Additionally, the messaging provider can select a set of message recipients to receive, or otherwise access, the target set of messages based on filtering criteria submitted by the message originator, content provider, service provider, and/or message recipients. Credit may be allocated based on activity associated with the communicated messages. The messaging provider may also facilitate additional interaction between the message originator and the message recipients including the initiation of additional communication channels. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIP BASED DYNAMIC ADVERTISEMENT OF PRESENCE INFORMATION - A method and system for dynamic advertisement of presence information using SIP is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for dynamic advertisement of presence information includes initiation of the presence invitation message by presence inviter which can be of XML format, distribution of presence invitation message by presence invitation distributor from presence inviter to presence invitee and acceptance of the presence invitation message by presence invitee including subscribing as per the invitation, which provides information to the presence invitees about newly available parts of presence information, through SIP REFER or SIP MESSAGE methods. In another embodiment of the present invention includes a method for sending the presence invitation message directly to a single presence invitee. In yet another embodiment of the present invention includes a method for sending the presence invitation message to multiple presence invitees in a URI-list through RLS and XDMS. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202608 | EMAIL SYSTEM LATENCIES AND BANDWIDTHS - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for measuring a client's network latency and the client's connection bandwidth. A network latency is determined by adding a randomly generated variable to a browser query string for a get request for a test file on a remote server, where the test file fits in one response packet. A first amount of time it takes for the test file to be received by the browser from when the get request is sent is determined and used to determine the network latency between the client and remote server. A connection bandwidth is determined by determining a second amount of time it takes for an email response to be received by the browser for an email request from the browser to a remote server. The size of the response is identified and combined with the second time to determine the connection bandwidth. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202609 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRATEGIC ROUTING IN A PEER-TO-PEER ENVIRONMENT - An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables two endpoints to dynamically select one of multiple possible routes for inbound and outbound messages. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIGNALING AND DATA TUNNELING IN A PEER-TO-PEER ENVIRONMENT - An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to use a tunneling server to bypass a network address translation (NAT) device that is blocking messages to an endpoint on the other side of the NAT device. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202611 | INITIATING INSTANT MESSAGING (IM) CHAT SESSIONS FROM EMAIL MESSAGES - Systems and methods for integrating instant messaging (IM) services and email services are described. In one embodiment, among others, an email message is received and an IM chat session is automatically initiated from the email message. In some embodiments, the initiation of the IM chat session may be subject to certain programmable criteria. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202612 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING ORIGIN ROUTING AT A DIAMETER NODE - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing origin routing at a Diameter node are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a Diameter message processor associated with a DSR, a Diameter message from a first Diameter node. The method further includes accessing, using the Diameter message processor, Diameter peer routing information that includes Diameter origination information to determine a second Diameter node that is a peer of the DSR and to which the Diameter message is to be forwarded. The method also includes forwarding the Diameter message to the determined second Diameter node. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202613 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR ANSWER-BASED ROUTING OF DIAMETER REQUEST MESSAGES - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for answer-based routing of Diameter request messages are disclosed. According to one method, a Diameter request message is received from a first Diameter node at a. A copy of at least a portion of the Diameter request message is cached at the DSR and the Diameter request message is routed to a second Diameter node. The DSR determines whether a predetermined condition associated with an answer to the first Diameter request message exists. In response to determining that the predetermined condition exists, the cached portion of the Diameter request message is retrieved, a Diameter request that includes the cached portion of the Diameter request message is generated, and the generated Diameter request message is routed. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202614 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DIAMETER APPLICATION LOOP PREVENTION - According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing Diameter application loop prevention. The method includes steps occurring at a first Diameter node. The method further includes receiving a first Diameter message that is to be sent to a destination. The method also includes determining whether the first Diameter message requires processing by a Diameter application. The method includes, in response to determining that the first Diameter message requires processing by the Diameter application, determining whether the first Diameter message has been processed by the Diameter application. The method further includes, in response to determining that the first Diameter message has been processed by the Diameter application, preventing the first Diameter message from being sent to the Diameter application for processing. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202615 | Mobile Device Streaming Media Application - A system and process for coordinating streaming content or messages is provided. A network-connected server maintains a database containing media content-related data, such as the text of a message, accompanying media, time of airing, payment and related comments. A user can view these feeds or streams of these consciousness messages by downloading a mobile application or browsing to a website. The application can also be used to create, schedule and pay for a media content message. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202616 | DATA STORAGE METHOD AND MAIL RELAY METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM IN MAIL SYSTEM - In a mail system, the present invention implements a mail gateway that prevents data from being lost when a server fails and provides high delivery capability. In a mail system, the mail delivery performance of the mail gateway is increased by the communication method and data storage method used between the mail gateway and storage systems. More specifically, the mail gateway and storage system maintain a mail, which should be maintained by the mail gateway, in the volatile memory of the mail gateway and storage system. The mail that may be lost by a failure and important data such as accounting information are written in the nonvolatile memory of the storage system. In addition, the storage system processes multiple accesses to the nonvolatile memory at a time to speedily write data into the nonvolatile memory. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING RELEVANT OPINIONS - A method, a system and a computer program product for obtaining one or more opinions relevant for a subject. A user may be enabled to select one or more individuals (corresponding to one or more sources) to receive the opinions therefrom on the subject. Further, the user may be enabled to send a message to request the individuals for providing the opinions corresponding to the selected subject. The message may be sent through one or more communication channels. Also, the individuals may be enabled to provide the opinions, corresponding to the message, through the one or more communication channels. Further, the user may be enabled to view the provided opinions. Also, the opinions relevant to the subject may be obtained from one or more public sources. The opinions received from the public sources may be aggregated, and ranked as per their relevance with respect to the subject. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202618 | Active Removal of E-Mail Recipient from Replies and Subsequent Threads - A computer program product prevents the delivery of undesired e-mail message. A remove request is received from a non-desiring client. The remove request identifies a first subject line or a first body text from a previous e-mail message. An active request is updated with the remove request. Responsive to updating the active requests, the non-desiring client is redacted from a previously received message within a message file. The previously received message includes a second subject line that matches the first subject line, or a second body text that matches the first body text. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202619 | E-MAIL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MAIL SERVER, FORWARDING METHOD AND MEDIUM - The invention provides a technique of automatically checking the validation of a destination address to which electronic mail is to be transferred. If the destination address is validated, the transfer of the mail to the address is permitted, so that no mail is transferred to the wrong address. An electronic mail management device ( | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202620 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INTERCEPTING JUNK MAIL - A method and a device for intercepting a junk mail are provided. The method mainly includes: A: obtaining text data of a mail which requires filtering processing; B: determining whether the text data contain a keyword in a string contained in a string database for mail filtering, and if the text data contain the keyword in the string contained in the string database for mail filtering, further determining whether the text data comprise a string corresponding to the keyword contained in the string database; and C: determining whether the mail is a junk mail according to a result of the further determining and according to a predetermined determining policy, and intercepting the mail if the mail is the junk mail. By the method and device, the scanning efficiency and the scanning speed can be improved, and real-time filtering for the mail can be implemented even when the string database has a relatively large dimension. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202621 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR E-MAIL ENHANCEMENT - A method for enhancing an electronic message, referred to as an e-mail, upon receiving the same in the e-mail inbox of a user, the method includes the following steps: a local application, working with the e-mail inbox and extracting a set of data contained in the incoming e-mail, sends the data set to a remote server, receives a response from the remote server, and attaches the response to the incoming e-mail; and the remote server receives the data set sent by the local application, analyses the data so as to identify specific elements, and sends the specific elements as a reply to the local application. The invention relates to the exchange of structured information by e-mail, and in particular to scheduling appointments, contact details, and monitoring tasks to be performed. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202622 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING PARAMETERS FOR MANAGING DATA PACKETS OF A DATA STREAM - A method and apparatus are provided for configuring management parameter values of data messages of a data stream. The method includes a first step of sending from a first communications network to a second communications network a first message of the data stream including a first data message management parameter value and a second step of sending from the second network to the first network a second message of the data stream including a second data message management parameter value. The method further includes a step of selecting from the first and second management parameter values a management parameter value to be applied to all the data messages of the data stream. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110208815 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM WITH POLLING SERVER PROVIDING DYNAMIC RECORD ID POLLING AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one data storage device configured to store electronic messages and record identifications (IDs) therefor in respective accounts, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each associated with a respective account. The system may further include at least one polling server configured to perform polling requests of the at least one data storage device and retrieve therefrom respective record IDs for each account, with each polling request being for a selectable number of record IDs. The polling server(s) may also be configured to selectively change the number of record IDs in each polling request based upon an estimated number of electronic messages stored in a respective account, and cause electronic messages to be delivered to respective mobile wireless communications devices based upon the record IDs. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208816 | CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY OF RECENT COMMUNICATIONS METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention provides mechanisms for determining contextual information and including at least some of the determined contextual information in a communication. As an example, a multi-modal communications thumbnail providing context and prior communications summary as an attachment to a communication may be provided. The context and prior communications summary may supplement or replace one or more of a typical communications identifier such as subject, title, and distribution information. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208817 | LOCATION-BASED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method for providing location-based messages comprises locating a suitable placeholder for a message within a physical surrounding using a handheld device provided with image acquisition apparatus, and associating a written or visual or audio message, or a combination of two or more of them, with an image that identifies said placeholder, said association being carried out in a server adapted to communicate with said handheld device. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208818 | Location Messaging System - A system for storing retrieving and presenting messages where the messages are associated with a physical location. The content of the messages can include all types of media, text, pictures, audio, video and raw data. Messages can be standalone messages or messages with any number of additional messages attached to them. The messages associated with physical locations are created by users of a variety of end device types such as smart phones or portable or stationary computing devices. Users search for messages while providing a physical location. Messages that are associated with a location that is within a specified distance of the provided location will be displayed by the end device. Some messages can be configured such that the associated location of the message changes automatically and periodically, giving the message the appearance of movement. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208819 | Method And Computer Program Product For Establishing Real-Time Communications Between Networked Computers - A system, method, and computer program product is provided for establishing real-time communications between computer users connected by a communications network. An invitation is created by a first computer. An invitation is data that proposes a communication session. An invitation can indicate the status or availability of the sending user or of some other resource. Creation of the invitation is followed by the transfer of the invitation from the first computer to at least one second computer. The invitation can be transferred electronically through the network, or physically, by the transfer of a magnetic medium bearing the invitation. The invitation contains parameters to configure an invitation communicator application for communications between the first and second computers. The second computer accepts the invitation and invokes an invitation communicator application to allow communication. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208820 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE HANDLING - A method and system for message handling wherein a structured message is transmitted as a reduced message with the structure removed. The method includes: monitoring messages to be transmitted, the step of monitoring comprising: for each message, identifying one or more elements within the message and identifying the format of content and/or structure encapsulated by those elements; determining the probability that a message will conform to a previously identified format; and using the determined probability to decide when to transmit a format template for the message, wherein the format template is for use by a destination to add the structure removed by a message source back into the message. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208821 | TRACKING DIGITAL CONTENT OBJECTS - Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems associated with tracking display of digital content objects, and in particular digital content objects in delivered electronic messages. Digital content objects may be identified and associated with a digital content item. Digital content objects may be presented together in digital container. Different presentation layers containing one or more digital containers may be defined and transmitted in electronic messages. A digital content object tracking system may identify delivered and displayed digital content objects, and associate the display with digital content objects contained therein. The digital content object tracking system may compare displays or activations of one or more digital content objects with reference to co-displayed digital content objects. Other embodiments may e described and claimed. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208822 | Method and system for customized, contextual, dynamic and unified communication, zero click advertisement and prospective customers search engine - The present invention relates device, system and method for facilitating receiving active note(s) from active note(s) provider(s) from the client device and responding multidimensional active resources & actions(s) for said active note(s) by multidimensional active resources & actions(s) provider(s) to the client device. A real time and/or near real communication mechanism such as online, smart and mobile communication applications like web site, smart client, instant messaging, e-mail may be used to communicate with a client device and a community of responders or multidimensional active resources & actions(s) provider(s). One or more Active Note(s) are received from client devices, processed, and sent to responders. Responses from the responders are received, and response is sent to the client device. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208823 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING DATA TRANSFERS IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for improving data transfers in peer-to-peer networks includes receiving a search request message from a requesting node, where the search request message requests specific data. A responding node then sends a response message to the requesting node including a referral message comprising at least one referred node that is expected to have the requested data, based on knowledge of the referred node's previous incoming and outgoing data transfers. The responding node may also indicate that the responding node has the requested data. In addition to increasing the requesting node's view of the peer-to-peer network, this also enables the identification of nodes (e.g., referred nodes) with which the requesting node may wish to establish direct peer-to-peer connections, e.g., to build peer-to-peer communities of nodes having similar interests. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208824 | Method and Apparatus for Service Selection and Indication - A technique for providing a service availability indication to a user terminal is described. In a method realization, the technique comprises providing a data structure representative of user terminals and of inter-terminal relationships derived from one or more communication parameters pertaining to communications between the user terminals. Additionally, for at least some of the user terminals service utilization information for each of a plurality of services is provided. The technique further includes selecting, for at least one user terminal and from the plurality of services, a service not used by the at least one user terminal, wherein the service selection is based on the service utilization information provided for user terminals having a predefined association with the at least one user terminal as determined by the inter-terminal relationships, and sending a message indicative of the selected service to the at least one user terminal. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208825 | SYSTEM, A METHOD, A SERVICE SERVER, A MOBILE TERMINAL AND A STORAGE MEANS FOR CONTENTS DELIVERY - Disclosed herein are a system and method for transmitting content, a service server, a mobile communication terminal and a storage medium. The system includes an end device connected to a first mobile communication terminal via a local area communication network, and configured to transmit content to be transmitted to a second mobile communication terminal, together with a message transmission request, to the first mobile communication terminal; and the first mobile communication terminal connected to the end device via the local area communication network, connected to a service server via a mobile communication network, and configured to display a message transmission window for inputting a message and a recipient's number on a screen when the message transmission request is received from the end device, and to transmit a Multimedia Message Service message (MMS), to which the content received from the end device is attached, to the second mobile communication terminal. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110213841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - A system and method for generating an electronic communication having a message component and a digital medium component. The technology includes, for example, identifying, assembling and exchanging digital medium between parties to complement various forms of electronic communication (e.g., “electronic mail”, “instant messaging”, etc.) where messages are directed between participants using sender and recipient identifiers (e.g., to, from, etc.). To generate the electronic communication, a characteristic (e.g., property, content) of an electronic communication between two or more parties is determined. One or more digital medium components are received from one or more third party servers. The one or more digital medium components are determined by at least one of the one or more third party servers based on the characteristic. A modified electronic communication is generated based on the electronic communication and the one or more digital medium components. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213842 | INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM, DELIVERY DESTINATION CONTROL METHOD AND DELIVERY DESTINATION CONTROL PROGRAM - It is an object to efficiently deliver a message to a user who subscribes to a plurality of telecommunications carriers. An information delivery system includes an ID federation information storage unit that stores ID federation information being information associating a user identifier for identifying a user in a service provider and a user identifier for identifying the user in a telecommunications carrier which the user subscribes to, a delivery demand receiving unit that receives, from a service providing system administered by a service provider, contents of a message and a user identifier in the service provider as information indicating a user to serve as a delivery target of the message, a delivery demand processing unit that determines which telecommunications carriers the user designated as a delivery target of the message subscribes to based on ID federation information stored in the ID federation information storage unit, and determines a telecommunications carrier to serve as a delivery request destination of the message to the user from the telecommunications carriers determined that the user subscribes to according to a predetermined condition, and a delivery demand transmitting unit that transmits the contents of the message received by the delivery demand receiving unit and a user identifier in the telecommunications carrier of the user for which delivery request destination is the telecommunications carrier as information indicating a user to serve as a delivery target of the message to a delivery system of the telecommunications carrier determined as a delivery request destination by the delivery demand processing unit. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213843 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO A SERVICE RELATING TO AN ACCOUNT FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE IN A NETWORK - The disclosure relates to a system and method for providing access for an electronic device to an account associated with a host device through a server in communication with the hosted electronic device. The method comprises: after establishing a communication link between the electronic device and the host device, identifying an account associated with the host device; establishing an associated account for the electronic device, the associated account providing access to the account for the host device; and providing access by the server to an application associated with the account to the electronic device through the associated account. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213844 | UDP MULTICAST MASS MESSAGE TRANSPORT - An apparatus and a method for sending a message from an enterprise service bus (ESB) is described. A message is formed at an enterprise service bus (ESB) of a computer system. The message is transmitted from the ESB to different ESBs through a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) multicast. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213845 | AUTOMATIC DELETION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A system and method are provided for automatically deleting messages such as e-mail upon consumption by the recipient. Consumption by the recipient may include viewing the message, forwarding or replying to the message, or archiving, saving, copying, or moving the message. An indicator is inserted in the message, for example in the message header or body, indicating that the message is to be deleted upon detection of a triggering consumption action. Upon receipt at the recipient's mail client, the client determines whether the indicator is present, and, upon detection of a triggering consumption action, automatically closes any views of the message displayed by the recipient's mail client and deletes the message. Optionally a warning is provided to the recipient prior to deletion. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED INSTANT MESSAGING - A method of enhanced instant messaging in a communication network is provided. The method comprises instantiating an instant query message received from a message initiator as a message object. The method further comprises assigning a context identifier and a context queue to the message object based on a context of the message object. The message object is delegated to one or more users if a reply to the message object is not available in a database. Thereafter, one or more replies received for the message object are aggregated in the context queue of the message object and at least one reply is sent to the message initiator. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213847 | Information Service - An information service includes a network and material on the network provided by an entity. The network provides or is linked to, a request for information elements for submission of a request by the submitter to the entity. Elements are provided to optionally provide an inducement to likely submitters or selected subgroup or subgroups of likely submitters to submit a query. Communication between submitters and the entity may be by email, online forms, or instant messaging using typewritten or audio-visual communications. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213848 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A PLURALITY OF NETWORK DEVICES - A system for monitoring a plurality of network devices within a network comprises a network monitor embedded within one of the network devices for automatically discovering and requesting status information from other network devices. The network monitor, in the event that another network monitor is discovered, initiates cooperation with the other network monitor to share discovering and requesting. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213849 | BULK MESSAGE IDENTIFICATION - Distinctively treating digital communications sent by bulk message senders includes providing a set of bulk sender behavior policies and monitoring compliance by a bulk message sender with the set of policies. Based on compliance by the bulk message sender with the set of policies, digital communications sent by the bulk message sender are distinctively treated. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213850 | RELAY APPARATUS, RELAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a technique which prevents description offensive to public order and morals, included in an electronic mail, from meeting the eyes of a receiver. If an electronic mail message is included in a payload part of a data packet delivered from a communication interface | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213851 | IMAGE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND MEMORY MEDIUM - In an Internet facsimile apparatus, it is an object of the invention to provide means for notifying the user of details of a message disposition notification situation (MDN) of a transmission image. When E-mail data is sent, an MDN for E-mail to be sent is requested and communication management information of the sent E-mail is updated on the basis of a reception result of reply E-mail responsive to the MDN request. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213852 | Method And System For Removing A Person From An E-Mail Thread - A method for automatically removing a user from an e-mail thread is provided. An e-mail client receives a reply e-mail message. Responsive to a determination that the reply e-mail message is a message to opt-out of an e-mail thread, the e-mail address of a sender of the reply e-mail message is associated with the e-mail thread to form a listed e-mail address. The listed e-mail address is stored. When a new e-mail message is generated that is part of the e-mail thread, the listed e-mail address is automatically excluded from a list of recipients of the new e-mail. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213853 | BYPASSING UPLOADING OF DATA FROM A WIRELESS DEVICE USING OUTBOUND ATTACHMENT CACHING - In embodiments of bypassing uploading of data from a wireless device using outbound attachment caching, synchronization logic is implemented to determine whether an attachment of an electronic message to be sent from a wireless device is stored in a first memory of the wireless device or a second memory of the wireless device. The first memory can be configured to automatically replicate data stored in the first memory to a wireless data service. The electronic message can then be initiated for communication to the wireless data service without the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the first memory. Alternately, the electronic message can be initiated for communication to the wireless data service without the attachment responsive to determining that the attachment is stored in the second memory and that the attachment was previously communicated to the wireless data service. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110219079 | DISTRIBUTED SYMBOL TABLE WITH INTELLIGENT LOOKUP SCHEME - In a larger-scale context such as that of a workflow system, a mechanism and a set of rules are for looking up a parameter in a hierarchical symbol table. In accordance with preferred embodiments of the invention, the approach is bottom-up, and uses rules defined in an arbitration table to determine a correct version of the parameter. A distributed design is broadly contemplated herein, wherein different symbol tables need not be disposed on one and the same machine. This can permit a greater degree of scalability and error tolerance. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219080 | AUTOMATED MESSAGING RESPONSE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Options for safely handling incoming data messages in a moving mobile device are provided within the mobile device. When an incoming data message is detected, the device determines its velocity. If the velocity exceeds a certain value, external data, such as visual or biometric data, measured by a device component is analyzed to determine whether the mobile device is in a driver position of a moving vehicle. If so, an announcement of the incoming call is prevented and a predetermined message is autonomously transmitted to the sender. If analysis of the external data is inconclusive, a prompt is presented to a recipient with selectable options of how to handle the incoming message. In response to the various inputs received from the recipient, the mobile device may either autonomously send a response message to the sender or may directly establish a voice call between the recipient and the sender. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219081 | ZONE CLASSIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - Embodiments of the invention relate to techniques for classifying received e-mails and e-mails to be sent. In some embodiments, a set of e-mail zones may be defined and e-mails may be classified into one of the plurality of zones. An indication of the zone into which an e-mail has been classified may be displayed in a visual display of the e-mail. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219082 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATING WITH LOCAL SERVICE - A local service accessing method, and apparatuses to perform operations of the method, the method including transmitting current location information to a local service directory, receiving local service information associated the current location information from the local service directory, and accessing the local service server using the local service information. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219083 | EMAIL AUTO-FILING AND MANAGEMENT - A method, apparatus and computer instructions for automatically capturing, filing and managing email as both individual mail objects and as entire conversation threads. When further integrated with a discussion forum system, the invention makes it possible to share these conversation threads with a discussion forum application so that posts and replies made via the discussion forum application communicate with email users, and email messages can be auto-filed, organized and shared between team members within the forum. And when integrated with an archive system, the invention can automatically file both individual emails and entire threads into an archive system, and can further associated meta-data with these archive objects. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219084 | PARENTAL CONTROL FOR MULTIPLE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS OF A USER - A computerized method is for controlling a virtual environment of a user and includes providing, over a communications network, a plurality of virtual environments in which a user is able to interact with other users using electronic messaging. The computerized method also includes transmitting, from an authentication server, information about the plurality of virtual environments to a first computing device associated with an agent in response to user request for access to a restricted electronic messaging format associated with one of the virtual worlds. The computerized method further includes receiving, at the authentication server, an indication of authorization from the first computing device, wherein the indication of authorization includes a separate indication of authorization associated with each of the plurality of virtual environments. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219085 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE THREAD COMPRESSION - A method for compressing electronic mail messages each having a message thread for storage in a storage device, comprising: identifying one or more sections of each message thread; assigning a respective identifier to each section; storing one occurrence of each section in the storage device for retrieval using its identifier; replacing each section in each thread by its identifier to thereby compress the messages; and, storing the messages in the storage device. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219086 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND DATA TRACKING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for tracking electronic messages and data are provided. According to one embodiment, a linking object insertion routine identifies an electronic mail (email) message as a candidate for user feedback based on the email message having been previously classified as spam by a real-time email spam scanning routine associated with a commercial anti-spam service. The linking object insertion routine facilitates user submission of the user feedback regarding the email message to the commercial anti-spam service by embedding a linking object within the email message. The linking object is configured to automate communication of one or more digital signatures of the email message generated by the real-time email spam scanning routine to the commercial anti-spam service by performing out-of-band signaling with the commercial anti-spam service. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219087 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WEBPAGE CREATION AND UPDATING - A computer network system for posting content at a web site includes computer servers configured to host a web site for a group of users, and a data storage configured to store an email address in association with a destination at the website. The computer servers can receive an email message at the email address by the computer servers from a user. A computer processor can automatically extract content from the email message. The computer servers can automatically post the content extracted from the email message at the destination at the website. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219088 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Providing Time Data in a Messaging Environment - An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method are provided in which time data regarding certain aspects of a messaging conversation on a handheld electronic device are made available to a user. Such time data is provided, for instance, in situations where an interruption has occurred during a messaging conversation. Time data can also be provided to a user on demand in certain circumstances. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219089 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF NOTIFYING USERS OF PROFILE UPDATES MADE BY THEIR CONTACTS - A networked computing system provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users. For example, in one embodiment, users can identify other users based on their affiliations with particular schools or other organizations. The system also provides a mechanism for a user to selectively establish contact relationships or connections with other users, and to grant permissions for sharing personal data with such users. The system may also automatically notify users of personal information updates made by their respective contacts. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219090 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING OVER A NETWORK WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE - A device is provided for connecting a medical apparatus to a network. The device collects data from the medical apparatus and performs a variety of processing functions, such as trending, protocol translation, generating reports, etc. related to the collected data. The device then transmits the collected data over a network to interested parties. In some implementations, the device can transmit the collected data as an email message. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING OVER A NETWORK WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE - A device is provided for connecting a medical apparatus to a network. The device collects data from the medical apparatus and performs a variety of processing functions, such as trending, protocol translation, generating reports, etc. related to the collected data. The device then transmits the collected data over a network to interested parties. In some implementations, the device can transmit the collected data as an email message. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219092 | E-MAIL RECEPTION CONTROL SYSTEM, E-MAIL RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD, MOBILE TERMINAL AND PROGRAM - An e-mail reception control system is provided for improving a convenience during international roaming and reducing unnecessary communication charges. The e-mail reception control system includes an e-mail reception control system including a mobile terminal which transmits filter information which is set in an own terminal and is referred to for determining whether to permit or reject a reception of an e-mail to a server in response to detecting international roaming and a server which controls a distribution of the e-mail to the mobile terminal based on the filter information. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110225244 | TRACING DOMAINS TO AUTHORITATIVE SERVERS ASSOCIATED WITH SPAM - The invention provides a method and system for filtering email which may contain links to a large number of rapidly synthesized domains serving spam content by referencing a database of categorized authoritative servers, querying a domain name system server for an authoritative server associated with domain names embedded in email, and accessing the database of categorized authoritative servers for a match. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225245 | SENDING MESSAGES WITH LIMITED AWARENESS OF RECIPIENTS - Methods, apparatus and articles for sending emails to a plurality of recipients comprising a group of blind carbon copied recipients. A graphical user interface (GUI) screen comprising a TO field, a carbon copy field, and at least one blind carbon copy group (BCC-G) field may be provided for entering a list of recipients for the email. The email may be transferred to the recipients such that the identities of a plurality of recipients in the at least one BCC-G field are disclosed only to the recipients within the BCC-G field. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225246 | ALTERNATE E-MAIL DELIVERY - A method is provided for transmitting an electronic mail (e-mail) message from a sender having a non-ASCII username to a recipient. The method comprising the following steps. It is determined whether or not the recipient is configured to receive the e-mail message. If the recipient is configured to receive the e-mail message, the message is transmitted to the recipient. If the recipient is not configured to receive the e-mail message, the e-mail message is submitted for storage in a data store, a uniform resource locator (URL) to identify a location of the stored e-mail message is obtained; and a notification message, including the URL, is transmitted to the recipient. A proxy server and e-mail server for implementing the method are also provided. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225247 | Collaborative Conference Experience Improvement - An example computing device creates a resource module that acquires resource information relating to resources of the computing device and acquire quality of experience information corresponding to a quality of audio, and creates a roster module that displays a participant list including resource information relating to resources of a plurality of other computing devices connected to the teleconference and display quality of experience information corresponding to a quality of audio a user of each of the plurality of other computing devices experiences when connected to the teleconference. The device also creates a policy module configured to evaluate the resource information and quality of experience information acquired by the client resource module against rules of a teleconference policy and implement actions based on a determination that the computing device is non-compliant with one or more of the rules of the teleconference policy to control quality of audio during the teleconference. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225248 | MULTIMODAL CONVERSATION STATE AND TRANSFER THROUGH CENTRALIZED NOTIFICATION - A mechanism is provided for enabling subscribers of an enhanced communication system to switch endpoints during a conversation, add or remove modalities, invite new participants while continuing the conversation seamlessly. Active endpoints associated with a participant in a conversation may publish their states to a managing server and become aware of a status of the ongoing conversation. Subsequently, the participants may seamlessly switch to another endpoint and continue the conversation using the other endpoint. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225249 | Threaded Presentation of Electronic Mail - A threaded list of e-mail messages is provided by checking each received message against previous messages to determine whether the new message is associated with previous messages. If so, then a new thread is created. The new thread has an associated thread header, which stores metadata bout the messages in the thread. If the received message is related to messages in an existing thread, then the received message is added to that thread, and the thread header for that thread is updated to reflect data from the received message. The thread header appears with messages in a message list view of the inbox, and provides data about the thread. Messages that are not part of a thread are shown in the same view as threaded messages, without a thread header. This allows a user to view both threaded and non-threaded messages in a single view. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225250 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FILTERING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for filtering electronic communications. One exemplary method includes receiving a first message directed to a user, the first message including a plurality of messaging data; and receiving from the user a selection of the messaging data within the first message. The method further includes adding the selected messaging data to a database in relation to one or more contacts of the user, and receiving a second message directed to the user from at least one of the one or more contacts. The method further includes scanning the second message for the selected messaging data, and filtering, with at least one processor, the second message from delivery to the user if the second message contains the selected messaging data. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225251 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and computing device for processing data are provided. Rule data for visually coding incoming data is stored. First and second profile data are stored, independent of the rule data. Each profile data comprises a respective range of time and a respective recurrence pattern that repeats indefinitely. Each profile data is associated with a respective subset of the rule data. Respective indications are received that first profile data and second profile have been activated. In response, the respective subset is automatically applied during the respective range of time such that incoming data is visually coded at the display device according to the respective subset during the respective range of time. Automatic application of the respective subset during the respective range of time repeats indefinitely according to the respective recurrence pattern until another indication that the respective profile data has been deactivated is received. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225252 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND MAINTAINING A WIRELESS DEVICE - A system is disclosed in which a wireless device is monitored and maintained over a network. One embodiment of the system comprises a wireless device including: a service to maintain data objects, provide messaging capability, and provide data access capability on behalf of a user of the wireless device; and a rules engine communicatively coupled to the service to execute a set of rules transmitted to the wireless device from a server, the set of rules to instruct the rules engine to gather information related to the wireless device and to take action on the wireless device based on the gathered information. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225253 | E-MAIL MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED RICH MEDIA DELIVERY - A multi-user e-mail messaging system is described that is interfaced through the Internet and includes a first user group sharing a first server, which first server is interfaced to the Internet. In this system, after an e-mail message has been originated by an originating user of the first user group, the e-mail message is directed onto an e-mail enhancement path, and additional content is added to the e-mail message using the e-mail enhancement path to produce an enhanced e-mail message. Thereafter, the enhanced e-mail message from the e-mail enhancement path to the intended recipient. In one feature, the path taken by an incoming e-mail message is different from an outgoing path taken by an e-mail message sent from the first user group. The outgoing path defined to the intended recipient includes the enhancement path. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225254 | AUTOMATIC DISPLAY OF EMAIL DISTRIBUTION LISTS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed generally to autocompete functionality in messaging applications. The autocomplete functionality, for example, generates frequently and/or recently used distribution lists or groups, performs keyword searches to identify recipient identifiers, and provides convenient modification of existing distribution lists or groups. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110231492 | METHOD AND MEANS FOR SUPPORTING USER TERMINAL TO ACCESS NETWORK IN FIXED ACCESS NETWORK - The present invention provides a method and means for supporting user terminal to access network in fixed access network, in order to solve the problem in existing techniques that user terminal could not perform quick handover or quick NAP, NSP network discovery. According to solution of the present invention, access device in fixed access network provides network access related information, such as NAP network information, NSP network information and sub-network identifier, to user terminal in sub-network subject to it, so as to enable user terminal to perform quick handover or quick NAP, NSP network discovery. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231493 | LOCATION-BASED NOTIFICATION - Location-based notification includes establishment of a rally point and subsequent notification of a user when another user enters the rally point. Senders may set up rally points at various physical locations and specify one or more target recipients that are to be notified when the sender enters the rally point. Target recipients may specify communication settings that dictate whether and/or how they wish to receive notifications under a variety of circumstances. When a sender having a computing device enters a rally point location, a notification is sent from the computing device to a location-based notification service, which notifies each of the target recipients in a manner that complies with the target recipient's individual communication settings. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231494 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING DATA INDIRECTLY TO A RECIPIENT USING ANOTHER DEVICE - Contact information, such as an email address, may be known for some recipients, but may be unknown or out-of-date (or obsolete) for others. However, often a group of recipients are related to each other with potentially overlapping social networks. In such cases, data can be communicated directly to those recipients that are known or can otherwise be contacted directly, while relying on such “direct recipients” to act as one or more proxies for sending the data to the others in the group, e.g. using their local contact information. A server can also be used to provide updates to the originating device or provide access to the list as it evolves, to enable the originating device to see who has received the data even if they are unaware of how the data reached those other devices. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231495 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE PRESENCE OF MESSAGING SERVICES - Method and apparatus for maintaining presence settings of a user for buddies selected from different buddy groups regardless of which user accounts and which buddy accounts are used in a plurality of messaging services for the user and the buddies are described. The user may subscribe to the messaging services via one or more user accounts. Each buddy may subscribe to the messaging services via one or more buddy accounts. A presence setting may be associated with a buddy group including at least one buddy account of the buddies. One or more service specific settings matching the presence settings may be identified. Each service specific setting may specify a service specific presence of a messaging service for one of the user accounts and one of the buddy accounts. A presence notification message for the service specific setting may be determined to notify the messaging service for the presence setting. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231496 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION ACCORDING TO A USER'S PROFILE - A system for providing an individual user with customized information is described. The user provides the system with the user's preferences. The system compares each user's preferences to a database to provide the user with notification via an e-mail newsletter sent over a computer network. The newsletter is individually prepared for each user by dynamically populating the newsletter with the necessary information as the newsletter is being sent to the individual. Thus, there is no need to first prepare the newsletter, store it, send it, and delete it. This approach reduces the need for more equipment as the number of needed newsletters increases. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231497 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND NOTIFICATION OF ACCESS AND USE OF THE INTERNET - Systems and methods for providing notifications are provided. Information regarding Internet content is received. A determination by an Internet service or a DNS server is made as to whether the Internet content has been accessed by a second end user. A notification is generated and transmitted when the Internet content has been accessed. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231498 | Systems and Methods for Transmitting Messages to a User of a Network - Systems and methods for transmitting messages to a user of a network are provided. A message and a selection of a triggering event may be received by an Internet service, via a user interface between a first end user and the Internet service. A notification including the message may be generated. The notification may be transmitted via both the user interface and the network between the Internet service and a second end user in response to an occurrence of the triggering event. In accordance with various embodiments, the triggering event may include accessing of the Internet by the second end user via the network, or the accessing of a particular website. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231499 | MANAGEMENT AND DISPLAY OF GROUPED MESSAGES ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method for managing a plurality of messages stored at a mobile communication device, groups messages based on a common subject line or another quasi-unique identifier, and displays message group entries representing distinct message groups in a user interface. The message group entries may be displayed in association with an icon representing multiple message states associated with individual messages comprised within that message group. The multiple message states may include all messages being read, all messages being unread, a most recently received message being unread while others are read, and a most recently received message being read while order messages are unread. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231500 | System and method for integrating support case or ticket management systems via email - A system and method for integrating a plurality of support case or ticket management systems via email is invented. Said system and method enable escalation of cases or tickets between existing support systems with no or limited customization. Said existing support system is any CRM, helpdesk or service desk system, and can be distributed across a plurality of organizations. The subject, body and other fields of a case can be represented by the subject, body and other fields of an email. And, because email is a built-in capability of many support systems, integration may be achieved without an adapter. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231501 | COST-BASED SMTP EMAIL ROUTING - Methods and system for cost-based email routing is provided. Such methods and systems can route high volume of email messages with improved email throughput. Such methods and systems may involve a variety of components, for example, at least one email data store for receiving, storing, and sending high volume of email message, a plurality of mail servers for routing email messages to their recipient domains based through a lowest cost associated with sending high volume of email messages to their recipient domains from the plurality of mail servers, and at least one email processing module for measuring the cost associated with sending each email messages to its recipient domain from each of the plurality of mail servers. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231502 | RELAY APPARATUS, RELAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A relay apparatus can easily determine the presence or absence of fabrication in a transmission source electronic mail address of an electronic mail message. The relay apparatus | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231503 | EFFICIENT USE OF RESOURCES IN MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION - A system and method are disclosed for routing a message through a plurality of test methods. The method includes: receiving a message; applying a first test method to the message; updating a state of the message based on the first test method; and determining a second test method to be applied to the message based on the state. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING OVER A NETWORK WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE - A device is provided for connecting a medical apparatus to a network. The device collects data from the medical apparatus and performs a variety of processing functions, such as trending, protocol translation, generating reports, etc. related to the collected data. The device then transmits the collected data over a network to interested parties. In some implementations, the device can transmit the collected data as an email message. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231505 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING OVER A NETWORK WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE - A device is provided for connecting a medical apparatus to a network. The device collects data from the medical apparatus and performs a variety of processing functions, such as trending, protocol translation, generating reports, etc. related to the collected data. The device then transmits the collected data over a network to interested parties. In some implementations, the device can transmit the collected data as an email message. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231506 | VIDEO MESSAGING - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communications system by receiving, at an instant messaging host, a video file from a sender and intended for a recipient; authenticating the video file; and sending the video file to the intended recipient. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231507 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO A REFERENCED INDIVIDUAL - Providing supplemental contact information for an individual referenced in an electronic message typically includes receiving an electronic message, examining the electronic message, detecting an identifier for a referenced individual contained in the electronic message, and making supplemental contact information for the referenced individual available to a recipient of the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include information that is in addition to information contained in the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include at least one of an e-mail address, a screen name, a telephone number, a facsimile number, and a mailing address, each of which is associated with the referenced individual. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110238760 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CONTACTS AS USERS OF A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE AND APPLICATION SYSTEM - A system and method of identifying users of a multi-tenant database and application service is provided. The system and method is configured to generate a list of contacts from a contact database of a multi-tenant database and application service. Each contact in the list of contacts is sent a message that includes a link to web site that includes a query. Specifically, each contact visiting the web site is queried to determine if the contact is a user of a multi-tenant database and application service. Additionally, contacts are queried to determine if they are an administrator user, and if not, who is an associated administrator user. The contact database is updated to indicate contacts that are users of the multi-tenant database and application service when approved of by the associated administrator. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238761 | CHAT RELAY SERVER AND CHAT TERMINAL USED IN CHAT SYSTEM, METHODS OF CONTROLLING SAME, AND CHAT SYSTEM - A text-data chat message transmitted from a client terminal ( | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238762 | GEO-CODED COMMENTS IN A MESSAGING SERVICE - Some techniques feature a computer-implemented method for messages associated with a user location. The method involves determining, by a mobile computing device, an estimated geographic location of the mobile computing device. The method includes receiving, at the mobile computing device, one or more messages associated with an area within the estimated geographic location, where the one or more messages include messages posted by users of a system that associates messages that those users posted about the area within the estimated geographic location. The method involves providing, on a display of the mobile computing device, one or more posted message icons that are presented in a layer over a map, where the one or more posted message icons represent the one or more posted messages. In a system, the one or more posted messages may not appear on mobile devices after a predetermined amount of time from their respective postings. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238763 | Social Help Network - A help item is received from a first user by using a social help network. The help item indicates a help service to be performed for the first user by a second user of the social help network, or by the first user for the second user. Factor(s) of the first user and other users of the social network are determined, such as a geographical location of each user. Factor(s) of the help item are determined, such as a geographical location where the help service is to be performed. Based on the factor(s) of each of the first user, the help item, and the other users, a search for potential second users is performed. Each potential second user can perform the help service for the first user, or each potential second user can have the help service performed by the first user. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238764 | ELECTRONIC MAIL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An email communication apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an email; and a transmitter configured to transmit an acknowledgement mail relating to a delivery confirmation of the email. The receiver includes: a first reception unit configured to receive a first type email through an email server, the first type email designating a mail address as a transmission destination of the acknowledgement mail, and a second reception unit configured to receive a second type email without through the email server. If the first reception unit receives the first type email, the transmitter transmits, through the email server, the acknowledgement mail in which a transmission destination is the designated email address. If the second reception unit receives the second type email, the transmitter transmits, without through the email server, the acknowledgement mail in which a transmission destination is a network address of a transmission source device. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238765 | Declassifying of Suspicious Messages - Handling a message comprises: classifying an incoming message for a recipient, storing the classified message and providing a notification to the recipient, wherein the notification includes summary information about the classified message and an interface that allows the recipient to operate on the classified message. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238766 | SOCIAL MESSAGING HUB - A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities such as a portable media player, personal digital assistant, a Wi-Fi mobile platform, a tablet computer, portable e-Reader, a personal computer, a laptop and a netbook computer. The social messaging hub communicates with the data enabled device over the Internet or cellular data networks, and interfaces with a message infrastructure including mobile carriers, message aggregators, message exchanges and various specialized social messaging services, such as Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, AIM, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, Facebook and Twitter to enable bi-directional messaging communication. The user is given a registered phone number and unique IP addressable identification which serve as a source and destination identifier of the associated data enabled device. Messages may originate in or be delivered to other users' mobile telephones or in similarly equipped and provisioned IP data enabled devices. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238767 | MESSAGE PROCESSING - A message (such as email) processing system and method functions to process incoming messages. The message processing system has: a message receiver ( | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238768 | SOFTWARE BUG AND PERFORMANCE DEFICIENCY REPORTING SYSTEM - A medical image system is disclosed, comprising a medical image processing module ( | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238769 | AUTOMATED WEB CONFERENCE PRESENTATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT - A web conference client device determines that it is configured to generate a higher-quality rendered output than a quality of a web conference presentation slide received from a server. A slide presentation file associated with the web conference presentation slide is received from the server. Rendered output of the slide presentation file is generated. The rendered output of the slide presentation file is sent to the server. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SCREEN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - A method and an apparatus to screen electronic communications have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes extracting URLs from electronic communication and analyzing the URLs extracted to determine whether the electronic communication is of a first predetermined category. Other embodiments have been claimed and described. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238771 | DISTRIBUTED ROUTER APPLICATION SERIALIZATION - A method of shutting down a message routing component that has stored thereon outgoing messages that are destined for a communications device, the shutting down method including storing selected messages from the outgoing messages to a persistent storage. Also a system for routing messages, including: a persistent storage; and a message routing component having a memory for storing outgoing messages that are destined for a communications device, the message routing component being configured to store selected messages from the outgoing messages to the persistent storage when shutting down. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238772 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING MOBILE TRAFFIC IN A MOBILE NETWORK - A data agnostic transport system that may be used for data objects such as email, calendar, notes, files, and multimedia. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110246578 | Method and system for analyzing messages - The invention relates to a method and system for analyzing messages transmitted in a communication network. An embodiment of the method comprises the steps of: determining an information-related citation index indicating how often information comprised in a message has been forwarded in consecutive messages to other users of the communication network, and providing an analysis result based on the information-related citation index. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH SPORTING EVENT PARTICIPANTS - A communication device for event participants includes a communication module and a controller coupled to the communication module. The controller is configured to at least one of receive and generate a list of messages for an event participant, store the list of messages in the communication device, receive event information through the communication module, and modify the list of messages based on the received event information. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246580 | Method And Apparatus For Electronic Mail Management - A system and method for email management. An automatic reply control table is provided, and an entry may be created based on a designation made by a user when composing an email for transmission. An email manager then monitors incoming email to determine whether a particular email includes an indicator that it is an automatic-reply message and, if so, whether it corresponds to an entry on the automatic reply control table. If it does, then the received automatic reply message is deleted or otherwise disposed of. A notification may be generated for presentation to the sender of the original email indicating the disposition of received automatic reply messages corresponding to a particular transmitted email. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246581 | Method and System for Group Event Communications - A method and an Event Tracking System (ETS) are provided for group communications. The method allows subscribing with an Event Organizing System (EOS) for updates to a group event instance comprising a group of users and an event related to the group, e.g. a hockey match. The method further allows receiving from users subscriptions to the updates of the group event instance. Responsive to subscribing with the EOS for the updates to the group event instance, the ETS receives from the EOS an update notification related to the group event instance notifying of a group event update (e.g. an update of the group membership and/or of the event), and responsive to the user subscriptions with the ETS, the later sends out an update notification message to each one of the users notifying of the group event update. In one embodiment, the update notifications sent out to users are personalised, e.g. based on the user's location or advertisement preferences. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246582 | Message Passing with Queues and Channels - In an embodiment, a send thread receives an identifier that identifies a destination node and a pointer to data. The send thread creates a first send request in response to the receipt of the identifier and the data pointer. The send thread selects a selected channel from among a plurality of channels. The selected channel comprises a selected hand-off queue and an identification of a selected message unit. Each of the channels identifies a different message unit. The selected hand-off queue is randomly accessible. If the selected hand-off queue contains an available entry, the send thread adds the first send request to the selected hand-off queue. If the selected hand-off queue does not contain an available entry, the send thread removes a second send request from the selected hand-off queue and sends the second send request to the selected message unit. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246583 | Delaying Inbound And Outbound Email Messages - A computer implemented system and method to enable protection of email users from unsolicited bulk email using a message delivery delay based on characteristics detected in selected messages. Messages are evaluated for characteristics resembling unsolicited bulk email. A determination is made whether a message passing through the email system exhibits such characteristics and whether to delay the message. Suspect messages may be delayed for a period of time, the delay period being dependent on the characteristics giving rise to a determination to delay. Following the period, additional information received during the delay period characterizing the message is used to determine whether to dispose or deliver the message. Messages evaluated can be inbound to the email system, outbound to other email systems, or moving within the email system. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246584 | Personalized Email Interactions Applied To Global Filtering - A computer implemented method for filtering unwanted bulk email in an email system and providing a positive user experience is provided. The method enables protection of email users from unsolicited bulk email using user-provided data on user interactions at both a user storage level and a global level with an email system. Metadata on user interactions with messages is collected. Messages are received by the system and evaluated using a global filter which assigns a score resulting in a message action. The action may be message delivery, message non-delivery or message routing, based on a score assigned by the global filter. When the message is delivered to user storage, the message may be examined relative to the metadata, and may alter the message action to an action different than the message action resulting from the score. Metadata for a plurality of users is returned to the global filter for use in making filtering future messages and modifies the global filter. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246585 | Event Enrichment Using Data Correlation - Systems and methods for enriching events using data correlation are described herein. At least some embodiments include a method for enriching events reflecting the state of a plurality of computer systems, the method including storing a plurality of event messages and system metric data that includes service metric data, determining a degree of correlation between a system metric and at least one of a plurality of service metrics, and enriching an event message of the plurality of event messages based at least in part on the degree of correlation. At least one system metric data value triggers the event message. The degree of correlation is based at least in part on the system metric data and the service metric data. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246586 | POLICY-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A communication system and method is provided that includes a gateway. The gateway interconnects a client device and a server that hosts a service. The gateway is configured to determine the characteristics of service being requested by the client device and to communicate with a policy server in order to determine a policy that is to be applied to the fulfillment of the request for the service, assuming that the policy actually permits the fulfillment of the request. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246587 | ADAPTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION OF SERVICE DATA - Techniques are disclosed for synchronizing service data between a data store and a device using the service data. These synchronization techniques may be used with a synchronization method and device that adaptively adjust synchronization parameters, such as the synchronization interval and quantity of synchronized data, on a per-end-user basis in response to actual end-user behavior. In particular, heavy users of service data are rewarded with improved synchronization parameters, such as a combination of shorter synchronization intervals and increased synchronization data quantities, which provides closer to “direct access” performance. Light users of service, on the other hand, are assigned lower cost synchronization parameters, such as longer synchronization intervals and/or decreased synchronization data quantities | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246588 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFIED CONTRACT ACCEPTANCE - In order to provide third party verification of the content and delivery of an electronic message such as an e-snail, a server receives the e-mail intended to be sent or forwarded to a specified addressee, and “tags” the message to indicate that it is “registered” with the provider of the service. The server then establishes a direct telnet connection with the addressee's Mail User Agent (MUA), and transmits the tagged email to the addressee's MUA, as well as to the MUA's of any other addressees. After receiving responses from the receiving MUA's that the message was successfully received, the server then creates and forwards to the message originator an electronic receipt. The receipt includes one or more, and preferably all of, the following: the original message including any original attachments; a delivery success/failure table listing which addressee's MUA's successfully received the message and at what time, and for which MUA's there was a delivery failure; and a digital signature corresponding to the message and attachments. By receiving the receipt at a later date and verifying that the digital signature matches the message and related information, the operators of the system can provide independent third party verification that the receipt is a genuine product of their system and that the information pertaining to content and delivery of the message is accurate, without the need to archive either the original message or the receipt. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246589 | E-MAIL RECEPTION APPARATUS AND E-MAIL RECEPTION METHOD - Provided is a communication apparatus (e-mail reception apparatus) capable of storing more contents of necessary e-mails even if only a limited number of e-mails can be stored. An e-mail reception apparatus ( | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246590 | METHOD, SERVER, INSTANT MESSAGING CLIENT, AND SYSTEM OF INSTANT MESSAGING - A method for instant messaging includes: receiving social information which includes a type identification of a social information event, contents of the social information event and an initiator of the social information event; obtaining a type of the social information event and a proposed user action for the type of the social information event by utilizing the type identification of the social information event; and transmitting the social information, the type of the social information event and the proposed user action to an Instant Messaging (IM) client; displaying, by the IM client, at least one of the initiator, the contents and the type of the social information event and the proposed user action. Accordingly, a server, an IM client and a system for instant messaging are provided. By gathering all social information received by a user, the user is able to trace all activities by performing the least interactions. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246591 | MARKING EMAIL AS PARTIALLY REVIEWED BASED ON SCROLLING EXTENT - An extent to which a user has reviewed an email is estimated, and a review value is assigned to the email based upon the estimated extent of review. A visual indicator associated with the email is displayed, wherein the appearance of the visual indicator is determined at least by the review value. In an exemplary embodiment, the email contains one or more recipient email addresses, wherein each recipient email address is associated with a recipient review value. In the exemplary embodiment, a visual indicator is displayed corresponding to the recipient review value associated with each recipient email address. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246592 | ELECTRONIC FILE TRANSFER FOR A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - Systems and methods are provided for identifying an electronic file that is accessible by a communications node to be transmitted to a recipient. A communications device sends an identification of the electronic file. The communications node receives the identification of the electronic file, identifies the electronic file based on the identification, and accesses the electronic file for transmission to the recipient. The electronic file is not transmitted from the communications device to the communications node. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246593 | Anonymous Email Address Management - A system, method, and a computer program product generates an anonymous email address corresponding to a pair of customer and merchant. Based on the received customer identifier and merchant identifier, an anonymous email key and address are generated. The anonymous email address is then used in communications between the customer and merchant. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING COMMUTER GROUPS - A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may arrange car pools, short term riding arrangements, and may anonymously or directly contact each other. The CGS may collect group member position information, e.g. GPS information, to enable the CGS to calculate traffic conditions and to select location specific information for group members. The system may include an on-line service accessible through a computer or wireless networking device. The user may log into the CGS, create or modify a user profile, and join groups of their choosing. Groups may be associated with specific events or with getting to/from work. Commuter groups may be formed for commuters that use private vehicles and/or public transportation. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110252096 | Network Infrastructure Management - Network infrastructure management may be provided. First, administrative tools associated with a plurality of network topologies may be provided in a management console. Providing the administrative tools may comprise providing a first set of tools associated with a first network topology in the console. The first network topology may be an on-premises topology. Providing the administrative tools may also comprise providing a second set of tools associated with a second network topology in the console. The second network topology may be a cloud topology. Next, communications for the plurality of network topologies may be established to manage the plurality of network topologies through the management console. Establishing the communications for the plurality of network topologies may comprise establishing a first communications channel between the first network topology and the console. In addition, establishing the communications may comprise establishing a second communications channel between the second network topology. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252097 | PREDICTING MEETING ATTENDANCE - Described is a method of configuring a meeting event stored on an organizing device. The meeting event comprises a meeting event location, a meeting event start time and a meeting event end time. The method comprises receiving prediction information for at least one meeting participant from at least one participant device, the prediction information for predicting attendance at the meeting event; and, in response to receiving prediction information for the at least one meeting participant, selectively altering one of the meeting event location, the meeting event start time and the meeting event end time. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252098 | CREATING RICH EXPERIENCES IN MAIL THROUGH ATTACHMENTS - The disclosed embodiments provide for an email and messenging system that allows a user composing a message to select an application which will appear next to the composition screen at both the sending and receiving computer. The application is specified as an attachment at the sending client and when received at a receiving client of a user with an enhanced or compliant mail/messenging account the application will be executed at the receiving client, thus customizing the functionality of the receiving client computer and the mail experience between sender and receiver. An unapproved application sent as an attachment will not be executed and/or alter the receiving client interface. Similarly, the application will simply appear as a standard attachment at a non enhanced recipient client/account. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252099 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY MANAGING DATA IN A SOCIAL NETWROKING SERVICE - An apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium are described for managing data within a friend service. In one embodiment, a key/value data store can be used to provide an efficient and highly-scalable friend service database. Various techniques can be used to ensure data consistency between friend service data records. For example, in one embodiment, operations are detected which require updates to a plurality of related friend state records. A key may be generated to represent each of the operations and then used to create an entry in a write-ahead log database. In one embodiment, each entry in the write-ahead log database may specify the operation to be performed on the friend state records. If the plurality of friend state records are successfully updated, then the entry in the write-ahead log database may be deleted. However, if the plurality of friend state records are not successfully completed, then the entry is not deleted from the write-ahead log database. The friend state records associated with old entries in the write-ahead log database are checked for consistency and inconsistent records are repaired. In addition, optimistic locking techniques may be used in one embodiment to improve performance of the friend service database. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252100 | PARTIAL OBJECT DISTRIBUTION IN CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - Techniques for the distribution of content objects in a content delivery network (CDN) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a CDN distribution server detects the availability of a content object and determines whether the content object is a candidate for distribution. The distribution server may detect the availability of the content object in response to a provider making new or updated content available at a content site or a location within the CDN. The distribution server obtains identifying information for a candidate content object and determines a select portion of the content object to be distributed within the CDN. The select portion can be a predetermined number of bytes located at a predetermined position in the content object, the size and location of which may be determined according to content-specific mapping data. The distribution server may push the select portion of the content object to one or more groups of CDN edge servers absent an end-user request. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252101 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF AUGMENTED MESSAGES - The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with delivery conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where” from any “Who, What, When, Where” upon the detection of an occurrence of one or more “Who, What, When, Where” delivery conditions. A message (which may be any data object including text-based messages, audio-based message such as voicemail or other audio such as music or video-based prerecorded messages) is delivered in accordance with delivery conditions based on any available data, including topical, spatial, temporal, and/or social data. Furthermore, because the systems coordinate delivery of messages via multiple communication channels and through multiple devices, the communication channel for delivery of a message may be dynamically determined based on the delivery conditions. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252102 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the operation of the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes downloading, via a wireless communication unit, an email into a temporary storage from a mail server, wherein the email includes a header, a content, and a first file, converting, via a controller, the first file corresponding to a file attachment in the email into a second file to fit a size of a display area, storing the email and the second file in a memory, withdrawing, from the memory, the content of the email and displaying, on the display area, the content, if a first request to display the content is received, and withdrawing, from the memory, the second file and displaying the second file on the display area, if a second request to display the first file is received. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252103 | Apparatus and Method for Interactive Email - A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to deliver to a community of users an email with a widget including a graphical user interface that solicits input. Solicited input is collected from the community of users via the widget. The email is revised to dynamically display at least a portion of the solicited input. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252104 | Method And System For Filtering Electronic Messages - The present invention discloses a system for blocking unsolicited emails. The system comprising: a server application for providing a filtering service between at least one protected and a second mail subscribe. The server application is comprised of: a communication module for establishing secure connections between at least two mail subscribers, a repository of secure connections including records of secure mail addresses created for each secure connection, an interception module for verifying secure messages by comparing the sender's address to the sender address in the secure connection repository, a transmission module for forwarding the verified messages to the public target mail address by translating between secure mail address and the public mail addresses of verified messages. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252105 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE REQUESTING OF POSITIVE DELIVERY REPORTS FROM INDIVIDUAL GROUP MEMBERS - Disclosed is a mobile communication system and a method for requesting a disposition notification from each group member for an IM message. In the method, a sender can request desired group members for a disposition notification for an IM (Instant Messaging) message in a group messaging service. To this end, the sender on the transmission side constructs an IM message in such a manner as to include information on the group members designated by the sender, and then transmits the constructed IM message to an IM server. After receiving the IM message from the sender, the IM server generates IM messages corresponding to the group members based on the information included in the received IM message, and then transmits the generated IM messages to the group members, respectively. Accordingly, only the group members that have received the IM messages can generate their own reports, and then transmit the generated reports to the sender. By doing this, the sender can receive the disposition notification only from the desired group members. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252106 | E-MAIL DELIVERY DEVICE, E-MAIL DELIVERY SYSTEM, AND E-MAIL DELIVERY PROGRAM - When a membership number acquisition unit obtains a membership number from a management device, an identification information creation unit assigns a unique identification data to the membership number, creates identification information element containing the assigned identification data and the obtained membership number, and assigns an e-mail storing unit to the identification information element on a one-to-one basis. When a target e-mail acquisition unit obtains the selected membership number and the e-mail from the management device, a delivery unit identifies the identification information element that contains the membership number that agrees with the obtained selected membership number and stores the obtained e-mail in the e-mail storing unit that corresponds to the specified identification information element. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252107 | Systems and Methods for Sending an Electronic Mail Communication at a Selected Time Based on the Recipient's Time Zone - Methods and systems for sending an email so recipients receive it at a selected time in respective time zones. Information about recipients may determine times zones. Information may include zip code, IP address, or identification of a server or service provider serving a recipient. Information may be based on a recipient's activity such as determination of a time zone in which more emails are received than any other, or having a highest weighted average (based on frequency of email receipt and recent history). The email is sent so recipients receive it at the selected time in the respective time zone. Recipients may be grouped by time zones. After sending the email to the recipients, open/click rates of the email by the recipients by the determined time zones may be determined and displayed on a time zone map. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252108 | DESIGNATING AUTOMATED AGENTS AS FRIENDS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - A system is described in which a user can add one or more automated agents as “friends” in a social network service. In operation, an automated agent observes an information need expressed by the user via the social network service, e.g., in the form of an original message posted to the social network service; determines whether it is appropriate to reply to the information need; uses automated functionality to generate a reply message to the information need (if it is deemed appropriate to reply to the information need); and sends the reply message to a target destination, such as a social network page associated with the user. For example, without limitation, one type of automated agent performs a question-answering function. Another type of automated agent performs a social referral service. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110252109 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESTRICTING ACCESS TO EMAIL AND ATTACHMENTS - One aspect of the invention is a method for restricting access to one or more email attachments includes receiving an email addressed to a first recipient and including at least a first attachment. The email is processed to determine whether a valid authorization code is associated with the email (and/or the attachment(s)). The valid authorization code identifies the email (and/or the attachment(s)) as an authorized communication. Access by the recipient to the first attachment is prevented if the processing of the email determined that no valid authorization code is associated with the email (and/or the attachment(s)). | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110258260 | Method of delivering traffic status updates via a social networking service - A method of receiving traffic status updates from a social networking service includes a communication device subscribing to a feed of a traffic monitoring service on a social networking service and requesting the social networking service to send short messages to the communication device when new traffic data is submitted to the social networking service by the traffic monitoring service. The method also includes the communication device receiving a short message containing traffic data from the social networking service in response to the traffic monitoring service submitting traffic data to the social networking service, parsing the short message with the communication device and extracting the traffic data contained in the short message, and processing the traffic data with a routing module of the communication device. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258261 | PHASE BASED PRIORITIZATION OF IMS SIGNALING MESSAGES FOR OVERLOAD THROTTLING - Systems and methods for providing overload protection in a communications system are provided. More particularly, an importance or priority rating of a message received at a communication server is determined. If the communications system is in an overload state, and if the importance rating of the received message is not sufficiently high, overload protection is applied. Overload protection can include denying service to a requested or in process communications system associated with the message. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258262 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONDUCTING COMMUNICATIONS AMONG COMPONENTS OF MULTIDOMAIN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM - An improved industrial automation system and communication system for implementation therein, and related methods of operation, are described herein. In at least some embodiments, the improved communication system allows communication in the form of messages between modules in different control or enterprise domains. Further, in at least some embodiments, such communications are achieved by providing a communication system including a manufacturing service bus having two internal service busses with a bridge between the internal busses. Also, in at least some embodiments, a methodology of synchronous messaging is employed. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258263 | TOPIC-BASED MESSAGING USING CONSUMER ADDRESS AND POOL - In a multicast publisher-subscriber environment, a configurator machine manages a consumer pool of multiple receiver machines. The consumer pool is dedicated to a topic. Each receiver machine has a unique consumer address within the consumer pool allocated by the configurator machine. The configurator machine receives registration data from a receiver machine to be added to the consumer pool and provides a consumer address to the receiver machine. The receiver machine transmits a multicast communication to advertise its availability to receive messages on the topic. The multicast communication includes the consumer address. A transmitter machine may publish a message on the topic. The message may be a multicast communication directed to any receiver machine in to the consumer pool, or the message may be a point-to-point communication directed to the receiver machine with the consumer address. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258264 | EMAIL-READ STATUS - A method and computer program product for marking email-read status in an email application is described. A method may comprise defining, via at least one of a client electronic device and a server computer, a marked-read characteristic corresponding to an email. The method may further comprise determining, via at least one of the client electronic device and the server computer, a marked-read preview time based upon, at least in part, the marked-read characteristic. The method may also comprise designating, via at least one of the client electronic device and the server computer, the email as read based upon, at least in part, the marked-read preview time. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258265 | DECOMPOSITION AND DELIVERY OF MESSAGE OBJECTS BASED ON USER INSTRUCTIONS - A message system comprises a communication interface and a processing system. The communication interface is configured to receive a message object addressed to a user. The processing system is configured to store a copy of the message object, process the message object based on user decomposition instructions to generate a decomposed message object, select a delivery mechanism for the decomposed message object based on user delivery instructions, and direct the communication interface to transfer the decomposed message object for delivery to the user according to the delivery mechanism. The communication interface configured to transfer the decomposed message object for delivery to the user according to the delivery mechanism. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258266 | EMERGENCY INFORMATION SERVICES - A method of communicating with a user includes receiving a call from the user via a first mode of communicating; sending, to an emergency information service, via a communications network, a request for information associated with the user; receiving, from the emergency information service, via the communications network, information characterizing more than one mode of communicating with the user; and initiating communication with the user via a second mode of communicating, the second mode of communicating included in the more than one mode of communicating with the user. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258267 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A vehicle-mounted device or the like is provided by which a content of an electronic mail can be notified by a driver without disturbing safety driving. A vehicle-mounted device | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258268 | CONTROLLING MESSAGE DELIVERY IN PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING - In response to publication of a topic message on a topic to a messaging system by a publisher application, a determination is made as to whether any subscriber applications are registered for the topic. In response to determining that at least one subscriber application is registered for the topic, the published topic message is delivered to each registered subscriber application. In response to determining that no subscriber applications are registered for the topic, the published topic message is stored and in response to receipt of a first subsequent subscription request from a new subscriber application for the topic, the stored published topic message is delivered to the new subscriber application. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258269 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND E-MAIL SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and an e-mail service providing method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal analyzes an e-mail receiving pattern and receives e-mail in one of a split receiving mode for receiving parts of an e-mail transmitted from a sender and an entire receiving mode for receiving the entire e-mail based on the e-mail receiving pattern. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258270 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING PARTNERSHIP WITH A PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) SERVICE BASED ON GOSSIP - Provided is gossip-based peer-to-peer service apparatus and a method for quickly establishing a partnership. A first node that desires to join a service receives partial view information of a second node from the second view that is participating in the service. In response to receiving the partial view information from the second node, the first node extracts one or more candidate nodes to establish a partnership with, and engages the candidate nodes in a temporal partnership. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258271 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTING ATTACHMENTS TO MESSAGES - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting unsupported custom attachment types in a method supported by a communication technique. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for receiving a selection of an attachment for adding to an outgoing communication message to be transmitted over a network using a communication technique. The method may include determining whether the selected attachment is supported by the communication technique. The method may, when the selected attachment is unsupported by the communication technique, separate the selected attachment into individual data pieces that are supported by the communication technique. The method may further attach the individual data pieces to the outgoing communication message, and transmit the outgoing communication message using the communication technique. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258272 | FACILITATING TRANSMISSION OF AN EMAIL OF A WELL BEHAVED SENDER BY EXTRACTING EMAIL PARAMETERS AND QUERYING A DATABASE - Facilitating email transmission by extracting email parameters, requesting data in the form of a dns query, and receiving a sender reputation as an IP address. Querying a database by sending a plurality of arguments concatenated to a dns request and receiving an IP address in reply. Filtering email by querying a database with email parameters comprising an IP address and a domain of an email sender which may be extracted from an packet headers in the SMTP sequence up to and including the MAIL command and prior to the DATA command. The smtp session is continued, modified or interrupted according to the result of the query submitted to a database operating as a dns server. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258273 | DIRECT FILE TRANSFER BETWEEN SUBSCRIBERS OF A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Systems and techniques for transferring a file from a first client associated with a first subscriber to a communications system to a second client associated with a second subscriber to the communications system by connecting from the first client to a communications system host; sending, through the communications system host, a request to the second client to establish a direct connection to the second client; when the second client accepts the request, establishing a direct connection to the second client that bypasses the communications system host; and transferring a file over the direct connection. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258274 | SUPPRESSION OF UNDESIRABLE EMAIL MESSAGES BY EMULATING VULNERABLE SYSTEMS - Provided herein are systems and methods for suppressing delivery of undesirable messages through vulnerable systems. In an embodiment, a system include an emulator emulates one or more vulnerable systems that can be used by spammers to relay, forward or otherwise send undesirable email messages to target systems. The system also includes one or more modules associated with the emulator and configured to automatically identifying, as being undesirable, email messages that are to be relayed, forwarded or otherwise sent to target systems via at least one of the one or more vulnerable systems emulated by the emulator. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258275 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SOCIAL GROUP INTERACTIONS - A system for managing social group interactions comprising a server that supports creation and management of a plurality of social groups and a plurality of user devices communicatively coupled to the server that is used by a plurality of users. The server supports the registration of each of the plurality of users as members of one or more of the plurality of social groups. The server saves a list of the plurality of social groups in which the one of the plurality of users is currently a member at the one of the plurality of user devices associated with the one of the plurality of users. For example, if a user using the user device is associated with a social group (where he is a member), then the server saves a reference and membership details and even a member list in the user device. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258276 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY REPLYING MAIL - A method, an apparatus, and a system for automatically replying a mail are provided. The method includes: receiving a new mail sent to a user; obtaining presence information of the user; searching for a mail automatic reply message corresponding to the presence information of the user; and sending the corresponding mail automatic reply message to a sender of the mail. Through the method, the apparatus, and the system, the presence information of the user is obtained, and automatic reply messages are respectively set for different presence information, so that the automatic reply messages are associated with the presence information of the user, and when a state of the user changes, the automatic reply messages are not required to be reset, thereby providing convenience for the user. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258277 | Multi-Source Transmission System And Method Of Instant Messaging File - A multi-source transmission system of an IM file which includes a sender IM terminal and a receiver IM terminal connected through a network to exchange data. The receiver IM terminal is configured to search for replicas of a file according to file information sent by the sender IM terminal. When at least one replica is found, the IM terminal receives the file from at least two file sources by using a multi-source mode. The at least two file sources include the sender IM terminal and a file source of the at least one replica. A conventional P2SP system is used to search for the replicas, and the file with a replica is received by using the multi-source transmission mode. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258278 | TIME TRAVELLING EMAIL MESSAGES AFTER DELIVERY - Systems and methods for reviewing email messages after delivery to an inbox. An inbox filter maintains a suspect list identifying of the email messages including unwanted content and identifies unread email messages in the inbox of the user. The inbox filter moves each identified unread email message to a suspect folder when the determined source of the identified unread email message is contained in the suspect list of sources. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110264746 | Apparatus and Method For Resolving A Race Condition Between Two Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) End Points - An apparatus and method are described for resolving a glare condition between two SIP endpoints. The method allows a third party call control controller to resolve the glare condition when the ownership status of each dialog is the same, by initiating a back-off period of time at the apparatus based on the ownership status of the SIP dialog and re-sending a re-INVITE message to the end point after expiry of the back-off period of time. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264747 | INTERWORKING BETWEEN MESSAGING SERVICES - In a service level interworking unit, a service center (SC) address or a set of SC addresses dedicated for the service level interworking is used whenever an instant message (IM) is interworked to a short message (SM). In other words, if a message is initially sent as an instant message (IM) by user equipment (UE) and is interworked to a short message (SM) by the interworking function, the interworked short message (SM) is sent to a dedicated service center (SC) address. For originating messages that are not interworked, different service center address or addresses are used. A terminating short message (SM) received at the interworking unit is interworked to an instant message (IM) and the interworked instant message (IM) is delivered to the user equipment (UE), if a service center address in the terminating short message (SM) is one of the dedicated service center addresses. If the a service center address in the terminating short message (SM) is not one of the dedicated service center addresses, the terminating short message (SM) is delivered to the user equipment (UE) without a service level interworking. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264748 | ON-DEMAND MAILBOX SYNCHRONIZATION AND MIGRATION SYSTEM - A system for managing physical and logical resources to provide on-demand synchronization or migration of mailboxes and their corresponding content. Physical resources are managed by automatically assigning mailbox processing tasks to either reserved computing resources, or computing resources dynamically obtained from cloud computing services. Authentication resources are managed by automatically requesting credentials from users, accepting submitted credentials, and initiating mailbox processing tasks | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264749 | COST INFLUENCED DOWNLOADING - The present invention provides a mobile communications device and a method of operating such a device to reduce data download costs incurred in downloading data from a bearer to which the mobile communications device is connected. The mobile communications device is capable of storing for a bearer to which the mobile communications device is configured to connect with, cost information relating to the cost of downloading data from that bearer. Also, the mobile communications device is capable of adapting the quantity of data downloaded to the mobile communications device from the bearer to which the mobile communications device is presently connected in dependence on the cost information for that bearer. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264750 | MESSAGE TRACKING FUNCTIONALITY BASED ON THREAD-RECURRENT DATA - A method, system, computer program product, and related business methods are described in the context of a web-based business information system having an internal e-mail facility, wherein e-mail communications between a native e-mail system of an end user of the web-based business information system and an external contact are facilitated and automatically tracked by the web-based business information system, the native e-mail system lying outside the web-based business information system but often being preferred by the end user over the internal e-mail facility of the web-based business information system. The described preferred embodiments provide for easy-to-use, reasonably transparent, “no-click” integration of the web-based business information system with the end user's native e-mail system in a manner that is independent of the particular type and choice of native e-mail system. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264751 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VIDEO EMAILING SERVICE - Systems and methods for creating, transmitting and receiving a video email. A user records a video for incorporation into a video email. The user logs into a video server and uses a video creation interface to record a video and define an email message in which to embed the video. The video may be stored on the video server and the message contents are passed to a messaging server. The messaging server downloads one or more frames of the recorded video and creates a still image using the one or more frames. The messaging server embeds the image into an email and includes the message contents to create a video email. The messaging server sends the video email to a recipient. The recipient receives the email and clicks on the one or more images. The recipient's computer launches a web browser that automatically plays the video from the video server. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTENT TO PLURALITY OF DEVICES - A method and apparatus for transmitting content from a source device are provided. The method includes transmitting a message to a branch device and a second device inquiring whether a conversion function for converting content that is streamed to a first device, is installed on the branch device or second device; receiving a response to the transmitted message; transmitting a message requesting conversion of the content to the branch device or the second device, which includes the conversion function; and transmitting the content to the branch device. The content is relayed to the second device by the branch device, and is converted by the branch device or the second device according to performance capabilities of the second device. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264753 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE AND DEVICE THEREFOR - A method and device for providing a message in a remote User Interface (UI) system are provided. The method includes, if a notification message to be sent to a second device connected to a first device is generated in a remote server or the first device communicating with the remote server, the first device generates access information to the notification message, includes the access information in a notification message event indicating occurrence of the notification message, and sends the notification message event to a plurality of second devices in a multicast transmission. Upon receiving a request for the notification message from the plurality of second devices, the first device sends the notification message to the second device whose IDentifier (ID) is identical to a device ID included in the access information, among the plurality of second devices. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264754 | BROWSER BASED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK - A system, method, and/or machine readable medium including a set of stored instructions that, if executed by a processor, may cause one or more computers to receive user input via a platform independent web-based interface, wherein the user input is to identify application logic and one or more data repositories. The instructions can also cause one or more computers to generate a reusable web service based at least in part on the user input, and construct an application workflow based at least in part on the reusable web service. As a result of usage of such a web-based application development platform, users can create/assemble/generate both traditional & non-traditional software applications/services to perform a specific business functions or operations. Moreover, non-traditional software components are sharable web services, which can be used to create/generate a composite application. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264755 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED CUSTOMIZATION OF AUDIO AND VIDEO MEDIA - A system and method for customizing a communication media in the form of audio and/or video media, the method comprising providing the communication media with a pre-treated segment for receiving a message, acquiring the message, inserting the message within the pre-treated segment of the communication media and creating a customized communication media by mixing the message and communication media. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110264756 | DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND MANAGING DATA - A data communication device capable of facilitating file management compared to conventional methods is provided. The data communication device includes an image file storage portion for memorizing an image file to be sent to a user at the other end, a transmission information setting portion for setting transmission information necessary for sending the image file to the user at the other end, a file combining portion for generating a composite file by adding the transmission information to the image file and an e-mail message transmission portion for sending the generated composite file to the user at the other end. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110270931 | News Feed Techniques - News feed techniques are described. In implementations, content is parsed from one or more emails that are addressed to a user. The parsed content from the email is exposed, automatically and without user intervention, for output in a news feed of the user. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PEER-TO-PEER MEDIA ROUTING USING A THIRD PARTY INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR SIGNALING - An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to engage in a call with another endpoint using a third party instant message system to carry instant messages containing signaling information and a route that is external to the third party instant message system for both signaling and media information. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270933 | TRANSFERRING A CONFERENCE SESSION BETWEEN CLIENT DEVICES - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for transferring a conference session with a conferencing system from a first client device to a second client device. One such method comprises: a conferencing system establishing a first conference session for an online conference with a first client device via a communication network; presenting a conference interface via a graphical user interface to the first client device, the conference interface displaying a participant object corresponding to a participant identifier associated with a first participant operating the first client device; the participant initiating a transfer request comprising the participant identifier; sending the transfer request to a second client device; the second client device acknowledging the transfer request; and the second client device establishing a second conference session with the conferencing system using the participant identifier. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270934 | STATE TRANSFER FOR INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE POINTS OF PRESENCE - A server application for an instant messaging service opens a first connection with a first client application executing on a device, after receiving a login from the first client application. Next the server application opens a second connection with a second client application, after receiving the same login from the second client application. Then the server application transfers state from the first client application to the second client application without terminating the first connection, where state includes an instant message which is associated with the login and where the instant message was received between the time the first connection was opened and the time the second connection was opened. State can also include other unread instant messages, as well as window positions and configurations for a user interface supported by both client applications. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270935 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION OF COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A communication (on-board) device | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270936 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR MONITORING A CONFERENCE AND COMMUNICATING WITH PARTICIPANTS WITHOUT JOINING AS A PARTICIPANT - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for monitoring a conference and communicating with participants without joining the conference. One embodiment is a method for monitoring an audio conference without joining as a participant. One such method comprises: a client device, which is associated with an individual who has not joined an audio conference, sending a request via a communication network to a conferencing system to be notified of a predetermined event associated with the audio conference; the conferencing system determining the occurrence of the predetermined event; the conferencing system sending a notification to the client device indicating the occurrence of the predetermined event; the client device presenting the notification to the individual; without joining the audio conference, the client device sending an out-of-conference message from the individual to the conferencing system; and the conferencing system presenting the out-of-conference message to one or more participants in the audio conference. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270937 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TAGGING EMAIL AND PROVIDING TAG CLOUDS - A system and method is provided for tracking and/or organizing email and, in particular, a system and method for tagging email in Web 2.0 applications and using the tags in tag clouds is provided. The system includes a computing system that has first program instructions to generate tag clouds having tags linked to associated emails in a collaborative application. A computer readable media stores the first program instructions and a central processing unit executes the first program instructions. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270938 | SCHEDULABLE E-MAIL FILTERS - An e-mail filter may be associated with a schedule defining a recurrent active time period. As such, some e-mail filters may be active at specific times of day and on specific days of the week and inactive the rest of the time. Before applying any filters, the current time is determined and it is determined which filters are active. The determination of which filters are active is based on the current time being within the active time period. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270939 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HIDING MESSAGES - Based on user configuration, a main messaging user interface screen on a messaging device either presents a list of references to messages stored on the device based on a complete index of references to the stored messages or based on a filtered index of references to the stored messages. References to stored messages of a predetermined type are not maintained in the filtered index. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110276636 | EFFICIENT TRANSACTIONAL MESSAGING BETWEEN LOOSELY COUPLED CLIENT AND SERVER OVER MULTIPLE INTERMITTENT NETWORKS WITH POLICY BASED ROUTING - The KonaWare Framework is a collection of software components that provide bi-directional transactions between wireless/mobile devices and enterprise server applications. Transactions are achieved between client and server by breaking up the sequence such that the client does not have to wait until the transaction is completed before relinquishing the network connection. By using asynchronous messaging, the message is persisted at every step and can be handed off to the next stage without waiting. The reply from the server comes back to the client as an asynchronous message and completes the transaction. Bi-directional messaging is achieved using server-initiated push techniques such as modem signaling, http listener, SMS or polling using an efficient decaying algorithm. Messages are sent via communication channels that can be a combination of a physical network and a service provider. Networks are automatically detected by observing changes in the TCP/IP route table and configured by altering the default route. Service providers are determined by using identification servers accessible only in specific networks; if reachable, then it is that network. Transmission rules are formed using regular expressions to combine system, message and channel parameters. These are changed at any time and sent dynamically as system messages to target devices. Loosely coupled client-server applications are developed without coding by declarative programming using relating business objects and graphical objects and mapping them into messages using properties sheets. Conflict-free database synchronization is achieved by assigning a master database and making the others slave databases whose updates are considered pending until confirmed by the master database. A lightweight LUCID (Logic Up, Consistent Information Down) model works by sending acknowledgement messages instead of the entire reply record. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276637 | TECHNIQUES TO SHARE MEDIA FILES THROUGH MESSAGING - Techniques to share media files through messaging are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store a message application that when executed by the processor is operative to communicate a message and a message attachment comprising a media file at different time intervals using different transports. The message may have a link comprising a reference to a discoverable storage location for the media file. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276638 | CERTIFIED EMAIL MESSAGES AND ATTACHMENTS - The current Invention is a method to combine into a complete solution the following: Biometrics (initially a registered fingerprint scan), a separate and secure network and infrastructure, an email management system and additional email message format options. The solution provides improvements to: 1) sender and recipient identity verification, 2) security and privacy, 3) proof of delivery and 4) effectiveness in communications during the exchange of certified email messages and attachments. Improved effectiveness is communication occurs based on the ability to use any combination of text, audio and visual (video) email message formats in an integrated, coordinated process of communication with another email recipient. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276639 | SOCIAL NETWORK ALERT SYSTEM - A social network alert system for automatically identifying users with compatible interests has been developed. The system includes a subscriber with identified demographic information that is stored on a mobile electronic device. A server connects wirelessly with the subscriber and receives the demographic information and geographic location. The server then identifies other subscribers with compatible demographic information and sends an automatic notice of the location of the others to the first subscriber. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276640 | AUTOMATED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to automated systems for organizing and facilitating information exchange between members of an organization. Automated systems that represent embodiments of the present invention allow for creation and administration of hierarchical groupings of members of the organization to facilitate efficient dissemination of information among members of groups. Embodiments of the present invention provide for automated and intelligent routing of information and communications among many different types of communications media and devices through which members of the organization can distribute and exchange information with one another. Embodiments of the present invention additionally provide for sophisticated logging, tracking, and monitoring of information distribution and management within the organization. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276641 | AGGREGATION SYSTEM - Machine, method for use and method for making, and corresponding products produced thereby, as well as data structures, computer-readable media tangibly embodying program instructions, manufactures, and necessary intermediates of the foregoing, each pertaining to digital aspects of a computerized aggregation system. The system can include a user computer system interposed between a segment of a network allowing communication between the user computer system and at least one server system, and other segments allowing communication between the user computer system and a plurality of third party server systems. The one server system enables the user computer system to access the plurality of other servers. The access permits forming an aggregation of information obtained from the third party server systems. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276642 | Platform Independent Interactive Dialog-Based Electronic Learning Environments - Among other things, techniques, apparatus, systems and non-transitory computer-readable medium are disclosed for implementing interactive text-based dialogs. In one aspect, a method performed by a server device can include receiving, at the server device, a request to initiate a text-based dialog session from a user operating at a client device. The user can be authenticated. Additionally, a text-based message can be received from the user requesting a response from the server device. A reply text based message can be delivered to the user, and the contents of the reply text based message can be obtained based on a context of the text based message from the user. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276643 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING AN ART FORM FROM A DATA STREAM - Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for allowing visualization of messages in a data stream, such as a feed of messages from a social network server containing a common element, e.g., a tag. Data items from each message, for example, a profile picture or other visual item associated with a sender of the message, may be used to construct a mosaic of a target picture, thereby producing a piece of artwork from the data stream. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276644 | COMPUTER- AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSESSING THE ORIENTATION, AWARENESS AND RESPONSES OF A PERSON WITH REDUCED CAPACITY - A system and method for scheduling, and reminding people receiving care (PRC) about upcoming events uses a remote computer-based interface that allows a Caregiver at a remote location to schedule the events for the PRC. The PRC has in their residence (or other location) a device that prompts the PRC, by an audio and/or video prompt, so as to “nudge” the PRC, asking whether they intend to participate in a pre-scheduled event. A man-machine interface, such as a two input keypad containing one button labeled “yes” and another button labeled “no”, the remote Caregiver is able to monitor the responses of the electronic “nudges” offered by the system to the PRC. In turn, the device used by the remote Caregiver accumulates the responses and creates a history of the level of activity the person has indicated in which they wish to participate. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276645 | METHOD OF AND MESSAGE SERVICE GATEWAY FOR CONTROLLING DELIVERY OF A MESSAGE SERVICE TO AN END USER | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276646 | RELIABILITY OF DUPLICATE DOCUMENT DETECTION ALGORITHMS - In a single-signature duplicate document system, a secondary set of attributes is used in addition to a primary set of attributes so as to improve the precision of the system. When the projection of a document onto the primary set of attributes is below a threshold, then a secondary set of attributes is used to supplement the primary lexicon so that the projection is above the threshold. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROFILE FILTERED MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention include improved communication system and methods. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a wireless communication method comprising, on a first wireless device, receiving one or more wireless device identifications associated with one or more other wireless devices, and transmitting at least one of the one or more wireless device identifications from the first wireless device to a remote computer system, and on the remote computer system, receiving the at least one wireless device identification, and accessing information associated with the at least one wireless device identification. Embodiments of the present invention may be used for electronic dating, social networking and other communication applications. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110282946 | PERSONAL UNIQUE URL ACCESS PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method, programmed medium and system are provided for sending notice to a website representative whenever a specific and unique website is being accessed by an inquiring party seeking information regarding the website content. Contact information is exchanged between an inquiring party and a website representative and whenever the inquiring party views the unique URL which was provided by the website representative, the website representative is contacted with the inquiring party's phone number in real-time with the information that the inquiring party is now viewing the website. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282947 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL NETWORKING EXPERIENCE FOR A USER - One example embodiment includes a computing environment that includes an application for connecting a remote user to a client. The applications performs a method of providing a social media experience for the user. The method includes connecting a first user to a first client over a network and connecting a second user to a second client over the network. The method also includes identifying the second user as a friend of the first user and notifying the first user that the second user is connected over the network. The method further includes allowing the first user to communicate with the second user over the network. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282948 | EMAIL TAGS - Email tags are described. In embodiments, email messages are received for distribution to client devices that correspond to respective recipients of the email messages. Email routing decisions are applied to route an email message to an email folder for a recipient of the email message, where the email folder may include an email inbox, a junk folder, or a user-created folder. The email message is then tagged with an email tag to generate a tagged email message. The email tag includes a routing description that indicates why the email message was routed to the particular email folder. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282949 | UNIFIED MESSAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - The proposed Advanced Messaging Solution (AMS) provides a non-intrusive cloud-based software application infrastructure through which MSOs and Service Providers can unify Web, mobile and set-top box device technologies with Enterprise and 3 | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282950 | REVERSE MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION - In an electronic message classification method an incoming message is preliminary classified according to its importance and information concerning that classification is provided to the Sender, thereby giving the Sender an option to overrule said preliminary classification. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION - Disclosed herein is a method for communicating healthcare information of a patient using a handheld device including: establishing communication between the handheld device and a management server, sending identifying information for a user of the handheld device to the management server, if the identifying information is authenticated, establishing at least one secured session with the management server, the at least one secured session enabling a user to at least one of: send a message to a user device, wherein the sent message includes at least one of sender information, recipient information and information pertaining to the patient; or receive a message sent from the user device, wherein the received message includes at least one of sender information, recipient information and information pertaining to the patient; wherein the sent and received messages are viewable on the handheld device only during the at least one secured session. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282952 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE AND SERVICE PROVIDING SERVER APPLYING THE SAME - A method for providing a social networking service (SNS) preferably includes receiving an input of an original text and a comment on the original text according to execution of a SNS program, dividing the original text and the comment into a plurality of threads according to a preset criterion, analyzing relationships between users who write the original text and/or the comment included in the plurality of threads, and categorizing the users according to a result of the analysis. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282953 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE CONVERSATION BY GROUP IN A MESSAGING SERVICE - A method and apparatus for providing a conversation within a conversation group that is conducted by exchanging messages among a plurality of terminals of the same conversation group at a communication terminal supporting a messaging service are provided. In the method a message is received, an active conversation Identifier (ID) is detected from the received message, the active conversation ID identifying a conversation related to the received message and a conversation group including terminals participating in the conversation, and the received message is displayed in a conversation view corresponding to the active conversation ID. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282954 | Content Presentation Based On User Preferences - Architecture is provided that facilitates user-controlled access to user profile information. A user is allowed to selectively expose (or mask) portions of his/her profile to third parties. Additionally, advertisers and/or content providers can offer incentives or enticement in response to the acceptance of which a user exposes larger portions of their profile. The architecture comprises a system that facilitates profile management utilizing a profile component that facilitates creation and storage of an electronic profile of a user, and a control component under control of the user for controlling access to the profile. Machine learning and reasoning is provided to make inferences and automate aspects thereof. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282955 | Reconfiguring an Electronic Message to Effect an Enhanced Notification - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282956 | Method and System for Message Pacing - A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits messages from multiple sources to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by the type or priority of the message. The system permits the volume of messages to be reduced by aggregating messages according to a set of rules and by discarding or delaying messages that are sufficiently similar and sent too close together. In addition, the system allows message sources to be notified when a recipient has not received a message within a designated time period. The system can be implemented as a centralized pacing system or through use of a data storage system accessible by the message sources. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282957 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING DEFERRED MESSAGE - A method for processing deferred messages includes a storing process, a notification process and a retrieving process of a deferred message. In the storing process, when a user presets and requires to store the deferred message, the system stores the deferred message to be sent to the user; in the notification process, when a user gets online, an IM server at the client side detects the system has stored the deferred message for the user and if the user has subscribed the deferred message notification, the system sends the deferred message notification to the client according to the setting of the system or of the user; in the retrieving process, when the client receives the deferred message notification and requests to acquire the deferred message, its IM server sends the deferred message content to the client. The present invention improves the method for processing deferred messages in the SIP/SIMPLE IM service system. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282958 | ENABLING MAPPING IDENTIFICATION OF ONLINE IDENTITIES BETWEEN DIFFERENT MESSAGING SERVICES - A method and system for populating identities in a message service involves registering a user of a first messaging service with a second messaging service. User identities for users other than the registered user may be identified. These user identities may be associated with the first messaging service and may be stored in a list associated with the registered user. It is determined if each identified user identity has a matching user identity associated with the second messaging service. If so, a database associated with the second messaging service is populated with the matching user identities. Determining whether a matching user identity exists may be performed, for example, by making character strings comparisons between user identities or using a database that stores a mapping of first messaging service user identities to second messaging service user identities. The mapping database may be generated as corresponding user identities are discovered. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282959 | System and Method for Concurrent Display of Messages from Multiple Conversations - A method, system and graphical user interface for displaying conversation messages is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes displaying messages in a first set of conversation messages, and selecting, without user involvement, a second set of conversation messages. The second set of conversation messages are selected by comparing a topic for the first set of conversation messages with a second topic for the second set of conversation messages, or determining that the second set of conversation messages is similar to the first set of conversation messages. Messages in the first set of conversation messages and messages in the selected set of conversation messages are both displayed in a single context to the user. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110282960 | MOBILE CONFERENCING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A server-based architecture for mobile conferencing is presented. Session-based mobile conferencing is established by transmitting necessary server network address information through page-mode based messaging services to establish connections among the various mobile devices with the server. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110289154 | ONLINE CHATTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER CONNECTED TO WEBSITE - An online chatting method for a user connected to a website includes (a) receiving information on a TCP socket server by a user client when the user client accesses a web page offered by a web server, (b) accessing the TCP socket server by the user client by using the information on the TCP socket server, (c) if the user client is allowed to access the TCP socket server, transmitting and receiving chatting messages to/from an operator client through the TCP socket server and (d) if the user client fails to access the TCP socket server, storing the chatting messages to be transmitted to the operator client through in a database and periodically receiving the chatting messages stored in the database by the operator client. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289155 | Method and Apparatus for the Implementation of a Real-Time, Sharable Browsing Experience - The present invention describes a method and apparatus for the implementation of a real-time, sharable browsing experience, utilizing the transfer of URL, form data, script and other information. The present invention further describes a method for establishing a synchronized browsing session, comprising receiving a request to establish the synchronized browsing session from a host device, establishing the synchronized browsing session in response to the request, sending a confirmation message to the host device, receiving a request to join from a guest device to join the synchronized browsing session, and adding the guest device to the synchronized browsing session. The present invention further describes a method for implementing a synchronized browsing session, comprising receiving information related to a shared web browsing interaction performed by a host device, accessing routing information for a guest device, and transmitting information related to the shared web browsing interaction to the guest device based on the routing information. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289156 | Method and Apparatus for the Implementation of a Real-Time, Sharable Browsing Experience on a Host Device - The present invention describes a method and apparatus for the implementation of a real-time, sharable web browsing experience on a host device, utilizing the transfer of URL and form data information. The present invention further describes a method for establishing a synchronized browsing session, comprising sending a request to establish the synchronized browsing session to a synchronization server, receiving a confirmation message from the synchronization server including a session identifier associated with the established synchronized browsing session, and sending an invitation to an invitee to join the synchronized browsing session, wherein the invitation includes the session identifier. The present invention further describes a method for implementing a synchronized browsing session, comprising recording a shared web browsing interaction, and transmitting information related to the shared web browsing interaction to a synchronization server. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289157 | Method and Apparatus for the Implementation of a Real-Time, Sharable Browsing Experience on a Guest Device - The present invention describes a method and apparatus for the implementation of a real-time, sharable web browsing experience on a guest device, utilizing the transfer of URL and form data information. The present invention further describes a method for joining a synchronized browsing session administered by a synchronization server, comprising activating a hyperlink associated with the synchronized browsing session, sending a request to join the synchronized browsing session to the synchronization server in response to the activation of the hyperlink, and joining the synchronized browsing session. The present invention further describes a method for implementing a synchronized browsing session, comprising receiving information related to a shared web browsing interaction performed by a host device from a synchronization server, and performing the shared web browsing interaction based on the information received from the synchronization server. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289158 | Physical Address Email System - An electronic mail (e-mail) messaging system and method that allow e-mail to be sent and received between individuals identified by their physical mailing address. An e-mail address part of such system may include: (1) a first name (2) a street number (3) an initial representing geographical direction (4) a street name (5) a street type (6) an apartment number (optional), (7) a zip code. A registered such physical email address is linked with a regular email account and the system then forwards an email addressing the physical email address to the linked regular email account. If no linked regular email account, then the physical mailing address is constructed from the physical email address and the message is automatically delivered by physical mail means. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289159 | MESSAGE BROADCASTING IN A CLUSTERED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide message broadcasting within a clustered computing environment such as a Cloud computing environment. Specifically, under the present invention, a message is received in a message queue (e.g., on a message queue server). From the message queue, the message is sent to a single node of a plurality of heterogeneous nodes within the clustered computing environment. The single node can be selected based on any factor such as a best available node within the plurality of nodes. This single node will process the message and identify a set of message listeners to whom the message should be broadcast. Typically, the set of message listeners is identified based on a topic of the message and an association of the topic to the set of message listeners (e.g., as set forth in a table or the like). In any event, the single node will then publish the message to the set of message listeners. Delivery confirmations, responses, etc. associated with the message will then be tracked, processed, and/or routed by the single node. Thus, embodiments of the present invention obviate the need for a given message from having to be delivered to and/or processed by multiple nodes. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289160 | Mail Service Management System - An electronic mail management system may have a standardized interface to which different mail providers may provide an adapter. The standardized interface may have a predefined set of functions that each mail provider may provide, and the mail management system may have a user interface through which the functions may be managed. In some cases, a mail provider may have additional or customized functions that may be added to the user interface and made available to an administrator. Through the user interface, an administrator may be able to add, delete, configure, and move mailboxes, as well as other functions. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289161 | Apparatuses, Methods and Systems For An Intelligent Inbox Coordinating HUB - The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AN INTELLIGENT INBOX COORDINATING HUB (“HUB”) facilitates the generation, evaluation, and recording of information and activities related to property transactions and associated communications. In embodiments, the HUB may be configured to effectuate intelligent inbox coordination, which may facilitate the processing of messages configured as email messages, XML data, HTTP POST message content, and/or the like for economical display and interaction. The HUB's intelligent inbox coordination features may allow for the distillation of large volumes of message data and/or content to highlight and/or direct users to the particular message and/or attachment containing data that is most interesting or relevant to them. Aspects of HUB intelligent inbox coordination features may include the generation and application of email allocation rules and/or sub-rules; analysis, parsing, intelligent filing and/or sub-filing, and/or other processing of email content, attachments, and/or other associated data; generation of message and/or message data analytics, statistics, summaries, industry trends, news content, and/or the like; and/or the like. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289162 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE DELIVERY OF DIGITAL MESSAGES - A system and method for automatically adapting digital message traffic flow evaluates message delivery disposition, latency and performance metrics such that the system operates more optimally in terms of both overall throughput as well as with respect to system sending reputation. Reputation is in the context of maintaining message flow within limits that are acceptable for a given destination, such that the sender behavior avoids being flagged as abusive or otherwise undesirable. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289163 | LINKING TOPICS IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - Topics are linked in a publish/subscribe messaging environment. A first topic is linked to at least a second topic, and a message on the first topic is published to subscribers to the first topic. In the same transaction, any reference to the topics linked to the first topic are published in the message to subscribers of the topics linked to the first topic. A tree of topics is defined with topic nodes for each topic. A topic string is provided in a path through the tree of topics to a topic node, wherein the first topic and the at least a second topic have no commonality of topic string. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289164 | System and Method for Feature Based Message Routing in a Dynamic Modular System Architecture - A flexible, extensible, and dynamically configurable Advanced IP Messaging Server (AIMS) facility that among other things may leverage various pools of data—including for example routing data, location and presence data, Mobile Subscriber profile data, etc.—to expeditiously process and route, through the use of among other things Feature Tags, a wide range of information including among other things conventional Short Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, IP Multimedia Subsystem, etc. messaging; E-Mail messaging; Instant Messaging communications; Voice Over IP and other (e.g., video conference, etc.) data streams; Session Initiation Protocol-addressed artifacts; etc. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289165 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MESSAGE HANDLING - A method, apparatus and computer program are disclosed for refusing to process messages from a sender at a queue manager associated with a receiver when the receiver is inactive. It is identified whether a first destination has been selected. This first destination provides an indication of whether the receiver is active. If a first destination has been selected, it is determined using this first destination whether the receiver is active. If the receiver is inactive, the queue manager refuses to process messages intended for the receipt by the receiver. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289166 | METHOD FOR REALIZING A MESSAGE INTERACTION AND A CONVERGED SERVICE SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method for realizing a message interaction and a converged service system, wherein the method includes: the converged service system receiving a first message sent by a converged service terminal and a first identifier of the first message, and forwarding the first message to the traditional message system (S | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289167 | E-MAIL OPERATION SYSTEM, E-MAIL OPERATION DEVICE, AND E-MAIL OPERATION METHOD - In an e-mail operation system, an e-mail operation requirement having as a destination a first mail address used by a target terminal when communication with a first communication network is performed is received by a first e-mail control device included in the first communication network. In a first e-mail operation system configured to include the first e-mail control device and a SCP, the telephone number of the target terminal that is in association with the first mail address is specified. The e-mail operation requirement is transmitted to a second communication network using this telephone number. In a second e-mail operation device, an e-mail operation instruction is provided to the target terminal by using the telephone number that is required to be operated. Thus, the e-mail operation instruction is provided to the target terminal through the second communication network different from the first communication network. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289168 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGING INTEGRITY ENGINE - The disclosure relates to ensuring wanted electronic messages are reliably delivered to recipients by distinguishing between wanted, authenticated messages and other messages. Also, it provides for automatically compiling a datastore with senders of wanted inbound electronic communications. This is done by entering part entries into the datastore as messages are send outbound, and completing the entry as messages are sent inbound or with reference to an external datasource. The whitelist is automatically created and accurately populated and maintained without the need for any human involvement making it self training. This enables mass automation for whitelist generation and maintenance, and enables consistent, scalable deployment across any and all organisations to ensure accuracy in classification of wanted message senders. This disclosure also concerns using the datastore by identifying senders of inbound messages as senders of wanted emails according to a full or part match of their identification information. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289169 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SPAM MESSAGE IN MESSAGING SERVICE - A method and apparatus for managing a spam message in a messaging service are disclosed. When a user reports a message determined as a spam message, he may directly select a sharing level of his personal information in order to prevent a leakage of the personal information according to a sharing policy, reports the spam message by transmitting only a hash value of the spam message in order to prevent an increase in traffic. With respect to reported spam messages, a user can access a spam server to check an errononeously reported message through a sorting algorithm. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289170 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF MESSAGES AND PROCESSING OF MESSAGE RESPONSES - An automated system for delivery of messages to multiple recipients, and for processing of responses to the messages, includes a message client, message server, and a system database. A message is created using a universal message form. The message content can be translated into multiple formats and sent to one or more different recipients using one or more different types of messaging devices, including pagers, e-mail readers, telephones, cellular telephones, personal computers, fax machines, and voice mail systems. A recipient profile manager allows each recipient to select the messaging devices to be used for message delivery as well as preferred messaging schedules, priorities, and message security. Receipt of the messages by the recipients is verified, response requirements collected and consolidated from multiple sources and presented to the message originator in a structured format. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289171 | Social Network Site Recommender System & Method - A document management system monitors proposed recipients for documents and provides recommendations on alterations to the distribution set, such as by adding or removing recipients. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289172 | MANAGING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES - Methods and apparatuses that generate a subtopic identifier identifying a client application within a client device are described. The client application may be associated with a server application hosted in one or more application servers. Notification services may be registered with the application servers from the client application to forward identifiers associated with the client application to the server application to enable the server application to push notification messages to the client device selectively for the client application. When receiving a notification message from the application server, the notification message may be examined to forward the notification message directly to the client application without invoking other applications in the client device if the notification message carries a subtopic identifier of the client application. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289173 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A DESTINATION IN A DATA PROCESSING NETWORK - Access to a device is controlled in a data processing network by receiving a first request from a client to connect to a device where the device is limited to a fixed number of client connections and connecting the client to an available client connection of the device if the fixed number of client connections on the device would not be exceeded by connecting the client. Access is further controlled by testing liveness of a current client connection on the device if the fixed number of client connections on the device would be exceeded by connecting the client and dropping the current client connection if the liveness testing indicates that the current client connection is not live. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289174 | Audio Message Delivery Over Instant Messaging - One preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for sending instant messages having audio recordings. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes a communications client of a user that is configured to generate an instant message having an audio recording and send the instant message having an audio recording to another user. Methods and other systems are also provided. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110295955 | PAGE MONITORING - An apparatus ( | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295956 | Transport Cost Optimization For Enterprise Service - A communication controller optimizes transport costs so as to minimize the cost of transmitting message. The communication controller receives a message and calculates the cost of transmitting the message based on a setup cost and a transmission cost. The communications controller selects a communication pathway that has the least cost as the pathway to transmit the message. If the pathway is not established, the communications controller establishes this communication pathway and transmits the message. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295957 | CONTINUOUS REPLICATION FOR SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - User defined routing rules are managed within a primary/backup architecture through continuous replication between home servers and their corresponding presence servers in an automatic manner. User set-up rules are stored and published by a designated presence server to home servers on which the user can register including the user's home registrar and any backup registrars. Changes to the rules may be disseminated and synchronized through comparison of versions and exchange of batches between the presence server and registrars. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295958 | EMAIL SYSTEM PROVIDING CONVERSATION UPDATE FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - An electronic mail (email) system may include at least one email server configured to store email messages in a plurality of mailboxes, where the email messages are organized into conversations, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each configured to store email messages from respective mailboxes. The system may also include at least one email synchronization server configured to synchronize email messages between a given mobile wireless communications device and its respective mailbox so that the given mobile wireless communications device stores a subset of email messages from among a full set of email messages from a given conversation, and to update the full set of email messages in the given conversation based upon receiving a conversation update command from the given mobile wireless communications device. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295959 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF SPAM PROBABILITY - There is disclosed a system and method for visually representing the probability of SPAM messages on a mobile communication device. In an embodiment, the method comprises: obtaining a probability that a message is SPAM; and for each of one or more messages in a message list, visually representing the probability that a message is SPAM such that any differences in the probabilities as between messages are discernable from the visual representation. In another embodiment, the method further comprises: determining the percentage of the message downloaded to the mobile communication device; and displaying for each of one or more messages appearing in the message list an object or icon visually representing at least one of the probability that the message is SPAM, or the percentage of the message downloaded to the mobile communication device. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295960 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE FOR STORING E-MAIL SEARCH RESULTS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A communications system includes an e-mail server configured to communicate via a given e-mail protocol from among different e-mail protocols and configured to store e-mail data and generate e-mail search results. A mobile wireless communications device is configured to send an e-mail search request. An aggregation server is configured to communicate using the different e-mail protocols, and receive and forward the e-mail search request to the e-mail server using the given e-mail protocol. The aggregation server receives and forwards the e-mail search results from the e-mail server to the mobile wireless communications device. The mobile wireless communications device stores the e-mail search results in memory while displaying the e-mail search results on a search results screen on a display. The mobile wireless communications device also displays an other screen, different than the search results screen, on the display and while continuing to store the e-mail search results in the memory. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING PATIENT INFORMATION - A system for conveying patient information is configured to receive data related to a patient, and convert the data into event-driven messages for transmission to communication devices carried by physicians and others. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295962 | SERVICE DISCLOSURE DEVICE, SERVICE DISCLOSURE METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A service disclosure device receives a search message transmitted from a service using device, and if the ID of the service using device is stored in a memory, transmits a response message indicating a service to be disclosed to the service using device. The service disclosure device displays information about the service using device on a display, and if a permission to disclose the service to the service using device is input, registers the ID of the service using device in the memory. After a response limit to the search message has expired, the service disclosure device transmits a notification message indicating the service to be disclosed to the service using device. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295963 | SHORT MESSAGE ALERT (SMA) - The present description refers in particular, to a method, a system, and a computer program product for processing messages in an Outsourcing (BPO) Environment. The method may comprise installing and executing one or more computer programs. The method may also comprise obtaining messages from a shared folder using a network interface. The method may further comprise displaying messages using a display interface. In addition, the method may comprise providing access control, including controlling access to messages and dissemination of messages. The BPO environment may comprise at least one user computer. The network interface and the display interface may be executed separately on the user computer. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295964 | MESSAGE SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method of operating a message system can include maintaining a list of users of the message system and maintaining a connection list and a message stream for each user of the message system. After receiving a message from a first user of the message system, the received message can be published on the message stream of the first user and on the message streams of the users identified in the first user's connection list. If the received message is detected to be a reply to an earlier message from a second user, then the earlier message can be published on the message streams of the users identified in the first user's connection list, who are not in the second user's connection list. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295965 | METHOD FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING SESSION HISTORY IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method is provided for receiving a session history by a Controlling Function (CF) in a communication system. The method includes sending, by a CF in a first domain, a first message requesting a session history to a Conversation Server (CS) in the first domain; receiving, from the CS in the first domain, a second message including access information to a CS in a second domain, which has a session history, when the CS in the first domain has no session history; sending a third message requesting a session history to the CS in the second domain, which has the session history, based on the access information; and receiving a fourth message including the session history from the CS in the second domain. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110302249 | METHOD FOR ASSISTED MESSAGE GENERATION - A method for assisted message generation on an electronic device is provided. The method comprises: receiving from an input device a request to compose an electronic message; identifying a message recipient associated with the electronic message; determining from a datastore a suggested message component for the electronic message in dependence on the identified message recipient; and displaying the suggested message components on a display screen of the electronic device. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302250 | THREAD DATA AGGREGATION - Techniques for thread data aggregation are described. In implementations, metadata is identified for a new message associated with a conversation thread. The metadata is added to conversation metadata that is associated with the conversation thread and attached to an anchor message associated with the conversation thread. The addition of the metadata to the conversation metadata creates aggregate thread data. The aggregate thread data is moved from the anchor message to the new message. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302251 | DETECTING CONFLICTS IN EMAIL MESSAGES - A computer implemented electronic out-of-office message analysis system and method are disclosed. The method includes, for each of a plurality of users, receiving a user-generated electronic out-of-office message in a natural language in which a time window of absence and at least one alternate named contact are expressed and, based on the out-of-office message, generating a structured representation of the out-of-office message which links the alternate contact to a normalized representation of the time window. The structured representation of the out-of-office message is stored in a database. From the database it can be determined whether a current user's out-of-office message conflicts with another user's out-of-office message. If a conflict is detected, the current user can be notified. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302252 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CLIENT STATION ASSOCIATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system comprises an access point and one or more client stations associated with the access point. The access point maintains a simple network management protocol (SNMP) table including a respective media access control (MAC) address for each of one or more client stations associated with the access point. In accordance with some embodiments, the access point receives a SNMP request message including a MAC address of the client station for which the association is to be identified. The access point then identifies the association of the client station by searching the SNMP table for the MAC address of the client station for which the association is to be identified. Further, the access point sends a reply message identifying the association of the client station with the access point when the SNMP table includes the MAC address of the client station. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302253 | Method of and system for advising level of availability in a digital communication - A system and method is described where Instant Message (IM) and other semi-synchronous communication sessions may be tied to the user's current dynamic status in order to share with collaborating parties, the degree of attention that a user may provide to the session. IM allows for collaboration even when a user cannot provide his/her full attention to an exchange, however, it will increase the efficiency and avoid misunderstandings if the user can send updates on his current level of attention along with explanatory messages when there is a significant change in the user dynamic status. For example, if the user has to go to a meeting or receives an important telephone call during an IM session, the other party will be advised accordingly. Thus, recipients will not assume that they are being ignored or that the user has become frustrated with the exchange. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302254 | ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS AND MESSAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An enterprise service bus (ESB) and message processing method thereof are disclosed. The ESB includes: a message receiving unit, a message queuing unit, a processing-thread-group, and a request processing unit. The message receiving unit includes multiple message receiving channels which are used to receive messages each having at least one service request. The message queuing unit is used to receive messages from the multiple message receiving channels and to sort the messages according to predefined rules. The processing-thread-group is used to receive a predefined number of sorted messages from the message queuing unit. The request processing unit is used to acquire service requests of the messages from the processing-thread-group and to process the service requests. The present disclosure integrates various application programs into an electronic trading platform, and achieves program invocation by ESB. Therefore, service users are no longer required to perform complicated asynchronous invocations, while ESB is used to convert a synchronous mode to an asynchronous mode. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302255 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROVIDING A PERSONALIZED ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SERVICE THROUGH AN INFORMATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDER - To provide a personalized voice email service, data pertaining to one or more of a user's email accounts, e.g., email addresses and account access data, is maintained in a folder by an information assistance service, which is unaffiliated with the email service providers (e.g., AOL, Hotmail, etc.) maintaining the user's email accounts. When the user calls the information assistance service, the user's folder is retrieved. The user's email accounts may be accessed on behalf of the user based on the email addresses and account access data in the user's folder. An information assistance provider including, e.g., an operator and/or a voice server, may present information concerning the email messages received in the user's email accounts in different manners. For example, the information assistance provider may report to the user selected email messages that satisfy one or more predetermined criteria, e.g., only those email messages which have been received since the last time the user called the information assistance service. Header information (e.g., sender/address, subject, etc.) concerning the selected email messages may be announced to the user. At the user's request, the information assistance provider may open and read a email message to the user. The user may then send a reply email message, or forward the email message to other recipients. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302256 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED DOMAIN MESSAGES - Methods and apparatus are provided for providing customized domain messages. A customized message for one of a plurality of domains is received at one of a plurality of servers of a content delivery network. A request is received from a user device for content for the one of the plurality of domains at the one of the plurality of servers. The customized message is provided by the one of the plurality of servers to the user device in response to the request when the one of the plurality of domains is unavailable. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302257 | Peer-to-peer service designer - A peer-to-peer communication system, including a service manager for managing peer-to-peer services, a zone manager for managing zones, each zone including at least one peer-to-peer service and a window display layout therefor, and a privacy manager for restricting access to a zone, to a select group of users. A method is also described and claimed. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302258 | ADAPTIVE MEDIA MESSAGING, SUCH AS FOR RICH MEDIA MESSAGES INCORPORATING DIGITAL CONTENT - A facility for presenting an adaptive message is described. The facility receives a message in the computer system. Based upon the contents of the received message, the facility tests two or more digital content capabilities of the computer system. The facility then selects one of a number of different digital content elements based upon the results of the testing. The facility presents the selected digital content element. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302259 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING PROTOCOL INTERFACE DEVICE PROVIDING ENHANCED OPERATING PROTOCOL SELECTION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of different operating protocols. Further, at least one of the data storage devices may operate using multiple operating protocols. The system may also include mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the at least one data storage device, and each may use at least one of the plurality of operating protocols. Moreover, the system may further include a protocol interface device. The protocol interface device may include a front-end proxy module for communicating with the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol interface may also include a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol engine module may also select a desired operating protocol for communicating with the at least one data storage device from the multiple operating protocols. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302260 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMAIL NOTIFICATION - A method of configuring a system for providing notification of a new email received at a user's mailbox stored by a first mail storage system for retrieval by a second mail storage system. The method comprises configuring a mail sender to send a notification email to the second mail storage system comprising data to notify the second mail storage system of the new email, receive a rejection message from the second mail storage system, and interrupt the sending of further data of the notification email in response to the rejection message, wherein the receipt by the second mail storage system of the notification email triggers the second mail storage system to retrieve the new email from the first mail storage system. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302261 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TEMPLATE REPLIES TO ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - A method for responding to an electronic mail (“email”) message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system, comprising: receiving a command from the user to generate a reply to the email message using content from one or more template replies, the reply having a subject line and a body; presenting a choice of the one or more template replies to the user; receiving a command to select a template reply from the choice, the template reply having a subject line and a body; and generating the reply by inserting content from the body of the template reply into the body of the reply. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302262 | Wireless Messaging Using Notification Messages In A Wireless Communication Network - A method of operating a host service in a communication system which includes the host service and a mobile device, includes receiving a data message for the mobile device at the host service; determining whether a service session between the host service and the mobile device is active; if the service session is inactive: creating a notification message at the host service, the notification message indicating the data message and the mobile device; forwarding the notification message for subsequent delivery to the mobile device, the notification message associated with an application of a plurality of applications on the mobile device; and subsequent to an active service session being established between the host service and the mobile device, sending the data message indicated by the notification message to the mobile device during the active service session; and if the service session is active, sending the data message to the mobile device during the active service session without creating a notification message. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110302263 | SOCIAL NAMESPACE ADDRESSING FOR NON-UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS - A device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a user to disambiguate an identity of a member included in a user's social network (USN), and towards enabling an operation to be performed based on information about the member. The USN is determined. The NID of the member is received. If the NID is non-unique within the USN, member distinctions are determined for members in the USN who are associated with the same NID. The member distinctions are sent to the user. The user makes a selection of one of the members associated with one of the member distinctions. Based on the selection, information about the selected member is received. The operation is enabled to be performed based on the information about the selected member. The operation may include addressing the selected member, enabling a communication between the user and the selected member, or the like. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110307559 | System and method for enabling push based email service over IMS with IMS based service gateway decomposition and IMS based external service server - An apparatus in one example, comprising an external server, where the external server is non-IMS compliant, and wherein the external server further comprises a server redirector that is configured to package an email, where packaging the email comprises wrapping the email in an email envelope. The external server further comprises an IMS module configured to perform peer-to-peer IMS compliant communications. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307560 | Automatic full download of important emails - A method in one example that receives a portion of an email and determines whether to download a full instance of the email based on user controlled variables and operator controlled variables. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307561 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR POWER-EFFICIENTLY DELIVERING WEBPAGE CONTENTS IN A BROADCAST NETWORK - Embodiments provide bandwidth efficient mechanisms for delivering rich media content, such as webpages, to receiver devices via a multimedia broadcast network. Content, such as selected webpages, is broadcast as disassembled content elements via the broadcast network. To enable reception, the disassembled content elements are broadcast according to a broadcast schedule that is communicated in an overhead content description flow, such as a catalog file. Receiver devices receive the catalog file and use the metadata information to selectively receive disassembled content and store the content elements in memory. When a user requests access to the content (e.g., a webpage via a web browser), an application operating in the receiver device assembles the requested content from the previously received and stored disassembled content elements, and passes the assembled webpage to a using or rendering application. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307562 | RECOMMENDATION ENGINE FOR EVENT ANALYZER WITH INTEGRATED INFORMATION - A computer implemented method manages responses to electronic messages. A computer detects a receipt of an electronic message by a recipient. The computer generates a summary of a content of the electronic message. The summary describes a need for a meeting between the recipient and an other party. The computer generates a recommendation for a communication channel for the meeting between the recipient and the other party. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307563 | DETERMINING GROUP CHAT ACCESS - A method and computer program product for determining group chat access is described. A method may comprise sending a passphrase for a group chat from a first user to a second user. The method may further comprise determining a level of the second user for the group chat based upon, at least in part, a number of group chat participants between the second user and a moderator through which the second user was informed of the passphrase for the group chat. The method may also comprise determining if the first user is permitted to access the group chat based upon, at least in part, a user-level set by the moderator and the level of the second user for the group chat. The method may additionally comprise, if the first user is permitted to access the group chat, allowing the first user to access the group chat. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307564 | DATA NODE APPARATUS, PEER INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A data node apparatus, a peer information acquisition method and a system are provided. An apparatus that serves as a data node in peer-to-peer (P2P) data exchange, comprising: a data node application unit that issues a peer list request and carries out data exchange with peers; and a list processing unit that intercepts an original peer list provided by an indexing server in response to the peer list request, issues a peer location request to an information server and receives peer location information provided by the information server in response to the peer location request, performs a processing on the original peer list based on the peer location information to derive a processed peer list, and provides the processed peer list to the data node application unit. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307565 | Group messaging integration system, method and apparatus - A group messaging integration system is provided. One method of communication employed by the group messaging integration system includes sending and receiving electronic communication between a plurality of users operating within a plurality of different network architectures, where a server is in communication with each of the users. Broadcasting from one of the users a message identified by a number generated by the messaging software. Receiving the message, and then processing the message using the number. Then searching a plurality of groups using the number and sending a plurality of response messages using the same number, the plurality of response messages sent to the plurality of users located within each of the different network architectures. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307566 | System for automatically appending digital correspondence compositions with status updates outputted by an iteration of a qualified user defined function - The present invention provides monitoring a correspondence for at least one of a content and a property; accessing a library of UDFs comprised of a UDF rules and a status update logics; evaluating at least one of the UDF rules against at least one of the content and the property; determining at least one qualified UDF based on UDF rules satisfied by the evaluating; executing the status update logic associated with the qualified UDFs to return a plurality of results based on at least one of the content and the property; generating a composite status update with the plurality of results; and appending the composite status update to the correspondence. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307567 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND FILTERING UNSOLICITED AND UNDESIRED ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A sending device locates and stores identifying information for each electronic message sent by the device. A receiving device, upon receipt of an electronic message, locates identifying information for the electronic message and the purported sending device of the message. The receiving device communicates a confirmation request to the purported sending device which contains identifying information for the message. The sending device receives confirmation messages and replies to such messages confirming that the message was sent if identifying information in the confirmation request corresponds to identifying information stored by the sending device and denying that the message was sent if the identifying information in the confirmation request does not correspond to stored data. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307568 | System and Method for Message Processing and Routing - A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of learning and executing new routing rules and message transformations in formats previously unrecognized by the system. The system enables precise and reliable logging of messages throughout processing and supports publication of enterprise-wide broadcast messages. The system further preferably employs cooperating inbound and outbound transport processes for consuming, routing, processing, safely storing and publishing messages in batches of logical units of work to ensure that the logical units of work are not lost in system transactions. The system also preferably utilizes a replay server for preserving and replaying messages that might otherwise fail to reach their intended destinations. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110307569 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE SHORT MESSAGING AND DISCUSSION - A system and method for collaborative short messaging and discussion are described. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for collaborative short messaging and discussion, comprises grouping users into client networks based on existing shared attributes. System resources are partitioned for messaging across client networks. Users in a client network are allowed to view or respond only to messages within the client network. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110314106 | USER INITIATED RULE-BASED RESTRICTIONS ON MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for user initiated rule based restrictions on sending messages from a sender to a receiver in a communications network. The receiver establishes a set of rules for the sender that allows the sender a limited number of defined messages events with the receiver. The defined message events may be messages or message sessions. When the sender attempts to send a message to the receiver, it is determined whether a message session currently exists between the sender and the receiver. If a current session exists, the rules set by the receiver are used to determine if the message is allowed to be sent to the receiver. If a session does not currently exist, the rules are used to determine whether a new session is allowed. If a new message session is allowed, a new session is established, and the message is sent to the receiver during the new session. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314107 | Downloading a Code Image to Remote Devices - A server downloads a code image to remote devices so that the remote devices are performing properly in accordance with an updated version of the code image. The server may include an application server that targets devices and informs the targeted devices about a multicasting session. The targeted devices subsequently join the multicast session supported by a multicasting server and extract the code image from the multicast session. After the multicast session has been completed, the downloading center polls the targeted devices to determine which devices have successfully downloaded the code image. The server may repeat the download to devices that did not successfully download the code image by subsequently scheduling a subsequent multicasting session or by individually sending the code image to the devices. Portions of the code image may be sent in multicasting messages based on a depth level and interval. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314108 | DATA MIGRATION BETWEEN DISPARATE DATA STRUCTURES - A method and apparatus for the data migration between disparate data structures is described herein. In one embodiment, a process is provided to determine information associated with one or more users in a first data structure which may be used to create an account in a second data structure for each of the one or more users in the first data structure. A portion of a first data structure to copy to a second data structure may be determined based on a search of the first data structure in its entirety. A structured view of a mail database associated with at least one of a plurality of mail applications in the first data structure may be created. The structured view may be configured to receive data from each of the plurality of mail applications. A portion of the mail database with the structured view may be streamed to the second data structure and may be used by the second data structure to create one or more files. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314109 | ALTERNATE E-MAIL ADDRESS CONFIGURATION - A method is provided for transmitting an electronic mail (e-mail) message from a sender having a non-ASCII e-mail address to a recipient. The method comprising following steps. An e-mail directory associated with a requested primary e-mail address, having a non-ASCII form, and a corresponding alternate e-mail address having an ASCII form, is established. The alternate e-mail is generated from the primary e-mail address using a reversible encoding scheme having a one-to-one relationship. The e-mail message and the primary e-mail address are transmitted to the recipient via a plurality of mail delivery elements. The alternate e-mail address is transmitted to a mail delivery element incapable of processing non-ASCII characters. The alternate e-mail address is for use by the mail delivery element to identify the sender and deliver the e-mail message to the recipient for display. A transmission e-mail server for implementing the method is also provided. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314110 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the same are discussed. The mobile terminal includes a touch screen, and a controller acquiring first identification information about a receiving terminal, second identification information about a social network service account, and transmission data through the touch screen and transmitting the transmission data to the receiving terminal corresponding to the first identification information and a server of the social network service account corresponding to the second identification information. Accordingly, the data can be transmitted to the receiving terminal corresponding to the first identification information and the social network service server corresponding to the second identification information to improve the ease of use. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314111 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - Messages exchanged among users of a relationship management and work collaboration system are organized within user-defined, secure communication channels organized according to user-defined hierarchies that represent the users' personal relationships with one another. Security of the communications channels is maintained using individual, dynamic keys, each of the keys being uniquely associated with a respective one of the channels, and being generated according to combinations of individual passwords established by each respective channel's participants. In-bound messages in the form of e-mails are received and associated with respective ones of the channels according to e-mail aliases associated with the inbound messages. Out-bound e-mails may be sent to channel participants according to e-mail addresses associated with the participants and channel preferences established by the system users. In some instances, messages are posted or not posted to those of the channels under the control of respective moderators and channel participants. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314112 | Handling of Communication Session Invitations - The invention is directed towards improving the handling of communication session invitations in a communication network. In the network (N) a communication session control device ( | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314113 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation unit acquiring an input operation for a message composed of at least one of text and an image, a recording control unit recording the message in accordance with the acquired input operation, and a reproduction control unit reproducing the recorded message to display the message on a display unit. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314114 | Persistent Cross Channel Cookie Method and System - The disclosed subject matter relates to methods, systems, and computer-usable storage mediums for tracking user behavior across advertising channels on a communications network through the use of cookies associated with persistent identification information for each user. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314115 | Automated Schedule Systems and Methods - Automated notification and acceptance/rejection of appointment or opening in a calendar/schedule via network-based systems and methods, including application over social networks and website based connection between users and service providers. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314116 | Method and System For Electronic Content Delivery Via Affilliates and Detecting Click Fraud - Systems and methods utilize affiliates in delivering content via electronic communications, over a communications network, transmitted from these affiliates to computers of intended recipients, over a the communications network. The content is rendered to the computer of the intended recipient dynamically and automatically when the intended recipient opens the electronic communication. The systems and methods also evaluate possible fraud from clicks received from these affiliate-transmitted electronic communications. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314117 | TRANSFERRING FILES - Systems and techniques for transferring one or more files by connecting to a communications system host; sending, to a client connected to the communications system host, a request to transfer one or more files; when a client permits access to the one or more files, establishing a direct socket connection from the client and bypassing the communications system host; and initiating the transfer of the one or more files from the client over the direct socket connection. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314118 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND USER INTERFACE FOR SEARCHING FOR MESSAGES WITH ATTACHMENTS ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Embodiments of a system, method, and user interface for searching for messages with attachments on mobile devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a messaging application is programmed such that, in operation, a user is presented with a search screen in which the user may define search parameters for a search. A search parameter associated with an option to search for messages of a specified type is provided, and more specifically, an option to search for messages (e.g. electronic mail messages) having one or more attachments is made available to the user. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110320537 | One-way information transfer for performing secure information updates - A server comprises one or more data processing device, instructions processable by the one or more data processing device, and an apparatus from which the instructions are accessible by the one or more data processing device. The instructions are configured for causing the one or more data processing device to receive an information update command from a system user, access an information update rule corresponding to the information update command, and perform unidirectional transmission of information to at least one secure information system for causing at least one update action defined by the information update rule to be implemented by the at least one secure information system. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320538 | DELIVERING MESSAGES FROM MESSAGE SOURCES TO SUBSCRIBING RECIPIENTS - Many scenarios involve the delivery of messages received from various message sources to recipients, based on subscriptions established between various recipients and message sources. The recipients may be distributively assigned to one or more message servers, either operating independently or as part of an interoperating message server set. Respective message servers may generate a subscription filter indicating whether at least one assigned recipient subscribes to respective message sources, and may utilize the subscription filter to determine, upon receiving a message from a message source, whether to discard the message or store the message for delivery. Interoperating message servers may also exchange subscription filters, and upon receiving a message from any message source, a message server may utilize the subscription filters of the other message servers to determine which other message servers are assigned at least one subscribing recipient, and may retransmit the message only to such message servers. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320539 | WiFi Proximity Messaging - Techniques for utilizing APs and messaging service for delivering personalized message to individual mobile devices connected to internet through APs. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320540 | SERVICE MODEL CREATION USING MONITORED DATA OF THE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT TOOL - An automated method is provided for constructing or updating a service model that defines the entities in an enterprise's computing environment. The method includes: defining a group of templates for updating the service model, where the group of templates identify different types of entities which comprise the service model and relationships between the types of entities including an entity that links software applications to respective computing infrastructure that supports the software applications; monitoring messages received from monitoring tools residing in the computing environment; and updating a service model in accordance with the group of templates using data encapsulated in the messages. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320541 | Electronic Mail Analysis and Processing - A system and method for electronic mail analysis and processing is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a plurality of electronic mail messages. The method also includes for each of the plurality of electronic mail messages, determining one or more characteristics associated with the respective electronic mail message. Further, the method includes assigning a numerical value to each of the plurality of electronic mail messages based on the determined characteristics and based on the assigned numerical values, selecting one or more of the plurality of electronic mail messages to transmit to a user. The method further includes generating a message based on the selected one or more of the plurality of electronic mail messages and transmitting the generated message to the user. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320542 | Analyzing Social Networking Information - A system and method for analyzing social networking information is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a plurality of electronic messages generated by one or more users of a social networking site. The method further includes for each of the plurality of electronic messages, determining one or more characteristics associated with the respective electronic messages. The method also includes for each of the plurality of electronic messages, assigning a numerical value to the electronic message based on the determined characteristics. The method also includes based on the assigned values, selecting one or more of the plurality of electronic messages and generating an electronic message based on the selected one or more electronic messages. The method also includes transmitting the generated electronic message to a user. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320543 | Analyzing News Content Information - A system and method for analyzing news content information is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a first electronic data from a first news source, wherein the first electronic data is associated with a particular news event and receiving a second electronic data from a second news source, wherein the second electronic data is associated with the particular news event. The method also includes comparing the first and second electronic data and based on the comparison, assigning a numerical value to at least one of the first and second electronic data. The method further includes based on the numerical value assigned to at least one of the first and second electronic data, generating a third electronic data and transmitting the third electronic data to a user. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320544 | DIAMETER SESSION AUDITS - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a Policy and Charging Rules Node (PCRN) for managing communications sessions. The method may include: determining that a session is suspect of being inactive; sending an innocuous message to a network component that initiated the session; waiting for a response from the network component; if the PCRN receives a response from the network component, determining whether the session is inactive based on the response; and taking at least one management action for the session if the session is inactive. Various exemplary embodiments relate to a PCRN for managing communications sessions. The PCRN may include: one or more interfaces that communicate with network components, one or more PCRN blades that manage communications sessions, and a diameter proxy agent that determines which blade manages a session. Each PCRN blade may include a session manager, a timer and a session data storage. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320545 | CONTROLLING EMAIL PROPAGATION WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK UTILIZING PROXIMITY RESTRICTIONS - A message header of an email message can be identified. The message header can comprise of an exemption field which specifies one or more email addresses that is prohibited from receiving the email message. The sending email address can be associated with a sender node and the one or more email addresses is associated with a prohibited node. The sender node and the prohibited node can be arbitrarily linked within a network that is a social structure comprising of one or more individuals and organizations which can be connected by one or more specific type of interdependency. The network can be modeled as a graph which can be a mathematical structure modeling pairwise relations between nodes and edges. The email message can be conveyed to multiple email addresses except the one or more email address associated with the exemption field. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320546 | SMOOTHING PEAK SYSTEM LOAD VIA BEHAVIOR PREDICTION IN COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS WITH TEMPORAL DATA ACCESS PATTERNS - Techniques are described above for smoothing peak load in collaborative systems. One embodiment includes, prior to a predicted peak load period, pre-staging user-data associated with one or more users of the collaborative system. During the predicted peak load period, a request from a first one of the users for access to the pre-staged user-data associated with the first user is received. And in response to the request, the pre-staged user-data is provided to the first user. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320547 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING MESSAGES AMONG MEMBERS OF A USER GROUP IN AN INTERNET PROTOCOL ENVIRONMENT - A IP telephony service allows customers to form user groups. Each user group can include multiple members, each of whom have their own telephony device. When a member of a user group sends a messages to another member of the user group, the message is posted to a group message board so that all members of the group can view the message. This could include sending information to each of the telephony devices for all members of the group so that each telephony device could display the message on a display screen. The displayed messages could also indicate who sent each message and to whom each message was directed. As a result, each member of the group can view messages passing back and forth between all members of the group. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320548 | USER-BASED SEMANTIC METADATA FOR TEXT MESSAGES - Methods, devices, and computer-readable medium described herein may provide for the adding of user-based semantic metadata to a text message. The semantic metadata may be added at a sending user device based on a user's selection. A receiving user device may interpret the text message based on the semantic metadata. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320549 | TERMINAL DIFFERENTIATION SERVER AND NETWORK SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Provided is a server including: a storage section for pre-storing information on routes between the server and each of a number of terminals; a transmission/reception section for transmitting/receiving messages to/from the number of terminals; a terminal information acquisition section for acquiring information differentiating the terminals and acquiring delay times for transmission between the server and each of the number of terminals; a transmission distance calculation section for calculating respective transmission distances between the server and the number of terminals, based on the transmission delay times acquired by the terminal information acquisition section; and a terminal installation location identifying section for identifying locations where the number of terminals are installed, based on the differentiating information acquired by the terminal information acquisition section, the transmission distances calculated by the transmission distance calculation section, and the route information stored in the storage section. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320550 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING REAL-TIME EVENTING - A method and system for real-time eventing including interacting with at least one configuration attribute according to instructions specified through an application programming interface (API); adding subscribers for an event channel; generating an event from operation of an application; publishing the event message to the event channel on an event router; processing the event message according to the at least one configuration attribute; identifying a subscriber to the event channel; and sending the event from the event router to the subscriber. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320551 | CONTENT SHARING USING ACCESS IDENTIFIERS - The application concerns sharing content generated within a system for one or more application displays to be displayed on a first computing device of a first user. A second user is sent a message concerning sharing sharable content wherein the sharable content includes at least a portion of content from the one or more application displays that were generated for the first user. The message includes an access identifier and in response to the second user accepting the message, the system uses the access identifier to share with the second user said sharable content that was generated for the first user. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320552 | ASYNCHRONOUS REAL-TIME RETRIEVAL OF DATA - A data retrieval system includes a gateway server and an access client. The gateway server is communicatively connected to the access client through a network. The gateway server provides a presentation service (PS) and a real-time service (RTS), which cooperate with the access client to retrieve data from a data store and then provide the retrieved data to a user's remote communication device. More particularly, when a user wishes to retrieve data from the data store or to send data to the data store, the user establishes a communication connection between his or her remote communication device and the gateway server, and then requests the desired data from the gateway server. In response, the gateway server sends a command to the access client, instructing it to retrieve the requested data. The access client retrieves the requested data from the data store, and returns the retrieved data to the gateway server. The gateway server then relays the requested information back to the user's remote communication device. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320553 | VOICE INSTANT MESSAGING - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data include enabling instant messaging communication between a sender an at least one recipient through an instant messaging host. In addition, voice communication is enabled between the sender and the recipient through the instant messaging host. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320554 | Optimized Redirection for Network Architectures - A system, computer readable medium and method for providing to a user device ( | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120005275 | ACCELERATED MICRO BLOGGING USING CORRELATED HISTORY AND TARGETED ITEM ACTIONS - A computer implemented method correlates a digital resource with an electronic message. A processor detects a focus on a targeted item that identifies a digital resource. The targeted item is in a user history that presents a history of a user's access to multiple digital resources. The processor then auto-populates a draft of an electronic message with the targeted item that was focused in the user history. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005276 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING APPLICATION UPDATE TRAFFIC IN CELLULAR NETWORKS - An application proxy is disposed between a user device and an application server. The application server supports an application that is available on the user device. The user device registers with the application proxy for the application. The user device is prevented from transmitting application update request messages to the application server. The application proxy transmits application update request messages to the application server on behalf of the user device. The application proxy receives application update response messages from the application server. The application proxy determines, based on the application update response messages from the application server, whether to send an application update notification message toward the user device. In this manner, application update traffic normally transmitted via the network between the user device and the application proxy is reduced. The application update request and response messages may be polling messages, keep-alive messages, and the like. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005277 | PROPAGATING INSTANT MESSAGE STATUS CHANGE - A method and computer program product for propagating instant message status change is described. A method may comprise receiving, via at least one of a client electronic device and a server computer, an instant message request associated with an instant message request target. The method may further comprise determining, via at least one of the client electronic device and the server computer, an instant message status based upon, at least in part, the instant message request and the instant message request target. The method may also comprise in response to the determination, providing, via at least one of the client electronic device and the server computer, an indication of the instant message status. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005278 | E-MEETING REQUIREMENT ASSURANCE FOR E-MEETING MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for e-meeting requirements assurance in e-meeting management. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for e-meeting requirements assurance in e-meeting management is provided. The method includes selecting a scheduled e-meeting for an invitee in memory of a computer, retrieving resource requirements published for the selected scheduled e-meeting, inspecting local computing resources of the invitee, comparing the local computing resources to the retrieved resource requirements to identify local resource deficiencies, and generating a notice of the local resource deficiencies to the invitee prior to a scheduled date and time for the e-meeting. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005279 | SIDEBAND CONTROL OF E-MAIL MESSAGE DECRYPTION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for sideband control of a secured e-mail message. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for sideband control of a secured e-mail message is provided. The method includes receiving a secured form of a message from a sender in an e-mail client executing in memory by at least one processor of a computer. The method also includes rendering the secured form of the message comprehensible only subsequent to the establishment of a sideband channel of communication with the sender. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005280 | MESSAGE THREAD MANAGEMENT USING DYNAMIC POINTERS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for message thread management using dynamic pointers. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for message thread management using dynamic pointers is provided. The method includes selecting a message thread in a message inbox of a messaging client, comparing characteristics of the message thread to a pre-established set of criteria, and removing the selected message thread to remote storage, generating a message thread pointer to the selected message thread and inserting the message thread pointer into the message inbox in place of the selected message thread in response to the characteristics of the message thread satisfying the criteria. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005281 | Conneciton Device and Protocol - A common communications protocol is described among devices in a unified communications network. Native devices receive upstream commands and forward them to downstream devices without interpreting the commands. The native devices reformat commands intended for mapped devices in the unified communications network. The common communications protocol calls for left shifting address fields for transmitted commands until the command arrives at its intended destination. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005282 | COLLABORATIVE RANKING AND FILTERING OF ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - Electronic mail messages may be collaboratively ranked and filtered. User actions on an electronic mail message received from a sender by one or more recipients may be monitored. Statistics may be generated based on the user actions. The generated statistics may be utilized to provide a quality ranking of the electronic mail message based on the generated statistics. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005283 | EMAIL SYSTEM INCLUDING SYNCHRONIZATION SERVER(S) PROVIDING SYNCHRONIZATION BASED UPON SYNCHRONIZATION INDICATORS STORED ON MOBILE DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS - An email system may include an email server(s) configured to store email messages in a plurality of mailboxes, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each configured to store email messages and an email synchronization indicator for a respective mailbox. The system may further include an email synchronization server(s) configured to establish synchronization sessions with the mobile wireless communications devices and retrieve the email synchronization indicators therefrom, and determine changes to the mailboxes and synchronize respective email messages between the mobile wireless communications devices and the email server(s) during the synchronization sessions based upon the retrieved email synchronization indicators. The email synchronization server(s) may also be configured to communicate updated email synchronization indicators to the mobile wireless communications devices, and terminate the synchronization sessions without storing of the updated email synchronization indicators at the email synchronization server(s). | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005284 | Adaptive Method to Automatically Classify Emails Based on Bio-Signature Association - The Bio-Signature Association approach disclosed herein addresses the above stated needs by providing a method and computer software component for automatically and intelligently managing the inbox based on the ever-changing behavior of the user. Theoretically, Emails should be treated as an event where an action may be taken or initiation of an action. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005285 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REQUESTING AND PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED ASSISTANCE - The present invention provides a method for requesting location-based assistance executed on a mobile device of an assistance requester, and a method and system for providing location-based assistance executed on a server of a joint assistance service provider. The present invention integrates mobile positioning and telecommunications technologies to provide assistance provision information. In the present invention, an assistance request module of the mobile device is activated for execution to locate the assistance requester; assistance request information containing the assistance requester's location information is transmitted to the server of the joint assistance service provider. Then, the mobile device is connected to a social networking website or an assistance provider via the server of the joint assistance service provider to receive real-time assistance provision information. The present invention improves conventional assistance request methods as well as assistance provision timings. Also, the assistance request information, containing the assistance requester's location information, is analyzed to provide more accurate assistance-related data to the assistance provider. Therefore, the present invention allows the efficiency of providing assistance to be improved. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005286 | Application of System Level Policy in Message Oriented Middleware - One or more policies to be applied to a set of one or more messages in a message oriented middleware are defined. Metrics of the message oriented middleware are monitored. Application of a policy in response to a trigger condition being satisfied is initiated. Application of the policy applies actions across the set of one or more messages. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005287 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND TRANSMITTING MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES - The present invention relates to a system and method for creating and sending, by means of a telecommunications device, such as a cellular telephone, unique, dynamically personalized multimedia messages to a remote recipient. The method includes generating, capturing, selecting, recording, and assembling media-type content inputs such as video, audio, voice, text or graphic, by means of the telecommunications device. The method further includes creating and storing an instruction file. The instructions file includes addresses of at least one media-type content input stored on a remote server device and/or data from the computing device, which, when assembled in the remote server device, create the multimedia message. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005288 | MOBILE TERMINAL, MAIL RETURN METHOD, AND SERVER - The present invention can reduce anxiety or discomfort of a sender of a mail, even when a user of a mobile terminal having received the mail is unaware of being in a state that sending a reply mail is impossible. A mobile terminal according to the present invention includes: transmitting and receiving unit for receiving an incoming mail from a transmitter; state determining unit for acquiring information indicating a state of a user and determining based on the information indicating the state of the user whether sending a reply mail is possible or not when the mail transmitting and receiving unit receives the incoming mail; mail creating unit for creating a reply mail with a given content when the state determining unit determines that sending a reply mail is impossible; and mail transmitting unit for transmitting the reply mail created by the mail creating unit to the transmitter. With this configuration, it is determined based on the state of the user at the time of receiving a mail whether sending a reply mail is possible or not and when sending a reply mail is determined to be impossible, a mail with a given content can be automatically sent to the transmitter. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005289 | Methods, Systems, And Computer Program Products For Managing Electronic Subscriptions - Managing electronic subscriptions includes receiving user input for modifying an electronic subscription of a user to prevent receiving a redundant subscription message for the electronic subscription. Whether a future subscription message is redundant is determined based on at least one of an identifier for the subscription message and content included in the subscription message. Redundant future subscription messages associated with the electronic subscription is excluded from presentation to the user based on the redundancy determination and the user input. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005290 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WIRELESS DOWNLOADS OF MAP AND GEOGRAPHIC BASED DATA TO PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICES - Systems and method of managing map data on electronic devices such as portable electronic devices include systems and methods of preloading map data, managing map data storage, sharing point of interest or pushpin data with other electronic devices, and displaying map data. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005291 | System for Applying a Variety of Policies and Actions to Electronic Messages Before They Leave the Control of the Message Originator - A system that allows senders to manage electronic messaging content at the point of origin integrates with the client application being used to prepare the message for sending. A send request is intercepted inside the client and a series of message analysis steps is performed that analyze the sender, recipient, message, any attachments to the message, and/or related content and information. The output of the message analysis steps is made available for use with rules that specify the performance of a number of actions. The content analysis steps and the actions taken may be determined by the sender or may be centrally managed and determined by an organization. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005292 | NETWORKED COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING AND OPERATING IN A VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT - The present invention relates to interactive virtual reality networked computer systems and methods that facilitate communication and operation in a virtual reality environment. The virtual reality networked computer system has an infrastructure that includes a number of users, hosts and servers. The interconnected hosts and servers allow users to effectively locate, activate, access and interact within virtual reality environments in a variety of different ways. For example, users can establish user groups such that interaction within the virtual reality environment occurs between hosts (accessed by users) without the need of a central or dedicated server. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005293 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES BEING COMPOSED BY A USER - A system and method for processing messages being composed by a user of a computing device (e.g. a mobile device). Embodiments are described in which the performance of certain tasks is initiated before a direction is received from a user to send a message being composed by the user. This may involve, for example, “pre-fetching” security-related data that will be required in order to send a message that is in the process of being composed by the user securely. Such data may include security policy data, certificate data, and/or certificate status data, for example. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005294 | METHOD APPARATUS AND BUSINESS SYSTEM FOR ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS WITH ONLINE AND OFFLINE RECIPIENTS - The present invention comprises a method, apparatus and business system for allowing on-line communications with members of a group of recipients for whom the invention has been implemented. A group may, for example, comprise members of a particular business or profession. For example, a group may consist of doctors admitted to practice medicine in the United States. Individual members of the group may or may not have existing internet presences. The invention allows online users to communicate with each member of a given group regardless of whether or not the member has an existing internet presence. In one or more embodiments, the invention does so by setting up a database of contact information for members of the group, creating an internet presence for each member of such group, creating an on-line user interface allowing a user to access the member's created internet presence, and providing means of communications between the created internet presence and the member recipient. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005295 | Method and Device for Mail Processing - A method and device for mail processing are provided by embodiments of the present invention. The method comprises: acquiring a first description information of a first mail, wherein the first description information comprises a first mail content and a first display description information of the first mail content; acquiring a first format of the first mail and a second format of a second mail; converting the first mail content in the first format into a second mail content in the second format; converting the first display description information in the first format into a second display description information in the second format; obtaining the second mail according to a second description information comprising the second mail content and the second display description information, wherein the display of the second mail content within the second mail according to the second display description information is consistent with the display of the first mail content within the first mail according to the first display description information. The implementation of the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the invention enables a user receiving the second mail to see the mail information comparatively consistent with the information intended to be expressed by the first mail. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120011205 | CONFERENCE SERVER SIMPLIFYING MANAGEMENT OF SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS FOR PARTICIPANTS OF A MEETING IN PROGRESS - A conference server, provided according to an aspect of the present invention, identifies a participant of a meeting in progress and requests scheduling option for a subsequent meeting from the identified participant. On receiving a scheduling option from the participant, the conference server determines the possible participants (“recipients”) of the subsequent meeting and informs the recipients of the received scheduling option. In one embodiment, the conference server requests the scheduling option when a conflict between the meeting in progress and the subsequent meeting is found and sends notifications to the recipients (determines by examining the calendars of users). In another embodiment, the conference server requests the scheduling option for a follow-up meeting for the meeting in progress, and updates the calendars of the recipients (determined as the participants of the meeting in progress and any users invited). | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011206 | Systems and Methods for Discovery of Network Topology Using Service OAM - According to one embodiment, a method may include instantiating a first maintenance end point on a first port of a first network element. The first maintenance end point may determine whether a heartbeat message has been received from a second maintenance end point instantiated on a second port of a second network element. In response to determining that the heartbeat message has been received, the maintenance end point may analyze the heartbeat message to determine an identifier for the second network element and an identifier for the second port. Based on the determination of the identifier of the second network element and the identifier of the second port, the network element may store information to an adjacency list, the information indicating at least one of an adjacency of the first port to the second port and an adjacency of the first network element to the second network element. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011207 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A REQUEST FOR A RESOURCE IN A COMMUNICATION - Methods and systems are described for processing a request for a resource in a communication. In an aspect, a criterion is received, by a second node, for a requesting a resource via a first communication addressed to a first node. The first communication is sent, to the first node, including an attachment request based on the criterion. A second communication is received, by the second node, including the resource as an attachment. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011208 | CONDITIONING RESPONSES TO EMOTIONS OF TEXT COMMUNICATIONS - A text communication, such as an email or blog posting from a user, is monitored to identify an issue. A score(s) of the text communication is determined by analyzing words/phrases in the text communication. A score can be based on various factors such as annoyance, language precision, help-ability, a communication length, and the like. A range for the score(s) is determined. When a response to the text communication is generated, a score(s) of the response to the text communication is determined. If one or more of the score(s) of the response is outside the range for the score(s), the response is rejected. Words/phrases are identified in the response to the text communication that can be changed in order to get the score(s) of the response within the range of the score(s) of the text communication. This information is displayed to an agent so an appropriate response can be formulated. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011209 | INTERNET E-MAIL BRIDGE - An Internet mail bridge is provided for downloading e-mail messages from Internet mail servers supporting different email protocols, such as the Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (Web DAV) protocol, and delivering the downloaded messages, which are in different formats, to a mail server on a local area network. The Internet mail bridge has a mail manager that is independent from particular e-mail protocols or e-mail formats. For each e-mail account, the mail manager instantiates a mail connector object that contains logic for downloading e-mail according to the e-mail access protocol of that account, and invokes the mail connector object to download e-mail messages from that account. The mail manager then instantiates and invokes mail deliverer objects tailored for handling different message formats to deliver the downloaded messages to the local mail server. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011210 | Instant Messaging Communication System and Method - A method of providing instant messaging communication between a first user and at least one other user via a communication network. The method comprises: executing an instant messaging client at a user terminal of the first user, the instant messaging client having a user interface comprising a message composition region; the instant messaging client receiving a selection of media for insertion into the instant messaging communication from the first user; the instant messaging client generating a link comprising the address of the selected media at a network element and creating a selectable control with the link embedded therein; inserting the selectable control in the message composition region of the instant messaging client; the instant messaging client receiving user-viewable text entered by the first user into the message composition region in addition to the selectable control; and the instant messaging client transmitting the contents of the message composition region of the instant messaging client to the at least one other user over the communication network responsive to a command from the first user. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011211 | PERSONAL MESSAGE DEVICE AND METHOD - A system for providing patients with dementia or other cognitive impairment with instructions and reminders of tasks to enable them to live with minimum third party oversight. The system provides for a continuous display of viewable indicia of at least one of text or images to provide the patient messages. The messages may be generated by a remote third party or software running on a computer. A projector is engaged to a ceiling of the residence of the patient to maintain it out of reach and tampering from the patient. The projector displays the messages upon a wall of the residence allowing the patient to watch TV or use a computer and still receive ongoing messaging including reminders and instructions on daily or other tasks. Employing the system a remote user such as the child of a patient can provide instruction and reminders to the patient allowing them to live with minimal supervision. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011212 | Cluster-Based Friend Suggestion Aggregator - Techniques are described to generate a list of suggested friends for a client of a social networking service. In an implementation, a cluster of clients is identified from among the clients of the social networking service. The cluster of clients includes the client for which the list of suggested friends is to be generated. The list of suggested friends for the client may then be generated and may include one or more clients of the social networking service selected based on connections with the cluster of clients. The list indicates at least one other client of the social networking service that is suggested as a friend. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011213 | HANDLING NOTIFICATIONS IN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEMS - To reduce the communications in an IM conversation between two devices, two or more IM events of the conversation at the first device are confirmed by sending to the second device a single IM communication that confirms the most recent of the events. In order that the user of the second device not experience undue delay in receiving the confirmation, the method may be applied where the time interval between any two consecutive ones of the events is less than a predetermined time. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011214 | METHOD OF DELIVERING ELECTRONIC GREETING CARD - A method of delivering a greeting card to a recipient address. The method includes the steps of: writing a handwritten message on a substrate using a pen or stylus; generating digital ink representing the handwritten message; indexing, in a computer system, the digital ink with an identifier for an electronic greeting card; and delivering the electronic greeting card, including the handwritten message represented by the digital ink, to a recipient address. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011215 | MULTIMEDIA PORTAL - A system receives, from a first user, a communication request for a second user and determines, in response to receiving the communication request, whether a trigger is satisfied. The system may aggregate, in response to determining that the trigger is satisfied, content of different types to form multimedia content and provide the multimedia content to the first user. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011216 | Method for associating a code with an electronic document, a hard document and storage information relating to the hard document - A system and method for automatically associating hard copy and electronic versions of a document with a code. The electronic version of a document is displayed using an image viewing tool which also displays a code associated with the document. Hardcopies of the electronic document may be printed and will include the same code present in the electronic version of the document. The code linking electronic and hard copy versions of the document provides information relating to each version of the document, such as physical storage location of the hard copy, electronic location of the document, and the identity of members who have recently accessed the document. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120016940 | Geographic Based Logical Message Addressing And Delivery - A geographic addressing scheme is used to route a message from a sender to all devices occupying a specified geographic region. Message delivery and addressing are based on logical predicates being satisfied, wherein the logical predicates comprise a geographic region and at least one filter predicate. When a message is received by a device, the logical predicate is evaluated to determine if the requirements of the logical predicate are satisfied. In one configuration, a Boolean value (true or false) if determined. If the Boolean result is true, the message is provided to an appropriate application, or applications, residing on the device. If the Boolean result is false, the message is ignored silently. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016941 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A DISPLAY - According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for controlling a display are provided. The method comprises maintaining, in a memory of the portable electronic device, one or more related messages; maintaining, in the memory, at least one of a plurality of labels in association with at least one of the related messages; determining, for each of the plurality of labels, a state based on the number of related messages with which the respective label is associated; controlling the display to generate a representation of the state for each of the labels; receiving an indication of a potential change in at least one of the label states; and, responsive to receiving the indication, updating the determined label states and controlling the display to generate an updated representation. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016942 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UNIFORM MACHINE-TO-MACHINE ADDRESSING - An apparatus and method for providing uniform addressing for Machine-to-machine (M2M) services, including receiving by a first machine-to-machine (M2M) module a content from a first machine-to-machine (M2M) device using a first format, wherein the content is addressed for transmission to a second M2M device; converting the received content to a second format for transmission to a second M2M module, wherein the second M2M module is operable to convert the received content back to the first format for transmission to the second M2M device; and transmitting the converted content to the second M2M device through the second M2M module. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016943 | BARGAINED FOR EXCHANGE, GUIDED DISCOVERY AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION SYSTEM - A computerized system for the automated facilitation of the resolution of contractual and other disputes by communicating, processing, managing or guiding the process of dispute identification, discovery, negotiation and resolution through the Internet or other networked communications. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016944 | JOINT COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - Online communication sessions may be joined in an environment that includes receiving a first communication between a first user and a second user and enabling the rendering of the first communication at devices associated with the first and second users. A second communication between the first user and a third user is received and the rendering of the second communication at devices associated with the first and third users is enabled. After receiving the first and second communications, a trigger to join at least the communication sessions associated with the first, second, and third users is received from the first, second, or third user. Information structured and arranged to render, in a single window, text associated with the first and second communications at the devices associated with the first, second, and third users is generated. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016945 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING EMAIL MESSAGES - Methods and systems for analyzing email messages are provided. In an embodiment, a method includes determining whether a received email message is considered to be the same as one or more prior email messages already classified into one of a plurality of different categories. If the received message is not considered to be the same as one of the prior email messages already classified into one of the categories, then the received message is classified into one of the categories by performing a set of computations. If the received message is considered to be the same as one of the prior email messages already classified into one of the categories, then the received message is classified into one of the categories without performing the computations, by classifying the received message into the same category as a prior email message that the received message is considered to be the same as. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016946 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Abusive Email Based on Number of Hops - A classifier is implemented to determine the number of message transfer agents (MTAs) through which an email message has traveled. If the number of MTAs through which the email message has traveled is below a predetermined threshold and the email message is not otherwise authenticated, the classifier will designate the email message as abusive. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120016947 | P2P FOR MOBILE PROVIDERS - The present invention relates to methods and arrangements for arranging a distribution tree in a Peer To Peer P2P streaming system. The system comprises a bootstrapping server ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120023172 | ADAPTIVE MEDIA HANDLING - In one implementation, an intermediary receives a message from an endpoint, includes a flow around address and a flow through address to a second network device listed in the first message. The intermediary requests another endpoint to perform a connectivity test to determine the reachability of the originating endpoint. The connectivity test may be performed using methods such as ping, probe, interactive connectivity establishment (ICE), or session traversal utilities for network address translation (STUN). The intermediary may request originating endpoint a similar connectivity check and establish a media stream based on results of the connectivity tests. The media stream may be a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) call. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023173 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZING MESSAGE TRANSCRIPTIONS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing transcription resources. A system practicing the method retrieves a class of service for a subscriber recipient of a message deposited at a first server for transcription by a second server, determines a probability of near-term access of the message by the subscriber, assigns a weight to the message based on the class of service and the probability of the near-term access, and transcribes, at the second server, the message based on the weight. Classes of service can include a real-time class of service and/or one or more non-real-time class of service. The probability of near-term access can be based on subscriber presence, subscriber receipt of a new message notification, historical statistics of subscriber message access times, message urgency, and other message metadata. A channel manager can manage a finite number of channels between the first and second servers. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023174 | RECIPIENT CHANGE NOTIFICATION - An electronic communication device may, perhaps with the assistance of a mobile device server, determining that a new electronic message received by the device is part of a message thread that includes the new message and at least one prior electronic message previously received at the device. A comparison may be made of address information of the new message with address information of the at least one prior electronic message in the message thread to determine that there has been a change in addressed recipients between the new message and the at least one prior electronic message. The device may then notify a user of the device of the change. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023175 | Method to Change Instant Messaging Status Based on Text Entered During Conversation - An embodiment of the invention provides a method for communication within a system, wherein an instant messaging conversation is initiated between a first user and a second user. An indicator and a text entry are received from the first user during the instant messaging conversation. The status of the first user is changed, including automatically setting the text entry as the status of the first user, and automatically including the name of the second user in the status of the first user if preferences of the first user indicate that the name of the second user is to be included in the status of the first user. Further, the text entry is automatically sent to the second user if the preferences of the first user indicate that a text entry following the indicator is to be automatically sent to the second user. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023176 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING FOR MANAGING AND COMMUNICATING AVAILABILITY OF A USER - A method, apparatus and systems thereof for managing and communicating the availability of a first user contemplate an electronic message board at a first location, transmitting a position data signal of the first user to the electronic message board, enabling a plurality of secondary users to view the current location of the first user on the electronic message board; and communicating to at least one of the plurality of secondary users information related to the community. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023177 | Tool for the Centralized Supervision and/or Hypervision of a Set of Systems Having Different Security Levels - A tool for the supervision and/or hypervision of a set of systems of different security levels, the systems transmitting messages, includes a display system, and further includes, for each supervised network, at least one gateway for converting the messages to image data, said gateways transmitting said image data via a one-way video link to the display system, at least one of the supervised networks being of a higher security level than the area in which the display system is placed. The invention applies notably to the centralized supervision of several information systems when said systems are subjected to different security constraints. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023178 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION - A method of transmitting a message to user equipment within a telecommunications network, a controller operable to transmit a message to user equipment within a telecommunications network, a base station and a computer program product are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a message having message content to be transmitted to user equipment within a predefined geographical area of the telecommunications network; identifying at least one multicast IP address designated as being associated with base stations providing telecommunications coverage with user equipment within the predefined geographical area; and transmitting the message content within at least one multicast message, each multicast message using a corresponding one of the at least one multicast IP address, over an IP network to base stations providing telecommunications coverage within the predetermined geographical area for onward transmission to user equipment. In this way, each base station identified by the multicast IP address will simultaneously receive the message, rather than each individual base station needing to have its own dedicated message sent to each base station sequentially. This not only significantly speeds the time taken for identified base stations to receive the message, it also reduces the amount of traffic required since the message is transmitted in a multicast manner. Furthermore, only those base stations which are associated with the multicast IP address will act on the message, all other base stations may ignore it. This helps to ensure that the message is only relayed to user equipment in a particular geographical region, rather than being delivered to all user equipment supported by all base stations associated with a particular controller. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023179 | Distributed Data Storage - A method for maintaining a data storage system is disclosed. The method may include monitoring for receipt of a first broadcast message from a first data storage node, where the first broadcast message may indicate that the first data storage node is operating correctly. The method may also include detecting that the first data storage node is malfunctioning based on not receiving the first broadcast message for a predetermined period of time. The method may also include initiating a data replication procedure based on detecting that the first data storage node is malfunctioning. The data replication procedure may include sending a first multicast message to a plurality of data storage nodes requesting identification of a second data storage node that maintains a copy of a file stored on the first data storage node. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023180 | DOCUMENT DATA SHARING SYSTEM AND USER APPARATUS - The present invention provides a document data sharing system including a user apparatus that transmits and receives e-mail and a server apparatus that hierarchizes and registers different versions of document data and provides the document data to the user apparatus, wherein the user apparatus includes a transmitting unit that, when registering document data attached to a received e-mail in the server apparatus, generates a list of identification information of one or more past e-mails related to the e-mail and transmitting a registration request including the list to the server apparatus, and the server apparatus includes a registration unit that determines a version of document data to be registered indicated by the registration request based on the identification information in the list included in the registration request received from the user apparatus and registers the document data in a corresponding hierarchical position. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023181 | METHOD FOR VIEWING DOCUMENT INFORMATION ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A process for viewing document information on a mobile communication device without having to retrieve the full document onto the device. The solution is client-server based. The client is the mobile device attachment viewing application and the server is the document (attachment) handling process on a remote machine. The process comprises server document information construction and delivery, and document information display on the mobile device. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023182 | Security classification of e-mail in a web e-mail access client - Web based e-mail classification is disclosed. A popup dialog adds the ability to classify message such as web e-mail, calendar items and meeting appointments based on specific properties such as security classification, information type, document type, document retention, document caveats, and the like associated with the message. The popup dialog through dropdown selections allows users to select the appropriate classification and properties based upon the content of the message. Administrators can predefine all the classification selections that are available to the user. E-mail classification properties are generated that are associated with the message by metadata insertion and by inserting visual markings that allow users to quickly identify the security, sensitivity, intended distribution or retention of the e-mail or calendar item. By utilizing the classification popup dialog a user can classify an e-mail by one or more classification levels and be ensured that the message is delivered and processed in the appropriate manner. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023183 | E-MAIL SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS MAIL SERVERS - A method or system for synchronizing e-mail messages for a user, particularly for POP3 protocols. E-mail messages addressed to the user are received at an e-mail control at a local server, from an external e-mail server. The e-mail control stores each e-mail message in a consolidated e-mail storage at the local server. The e-mail control stores a message identifier for each e-mail message, in a message identifier storage at the local server. It is determined whether an e-mail message in the consolidated e-mail storage has been deleted from the external e-mail server, and if so, then the e-mail message is deleted from the consolidated e-mail storage. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023184 | Method, device and software for updating data in mobile devices - Updating data between the mobile devices belonging to a given user group is shown. In a mobile device ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023185 | ACCESSORY ATTACHMENT PROTOCOL AND RESPONSIVE ACTIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide various communication techniques for communication between a mobile computing device and an accessory. An accessory protocol that is generic to the mobile computing device can be used for some communication. An application executing at the mobile computing device can communicate with the accessory using an application communication protocol. In some embodiments, the application communication protocol can be different from the accessory communication protocol. In other embodiments the application protocol may only be recognized by the application and the accessory. In some embodiments, messages conforming to an application protocol can be communicated between the application and the accessory by packaging the messages inside a message conforming to the accessory communication protocol. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120030291 | GROUP SIGNALING USING SYNTHETIC MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL ADDRESSES - Methods, systems and computer program products to communicate using a synthetic Media Access Control (synMAC) addresses are provided. The method includes the step of receiving and storing a first message assigning a first synMAC address. The first synMAC address is distinct from a unique stored Media Access Control (MAC) address. A second message including a second synMAC address is received. The first synMAC address is compared to the stored second synMAC address. The second message is accepted and processed if the first synMAC address is equal to the second synMAC address. In another example, a first device assigns a common synthetic Media Access Control (synMAC) address to multiple devices. The first device then broadcasts a message including the common synMAC address to each of the devices. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030292 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUBSCRIBING TO EVENTS BASED ON TAG WORDS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for creating tag subscriptions and notifying users based on tag subscriptions. A system configured to create tag subscriptions receives from a user, as part of a tag subscription request, a tag, a selection of at least one media event to which the tag is to be applied, and a notification threshold. The system then establishes a tag subscription associated with the user based on the tag, the selection of at least one media event, and the notification threshold. A system configured to generate tag notifications based on a tag subscription retrieves a tag subscription including a tag, a selection of a media event, and a notification threshold. The system then monitors tags generated in association with the media event for matches with the tag, and sends a tag notification to a user when matches exceed the notification threshold. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030293 | EMPLOYING REPORT RATIOS FOR INTELLIGENT MOBILE MESSAGING CLASSIFICATION AND ANTI-SPAM DEFENSE - Systems, methods, and devices that classify mobile messages and associated mobile message senders are presented. A communication network can comprise a message abuse detector component (MADC) that evaluates a mobile message, for example, labeled as abusive in an abuse report. The MADC can evaluate information relating to the abuse report, wherein the evaluations can include an abuse-report-hash-ratio, an abuse-report-sender-ratio, correlation of mobile message content to known spam content or non-spam content, and/or evaluation of reputation of the mobile message sender or abuse report sender, etc. Based at least in part on the evaluation, the MADC can classify mobile message as spam, subscription related, or as another type of mobile message, and can identify, select, and execute (e.g., automatically) a desired abuse management action(s) based at least in part on the evaluation and predefined message abuse criteria. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030294 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINK-TRIGGERED LINK-TRANSLATING PROXYING - A method for obtaining web content at an Internet-connected device from an Internet accessible content source, wherein the device connects to the Internet via an access network, is described. The method involves obtaining, at the device, a link to a content element that is stored at the content source, wherein the link includes a pointer to a link-translating proxy server (LTPS) that is located outside of the access network and additional information that corresponds to a Universal Resource Locator (URL) for the content element. The method also involves initiating, from the device, a request for the content element that is associated with the link, the request being directed to the content source through the LTPS, and receiving, at the device, a response that includes the requested content element, the response passing through the LTPS. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030295 | E-MAIL INTEGRATED INSTANT MESSAGING - A system and method supporting instant messaging which removes many of the problems and harriers to the use of instant messaging through the use of universally unique identifiers to web pages for instant messaging sessions, with recipients invited to the instant messaging session via email. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030296 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING REDUCED ACCESS LATENCY AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include data storage devices for storing data files, and mobile wireless communications devices (MWCDs) generating access requests for the data files. The data storage devices and MWCDs may each use one or more different operating protocols. Each data file may be associated with a respective MWCD and have a unique identification (UID) associated therewith. The system may also include a protocol interface device including a protocol converter module for communicating with the MWCDs using respective operating protocols thereof, and a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols thereof. The protocol engine module may also poll the data storage devices for UIDs of data files stored thereon, and cooperate with the protocol converter module to provide UIDs for respective data files to the MWCDs upon receiving access requests therefrom. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030297 | CONTENT BASED DATA ROUTING - A method of routing data from a source to one or more clients over a network, where the data conforms to a structured meta-language; in which the routing is performed by a server applying rules to the data itself, and not any address accompanying the data, to determine where to route that data to. The present invention is predicated on the counter-intuitive insight that data does not need to be concealed within a data envelope and given an address label in order to be routed effectively and efficiently. Instead, routing can be performed on the actual content of a message by applying simple routing rules to the data itself by intelligent ‘routing’ servers within the network which can unpack data from their message envelopes and intelligently filter/combine them with data unpacked from other messages to achieve a routing function. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WIRELESS INSTANT MESSAGING - A method of operating a server includes receiving a single message, from a messaging client, addressed to a group. The group is resolved to user identifiers that identify both wireless device clients and Internet clients. A message is sent to each of the wireless device clients and each of the Internet clients. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030299 | USER INTERFACE FOR A HANDHELD DEVICE - A user interface and method for composing a message to be sent over a wireless network environment using a handheld device is disclosed. According to the method, upon receipt of a user request to compose a message, a screen is displayed with a recipient field for a recipient address, an associated label to indicate that the recipient field is for a recipient address, and a message body field for holding message content. The method further includes, upon each keystroke entry of text to the recipient field, looking up entries from an address book which match the text, and displaying a selection menu representing addresses from at least a portion of the entries. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030300 | Sharing Memory Resources of Wireless Portable Electronic Devices - It is not uncommon for two or more wireless-enabled devices to spend most of their time in close proximity to one another. For example, a person may routinely carry a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a portable digital audio/video player, or a cellphone and a PDA, or a smartphone and a gaming device. When it is desirable to increase the memory storage capacity of a first such device, it may be possible to use memory on one or more of the other devices to temporarily store data from the first device. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030301 | Using Automated Agents To Facilitate Chat Communications - An automated agent, such as an instant message robot, is be used to facilitate introduction of a chat participant to a small group of other chat participants in a chat room. To do so, for example, a BOT may present a chat participant who desires to be introduced to a small group of chat participants in a chat room with a series of multiple-choice questions, identify a subset of chat participants based on responses to the multiple-choice questions, and provide introductions among the chat participants in the subset to facilitate conversation therebetween. For example, the introductions provided by the BOT may indicate areas of mutual interest among chat participants in the subset, similar responses to one or more multiple-choice questions, and/or diverse responses to one or more multiple-choice questions. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030302 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SOURCE REPUTATION INFORMATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are filtering systems and methods that employ an electronic message source reputation system. The source reputation system maintains a pool of source Internet Protocol (IP) address information, in the form of a Real-Time Threat Identification Network (“RTIN”) database, which can provide the reputation of source IP addresses, which can be used by customers for filtering network traffic. The source reputation system provides for multiple avenues of access to the source reputation information. Examples of such avenues can include Domain Name Server (DNS)-type queries, servicing routers with router-table data, or other avenues. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120036195 | ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONFERENCE - An apparatus, method, computer readable medium, and system are provided for associating content with a conference. A viewer of content may elect to partake in a conference and may select one or more options associated with the conference. The viewer may be authenticated and billed based on the viewer's participation in the conference. The viewer may be assigned to a conference group based on a location of the viewer and/or the viewer's selections of conference options. A lookup may be performed to determine conference parameters, comprising one or more of a terminal identifier associated with the viewer, a conference code identifier and a participant code. A conference setup message may be transmitted to one or more of a switch and a customer premise equipment device (CPE) based on the conference parameters. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036196 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING A MESSAGE INTENDED FOR DIFFERENT RECIPIENTS - A method and apparatus for displaying a message destined for different recipients, wherein the apparatus programs a computer to perform the method, which includes: determining that a message is destined for a first recipient and a second recipient; determining a message size limit for the message based on capabilities of a first device used by the first recipient and a second device used by the second recipient; displaying a first portion of the message in a first format when a length of the message is less than the message size limit; displaying a next portion of the message in a second different format when the length of the message exceeds the message size limit. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036197 | Messaging Genealogy Interface - A number of related electronic messages can be presented in an organized and intuitive manner by associating each of the messages with a message generation and displaying a set of message nodes, each associated with a particular message, organized by generation. The messages nodes are associated or linked with one another to indicate a portion of the respective message lineage. The messages displayed can be filtered so that the viewer of the interface is only presented with messages to which the viewer is a participant. The interface also displays a list of message thread participants over all related electronic messages or on a generation-by-generation basis. The list of participants can also categorize participants as active or passive. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036198 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELF-CALIBRATING, SELF-ORGANIZING AND LOCALIZING SENSORS IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS - A method of self-organizing sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network (WSN); a method of localizing mobile nodes in a WSN; and a method of self-calibrating a WSN are disclosed. The method of self-organizing sensor nodes in a WSN includes configuring sensor nodes to in turn broadcast consecutive messages at a plurality of pre-defined and incrementally increasing power levels; detecting receipt of the broadcasted messages at each of the sensor nodes and notifying a master node as to the identity of each sensor node receiving the broadcasted message and the power level at which it was received to define a detected neighbourhood for each sensor node; determining relative locations of sensor nodes with the detected neighbourhoods; and mapping relative locations of the sensor nodes by the master node based on results of the neighborhood detection and known locations of two anchor nodes. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036199 | Sharing Data on Mobile Devices - System, methods and articles of manufacture for replicating relational data on multiple nodes. An embodiment comprises receiving an update request message from a node, wherein the update request message comprises a node identification and an application identification, accessing an application schema based on the application identification, identifying a partition residing in the application schema based on the node identification, accessing a server schema, identifying a second partition residing in the server schema based on the application identification, determining at least one data change stored in the second partition that changes data associated with the first partition, retrieving at least one data change from the second partition, formatting data change in an update response message, and transmitting the update response message to the node. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036200 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM - A social media engagement system is configured for aggregating a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of social media networks, routing each of the plurality of messages based on predetermined workflow rules into a plurality of queues wherein the queues are categorized based at least in part on types of messages, providing the queues for further processing, thereby resulting in one or more responses, and outputting the one or more responses to one or more of the plurality of social media networks. In some embodiments, the system is further configured for reviewing the data to determine whether any of the data indicates an engagement opportunity and associating some or all the data with a contact record and/or an existing case and/or a new case. In some embodiments, the system tracks influence, and in some embodiments, a console provides vision into various information provided by the system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036201 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM ROUTING AND MESSAGE ASSOCIATION - A social media engagement system is configured for aggregating a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of social media networks, routing each of the plurality of messages based on predetermined workflow rules into a plurality of queues wherein the queues are categorized based at least in part on types of messages, providing the queues for further processing, thereby resulting in one or more responses, and outputting the one or more responses to one or more of the plurality of social media networks. In some embodiments, the system is further configured for reviewing the data to determine whether any of the data indicates an engagement opportunity and associating some or all the data with a contact record and/or an existing case and/or a new case. In some embodiments, the system tracks influence, and in some embodiments, a console provides vision into various information provided by the system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036202 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM INFLUENCE TRACKING - A social media engagement system is configured for aggregating a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of social media networks, routing each of the plurality of messages based on predetermined workflow rules into a plurality of queues wherein the queues are categorized based at least in part on types of messages, providing the queues for further processing, thereby resulting in one or more responses, and outputting the one or more responses to one or more of the plurality of social media networks. In some embodiments, the system is further configured for reviewing the data to determine whether any of the data indicates an engagement opportunity and associating some or all the data with a contact record and/or an existing case and/or a new case. In some embodiments, the system tracks influence, and in some embodiments, a console provides vision into various information provided by the system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036203 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM MESSAGE CASE ASSOCIATION - A social media engagement system is configured for aggregating a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of social media networks, routing each of the plurality of messages based on predetermined workflow rules into a plurality of queues wherein the queues are categorized based at least in part on types of messages, providing the queues for further processing, thereby resulting in one or more responses, and outputting the one or more responses to one or more of the plurality of social media networks. In some embodiments, the system is further configured for reviewing the data to determine whether any of the data indicates an engagement opportunity and associating some or all the data with a contact record and/or an existing case and/or a new case. In some embodiments, the system tracks influence, and in some embodiments, a console provides vision into various information provided by the system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036204 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM INTEGRATION - A social media engagement system is configured for aggregating a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of social media networks, routing each of the plurality of messages based on predetermined workflow rules into a plurality of queues wherein the queues are categorized based at least in part on types of messages, providing the queues for further processing, thereby resulting in one or more responses, and outputting the one or more responses to one or more of the plurality of social media networks. In some embodiments, the system is further configured for reviewing the data to determine whether any of the data indicates an engagement opportunity and associating some or all the data with a contact record and/or an existing case and/or a new case. In some embodiments, the system tracks influence, and in some embodiments, a console provides vision into various information provided by the system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036205 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM MESSAGE COMMUNICATION - A social media engagement system is configured for aggregating a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of social media networks, routing each of the plurality of messages based on predetermined workflow rules into a plurality of queues wherein the queues are categorized based at least in part on types of messages, providing the queues for further processing, thereby resulting in one or more responses, and outputting the one or more responses to one or more of the plurality of social media networks. In some embodiments, the system is further configured for reviewing the data to determine whether any of the data indicates an engagement opportunity and associating some or all the data with a contact record and/or an existing case and/or a new case. In some embodiments, the system tracks influence, and in some embodiments, a console provides vision into various information provided by the system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036206 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM CASE AND CONTACT ASSOCIATION LOGIC - A social media engagement system is configured for aggregating a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of social media networks, routing each of the plurality of messages based on predetermined workflow rules into a plurality of queues wherein the queues are categorized based at least in part on types of messages, providing the queues for further processing, thereby resulting in one or more responses, and outputting the one or more responses to one or more of the plurality of social media networks. In some embodiments, the system is further configured for reviewing the data to determine whether any of the data indicates an engagement opportunity and associating some or all the data with a contact record and/or an existing case and/or a new case. In some embodiments, the system tracks influence, and in some embodiments, a console provides vision into various information provided by the system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036207 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM MESSAGE ROUTING AND QUEUING - A social media engagement system is configured for aggregating a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of social media networks, routing each of the plurality of messages based on predetermined workflow rules into a plurality of queues wherein the queues are categorized based at least in part on types of messages, providing the queues for further processing, thereby resulting in one or more responses, and outputting the one or more responses to one or more of the plurality of social media networks. In some embodiments, the system is further configured for reviewing the data to determine whether any of the data indicates an engagement opportunity and associating some or all the data with a contact record and/or an existing case and/or a new case. In some embodiments, the system tracks influence, and in some embodiments, a console provides vision into various information provided by the system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036208 | Polling-based secure network message notification system and method with performance enhancing features - A method for the dissemination of an alert message to a plurality of personal computers using a network communications protocol from a server is disclosed that includes a first step wherein the client contacts the central server and requests the value of said alert ID number in said memory, a second step wherein said server transmits said value to said client, a third step wherein said client compares a stored value at the client with the value of the transmitted alert ID number, and if said transmitted value exceeds said stored value, a fourth step wherein said client transmits a second message to said server and requests for the server to transmit all unread alert messages in a GetUnreadAlerts SOAP request from said server that are specific to said client. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036209 | HIERARCHICAL SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM - A social network system with an organizational hierarchy established to include a main group with at least one subgroup reporting to the main group. At least one of the one subgroup has field users reporting to the subgroup. Each subgroup has multiple subgroup users while the main group at the apex of the hierarchy has at least one main group user. A server is provided that receives messages from the field users and subgroup users. The field user- and subgroup-messages are communicated to a wireless device associated with the main group user while a first subgroup user receives on a wireless device messages from first subgroup field users on a wireless device. The server employs communication permissions for the organization hierarchy that limit the information to which a member of the organization hierarchy is able to receive based on the role filled by an organization hierarchy member. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036210 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO USE COLLABORATIVE MIND MAPS - The present invention provides a system and method for effective and in-depth contextual online collaboration using mind maps. More particularly, the present invention provides the implementation of the “Quasi-Synchronous Collaboration” using collaborative mind map either in a hardware or software form or in the combination of both. The system and method referred as “Quasi-Synchronous collaboration” use collaborative mind maps for online collaboration overlaid with structured/per-defined communication providing advantages of both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration between various users for various purposes. Advantageously, the present invention could be used in several domains including the domains of e-learning, online demand/supply aggregation, project/program management, brainstorming, content creation, content review, etc. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCOUNTS - In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for integrating a plurality of electronic mail (email) accounts. A plurality of email services may be used to send and receive electronic messages over a wide area network, one of the email services being a preferred email service and another of the email services being a secondary email service. An email integration service may be used that is coupled to the wide area network and that is independent of the plurality of email services. The email integration service may be operable to receive account information regarding the preferred email service and the secondary email service and use the account information to configure a means for forwarding electronic messages from the preferred email service to the secondary email service. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036212 | Data Synchronization Protocol - Among other things, techniques and systems are disclosed for syncing data between a client device and a server. Synchronizing data includes initiating a sync session by negotiating a sync mode between a client device and a server for each of one or more dataclasses. A status code is generated based on a result of the negotiating. Based on the generated status code, the client device and the server exchange one or more data items to be updated for the one or more dataclasses using the negotiated sync mode for each dataclass. The exchanged one or more data items are updated at the client device or the server. The updated one or more data items are committed at the client or the server. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120036213 | Tracking Changes to Non-Friend Content in an Online Social Network - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a user of an online social network an identifier of a web site and content on the web site that the user desires to track, determining whether the content has been updated on the web site, and if the content has been updated, then communicating a notification to the user that the web site has been updated. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120042015 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A communications system communicates messages from an application server within a network to a user of the network. An application server generates a message for an intended recipient under the control of an application program. The application server generates delivery information indicating rules for delivering the message, and communicates the message and the delivery information to the intended recipient. A presence server monitors the presence state of users. A message processor intercepts the message and the delivery information associated with the message, obtains from the presence server, the presence state of the intended recipient of the intercepted message, and controls the communication of the intercepted message to the intended recipient in dependence on the presence state of the intended recipient and delivery rules indicated by the delivery information associated with the message. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042016 | EXPOSING RESOURCE CAPABILITIES TO WEB APPLICATIONS - The subject matter of this document can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes executing a web application within a web browser of a computing device. The method also includes executing a resource server with an interface for receiving HTTP messages from the web application and an interface for communicating with a system resource of the computing device. The method further includes receiving, at the web application, an input to affect an operation of the system resource. The method also includes transmitting, from the web application to the resource server, an HTTP message to affect the operation of the system resource. The method further includes processing the HTTP message into a resource control message that includes information about the operation. The method also includes transmitting the resource control message from the resource server to the system resource to affect the operation by the system resource. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042017 | Techniques for Reclassifying Email Based on Interests of a Computer System User - A technique for reclassifying email includes receiving, by an agent executing on a data processing system, a first input from an email filter. In this case, the first input provides a first indication of whether a received email is a junk email. The agent also receives a second input from an application. In this case, the second input provides a second indication of information of interest to a user of the data processing system. The agent then reclassifies the received email based on the first and second indications. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE DELIVERY - A method of receiving an email message using a communication network is presented. The method includes identifying an email message to be retrieved from a server. The email message is a multi-part message and includes content having two or more content types. The method includes determining a first content type to be retrieved from the server. The first content type includes non-plain-text content. The method includes retrieving content of the email message having the first content type from the server using the communication network, presenting the content having the first content type, and, after retrieving the content having the first content type from the server, retrieving content of the email message having a second content type from the server. The method includes verifying a digital signature associated with the email message. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042019 | TECHNIQUES FOR FILTERING SELECTIVE USERS IN DISTRIBUTION LISTS - Techniques, including systems and methods for distributing electronic messages, are disclosed. In an embodiment, information relating to a message thread is maintained. The information includes information identifying one or more members of a distribution list to be excluded from receiving messages in the message thread. When it has been determined to prevent distribution of the electronic message to one or more members of the distribution list, the electronic message is distributed to members of the distribution list excluding the one or more members to whom distribution is to be prevented. The distributed electronic message may identify the distribution list as an intended recipient. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042020 | MICRO-BLOG MESSAGE FILTERING - Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented using one or more computing devices to provide or otherwise support micro-blog message filtering. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042021 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A STATEFUL EXPERIENCE WHILE ACCESSING CONTENT USING A GLOBAL TEXTSITE PLATFORM - A method for providing access to content using a global textsite platform (GTP), including receiving, from a user device associated with a device identifier, a first user message including a first navigation state identifier of a sequential plurality of navigation state identifiers, identifying a first text page of the textsite associated with the first navigation state identifier, and identifying a second text page associated with a first navigating keyword, where the second text page is navigable from the first text page. The method also includes determining a second navigation state identifier sequentially after the first navigation state identifier, associating the second text page with the second navigation state identifier, and storing the association. The method also includes generating a GTP message of the first text page, including the first navigating keyword modified by the second navigation state identifier, and sending the GTP message for display on the user device. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042022 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYSIS OF REAL-TIME USER-GENERATED TEXT MESSAGES - The present invention generally relates to methods and systems for analysis of real-time user-generated text messages. The methods and systems allow analysis to be performed using term associations and geographical and temporal constraints. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042023 | MAILING LIST DEVICE AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a destination address acquisition section | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042024 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING A MESSAGE - The subject matter discloses a method and a computer readable medium, storing a message handling program, to read and execute following steps: receiving the message, said message is generated by a machine in a structured format, the message comprises a link to a web address; extracting the link from the received message; determining an action to be performed by a user of the computerized device according to the pattern associated with the received message; associating the link with the action. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042025 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR GENERATING ELECTRONIC MAIL WITH EMBEDDED OPTIMIZED LIVE CONTENT - A system for introducing behaviorally tested live content ( | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042026 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING SESSION UPON SATISFACTION OF PARTICULAR CONDITIONS - A method and apparatus is provided for establishing a session upon satisfaction of particular conditions in a messaging service system such as SIMPLE Instant Messaging (IM), Push to talk over Cellular (PoC), and Converged IP Messaging) (CPM) services, in which a client provides particular conditions to a server separately for a predefined group session, an Ad-hoc group session and a one-to-one session, and the server establishes a session to the pertinent members upon satisfaction of the particular conditions. By doing so, a session reflecting particular conditions set by the client is established in the SIP-based system, thereby offering further differentiated messaging services. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042027 | NAT Traversal for Media Conferencing - Methods for establishing a direct peer-to-peer (“P2P”) connection between two computers are disclosed. In particular, the methods are designed to work in cases where one or both of the computers are connected to a private network, such private networks being interconnected via a public network, such as the Internet. The connections between the private network and the public network are facilitated by network address translation (“NAT”). | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042028 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING TO DO ITEMS OR NOTES OR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods and systems for managing To do items and/or notes and/or emails (or other electronic messages) are described. A record, such as a To do item, in a database maintained locally by the data processing system is encoded into metadata. The metadata is sent as a false email message by an email client application executing on the data processing system to a remote email message server. An email client application executing on a remote processing system accesses the email message server and receives the false email message containing the metadata. The remote client application then either converts the metadata back into a database record editable at the remote processing system or presents a non-editable view of the database record, for example as an incoming email message. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042029 | HIGH-AVAILABILITY REMOTE-AUTHENTICATION DIAL-IN USER SERVICE - A method may include receiving, in a first server from a second server, a request for a service of a network by a device; sending, from the first server to the second server, a response to the request for the service to permit access to the service; and sending state information about the response to a third server for storage in a database. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120047212 | System and method for obtaining a portion of an archived email message - A first email message associated with a mobile communication device of a user is conveyed to a destination. The first email message comprises a forwarded portion of a second email message that has been previously archived by an email server associated with the user. The step of conveying comprises the step of obtaining the forwarded portion of the second email message without intervention of the user. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047213 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processing apparatus which can transmit an electronic mail, transmission destination information of the electronic mail is obtained; it is judged based on the obtained transmission destination information whether to attach an electronic file to the electronic mail or describe link information for downloading the electronic file in the electronic mail; and the electronic mail to which the electronic file has been attached or the electronic mail in which the link information for downloading the electronic file has been described is transmitted based on a result of the judgment. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047214 | PRIVATE MOBILE MESSAGING AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL MESSAGING - A private mobile data communications apparatus and methods of managing organizational data flow and coordinate a secure messaging infrastructure allow organizations to communicate with and monitor one or more mobile users each having at least one mobile device with which they communicate. The apparatus includes a server component, system client, a mobile client, and multiple application programming interface modules configured to manage information flow and correspond with external systems as needed. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION PROCESSOR SERVICES FROM A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system is for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device upon sensing a triggering event. A redirector program operating at the host system enables a user to continuously redirect user-selected data items from the host system to the user's mobile data communication device upon detecting that one or more user-defined triggering events has occurred. The redirector program operates in connection with event generating applications and repackaging systems at the host system to configure and detect particular user-defined events, and to repackage the user-selected data items in an electronic wrapper prior to pushing the data items to the mobile device. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047216 | Method and Apparatus for Telephonically Accessing and Navigating the Internet - A method for accessing and browsing the interne through the use of a telephone and the associated DTMF signals is disclosed. The preferred embodiment provides a system that converts the information content of a web page from text to speech (voice signals), signals the hyperlink selections of a web page in an audio manner, and allows selection of the hyperlinks through the use of DTMF signals generated from a telephone keypad. Upon receiving a DTMF signal corresponding to a hyperlink, the corresponding web page is fetched and again delivered to the user via one of the available delivery methods such as voice, fax-on-demand, electronic mail, or regular mail. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047217 | INTEGRATED INTERACTIVE MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed is a system and method for organizations to develop, test, execute and analyze messaging programs defining a message application server comprising (a) a dialog designer ( | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING MAIL SYSTEM AND E-MAILBOX SYSTEM - The present invention relates to network communication technologies, and discloses a method and apparatus for outputting a system mail and an E-mailbox system. The method includes: configuring, a special identification field for a system mail; scanning mails received by all Mail Transfer Agents of an E-mailbox system, and filtering special identification fields contained in the mails; determining whether the mails are system mails through checking whether the mails received by the E-mailbox system contain the special identification fields; when determining that a mail is a system mail, outputting the system mail in a mode different from a mode of outputting a normal mail. The method can prevents the system mail being faked, and facilitate users to differentiate system mails from normal mails. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120059883 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AND/OR COMMUNICATING WEB CONTENT - The present invention provides systems and methods for selecting and/or communicating web content. Systems and methods are disclosed for rendering object(s) in web pages movable by a user of a client device. The object(s) may further be selected for communication to one or more other device(s) and/or location(s). For example, the one or more other device(s) may include mobile devices such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, pocket PCs, laptops, etc. In addition, the one or more other location(s) may correspond to a storage location in memory, a weblog, etc. The invention also discloses inserting a customizable window in the displayed web page for receiving selected object(s) and/or other personal text or information. Methods for performing business over a computer are also disclosed which include displaying advertisements relevant to the selected object(s) in the customizable window. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059884 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF ACCESSING AND SHARING DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT AMONG USERS WITH A WEB BASED SERVER - Systems, devices, and methods for sharing digital media content between a plurality of users across a communication network are disclosed. A web server generates and hosts a web page with a unique web address by the web server, the web page embedded with the digital content and a digital content player. The web server provides the web page to one or more client devices. The client devices may coordinate with each other and the web server to substantially synchronizing play of the digital media content among the client devices from a designated time instant. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING A MEMO USING UPnP TELEPHONY - A method and apparatus for sharing a memo using UPnP telephony. The method includes receiving a request for a memo service from one or more devices by a telephony server, receiving memo information to be shared from a first telephony control point by the telephony server, and notifying, by the telephony server, the received memo information to the one or more devices having made the request for the memo service. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059886 | REPLY MESSAGE HANDLING FOR TRANSIENT GROUP - An electronic mail client inserts an identifier into incoming messages based on determining that the incoming message is addressed to more than one addressee (e.g., the message is addressed to an addressee group). The client stores the identifiers and the addresses for the addressee group in a database. The client or other node for outgoing electronic mail analyzes outgoing messages containing the identifier to determine whether or not the outgoing message is addressed to all addresses in the addressee group, and takes an action based on the determination. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059887 | Instant Messaging - Instant messaging method and communication system for communicating between a first user at a first user terminal of the communication system and a second user at a second user terminal of the communication system. Instant messages are transmitted over the communication system in both directions between the first and second user terminals, wherein the instant messages constitute a conversation between the first and second users. Each instant message of the conversation is stored in a store at a server of the communication system, wherein the server is accessible from a third user terminal of the communication system such that the first user can retrieve, at the third user terminal, each instant message of the conversation from the store. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059888 | Communication System And Method For Communicating Over A Communication System - A communication system and method for communicating over the communication system are provided. The communication system includes a client executed at a user terminal, a front end server and a plurality of other nodes. Data packets of a point-to-point communication are transmitted between the client and one of the other nodes. A persistent connection is provided between the client and the front end server, and the communication system is configured to use the persistent connection to provide support for the point-to-point communication between the client and said one of the other nodes. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059889 | MAIL SERVER APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCESSING METHOD - A mail server apparatus includes, a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of e-mails addressed to a user, a determination unit configured to determine a priority of each of the e-mails received by the receiving unit and a processing unit configured to select a predetermined number of e-mails from the plurality of e-mails received by the receiving unit, on the basis of priority determined by the determination unit, and treat e-mails as if the e-mails had not arrived, except for the selected predetermined number of e-mails, upon receipt of a request from a user device. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059890 | MAIL SERVER - A mail server includes an address information table in which address information is registered including ability or inability to use each mail address, and a notify party information table in which notify party information is registered specifying each notify party to notify that a mail address cannot be used. The mail server further includes a control section, which carries out a first process to judge, referring to the address information table, whether a mail address of a destination of a received mail is available or not; a second process to judge, referring to the notify party information table, whether the mail address of the source of the received mail falls within the notify party information; a third process to create a reply mail stating that the mail address of the destination cannot be used; and a fourth process to transmit the reply mail to the mail address of the source. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059891 | SHORT MESSAGE NETWORK MANAGEMENT REALIZING METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE - The present invention discloses a method, system and apparatus for implementing short message network management, and the method includes: in carrying out a short message network management process, a master control terminal and a controlled terminal setting up a service connection between them; the master control terminal sending network management short messages to the controlled terminal through the service connection; and the controlled terminal carrying out corresponding processes according to contents of the received network management short messages. The problem of bad security and real-time of the short message network management in the prior art can be overcome by applying the present invention. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059892 | UNIFIED RULES FOR VOICE AND MESSAGING - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing an incoming data communication in connection with unified communications. A unified communications component can employ unified communications for a data communication with at least the following data communication modes: an email data communication mode, a voice data communication mode, and a voicemail data communication mode. A unified rules component can automatically redirect the data communication to a delegate for receipt based upon a universal rule, the universal rule is uniformly applicable to at least two of the email data communication mode, the voice data communication mode, or the voicemail data communication mode. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059893 | System for Determining Email Spam by Delivery Path - A spam detector for determining likelihood of forgery of a source in an email addressed to a destination is provided, comprising extraction means for extracting delivery path information from one or more packets in the packet flow of the email, and comparison means for comparing the extracted delivery path information with trusted delivery path information from the source to the destination. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059894 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MAILBOXES - A system and method for configuring access to an electronic mailbox based on limited configuration parameters received from a user. A database stores configuration conventions for a mail domain. A mailbox interface module receives configuration information from a user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox. The module retrieves configuration conventions for the mail domain from the database and generates sets of potentially valid configuration parameters based on the retrieved configuration conventions and user supplied configuration information for accessing the mailbox. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059895 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING AN EMAIL ACCOUNT USING MAIL EXCHANGE RECORDS - A system provisions an electronic mail (email) account of a user for allowing access to an electronic mailbox from a remote device to retrieve email. A communications module receives email address parameters of the user and transmits a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records corresponding to the email address parameters of the user. A configuration module processes any returned MX records as a starting point for determining configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059896 | Method and System for Actively Publishing Message in IM Group Using Chat Robot - The present invention relates to a method and system for actively publishing a message in an IM group using a chat robot. The method includes: a client adding a chat robot in an IM group satisfying a configured condition; the chat robot automatically obtaining a message and publishing the message in the IM group. In the present invention, a chat robot is added in an IM group, and a function of timed publishing messages by the chat robot is added to increase the message quantity and topics of the IM group, thus not only messages can be sent to users in time, but also IM group activity may be enhanced, which enables users to accept and love the IM group gradually. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059897 | CHALLENGING A FIRST TERMINAL INTENDING TO COMMUNICATE WITH A SECOND TERMINAL - The invention relates to a method, party challenging device ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120066313 | CONCURRENT DELIVERY FOR MESSAGES FROM A SAME SENDER - An apparatus and a method for processing messages. A transport protocol stack receives messages from senders. The transport protocol stack comprises a concurrent stack having an out of band thread pool and a non-out of band thread pool. A channel is formed with a thread from the non-out of band thread pool of the concurrent stack for each sender. Non-out of band messages are processed in parallel for each scope of an application with a non-out of band thread. Non-out of band messages pertains to processes of the application from a same sender. Processes from a scope of the application are unrelated to processes from another scope of the application. Non-out of band messages within a same scope are processed in a predefined order. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066314 | PRIVATE MESSAGING A SECOND RECIPIENT OF AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - Methods of the present inventions allow for private messaging a second recipient of an electronic communication. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving a request to compose an electronic communication from a sender; generating a first electronic communication comprising a first recipient field, a second recipient field, and a first message field; receiving (from the sender) a first recipient electronic address in the first recipient field, a second recipient electronic address in the second recipient field, and a first message in the first message field; and prompting the sender for a private message for transmission only to the second recipient electronic address. Responsive to a negative response from the sender to the prompting step, the method may further comprise transmitting a completed version of the first electronic communication to both the first recipient electronic address and the second recipient electronic address. Responsive to a positive response from the sender to the prompting step, the method may further comprise generating a second electronic communication comprising the first recipient field, the second recipient field, the first message field, and a private message field; receiving (from the sender) a private message in the private message field; transmitting a completed version of the first electronic communication to the first recipient electronic address; and transmitting a completed version of the second electronic communication to the second recipient electronic address. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066315 | VISUAL IDENTIFIERS AS LINKS TO ACCESS RESOURCES - According to various embodiments, a user may wear or otherwise display a visual identifier that servers as a link to a resource. In various embodiments, a visual identifier may include an image and a code. In various embodiments, a visual identifier may include an image, a code, and a color. In various embodiments, a visual identifier may include a code and a color. In various embodiments, a characteristic of the user in combination with elements of the visual identifier may serve as a link to a resource. In various embodiments, a visual identifier servers as a link to an online resource. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066316 | STATUS UPDATE PROPAGATION BASED ON CROWD OR POI SIMILARITY - Systems and methods are provided for following status updates of users. In one embodiment, a requestor selects a crowd of users. In response, one or more crowds of users that match the selected crowd of users to at least a predefined threshold degree are identified. Status updates sent by users in at least one of the one or more matching crowds of users are then delivered to the requestor. In another embodiment, a requestor selects a Point of Interest (POI). In response, one or more POIs that match the selected POI to at least a predefined threshold degree are identified. Status updates sent by users located at one or more POIs of the one or more matching POIs are delivered to the requestor. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066317 | ELECTRONIC MAIL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An electronic mail receiving apparatus used in a system including an electronic mail transmitting apparatus, the electronic mail receiving apparatus, and an electronic mail server, includes: a communicating unit executes a first-kind electronic mail communication performed via the electronic mail server, and a second-kind electronic mail communication performed not via the electronic mail server; and a mail output controller configured to control an outputting unit configured to output an electronic mail received from the electronic mail transmitting apparatus. The communicating unit includes: a first information transmitting unit configured to, if a first-kind electronic mail is received by executing the first-kind electronic mail communication, transmit, to the electronic mail transmitting apparatus, reception information; and a second information transmitting unit configured to, if a second-kind electronic mail is received by executing the second-kind electronic mail communication, transmit, to the electronic mail transmitting apparatus, reception information by the communication session. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066318 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - The present invention discloses a data transmission method for a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The method includes the steps of finding a first available port of the first electronic device, finding a second available port of the second electronic device, transforming a first data into a second data, wherein a format of the second data is an XML format, and transmitting the second data to the first electronic device or the second electronic device via the first available port or the second available port. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066319 | Systems and Methods for Remote Access to a Display-Based Bulletin Board in a Shared User Environment - An electronic bulletin board for use in a shared always-on environment wherein a user may manipulate messages from a remote location. The electronic bulletin board may be implemented via database and programming logic on an application server accessible from any network node, including wireless devices. The always-on environment may be set up on a computer or broadband internet appliance or other communications device. Remote users may perform operations such as updating an existing message, posting a new message, download messages, and the like. The bulletin board also supports shared messages designed for special purposes, for example, an electronic grocery list that is accessible from remote locations. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066320 | SERVER APPARATUS, MAIL SERVER APPARATUS AND FAX SERVER APPARATUS - A memory section of a server apparatus stores a security information table storing a plurality of pieces of destination management information, a trust information table storing a plurality of pieces of source management information, and a message information table storing a plurality of pieces of message information. A control section of the server apparatus, when it receives data, and if a piece of changed destination identification information is included in first destination management information that corresponds to destination data in the data, transmits a first message that depends on a trust level included in first source management information that corresponds to the source data in the data. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066321 | Broadcast Tuning Concepts - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for receiving content available for consumption. For example, a user device can receive a message about content available for consumption and access the content via the appropriate provided in the user's broadcast area. Moreover, a user device can be used to access program information based on the user device's location. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066322 | COMPUTER-NETWORK-BASED SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR ENHANCING PERSONAL-INFORMATION STORAGE AND TRANSFER CONTROL - A computer-network-based methodology and system for enhancing user control over the storage and transfer of user-personal information data in a network setting which includes both control-distant and control-near, information-data storage sites, and where user-personal information data which the user wishes to move may be held in the control-distant storage site. The methodology, implemented by the associated system, features enabling direct, user-control-access to any user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site, and following such enabling, and under direct user-permitted command, promoting user-command transfer of at least a selected portion of the user-personal information data which is held in the control-distant storage site from the control-distant storage site to the control-near storage site. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066323 | PROVIDING INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO A DATA GROUP IDENTIFIER FOR A NETWORK INTERCONNECT DEVICE - A network interconnect device (NID) includes an interface to receive a configuration data request for the NID. The configuration data request may include data identifiers determined from a data identifier group for the NID, wherein the data identifier group comprises a reference to a parent data identifier group from which the data identifier group inherits data type information, and a data specification which overrides a corresponding data specification in the parent data identifier group. The NID also includes a data storage to store information for the NID and a logic device to retrieve information from the data storage corresponding to the data identifiers and to transmit a message including the retrieved information corresponding to the data identifiers. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066324 | Method for Verifying a User Association, Intercepting Module and Network Node Element - Method for verifying an association between a user and a group of users sharing a common subscription, comprising intercepting a message between a user and a service provider; adapting the message with information to include a guarantee to the service provider that the message is sent from a location allowed by the common subscription. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066325 | DEVICE CENTRIC CONTROLS FOR A DEVICE CONTROLLED THROUGH A WEB PORTAL - A system controls computer network communication devices in a background session in accordance with a control database. The system includes a computer network communication device having a non-volatile memory containing a unique device identifier and a communication module for communicating with a control site, the communication module being configured to generate monitor messages containing the unique device identifier and data corresponding to entry of a command by a user and to parse command messages received from the control site, and a control site comprising a device database and a control database, the control site being configured to compare data in the monitor message to control data stored in the control database in response to the monitor message having a unique device identifier that is also stored in the device database. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066326 | USER INITIATED INVITE FOR AUTOMATIC CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION BY INVITEE - A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a user, virtually on the fly, to invite another user to participate in an on-line conferencing session, by providing a link that automatically enables the other user to participate in the conferencing session. In one embodiment, the conferencing session is a text messaging conference session, such as one that might employ instant messaging, or the like. In one embodiment, a user may request a conferencing session to be established, by sending a request to a server device. The request may, include an identifier of an invitee with whom the first user wishes to communicate. The server determines a unique link for the invitee and session, and sends the invitee an invite message with their unique link. Selecting the unique link enables the invitee to automatically access and to participate in the conferencing session with the first user. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066327 | VOICEMAIL SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE METHOD AND MEANS AND A SUBSCRIBER TERMINAL - The invention relates to a voicemail short messaging method ( | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066328 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING OVER A NETWORK WITH A MEDICAL DEVICE - A medical device is provided that performs a requested action. The requested action may be communicated, for example, to the medical device via email messages. After performing the requested action, a response that is dependent upon the requested action is generated. The generated response is then sent on a network from the medical device as an email message. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066329 | Tracking of Electronic Mail Messages - Electronic mail messages are tracked for the sender by allowing the sender to flag the electronic mail messages. Flagging the electronic mail messages allows for various notifications to be provided to the sender. For example, notification may be provided to the sender by placing an item in a to-do bar for the sender that corresponds to the electronic mail message. As another example, notification may be provided to the sender by firing a reminder at some future time that corresponds to the electronic mail message. As another example, notification may be provided to the sender by including an indication in a related incoming electronic mail message that the incoming electronic mail message is related to the electronic message sent by the sender. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066330 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SERVER FOR PROCESSING POINT TO MULTIPOINT PUSH MESSAGE - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system and a server for processing a Point to Multipoint (PTM) Push message. The method includes: receiving a Push message, in which the Push message includes indication information and push content; mapping address information of target terminals that correspond to the indication information; and sending, according to the address information of the target terminals, the push content to the target terminals that correspond to the indication information. In the embodiments of the present invention, the Push message is sent, according to the indication information included in the received Push message, to the target terminals that correspond to the indication information, and it is unnecessary to carry a large amount of the address information of the target terminals in the Push message, thereby saving network resources. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066331 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING CONTENT FOR MOBILE MEDIA SERVICES - In embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for organizing content for media services may comprise organizing content from a plurality of data sources having information relevant to a channel, transforming the content into short messages suitable for delivery to a user via at least two of SMS, MMS, WAP, e-mail, and the Internet, and managing a script of such messages, wherein the next short message in a series is based on a user response to a prior short message in the series. User engagement may be facilitated by developing locally produced, personalized channels for delivery of relevant content. The mobile platform may enable building mobile-oriented communities around original content. Content may be local, authentic, relevant, insider, original, aggregated, a multi-modal mash-up, and the like. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066332 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING CPNS ENABLER - A method and apparatus for optimizing the use of CPNS entities are discussed. According to an embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a CPNS server, a low battery level indication for an operation from a certain one of CPNS entities; requesting, by the CPNS server, battery level information from at least some of the CPNS entities in response to the low battery level indication; determining, by the CPNS server, life expectancy information for each of the at least some of the CPNS entities based on the battery level information; and transmitting, by the CPNS server, a message to at least one CPNS gateway to use one of the at least some of the CPNS entities instead of the certain one of the CPNS entities to perform the operation, based on the life expectancy information. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120072500 | AUTOMATIC TRACKING OF CONTACT INTERACTIONS - In the context of recruitment and sales, it is difficult to ensure that there is a consistent level of activity tracking that occurs in a Customer Relationship Management or Applicant Tracking System (CRM/ATS, tracking application, or tracking system) from one user (e.g., recruiter or sales representative) to another within a single firm. This is due in large part to the manual and time consuming mechanics of logging the activity. Example embodiments of the present invention include a mail server component that automatically logs such activity. The system determines who the email is being sent to and from, as well as whether the email contains calendar event (e.g., appointment) information. The system then searches a database to determine if the recipients of the email message are contacts in the tracking application. If a match is found, the message is automatically added to the contacts activity record as either an inbound email, outbound email, or appointment. Activity tracking is, thus, consistently maintained among all users, ensuring a higher quality of activity-based metrics. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072501 | System and Method Providing Universal Addressing in Digital Communication Systems - A system, method and computer program product providing a universal naming system. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072502 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE CHARACTER INPUT - Methods and apparatus are provided for providing character input to a display device. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a user selection of an application which allows for character input by a user, launching a receiver application by the display device, and detecting a transmission from a user device by a messenger application of the display device, the transmission indentifying at least one graphical character based on user operation of a user device. The method may further include displaying the at least one graphical character. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072503 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR AUTHORIZATION IN COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS - In an embodiment, a method for changing a collaborative communications session may be provided. The method may include: sending a request message requesting for authorizing a change of a collaborative communications session to an end device of the collaborative communications session; determining whether an authorization message is received from the end device in response to the request message sent; and changing the collaborative communications session, in case it is determined that an authorization message is received from the end device in response to the request message sent. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072504 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR MANAGING COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS - In an embodiment, a method for providing information for managing a collaborative communications session may be provided. The method may include generating a first message according to a call control protocol; generating a second message according to the call control protocol, the second message including information for managing the collaborative communications session; and sending the first message to a call managing server. The first message may be generated to include the second message. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072505 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFERENCE MESSAGING BETWEEN UPnP ENABLED TELEPHONY DEVICES AND WAN DEVICES - A system and method of conference messaging between Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) telephony devices and Wide Area Network (WAN) devices is where a conference messaging session with WAN devices is initiated by at least one Telephony Control Point (TCP) via a session request which includes session information, media capabilities of at least one TCP, a list of WAN devices, and a subject of the conference messaging session. The conference messaging session is then established between the at least one TCP and the WAN devices by a Telephony Server (TS) in an UPnP telephony based home network based on the session request. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072506 | Interactive wireless device communication system for meetings and conferences - A conference organizer uses conference software to define a conference and to store conference information on the organizer's computer system. The stored conference information includes a list of attendees, and a personal proxy mailbox for each attendee. Each attendee has a wireless device, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA). The organizer's computer system includes a wireless communication station that can communicate in wireless fashion with the wireless devices of the attendees at the conference. During the conference, an attendee uses his/her wireless device to access the conference information, select another attendee or a group of attendee from the list of attendees, and send the selected attendee or attendees a message. The message can be conveyed to and stored in the personal proxy mailbox or mailboxes of the selected attendee or attendees. The use of personal proxy mailboxes allows attendees to send messages to one another and to receive messages from one another without divulging their primary email addresses. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF POSTING MESSAGES TO DIFFERENT MESSAGING SERVICES - Methods of providing message content data to a plurality of electronic messaging services. The methods include generating, for each of a plurality of electronic messaging services identified in instructions to post new message content, a corresponding instruction data set, each instruction data set executable by at least one processor associated with the corresponding electronic messaging service to cause the new message content to be posted; and providing a generated instruction data set to at least one processor associated with at least one of the plurality of electronic messaging services. Media and devices for carrying out the methods are also disclosed. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072508 | MEDIA INSTANT MESSAGING FOR MOBILE DEVICE - In an instant messaging system, message latency is reduced by initiating traffic channel set-up at a receiving device concurrently while a sending device is generating the instant message. When a user begins generating an instant message, the sending device transmits a service request to a payload and connection server to indicate that an instant message is pending. Upon receipt of the service request, the payload and connection server notifies the receiving device so that the receiving device can initiate traffic channel set-up concurrently while the instant message is being recorded. When the traffic channel is established, the receiving device polls the server. If the instant message is not yet received by the payload and connection server when the polling request is received, the payload and connection server waits a predetermined period of time to receive the pending instant message and forwards the instant message when it is received. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072509 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING APPLICATIONS WITHIN A WORK PROCESS - A system and method for implementing a work process having a plurality of required activities. The system includes a database configured to receive and supply activity data in a first format, and an enterprise application that performs one or more of the required activities and supplies its activity data to the database in the first format. The system also includes a stand-alone activity application having an original set of function controls which are not congruent with the enterprise application, and which normally performs another of the required activities while storing its activity data in a second format. The system further includes a bridging application which launches and embeds the activity application within the bridging application, changes the original set of function controls into a modified set of function controls that are congruent with the enterprise application, and communicates the activity data from the activity application to the database. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072510 | METHODS FOR SENDING AN EMAIL AND DISTRIBUTING AN EMAIL AND AN EMAIL SERVER - The present application relates to methods for sending an email and distributing an email, and an email server. According to the application, a summary is generated for an email to be sent, with the email stored in a sender side server; the summary of the email is sent to a receiver side server; and the email is sent to the receiver side server in response to receiving, by the sender side server, a request for sending the email, the request being sent by a recipient based on the summary. Thus, the network bandwidth, the storage space of the email server and user terminals may be saved. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072511 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR COMMUNICATION - A communication apparatus obtains image data, generates electronic mail data, and transmits the generated electronic mail data. A size upper limit of the electronic mail data is obtained, the size upper limit being designated by a user, and it is determined whether or not a data size of the generated electronic mail data exceeds a value obtained by subtracting a predetermined value from the size upper limit. If it is determined that the data size of the generated electronic mail data exceeds the value obtained by subtracting the predetermined value from the size upper limit, a plurality of electronic mail data is generated by dividing the image data such that a data size of each of the plurality of electronic mail data does not exceed the value obtained by subtracting the predetermined value from the size upper limit, and the generated plurality of electronic mail data is transmitted. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072512 | System and Method for Pushing Information from a Host System to a Mobile Data Communication Device - An embodiment of a mobile computer includes a component configured for generating a command, responsive to a user's input, to a host system to commence redirection of user data items from the host system to the mobile computer. Also included is a component for detecting an event trigger at the mobile computer as well as a redirector component, responsive to detecting the event trigger at the mobile computer, for pushing at least a portion of a user data item received from the host system to another device from the mobile computer. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072513 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING HOST IDENTITY TAG - A method and a system for obtaining a Host Identity Tag (HIT) are disclosed. The method for obtaining an HIT includes: receiving an update message that carries a newly generated HIT; and obtaining the newly generated HIT from the update message. In the method and system for obtaining an HIT above, the latest HIT and the current IP address of the host are obtained from the update message directly, or a third-party server is used to obtain the latest HIT according to the mapping relationship between the new HIT and the old HIT. In this way, normal communication may be performed. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072514 | Market Data Recovery - Networks, systems and methods for recovering data messages from a market data stream and for building a book for a financial instrument are disclosed. An out-of-band data stream related to an as-of state of the market for one or more financial instruments is distributed parallel to a stream of market data for the financial instrument. The as-of data stream is referenced to the financial according to a unique identifier of the messages of the market data stream. The as-of data for a financial instrument may be provided at periodic rate that may be varied according to one or more factors. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072515 | PERSISTING A GROUP IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - Various technologies pertaining to instant messaging are described herein. A persistent instant messaging group is created, wherein the persistent instant messaging group comprises a plurality of members and persists over a plurality of instant messaging sessions. Instances of an instant messaging application are installed on mobile telephones, and the instant messaging application is used to transmit instant messages between members of the persistent instant messaging group. Messages directed towards offline members of the persistent instant messaging group are transmitted to such members when they come online. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072516 | SERVICING REQUESTS THAT ARE ISSUED IN A PROTOCOL OTHER THAN THE PROTOCOL EXPECTED BY THE SERVICE - Techniques are provided for servicing requests that are issued in a protocol other than the protocol expected by the service. For example, many people want to use their mobile devices to interact with services, which require the ability to have multiple related messages in a session. However, their mobile devices do not have protocols that support interacting with such services. One technique provided herein is to interpose an intermediary between the mobile devices and the services to provide session capabilities on behalf of the mobile devices. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072517 | ATTACHMENT SERVER NETWORK FOR VIEWING ATTACHMENTS ON A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An attachment server network including at least two attachment servers in communication with one another, each of the attachment servers for converting email attachments in response to view requests received from portable electronic devices, each of the attachment servers having a respective cache for storing data corresponding to previously converted attachments, the data being available to any of the attachment servers in the attachment server network. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072518 | Managed Messaging Platform - Software is executed on a wireless device for presenting a response aggregation drawn upon a message having at least two desired recipients. The software of presenting at least two message-structure item questions via the wireless device and receives input requesting response aggregation drawn upon the message having at least two desired recipients and transmits the message to at least one of the at least two desired recipients using the wireless device. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072519 | Device For Preventing Erroneous E-Mail Transmission - In the case where an e-mail transmission to a plurality of persons is to be performed at one time, e-mail erroneous transmission due to a setting error of an e-mail address or the like can be prevented from occurring. In an e-mail transmitting and receiving apparatus, an address storing portion | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072520 | System and Method for Establishing Reliable Communication in a Connection-Less Environment - The establishment of reliable communication, in particular in an environment of the mobile industry processor interface where communication is taking place based on the Unified Protocol is described. In this case based on the timer at the sender and based on maintaining an originator of a message at the receiver certain precautions are taken that messages are exchanged correctly and only once an acknowledgement is received from the sender, that a first and a second message have been exchanged correctly a maintained originator at the receiver is released. The same method can also be applied to sending a plurality of messages in sequence by using sequence numbers and replying to them in the same manner. In this case the timer is always restarted, once the message as a first type of message is sent from the sender side and an acknowledgement is sent after the last second type of message with a highest sequence number has been received from the receiver side. With the method and the system according to the present invention it is possible to implement the configuration protocol of the Unified Protocol even in a case where a connection-less service which is faster to use is selected. The method according to the present invention may be triggered by a bit that is set in a protocol data unit as one of the reserved bits in the header there. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING EVENTS - A system for tracking events including a central server and application software provided on mobile communication devices of subscribers. The application software sends current location information of the mobile communication device to the central server via a communication network. A database located on the central server is provided containing subscriber information including contact information for each of the mobile communication devices of subscribers and current and historical location information received from the mobile communication devices. On receiving information regarding the location of an event in a time period, the server sends notifications to those subscribers that were in a zone surrounding said location within said time period providing information regarding the event. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120079031 | BOOTSTRAPPING IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS WITH NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATORS - A joining peer is bootstrapped into in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network in the presence of network address translators (NAT). A bootstrap peer is contact by the joining peer to establish a connection between the joining peer and an admitting peer in the peer-to-peer network. The joining peer receives an indication from the bootstrap peer that the connection between the joining peer and the admitting peer has been established with a message path through the bootstrap peer. The indication includes contact information for the admitting peer. The connection is them modified to remove all proxies therefrom. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079032 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING ONE-WAY ORDERING OF MESSAGES - Methods, apparatus and systems for facilitating one-way ordering of otherwise independent message classes. A one-way message ordering mechanism facilitates one-way ordering of messages of different message classes sent between interconnects employing independent pathways for the message classes. In one aspect, messages of a second message class may not pass messages of a first message class. Moreover, when messages of the first and second classes are received in sequence, the ordering mechanism ensures that messages of the first class are forwarded to, and received at, a next hop prior to forwarding messages of the second class. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079033 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BREAKING UP A MESSAGE THREAD WHEN REPLYING OR FORWARDING A MESSAGE - Disclosed is a method of communicating a message thread, comprising: receiving a message thread at a first device, the message thread comprising existing sub-messages; receiving input of a newly composed sub-message associated with the message thread; delineating each of the respective existing sub-messages from one another within the message thread; receiving selection of at least one delineated existing sub-message from the message thread through a selection interface for one of inclusion in and exclusion from a modified message thread; creating a modified message thread in accordance with the selection of at least one delineated existing sub-message, the modified message thread further comprising the new sub-message; and initiating communication of the modified message thread to a second device. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079034 | Secure electronic message conveyance - A method of secure electronic message conveyance. The method can include, via a processor, receiving a request to forward an electronic message originally received by a first user to at least a second user. The method also can include, based on content contained in the electronic message, selecting from a plurality of approval entities at least one approval entity that is to determine whether the electronic message is approved to be forwarded to the at least a second user, and receiving from the selected approval entity an indication that indicates whether the electronic message is approved to be forwarded to the second user. The method further can include, responsive to the selected approval entity approving the forwarding of the electronic message to the second user, automatically forwarding the electronic message to the second user. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079035 | Administering Truncated Receive Functions In A Parallel Messaging Interface - Administering truncated receive functions in a parallel messaging interface (‘PMI’) of a parallel computer comprising a plurality of compute nodes coupled for data communications through the PMI and through a data communications network, including: sending, through the PMI on a source compute node, a quantity of data from the source compute node to a destination compute node; specifying, by an application on the destination compute node, a portion of the quantity of data to be received by the application on the destination compute node and a portion of the quantity of data to be discarded; receiving, by the PMI on the destination compute node, all of the quantity of data; providing, by the PMI on the destination compute node to the application on the destination compute node, only the portion of the quantity of data to be received by the application; and discarding, by the PMI on the destination compute node, the portion of the quantity of data to be discarded. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079036 | Message Gateway with Hybrid Proxy / Store-and-Forward Logic - Described is a technology by which an email filtering service or other gateway includes hybrid proxy and store-and-forward logic. A message is initially processed with proxy logic. If the proxy logic is unable to complete filtering/scanning of a message within a timeout period, the store-and-forward logic is invoked to complete filtering/scanning of the message. The store-and-forward logic also may be invoked if a delivery attempt made by the proxy logic fails or does not complete prior to a delivery timeout period. When such a condition is met, the store-and-forward logic accepts the message, including storing the message, sending a response that indicates the message was accepted, and closing the connection over which the message was received. The store-and-forward logic may complete any scanning if not completed by the proxy logic, and takes over delivery responsibilities. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079037 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NON-VOICE MOBILE APPLICATIONS - A method of processing a text message at a platform server includes processing the text message to obtain a first text element and a second text element, and communicating information associated with one or both of the first text element and the second text element to the sender of the text message or a third party, through a communication network. The platform server is administered by one or both of an administrator and a user with or without an account associated with the platform server. The text message includes the first text element and the second text element, linked by a visible non-alphanumeric character. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079038 | Methods and Apparatus for Inviting Users to Follow Records in an On-Demand Database Service Environment - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for inviting users to follow records in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, a message is received, for instance, at a server. The message includes an identification of a record stored in a database in the on-demand service environment. The identified record is selected for inviting one or more users to follow updates to the record. The updates are capable of being stored as feed items in one or more feed tables in the database. The feed items are capable of being published in an information feed displayed on a display device. A message received can also include an identification of one or more user profiles to invite to follow updates to the identified record in the on-demand service environment. An invitation message including an indication of the identified record is generated. The invitation message is sent to the identified one or more user profiles. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079039 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes: application execution means for executing an application program; metadata storage means for storing metadata corresponding to the application program; input means for receiving a message input by a user based on an operation of the user; selection means for selecting the metadata stored by the metadata storage means, in accordance with an operation of the user; transmission means for transmitting the message received by the input means and the metadata selected by the selection means to another information processing apparatus; reception means for receiving a message and metadata corresponding to an application program from said another information processing apparatus; and information output means for outputting the message and the metadata received by the reception means. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079040 | ROUTING AND DISPLAYING MESSAGES FOR MULTIPLE CONCURRENT INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS INVOLVING A SINGLE ONLINE IDENTITY - Routing and displaying instant messages includes receiving a first request to establish a first instant messaging session associated with an instant messaging online identity assigned to a user using a first instant messaging controller. The first instant messaging session is established in response to the first request, where the first instant messaging session includes a first state. A second request from the user is received to establish a second instant messaging session associated with the instant messaging online identity assigned to the user using a second instant messaging controller that differs from the first instant messaging controller. The second instant messaging session is established in response to the second request, where the second instant messaging session includes a second state. An instant message designated for the instant messaging online identity assigned to the user is received and a determination is made on where to route the instant message based on routing criteria. The routing criteria includes the first state of the first instant messaging session and the second state of the second instant messaging session. The instant message is routed based on the determination of where to route to the instant message. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079041 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BREAKING UP A MESSAGE THREAD WHEN REPLYING OR FORWARDING A MESSAGE - Disclosed is a method of communicating a message thread, comprising: receiving a message thread at a first device, the message thread comprising existing sub-messages; receiving input of a newly composed sub-message associated with the message thread; delineating each of the respective existing sub-messages from one another within the message thread; receiving selection of at least one delineated existing sub-message from the message thread through a selection interface for one of inclusion in and exclusion from a modified message thread; creating a modified message thread in accordance with the selection of at least one delineated existing sub-message, the modified message thread further comprising the new sub-message; and initiating communication of the modified message thread to a second device. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079042 | Mail monitoring system, non-transitory computer readable storage medium,mail monitoring apparatus, and mail monitoring method - A mail monitoring system comprises a mail communications apparatus and a control server that controls a log relating to operation of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a detector that detects transmission of an e-mail, a log generation unit that determines whether to generate a transmission log based on a set policy, and generates the transmission log, a mail creating unit that determines whether to store mail information based on the set policy, and generates the mail information, and a transmitter that transmits the mail information and the transmission log to the server, and transmits the e-mail to a mail server designated as a transmission destination of the e-mail. The server includes a receiver that receives the transmission log and the mail information and a storage unit that stores therein the transmission log and the mail information when the receiver receives the transmission log and the mail information. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079043 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING AN APPLICATION ACROSS A PLURALITY OF COMPUTERS - A method, apparatus and system for accessing an application across a plurality of computers is provided. In one aspect, a client machine and a mobile computing device are provided. The client machine is configured to execute a browser application. The mobile computing device is configured to host a web server application. When the client machine and the mobile computing device are connected, functions on the mobile computing device become available on the client machine via the interaction between the web server and the browser. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079044 | ADAPTIVE CONTENT-BASED PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING - A method, system, and computer program product for publish/subscribe messaging. A subscription is initiated, including designating a subscription queue to which published messages relating to the subscription are to be put. Multiple content-based filtering expressions are defined for the subscription, each of the filtering expressions being defined for a given utilization of the subscription queue. Furthermore, in another aspect, a published message relating to a subscription is received. The utilization of a subscription queue designated in the subscription is checked. A content-based filtering expression defined for the given utilization of the subscription queue is determined. The content-based filtering expression may then be applied. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079045 | Profile-Based Message Control - A computer system includes a profile associated with one or more logic modules. Each logic module specifies a condition and a corresponding action. The profile may be applied to context data, such as messages transmitted over a network, to perform the actions specified by the logic modules in response to detecting that the context data satisfies the conditions specified by the logic modules. The profile may have an activation state, in which case the logic modules may be applied to the context data only if the profile's activation state indicates that the profile is active. One application of the system is to perform different actions (such as blocking, forwarding, deferring, and allowing) in connection with messages transmitted via different modes of communication (such as one or more of email communication, text messaging communication, and live voice call communication). | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079046 | CONTROLLING COMMUNICATIONS WITH PROXIMATE AVATARS IN VIRTUAL WORLD ENVIRONMENT - A first user's avatar in a virtual world environment may be controlled by using a virtual world application enabling access to a virtual world environment within which the first user has an avatar associated with the first user. A virtual world location corresponding to the first avatar is identified. At least one second avatar proximate to the virtual world location is identified. Filtering information is accessed. Profile information related to the second avatar is accessed. Filtering information is compared to the accessed profile information. Based on the comparison results, a metric related to the second avatar is determined. The metric is related to a threshold. It is determined whether relating the metric to the threshold supports enabling communications between the first and second avatars, and if so, communications to be exchanged between the first and second avatars are enabled. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079047 | Systems and Methods for Registering and Managing Domain Names and E-Mail Addresses Via a Resource-Limited Interface - Disclosed embodiments provide domain name registration, e-mail registration, e-mail forwarding, and other services via resource-limited interfaces, such as SMS-based services. Domain names may be requested, registered, and managed, and e-mail addresses may be requested and forwarding options selected by a user by way of a resource-limited device or protocol. E-mails may be provided to a user over an e-mail-to-SMS forwarding system. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079048 | PROVIDING REMOTE APPLICATION ACCESS USING ENTITLEMENTS - A method and a system for transmitting a widget message are described herein. The method can include: a widget mobile terminal transmitting a widget message to a receiver through a widget server; after receiving the widget message sent from the widget mobile terminal, the widget server judging whether the receiver supports the widget; if judging that the receiver supports the widget, then transmitting the received widget message to the receiver; and if judging that the receiver does not support the widget, then transmitting a corresponding message to the receiver via a message center. A widget mobile user can transmit a widget to another widget mobile user, and the receiver can run the widget application directly while receiving the widget message. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079049 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AUTOMATING DATA CAPTURE FROM ELECTRONIC CORRESPONDENCE - A method and system of automating capture of electronic data provide a user with an effective universal Internet identity and e-mail address, comprehensive e-mail filtering and forwarding services, and e-receipt identification and data extraction. Detailed user e-mail preferences data stored at a central server may be selectively altered such that incoming correspondence is redirected in accordance with the user's preferences. Computer program code at the central server parses incoming e-mail header information and data content, selectively extracts data from identified types of correspondence, and forwards extracted data in accordance with user preferences data. Additional computer program code may manipulate the extracted data in accordance with format requirements and display the manipulated data to a user in a desired format. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079050 | MANAGING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A recipient computer system may receive one or more electronic messages. The recipient computer system may send one, two, or more challenge messages to the sender of the electronic messages in determining whether to deliver the electronic message. The recipient computer system may accept or reject an electronic message based on the response, or lack of response, to the challenge messages. The recipient computer system may send two or more challenge messages at intervals. A sender computer system may record activity of the sender computer system for a recipient computer system to use in determining whether to deliver an electronic message. A sender computer system may provide a summary of that activity with an electronic message. A sender computer system may provide an authorization key for a recipient computer system to use in determining whether to deliver an electronic message. The authorization key may be generated by a third party. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STORING AND RETRIEVING ASSOCIATED INFORMATION WITH A DIGITAL IMAGE - A method and apparatus for associating metadata with an image are disclosed. The metadata associated with the image includes communication options for communicating with a party associated with the image. The communication options may include email, Short Message Service (SMS), blog, social media, video conference, Internet chat, etc. The communication options are displayed in response to selection of the image. Communication with the party associated with the image is initiated using at least one of the communication options. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120084365 | DELIVERING RESOURCE FILES TO PRINTERS USING EMAIL - A method for managing printers, including retrieving, by a printer, an email sent to an email address of the printer and including a resource file, identifying, by the printer, a field within the email including a type of the resource file, and installing, by the printer, the resource file on the printer based on the type. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084366 | STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, AND DISPLAY OF TASK-RELATED DATA - An information management system may store information related to tasks to be performed by workers in an organization. Workers in the organization may communicate with the information management system using email messages. The information management system may not require a login or authentication procedure, and workers may interact with the information management system without the need to log in to the information management system. A worker may send an email to the information management system that includes an action type parameter. The action type parameter may indicate a task such as updating a database to indicate that a task has been completed, reassigning a task from one worker to another, or transmitting a report to a worker. The information management system may then perform the action indicated by the action type parameter. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084367 | GENERATION AND RETRIEVAL OF REPORT INFORMATION - An information management system may store information related to tasks to be performed by workers in an organization. Workers in the organization may communicate with the information management system using email messages. The information management system may not require a login or authentication procedure, and workers may interact with the information management system without the need to log in to the information management system. The information management system may receive an email message from a worker that indicates a request for a report. The information management system may determine whether to transmit the report to the worker based on whether the worker is appropriately registered with the information management system, and/or whether the worker has administrative privileges. The information management system, in response to a positive determination, may transmit the report to the email address from which the requesting email message was sent. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084368 | DATA CHANNEL SET UP LATENCY REDUCTION - A method is disclosed for reducing setup latency in commencing data exchange between two devices seeking to exchange data across a networked data channel. Control messages are exchanged across a control channel while establishing the data channel according to a protocol. The control messages contain some of the data to be exchanged. The remaining data is exchanged across the data channel once established. The data both in the control messages and exchanged across the data channel may be tagged with a file transfer identifier to facilitate reconstruction of the data at the receive end. If data encryption is desired, the data in the control messages may be encrypted by the sender with a temporary key and a shared key may be established by the devices. Once the key has been established, the temporary key may be encrypted with the shared key and exchanged across the data channel to permit decryption of the data in the control messages at the receive end. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084369 | Unified Reconnection To Multiple Remote Servers - Techniques are disclosed for connecting a user to all of his resources (e.g. remote desktop or remote application) in a deployment of server farm(s). The user's client sends a message to the deployment requesting any disconnected resources for the user and/or any active resources communicating with a different client. The deployment determines what those resources are, then strips out redundant information (e.g. two resources are remote applications executing within the same session) and sends a stripped list to the client, which reconnects. The client first reconnects to a resource that is not a VM and stores any user input (e.g. credentials) prompted for during that log in. Then, it reconnects to the other resources in parallel, using in these later reconnections any input received from the client during the first reconnection. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT OF DATA SUBMISSION IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES - The invention relates to systems and methods for behavioral modification of users in an online community where users store or share data to help one another reach informed decisions. One aspect of the invention provides a method for encouraging active participation in an online community. The method includes: receiving information from a first user regarding a topic, receiving a request from a second user for additional information desired from the first user, and sending a personalized message to the first user requesting the additional information. Another aspect of the invention provides a computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to perform a method for encouraging active participation in an online community. The method includes: receiving information from a first user regarding a topic; identifying additional information desired from the first user; and sending a personalized message to the first user requesting the additional information. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084371 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR USER CONTROLLED POLICY SHARING - According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for user controlled policy sharing. The method includes receiving, from a first user device, a request to share with a second user device a policy attribute associated with the first user device. The method also includes generating a signaling message containing instructions to modify the policy attribute. The method further includes communicating the signaling message to a policy control function associated with the second user device. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION IN A NETWORK - A method for providing information in a network includes receiving in a network at least some personal interest information of a first user, determining at least one goal for the first user wherein the at least one goal is correlated to the at least some personal interest information of the first user and at least some personal interest information and at least one goal of at least a second user in the network, and displaying to the first user the at least one goal and the at least one list item. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084373 | COMPUTER DEVICE FOR READING E-BOOK AND SERVER FOR BEING CONNECTED WITH THE SAME - A device, server, method, and computer program product for reading an e-book are provided. The e-book may include at least a content identifier corresponding to a content in the e-book. The device may include a content navigator configured to present the content according to a command from a user and a processing unit configured to acquire the content identifier corresponding to the content presented by the content navigator, send the content identifier to a server, and receive from the server a message associated with the content. An output unit configured to output the message to the user may be provided. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084374 | Electronic Messaging Systems - A computer system for facilitating communications between users that, in various embodiments, is configured for: (A) receiving, from a first user, one or more user watch area attributes; (B) using the one or more user watch area attributes to define a watch area; (C) receiving, from a second user, a message associated with a particular geographical location, wherein the second user has indicated that the message should be associated with the particular geographical location; (D) determining whether the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area; and (E) at least partially in response to determining that the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area, subscribing the first user to a thread of messages that includes the message. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084375 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING THE TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES - The invention provides systems, mechanisms and techniques for controlling transmission of outbound messages, such as e-mail or other types of messages, onto a computer network from an originator computer system. Connection equipment can authenticate and authorize the connection for the computer user and can capture and map originator network address information assigned to the originator computer system. A quota server can then determine if the message count exceeds the message limit for the originator identity associated with the outbound message Embodiments of the invention control message transmission from a sending or origination point prior to the messages being transmitted on the computer network, resources of a computer network are conserved and these embodiments prevent computer users from transmitting large amounts of outbound messages in excess of the message limits. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084376 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DIGITALLY SIGNED MESSAGES TO DETERMINE ADDRESS MISMATCHES - A method and apparatus for processing digitally signed messages in which address mismatch errors are detected. In at least one aspect, the number of address mismatch errors reported to a user for a message may be minimized for messages that properly incorporate message portions signed by someone other than the sender of the message, as may be the case where the message contains a conversation thread for example, by performing at least one pre-determined action for digital signatures corresponding to signed data appearing after a message separator. The message separator may indicate that the message contains data from an older forwarded message or from an older message that has been replied to, for example. The at least one-predetermined action may comprise bypassing verification of address matches for those digital signatures, or verifying address matches for those digital signatures but suppressing user notification of any address mismatch errors, for example. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120084377 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR KEEPING ORDERS AMONG MESSAGES OF DISCRETE MEDIA TYPE IN CPM SESSION - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for keeping orders among messages when transmitting and receiving messages within a Converged IP Messaging (CPM) session. A message transmission and reception method in a network comprises receiving a message including sequential identification information and a cumulative size, and outputting the received message, wherein the sequential identification information is an identifier allowing identification of orders managed within a session, transmission and reception being performed in the session, and the cumulative size is the sum of sizes of messages, the messages being sent by a subject having sent the received message within the session, wherein the output order of the received message is decided based upon the sequential identification information and sequential identification information relating to messages received prior to the received message. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120089681 | Prioritizing Messages Within a Message Network - A system and a method are disclosed for recommending electronic messages in a message sharing system. Users can post messages to the message sharing system. These messages from posting users are received by the system and sent to receiving users that have subscribed to the posting users. The receiving users interact with the messages in various ways, such as by sharing the messages with other users. Interaction information is received for each of the electronic messages. The interaction information includes an indication of the number of interactions with the electronic message by receiving users. A score is determined for each electronic message based on the interaction information. Electronic messages are selected for being recommended to a user or a group of users based on the scores. The recommendations are then sent to the users, enabling users to better focus their attention on messages that are likely to be interesting. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089682 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING SHARING OF PRIVILEGES IN A PEER TO PEER SYSTEM - Various methods and apparatus relate to sharing QoS privileges between devices having a higher service level subscription and devices having lower service level subscription. QoS privileges are associated with a QoS service level which is in turn tied to devices, e.g., based on a service level subscription of the device. Devices with higher service level subscription are entitled to superior QoS privileges than the devices with lower service level subscription. In various embodiments a first device with higher QoS service level provides, to a second device having lower QoS service level, information used to obtain a QoS privilege to which the first device is entitled. Thus the second device entitled to lower QoS privileges is provided with the superior QoS privileges on a limited basis, e.g., for communicating with the first device corresponding to the higher QoS service level. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089683 | AUTOMATED ASSISTANCE FOR CUSTOMER CARE CHATS - An apparatus provides automated assistance to an agent. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives a client communication from a client terminal via a network. A processor processes the client communication and determines a plurality of agent statements based on the client communication. The plurality of agent statements is displayed on a display. An input receives an agent communication from the agent. The agent communication is selected from a custom statement input by the agent and one of the plurality of agent statements selected by the agent. A transmitter transmits the agent communication to the client terminal via the network. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089684 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN A VEHICLE AND A REMOTE APPLICATION SERVER - Methods and apparatus for use in communicating between a vehicle and a remote application server. An application message is received from a vehicle. A computer system determines whether an uplink connection can be established between the computer system and a remote application server that provides a remote software application associated with the application message. The application message is redirected to a local software application executed by the computer system when an uplink connection cannot be established. Data may be subsequently synchronized between the local software application and the remote software application. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089685 | Business Network Meta Model - A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer readable storage device includes a business network meta model comprising entity objects configured to generate interactive representations of a business network, including at least a business application representation and an information technology representation. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089686 | OUTBOUND BLACKLIST AND ALERT FOR PREVENTING INADVERTENT TRANSMISSION OF EMAIL TO AN UNINTENDED RECIPIENT - A system and method provide an alert when identifying destination data designated for a recipient of a message meets a predefined condition and prompt a sender of the message for an input regarding the destination data when determining that the destination data meets the predefined condition. The sender is enabled to approve or disapprove the sending of the message using the destination data or revise the same. The destination data may be all or part of an address of the recipient previously identified and stored by the sender or a system. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089687 | ONLINE MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USING THEREOF - A bulletin type messaging system for sending messages from a publisher to a multiplicity of interconnected target users. The bulletin messaging system includes a bulletin messaging server, having a processor and database. The database may include a publishers' database and a users' database. The bulletin messaging system further includes a computerized device of a publisher and a computerized device of a user. The bulletin messaging server is in communication flow with the publisher's computerized device and with the user's computerized device. A target user is enlisted to receive messages from one or more particular publishers through the bulletin messaging server. The target user receives a message from a publisher, in real time, upon the posting of a new message by the publisher in the preconfigured location in the database location in the database, wherein the processor sends the posted message. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089688 | MESSAGE HANDLING - A method of handling a message comprises receiving a message comprising content such as keywords, receiving a selection of one or more recipients for the message, identifying that at least one recipient is unfamiliar with a portion of the message, and notifying the composer of the message of the portion. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089689 | GEOGRAPHICALLY LIMITED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A geographically limited communications system comprises a server for receiving one or more posts or messages from one or more location-enabled portable devices. The server may store these posts and retrieve them based on location information stored along with the posts. This allows only posts left at a particular location to be viewed by users at that location. In addition, posts may only be left at a user's current location in one or more embodiments. The server may notify a user when another user leaves a post near or at one of the user's previous posts. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089690 | Defining a Social Network Model Implied by Communications Data - Systems and methods to define a social network for a user using data implied by communications of the user with others. In one embodiment, a method includes scanning a set of messages (e.g., emails to and from a user of a client device) to identify a plurality of primary persons addressed in the messages as a primary recipient and to identify a plurality of secondary persons addressed in the messages as a secondary recipient; mapping the primary persons to a plurality of friends and mapping the secondary persons to a plurality of other persons; and defining a social network model based on the friends and other persons, wherein the model comprises a friends category including the friends and an all category including the friends and other persons. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089691 | UNIDENTIFIED RECIPIENTS MESSAGE EXCHANGE SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD - An unidentified recipients message exchange service providing method includes, by a service providing server for providing the method, receiving a target set from a first user terminal; receiving a filter set from a second user terminal; receiving a message from the first user terminal; selecting second user terminals to receive the message using contents of the received message, the target and the filter; and sending the message as an anonymous message if desired to the selected second user terminals. Accordingly, it is possible to allow a recipient to receive only desired messages sent through a filter without the sender specifying the recipient so that the message can reach wider audience by the server receiving a target and a filter, set by users, and a message inputted from the user and sending the message to the selected users using contents of the received message, the target, and the filter. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089692 | ANALYZING EMAIL CONTENT TO DETERMINE POTENTIAL INTENDED RECIPIENTS - Described herein are processes and devices for analyzing email content to determine potential intended email recipients. One of the devices described is an email content analyzer device. In some embodiments, the email content analyzer device is configured to analyze content in a part of an email message that is not an email address recipient field, obtain identifying information about a potential intended recipient of the email message, such as by looking for possible names of intended recipients within the body of the email message, and analyze the context of the identifying information in the content to determine the identity of the potential intended recipient. For example, the email content analyzer device compares the identity of the potential intended recipient to an email addresses in an email address recipient field on the email message and determines whether the email message was intended for the potential intended recipient. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089693 | Method for Negotiating Message Session Relay Protocol Connection Parameters - The present invention discloses a method for negotiating MSRP connection parameters. The method comprises completing the negotiation of the MSRP parameters via a SDP negotiation process between a CPM client at the transmitting side, an originating participation function entity, a terminating participation function entity and a CPM client at the receiving side, that is, carrying the MSRP connection parameters of a transmitter of a SDP datagram in the SDP datagram carried in a session invite message and/or a success response message message. The present invention solves the problem in the prior art that the negotiation of the MSRP connection parameters cannot be achieved by a MSRP transmission link, thereby improving a scheme of transmitting a large message mode CPM message. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120096092 | VIDEO SCRIPT INTERPRETER PLATFORM WITH COOPERATING CLIENT AND SERVER - A first device, such as a PC, is enabled to receive messages from a second device, such as an application server, that does not know the address of the first device, by interaction with an intermediate man-in-the-middle (MITM) server. The first device obtains an ID, provides the ID to a human using the first device, and then the human provides the ID to the second device. The second device sends a message to the MITM server addressed to the ID. Meanwhile, the first device long polls the MITM server, and in response to one of the long polls, the MITM server sends the message from the second device to the first device. The first device is operating according to a script that was received from an external device, in response to a request for the script from the first device. The request for the script is embedded in a web page that the first device received; the script request may be launched automatically by the web page or in response to an action by the human. The human perceives an interaction experience co-ordinated across devices. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096093 | AVAILABILITY MANAGEMENT FOR REFERENCE DATA SERVICES - Various aspects for scaling an availability of information are disclosed. In one aspect, a response performance associated with responding to data consumption requests is monitored. A characterization of the response performance is ascertained, and a scaling of resources is facilitated based on the characterization. In another aspect, a data consumption status indicative of data consumed is ascertained. Here, a scalability interface is provided, which displays aspects of the status, and receives an input from a content provider. An allocation of resources is then modified in response to the input. In yet another aspect, a response performance associated with responding to data consumption requests is monitored. An application programming interface (API) call is generated based on a characterization of the response performance, and transmitted to a content provider. An API response is then received from the content provider indicating whether a scaling of resources for hosting the data was performed. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096094 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPDATING E-BOOK CONTENT - A method and apparatus for updating E-book content in an E-book terminal where upon a request for update of an E-book package, the E-book terminal sends an E-book content update request message including a version of the E-book package to an E-book server, receives from the E-book server an E-book content update response message including a content-specific version list or a content-specific action list included in the version of the E-book package, determines content to be updated based on the E-book content update response message, sends the E-book server a content request message for requesting the content to be updated, and updates the E-book content by receiving content of the latest version for the requested content from the E-book server. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096095 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING COMMUNICATION - An optimal communication system may include an optimal communication module, executed by a computer system, to ascertain a first and second user's available modes of communication. A first user communication system may allow the first user to link a communication criterion with a preferred mode of communication. A second user communication system may allow the second user to send a message to the first user by the first user's preferred mode of communication. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096096 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL TO PROVIDE WIDGET EXPANSION FUNCTION USING MESSAGE COMMUNICATION, AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A mobile communication terminal to provide a widget expansion function using a message communication, and an operation method of the mobile communication terminal is provided. The method includes a configuration of generating an additional function expansion message based on expansion of an additional function of a widget, and transmitting the generated additional function expansion message. The method also includes a configuration of expanding the additional function of the widget by receiving the additional function expansion message, by determining an application programming interface (API) library with respect to the expansion of the additional function, and by calling the determined API library. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096097 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND MAIL RETURN METHOD - An object of the present invention is suppressing a mail transmission loop between the communication terminals. A communication terminal | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND DISPLAYING USER PROVIDED CONTENT - A system and method for receiving anonymous messages from users. The geographical location and time related to each anonymous message is received and stored by the system. A visual interface displays the anonymous messages based on the geographical location and time for each message. The system allows the determination of the context of the anonymous messages and enables advertisers to place ads among one or more anonymous messages of related context. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096099 | Method And System For Publishing An Electronic File Attached To An Electronic Mail Message - Publishing content associated with an electronic file attached to an electronic mail message by executing instructions contained in the electronic mail attachment and accessing the content at a remote computer server identified by the attached file. The attached file includes computer-executable instructions, such as a computer program or script, which include an identifier for a remote server connected to a distributed computer network. This identified remote server typically hosts a web site containing content for viewing by the recipient of the electronic mail message. In response to launching the attached file of the electronic mail message with a viewer program, a browser program can be opened to enable the recipient to view the content of the identified remote server, typically a web site on an intranet or the global Internet. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096100 | AUTHENTICATION OF ELECTRONIC DATA - Systems and techniques for transmitting electronic data by receiving, at a communications system host, electronic data transmitted from a sender and addressed to an intended recipient; authenticating the electronic data based on attributes of the electronic data and appending information to the electronic data indicating that the electronic data has been authenticated. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096101 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN WIRELESS SERVERS - Systems and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism for resource sharing. In an embodiment, an electronic communication is routed between mobile wireless clients without first processing the electronic communication through an external domain. In an embodiment, an e-mail message is routed between mobile wireless clients without first processing the e-mail message through an external e-mail domain identified in the e-mail message. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096102 | UPDATING AVAILABILITY OF AN INSTANT MESSAGING CONTACT - A contact is determined to be unavailable if a predetermined period of time has elapsed since an instant message was sent to the contact and an expected notification for the instant message was not received during that predetermined period of time by the device that sent the instant message. If the expected notification is a delivered notification, then the contact is deemed unreachable. If the expected notification is a read notification and a delivered notification for the instant message has been received by the device that sent the instant message, then the contact is deemed busy. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120096103 | LOCATION UPDATES FOR A DISTRIBUTED DATA STORE - Version indicators within an existing range can be associated with a data partition in a distributed data store. A partition reconfiguration can be associated with one of multiple partitions in the data store, and a new version indicator that is outside the existing range can be assigned to the reconfigured partition. Additionally, a broadcast message can be sent to multiple nodes, which can include storage nodes and/or client nodes that are configured to communicate with storage nodes to access data in a distributed data store. The broadcast message can include updated location information for data in the data store. In addition, a response message can be sent to a requesting node of the multiple nodes in response to receiving from that node a message that requests updated location information for the data. The response message can include the requested updated location information. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120102120 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR AFFECTING PROGRAMMING OF CONTENT FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A MULTICAST NETWORK - Methods and apparatuses are provided that may be implemented in various electronic devices to identify at least one current interest topic associated with message content transmitted over a wireless communication network, and affect programming of at least a portion of content for transmission over a multicast network based, at least in part, on the current interest topic. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102121 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TOPIC CLUSTER BASED UPDATES - The present invention is directed towards a method and system for providing a recommendation set. The method and system includes determining various topic clusters from single topic clusters. The method and system further includes identifying various topic clusters for an identified single topic cluster and providing recommendations from the various topic clusters via web updates. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102122 | E-MAIL ADDRESSES IN COLOR - A system includes an e-mail client including instructions configured to be executed by a processor. The e-mail client may be configured to receive a plurality of addresses specifying recipients of a message; apply a color coding to the plurality of addresses, the color coding indicating an associated color for at least one of the plurality of addresses; and send the message with the applied color coding to the plurality of addresses. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102123 | INVITATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computerized system is presented to manage invitations to an event. An event organizer presents an opportunity to at least one host to utilize the tickets, while also defining invitation templates for the event. Hosts that accept the tickets use the template to invite guests to use the tickets. If a host rejects the tickets, the tickets are made available to the next host in a queue list. If a host cannot use all of the potential tickets to an event, the system will offer those tickets to other hosts. Similarly, invitations to a guest that are rejected are presented to a next guest on a queue list. The system can present deadlines for responding to an invitation. Furthermore, the system can impose guest requirements on an invited guest, making it clear that the invited guest must bring along one or more additional guests in order to accept the invitation. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102124 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD AND SOCIAL NETWORK AND METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENT INFORMATION - Portable electronic equipment and method share content information about content, e.g., music, audio content, video content; by sharing the content information it may be possible to share the content itself. The equipment and method provide for selecting a “LIKE” function regarding content; a unique identifier of the content information and where it may be found is obtained, e.g., from a local or remote source, such as a server, and sent, e.g., to a user's social network page for posting or to another person via sms or email, for use by another person to obtain the content information. The other person may use the content information to learn about the content and may obtain permission, e.g., by purchasing the content, to use, perform, display, etc. the content. A social network and method permit a user to indicate a “LIKE” or similar entry to gain access to the content information. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102125 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SCREENED COMMUNICATIONS - The present invention provides a method using one or more computers when conducting screened communications. The invention may comprise locating a first user and allowing other users to access the first user's personal attributes while allowing the first user to access the personal attributes of the other users. The users may filter potential communication participants based on each user's preferences and relative rankings regarding personal attributes of other users. More than one communication levels, with different communication formats, may be provided for a user to communicate with other users. A user may use the system to locate a particular type of person and/or venues with specific attributes. A user may use the system anonymously or with a pseudonym. Users may communicate at a particular location with or without observing another user at the particular location or at a different location. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102126 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLATION, TRANSLATION, AND ANALYSIS OF PASSIVELY CREATED DIGITAL INTERACTION AND RELATIONSHIP DATA - A computer readable medium containing executable instructions that when executed perform a method of generating relationship data, the method comprising: accessing an interaction database, wherein the interaction database comprises a record of exchanges between two or more users of a digital communication system, and wherein the exchanges occurred on the digital communication system; obtaining one or more characteristics of one or more exchanges of the two or more users, wherein the one or more characteristics are stored in the interaction database and wherein the data is obtained through a direct internet access protocol; and generating relationship data by analyzing the one or more characteristics. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102127 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPORTING A SHORT MESSAGE CAPABILITY VIA AN IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM - A method and system for reporting short message (SM) capability over an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) using a session initiation protocol (SIP) are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) registers with a core network and sends a message indicating its SM capability via the IMS to the core network. The core network then updates the WTRU capabilities based on the message and routes an SM to the WTRU via the IMS. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102128 | Message Server that Retains Messages Deleted by One Client Application for Access by Another Client Application - A first processing session is entered with a POP client. A set of messages from a message repository is identified as available for access by the POP client. When the POP client causes a message to be deleted from the message repository (either by explicit or implicit actions), the message is removed from the set of messages available for access by the POP client but maintained for access by another POP client or by another messaging program. The messages available may be limited by a session size and they may be ordered newest to oldest. In some instances messages are part of conversations and the number of conversation from which the message may be drawn is limited. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102129 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING ADAPTIVE POLLING BASED UPON POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE POLLING EVENTS AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one data storage device for storing messages for respective users, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each associated with a respective user for accessing the messages stored on the at least one data storage device. Moreover, the communications system may further include an adaptive polling engine for polling the at least one data storage device for stored messages and providing the polled messages to mobile wireless communications devices of respective users. The adaptive polling engine may advantageously learn respective user usage patterns for each mobile wireless communications device, and change a respective rate of polling for each mobile wireless communications device based thereon. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102130 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND ARCHITECTURE FOR DELIVERING MESSAGES IN A NETWORK TO AUTOMATICALLY INCREASE A SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO OF USER INTERESTS - The present invention pertains to a method for delivering messages in a social network to increase a signal-to-noise ratio for the recipients of messages, characterized in that a process mechanism comprises of a diffusion process and a selection process combined through an adaptive process, in which:
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| 20120110090 | Reducing Email Message Size - A method, system and computer program product for supporting email message size reduction. Example operations may include identifying a first email recipient that is to receive a full version of an email message (full email message), identifying a second email recipient representing a new class of email recipient that is to receive a summary version of the email message (summary email message), and performing an action to facilitate the full email message being sent to the first email recipient and the summary email message being automatically generated from the full email message and sent to the second email recipient. The foregoing operations may be performed in one way by an email client and in another way by an email server. The email client and the email server may share responsibility for reducing email message size. Alternatively, the email client (or another implementing entity) may act alone. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WELDER WITH HELP REQUEST FUNCTIONALITY - A welder includes a network interface configured to connect to a network. The welder includes a user interface that indicates to a user entities to whom help requests may be sent and receives from the user a selection of an entity to whom to send a help request. A data store stores welder data and entity data. The welder data includes welder identification and location information, and the entity data correlates entities to respective communication modes. The welder includes a communication logic that receives signals from the user interface indicating the selection and receives from the data store the welder data and the entity data. The communication logic also generates the help request in at least one format corresponding and directed to a communication mode correlated to the selected entity. The welder further includes a processor that causes the network interface to transmit the help request in the network. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110092 | EMAIL THREAD MONITORING AND AUTOMATIC FORWARDING OF RELATED EMAIL MESSAGES - A computer system can implement a mechanism for email thread monitoring and automatic forwarding of related email messages. In one embodiment, a first email message is provided from an email application of a computer system to a plurality of email addresses. An indication is detected, at the email application, that a first email address of the plurality of email addresses is to be provided a copy of subsequent email messages associated with the first email message. Subsequent email messages received at, and transmitted by, the email application are monitored to determine whether one or more of the subsequent email messages are associated with the first email message. In response to determining that a second email message from the subsequent email messages is associated with the first email message, a copy of the second email message is automatically provided to the first email address of the plurality of email addresses. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110093 | SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE VERSION AND DEPENDENCY CONTROL - This disclosure is directed to techniques for providing version control functionality for web services of one or more service oriented architecture (SOA) systems. According to these techniques, a version control service (VCS) may receive an indication of a version update for a first web service. In response to the received request, the VCS determines whether the version update, if executed within the SOA system, will cause a change in operation of a second web service. If the version update will cause a change, VCS provides an indication of the determined change to a user. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110094 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SYSTEMS SUPPORTING PROVISION OF ENTIRE FORWARDING HISTORY REGARDING THE SENDING, RECEIVING, AND TIME ZONE INFORMATION, OF AN EMAIL AFTER THE EMAIL IS FORWARDED BY A NUMBER OF USERS - Systems and methods are provided for supporting provision of forwarding history of email information. In accordance with one implementation, a system is provided that includes supporting provisioning of entire forwarding history regarding the sending and receiving time zone information, of an email after the email has been forwarded by a number of users. The system is further configured to send, by the email sender, an email to the email receiver, through a email incoming server. Further, the system allows users to compose outgoing emails to another email receiver. In addition, the system includes sending the outgoing email, by the email receiver, to the other email receiver through a SMTP server. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110095 | ACCURATELY ACCOUNT FOR TIME ZONE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STOCK BROKERS AND CLIENTS IN REPLYING MESSAGING COMMUNICATION - Systems and methods are provided for accurately accounting for time zone differences in replying messages between stock brokers and clients. In accordance with one implementation, a system is provided that include an electronic messaging system comprising a processor, a memory, a client mobile device, and a broker mobile device. The system is further configured to record time-related information, including not only the time when received or sent the messaging communication, but also the time-zone information in communications between clients and brokers. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110096 | SOCIAL CIRCLES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting contact data for displaying graphical representations of contacts for display to a user, the contacts being contacts of the user within a computer-implemented social networking service, generating a first social circle of the user, the first social circle comprising a first subset of contacts of the user within the social networking service and defining a first distribution for digital content, generating a second social circle of the user, the second social circle comprising a second subset of contacts of the user within the social networking service and defining a second distribution for digital content, and, in response to user input, providing the first social circle and the second social circle for selection by the user to define a distribution of digital content, the distribution comprising at least one of the first distribution and the second distribution. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110097 | Forwarding E-Mail Message Attachments From a Wireless Device - A system and method of forwarding an e-mail from a wireless device is provided. The wireless device receives the e-mail message in portions as needed, the portions having the attachments contained therein. The portions of the e-mail message containing only a subset of attachments associated with the e-mail message in the user mailbox. When a wireless device forwards the e-mail message to one or more recipients a message identifier and an attachment indicator is provided for identifying the number of attachments in the e-mail message to be forwarded. The identified e-mail message is retrieved and the attachments are extracted from the retrieved e-mail message based on the attachment indicator. The e-mail message is forwarded to the one or more recipients and the extracted attachments. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110098 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF E-MAIL APPENDED DOCUMENT IN THAT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - An e-mail message to which a document is attached is received, and it is determined whether or not a digital signature is appended to the e-mail message. The document attached to the e-mail message is saved as an approved document, which is approved for printing, when it is determined that the digital signature is appended to the e-mail message. On the other hand, the document attached to the e-mail message is saved as a non-approved document, which is not approved for printing, in association with an e-mail address of the e-mail message when it is determined that the digital signature is not appended to the e-mail message. User information is acquired, and the non-approved document saved in association with an e-mail address that is associated in advance with the user information is retrieved. The retrieved non-approved document is changed to an approved document, and that approved document is saved. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110099 | Chat System, Server Device, Chat Method, Chat Execution Program, Storage Medium Stored with Chat Execution Program, Information Processing Unit, Image Display Method, Image Processing Program, Storage Medium Stored with Image Processing Program - A matching server, when a chat room specified by participation request information received from a client terminal device is registered in a room storage region, associates and registers that client terminal device to the chat room, and when the chat room specified by the participation request information is not registered, associates the client terminal device and the chat room with each other and registers them newly in the room storage region. When a chat room specified by leave request information received by the client terminal device is registered in the room storage region, it cancels registration of the client terminal device for the chat room, and when there is no client terminal device registered to the registered chat room, it cancels registration of the chat room. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110100 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus to communicate with a partner includes a transmission unit configured to directly transmit address information of the apparatus to the partner, a reception unit configured to receive data from the partner connected to the apparatus via a relay apparatus, using the address information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire global address information corresponding to the partner from the received data, and a notification unit configured to notify the communication partner of the acquired global address information. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110101 | METHOD FOR EFFICIENT CREATION OF E-MAIL TRAFFIC - A method for efficiently handling e-mail traffic using an e-mail system includes sending an e-mail and a weighting and status table stored with the e-mail to a recipient. The weighting and status table includes a weighting, entered and selected by the sender, that pertains to the e-mail. An assessment of the weighting selected by the sender is received from the recipient of the e-mail. The assessment is entered into the weighting and status table as a statistical quantity so as to provide an updated weighting and status table. At least a diverging assessment is made available to the sender based on the updated weighting and status table. The previous weighting and status table is overwritten with the updated weighting and status table, which is provided to the sender for entering another weighting upon creation of a new e-mail for the same recipient. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110102 | Data Distribution Method and System - A self-distribution method and system for distributing information content among network connected devices includes receiving a query having a code against a database from a wireless communications device, the code uniquely representing one of an advertising campaign, a product, or a service. A result set is generated by querying the database, forwarding a link associated with the result set to a user-preferred remote location, the link being sent in an electronic message. The link directs a user to a first version of information content. A plurality of options to purchase user-preferred items from the first version of information content include “purchase now” and “purchase later” features. A reminder message is forwarded to the wireless communications device if a user at the remote location selects the “purchase later” feature. The user is enabled to conduct a purchase transaction from the remote location or the wireless communications device. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING AN AGILE NETWORK PROTOCOL FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS USING SECURE DOMAIN NAMES - A network device comprises a storage device storing an application program for a secure communications service and at least one processor. The processor is configured to execute the application program enabling the network device to (a) send a request to look up a network address of a second network device based on an identifier associated with the second network device; (b) receive an indication that the second network device is available for the secure communications service, the indication including the requested network address of the second network device and provisioning information for a virtual private network communication link; (c) connect to the second network device, using the received network address of the second network device and the provisioning information for the virtual private network communication link; and (d) communicate with the second network device using the secure communications service via the virtual private network communication link. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110104 | MESSAGE SCREENING SYSTEM - A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electronic message then is forwarded to the intended recipient if the electronic message is approved by the supervisory recipient. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110105 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING ELECTRONIC MAIL - A communications system and method includes a mobile device having a mail user agent. A mobile office platform as a server includes a mail agent that is operative with the mail user agent for accessing one or more electronic mailboxes of the mail user agent using at least one protocol specific connector. The mobile office platform is operative for providing only the n-most recent mail headers of electronic messages to the mail user agent. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120117159 | COMPUTER METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ATTACHMENT REDUCTION - Computer method, apparatus and system reduces size of attachments for an electronic communication. The method/system automatically selects a part (portion) of a working document to serve as the electronic communication attachment or upload. A monitoring unit monitors sender-user activity with respect to the working document and logs indications of the portions of the working document that are read by the user. During email composition, an attachment engine automatically selects the logged and indicated document portions to serve as an attachment reduced in size. During other electronic communication composition, such as to a blog, wiki or computer network forum, the attachment engine automatically selects the logged and indicated document portions to serve as the upload reduced in size. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117160 | ADAPTIVE DIFFERENTIAL PROPAGATION OF SOAP MESSAGES - A method of adaptive differential propagation of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages is provided herein. The method includes the following stages: classifying incoming SOAP messages according to at least one of: structure, content, and context thereof; selecting a corresponding template out of a plurality of templates for each classified SOAP message such that the selected template minimized a specified diff function applied to the classified SOAP message and the selected template; applying the specified diff function to the SOAP message and the selected template to yield a respective delta; and encapsulating a template identifier with the respective delta, wherein the template identifier is uniquely associated with the selected template, to yield an outgoing SOAP message. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117161 | HANDLING EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS HAVING HUMAN DELEGATE PREPARED SUMMARIES - The disclosure provides a solution for delegating email messages for human summaries. In the solution, an email message in an inbox of an account holder can be identified, where the email message has a read status of unread. The email message can be from a sender and can comprise email content. The email message can be sent from the inbox of the account holder to a delegate. The delegate can be associated with an email address corresponding to a human who is not the account holder or the sender. A summary can be received for the email content from the delegate. The summary can be presented in a user interface to the account holder. Responsive to presenting the summary, the read status of the email message can be changed from unread to read. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117162 | Methods and Social Media Portal Servers for Message Transmission - Methods and social media portal servers are provided for facilitating the exchange of messages between portal servers of telecommunications networks. When a first user creates a message destined to a second user in a second telecommunications network via a first social media portal server servicing the first telecommunications network, the message is received by the second social media portal server that services the second telecommunications network including the second user, and the second portal server detects the message originated at the first social media portal server based on an indicator comprised in the message. Then, the second portal server inserts in the message a second short code associated with the second social media portal, or replaces the existing short code with a second short code, and sends the message comprising the second short code to a messaging center for delivery to the user, thus rendering the message with the second short code routable in the second telecommunications network. Alternatively, the first social media portal can insert the second short code in the message. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117163 | SMART ADDRESS BOOK - An apparatus, method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for maintaining contact information associated with a contact. In some embodiments a request associated with a contact may be received. Contact information may be obtained from one or more external or internal sources. One or more confidence scores may be generated for the obtained contact information and for one or more values received with the request. Based on the confidence score(s), one or more values associated with the contact may be incorporated in one or more data stores. In some embodiments, suggestions for contact related information may be generated. Responses to the suggestions may be used to update the generated confidence score(s). | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117164 | Method and Software of NetBout - NetBout is an alternative method of online communication that replaces or stays on top of e-mails, instant messaging, audio and video conferences, tracking systems, shared documents, and social networks. NetBout is an isolated persistent communication environment providing persistency, isolation, anonymity and usability for its participants. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117165 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIXED MODE DELIVERY OF DYNAMIC CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A method, system and apparatus for mixed mode delivery of content to a mobile device, the method having the steps of: receiving a subscription message including a filter; storing the filter; sending a subscription identifier; applying the filter to content available on the content provider, thereby producing a content subset; waiting for receipt of a content request; and forwarding the content subset upon receipt of the content request. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117166 | Method and System of Communication Between Instant Messaging Clients and Mobile Cellular Devices - A system of communication between instant messaging clients and mobile cellular devices is disclosed. The system includes an application on a mobile cellular device that encodes an SMS/MMS message with information that is used to convert the SMS/MMS message to an IM message protocol. The converted SMS/MMS message is sent to a SMS/MMS gateway and forwarded to an IM gateway based on the encoded information. The IM gateway sends the user the converted SMS/MMS message as an instant message. An application on the personal computer of an IM user encodes an instant message with information that is used to convert the instant message to an SMS/MMS message protocol. The converted instant message is sent to the IM gateway and forwarded to the SMS/MMS gateway based on the encoded information. The SMS/MMS gateway transmits the converted instant message and the SMS/MMS user receives the instant message on his/her mobile cellular device. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117167 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A USER IN A VIEWING SOCIAL NETWORK - Method and systems are provided for initiating communication with a social networking server maintaining user information corresponding to a user, the user information for the user comprising media preferences for the user, one or more connections associated with the user, and media preferences for each of the one or more connections, retrieving at least a portion of the user information for the user from the social networking server and generating a viewing recommendation for the user at least in part based on at least one of the media preferences of the user, and the media preferences of the one or more connections, the viewing recommendation comprising one or more multi-media content. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117168 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING DEVICE COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL USING XMPP - A method and device is provided for platform independent device communication by detecting a request at a processor-based device to perform a function, determining an external device corresponding to the request, retrieving a tag for the external device for performing a function corresponding to the request and generating a message implemented in XMPP, having embedded therein the tag, wherein the tag is essential at the external device for performing the function corresponding to the request. Receiving the message at a device, determining whether the message comprises a device message, retrieving a tag included in the message, wherein the tag corresponds to an executable command to perform a function and executing the tag to perform the function. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117169 | Time-Based Computer Control - A computer system includes a calendar containing appointments. The system also includes one or more logic modules. Each logic module specifies a condition and a corresponding action. The profile may be applied to context data, such as data representing the current time, to perform the actions specified by the logic modules in response to detecting that the context data satisfies the conditions specified by the logic modules. In particular, the actions specified by the logic modules may be performed in response to detecting that the current time falls within the time period of an appointment on the calendar. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117170 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A GEO-REFERENCED VIRTUAL COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - A system for providing an image-referenced virtual collaborative environment contains a server in communication with at least a first client device and a second client device, wherein the server comprises a memory and a processor. The processor is configured by the memory to perform the steps of: extracting properties of a vector object, where the vector object is the result of a modification to a first background image performed by a first user on the first client device; placing the extracted properties of the vector object into a feature message; sending the feature message onto a specific topic on a message bus; delivering the feature message to a second user using the second client device; extracting data from the feature message; and rendering, in real time, the vector object on a second background image viewed by the second user via the second client device. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117171 | DELIVERING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Delivering electronic content includes providing instructions that might cause a computer to collect information including a network address and transmitting the collected information to a receiving computer. The computer that receives the transmitted information selects electronic content based on the received information and sends the selected electronic content to the network address included in the received information. Access to the electronic content might be selectively granted based on criteria. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117172 | SELECTION OF COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR MESSAGE TRANSFER BASED ON QUALITY OF SERVICE REQUIREMENTS - Provided are a message brokering systems, computer program products and methods for communication in a publish/subscribe environment in which publisher application programs send messages to subscriber application programs via one or more message brokers, the method comprising the following steps: responsive to receipt of a published message at a message broker, referring to characteristics of the received message and subscriber-specified quality of service requirements to determine an appropriate quality or service for onward transmission of the message; selecting a communication protocol in accordance with the determined quality of service; and transmitting the message using the selected communication protocol. Information relating to the quality of service requirements of a first message broker's subscribers is passed to other brokers and subsequently used for selection of an appropriate communication protocol for transmitting messages between the brokers. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117173 | CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - A method for controlling a message from a sender. A referee can evaluate a credential associated with a message to determine ifs desirability to the intended recipient, and take an action based upon the results of the determination. A sender that includes a trusted component can send a credential with the message, and the message can be controlled without a referee. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON A RECEIVED COMMUNICATION FOR AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The disclosure relates to a system, method and device for providing information relating to a received communication for a device. The method comprises generating and providing a message on a display of the device indicating receipt of an inbound communication, after determining that the device is to receive the inbound communication while the device is composing an outbound communication and after determining the inbound communication is related to the outbound communication by an analysis of information of the inbound communication against information of the outbound communication. The message provides options for processing the inbound communication depending on whether the outbound communication is initiated as either a reply to the inbound communication or a forwarding of the inbound communication. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117175 | Use of Persistent Sessions by a Presence Access Layer - A method for a watcher to receive presence information. The method includes the watcher requesting presence information from a presence access layer and then disconnecting from the presence access layer. The method further includes the presence access layer receiving the requested information through a persistent session with a presence server, storing the requested information, and delivering the requested information to the watcher after the watcher reconnects to the presence access layer. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117176 | Method, System And Mobile Terminal For Processing Short Message - A method for processing a short message is provided in the present invention, which includes that a sending party editing short message text and sending a short message including the short message text and a template identifier (ID) to a short message service center; and a receiving party receiving the short message sent from the short message service center, analyzing to obtain the template ID included in the short message, then finding a template with a same template ID, and combining the template that is found with the short message text to be displayed. With the scheme of the present invention, directly sending the short message between the sending party and the receiving party can just achieve the effect of enhancing the interestingness of the short messages without increasing the processing burden of the short message service center and the occupation of the network resources. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117177 | Transmission Method and System for Converged IP Messaging - A transmission method and system for Converged IP Messaging (CPM) is disclosed, which can create Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) links between a CPM client and an originating participating function entity and between an Inter-Working Function entity (IWF) and the originating participating function entity respectively. The CPM client sends CPM message through each MSRP link to the inter-working function entity which sends the received CPM message to a non-CPM system after the protocol conversion of the CPM message. With the help of the method and system, the transmission link between the sender and the IWF is created by the session invite message of the large message mode CPM, and the content of the large message mode CPM is sent to the IWF which then transmits the content of the large message mode CPM to a non-CPM client of the receiver. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120124140 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUSINESS NETWORK MANAGEMENT DISCOVERY AND CONSOLIDATION - According to some embodiments, a plurality of interconnected entities may be discovered in a network landscape. A subset of the entities may then be automatically consolidated into a business participant, the consolidating may performed in accordance with at least one rule based algorithm. A business process landscape, including the business participant, may then be generated and/or displayed to an operator. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124141 | Mechanism for Message Prefetching in an Intermittently Connected Offline-Capable Mobile Web Application - A request to update a list of conversations is sent to a server. At least a portion of each conversation in the list of conversations is stored on the client. A plurality of updates is received form the server. The plurality of updates includes messages corresponding to respective conversations in the list of conversations. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124142 | Light-Weight Method for Delivering the Smallest Set of New Messages to a Conversation Cache on an Intermittently Connected Mobile Email Client - A request to update a conversation is sent to a server. At least a portion of the conversation is stored on the client. The request includes a conversation identifier corresponding to the conversation, a first message identifier corresponding to a first message in the conversation, a last message identifier corresponding to a last message of the conversation, and a conversation metric of the conversation. One or more updates are received from the server, the one or more updates including one or more messages corresponding to the conversation. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124143 | RICH EMAIL ATTACHMENT PRESENTATION - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a rich email experience for an email with an attachment. Intention metadata that is associated with an attachment to an email is identified, where the intention metadata indicates a sender intention for the attachment. The intention metadata may be identified prior to sending the email and included with the email, or identified after receipt of the email. Further, the intention metadata is applied to the attachment so that the attachment is presented in a rich format to the recipient that reflects the sender intention for the attachment, such as highlighting portions, and/or presenting images, for example, in a desired sequence. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124144 | COOPERATIVE SESSION-BASED FILTERING - Various embodiments provide session-based filtering to filter messages in a cooperative manner between a client and a service provider. In at least some embodiments, a service provider can establish a messaging session with a client and deliver messages to the client. The client can implement various client-side techniques to filter some of the messages based on various client designated criteria. The service provider can obtain feedback from the client indicative of one or more of the delivered messages that have been filtered. The service provider can dynamically create a session-based list based on the feedback and use the list during the session to block messages on the server-side according to the client designated criteria. When the session concludes, the session-based list can be discarded. In this manner, message filtering can occur without persistent storage of state data for the filtering at the service provider. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124145 | Connecting message media with shared digital media - A digital media sharing system (“DMSS”) for creating, transmitting and receiving digital media data (“DMD”) with message media (MM) files attached thereto. Said message Media may reside locally or on a server prior to being connected to said digital media data. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124146 | Messaging System with Multiple Messaging Channels - A messaging system facilitates communication between users through various messaging channels. The messaging system supports multiple communication channels and includes a messaging module that automatically selects one or more of the messaging channels for delivering a message to a recipient of the message using, for example, a set of policy rules or a trained model. The messaging module may also provide, in a user interface for sending and receiving messages, a visual indication of the selected messaging channel to the sender of the message to provide the user with transparency about how the message will be delivered. Additionally, the message may be delivered via multiple messaging channels, where the messaging module may rescind messages from some of the messaging channels upon receiving a reply from the recipient of the message or other confirmation that the recipient has seen the message via one of the communication channels. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124147 | Organizing Messages Into Conversation Threads - A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124148 | Adding Contextual Information to Messages - A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124149 | Message Distribution System & Method - A networked computer system passes messages between source devices and destination devices based on source selections made by users of the destination devices. The source selections are based on taking into content contributed by the users. Overlap and duplication of content can be reduced in a datastream to enhance a user experience. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124150 | INTELLIGENT NETWORK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A network communication system and method make communication and information sharing more convenient and efficient. The A system includes an account information management module and an account information storage module. The account information management module stores the friend accounts of the user and the corresponding account information. The account information storage module analyzes the account information of the friend accounts, and makes a determination according to the network account information contained in the account information such that the friend accounts belonging to the same friend are added to the same account group. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEROPERABILITY - A method for enabling interoperability between software applications. The method includes receiving, at a client software application, a notification originating from a first software application; delivering the notification to a user; receiving a reply from the user in response to the notification; and causing an event to be performed in a second software application based on the reply. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124152 | SELF-CONFIGURED AND INTUITIVE INTERACTIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A self-configured and intuitive interactive device and system, featuring an automated method for accessing networked services, characterized by turning on an interactive device, inputting a mobile phone number and/or an e-mail address of a person intended for interacting with, sending an interactive notification request message to the intended person, the intended person utilizing a client device to log in to a server and/or replying to the interactive request message to record personal and networked service account information, and the server forwarding the recorded information to the interactive device, and configures access to the relevant networked services for the interactive device. The interactive device utilizing the received information to access relevant networked services and begin interaction with the intended person. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124153 | Method, System, Graphical User Interface, and Data Structure for Creating Electronic Calendar Entries from Email Messages - A method, system, and data structure for creating electronic calendar entries are disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer data structure that includes an email message with an embedded link. The embedded link contains event information corresponding to multiple parameters for an event described in the email message. The embedded link is configured, upon activation, to initiate generation of an electronic calendar entry form with multiple fields. A plurality of the multiple fields contain event information from the embedded link. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124154 | SHARED GROUPS ROSTERING SYSTEM - Systems and techniques for sharing information among members of a group. Information about all current members of a group is stored. Instructions are received from at least one current member to invite at least one prospective member to join the group and the invitation to join the group is sent to the prospective member. In the event that an affirmative response is received, the prospective member is added to the current members of the group and automatically updated services are provided to current members of the group. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124155 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE THREAD COMPRESSION - A method for compressing electronic mail messages each having a message thread for storage in a storage device, comprising: identifying one or more sections of each message thread; assigning a respective identifier to each section; storing one occurrence of each section in the storage device for retrieval using its identifier; replacing each section in each thread by its identifier to thereby compress the messages; and, storing the messages in the storage device. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120124156 | Method And Apparatus For Handling Subscriptions To Changes In User Data In A Telecommunications System - There is provided a method for handling subscriptions from a subscriber node ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120131107 | Email Filtering Using Relationship and Reputation Data - The subject disclosure is directed towards reducing the amount of resources needed to scan email messages for spam. In general, the previous email relationship between a sender and recipient, if any, may be considered in determining how aggressive the filtering level is set for scanning a message for spam, e.g., which filters will be used in the scan. For existing relationships where there has been no previously detected spam (there is good reputation data associated with the relationship), a less aggressive filtering level may be used, thereby saving resources. A relationship may be directly between the sender and recipient, or may be indirect, e.g., via a common third party. Also described is differentiating email from bulk senders from other email messages, for different handling, including spam filtering. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131108 | INTELLIGENT OFFLOAD OF WORK TO HANDLE PEAK ACTIVITY IN AN ENTERPRISE EMAIL SYSTEM - A method and system for sending a message are disclosed. The method involves receiving a message at a mail server and determining that a load of the mail server exceeds a threshold. If it is determined that the load of the mail server exceeds a threshold, then the method involves determining whether the message needs to be sent immediately. If it is determined that the message does not need to be sent immediately, then the method involves delaying sending the message. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131109 | HIDING EMAIL IDENTIFICATION USING A CONFIGURABLE SET OF DOMAINS - A method of delivering an electronic mail message. A mail server receives and stores a rule from a first user. Thereafter the mail server receives the electronic mail message from a second user comprising a sender. The mail server compares the rule with an email address in a field of the electronic mail message. Responsive to the rule being satisfied the email server takes an action with respect to the email address or the field to form a modified electronic mail message. Thereafter, the email server delivers the modified electronic mail message to a third user comprising a recipient. The first, second, and third users may all be different from each other. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131110 | Shared Multimedia Experience - A method includes receiving a request to establish a group presence session between at least a first device associated with a first network and a second device associated with a second network. During the group presence session, multimedia content is provided to the first device and to the second device at substantially the same time, and first presence information from the first device is provided to the second device at substantially the same time as second presence information from the second device is provided to the first device. The method further includes synchronizing the multimedia content, the first presence information, and the second presence information based on a first device capability, a second device capability, information associated with the first network, and information associated with the second network. Synchronized content streams that include the multimedia content and presence information are transmitted to the devices via the respective networks. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131111 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POINT-AND-CLICK MESSAGING - Methods and systems are provided for communicating with elements of a complex system displayed on a web page comprising a electronic map and a plurality of icons disposed on the electronic map, each of the plurality of icons representing an element of the complex system and being situated on the electronic map so as to indicate each element's actual geographic location, each icon being associated with a messaging address. The method comprises invoking and receiving the web page and receiving an icon selection indication from a user via a human machine interface (HMI) device. The method includes generating a messaging dialog box based at least in part on the icon selection indication and one or more messaging addresses indicated thereby, receiving message content from the user; and transferring the message content to a data uplink for delivery to the messaging address. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131112 | System and Method for Automated Responses to Information Needs on Websites - Systems and methods are provided to automatically respond to questions on websites. An electronic communication comprising words is received over a network. In some embodiments, the electronic communication could comprise a message posted by a user on a social networking website. The words of the electronic communication are matched to words in prior search queries, where the prior search queries are associated with online content. A reply is then returned in response to the electronic communication. The reply comprises a representation of the online content, for example, a URL linking to the online content. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131113 | FILE SHARING METHODS - A file sharing method for sharing data in a local area network includes obtaining information pertinent to one or more file(s), transmitting the information pertinent to the one or more file(s) in the local area network, selecting one or more of the one or more file(s) based on the information, and transmitting the one or more selected file(s) in the local area network. Data size of the information is smaller than data size of the one or more file(s). | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131114 | Method and system for transmitting large message mode CPM messages - The disclosure discloses a method and system for transmitting a large message mode CPM message, both of which enable the respective establishment of Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) links between a CPM client of a sender and an originating participation function entity, between the originating participation function entity and a terminating participation function entity, and between the terminating participation function entity and an inter-working function entity, wherein the establisher of each segment of MSRP link obtains the MSRP connection parameters of the opposite end through media negotiations and establishes the MSRP link according to the MSRP connection parameters; the CPM client of the sender sends the large message mode CPM message to the inter-working function entity through each segment of established MSRP link in sequence, the inter-working function entity performs a protocol conversion on the received the large message mode CPM message and then transmits the converted message to a non-CPM system. The method and system of the disclosure enable the transmission of a large message mode CPM message to an unavailable CPM system user, thus improving user experience. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131115 | TRANSACTIONAL MESSAGING SUPPORT IN CONNECTED MESSAGING NETWORKS - A method and system are provided for transactional messaging support in connected messaging networks. A first messaging network is provided which does not support transactional processing and a second messaging network is provided which does support transactional processing. A proxy application is provided between the first and second messaging networks. The proxy application receives messages from a first application on the first messaging network, the messages including instructions regarding transactional processing of the messages, and forwards the messages to the second messaging network using a transactional processing supported by the second messaging network. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131116 | CONTROLLING DATA TRANSFER ON MOBILE DEVICES - A communication system can provide one or more mechanisms for controlling data transfer on a mobile device. A technique based on such a mechanism includes receiving a request to transfer data to an application, accessing a first service identifier associated with the data, accessing a second service identifier associated with a service mode of the application, and determining whether to allow a transfer of the data to the application based on the first service identifier and the second service identifier. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131117 | HIERARCHICAL BITMASKS FOR INDICATING THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF SERIALIZED DATA FIELDS - Disclosed are systems and methods for communicating with a sender machine and a receiver machine, and analyzing a bitmask associated with a message to be sent from the sender machine to the receiver machine, such that the bitmask comprises one or more presence bits and one or more absence bits, such that the presence bits indicate that an associated field of the message are included in the message and the absence bits indicate that an associated field of the message are omitted in the message. The systems and methods also dynamically determine compression instructions to compress the bitmask, and provide the compression instructions to the sender machine, wherein the compression instructions reduce size of the bitmask associated with the message to be sent to the receiver machine. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131118 | SIGNATURE GENERATION USING MESSAGE SUMMARIES - Systems and methods for processing a message are provided. A message may be processed to generate a message summary by removing or replacing certain words, phrases, sentences, punctuation, and the like. Message signatures based upon the message summary may be generated and stored in a signature database, which may be used to identify and/or classify spam messages. Subsequently received messages may be classified by signature and processed based on classification. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131119 | MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION USING LEGITIMATE CONTACT POINTS - A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying all items of a certain type in the message, determining whether each of the items meets a criterion, and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determining a classification of the message. The system includes an interface configured to receive the message, a processor coupled to the interface, configured to identify all items of a certain type in the message; determine whether each of the items meets a criterion; and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determine a classification of the message. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131120 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVISION OF CONTENT DATA - A computer-based method and system for content data management and provision. The method may include receiving a content request message from a registered user. The content request message may be addressed to an address associated with a broadcast entity. An identity of the user may be determined based upon the received content request message and identification information of the user stored in a database. A date and/or a time of transmission of the content request message may be determined and compared with content broadcast information associated with the broadcast entity. At least one piece of content data from the content broadcast information may be identified as a result of the comparing and the identified content data may be transmitted to the user. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131121 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS MESSAGE VERIFICATION OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for verifying a secure transaction by evaluating the transaction, generating a first verification value for the transaction, sending an electronic mobile message to a wireless device associated with the transaction, receiving a response from the wireless device to the electronic mobile message associated with the transaction and generating a new second verification value for the transaction based on the response is provided. The second verification value may be used to validate or invalidate the secure transaction. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120136939 | CONTEXT-INFORMED SUMMARIZATION - A method and computer program product for context-informed summarization is described. A method may comprise determining, via a computing device, a context of a communication. The method may further comprise determining, via the computing device, a summarization attribute for the communication based upon, at least in part, the context of the communication. The method may also comprise creating a summary of the communication based upon, at least in part, the summarization attribute. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136940 | ON-DEMAND AUTOMATIC MESSAGE QUEUE AND TOPIC DEPLOYMENT - Some embodiments of a system and a method to automatically deploy message queues on-demand in a computing system have been presented. An application server may configure an application messaging service according to a set of rules in a configuration file. In response to applications requesting to access messaging queues for the first time, the application server may automatically deploy messaging queues on-demand following the set of rules in the configuration file. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136941 | USER SPECIFIC SHARING FEATURE - A system for determining sharing options comprises a client with a web browser, an application server, and a content server. The browser tracks the user's browsing activity and transmits user data associated with the user's browsing activity to the application server. The application server analyzes the received user data, determines sharing options for the user based on the analysis, and transmits the determined options to the browser. The browser displays the received sharing options in response to the user indicating a desire to share content with the intended recipients. The system also enables the user to share with intended recipients the content stored on the user's machine. The browser transmits the content from the user's machine to a server accessible by the intended recipients. The system then creates a link for accessing the content stored on the server and transmits the link to the user and/or the intended recipients. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136942 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOTIFYING A COMPUTING DEVICE OF A COMMUNICATION ADDRESSED TO A USER BASED ON AN ACTIVITY OR PRESENCE OF THE USER - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for notifying a computing device of a communication addressed to a user based on an activity or presence of the user. According to an aspect, a method includes storing identification of a computing device associated with one or both of an activity and presence of a user. For example, the identification may be stored in a mobile device. The method may include receiving a communication addressed to the user. For example, the communication may be received at a mobile device and managed by a communication manager. In response to receiving the communication, the communication manager may apply a communication rule for notifying the computing device of the communication based on the activity and/or presence of the user. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136943 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEAMLESS INTERACTION AND CONTENT SHARING ACROSS MULTIPLE NETWORKS - A system and method for communication between a plurality of users in a communication network are disclosed. Each of the plurality of users is associated with at least one communication device. The method includes receiving a message from a sender intended for at least one recipient in the communication network wherein the sender has initiated sending of the message using the associated communication device. The message may be selected from a group comprising text, audio, video and multimedia. The method further includes customizing the message for at least one communication device associated with the at least one recipient based on a set of rules. Additionally, the method includes delivering the customized message to the at least one communication device associated with the at least one recipient based on the availability of the at least one recipient on the at least one communication device. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136944 | Method For Dynamic Discovery of Control Plane Resources and Services - An apparatus comprising a processor configured to discover one or more peer processors associated with a network component in a dynamic manner by detecting an announcement message from a peer processor, wherein the announcement message is multicast from the peer processor when the peer processor is added or activated on the network component. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136945 | TERMINAL AND INTERMEDIATE NODE IN CONTENT ORIENTED NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNICATION METHOD OF TERMINAL AND INTERMEDIATE NODE - A content sharing method of an intermediate node based on a content oriented network (CON) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a content requesting terminal, a proxy sharing request message with respect to a content including a content name of the content, the content including a plurality of data segments, generating data segment request messages with respect to each of the plurality of data segments corresponding to the content, in response to the reception of the proxy sharing request message, transmitting the data segment request messages to at least one terminal having the plurality of data segments, receiving the plurality of data segments from the at least one terminal, and transmitting the content to the content requesting terminal, using an aggregated data transmission scheme based on the received plurality of data segments. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136946 | Cluster server in instant messaging system and method for communicating between clusters - This disclosure discloses a cluster server and a messaging method between clusters in an instant messaging system, wherein in the cluster server, a storage unit is configured to store the first subscription information that a client user of the inner-cluster subscribes the presence state of a client user of an external cluster and the second subscription information that a client user of the external cluster subscribes the presence state of a client user of the inner-cluster; an information classification unit is configured to determine whether the communication message transmitted between the client user of the inner-cluster and the client user of the external cluster is a state-presence related message; and an information transmission unit is configured to transmit the communication messages according to the first and second subscription information when the communication message is a state-presence related message. Through the cluster server and method of this disclosure, by classifying the messages between the clusters, the objectives of effectively using the network bandwidths between the clusters and improving the messaging efficiency and the bearing capacity of the whole instant messaging system are fulfilled. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136947 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE TRANSMISSION - A method, apparatus and system for transmitting messages are provided. The method comprises the following steps: a SIP/IP core to which a converged service system belongs, receives a message transmitting request from a participant function module (PF) to which a converged service user belongs or a controller function module (CF) to which a group user address belongs, wherein the message transmitting request carries the destination user address of this message; the SIP/IP core transmits the message to the above destination user address, if the transmission is failed, then the PF/CF judges whether it needs to transmit the message by means of traditional message service; and the converged service system transmits the message to the destination user according to the judgment results. With the present invention, the technical effects of improving the message transmission efficiency of the converged service system, and enhancing the user experience are achieved. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136948 | RAPID IDENTIFICATION OF MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION - Techniques are presented for uniquely identifying authentication associated with messages. A message is inspected for sender or domain identifying information associated with a sender of the message or a sender's domain. The identifying information is authenticated, and if authentication, then distinctive metadata is associated with the message. The distinctive metadata is presented or played in connection with the message for purposes of readily identifying the authentication. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136949 | System and Method for Enabling Applications to Communicate Using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) System - A method and system are provided for enabling applications on a mobile device to utilize a peer-to-peer platform on the mobile device. The method comprises providing an interface between an application and a peer-to-peer (P2P) platform on the mobile device; obtaining data from the application; using the P2P platform to include the data from the application in a P2P message; and sending the P2P message to another mobile device to enable a complementary application on the other mobile device to utilize the data from the application. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136950 | COMPRESSION OF MESSAGE INFORMATION TRANSMITTED OVER A NETWORK - Disclosed are systems and methods for providing message compression instructions by communicating with a plurality of sender machines and a plurality of receiver machines and monitoring one or more messages from the plurality of sender machines. The disclosed systems and methods may also identify a part of the one or more messages that is frequently included in a plurality of the messages sent by the plurality of sender machines, dynamically determine compression instructions to compress this part of the message, and provide the compression instructions to at least one of the plurality of sender machines, such that the compression instructions reduce size of the messages having the part of the message associated with the compression instructions. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136951 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING DOCUMENTS EXCHANGED OVER EMAIL APPLICATIONS - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for monitoring and detecting changes in files attached to incoming emails. In one embodiment, if files are attached to an outgoing email, the change service uniquely tags each of the attached files and optionally stores local or remote copies of the tagged files. Additionally, in embodiments, the change service monitors and intercepts incoming emails. If files are attached to an incoming email, the change service identifies whether the files are tagged in a manner unique to the compare service. The change service then matches uniquely tagged files in the incoming email to corresponding files previously tagged by the change service. The change service then compares the two documents and generates reports that identify changes in the received document in relation to the transmitted document. Further, in embodiments, the change service provides visual indicators of the changes within the email application. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136952 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING DOCUMENTS EXCHANGED OVER EMAIL APPLICATIONS - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for monitoring and detecting changes in files attached to incoming emails. In one embodiment, if files are attached to an outgoing email, the change service uniquely tags each of the attached files and optionally stores local or remote copies of the tagged files. Additionally, in embodiments, the change service monitors and intercepts incoming emails. If files are attached to an incoming email, the change service identifies whether the files are tagged in a manner unique to the compare service. The change service then matches uniquely tagged files in the incoming email to corresponding files previously tagged by the change service. The change service then compares the two documents and generates reports that identify changes in the received document in relation to the transmitted document. Further, in embodiments, the change service provides visual indicators of the changes within the email application. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136953 | EMAIL SYSTEM - A system and method are disclosed for providing interaction with mail data on a server. Providing interaction with mail data on a server comprises receiving mail information from the server; updating data structures in a client using the mail information received; operating on the mail information at the client and displaying operation results on the client; sending operation information to the server so that the same operation may be executed on the server. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136954 | DISTRIBUTING MESSAGES IN MULTIPLE FORMATS IN TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method of translating a source message having a first set of defined word fields in a source message format, into a sink message having a second set of defined word fields in a desired sink message format. A common message format (CMF) is defined to have a third set of word fields that corresponds to a union of the first and the second sets of word fields. For any given word field in the third set of word fields in the CMF, information contained in a corresponding word field in the source message, if any, is mapped to the given word field in the CMF. For any given word field in the second set of word fields in the sink message format, information contained in a corresponding word field of the CMF, if any, is mapped to the given word field in the sink message. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120143959 | Method for Delivering Email for Viewing on a Mobile Communication Device - A process of delivering an E-mail contents from a server to a mobile device based on E-mail mailbox profile, comprising building a graph structure in the server representing a map of the mailbox, initializing an entry for the sender's address of an email in the profile, transmitting email read flag update from the mobile device to the server, updating the profile entry based on read flag of incoming E-mails and sending E-mail contents to the mobile device based on the profile entry setting. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143960 | RELATED MESSAGE DETECTION AND INDICATION - A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for managing requests to send messages are presented. Header information associated with a set of incoming messages on a server data processing system is retrieved in response to receiving a request to send a drafted message from a client data processing system to the server data processing system. The header information is searched to determine whether an incoming message in the set of incoming messages is related to the drafted message. An indication that the incoming message is related to the drafted message is presented at the client data processing system in response to determining that the incoming message is related to the drafted message. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143961 | CALENDAR EVENT CREATION USING ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CONVERSATIONS - A device receives multiple electronic messages. The device identifies a conversation from the multiple electronic messages, and extracts one or more items of data related to the occurrence of an event from the identified conversation. The device further presents the one or more items of data to a user of the device or stores the one or more items of data as a calendar event in association with a calendar application. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143962 | Intelligent Email Management System - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for processing email messages. A processor unit generates an email processing profile for a user based on a number of registration activities by the user. Responsive to receiving an email message for the user, the processor unit processes the email message using the email processing profile. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143963 | Determining Message Prominence - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A request that a server system deliver textual posts to a computing device may be received. Posts may be associated with a geographical place of posting and a temporal age. A value that represents a geographical distance from the computing device to the geographical place of posting can be identified. A score for a post may be based on the value that represents the geographical distance and the temporal age of the post. An indication of the score for the particular post may be provided to the computing device so as to cause the computing device to display an indication of the post and to visibly indicate a prominence of the post. The indication of prominence of the post is based on the indication of the score for the post. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Described are a system and method for delivering an electronic communication to a recipient. The system and method determine whether at least one other recipient received the electronic communication. A relationship is identified between the recipient and the at least one other recipient. A response assessment result is generated in response to the determined relationship. The response assessment result is presented to the recipient. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143965 | Information Categorisation Systems, Modules, and Methods - An information categorisation system comprising: a potential recipient output harvesting module configured to harvest information content generated by a potential recipient; a potential recipient profile generation module configured to generate a recipient profile representing one or more likely interests of the potential recipient; a comparison module adapted to receive an information content profile representative of content of information content to be categorised and, in response to receipt of the information content profile, to compare the information content profile with the recipient profile to determine a match indicating the potential recipient is likely to be interested in the information content; and an information categorisation module configured to categorise the information content into information content for which the comparison module has either determined or failed to determine a match between the information content profile and the recipient profile. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143966 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING AN SMS MESSAGE - An apparatus for generating a short message service (SMS) message including a message abbreviation unit, a message compression unit, a data segmentation unit and an SMS transmission unit. The message abbreviation unit generates an abbreviated message based on method information, a uniform resource locator (URL), header information and a body included in a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) based message. The message compression unit compresses the abbreviated message into binary data by, e.g., using a deflate compression algorithm. The data segmentation unit segments the binary data to generate a segmented packet including a header and a binary chunk. The SMS transmission unit transmits the segmented packet in a form of the SMS message. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143967 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATING AND INDICATING TRUSTWORTHINESS OF SECURE COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention enable allocating and indicating the trustworthiness of a message, especially messages that comprise content that has been digitally signed. In some embodiments, a provider of assurance services and assurance software provides trust attestations related to messages and may manipulate the user interface used to view these messages. The trust attestations may be computed by various methods. The trust attestations may then be presented when the message is displayed to the user using the assurance software. For example, the trust attestations may be displayed as user interface elements in a designated portion of the chrome of a messaging service, such as a webmail service. In one embodiment, the assurance software can run on the webmail service and the trust attestations in the chrome are served up via techniques for delivery of client-server presentation data. In another embodiment, the assurance software is implemented as software that runs on the client and may perform some computations on the client in order to manipulate the messaging service's chrome. In yet another embodiment, the assurance software may run as an extension to an e-mail client that runs on a user's machine. The assurance software is configured to work with the presenter of the message, but independently of the presenter. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143968 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TERMINATING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN REGISTERED MEMBERS OF A COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE - Systems and methods for establishing a communications channel between a first user and a second user through a first communications system make use of contact information obtained from a second communications system. The contact information obtained from the second communications system is stored in a cross-reference database maintained on the first communications system. The information could be obtained by having the first communications system access the second communications system using the credentials of a user of the second communications system to obtain contact information stored on the second communications system for the user. The information in the cross-reference database allows the first communications system to determine a non-publically switched telephony network (PSTN) identifier of a telephony device associated with the second user. This identifier is then used to establish a communications channel between the first user and the second user. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143969 | Methods and systems for creating online unified contact and communication management (CM) platform - Sales people (agents) get engaged with a lot of contacts from past, present and future prospects that manifests on multiple contact platforms. They land up having their contacts and calendars split in multiple places including communication and messages leading to inefficiencies, loss of business and delayed response time to the end customer. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143970 | REPORTING THE STATE OF AN APPARATUS TO A REMOTE COMPUTER - The state of an apparatus is reported to a remote computer using an embedded device in the apparatus. The embedded device detects the state, generates a message that reports the state using a self-describing computer language, and sends the message to the remote computer. The remote computer receives the message and extracts the state of the embedded device from the message. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143971 | Communicating Electronic Mail - Proposed is the use of an email-stamp for representing an email address. By comprising information about one or more email addresses of a recipient, an email stamp may be processed in accordance with an optical recognition process so as to identify the email address of the recipient and enable an email to be automatically sent to the recipient. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143972 | Organizing Conversation Threads Based on Social Information - A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143973 | Processing of associated messages from plural social network services - The subject innovation relates to a method for presenting messages to a user of social network services. The messages are provided via an aggregation system, the aggregation system being connected to the social network services. An exemplary method comprises storing an identifier associated with a message in a user account of the user in the aggregation system. The exemplary method also comprises receiving messages from the social network services in the aggregation system, the messages being associated with the identifier. The exemplary method further comprises presenting the received messages to the user in response to a comparison between the identifier associated to the received messages and the identifiers stored in the user account. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143974 | Method And Server For Instant Messaging - An Instant Messaging (IM) method and server are provided. The method includes: receiving instance login information sent by an IM client, wherein the instance login information at least includes login information of a user of the IM client and instance information of a terminal located by the IM client ( | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143975 | MESSAGE FILTER PROGRAM FOR A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device is configured to receive messages. The communication device may comprise a display screen upon which messages are displayed. A microprocessor configured to execute at least one message management program on the communication device, filters incoming messages. The message management program comprising a message filter application filters received messages based on a comparison of sender identification data associated with a received message to approved sender identification data. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143976 | DIFFERENTIATING IPTV NOTIFICATIONS - Methods and arrangements for presenting a received Instant Message comprising an IPTV Notification, e.g. a Program Reminder, and differentiating the IM comprising the IPTV Notification from other Instant Messages received from other users. The differentiation is achieved by the SCF-node ( | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120150964 | Using E-Mail Message Characteristics for Prioritization - Message prioritization may be provided. First, a message may be received and a priority level may be calculated for the message. If the message is not rejected for having a priority lower than a predetermined threshold, the message may be placed in a first priority queue. Next, the message may be de-queued from the first priority queue based upon the calculated priority level for the message. Distribution group recipients corresponding to the message may then be expanded and the priority level for the message may be re-calculated based upon the expanded distribution group recipients. Next, the message may be placed in a second priority queue. The message may then be de-queued from the second priority queue based upon the re-calculated priority level for the message and delivered. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150965 | Mitigating Email SPAM Attacks - The present disclosure relates to mitigating email spam attacks. A gateway is configured to receive mail from one or more mail systems. If mail is intended for delivery to an invalid address, the gateway can generate status messages for delivery to the mail systems or determine if a threshold for delivery attempts to the invalid address has been met. If the threshold has been met, the gateway can request creation of a honeypot email address, and future mail intended for delivery to the invalid address are delivered to a mailbox associated with the honeypot email address. Various actions can be taken with respect to the mail delivered to the honeypot email address including analysis, blacklisting of senders, and/or other actions. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150966 | SECURITY SOCIAL NETWORK - A security social network allows registered members to participate in providing security. Persons can register and devices can be registered via a security social media web site. When a security event occurs, a member can notify the security social network, which can notify all registered members and registered devices in the area of the event. Mobile communication devices of members in the area can be controlled to turn on respective cameras, video recorders, audio recorders, microphones, or the like. And, remotely operable devices can be controlled to monitor, record, and/or transmit data. Collaboration of security social network members with private security agencies, law enforcement agencies, neighborhood watch groups, or the like, can provide comprehensive, timely, and effective security. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150967 | SPAM REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods are disclosed for reporting spam detected in a communication network. Entities in the network detect that an electronic message comprises spam, and generate a spam report for the electronic message. The spam report is in a format that is enhanced with newly-defined fields. A spam center in the network receives the spam reports from the entities, and processes the spam reports to generate spam rules for detecting spam in electronic messages transported over the communication network. The spam center then selectively distributes the spam rules to one or more of the entities of the communication network based on an analysis of the spam reports. The entities may then use the spam rules to detect spam in other electronic messages that are transported over the communication network. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150968 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MESSAGE COMMUNICATION - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving from a first communication device a message and a message request at a messaging server, selecting a second communication device from a group of other communication devices, providing a notification of the message to the second communication device, providing a message to the second communication device when the second communication device transmits an access request to the messaging server in response to the notification, and establishing a communication session between the first and second communication devices using the messaging server when the second communication device transmits a session request to the messaging server in response to receiving the message. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150969 | DYNAMICALLY ENABLING USER LOGGING ACROSS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - Dynamic logging of messages in a distributed system is enabled by processing message tags. Tags to be processed may be included in message headers or as message parameters. Different components of the distributed system may determine which message is to be logged based on the tag included in the message. Detection of a tag may initiate logging by a relevant system component. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150970 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING DISPLAY AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION FOR COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media are provided for information management and display. In one embodiment, a method includes displaying, via a user interface of a communication device, a dynamically updatable wallpaper comprising a personalized theme personalized to a user of the communication device. The method also includes updating the dynamically updatable wallpaper to display one or more animated icons. Displaying the animated icons is based, at least, on detected activity of respective contacts associated with the one or more animated icons. In another embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a user interface component configured to display images indicative of contacts, wherein the plurality of contacts are predefined by a user of the apparatus. The apparatus also includes a messaging component configured to: integrate different types of text messages for one of the contacts; and provide concurrent display of the text messages and social media information for one of the contacts. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150971 | PRESENTING NOTIFICATIONS OF CONTENT ITEMS SHARED BY SOCIAL NETWORK CONTACTS - Within a social network, a user may establish a set of contacts who share with the user various content items and comments related thereto. However, these content items are often hosted by a content source outside of the social network, and the user may have to transition to the content source to view the content item, and then transition back to the social network to submit a comment. Instead, a device may monitor the social network to record shared content items. When the user requests a presentation of the content source, notifications of the content items hosted by the content source that have been shared with the user, including an identifier of the contact sharing the content item with the user (e.g., a depiction or avatar representation of the contact and a link to a social profile of the contact) may be included in the presentation. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150972 | INTERACTIVE SEARCH RESULTS PAGE - Described herein are various technologies pertaining to presenting search results to a user, wherein the search results are messages generated by way of social networking applications. An interactive graphical object is presented together with retrieved messages, and messages are filtered responsive to interactions with the interactive graphical object. Additionally, a graphical object that is indicative of credibility of a message is presented together with the message. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150973 | Authentication of Service Requests Initiated From a Social Networking Site - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for authenticating user service requests from a social networking site. Data representing a selected message and an originator of the selected message is stored. Data representing a reply to the originator of the selected message is transmitted for posting at the social networking server, the reply including data that causes transmission of a service request to the server when actuated. Data representing the service request and a sender of the service request is received. Data representing a user profile of the sender of the service request is retrieved from the social networking server. One or more attributes of the user profile of the sender are compared against one or more attributes of the stored data representing the originator of the selected message in order to verify the one or more attributes of the user profile. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150974 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE PRESENCE AGGREGATION - A method, computer readable medium for performing mobile presence aggregation are disclosed. For example, the method acquires presence information associated with a user, packages the presence information into a message and forwards the message containing the presence information via a non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol to a presences access layer server. In another embodiment, the method receives a message containing presence information in a non-session initiated protocol based transport protocol, identifies the presence information in the message, translates the presence information into a presence information data format and forwards the presence information in the presence information data format to a presence server. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150975 | PEER-TO-PEER EMAIL WITH VIDEO AND ADVERTISING ASPECTS - A Peer-to-Peer (“P2P”) email and social networking system for use by plural users to exchange emails and attachments includes a mesh network that includes plural node computers, each running a P2P email client, and each constructed to transmit and receive emails. The emails are stored in mailboxes residing on each node computer, and may be encrypted during transmission, and may remain encrypted while stored at each node computer. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150976 | ELECTRONIC MAIL DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MAIL DATA - A communication unit connects an e-mail data transfer protocol to transfer e-mail data items with an external device. An e-mail data storage unit stores the e-mail data items transferred from the external device. The control unit does not cause the external device to transfer the e-mail data items when the e-mail data transfer protocol is connected and when a total number of subjects of the e-mail data items and a data content of a latest e-mail data item stored in the external device respectively coincide with a total number of subjects of the e-mail data items and a data content of a latest e-mail data item stored in the e-mail data storage unit, at the time point when the e-mail data transfer protocol is connected between the communication unit and the external device. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150977 | ELECTRONIC MAIL DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MAIL DATA - A communication unit connects an e-mail data transfer protocol to transfer e-mail data item via near-field wireless communications with an external device. A retrieval unit retrieves the e-mail data item transferred from the external device when the protocol is connected. A storage unit stores the retrieved e-mail data item. A control unit causes the external device to transfer the e-mail data item in each indication unit of the indication device thereby to cause the storage unit to store the retrieved e-mail data item, when the protocol is connected, and even when a user does not implement a browsing operation of an e-mail list. The control unit further causes an indication device to indicate the e-mail list of the stored e-mail data item when the user implements the browsing operation. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150978 | Generating a Relationship History - Systems and methods for generation of a relationship history. In one embodiment, a method includes: scanning, by a computing device, a set of messages to or from a user to generate a plurality of profiles for persons associated with the messages, each person being a sender or a recipient of at least one of the set of messages, and the persons including a first person; generating, via the computer, a relationship history using the plurality of profiles, wherein the relationship history is for a relationship between the user and the first person; and presenting the relationship history to the user. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150979 | Sender-Based Ranking of Person Profiles and Multi-Person Automatic Suggestions - Systems and methods for searching of information regarding persons or to provide assistance for completion during address input. In one embodiment, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as outgoing emails. Based on how the addresses of the persons are used in outgoing messages, the relevancy scores of the addresses are determined. When a user is searching for information or typing an address, the profiles and the relevancy scores are used to identify and sort search results or suggestions for the completion of the address input. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150980 | CONSOLIDATED BUSINESS SERVICE FOR INTEGRATING SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SERVICES WITH CUSTOMER RESOURCES - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product integrate Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services with resources at multiple enterprises. A processor receives and aggregates trapped messages, from an affected resource, which describe an event. The trapped aggregated message describes redundant messages about a same event. The trapped aggregated message is transcribed to create a transcribed trapped aggregated message, which is transmitted to the SOA response service to request the pre-set response. The pre-set response is translated into a protocol needed to initiate the pre-set response in an electronic element referenced by the pre-set response, and is then transmitted to the electronic element. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150981 | CONTROLLING A MESSAGE DISPLAY IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of controlling a display of an electronic device for displaying a list of electronic messages. The method includes comparing a width of a designated space for a field of the electronic messages to a minimum width to determine if the width is sufficient, and if the width is determined to be sufficient, maintaining the width of the designated space, otherwise increasing the width of the designated space. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150982 | RELIABLE DELIVERY OF MULTI-CAST CONFERENCING DATA - Conferencing data is reliably delivered to computer systems participating in a hierarchically arranged multi-cast conferencing session. When a child computer system does not receive a multi-cast packet (e.g., an IP multi-cast packet), the child computer system sends a negative acknowledgment to a parent computer system. In response, the parent computer system re-transmits conferencing data that was contained in the multi-cast packet to the child computer system. Conferencing data can be re-transmitted to the child computer system via uni-cast (e.g., TCP). Accordingly, conferencing data that is not received or that is damaged via multi-cast can be repaired via uni-cast. Computer systems can join an existing multi-cast conference session without having to communicate with the root computer system. The root computer system adjusts a multi-cast send rate to compensate for changed network conditions. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150983 | AUTO-RESOLVE RECIPIENTS CACHE - In embodiments, mobile devices request and utilize recipient caches. Recipient caches store information regarding previous recipients of communications. The information on recipients includes when the recipient was last contacted and the frequency with which a recipient is contacted. In embodiments, a mobile device requests a recipient cache from a server. When a user types a string of text, the mobile device then uses the recipient cache as well as the contacts and emails on the mobile device and resolves a recipient list. In other embodiments, a recipient cache on a server is updated when a mobile device sends a message with new recipient information. In another embodiment, a server resolves conflicting messages by using recipient information | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150984 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMAIL ANALYTICS - An email campaign is analyzed by sending an email message including a tracking code that requests content from an initial-engagement location (e.g., a server). The tracking code requests the content from the initial-engagement location when the email message is opened by a mail user agent operated by a recipient. Requests sent to the initial-engagement location are then tracked to measure the number of recipients that open the email message. A first redirect response is then served from the initial-engagement location to the mail user agent of the recipient after a first delay period to cause the mail user agent of the recipient to then request content from a first redirect location; and requests sent to the first redirect location are tracked to measure the number of recipients that keep the email message open in the mail user agent for through all of the first delay period. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120158853 | SENDING A CHAT CONTEXT TO A RECIPIENT - In an embodiment, a plurality of respective context keywords are stored to a plurality of contexts, wherein each of the plurality of respective context keywords is different. In response to sending of a first plurality of instant messages from an electronic device, a first context is selected at the electronic device from among the plurality of contexts. A first context keyword of the plurality of respective context keywords that matches respective first terms in the first plurality of instant messages is stored in the first context. The first plurality of instant messages are stored to a first chat session in the first context that was selected by the selecting. The first context that comprises the first plurality of instant messages and the first context keyword is sent to a recipient device. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158854 | Message Focusing - A method and apparatus of a device that focuses messages is described. In an exemplary method, the device receives a first and second group of message. The device further selects a related message from the second group of messages that is related to each message in the first group. This selecting is based on an affinity group, where the affinity group includes a message address that occurs in at least one of the messages in the second group and the affinity group is determined using the message addresses contained in the first and second groups. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158855 | Data Clustering - A method and apparatus of a device that creates message affinity groups uses the affinity groups to relate messages and threads is described. In an exemplary method, the device receives messages, where the messages include message addresses. The device determines multiple affinity groups of message addresses based on a probability that a message including one of the message addresses also includes one or more of the other message addresses in the affinity group. In addition, the device presents one or more of the affinity groups. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158856 | Message Focusing - A method and apparatus of a device that focuses messages is described. In an exemplary method, the device receives a first and second group of message. The device further selects a related message from the second group of messages that is related to each message in the first group. This selecting is based on an affinity group, where the affinity group includes a message address that occurs in at least one of the messages in the second group and the affinity group is determined using the message addresses contained in the first and second groups. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158857 | Message Thread Clustering - A method and apparatus of a device that clusters threads of messages is described. In an exemplary method, the device receives multiple message threads, where each message thread includes one or more messages that are related to each message in that thread. For each of the message threads, the device computes a thread signature using affinity groups, where each affinity group is a group of messages that are related to each other. Furthermore, the device creates a group of related messages using the thread signatures. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158858 | Resource Optimization for Online Services - Resource optimization for online services is described. In one example, objects (such as mailboxes or other data associated with an online service) are assigned to network elements (such as servers) by inferring a relationship graph from log data relating to usage of the online service. The graph has a node for each object, and connections between each pair of objects having data items in common. Each connection has a weight relating to the number of common data items. The graph is partitioned into a set of clusters, such that each cluster has nodes joined by connections with a high weight relative to the weight of connections between nodes in different clusters. The objects are then distributed to the network elements such that objects corresponding to nodes in the same cluster are located on the same network element. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158859 | DETERMINING AN UNEXPECTED DISCONNECT EVENT CONSTRAINT WITHIN A TEXT EXCHANGE SESSION - A device communicatively linked with a text exchange session can be identified. The device can be a computing device associated with a computing resource. The resource can be associated with a state and state information. The device can be associated with a text exchange application. State information associated with the computing resource can be obtained. The state information can be a resource identifier and a resource value. A computing resource state change can be determined. The determination can be responsive to a disconnect event associated with the device. The disconnect event can result in the device not communicatively linked to the text exchange session. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158860 | ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods of confirming an addressee of an email message include receiving an email message addressed to one or more forwarding addresses. At least one email address associated with each of the one or more forwarding addresses is obtained. A potential discrepancy in the email message is detected in response to the at least one obtained email address. Before sending the email message, an alert is issued to a sender of the email message. The alert provides a recommendation regarding whether to continue with sending the email message and identifies content associated with the email message that led to detecting the potential discrepancy. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158861 | SIP-BASED CUSTODIAN ROUTING IN CONTENT-CENTRIC NETWORKS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating establishment of connections between a local endpoint and a remote endpoint. During operation, the system sends, from the local endpoint, a single connection-request message to a proxy server, which forks the single connection-request message to a number of remote endpoints. The system receives one or more response messages from the remote endpoints. A respective response message carries address information associated with the remote endpoint. Upon receiving the response message, the system sends an acknowledgment corresponding to the received response message to the corresponding remote endpoint via the proxy server, and establishes a connection between the local endpoint and at least one remote endpoint. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158862 | CUSTODIAN ROUTING WITH NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION IN CONTENT-CENTRIC NETWORKS - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating establishment of connections between a local endpoint and a remote endpoint. During operation, the system sends, from the local endpoint, a single connection-request message to a proxy server, which forks the single connection-request message to a number of remote endpoints. The system receives one or more response messages from the remote endpoints. A respective response message carries address information associated with the remote endpoint. Upon receiving the response message, the system sends an acknowledgment corresponding to the received response message to the corresponding remote endpoint via the proxy server, and establishes a connection between the local endpoint and at least one remote endpoint. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158863 | HASH TAG MANAGEMENT IN A MICROBLOGGING INFRASTRUCTURE - Architecture that provides enhanced tag telemetry in a microblogging communications infrastructure. The architecture provides efficient discovery and tracking of topics that are of interest to a specific user by enabling users to follow (track) hash tags (#tag) and to receive and view all messages tagged with the hash tag appear in the user's personal feed. Each hash tag has a persisted tag page that aggregates all the associated activity, and includes a list that includes, but is not limited to, the tag followers, the most frequent user (uses the tag the most often in a specific time frame), a description, related tags, for example. The user can receive all the updates in the user's personal feed, and see an aggregation of all the messages and conversations associated with the tag in single place. The user can also mute the tag to prevent the receiving of tag information. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158864 | CONTEXTUAL CONVERSATION FRAMEWORK - A platform and end user interface are provided as part of a contextual communications framework for enabling developers to add context to conversations before they start or as they occur. The context may be consumed through a communication application user interface or through an application associated with a contextual document or file. The exchanged context and any updates to it may be stored following the conversation such that subsequent continuations of the conversation may be provided with the updated context. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158865 | MANAGING TASKS AND INFORMATION - A system, method, and computer program product are disclosed. These relate to receiving a message for a first party; receiving a command from the first party to create-and-delegate a task pertaining to the message, the task delegated to a second party; storing the task in a database; storing a delegation in the database, the delegation of the task from the first party to the second party; and notifying the second party of the delegation. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158866 | Method and System for Facilitating Interaction with Multiple Content Provider Websites - A method and system for facilitating interaction between an electronic device and a plurality of content provider websites are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at a server a plurality of information portions provided from the websites, where each of the information portions is associated with a respective copy of information that is available at each of the websites. The method also includes aggregating at the server the information portions so that they are combined into an overall grouping, with the respective information portions being maintained respectively as distinct subportions within the grouping. Further, the method includes sending from the server a message for receipt by a part of the electronic device, the primary message including the grouping. The grouping is sent together with an additional copy of the information or with an indication of that information to which the overall grouping relates. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158867 | CLOUD MESSAGE TRANSFER APPARATUS TO REDUCE NON-DELIVERY REPORTS - Duplicate deliveries of email messages are prevented when a transient failure prevents delivery to some of a plurality of intended recipients but delivery to an other one or more of the intended recipients is successful. After receiving a list of recipients, an email body, and an “end of data” sequence, but prior to responding to the “end of data” sequence, an email server determines a transient failure reply code when any one of the address mailboxes of intended recipients is not available. A message-memorandum, such as the globally unique message-id and the address of one or more successful recipients is stored into a memorandum store. A subsequent transmission of the corresponding message will only be delivered to recipients who have not previously received it. Using this invention, the receiving/relay system would persistently track which recipients were allowed or refused by some unique characteristic of the message, such as internet message ID or a checksum of the distinct portions of the message/envelope that are unlikely to change (e.g. sender, recipients, body). Once a message has been identified as one that has been previously partially deferred, the recipients that were previously allowed would be ignored and delivery would be attempted only to the recipients that had not previously been allowed. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158868 | PROTECTING PRIVACY IN GROUPS E-MAIL MESSAGES - Protecting privacy in groups e-mails messages. A method includes the step of receiving an e-mail message having one or more intended recipients. The method also includes the step of comparing content of the e-mail message against content of previous e-mail messages. Further, the method includes the step of flagging the e-mail message. In another embodiment, a computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium when executed by a processor, performs the method for verifying intended recipients of an e-mail message with anomalous content. In yet another embodiment, a system to verify intended recipients of an e-mail message with anomalous content includes an e-mail interface and a content analyzer. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158869 | CENTRIFUGAL COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION METHOD - A system for communicating information among members of a group having peripheral communications devices comprises a central agent comprising two-way links to the peripheral devices, a notice generator triggered by an information input from an inputting member directed to a receiving member, the notice generator generating a notice for the receiving member, and pushing the notice to the peripheral device of the receiving member only if the member is one to whom the associated information input was directed, a central storage medium in which the information input is stored, and an access channel such as a URL by which the receiving member may receive the information input only if the receiving member responds to the notice. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158870 | Anti-Phishing Electronic Message Verification - Systems and methods are disclosed for allowing a recipient of an electronic message to verify the authenticity of the electronic message. A code can be included in the electronic message. The code can represent, or be associated with, an attribute of the electronic message. The recipient can navigate independently of the electronic message to a website familiar to the recipient and enter the code. In response, one or more attributes can be displayed to the recipient. The attributes are usable to verify the electronic message. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158871 | Sending Notification of Event - Usability is improved by decreasing the number of notifications to be read in receiving mails including notifications of events. A notification of an event is sent. In one aspect, this comprises receiving, in response to occurrence of an event, a notification of the event; storing, when event data generated from the received notification matches a conditional expression in a profile associated with the event, the notification of the event in a queue associated with at least one of change management information corresponding to the event and a recipient of the change management information; and sending, when an earliest time out of transfer times set in respective notifications stored in the queue has come, all the notifications stored in the queue, to a client that is the recipient, as a single notification. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158872 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR HORIZONTALLY SCALABLE HIGH-AVAILABILITY DYNAMIC CONTEXT-BASED ROUTING - Methods, servers and systems for communicating information in networks enable efficient expansion while maintaining high-availability. A first message associated with an entity may be received on a first server. An operation may be performed on certain information included in the first message associated with the entity to identify a first data repository in which information associated with the first message or the entity is to be stored. Information extracted from the first message may be stored in the identified first data repository. When a second message associated with the entity is received, the same operation may be performed on the same certain information included in the second message to identify the first data repository in which information associated with the first message or the entity is stored. The information related to the first message or the entity from the first data repository may then be used. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158873 | DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, DATA COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data communication apparatus which does not have a function for receiving, via a mail server, e-mail sent by an external device includes a setting unit configured to set a POP account for the mail server, a reading unit configured to read a document to generate image data, a sending unit configured to send the generated image data as an e-mail via the mail server after performing authentication based on the POP account set by the setting unit, and a notification unit configured to transmit to the mail server, a delete instruction to delete an e-mail stored in a mailbox on the mail server. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158874 | METHOD FOR VIEWING NON-IMAGE ATTACHMENTS ON A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for viewing an attachment of an email message on a portable electronic device in which the attachment has a renderable format. The method includes: requesting to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the device, building a graph structure within an attachment server representing a map of the attachment, the graph structure including at least one renderable identifier corresponding to a page of the attachment, requesting rendering of the attachment, the rendering request sent from the attachment viewer to the attachment server and including the at least one renderable identifier, initializing a rendering library and storing rendering commands corresponding to command types of the graph structure in the rendering library, drawing the rendering commands in an off-screen bitmap which is saved as a JPEG file, sending the JPEG file to the portable electronic device and displaying the JPEG file in the attachment viewer. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158875 | Assigning an Internet domain to a user as the user registers with a server - A method wherein a server computer assigns a domain to a user, and uses direct domain to domain content transfers, and not web-based linking, to enable a first user's content to be directly associated with a second user's content. Steps include registering and assigning a first user identification to the first user requesting registration; assigning a first domain to the first registered user; receiving a second request from a second user to register with the server computer; registering the second user; assigning a second domain to the second registered user; managing the assigned first domain by assigning a first content provided by the first user to the first domain; managing the assigned second domain by assigning a second user provide second content to the second domain; receiving a request from a client for the first content at the first domain; and fetching and returning the first content from the first domain and the second content from the second domain to the client, wherein fetching and returning is performed by the server computer without using web-based linking. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158876 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BROADCASTING MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE - A method and system for broadcasting a multimedia message are disclosed. The method includes: a broadcasting source node packs multimedia content to be broadcasted into a multimedia message, and sends the multimedia message to a reception end node in structural Peer-to-Peer which establishes a virtual connection with the present broadcasting source node; the reception end node receiving the multimedia message forwards the multimedia message to other reception end nodes establishing a virtual connection with the present reception end node. The method and system can save bandwidth and processing capability resources of the whole overlay network, and can make loads be distributed to nodes except the broadcasting source node more evenly to prevent the broadcasting source node from being bottleneck. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158877 | E-MAIL AUTHENTICATION - A system and method for determining whether an e-mail originates from a sender authorized by an address provider to send the e-mail to an intended recipient's e-mail address. The e-mail identifies an address provider from which the intended recipient's e-mail address was obtained. The e-mail is delivered to the intended recipient only upon verification that the sender is authorized by the address provider to obtain the intended recipient's e-mail address. The system and method may also provide for determining whether an e-mail originates from a forged source. A server receives data relating to an e-mail, including a purported sender and a verification host. The server queries the verification host with information pertaining to the e-mail and requests confirmation that the e-mail originates from the purported sender. The e-mail is determined to originate from a forged source unless the verification host responds that the e-mail originates from the purported sender. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158878 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In a service providing system, a client computer displays chat log data received from a server in a log display area and shared information in a shared-information display area. The chat log data and the shared information, both of which are received from the server, are displayed with graphical information which supplements a relationship between the chat log data and the shared information. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158879 | DIALOG SERVER FOR HANDLING CONVERSATION IN VIRTUAL SPACE METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR HAVING CONVERSATION IN VIRTUAL SPACE - A dialog server which provides dialogs made by at least one user through their respective avatars in a virtual space. A method and a computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions for executing the steps of the method are also provided. The dialog server includes: a position storage unit which stores positional information on the avatars; an utterance receiver which receives at least one utterance of avatars and utterance strength representing an importance or attention level of the utterance; an interest level calculator which calculates interest levels between avatars based on their positional information; a message processor which generates a message based on the utterance in accordance with a value calculated from the interest levels and the utterance strength; and a message transmitter which transmits the message to the avatars. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158880 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGING AND COMMUNICATION BASED ON GROUPS - Systems and methods providing users with a rich web experience are disclosed. In one embodiment, a client and at least one server are in communication using a dual communication link. In another embodiment, a markup language based instant messaging application is disclosed. The instant messaging application may include group instant messaging. The instant messaging application may also provide group member persistence and message persistence at the server. In another embodiment, a card based web application is disclosed, where the card information and character may be shared with other users or within a group. The cards may also be configurable by users. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158881 | Software License Agreement Amongst Workgroups Using Software Usage Data - A license handling information handling system receives an electronic message from a first computer system utilized by a first user. The first user's message requests a license to a licensed product that has previously been purchased by the organization. The license handling information handling system identifies a second user in the organization that currently has a license to the licensed product, and requests that the second user relinquish the license to the licensed product. The second user indicates that the second user's license will be relinquished for a temporary time period. The licensing handling information handling system sends an electronic message, including the temporary time period, to the first user. In response to the first user accepting the temporary time period, the second user's license to the licensed product is revoked, and the first user is granted a license to the licensed product. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120166549 | Method, Apparatus and System for File Transfer Based on File Directory - The present disclosure provides a file directory-based file transfer method, apparatus and system to address the problem that conventional instant messaging (IM) systems cannot directly implement one-time transfer of an entire file directory. In one aspect, a the sending IM client sends files under root directories of one or more file folders under a file directory one file folder after another. Before sending files under a root directory of a respective file folder, the receiving IM client may send a notification message including a name of the respective file folder and location information of the respective folder under the file directory, and then send all files under the root directory of the respective file folder one-by-one. The receiving IM client establishes a file folder according to the received notification message, and stores files received after the notification message into a root directory of the established file folder. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166550 | LIGHTWEIGHT ONTOLOGY BASED REALIZATION OF A BUSINESS TO BUSINESS PROTOCOL AND A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION ENGINE - Disclosed is a method of business-to-business messaging by receiving a human-cognizable business-to-business message; parsing the human-cognizable business-to-business message; validating the human-cognizable business-to-business message using a message protocol ontology; and selecting and executing a service call corresponding to the particular human-cognizable business-to-business message based upon a message-to-service ontology. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166551 | METHODS FOR EMAILING LABELS AS PORTABLE DATA FILES AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, computer readable medium and device that enables emailing a label as a portable data file to destination information associated with a mobile computing device includes obtaining at a proxy server device a web page with a label from a web server device in response to a request from a mobile computing device. The proxy server device obtains destination information for the label associated with the requesting mobile computing device. The proxy server device converts the label into a portable data file and transmits the portable data file using the destination information for the label associated with the requesting mobile computing device. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166552 | Managing Messaging Subscriptions in a Messaging System - A messaging system for managing messaging subscriptions. A messaging provider receives a request to subscribe a user's message account to a subscription system. The messaging provider associates the subscription system with the user's message account to indicate to the messaging provider that the user has subscribed to receive messages from the subscription system. The messaging provider also communicates an identifier for the message account to the subscription system, which is used by the subscription system in sending messages to the user's message account. By subscribing to receive messages from subscription systems via the messaging provider in this manner, the messaging provider is automatically notified of the subscription systems that a user has subscribed to, enabling the messaging provider to more accurately determine how incoming messages should be handled. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166553 | USING SOCIAL GRAPH FOR ACCOUNT RECOVERY - A social networking system performs account recovery for a user with the help of the user's connections (e.g., friends). The social networking system selects connections of the user based on information indicating likelihood of real-world interactions between the user and the selected connections. Access codes are sent to the selected connections and the user instructed to obtain access codes from the selected connections via a communication that is outside the social networking system, for example, via phone. The user provides the access codes obtained from the selected connections to the social networking system. If the access codes provided by the user match the access codes sent to the selected connections, the user is granted access to the account. Real-world interactions between two users are determined based on sharing of devices between the users or information indicating presence of the users in the same place during same time interval. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166554 | AUTOMATICALLY COMPRESSING E-MAIL FORWARDED TO A USER TELEPHONE - A method receiving an e-mail message addressed to a recipient and comprising header data and message content. The method applies a template to transform the e-mail message to an SMS (Short Message Service) format. The method also forwards the message to the recipient as a first SMS message. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166555 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BROADCASTING SPORTING EVENT INFORMATION - A method of communicating information related to sporting event information can include the steps of accessing a website, entering sporting event information into the website, and broadcasting the first sporting event information via a plurality of emails. The first email can contain the first sporting event information in a first format and a second email can contain the first sporting event information in a second format. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166556 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME PUBLISH SUBSCRIBE DISCOVERY BASED ON DISTRIBUTED HASH TABLE - A method, a device, and a system for real-time publish subscribe (RTPS) discovery based on a distributed hash table (DHT) are provided. The method for RTPS discovery based on a DHT includes: registering, by a participant peer of participants, the participants in a distributed hash table (DHT) of an overlay network; obtaining location information on relative participants to be discovered from the DHT; sharing information on entities of the relative participants by exchanging a discovery message with the participant peer based on the location information on the obtained relative participants; and performing handshaking between the entities of the participants and the entities of the relative participants. Therefore, the exemplary embodiments of the present invention can rapidly and efficiently perform the discover of the participants based on the DHT. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166557 | INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD USING ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS - A user can search information about products or services, its description, its price or price range and any other information by sending electronic mails or short message service, where user identifiers are replaced with search words that each search word is connected by underscore character or other distinctive character to data servers. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166558 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORWARDING EMAIL - An email forwarding apparatus and method are provided. The email forwarding apparatus for an original email received from a transmitter email providing apparatus to a mobile communication terminal device in response to a request from the transmitter email providing apparatus, the email forwarding apparatus includes a data communication unit to transmit and receive information regarding an email to and from the transmitter email providing apparatus or the mobile communication terminal device; a file storage unit to store an attachment file that is attached to the original email; and a control unit to transmit to the mobile communication terminal device an email which includes access information associated with the attachment file stored in the file storage unit and/or text information contained in the original email and transmit to a receiver email providing apparatus a forwarding email which includes the attachment file stored in the file storage unit and/or remade text information. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166559 | VESSEL AND LAND MESSENGER SERVICE APPARATUS AND METHOD USING VESSEL MAINTENANCE SERVICE - A vessel messenger service apparatus includes: a vessel messenger service unit for providing messenger service between vessel, converting a local message from a vessel client into a global message to be transmitted to a land client, converting a message generated from the land client into a local message and providing the converted local message to the vessel client; and a vessel maintenance service unit for providing a remote vessel maintenance service and a messenger service between the vessel client and the land client by interworking with a unified vessel maintenance service unit on land. The apparatus further includes a database managing unit for managing information for the vessel client and the land client. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166560 | INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, CONTENT PROVIDING SERVER, COMMUNICATION RELAY SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD AND COMMUNICATION RELAY METHOD - An information processing unit which acquires content data from a content providing server and is capable of reproducing the acquired content data, including: a content information acquiring portion for acquiring content information including content data and meta data of the content data; a display control portion which carries out display control for reproducing the content data on a display portion; and a bidirectional communication portion which carries out bidirectional communication with other information processing unit connected to the content providing server, in which, when the content data is reproduced, the bidirectional communication portion selects a communication message to be received from communication messages sent from the other information processing unit corresponding to an execution state of the bidirectional communication. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166561 | Multi-Channel Dynamic Response Communication Engine - An interactive communication system in which a communication established between a user and a content provider comprises of a plurality of disparate communication devices for engaging at least one user, a plurality of gateways in communication with the plurality of disparate communication devices, a multi-channel proxy service, a response engine, a message push engine, a message push scheduler and a content database. The response engine has a dynamic response engine and a just in time response engine. The interactive communication system having an inherent ability to anticipate a response from a user have the ability to construct an expected and coherent response dynamically to the user. The interactive communication system is also capable of completing and/or continuing communication through a time tagged data management. The interactive communication can be obtained by broadcasting a message to a user and receiving a reply from the user for training, quizzing, studying, polling and surveying. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166562 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL CONVERSATION - A system and method for routing SIP session which can refer to converged IP messaging (CPM) are provided in the present invention, which can send the SIP session invite message to the same user's multiple devices with the same user identifier of the same user; when the multiple devices belonging to the recipient are online simultaneously, the SIP session invite message is respectively routed by the service system to multiple devices. Thereby the problem of routing the SIP session of “one number, multiple devices”, which can refer to the CPM message and CPM session invite message, is solved, and the user experience is improved. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166563 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HIDING MESSAGES - Based on user configuration, a main messaging user interface screen on a messaging device either presents a list of references to messages stored on the device based on a complete index of references to the stored messages or based on a filtered index of references to the stored messages. References to stored messages of a predetermined type are not maintained in the filtered index. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166564 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - In a printer connected to a network, email appended with link information is prepared for enabling an administrator to access information about the printer network terminal. The email is transmitted to the administrator terminal at a predetermined timing. Then, the administrator terminal accesses the information based on the link information appended to the email. As such, when a problem occurs in the printer, operations for resolving the problem can be quickly undertaken by the administrator. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACKNOWLEDGING CALENDAR APPOINTMENTS USING A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method are provided for communicating calendar appointment acknowledgements to a sender from a recipient device, in particular a mobile communication device capable of receiving SMS messages. The sender creates a calendar object comprising calendar event data, designates a recipient, and selects a transport method for delivering the calendar event data. If the transport method is SMS, then a calendar object message in plaintext SMS format is prepared, comprising a unique identifier, and transmitted to the recipient. The recipient's mobile communication device receives the SMS message and parses the message to extract the calendar event data, and transmits an acknowledgement to the sender including the unique identifier. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166566 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, MAIL RECORDING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic equipment sends a mail specifying destinations, confirms mail delivery to the destinations based on a delivery confirmation notification received for the mail with respect to the destinations, records in a first storage the sent mail whose delivery is being confirmed together with each destination for which the delivery is being confirmed, records in a second storage the mail whose delivery is confirmed together with each destination for which the delivery is confirmed, and copies the mail from the first to the second storage when the notification is first received and moves each destination for which the notification is received to the second storage. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166567 | E-Mail Proxy - In one embodiment, a method for processing an e-mail message addressed to an e-mail client is disclosed. The method comprises receiving at a mail server an e-mail message addressed to the e-mail client, the e-mail message including an attachment which is characterized by a size; reducing the size of the attachment to create a reduced size attachment; preparing a formatted message, which includes the reduced size attachment and a link to the attachment, wherein the attachment is downloadable from the mail server using the link; and delivering the formatted message to the e-mail client for display on a computational device. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166568 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GROUP MESSAGING - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for group messaging are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a group messaging system receiving a broadcast message from an originating user, imposing a limit on a number of text characters included in the broadcast message, identifying a group of intended recipients of the broadcast message, determining contact information for an intended recipient included in the group, determining at least one broadcast message sending method for the intended recipient, and sending the broadcast message to the intended recipient using the at least one broadcast message sending method. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166569 | CREATING RICH EXPERIENCES IN MAIL THROUGH ATTACHMENTS - The disclosed embodiments provide for an email and messenging system that allows a user composing a message to select an application which will appear next to the composition screen at both the sending and receiving computer. The application is specified as an attachment at the sending client and when received at a receiving client of a user with an enhanced or compliant mail/messenging account the application will be executed at the receiving client, thus customizing the functionality of the receiving client computer and the mail experience between sender and receiver. An unapproved application sent as an attachment will not be executed and/or alter the receiving client interface. Similarly, the application will simply appear as a standard attachment at a non enhanced recipient client/account. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120173630 | Systems and methods for creating and sustaining cause-based social communities using wireless mobile devices and the global computer network - Systems and methods for creating and sustaining cause-based social communities and for creating social communities around a specific cause using mobile wireless devices and the global network of computers are described. The system has a cause-server on the global net, a cause-message originating mobile device and a ring of mobile devices. The ring has a first ring, directly reachable by original mobile, a second ring, reachable by mobile devices of first ring, and a third ring, reachable by mobile devices of the second ring of mobile devices and so on. These rings enable a cause-message to spread out in rings globally or regionally. The cause-server hosts functions that (i) enable creation of a cause-image message, (ii) distribute the cause-image to mobile devices, (iii) create a real time map of the distribution, (iv) enable display of the map updated periodically, and (v) archive the cause-message data for subsequent search/retrieval. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELEGATING A MESSAGE - A method and apparatus for delegating a message. An audio message from a prioritized list of audio messages is received by a computing device. The audio message identifies a first sender designated priority and a first recipient prioritization attribute. A delegate for responding to the audio message is determined. A delegation action identifier identifying a delegation action of a plurality of delegation actions is determined. A first delegation action directs a delegate to generate a response and send the response to the sender without notifying a delegator. A second delegation action directs the delegate to generate the response and send the response to both the sender and the delegator. A third delegation action directs the delegate to generate the response and send the response to the delegator. A delegate identifier identifying the delegate and the delegation action identifier are communicated to the message server for delegation of the audio message to the delegate in accordance with the delegation action. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173632 | EMAIL HISTORY HANDLER THAT CHOOSES HISTORY SEGMENTS TO INCLUDE WITH A COMMUNICATION REPLY - A response event to provide a communication reply can be detected. The reply can be to an email message which is part of an email conversation. The email conversation can include a sequence of zero or more response email messages to an initial email message as well as the initial email message. Attributes of different ones of the email messages can be queried. A quantity N can be determined based on values of the attributes being compared against at least one history criteria. The quantity of N can vary based on the values and the history criteria. A reply history set can be created that includes a set of history segments. Each history segment can correspond to one of the N different ones of the email messages of the email conversation. The reply history set can be incorporated within the communication reply. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173633 | EMAIL CONVERSATION MANAGEMENT SUPPORT - An embodiment of the disclosure alleviates organizational and management issues with email conversations by providing email conversation management support tools. These tools provide a conversation originator (or other administrator) an ability to perform management actions for an email conversation. These actions can include, for example, an ability to explicitly end an email conversation so that no further messages in the conversation can be sent. A corresponding ability to re-open previously closed or ended email conversations can also be provided. Further, functionality to summarize an email conversation, to establish a priority or importance level for email conversations, to annotate email conversations, and/or to annotate and prioritize individual messages of an email conversation can be provided. In one embodiment, an email conversation administrator can be responsive for creating annotations, opening, and closing email conversations. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173634 | EMAIL MESSAGE ASSOCIATION - A method and computer program product for email message association is described. A method may comprise detecting an indication of an email target of an email message. The method may further comprise determining if the email target is an intended recipient of at least a portion of the email message. The method may also comprise associating the at least a portion of the email message with the email target by adding metadata to the email message. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173635 | SELECTIVE MESSAGE RENDERING USING A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method is provided for selectively presenting received messages to a user via a visual or audio interface while redacting potentially sensitive information or notification of messages containing sensitive information. When a message is received, the message content is compared to predefined criteria to determine whether it contains sensitive information. If the message contains sensitive information, its header information, which is normally presented in a message mailbox listing or in an audible notification, is redacted to remove some or all of the header content. The user may still review the entire message as received by the user's communication device without redaction. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173636 | CREATING IMPLICIT INSTANT MESSAGING CONTACT LIST GROUPS - One or more interactions of a user are monitored. The one or more interactions are analyzed to determine a plurality of intersecting interaction users. An implicit instant messaging contact list group is created for the user. The implicit instant messaging contact list group includes at least a portion of the plurality of intersecting interaction users. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173637 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE ACTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL SECURITY DEVICES - Managing a Personal Security Device (PSD) includes retrieving proprietary information from a remote storage location using a first Remote Computer System, providing at least one Client as a host to the PSD and establishing a communications pipe over a first network between the PSD and the Remote Computer System. The communications pipe communicates with the PSD through the Client. Managing a PSD also includes transmitting the proprietary information from the Remote Computer System to the PSD by sending a PSD-formatted message through the communications pipe, where the proprietary information provided in the PSD-formatted message and passing through the Client is at least partially inaccessible by the Client, processing the PSD-formatted messages at the PSD to extract the proprietary information and storing the proprietary information in the PSD. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173638 | System and Method for Managing Electronic Groups - A system and method are provided for operating a computing device, e.g. for instant messaging. In one example, a method comprises providing an option to enable data for an electronic group to be removed when a member leaves the electronic group, and removing the data when the member leaves. In another example, a method comprises determining a capacity indicative of a number of members permitted in an electronic group, and displaying the capacity on the computing device. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173639 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZED MESSAGE DELIVERY - A method and system for providing personalized message delivery to a user is disclosed. In accordance with the method and system, data specific to a user is gathered, analyzed and used to determine preferences and order of precedence of the user; and personalized message delivery is provided based upon the user's preferences and order of precedence. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173640 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED TEAM SUPPORT MESSAGE DELIVERY - A method and system for providing personalized message delivery to one or more individual users of at least one team of users is disclosed. In accordance with the method and system, data specific to one or more individual users of at least one team of users is gathered, analyzed and used to determine preferences and order of precedence of the one or more individual users of the at least one team of users; and personalized message delivery is provided to the one or more individual users of the at least one team of users based upon the one or more individual users of the at least one team of users' preferences and order of precedence. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173641 | METHOD OF TRANSFERRING DATA BETWEEN END POINTS IN A NETWORK - A method and a computer system for transferring data between a first end point and a second end point in a network. The first end point has access to one or more communication servers for sending data and the second end point is represented by one or more communication addresses associated with one or more communication servers for receiving data. One or more communication addresses representative of the second endpoint is received at the first end point. It is then determined whether at least one of the received communication addresses is associated with at least one communication server to which the first endpoint has access. If a positive determination is made, data is transmitted from the first end point using a selected communication server to which the first end point has access and a communication address representing the second end point and associated with said selected communication server. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173642 | Methods and Systems Using Taglets for Management of Data - Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to systems and methods for classifying, sorting, storing, managing, tagging, searching, organizing, and/or performing actions on files, folders and other electronic information using one or more data processing systems. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173643 | Method And System For Organizing Electronic Messages Using Eye-Gaze Technology - Organizing messages received and transmitted between at least two computer systems over a network is described. In one aspect, the method includes tracking where a user is gazing as the user is composing an outgoing message on a first computer system. During a composition time period in which the user is composing the message, a relevance rating for each of a plurality of gaze areas is determined. The relevance rating of a gaze area is based on a number of times the user's gaze dwells on the displayed message associated with the gaze area after the user's gaze is directed away from the displayed message. The method further includes identifying at least one displayed message that is related to the outgoing message based on the relevance ratings of each gaze area, and associating an identifier for at least one of the at least one related message with the outgoing message. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173644 | E-MAIL MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED RICH MEDIA DELIVERY - A multi-user e-mail messaging system is described that is interfaced through the Internet and includes a first user group sharing a first server, which first server is interfaced to the Internet. In this system, after an e-mail message has been originated by an originating user of the first user group, the e-mail message is directed onto an e-mail enhancement path, and additional content is added to the e-mail message using the e-mail enhancement path to produce an enhanced e-mail message. Thereafter, the enhanced e-mail message from the e-mail enhancement path to the intended recipient. In one feature, the path taken by an incoming e-mail message is different from an outgoing path taken by an e-mail message sent from the first user group. The outgoing path defined to the intended recipient includes the enhancement path. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173645 | MANAGING NOTIFICATION SERVICE CONNECTIONS AND DISPLAYING ICON BADGES - A method and apparatus to manage notification service connections. In one embodiment of the invention, a mobile device schedules a notification service connection message transmission interval for each of a plurality of notification service connections. The mobile device also associates a notification service connection message transmission window with each notification service connection message transmission interval. The mobile device synchronizes transmission of notification service connection messages based on overlapping notification service connection message transmission windows. Responsive to receiving a notification message on one of the notification service connections, an icon badge is displayed on the mobile device for the appropriate application. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173646 | IP Address Automatic Assignment Method, Device, and System - The present invention relates to an IP address automatic assignment method, a client, and a server. The present invention solves the technical problem in the prior art that a DHCP Relay host needs to be added additionally to assign an IP address to a client when a DHCP server and the client are not on the same network segment, thereby saving configuration cost and simplifying network configuration. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173647 | TRANSACTIONAL MESSAGING SUPPORT IN CONNECTED MESSAGING NETWORKS - A method and system are provided for transactional messaging support in connected messaging networks. A first messaging network is provided which does not support transactional processing and a second messaging network is provided which does support transactional processing. A proxy application is provided between the first and second messaging networks. The proxy application receives messages from a first application on the first messaging network, the messages including instructions regarding transactional processing of the messages, and forwards the messages to the second messaging network using a transactional processing supported by the second messaging network. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173648 | Content Channels for Electronic Messaging - Techniques are described to provide content channels for electronic messaging. In an implementation, a content channel may be configured to contain multiple content portions having various types of content for delivery to one or more clients. The content channel may be associated with an electronic message such as an email or instant message. The content channel and updates to the content channel may be pushed to the clients as electronic messages in an electronic messaging environment. The clients may expose a user interface having one or more portions that are arranged to present and provide interaction with the content channel. The content channel may be pinned within a designated portion of the user interface to enable repeated access to the content channel via the designated portion. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173649 | Multimedia messaging method and system - A multimedia messaging method and system, wherein the same multimedia message can be used to encapsulate both non-streamable media components and descriptors relating to streamable media components. A recipient extracts the descriptors from the multimedia message and initiates streaming sessions accordingly. The notification process by which a recipient user agent is informed of the availability of a multimedia message is the same regardless the type of the components within the message. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173650 | MULTI-MEDIA MESSAGING - Methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for creating multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a message in a first format, adapting the message to a MMS message, and sending the MMS message to a user device. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173651 | Managing a Virtual Object - Managing a virtual object in a server device includes storing the virtual object in a database accessible to the server device and, in response to a non-subscriber user performing a first action on the virtual object, sending a message from the server device to at least one user that subscribes to the virtual object. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173652 | METHOD FOR HANDLING COMMUNICATIONS OVER A NON-PERMANENT COMMUNICATION LINK - A method is disclosed for handling communications over a non-permanent communication link. The method comprising centrally receiving a message to transmit from a plurality of applications, checking the availability of the non-permanent communication link, if the non-permanent communication link is not-available, queuing the received message for future transmission, and providing the message to a transport/network layer if the communication link is available. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120179760 | Completion Processing For Data Communications Instructions - Completion processing of data communications instructions in a distributed computing environment with computers coupled for data communications through communications adapters and an active messaging interface (‘AMI’), injecting for data communications instructions into slots in an injection FIFO buffer a transfer descriptor, at least some of the instructions specifying callback functions; injecting a completion descriptor for each instruction that specifies a callback function into an injection FIFO buffer slot having a corresponding slot in a pending callback list; listing in the pending callback list callback functions specified by data communications instructions; processing each descriptor in the injection FIFO buffer, setting a bit in a completion bit mask corresponding to the slot in the FIFO where the completion descriptor was injected; and calling by the AMI any callback functions in the pending callback list as indicated by set bits in the completion bit mask. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179761 | Networked Inbox - A computer-implemented electronic messaging method and system, the method comprising the steps of receiving an electronic message at a first system, the electronic message comprising a caregiver type, obtaining contextual information associated with the electronic message at the first system, using the caregiver type and the contextual information to identify an intended caregiver recipient address for an intended caregiver recipient for the electronic message and providing the intended caregiver recipient address to facilitate delivery of the electronic message to the intended caregiver recipient. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STORING EMAILS IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - An email object is provided in a multi-tenant database system that can be related to multiple people (e.g., contact, lead, user) or any object represented for storage in the multi-tenant database system via sharing relationships. The email object follows a storage model such that some portions of an email are available using one form of storage and some portions of the email are available using another form of storage. In various aspects, a storage model provides users with a better value of a multi-tenant database system as storage requirements may be satisfied while providing users access to email content. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179763 | SESSION-BASED SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE MANAGEMENT - A short message service (SMS) message management system for special number service operator in a public safety answering point based environment is provided. SMS messages received at a gateway are converted to instant messaging session and routed to an operator position coupled to the gateway. The gateway maintains a messaging session between the operator position and the wireless device ensuring consistent communication is provided between the two parties. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179764 | Trusted social network - A technique for trusted social networking involves enabling parties to join a social network and provide a list of trusted content sources. The system can maintain folders associated with each of the trusted content sources for a first member. If one of the trusted content sources is a second member that indicates the first member is trusted, then the system can maintain a master folder for the first and second member. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179765 | E-MAIL ALERT SYSTEM - An e-mail sender is provided with an option to send a notification to the prospective recipient(s) of an e-mail indicating to the recipient that an e-mail has been sent to his or her attention or to a business or other entities attention. The notification can be advantageously sent by a different communications route, such as by mail, courier, telephone call, facsimile, social network, or other method. Back up notifications can also be sent on an automated basis. The notification can be sent automatically and/or sent a period of time after the e-mail is sent if an acknowledgment or reply is not received. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179766 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT STORAGE, RETRIEVAL AND USE WITH MATCHING CRITERIA - Systems and methods for integrated delivery and storage of digital mail are provided that combine consumer driven opt-in preferences with mailer driven matching criteria to ensure more accurate delivery. In one configuration the system obtains a digital mail piece intended for a particular digital mailbox. The system determines user opt-in preferences for the digital mail piece and obtains mailer matching criteria data associated with the digital mail piece. The system then delivers the digital mail piece to the digital mailbox only if consistent with the opt-in preferences and the matching criteria data. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179767 | DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT OF STATUS NOTIFICATIONS FOR MULTIPLE MESSAGE FORMATS - Systems and methods are provided for managing and delivering status notifications relating to messages transmitted between communication devices. Each communication device is provided with a status agent for detecting transmission of messages to a recipient device and receipt of messages from a sending device. Upon transmission, the status agent notifies a status service of the outbound message. Upon receipt of a message or upon the message being marked read once received, the status agent notifies the status service that the received message has been received or read accordingly. The status service then notifies the status agent of the sending device that the message has been received or read, so that the sending device's status agent can notify a corresponding messaging application. The status service operates to reconcile outbound message notification and received or read status updates for messages sent using a number of different applications or formats. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179768 | ANNOTATION OF DIGITAL ITEMS IN A SHARED LIST - Techniques are described for user-controlled annotation and sharing of one or more digital items. Examples of digital items that may be shared with other users include digital representations of graphic images, photographs, audio segments, songs, video segments, movies, and text (such as lists of favorites (e.g., a list of favorite books, a list of favorite movies, and a list of favorite places to visit)). A user may make a digital item available to other users of a computer network, such as an instant messaging system, a chat environment, or a subscription-based computer network. User-entered annotations, such as textual comments, may be associated with a digital item, and a user can select which other users can view and/or change all, or some, of the annotations. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179769 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDELIVERY NOTIFICATION USING MAIL IMAGE - A method and system is provided for notifying an addressee about a mail piece having an address. The system captures an image of the mail piece and determines a communication channel for the addressee using the address from the mail piece. The system provides the addressee with the image via the communication channel. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120185541 | Traffic Localization In Peer-To-Peer Networks - Provided is a method for localizing peer-to-peer traffic. The method includes transmitting, by a first node of a peer-to-peer network, a first message to one or more other nodes associated with the peer-to-peer network. The message includes a request for content and a deadline for when the content is to be received by the first node. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185542 | REGISTERING EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR ONLINE COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - A client computing device registers an email address as an identifier for online communication sessions. An email validation request message is received from the client computing device to validate an email address that includes the email address and an online communication session profile identifier that identifies an online communication session profile of a user of the client computing device. Responsive to determining that the email address has been validated, an email validated success message is sent to the client computing device. An activated email address request message is received from the client computing device that includes the email address and the online communication session profile identifier. The email address is then activated as an identifier associated with the online communication session profile to be used for online communication sessions. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185543 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION ON A WEBPAGE - An apparatus and a method for sharing information on a webpage are provided. The method includes receiving webpage change information from a first electronic device; including the received webpage change information in a webpage change message and generating the webpage change message including the received webpage change information, for notifying the change of the webpage of the first electronic device, by a telephony control point; and transmitting the generated webpage change message to a second terminal. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185544 | Method and Apparatus for Analyzing and Applying Data Related to Customer Interactions with Social Media - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques that quantize community interactions with social media to understand and influence consumer experiences. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185545 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method for transmitting information comprises receiving, by a server, contact information about a participant; assigning, by the server, an identification to the participant; associating, by the server, the identification with the contact information of the participant; allowing, by the server, use of the identification on a network, wherein the network is limited to a geographic region; receiving, by the server, a request transmitted over the network to send a message to the participant, wherein the request comprises the identification of the participant; determining, by the server, a method of communication of the participant based upon the identification in the request; and transmitting, by the server, the message to the participant using the preferred communication method. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185546 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURING EMAIL COMMUNICATION - A method and apparatus are provided for automatically configuring an email communication based on attachment files. When a plurality of files are selected for attachment to an email message, at least one parameter associated with the plurality of files is selected. When the at least one parameter is greater than a threshold, a plurality of email messages are generated that include the plurality of files based on an optimal set of files from the plurality of files. The optimal set is determined according to individual sizes of each of the plurality of files. The plurality of email messages are sent. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND MANAGEMENT OF SHORT VOICE MESSAGES - A system and method for exchanging short voice messages between devices connected to a network is provided. This system includes server components that are capable of being connected to a network and support the transmission, receipt, storage, and playback of short voice messages and location information. This system can also include software clients installed on mobile devices, desktop computers, and/or other remote computers that are connected to a network. These clients may also support voice modification of transmitted audio. This method enables asynchronous communication such that users may transmit voice messages and/or locations to recipients and the recipients may be alerted that messages have arrived, even if their clients are not active. The system of the invention provides privacy to the users of the system by allowing for multi-level privacy and trust settings, and by concealing a sending client's IP address from the receiving client. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185548 | RECURSIVE IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS FOR CASUAL COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCING - A method for real-time communication among two or more individuals separated in space. The method includes the steps of determining that a first individual is likely to be interested in communicating with a second individual via a first communications link; retrieving information via the first communications link about one or more additional individuals from electronic memory means associated with the second individual; and establishing communication with at least one of the additional individuals based on the retrieved information. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185549 | Unwanted E-Mail Filtering System Including Voting Feedback - A filter mechanism for unwanted e-mail messages uses a downloadable central source ( | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185550 | UNWANTED E-MAIL FILTERING SYSTEM INCLUDING VOTING FEEDBACK - A filter mechanism for unwanted e-mail messages uses a downloadable central source ( | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185551 | UNWANTED E-MAIL FILTERING SYSTEM INCLUDING VOTING FEEDBACK - A filter mechanism for unwanted e-mail messages uses a downloadable central source ( | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185552 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MESSAGE THREADS IN CONVERGED IP MESSAGING SERVICE - A mechanism to enable multiple message threads management in the context of the Converged IP Messaging (CPM) service and in the context of CPM inter-working with SMS is provided. A CPM user can simply start a message-based conversation with another CPM or Short Message Service (SMS) user without explicitly establishing a session beforehand. All messages that belong to a given conversation are displayed in the corresponding conversational view (i.e. window) in the CPM user device, even if the conversation is stopped and restarted at a later time, and even if there are multiple message threads available (currently active or stored) in the CPM device. Message structures and behavior of the CPM system elements to enable the functionalities above as well as a mechanism makes the message threads management possible even between a CPM user and an SMS user are also provided. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120191785 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SENDING AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A communication device includes: a processor for rendering a message list for display on a display screen in communication with the processor, the message list comprising indications of electronic messages received by the communication device; and an input device in communication with the processor, the processor configured to receive input from the input device to select at least one electronic message from the message list, and further configured to send identification of an electronic address associated with the at least one electronic message and an out-of-office reply setting to a messaging server, the messaging server for generating and sending an out-of-office notification to the electronic address. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191786 | Email Addressee Verification Systems and Methods for the Same - The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method of verifying a recipient address in an electronic correspondence, the method including the steps of: receiving a recipient address in an electronic correspondence; running an addressee verification logic configured to verify the recipient address according to any one of an: address suffix comparison, correspondence content, recipient combination, or to-from combinations; and indicating whether the addressee information is verified. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191787 | Method and system for implementing instant message and e-mail interworking - The disclosure discloses a method for implementing instant message and E-mail interworking, comprising: corresponding an IM user applying a service of IM and E-mail interworking to at least one E-mail address, either being constructed from an IM address of the IM user or being a pre-allocated E-mail address; determining the E-mail address or IM address of a destination user from a received IM or a received E-mail from a user, converting the IM into a E-mail or the E-mail into an IM, and sending the E-mail or IM to the determined receiving address of the destination user. The disclosure also discloses a system for implementing IM and E-mail interworking. The disclosure realizes a free interworking between IM and E-mail. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191788 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY OF A USER SELECTABLE COMMUNICATION INITIATOR - Methods and systems of facilitating chat sessions or other electronic communications between a consultant and a user are provided. A chat button or other electronic communication initiator is active and displayed to a user on a user device only when an indication of consultant availability is provided. Available time periods may be pre-scheduled and/or a consultant can indicated immediate availability. In this manner, a consultant can maintain an electronic communication schedule, and a user can know a consultant's present availability instantly without contacting the consultant or the consultant's organization. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191789 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MAILBOX MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus stores capacity limit information of a mailbox assigned to a group, and stores information of a list of a plurality of e-mail addresses belonging to the group and set capacities of individual mailboxes corresponding to individual e-mail addresses, receives a value of a set capacity of a mailbox corresponding to an e-mail address stored in a storage unit from an administrator terminal, determines whether the set capacities of all mailboxes corresponding to the plurality of e-mail addresses that belong to the group do not exceed a capacity limit of the mailbox assigned to the group, if a set capacity is changed to the set capacity of the mailbox corresponding to the received e-mail address, and updates the value of the set capacity of the mailbox corresponding to the received e-mail address if it is determined that the set capacities do not exceed the capacity limit. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191790 | Web-Based Push Messaging Methods and Systems - A system capable of coordinating push messages from among a plurality of sources is disclosed. The system includes a push message server communicatively connected to a plurality of publishers. The push message server includes a push subscription database containing a plurality of records, each record associating a user identity with a push message publisher and a user preference for receiving push messages from the publisher. The push message server also includes a communication component configured to receive push messages from one or more of the plurality of publishers and, based on user subscriptions managed in the push subscription database, transmit the push messages to one or more subscribers. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191791 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCALABLE MEETINGS IN A DISCUSSION SYNTHESIS ENVIRONMENT - The techniques of the present invention provide mechanisms for enabling a new type of interactive online discussion where any number of people can participate in a discussion of a topic and having the impression of following a coherent discussion. By following a novel process described in the present invention, eventually they would collectively generate a set of statements that the majority of the participants have agreed to. Moreover, a participation performance of the participants is being kept so as to potentially regroup those best performers in a future meeting with a similar topic. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191792 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING WHETHER AN ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE IS COMPLIANT WITH AN ETIQUETTE POLICY - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining whether an electronic mail message is compliant with an etiquette policy. In use, a predetermined event associated with an electronic mail message is identified. Additionally, it is determined whether the electronic mail message is compliant with an etiquette policy, in response to the predetermined event. Furthermore, a reaction is performed, based on the determination. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191793 | METHODS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS, APPARATUSES, AND SYSTEMS TO ACCOMMODATE DECISION SUPPORT AND REFERENCE CASE MANAGEMENT FOR DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided to accommodate decision support and reference case management for diagnostic imaging. An apparatus may include a processor configured to receive a request for an image from a client device. The processor may be further configured to retrieve a source image corresponding to the requested image from a memory. The processor may additionally be configured to process the source image to generate a second image having a greater resolution than the source image. The processor may also be configured to provide the second image to the client device to facilitate viewing and manipulation of the second image at the client device. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191794 | Reducing Email Message Size - A method, system and computer program product for supporting email message size reduction. Example operations may include identifying a first email recipient that is to receive a full version of an email message (full email message), identifying a second email recipient representing a new class of email recipient that is to receive a summary version of the email message (summary email message), and performing an action to facilitate the full email message being sent to the first email recipient and the summary email message being automatically generated from the full email message and sent to the second email recipient. The foregoing operations may be performed in one way by an email client and in another way by an email server. The email client and the email server may share responsibility for reducing email message size. Alternatively, the email client (or another implementing entity) may act alone. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191795 | DEVICE CENTRIC CONTROLS FOR A DEVICE CONTROLLED THROUGH A WEB PORTAL - A system controls computer network communication devices in a background session in accordance with a control database. The system includes a computer network communication device having a non-volatile memory containing a unique device identifier and a communication module for communicating with a control site, the communication module being configured to generate monitor messages containing the unique device identifier and data corresponding to entry of a command by a user and to parse command messages received from the control site, and a control site comprising a device database and a control database, the control site being configured to compare data in the monitor message to control data stored in the control database in response to the monitor message having a unique device identifier that is also stored in the device database. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191796 | VOICE AND TEXT GROUP CHAT DISPLAY MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS MOBILE TERMINALS - A single content region in a chat history display is used to display entries representative of a plurality of messages corresponding to all chat histories for all of chat threads currently engaged in by a given mobile terminal. Additionally, a buddy list display supports management of chat buddies, a detail view display allows otherwise truncated messages to be displayed, and a text message editor display supports the composition of text messages. Each chat user may designate public display identifiers for purposes of identification to other chat users. Additionally, each user may designate private display identifiers for each of his/her buddies, which private display identifiers may be used to replace the public display identifiers for that user's buddies when displayed on the user's mobile terminal. In this manner, the use of speech and text based group chatting and similar services in wireless communication environments is more readily enabled. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191797 | Viral Engine for Network Deployment - A private network system operates over a public network to provide an asymmetric service to members with information from other members and non-members. The system includes central servers and databases connected via the public network to client systems of public network users. The users may be members who communicate with a private protocol or non-members who communicate with the public protocol. A process for the private service includes communication of information between users via the private service servers. The private service server implements the private service, which includes a viral engine for network deployment. Features of the viral engine include genetic algorithms, data mining, personalization, frictionless service setup, user maximization, and member-controlled privacy. A sample setup process and contact update wizard that include several viral engine features are described. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191798 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUERYING, MONITORING AND CONTROLLING A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK USING INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method for communicating with one or more sensor nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) over a network is disclosed. The method includes initiating communication with the sensor nodes by sending messages to the server application using the instant messaging system. The server application formats the received messages and communicates to the sensor nodes and in turn also receives responses from the sensor nodes and communicates them back to the IM client. The method also includes steps for enabling a WSN messaging client to converse with an instant messaging client over the network during communication with the one or more sensor nodes in the WSN. The method further includes identifying the IM client the user has employed for communication and the corresponding IM protocol. Also, the method includes the step of configuring the WSN messaging client with the same IM protocol to enable communication. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191799 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HANDLING READ AND DELIVERY CONFIRMATIONS FOR MESSAGES - A system and method of managing read and delivery reports for messages is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for generating a read report using an IMAP includes processing a message received from a first converged internet protocol messaging (CPM) client device, storing the processed message into a message storage server using an internet message access protocol (IMAP) protocol, generating a read report by the second CPM client device in response to displaying the processed message stored in the message storage server, and delivering the read report to the first CPM client device by a CPM participating/controlling function server. The method also includes blocking redundant delivery reports generated upon retrieval of the message. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120198001 | METHOD TO SHOW/HIDE E-MAIL MESSAGES BY A SENDER OR GROUP OF SENDERS WITHIN AN E-MAIL THREAD - An embodiment of the invention includes a method for displaying electronic messages. The electronic messages are displayed to a user in a conversation thread. The conversation thread only includes a first message and at least one reply message, wherein the reply message including a direct reply to the first message and/or an indirect reply to the first message. A request is received from the user to display select messages from the conversation thread. The request includes a request to display only messages from the conversation thread sent from a select sender or a request to display only messages from the conversation thread not sent from the select sender. Only the select messages from the conversation thread are displayed to the user based on the received request. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198002 | Unified Notification Platform - Notifications are managed in a unified notification platform that receives messages from disparate services, formats, and protocols, and with disparate attributes and meta-attributes. The unified notification platform provides for user defined meta-attributes to allow rapid classification of incoming messages accordingly to user relationships to message senders, including family, friends and co-workers. Incoming messages are received by a message queue component, serialized and prioritized according to a rules engine. Various user interfaces provide views and reports on the serialized messages. In particular a non-modal notification pop-up is disclosed. The unified notification platform exposes an application programming interface provides automatable and remotable programmatic access for application developers. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198003 | Functionality for Sharing Items Using Recipient-Specific Access Codes - A collaboration system is described for sharing files. The collaboration system operates by receiving an Email message from a sender, the Email message specifying an attachment item (such as a file) and one or more recipients. The Email message also specifies a sender code assigned to the sender for the particular attachment item. The collaboration system stores the attachment item and then generates a recipient-specific code associated with each recipient who is to receive the Email message. The collaboration system then sends a recipient-tailored Email message to each recipient. Each recipient-tailored Email message contains Email content provided by the original Email message along with a recipient-specific code associated with the recipient. Each recipient can access the attachment item via its recipient-specific code, which constitutes a secure access key. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198004 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE QUEUES OF NON-PERSISTENT MESSAGES IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for managing multiple queues of non-persistent messages in a networked environment are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving a non-persistent message at a gateway process, the message including information indicative of a named queue; mapping, by use of a data processor, the named queue to a queue node by use of a consistent hash of the named queue; mapping the message to a queue process at the queue node; accessing, by use of the queue process, a list of subscriber gateways; and routing the message to each of the subscriber gateways in the list. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198005 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND PROCESSING CONTACT PROFILES - The present specification provides communication device for determining and processing contact profiles. The contact profiles can be used in the composition of messages in order to reduce the likelihood of multiple clarification messages being sent and to thereby reduce processing and bandwidth resources in management of the communications. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198006 | Hibernate Mode for Chat Service - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to hibernating a client of an instant messaging service. A user wishing to conserve battery life and connection overhead in a mobile device may transmit a hibernate command to a chat server. Although the user's connection is torn down, the user will still maintain a presence on the instant messaging service and be able to receive messages. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198007 | Electronic Apparatus, Communication Control Method and Communication Control System - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a first storage, a second storage and a control module. The first storage stores a destination list including a first address indicating a destination of a first e-mail which has already transmitted. The second storage stores at least one of a white list and a black list, the white list including an address to which transmission of an e-mail is permitted, the black list including an address to which transmission of an e-mail is blocked. The control module blocks transmission of a second e-mail to a second address if the second address is not included in the white list or the second address is included in the black list in a block mode and issues an alert on the transmission of the second e-mail to the second address if the second address is not included in the destination list. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING INTERACTIVE COMPONENTS WITHIN MOBILE CONTENT - A system is provided for providing content including one or more interactive components to a wireless device. The system includes a content server configurable to deliver push content to the wireless device, a processor for controlling operation of the server, a communications subsystem for communicating with a communications network, and a memory. The content server includes one or more modules for providing the content to the wireless device, the module(s) being configured to cause the content server to: receive a content file including the content and information about the interactive component(s), the information about each individual interactive component comprising one or more attributes useful in rendering the individual interactive component; process the content file and package the processed content file as a content package for delivery to the wireless device; and send the content package to the wireless device as a push delivery. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198009 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING POST BROWSING IN MOVING RIGHTS OBJECT OF DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT AND TERMINAL THEREOF - A digital rights management (DRM) including a transfer of a rights object (RO) to a second user in consideration of requirements of a movement of a rights object of a first user (a terminal, an equipment), charge, etc., by providing a post browsing session when the rights object occupied by the first user is transferred to a second user via a server. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198010 | EMAIL-READ STATUS - A method and computer program product for marking email-read status in an email application is described. A method may comprise defining, via at least one of a client electronic device and a server computer, a marked-read characteristic corresponding to an email. The method may further comprise determining, via at least one of the client electronic device and the server computer, a marked-read preview time based upon, at least in part, the marked-read characteristic. The method may also comprise designating, via at least one of the client electronic device and the server computer, the email as read based upon, at least in part, the marked-read preview time. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONFIGURATION DATA SUCH AS FOR CONFIGURING ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCESS - A system, method and computer-readable medium provides configuration data, such as for electronic mail access. A configuration module retrieves the configuration data from a source of configuration data, such as a user system. The configuration in one aspect could be for accessing different electronic mailboxes of a user. Data object are generated. Each data object is submitted as a distributed object module to a web service. The web service in one aspect of the invention could be for a pass-through access for configuring electronic mailboxes. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198012 | ENHANCED BUDDY LIST USING MOBILE DEVICE IDENTIFIERS - A graphical user interface on a display device of a computer enables communications using a computer service. The graphical user interface includes a list of potential message recipients selected by a user as significant to the user. The graphical user interface also includes a mobile device identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients and a user account identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients. At least one of the listed potential recipients includes a mobile device identifier as the only available conduit for data delivery to the potential message recipient using the computer service. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198013 | FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN COMPUTER USERS ACROSS A NETWORK - A stand-alone icon (i.e., an icon that is not part of an application interface) is provided to facilitate communications across a network between users of at least one communications program. The icon represents a contact or a set of contacts. Status information regarding the contact or set of contacts is received and displayed using the icon or in response to an operation performed on the icon. The icon additionally may provide an interface for performing actions related to the contact or set of contacts. The actions may generally include, for example, retrieving profile information about the contact, setting an alert to indicate that the contact's network/login status (e.g., login, logout, or idle) has changed, or performing communications with the contact. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198014 | DIGITAL CONTENT TRANSMISSION AND/OR RECEPTION APPARATUS, METHOD AND MEDIUM - A digital content transmission apparatus, method and medium, and a digital content reception apparatus, method and medium enable multimedia content, extracted according to the location and time of a transmitting mobile terminal, and alphanumeric text, to be combined into a single message sent to a receiving mobile terminal, thereby allowing a user of the transmitting mobile terminal to reflect the circumstances facing the user in the message. The digital content transmission apparatus includes an input module to receive an alphanumeric message, a state searching module to search for time information and location information of the message, a control module to extract a serial number of a first multimedia content corresponding to the time information and the location information, and a communication module to transmit data into which the message and the extracted serial number are combined. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198015 | System and Method of Determining Relationship Information - A method includes classifying a relationship between a first party and each of one or more additional parties based on at least one of a number of communications between the first party and each of the one or more additional parties over a time period and a frequency of the communications between the first party and each of the one or more additional parties over the time period. The method includes generating first social network data based on the relationship between the first party and each of the one or more additional parties. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198016 | AUTOMATED USER-INITIATED INVITATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for sending invitations potential subscribers of a service provider includes a registration engine configured to complete a registration process with a registering user. Furthermore, the registration engine is further configured during the registration process to receive from the registering user: a) an e-mail address of the registering user; b) access information for that e-mail address; c) permission to access the e-mail address; and d) an instruction to send an invitation to join the service provider to at least some of a plurality of addresses within an address book of the registering user. The system also includes an authorization engine configured to extract the plurality of addresses from the address book; and an invitation engine configured to send a respective invitation to at least one of the extracted plurality of addresses. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198017 | Secure Electronic Mail System - An e-mail system is disclosed that overcomes many deficiencies of, but is backward compatible with, existing e-mail systems. An exemplary method for communicating e-mail messages comprises receiving, at a server system, an original e-mail message associated with a unique message ID that is assigned by the server system. The method further comprises storing a distribution list associated with the unique message ID and a thread participation status indicator for each of the one or more recipients, and, in response to an opt-out request received from one of the recipients, updating the distribution list to thereby produce a modified distribution list that does not include the requesting recipient. The method further comprises receiving a reply e-mail message in the same thread, and sending the reply e-mail message based on the modified distribution list such that the reply e-mail message is not sent to the requesting recipient. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120203843 | CONTACTING AN UNAVAILABLE USER THROUGH A PROXY USING INSTANT MESSAGING - Described are systems and methods for locating a user at an event. According to various embodiments of the methods, authorization is received from the user to locate the user at the event. A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag of the user is tracked if the user is unavailable for instant messaging communication. An instant message communication directed to the user is received. A determination is made that a second user has a predetermined relationship with a sender of the instant message and determining that a communication device of the second user detects the RFID tag of the user. A communication is sent comprising a message for the user to the communication device of the second user. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203844 | MANAGING MULTIPLE USER PRESENTATIONS OVER WIRELESS LINKS - A presentation including a plurality of presentation files associated with a plurality of users is managed as follows. A wireless link is established between each user wireless device in a plurality of user wireless devices. A set of presentation files is received from each user wireless device. The set of presentation files is associated with a presentation. A set of presentation related data is received from at least one of the user wireless devices. The set of presentation related data at least identifies a plurality of presenters associated with the set of presentation files. A presentation priority associated with each of the presenters is identified. One of the presenters is selected based on the presentation priority that has been identified. Control of the presentation associated with the set of presentation files is allocated to a user wireless device that is associated with the presenter that has been selected. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203845 | AUTOMATED SOCIAL NETWORK INTRODUCTIONS FOR E-MEETINGS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for automated social networking for e-meetings. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for automated social networking for e-meetings is provided. The method includes monitoring content provided to an e-meeting managed by an e-meeting server executing in memory of a host computer. The method further includes detecting a name in the monitored content and comparing the detected name to names in a contact list for a social networking system executing externally to the e-meeting. Finally, the method includes triggering generation of a social networking introduction for the name to different participants to the e-meeting in response to matching the detected name to a name in the contact list. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203846 | SOCIAL NETWORK FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ITEMS OF INTEREST - A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards seeding a user's contacts for their online social network. The invention is arranged to automatically recommend to the user a set of seed contacts that the user may employ to invite to join their social network. The set of seed contacts may be harvested from the user's existing portal activities, as well as other sources. In one embodiment, the invention analyzes portal activity, such as email exchanges with the user, and the like, to determine a frequency of contact with the user. Other sources may include but not be limited to emails, names within an address book of the user, names within an address book of another person, a buddy list, an instant messaging list, an activity, a mailing list, an online discussion group, a membership in a category, chat group, and the like. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203847 | Sponsored Stories and News Stories within a Newsfeed of a Social Networking System - A social networking system generates socially-relevant stories for a user based on actions taken by other users to whom the user is connected. The social networking system may receive a request for a sponsored story for a viewing user and may select information about one or more actions performed by one or more users to whom the viewing user is connected to identify one of a plurality of candidate information for a sponsored story based on one or more criteria (e.g., affinity of the viewing user for the candidates, expected value for the candidates, etc.). The social networking system may also generate the sponsored story and generate a feed comprising the sponsored story and news stories (e.g., non-sponsored stories) about one or more users of the social networking system with whom the viewing user is connected. This feed may be provided for display to the viewing user. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203848 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE CONTEXT FOR AN AUTOMATED AGENT TO SERVICE MULTIPLE AVATARS WITHIN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - A system and method to interact with business systems through the use of automated agents and provide context for an automated agent to service multiple avatars within a virtual universe. The system comprises a chat engine, a communications subsystem, and a channelizer configured to mediate one or more communications between the chat engine and the communications subsystem. The channelizer is further configured to map at least one channel to an application. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203849 | Reduced Traceability Electronic Message System and Method - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. An electronic message is separated into a message content and container (header) information. In one aspect, the message content and header information are entered by a user separately using a single display image screen having separate portions for entry of message content and header information. The separate portions do not allow visibility of content in the portions to be displayed at the same time. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203850 | FOLDER TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is disclosed for folder transfer based on instant messaging (IM). The method includes receiving from an IM sender a transfer request for transferring a folder-to-be-transferred. The folder-to-be-transferred may contain a plurality of files. The method also includes receiving from the IM sender folder information of the folder-to-be-transferred, determining a receiving folder corresponding to the folder-to-be-transferred on a predetermined storage location, and determining files-to-be-transferred from the plurality of files corresponding to the folder-to-be-transferred based on the folder information. Further, the method includes sequentially sending one transfer request for each of the files-to-be-transferred to the IM sender through a same network connection, receiving the files-to-be-transferred sent sequentially by the IM sender through the same network connection, and storing the received files-to-be-transferred in the receiving folder. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203851 | SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING THREAD-BASED MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION - To perform thread-based message prioritization, metadata may be extracted from a received electronic message. Based on the extracted message metadata and accumulated metadata extracted from previously received messages, a message thread to which the received electronic message belongs may be identified. Based on a set of thread priority assessment criteria, a priority level for the message thread may be determined. At least part of the message thread may be processed according to the priority level. The processing may be altering a notification behavior of an electronic messaging client for electronic messages of the message thread. Thread priority assessment may be based on user-configurable criteria that may be set via a graphical user interface. Message thread identification may also be based on user-configurable criteria that may be set via a graphical user interface. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203852 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING OR MAINTAINING A PERSONALIZED TRUSTED SOCIAL NETWORK - Automated systems and methods are provided for establishing or maintaining a personalized trusted social network for a community of users, with little or no input from any given user. To establish the personalized trusted social network, one or more trusted sources are identified for a given user. The identified trusted sources are added to a user profile for the given user. Also, identified are any annotations, bookmarks, or the like that the identified trusted sources have associated with any shared content. These annotations provide access to microcontent items that the identified trusted sources have integrated with the shared content to thereby enhance or enrich its context. One or more profiles are constructed or updated to track the associations between the identified trusted sources and their annotations. The profile information can be applied to enhance and personalize search and browsing experiences for the given user. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203853 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF AUGMENTED MESSAGES - The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with delivery conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where” from any “Who, What, When, Where” upon the detection of an occurrence of one or more “Who, What, When, Where” delivery conditions. A message (which may be any data object including text-based messages, audio-based message such as voicemail or other audio such as music or video-based prerecorded messages) is delivered in accordance with delivery conditions based on any available data, including topical, spatial, temporal, and/or social data. Furthermore, because the systems coordinate delivery of messages via multiple communication channels and through multiple devices, the communication channel for delivery of a message may be dynamically determined based on the delivery conditions. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203854 | Metadata Capture for Screen Sharing - A method for metadata capture for screen sharing of a graphical user interface (GUI) screen includes determining by a screen share sending module a region of the GUI screen to be shared; analyzing the GUI screen by a metadata capture module to determine metadata relevant to the region to be shared; and sending a screen share of the region comprising the relevant metadata to a receiver by the screen share sending module. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203855 | MESSAGE SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method of operating a message system can include maintaining a list of users of the message system and maintaining a connection list and a message stream for each user of the message system. After receiving a message from a first user of the message system, the received message can be published on the message stream of the first user and on the message streams of the users identified in the first user's connection list. If the received message is detected to be a reply to an earlier message from a second user, then the earlier message can be published on the message streams of the users identified in the first user's connection list, who are not in the second user's connection list. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203856 | METHOD FOR ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION, METHOD FOR REGISTRATION, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION - A method and a system for anonymous communication are disclosed in the present invention, which are applied in an architecture network with Identification (ID) identifier and locator separation. The method includes: after receiving an anonymous communication request initiated by a terminal, the network allocating an anonymous ID identifier to the terminal, and recording a state of the terminal as an anonymous communication state; when the terminal is in the anonymous communication state, an access gateway device where the terminal is located replacing a source access identifier in data message transmitted by the terminal with the anonymous ID identifier while receiving the data message; and replacing an anonymous ID identifier in data message transmitted to the terminal with the access identifier of the terminal while receiving the data message transmitted to the terminal. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120203857 | Short-Message Transfer Method, Subsystem and System - The present invention discloses a short message transfer method, subsystem and system. It relates to the field of value-added service and solves the problem of poor flexibility of short message transfer systems. The method includes: receiving a status report message of a transfer service short message transmitted by a destination short message center; querying a transfer number corresponding to a destination number of the transfer service short message when the status report message indicates that the transfer service short message is delivered unsuccessfully; and replacing the destination number of the transfer service short message with the transfer number, and transmitting the transfer service short message to a transfer short message center. The technical solution of the present invention realizes the conditional transfer of short messages. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120209921 | Instant Message Management Method and Apparatus - The technology here described contemplates storing an incoming instant message and determining the subsequent deletion of the stored message by distinguishing whether the message has been noticed by the user, even though there may have been a system or program failure between the time of the message's arrival and the time that the user attends to the message. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209922 | SMART ATTACHMENT TO ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Aspects of the present invention associate an unsent electronic message with a target file that is attached to a first stored electronic message. A command to attach a file to the unsent electronic message is received. A list identifying one or more files attached to one or more stored electronic messages is displayed. The target file is one of the one or more files. An input identifying the target file is received. One of the target file and a file that identifies a location of the target file on a storage device is attached to the unsent electronic message. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209923 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGULATING ACCESS TO RESOURCES AT APPLICATION RUN TIME - Systems and methods are provided for regulating access to resources at application run-time. A permissions application is invoked. The permissions application accesses an information store comprising a plurality of permissions. Each such permission is associated with a corresponding resource in a plurality of device resources. The information store specifies which applications have permission to access which device resources. An application is executed on the device and makes a request for a resource while the application is executing. Responsive to the request, the permissions application determines whether the application has run-time access permission to use the resource. When the application has run-time access permission to use the resource, it is granted run-time access to the resource. When the application does not have run-time access permission to use the resource, it is not granted run-time access to the resource but is permitted to continue executing on the device without the requested resource. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209924 | Messaging System Apparatuses Circuits and Methods of Operation Thereof - Disclosed are a messaging system, apparatuses circuits and methods of operation thereof. A messaging client device is adapted to receive an impermanent message and to manage the received message in accordance with a message management policy associated with the message. An impermanent messaging server is adapted to validate said messaging client device as complying with message management policies prior to authorizing transmission of the message to said messaging client device. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209925 | INTELLIGENT DATA MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS THEREOF - Intelligent data management methods and systems are provided. Firstly, at least one event data is provided, wherein the event data at least includes identification data corresponding to at least one participant. Contact information corresponding to the participant is retrieved from a database according to the identification data corresponding to the participant. Then, a display interface is provided to simultaneously display the event data and the contact information corresponding to the participant. Then, an option interface is provided to select the contact information, wherein when the contact information is selected, a communication with participant is established based on the contact information. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209926 | AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING OF INSTANT MESSAGING AND SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES - A system and method automate the process of provisioning user accounts for a selected service, thereby allowing ease of creation of new communities easier. By automating provisioning and thereby eliminating steps that require end user interaction, the present technology facilitates community creation. In particular, the system may automatically determine existing identification, such as a telephone number associated with a user's mobile device, to provision the account without requiring additional interaction from the user. The system may also automatically connect user accounts in the selected by using existing trust relationships, such as contact information stored in a contacts database. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209927 | SCHEDULABLE E-MAIL FILTERS - An e-mail filter may be associated with a schedule defining a recurrent active time period. As such, some e-mail filters may be active at specific times of day and on specific days of the week and inactive the rest of the time. Before applying any filters, the current time is determined and it is determined which filters are active. The determination of which filters are active is based on the current time being within the active time period. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209928 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN A SERVER AND A CLIENT - A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209929 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING MESSAGING BETWEEN USERS OF DIFFERENT SOCIAL NETWORKS AND BETWEEN USERS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS AND USERS OF OTHER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method for enabling messaging between users of different social networks is disclosed. Additionally, a method for enabling messaging between users of social networks and users of other communication systems which are not social networks is displosed. This is done by providing an identification mechanism to allocate unique user IDs guaranteeing user ID uniquness across the different social networks and the other communication systems and by a mediation system comprised of social network specific and communication system specific interfaces and a mediation server connected to these interfaces. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209930 | MOBILE SERVER WITH MULTIPLE SERVICE CONNECTIONS - A method of communicating between a mobile communications device and a plurality of services that are used by the mobile communications device. The method includes establishing, through a firewall and a wireless network, a first communications session between the mobile communications device and a mobile server located in an enterprise network with which the mobile communications device is associated; and establishing, concurrent with the first communications session at least one further communications session between the mobile server and a service, the at least one further communications session being established by the mobile server as a session proxy for the mobile communications device. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209931 | Method of Validating an Electronic Vote - An electronic voting method, system and apparatus is disclosed. A vote message is received at a network node, the vote message comprising a sender identifier, event identifier and a timestamp. The sender identifier, event identifier and timestamp are read, and it is determined from the timestamp that an event window was open and whether the window was a first or subsequent window. In the event that the window is the first window, the vote and sender identifier are stored at a database. In the event that the window is a second or subsequent window, the sender identifier is compared to sender identifiers stored at a previous window and if a match is found the vote is marked as validated and the vote stored at the database. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120215852 | COMMUNICATING WITH RECIPIENT EMAIL SERVER WHILE COMPOSING EMAIL - Provided are techniques for the transmission of electronic mail (email). While a user composes an email message and once an intended recipient has been entered, negotiation modules associated with client and server computers check both the recipient and attributes of the message as they are entered. The user is notified if there is an issue with the intended recipient and alternative recipients may be suggested. The user is also notified if a particular attribute exceeds a defined limit. In this manner, the user may alter the message so that the attribute conforms to the limit to ensure delivery. Tests may be provided to enable a user to exceed a limit and some users may be pre-authorized to exceed a limit. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215853 | Managing Unwanted Communications Using Template Generation And Fingerprint Comparison Features - Unwanted communication detection and/or management features are providing, including using one or more commonality measures as part of generating templates for fingerprinting and comparison operations, but the embodiments are not so limited. An computing architecture of one embodiment includes components configured to generate templates and associated fingerprints for known unwanted communications, wherein the template fingerprints can be compared to unknown communication fingerprints as part of determining whether the unknown communications are based on similar templates and can be properly classified as unwanted or potentially unsafe communications for further analysis and/or blocking. A method of one embodiment operates to use a number of template fingerprints to detect and classify unknown communications as spam, phishing, and/or other unwanted communications. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215854 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OVERRIDING A MESSAGE FILTER - A communication device and method for overriding a message filter are provided. A first message is transmitted from the communication device to a communication network, the first message associated with a filtering override condition stored at a memory device. A second message is received from the communication network, the second message meeting a filtering condition stored in the memory device such that an alert device is not triggered to provide an alert of second message. The second message us determined to be received in response to the first message associated the filtering override condition, and in response, the alert device is triggered to provide the alert of the second message. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215855 | Determining Availability Based on Percentage Available - An embodiment of the invention provides a system and method for displaying the scheduling availability of a user. The system includes an occupancy module for analyzing the schedule of the user to determine the occupancy for a time period in the schedule. The time period includes an available time slot and/or an occupied time slot. A processor connected to the occupancy module determines whether the occupancy for the time period is above a threshold level of occupancy. The threshold level of occupancy includes a maximum number of occupied time slots, a maximum percentage of occupied time slots, a maximum amount of occupied time, and/or a maximum percentage of occupied time. A scheduling module connected to the processor automatically displays the scheduling availability of the user as unavailable for the time slot when the occupancy for the time period is above the threshold level of occupancy. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215856 | MESSAGE PUBLICATION FEEDBACK IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - Control and/or feedback are provided for message publication in a publish/subscribe messaging environment. A number of different aspects are disclosed, and an embodiment may include one or more of these aspects. In each aspect, each subscribing application has an associated importance level for a subscription, and this importance level may vary among subscriptions for different message topics. Each published message has an associated topic. In some aspects, each published message also has associated criteria, where the criteria are specified with regard to message classification. In preferred embodiments, the message classification comprises importance criteria specifying requirements for importance level of subscribers registered for the topic of that message. Feedback can be provided regarding whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. Control over message publication can be based on whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215857 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CORRELATE HEALTHCARE INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus to correlate healthcare information are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a healthcare message from a first entity of a healthcare enterprise, wherein the healthcare message is configured according to a first identification schema of the first entity; identifying one or more subjects of the healthcare message for correlation into an electronic clinical information system; selecting one of a plurality of correlators for each identified subject to correlate each identified subject, wherein each of the correlators are customizable to handle a specific type of healthcare message subject; and correlating the identified subjects of the message to associate each of the identified subjects with an identifier internal to the electronic clinical information system. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215858 | CACHING POTENTIALLY REPETITIVE MESSAGE DATA IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - In general, embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for caching potentially repetitive data in a publication-subscription (pub/sub) system. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, when a message is received on a broker system from a publisher system, the broker system analyzes the message for potentially repetitive data. Such data can be determined from historical messages (e.g., determining that a certain set of data appeared in multiple messages and is thus flagged in a database or the like), a set of rules (e.g., if data set “Y” appears, flag it as potentially repetitive), etc. Regardless, once such a set of data has been identified, the set of data will be tagged/marked in the message with a unique identifier. The message and inserted unique identifier is then sent to the relevant subscriber system(s). Upon receiving the message, the subscriber system(s) will analyze the message, identify the unique identifier, and cache the tagged data. Thereafter, when the publisher system receives another message that contains the same set of data that was previously tagged, the publisher system will substitute the unique identifier for the repeated data to yield an abbreviated message. The publisher system will then send the abbreviated message to the subscriber system(s), which will analyze the abbreviated message, identify the unique identifier, and retrieve the associated data from cache. Thus, the substitution of unique identifiers for potentially repetitive data can avoid unnecessary communication of data and reduce overall network bandwidth consumption. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215859 | PUBLISHER-ASSISTED, BROKER-BASED CACHING IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for a publisher-assisted, broker-based cache that can be utilized to reduce a volume of data (e.g., network traffic) delivered between a publisher and broker in a publication/subscription (pub/sub) environment. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, when a message is being generated on a publisher system, the publisher system will determine if the message includes a set of data that has a potential to be repeated in subsequent messages. Once such a set of data has been identified, the set of data will be associated/marked/tagged (e.g., in the message) with a unique identifier/cache key corresponding thereto (i.e., to yield a modified message). The modified message will be sent to a broker system, which will detect/locate the unique identifier, cache the corresponding data, and send the message along to any applicable subscriber systems. When a subsequent message that is supposed to contain the cached set of data is generated, the publisher system will instead substitute the unique identifier for the set of data to yield an abbreviated message and send the abbreviated message to the broker system. Upon receipt, the broker system will detect/locate the unique identifier, retrieve the corresponding set of data from the cache, replace the unique identifier with the set of data to yield a completed message, and then send the completed message to the applicable subscriber systems. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215860 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECEIVING, MAPPING AND STRUCTURING DATA FROM DISPARATE SYSTEMS IN A HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for receiving, mapping and structuring data from disparate systems in a healthcare environment are described. An example computer-implemented method of receiving data input associated with different versions of healthcare message structures includes receiving first data in a first format through a single service interface. One or more fields of the first data is not supported by at least one of the different versions of the healthcare message structures. The example method also includes receiving second data in a second format through the single service interface. One or more fields of the second data is not supported by at least one of the different versions of the healthcare message structures. The single service interface enables the receipt of the first data and the second data to minimize a number of interface end points. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215861 | Spam Filtering and Person Profiles - Systems and methods to reduce false positives in spam filtering. In one aspect, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as incoming and outgoing e-mails. Messages flagged as spam can be checked against the profile to identify false positives. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215862 | SPAM REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods for spam detection within electronic messages transported over a communication network. One embodiment is a spam center that connects to multiple entities of a communication network that handle electronic messages, such as text messages. The spam center receives spam reports from the entities that detect spam in prior electronic messages, analyzes the spam reports to generate spam filtering rules based on the spam detected in the prior electronic messages. The spam center then distributes the spam filtering rules to one or more of the entities. The entities may then use to spam filtering rules to filter spam out of electronic messages that subsequently received. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215863 | DEDICATED MESSAGE CHANNEL - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing secure, dedicated, one-to-one communication between content providers and interested participants. In embodiments, a dedicated message channel platform may provide content generators with the ability to send recipient-specific messages to recipients, such as by using a dedicated message application installed on communication device under control of the recipient, such as a smartphone. The dedicated message channel may also be used to facilitate communication between a third party and a message recipient through a content generator facilitating the third-party communication. In embodiments, messages may be used for communications between a physician and a pharmaceutical sales representative. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215864 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A document management apparatus according to the present invention performs storing, in response to a document registration request from an information processing apparatus, a document entity of the document, acquiring document information of the document, and storing data of a type determined based on the acquired document information, as a preview-image document of the document, and determining, upon reception of an acquisition request for the preview-image document from the information processing apparatus, whether the preview-image document stored in the preview-image document storage unit or the document entity stored in the document entity storage unit is to be transmitted based on a state of the document management apparatus, and transmitting data determined to be transmitted. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215865 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERCONNECTING SOCIAL NETWORKS - An online community bridges two or more different client social networks and includes users of the client social networks and, optionally, one or more users who are not included in the client social networks. The online community provides an area for micro-blogging to be shared between its users while enforcing a separation between it and the client social networks and maintaining the original separation between the client social networks. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215866 | Automatic Grouping of Electronic Mail - Automatic sorting and grouping of electronic mail items in an electronic mail system is provided. An automatic mail grouping property may be selected for electronic mail received, sent or stored in a variety of storage folders. For a given mail location (e.g., received mail, sent mail, or a given mail storage folder), a selected automatic grouping property causes mail to be displayed to a user in one or more categories that make location of specific mail items easier and more efficient. Visible dividers with optional headings may be provided between mail categories to quickly draw a user's attention to a given mail category and to separate large numbers of mail into logical groupings that make location of specific mail items more manageable. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215867 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC, CONTROL AND INFORMATION COLLECTION BASED ON VARIOUS COMMUNICATION MODES FOR SENDING MESSAGES TO USERS - A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines and end users connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or a via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a service center or from a service center to a resource administrator, but also may remain within a local or wide area network for transmission between a machine and an end user or a resource administrator. E-mail messages may be transmitted from a computer which is attached to a device which is being monitored or controlled and include information regarding the status, usage or capabilities of the attached device. The device may send status messages and usage information of the device by an end user to either a resource administrator or to a service center on the Internet through a firewall. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215868 | PERSONALIZED ELECTRONIC-MAIL DELIVERY - Personalized electronic-mail delivery is disclosed. The content of incoming electronic-mail messages is identified. Determinations may be made with respect to whether the content of the incoming electronic-mail messages corresponds to a user profile. The user profile may indicate one or more user preferences of a particular user with respect to incoming electronic-mail messages. If the incoming electronic-mail messages correspond to the one or more user preferences indicated in the user profile, the electronic-mail messages may be delivered to an electronic-mail server. The electronic-mail messages may then be displayed to the user via a list of electronic-mail messages reflective of those messages that are stored at the electronic-mail server and accessible to the end-user. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215869 | Multimedia Message Transmission Method and Apparatus Thereof, and Domain Name Server - The present invention discloses a multimedia message transmitting method, a multimedia message transmitting device, and a domain name system server. The method includes: the multimedia message transmitting device transmitting a multimedia message transmitting request to the domain name system server after receiving multimedia message submitted by a multimedia message transmitting party; and receiving identification information of multimedia message centers returned by the domain name system server, wherein the identification information is identification information of a multimedia message center selected by the domain name system server from various multimedia message centers after receiving the transmitting request; and the multimedia message transmitting device transmitting the received multimedia message to the multimedia message center identified by the received identification information. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215870 | Method and System for Implementing Time Processing of Message - A method and a system for implementing time processing of a message are provided in the present invention. The method includes: when determining that the time information in the received message needs to be processed according to a customized mode, performing the time conversion on the message according to the customized mode; distributing the message after the time conversion. The time information in the message can be processed according to the customized mode, thereby enabling the message, based on the actual requirements of the user terminal, to be displayed in manner of flexible time format, avoiding a confusion of the message time for the user and ensuring a better development of user message services. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215871 | INSTANT MESSAGING ROBOT TO PROVIDE PRODUCT INFORMATION - Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120221648 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the invention comprise a method of managing access to address data that is accessible via a plurality of communication devices; the method comprising the steps of establishing at least one access rule, associated with at least one communication device of the plurality of communication devices, for influencing access to the address data; and controlling access to the address data according the at least one access rule associated with the at least one communication device. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221649 | PEER-TO-PEER COLLABORATION OF PUBLISHERS IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for an enhanced pub/sub environment whereby a peer group of publishers is defined and can collaborate to determine when to cache data being sent to a common broker or brokers. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, configuration data or the like will be read to define a peer group among the publisher systems in the pub/sub messaging environment. Once such a group has been identified, communication therebetween will be established. Once cacheable data has been identified, a unique identifier/set of cache keys will be generated corresponding thereto and associated with the set of data. A message comprising the set of data and corresponding unique identifier will then be sent to a broker system (e.g., from the publisher system(s)), which will store (or have stored) the set of data in a cache, and pass the underlying message along to applicable subscriber system(s). | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221650 | BROKER FACILITATED PEER-TO-PEER PUBLISHER COLLABORATION IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for broker facilitated, publisher peer-to-peer (P | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221651 | EMAIL ACCESS MANAGER FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In general, this disclosure relates to techniques for management of email access for a wireless communication device (WCD). The techniques may utilize an email access manager that selects a synchronization mode to synchronize with a remote email server and selects a transfer mode to transfer email messages with the remote email server based on context data regarding the WCD. The context data of the WCD may include one or more of quality of service (QoS) of network connections with the remote email server, battery status of the WCD, and user settings for the WCD. The email access manager monitors the context data from one or more managers, applications, and/or memory within the WCD. The techniques described herein enable an email application on a WCD to dynamically alter synchronization and transfer of email messages with a remote email server as appropriate given the context of the WCD. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221652 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A PROXY-BASED ACCESS LIST - An approach is provided for a proxy-based access list. A proxy platform receives an input for specifying access information for one or more communication endpoints accessible via a proxy server. The proxy platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of the access information to generate one or more access policies with respect to the one or more communication endpoints. Access to the one or more communication endpoints via the proxy server is provided based, at least in part, on the one or more access policies. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221653 | METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA FOR TRANSMISSION FROM THE COMMUNICATION DEVICE TO A SECOND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method and communication device for processing data for transmission from the communication device to a second communication device is provided. It is detected that the data comprises an attachment. An address of a copy of the attachment is determined, the attachment present on a storage device external to the communication devices. An address of the copy of the attachment is substituted in the data such that the copy is retrievable at the second communication device via the address. The data is then transmitted to the second communication device. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221654 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CLOUD SERVICE - An apparatus and a method for providing a cloud service, where the method includes storing information, generated by an input to a terminal or communication data generated between the terminal and another terminal, in a web server; and determining and providing a service based on the information or communication data. The method and apparatus allow for communication data to be shared via a private page between two terminals designated as soul mates. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221655 | System and Method for Routing Instant Messages - A system and a method for routing an instant message which can refer to a Converged IP Messaging (CPM) message are provided. The instant message, for example, CPM message and the like, is sent to a plurality of terminals having the same user identification of the same user; in the case that the receiving party uses a plurality of terminals online simultaneously, the communication system such as a CPM system routes the instant message such as CPM message to a plurality of terminals respectively. Thereby, the problem of routing when forwarding an instant message such as a ‘one number more machines” CPM message can be solved, further, the transmission of messages in the communication system such as the CPM system is realized better, and improving the user experience. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221656 | TRACKING MESSAGE TOPICS IN AN INTERACTIVE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus for tracking a topic involved in a message in an interactive messaging environment containing a plurality of messages by combining with context messages associated with the message. The method includes the steps of: selecting a message from the plurality of messages contained in the interactive messaging environment; identifying context messages associated with the selected message from the plurality of messages contained in the interactive messaging environment; and grouping the selected message into one or more topic groups based on the identified context messages. The topic tracking method and apparatus of the invention can accurately determine similarities between messages in an interactive messaging environment such as microblog to perform topic tracking. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING WEB CONTENT WITH MOBILE DEVICES - A web-based system that may enable the use of a network-enabled mobile device to interact with and remotely control web content on a network-enabled display device. The mobile device may connect to the display device via a server. The mobile device may send communications to the display device to control an application running on the display device. In response, the display device may send communications to the mobile device to update an application running on the mobile device. The mobile device may be untethered to the display device. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221658 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION CONTROL - Computer program products, apparatus, and methods for processing digital messages to recipients at destination domains is provided. A plurality of profiles are established, each profile for handling digital to a specific domain or set of domains. A request to process a plurality of outbound digital messages is handled by, for each given digital message, processing the given digital message by (i) determining a destination domain for digital messages, (ii) reading a profile for the determined destination domain for the digital messages and (iii) based on at least one parameter set in the profile: (a) sending the given digital message to the determined destination domain in accordance with the profile when permitted by the at least one parameter set in the profile, or (b) not sending the digital message to the determined destination domain when required by the at least one parameter set in the profile. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221659 | Content Management System using Sources of Experience Data and Modules for Quantification and Visualization - A semantic note taking system and method for collecting information, enriching the information, and binding the information to services is provided. User-created notes are enriched with labels, context traits, and relevant data to minimize friction in the note-taking process. In other words, the present invention is directed to collecting unscripted data, adding more meaning and use out of the data, and binding the data to services. Mutable and late-binding to services is also provided to allow private thoughts to be published to a myriad of different applications and services in a manner compatible with how thoughts are processed in the brain. User interfaces and semantic skins are also provided to derive meaning out of notes without requiring a great deal of user input. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221660 | REPRESENTING NEW MESSAGES ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - There is provided a method of representing new email messages on a communication device having a display. This method comprises setting a new message flag when an email message is received by the device; and displaying a new message indicator on the display when the new message flag is set. The new message indicator can be displayed on a home screen on the display. The new message flag can be unset when a messages screen is selected on the device. A computer readable memory having recorded thereon instructions to carry out this method is also provided, as well as a device comprising such memory. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LAST MESSAGE NOTIFICATION - An agent for generating a last message notification in an asynchronous message delivery environment, wherein messages received by a messaging server are routable to a messaging client through an API binding protocol, the agent comprising: a monitoring component for monitoring a message store to determine if there is a message stored for delivery to a message listener; and a message notification component for generating a message indicating that there are no further messages in the message store for routing to the messaging listener, in response to a negative determination by the monitoring component. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221662 | Device Selection for Media Rendering - Delivery of media content ordered at a user terminal ( | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221663 | METHOD OF COMPILING AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A method of compiling an electronic message includes retrieving preferences of a recipient of the electronic message from a CRM system of the sender of the electronic message. Content matching the preferences of the recipient is inserted into the electronic message. The method includes receiving a basic electronic message at a mail server and comparing the sender's address with sender addresses in a subscriber database to determine if the sender is a subscriber. If the sender is a subscriber the recipient's address is matched to a recipient addresses in a recipient address database. The recipient's preferences are retrieved from the CRM system. Content, from a dynamic database of different content files, is matched to the recipient's preferences and inserted into the basic electronic message, thereby to compile the electronic message. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221664 | POINT-TO-POINT CHAT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A point-to-point chat system and method are provided. The system comprises a USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) signaling interface unit and a chat control unit. The USSD signaling interface unit is configured to receive a USSD chat request message of an inviting party and a USSD chat joining message of an invited party via a core network, and to forward the USSD chat request message and the USSD chat joining message to the chat control unit. The chat control unit is configured to send a chat inviting message to the invited party after receiving the USSD chat request message, to start the chat after receiving the USSD chat joining message, and to receive chat information of the inviting party or the invited party to forward to the other party of the inviting party or the invited party. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120226757 | Location Filtered Messaging - A method enabling a mobile/non-mobile device to perform location-based message filtering against a proposed list of message recipients. Identifiers indicating location characteristics are embedded in the body of a message prior to transmission. Following message transmission, location characteristics are identified/extracted from a location filtered message by a location filtering engine. Location characteristics may indicate a geographic location (e.g. address, zip code, etc.), a POI, or a boundary centered at a geographic location/POI. The location filtering engine attains location information for each device referenced in a proposed distribution list. Attained location information for each device is compared against location characteristics extracted from a corresponding location filtered message. A formal distribution list is compiled, containing all devices in the proposed distribution list with location information matching location criteria embedded in the corresponding filtered message. The present invention applies to any messaging technology that does not encrypt the actual body of a message. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120226758 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR SHARING DIAMETER BINDING DATA - According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for sharing Diameter binding data. The method includes receiving, by a first Diameter signaling router (DSR), a first Diameter message requiring processing. The method also includes selecting, by the first DSR, a processing element to perform the required processing from a plurality of processing elements. The method further includes routing, by the first DSR, the received first Diameter message to the selected processing element. The method further includes creating, by the first DSR, a binding record associating the selected processing element with information associated with the received first Diameter message. The method further includes communicating, by the first DSR, the binding record to a second DSR. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120226759 | SOCIAL MESSAGING SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE NUMBER, DUAL MODE PHONE SUPPORT - A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities. The social messaging hub communicates with the data enabled device over the Internet or cellular data networks, and interfaces with a message infrastructure including mobile carriers, message aggregators, message exchanges and various specialized social messaging services to enable bi-directional messaging communication. The user is given a registered phone number and unique IP addressable identification which serve as a source and destination identifier of the associated data enabled device. Messages may originate in or be delivered to other users' mobile telephones or in similarly equipped and provisioned IP data enabled devices. An application operating on the IP enabled device determines in conjunction with the social messaging hub a mode of transmission as a function of parameters including device location and destination of a message. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120226760 | System and Method for Displaying Search Results Including Email Attachments - A client computer with one or more processors and memory transmits, to a server system, a search query including one or more query terms and receives, from the sever system, a response to the search query including a search result. The client computer displays a representation of a respective message from the search result, where the respective message includes a message body and a respective attachment with attachment content. When the attachment content of the respective attachment includes content that matches a query term from the search query, displaying the respective message includes highlighting a representation of the respective attachment in the message. When the attachment content of the respective attachment does not include content that matches a query term from the search query, displaying the respective message includes forgoing highlighting the representation of the respective attachment in the message. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120226761 | Updating an Entry in an Addressee-Based Whitelist - In some embodiments, techniques may include receiving an email message; determining a non-recipient email addressee associated with the email message, wherein the non-recipient email addressee has an address that is unaffiliated with a recipient for which the email message has been received; receiving a directive to whitelist the non-recipient email addressee; and responsive to receiving the directive to whitelist the non-recipient email addressee, adding the non-recipient email addressee to a whitelist. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120226762 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING COMPOUND DOCUMENTS WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - A server system runs a bot service that registers an FAQ (frequently asked questions) for a document having an embedded object. The FAQ includes one or more question-and-answer (Q&A) pairs. The bot service receives, from each electronics device that renders a copy of the document, a request from the embedded object for the FAQ registered for the document, and transmits the FAQ to each electronic device from which a request is received. Each electronics device displays the FAQ, including the one or more Q&A pairs, within its rendered copy of the document. Any viewer of a copy of the document with the embedded object can submit a question to the bot service through the embedded object. The bot service uses a messaging service to obtain an answer to the question from an author. The FAQs displayed at the electronics devices are updated to include the new Q&A pair. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120226763 | INTELLIGENT PROCESSING IN THE CONTEXT OF AWAY AND OFFLINE INSTANT MESSAGES - An electronic assistant handles instant messages sent to a user when the user is away or offline. The electronic assistant may respond intelligently and helpfully to inquiries regarding the user's away or offline status, may take messages for delivery to the away or offline user, and may intelligently forward messages to the user, as appropriate. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120233264 | Method and System for Vehicle Messaging - A system and method are described for vehicle messaging. The system allows for a first user to send a message to a second user based on a vehicle identifier, which is an alphanumeric or other symbolic designator associated with the second user's vehicle or a vehicle in which the second user is a driver or passenger. The vehicle identifier can be a vehicle license plate, a vehicle identification number (VIN), or some other designator associated with the vehicle. The vehicle identifier may be displayed on a sticker or placard attached to the vehicle. The system and method include various ways to relay the message to the second user. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233265 | PROXY COMMUNICATIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method for establishing proxy communications between users on a social network. An exemplary method includes creating an alias on a primary social network when a user logs in to the primary social network, wherein the alias comprises the user's identity on a secondary social network. The method further includes creating a cache comprising a map relating a second user's identity on the primary social network to the second user's identity on a secondary social network, wherein the creation of the map is based, at least in part, on the user and the second user being identified as friends in the secondary social network. Communications from the user to the second user are directed through the primary social network based, at least in part, on the map. The communications are formatted to appear as if they were sent from the user's account on the secondary social network. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233266 | PEER-TO-PEER GROUP WITH RENEGOTIATION OF GROUP OWNER - A computing device that selectively renegotiates roles of devices in an existing peer-to-peer group. As the group is formed, the device may negotiate with other devices to select a device to control the group. During operation of the group, a device in the group may initiate a renegotiation that may lead to the selection of an alternative device to control the group. Renegotiation may be triggered by a message containing an information element signifying a request for renegotiation. Such a message may be sent either by the controlling device or other device in the group, and may be sent based on a state of the device. The state may relate to a source of power to the device such that a client that is connected to a source of power or a controlling device that is running low on battery power may request a renegotiation. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233267 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGE COLLECTION - The invention provides systems and methods that process text message content from a user device. The user device is assigned a routing character string. The system is in the form of a tangibly embodied computer. The system inputs an electronic text message from the user device, the electronic text message including text message content and the routing character string. The text message content may be constituted by data generated as a result of, and representative of, characters keyed in to the user device by the user. The text message content including a trig, and the trig including a trick, a command and a bin label. The system includes a processor portion that maintains a bin collection for the user, and performs processing on the text message content relating to a bin in the bin collection. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233268 | PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGE ROUTING - Message routing in a publish/subscribe system where messages are routed from one or more publishers to one or more subscribers according to respective defined paths through a topic tree. A pseudo-topic tree path comprised of a partial path definition and a selection function is specified by a subscriber or publisher. When executed, the selection function searches the topic tree to identify one or more path definition segments, which segments replace the selection function in the pseudo-topic tree path to generate one or more complete path definitions that are then usable for routing messages. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233269 | IDENTIFYING AND USING IDENTITIES DEEMED TO BE KNOWN TO A USER - The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example access to a user's online presence may be restricted based on the known people such that access to presence is provided only to those people that the user knows. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233270 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MESSAGES - A method for transmitting and receiving messages is used for a server. The method comprises: receiving sender information including a sender identification information, a sender message, and a receiver E-mail address; providing a sender E-mail address; sending a first E-mail including the sender message from the sender E-mail address to the receiver E-mail address; receiving a second E-mail including a reply message sent from the receiver address to the sender address; and transmitting the reply message to the sender. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233271 | INTELLIGENT PREVENTION OF SPAM EMAILS AT SHARE SITES - A computer-implemented method for preventing spam emails from a share site includes providing a network-based computer system to enable users to set up share sites and to send emails from the share sites, detecting potential spam emails based on one or more spam detection rules, identifying false positive emails in the potential spam emails based on one or more false alarm reduction rules, removing false positive emails from the potential spam emails to produce a list of verified spam emails, identifying a sender of the list of verified spam emails as a spammer, and prohibiting the spammer from sending emails from one or more share sites owned spammer. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233272 | SUBSCRIBER MESSAGE PAYLOAD HANDLING - A first message published by a first publisher, including a message header and payload data, is received. The payload data within the first received message is identified, extracted, and stored. A second message published by a second publisher, including function data that provides a function to modify the payload data, is received. The function data within the second received message is identified, extracted, and stored. The extracted and stored payload data is modified using the stored function. A third message, including the modified payload data, is created for distribution to a subscriber configured to process the modified payload in the third message. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233273 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGE COLLECTION - The invention provides systems and methods for processing communication content from a user device. The method performed by a computer and comprising inputting an electronic communication that includes communication content and a routing character string. The communication content constituted by data generated as a result of, and representative of, characters keyed into the user device by the user. Maintaining a bin collection including bins. Performing processing on the communication content including identifying the user and a bin collection of the user based on the routing character string; and processing the communication content including (1) mapping first data to a command; and (2) mapping second data to a bin label. The command dictates particular action to be performed, and the bin label identifies an identified bin upon which to perform the action; and performing the action on the identified bin. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233274 | DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION - A system for disseminating content, comprising digital storage apparatus for storing and organizing the content, the content having portions in a plurality of formats; a processor for generating a message to alert users of the system of availability of the content; a message sender for sending the message to users of the system; a selector for a user to select which portions of the content the user wishes to receive; a delivery function for delivering portions of the content selected by the user using the selector; and apparatus for tracking and generating records of what content, or portions thereof, has been sent to each user. A method for disseminating content, using the system. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium storing instructions of a computer program, which when executed by a computer system results in performance of steps of the method for disseminating content. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233275 | ELECTRONIC FILE TRANSFER FOR A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - Systems and methods are provided for identifying an electronic file that is accessible by a communications node to be transmitted to a recipient. A communications device sends an identification of the electronic file. The communications node receives the identification of the electronic file, identifies the electronic file based on the identification, and accesses the electronic file for transmission to the recipient. The electronic file is not transmitted from the communications device to the communications node. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233276 | RECEIVING AND PRESENTING DETAILED ACTIVITY INFORMATION REGARDING CURRENT AND RECENT INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS OF REMOTE USERS - A system for providing a local computer user with detailed activity information regarding remote users, in order to assist the local user in determining whether to initiate a communication session with a remote user. The system provides activity information describing the number of instant messaging sessions one or more remote users are currently involved in, the identities of participants in those sessions, activity levels, time period information, and other information. The system further provides detailed activity information describing recent instant messaging sessions of one or more remote users. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233277 | Apparatus And Method For Provisioning Wireless Data Communication Devices - A system for provisioning wireless data communication devices for a plurality of users is provided in which the system includes a configuration server having an authorization program and a configuration program, and a database. The configuration server is connectable to a network for providing a network portal for the plurality of users to 10 allow each of them to have a wireless data communication device provisioned. The authorization program validates which one of a plurality of wireless host servers a user is authorized to use. The configuration program is configured to provision the wireless data communication device to communicate with the one of a plurality of wireless host servers to obtain email from one of a plurality of messaging servers. The database is in communication with the configuration server for storing configurations for each of the wireless host servers. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233278 | SPAM CONTROL FOR SHARING CONTENT ON MOBILE DEVICES - Sharing content among users of mobile devices is facilitated and controlled by a system and method that employs a content sharing application to receive and process requests to share content among users of devices such as mobile devices and personal computers. Recipients receive share content messages from the content sharing application indicating that they have been selected to access shared content. Such messages may provide direct or indirect access to the shared content via the recipient mobile device. Recipients can specify privacy management schemes to limit or control the receipt of such messages. The content sharing application may also provide various spam filtering techniques that prevent users from abusing the system, including restricting the number or type of requests to share content that may be effectuated over time. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233279 | MESSAGE FILTERING METHOD - A message filtering method makes use of a database in which domain names of a network, such as the Internet, are associated with IP addresses, or with geographic locations. Electronic messages are tested for authenticity by comparing domain names and IP addresses for a message being tested with information in the database. If the sender information in the message does not have the same associations as information in the database, the message may be blocked, flagged as spam, or subjected to further filtering. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233280 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL HAVING EMAIL TRANSMISSION FUNCTIONALITY, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING EMAIL, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a mobile phone provided with: a main body that can be put in a storage state or a usage state by changing the relative positions or relative orientations of a first unit and a second unit; a wireless communication unit ( | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120233281 | PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSTANT COMMUNICATION TOOL - A method and an apparatus for processing a picture of an instant messenger are disclosed, which belong to the field of computers comprising: obtaining related information of an edit region, wherein the related information comprises at least a horizontal coordinate range and a vertical coordinate range; obtaining and recording position information of an initial cursor when a start notice is received, wherein the position information comprises at least coordinates; and obtaining position information of a current cursor in real time, generating a line segment according to the position information of the current cursor, the recorded position information and the related information, and updating the recorded position information into the position information of the current cursor. The apparatus comprises a first obtaining module, a second obtaining module and a generation module. The present disclosure can draw a line according to the movement path of the cursor. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120239754 | System and Method for Reviewing Attachment Content on a Mobile Device - Messages with an associated attachment document are first delivered to a mobile device without the attachment document. If the mobile device user wishes to review attachment data related to the attachment document, the user submits an attachment processing request to an attachment server that handles the attachment processing requests to provide the attachment data in one of several possible formats to the user. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239755 | ROAMING GROUPS IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - A computing device that forms a group in accordance with a peer-to-peer protocol in which a device may be identified based on a credential of a user. The credential may be used to determine a unique identifier for the user such that the same identifier is used on any device operated by the same user. Such an identifier may be used in connection with a peer-to-peer protocol that supports persistent peer-to-peer groups. As a result, the unique identifier for the user may be retained by remote devices that have paired with any device operated by a particular user such that those remote devices may automatically establish a connection with any other device operated by the same user that similarly uses the same unique identifier for the user. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239756 | TRANSACTION MESSAGE COLLECTOR - Various embodiments of systems and methods for a transaction message collector are described herein. The message collector receives the message from a message producer. In one aspect, the message is stored in an active message bulk storage or a new active message bulk storage. In another aspect, after the message is stored in the message collector, a confirmation is sent from the message collector to the message producer informing the message producer that the message is stored in the message collector. In yet another aspect, the active message bulk storage is forwarded to a message consumer for consumption based upon meeting at least one of plurality of time or memory based conditions. In a further aspect, after the active message bulk storage is consumed by the message consumer a result of consumption of the active message bulk storage is created and sent to the message producer. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239757 | MESSAGING FOR NOTIFICATION-BASED CLIENTS - The claimed subject matter provides a method for communicating with a client. The method includes receiving a notification token that identifies the client. The method further includes registering the client to receive a message when the client is not connected to the server. The method also includes sending the message to the client when the client does not have a connection to the server, based on the registering and the notification token. The message may be sent using a notification channel. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239758 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSUMER-TO-CONSUMER LENDING OF DIGITAL CONTENT - A consumer-to-consumer lending system and method for digital content such as digital ebooks. The lending system invention enables a user who has purchased digital content to lend that content to another user. The lending system enables a lender to extend a lending offer to a lendee and a lendee to respond to the lending offer. A lendee may accept or reject a lending offer. Upon acceptance, the lending system provides the lent content to the lendee who controls the content until returning it, purchasing it or until a predetermined lending period expires. During the lending period the lender does not have access to the lent digital content item. The lending system assists a lender with initiating a lending offer, such as providing a pre-populated email form, and delivers the lend offer notification to the target lendee. Lending offers may be initiated and notifications received over common channels, including email systems, mobile devices, and web-based user accounts. The lending process can be initiated directly from a consumer device. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239759 | MOBILE DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING EMAILS OF THE MOBILE DEVICE - In a method for processing an email transmitted between a first mobile device and a second mobile device, email content of the first mobile device are packed to be an email package with an Object Push Profile (OPP) format identified by a first communication module of the first mobile device. The method searches for a second communication module of a second device using the first communication module. If the first communication module matches the second mobile BLUETOOTH, a connection between the first communication module and the second communication module is established. If the second mobile device agrees to receive the email package, the method prompts the second mobile device to receive the email package, and transmits the email package through the first communication module to the second communication module. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239760 | Method for Communicating Information from One Information Communicating Server, Corresponding Information Communicating Server and System - A first information communicating server has a predetermined first communication network address. A communicating device stores the first communication network address. A first terminal sends successively to the first information transmitting medium at least two predetermined first information items. The first information transmitting medium transmits one of the at least two first information items at a time. A second terminal receives from the communicating device the first communication network address. The second terminal sends to the first information communicating server a request for communicating at least one predetermined second information item. The first information communicating server retrieves at least one predetermined second information item associated with the currently transmitted first information item and the first information communicating server sends to the second terminal the at least one second information item. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239761 | LINKING CONTEXT-BASED INFORMATION TO TEXT MESSAGES - A system and a method are disclosed for adding linked content to text messages. Messages are analyzed to determine the context and meaning of a conversation between users, and linked content relevant to the conversation is selected and associated with certain words or phrases in the messages. This process for enhancing text messages beneficially provides users with additional information related to the meaning of their conversation, and also provides advertisers with a valuable new way of delivering highly relevant advertisements to a precise group of users. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239762 | Remote Communication Systems and Methods for Appliances - A user may remotely monitor and adjust kitchen and laundry appliances. The appliance may have operational components for performing operational functions of the appliance, a control system for controlling the operational components, and a communication apparatus. The control system may have a user interface for allowing a user to control operation of the appliance. The communication apparatus may be operatively associated with the control system for providing information to a network, wherein the information includes data for identifying the appliance, data indicative of operational information about the appliance, and data indicative of a destination in the network for the information. The operational information about the appliance may comprise information about an operational setting and/or an operational state of the appliance. A computer located remotely from the appliance may communicate with the appliance by way of the communication apparatus and the network. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239763 | Systems and Methods for Aggregating and Filtering Content of Social Media Activity - Systems and methods for aggregating and filtering content of social media activity are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving content posted to a social network and associated with a user profile. The social network comprises a network of users that are related via one or more relationships indicating a type of connection between respective users, and the content posted to the social network includes a plurality of distinct data sets. The method also includes processing the plurality of distinct data sets to identify one or more respective data sets being indicative of media content, and filtering the one or more respective data sets based on a type of media content indicated by the one or more respective data sets. The method further includes providing within the social network for the user profile the content in an order based on the filtering. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239764 | System and Method for Managing Information Flow Between Members of an Online Social Network - An online social network is provided in which members of the online social network control who may view their personal information and who may communicate with them. The members control who may view their personal information by setting a visibility preference. A member may not view another member's full personal profile if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the visibility preference of the other member. The members also control who may communicate with them by setting a contactability preference. A member may not communicate with another member if the measure of relatedness between the two is greater than the contactability preference of the other member. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239765 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SERVICE-SPECIFIC MESSAGE MANAGEMENT FEATURE SUPPORT AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - The disclosed and claimed concept describes a handheld electronic device that has the capability to process electronic messages that originate from an electronic mail service using the features that are supported by the electronic mail service. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239766 | Reference Notification Method and Apparatus - A method and an apparatus of reference notification comprises obtaining an instant message that is sent from a sending user. A contact is selected that satisfies a predetermined criterion from contacts of the sending user. For the selected contact, content is determined that is of interest to the selected contact, and content is found that is of interest and is included in the obtained instant message based on the determined content of interest. Based on the found content of interest, a reference notification message is sent to a contact corresponding to the found content of interest, for notifying the contact that the content of interest is referenced. By using the technical scheme of the present disclosure, the problems of existing technologies that a user cannot accurately and quickly determine whether an instant message references content with which he/she is concerned are solved. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239767 | Method to Change Instant Messaging Status Based on Text Entered During Conversation - An embodiment of the invention provides a method for communication within a system, wherein an instant messaging conversation is initiated between a first user and a second user. An indicator and a text entry are received from the first user during the instant messaging conversation. The status of the first user is changed, including automatically setting the text entry as the status of the first user, and automatically including the name of the second user in the status of the first user if preferences of the first user indicate that the name of the second user is to be included in the status of the first user. Further, the text entry is automatically sent to the second user if the preferences of the first user indicate that a text entry following the indicator is to be automatically sent to the second user. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239768 | CONTACTING AN UNAVAILABLE USER THROUGH A PROXY USING INSTANT MESSAGING - Described are systems and methods for locating a user at an event. According to various embodiments of the methods, authorization is received from the user to locate the user at the event. A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag of the user is tracked if the user is unavailable for instant messaging communication. An instant message communication directed to the user is received. A determination is made that a second user has a predetermined relationship with a sender of the instant message and determining that a communication device of the second user detects the RFID tag of the user. A communication is sent comprising a message for the user to the communication device of the second user. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239769 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA - Methods and Apparatuses for processing data are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method receives data which may include an executable portion and a non-executable portion. The non-executable portion of the data may be presented to a user without rendering the executable portion. The non-executable portion of data presented may also include information regarding the executable portion (e.g., subject matter or source of the data). The executable portion of the data is rendered or executed only when a request from a user is specifically received. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239770 | Method and System for Transferring a Message - Method and system for transferring a message, comprising routing information relating to the intended recipient of the message and content information, from a first node via a second node to a third node in a communications network. According to the invention, a repository is associated with the second node. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting the message from the first node to the second node; storing data representative of the content information in the repository of the second node; replacing, by the second node, in the message, the content information by a token; transmitting the message, comprising the routing information and the token, from the second node to the third node; retrieving, by the third node, the content information from the second node; and replacing by the third node, in the message, the token by the content information. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239771 | METHOD AND NETWORK DEVICE ESTABLISHING A BINDING BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF SEPARATE SESSIONS IN A NETWORK - The present invention relates to networks, in particular to communication networks. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method, to network devices, to a computer program product and to a computer-readable medium for establishing a binding for separate sessions. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention there is provided a method for establishing a binding between a plurality of separate sessions, the method comprises storing a first identity of a first level, storing a second identity of a second level, providing a correspondence between the first identity and the second identity, extracting the second identity from a first message, retrieving the stored first identity on the basis of the extracted second identity and establishing a binding between a first session of the first level and a second session of the second level on the basis of the retrieved first identity. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239772 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATING METHOD - A communication system includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal. The first terminal transmits message data addressed to the third terminal to plural terminals. When the second terminal receives the message data and confirms that a destination thereof is not the second terminal, the second terminal transfers the received message data. When the third terminal receives the message data and confirms that the destination thereof is the third terminal, the third terminal transmits response data corresponding to the received message data to the first terminal. A priority for transmission of the response data is set higher than that of the transferred message data, and a period of time from reception of the message data until the transmission of the corresponding response data is shorter than a period of time from reception of the message data until the transfer of the message data. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120246238 | ASYNCHRONOUS MESSAGING TAGS - A method includes receiving a message from a user device, determining whether the message includes a tag, identifying at least one interaction the user device performed with an application responsive to determining that the message includes the tag, calculating a difference between a time the message was received and a time associated with the at least one identified interaction, determining whether the difference between the time the message was received and the time associated with the at least one identified interaction is within a threshold value, and associating the tag with the application associated with the at least one interaction responsive to determining that the difference between the time the message was received and the time associated with the at least one identified interaction is within the threshold value. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246239 | Method for Establishing Interpersonal Communication and System - A method includes determining a set of individuals available to participate in a chat event, and determining a pairing of individuals from the first set including a first individual and a second individual, the pairing based on matching criterion. The method also includes providing an invitation to the first individual and to the second individual, establishing communication between the first individual and the second individual in response to an acceptance of the first invitation by the first individual or in response to an acceptance of the first invitation by the second individual. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246240 | Providing Context Information Relating To Media Content That Is Being Presented - An approach is provided for enabling a user to obtain additional information pertaining to a set of media content that is currently being presented to the user. According to this approach, a media access device: (a) accesses a set of media content and some context information pertaining to the media content: (b) provides the media content to a presentation device for presentation to a user; (c) generates a context message based upon the context information; and (d) sends the context message to a receiving device being used by the user. Using the information in the context message, the receiving device provides the user with additional information relevant to the media content being presented. By sending the context message to the receiving device, the media access device makes it much easier and more convenient for the user to access additional information relevant to the media content. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246241 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DISTRIBUTED DYNAMIC ROUTING USING A LOGICAL BROKER - Systems and methods are disclosed that provide a single logical broker from the point of view of a message consumer connected to a messaging network. The messaging network implements dynamic routing that adapts to changes in the message preferences of the message consumer and the message consumer's availability throughout the messaging network. In various embodiments, the connection/disconnection of a message consumer and/or changes to message routing criteria at any broker in the network are propagated to all other brokers in the network until the entire network is adapted, such that a message consumer may connect to any broker node and receive the same network service and functionality regardless of connection point. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246242 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY CONFIRMING APPOINTMENTS - The present relates to a method and system for electronically confirming appointments. The method and system access by a coordination module an appointment database and assign by the coordination module an appointment identifier to an appointment to be confirmed. Then, the coordination module generates a verification message comprising appointment information and the appointment identifier. The verification message is electronically sent by a communication module to at least one electronic address of a corresponding client. Then, the communication module receives a response message comprising the appointment identifier from the client. The coordination module treats the response message, and updates the appointment database in accordance with the response message. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246243 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An electronic mail system includes plural user terminal apparatuses, a distribution apparatus, an information providing apparatus, and a storage device. The distribution apparatus distributes an electronic mail to a specified destination in response to a distribution request for distributing the electronic mail. The distribution request is sent from any of the plural user terminal apparatuses. Each of the plural user terminal apparatuses includes a display processing unit that performs a process to display a list of electronic mails, a detecting unit that detects a process, and a process detection information sending unit that sends process detection information. The information providing apparatus includes a registration unit that obtains and registers the process detection information, a history information generating unit that generates history information, and a history information sending unit that sends the generated history information. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246244 | USER DEVICE GROUP FORMATION - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first device group including a plurality of the other user devices. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246245 | CONTACT PRIORITIZER - A method including determining a location of a user device and a user; identifying a user context of the user based on the location; generating a communication history based on communications received and sent by the user device within a time window; storing contact entries; generating a ranking for at least some of the contact entries based on the identified user context, the communication history, and the contact entries, wherein the ranking is an inferred user priority of contact entries; and displaying the ranked contact entries on a home screen or a desktop of the user device. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246246 | USER NOTIFICATION - A data processing device comprises a notification controller configured to provide notification to a user in response to a data processing event at that device or another device to which that device is connected; and a user interface by which the user can attend to a user notification to carry out a data processing task relating to the notified data processing event; the notification controller being configured to inhibit further notifications while the user is attending to a current notification using the user interface. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246247 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION PUSH SERVICE BASED ON WIRELESS LAN ACCESS POINT - A method for an information push service at a mobile station based on a wireless local area network (LAN) access point (AP). The method includes receiving a beacon message including a shortened Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from at least one AP, acquiring information based on the shortened URL included in the beacon message, and displaying the acquired information together with information included in the beacon message. The method allows a user to simply, conveniently, and easily acquire and make use of peripheral information of an area in which the user is located. The method also provides a service dependent on information on a position of contents, thereby being capable of allowing the user to easily access the contents. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246248 | Image Forming Apparatus that Transmits/Receives an Electronic Mail Related to Image Formation, Image Forming Method, and Recording Medium - Provided is an image forming apparatus, including: a communication processing section; a command template transmission section; and a command execution section. The communication processing section transmits/receives an electronic mail related to image formation. The command template transmission section causes the communication processing section to transmit, upon detection of a specific event, a notification electronic mail including a notification of the specific event and a command template of a predetermined command related to the specific event in a text format to a predetermined electronic mail address. The command execution section executes, when a command electronic mail including a command of the same format as the command template in a text format is received by the communication processing section, a process designated by the command included in the command electronic mail. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SECURITIES TRADING INSTRUCTIONS AND COMMUNICATING ORDER STATUS VIA A MESSAGING INTERFACE - A system allowing traders, etc. to use instant messaging (IM) (or other non-FIX based) communications to input trading instructions directly into a broker's Order Management System (OMS) for managing/executing trades. Accordingly, trading instructions may be provided electronically directly from a buy-side trader, and directly to a sell-side broker's/brokerage's OMS, without the need for the sell-side broker to manually re-key the order into the sell-side firm's OMS. Further, trading instructions are provided in electronic format directly to the broker's OMS without the need for the buy-side trader to have an expensive FIX based OMS or associated FIX connection, which is also expensive, thereby allowing relatively smaller investment houses/buy-side organizations to enjoy the benefits of electronic delivery of trading instructions directly to brokers' OMS. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246250 | Network Operating System and Method for Messaging within an Access Control Model - The invention provides a system and method for a network operating system. The system includes a complex data medium that enables the continuous reconciliation of the collaborative information process and product. The system generally increases productivity by enabling a network dynamic among knowledge workers. The system unifies e-mail and shared file management, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, serial and parallel work flow, top-down and bottom-up collaboration, and information lifecycle management. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246251 | DISPLAYING COMPLEX MESSAGING THREADS INTO A SINGLE DISPLAY - A method for organizing a message thread containing one or more messages. A root message and reply groupings are identified, each reply grouping depending from the root message. Each reply grouping has one or more child reply messages depending from a common parent message. The child reply messages within each reply grouping are ordered in chronological order based on the time of each of the one or more child reply messages was received or sent. The reply groupings are hierarchically ordering based on a relationship between the reply grouping and its parent message. A single display allows a user to view the message thread and the content of all of the messages in accordance with the hierarchical ordering. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246252 | Electronic Communication Reminder Technology - Systems and methods concerning electronic communication reminder technology are disclosed. A receiving device having one or more processors and a memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, receives a first electronic message addressed to a particular user, from a first sender, and in accordance with a determination that the particular user has not responded to the first electronic message, alerts the particular user, at a predefined time, to the first electronic message. The predefined time is determined based at least in part on response pattern data corresponding to one or more characteristics associated with the receiving device, the first electronic message, the particular user, or the first sender. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246253 | APPARATUS WITH SWITCH GENERATING SMS MESSAGE - Apparatus for selectively enabling functionality of a machine having a first state, wherein some or all of the functionality associated with the machine is selectively disabled, the apparatus comprising: an input for a user to select the disabled functionality; a transmitter for sending an SMS message in response to a user input at the input means; a controller for generating a control signal associated with the sending of the SMS message, the control signal configured to place the machine in a second active state in which some or all of the functionality associated with the machine is selectively enabled. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246254 | Method and Apparatus for User Equipment Accessing in IP Multimedia Subsystem - A method and an apparatus for UE accessing an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) are disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: setting a user equipment access apparatus ( | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120254316 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING TRUSTED SERVER TO VERIFY A REDIRECTION REQUEST AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A communications system includes a mobile wireless communications device, a trusted server, and a plurality of host servers. A given one of the host servers is in communication with the mobile wireless communications device. The given host server is configured to generate and send a redirection request to the mobile wireless communications device, the redirection request requesting the mobile wireless communications device to communicate with an other one of the host servers. The mobile wireless communications device is configured to send the redirection request to the trusted server, and the trusted server configured to send the redirection request to the mobile wireless communications device based upon verification of the redirection request. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254317 | Transmitting Messages Between Internationalized Email Systems and Non-Internationalized Email Systems - A method is provided for transmitting an email message from a sender to a selected recipient, the selected recipient capable of receiving only email messages compliant with American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). However, one or more of the sender or other recipients have a non-ASCII email address. Accordingly, mapped ASCII email addresses are created for each of the non-ASCII email addresses as follows. A username is generated as a mapping of the non-ASCII email address using a predefined mapping algorithm. A domain name is selected from one or more predefined domain names, each of the domain names configured to resolve to a predefined gateway server. The username is concatenated with the domain name to create the mapped ASCII email address. Then, the non-ASCII email addresses is replaced with the mapped ASCII email address and the email message is sent to the selected recipient. A gateway server and computer-readable medium configured to implement the method described above are also provided. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254318 | PHRASE-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A client device, such as a digital video recorder, provides a phrase-based communication system in which users are presented with a dynamic messaging interface of selectable phrases and other elements. At least some of the phrases may be selected using algorithms that identify phrases that are likely to be useful to the particular user and/or the context in which the user is creating a message. In this manner, a user is able to generate useful messages quickly, without being limited to stale and fixed canned messages. Popular phrases may be identified by, for example, a server that relays based on messages exchanged between users. These popular phrases may then be harvested for use in the dynamic messaging interface. Moreover, context-sensitive metadata elements may be added to the dynamic messaging interface based on, for example, content that the user is currently viewing or about which the user is currently accessing information. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254319 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NETWORKED APPLICATIONS - During communication of a large data message from a client application to a server application, requirements to communicate smaller control messages can arise. To facilitate timely communication of control messages, a client application may include a chunking module that divides a data message into chunks that can be sent as a sequence of individual data message packets. When a control message needs to be sent, the sequence of data message packets can be interrupted to send a control message packet. At the server application, the sequence of message packets is processed so that data message packets are appended to a data message and control messages are extracted for immediate processing. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254320 | DISTRIBUTING COLLECTED INFORMATION TO DATA CONSUMERS BASED ON GLOBAL USER CONSENT INFORMATION - An information management system is described herein which maintains collected information that pertains to users, received from one or more data sources. The information management system also maintains a store of consent information. The consent information describes, for each user, at least one permission rule (established by the user) which enables at least one data consumer to receive at least part of the collected information for that user. Upon the occurrence of a triggering event, an information distribution module operates by distributing identified part(s) of the collected information to appropriate data consumer(s), as governed by the consent information. In this manner of operation, the consent information functions as global metadata which, from a centralized platform, governs the dissemination of the collected information to any data consumer in an application-agnostic manner. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254321 | PROVIDING ADDITIONAL EMAIL CONTENT IN AN EMAIL CLIENT - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing additional content in an email. An email service can receive the email at an email server. Prior to the email being sent to an email client, metadata for a parameter used to retrieve the additional content is identified and collected. The collected metadata is sent to the email client used by the intended recipient of the email (e.g., on a smart phone). When the user attempts to access the email, the email server can respond by sending script code to the email client, which, in combination with locally stored metadata retrieved from the email, provides the additional content in the email. In this manner, an email regarding a package, for example, can include not only a tracking number but also a status of the delivery of the package, where the status may be different/updated each time the email is accessed. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254322 | Priority of outbound messages communicated among end user communication devices - An exemplary method implemented by a first end-user communication device originates an electronic communication. User input is received to create information to be conveyed by the transmission of a digital packet having a header segment and a user data segment. The user data segment contains a user message and a priority value where the priority value conveys a corresponding message priority to a recipient device. The priority value and the user message are determined by the user of the first end-user communication device. Under the control of a first module of an enhanced services application program, a composition screen is displayed by which the user input including the user message is entered. Visual indicia indicative of a current message priority to be assigned to the user message is displayed on the composition. The first module causes insertion of the priority value corresponding to the current message priority in a priority field in the user data segment prior to transmission of the digital packet. The digital packet is transmitted with the user data segment that contains the user message and the priority value. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254323 | Priority of received messages communicated among end user communication devices - An exemplary method implemented by a first end-user communication device receives an electronic communication of a digital packet having a header segment and a user data segment, the user data segment containing a user message and a priority value A first message priority is determined by a first module of a enhanced services application program. The first message priority is based on the received priority value that defines first visual indicia representing a first priority for the user message, a plurality of different message priorities with associated different visual indicia being defined by corresponding priority values. Under the control of the first module, the user message concurrent with the first visual indicia are displayed on a screen segment of the first end-user's communication device so that the first priority assigned to the received user message is visually conveyed to the first end-user. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254324 | Automatic expiration of messages communicated among end user communication devices - An exemplary method is implemented by a first end-user communication device for processing a received electronic communication that includes a digital packet having a header segment and a user data segment. The user data segment contains a first command and a user message, where the first command contains a first parameter representing automatic expiration and an associated first value representing how long the user message will be available for display by the first end-user communication device. Under the control of an enhanced services application program, the user message in clear text format is generated for display on a screen of the first end-user communication device. A determination is made of the expiration of the time set by the first value, and upon the expiration, the clear text user message is thereafter prevented from being accessed by the first end-user communication device. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254325 | Automatic expiration of messages communicated to an end user communication device - An exemplary method is implemented by an electronic device for transmitting a data message to at least a first end-user communication device. Data that forms a user message for conveyance to a first end-user communication device and a first value are received under the control of an enhanced services application program. A digital packet is formed with a header segment and a user data segment. The user data segment is formed under the control of the enhanced services application program and contains a first command and the user message, the first command representing that the user message is to be automatically deleted by the recipient first end-user communication device. The first command includes the first value that represents how long until the user message will be automatically deleted by the first end-user communication device. The digital packet is transmitted to the first end-user communication device. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254326 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADVANCED ALIAS DOMAIN ROUTING - A method and system for advanced alias domain routing are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving an incoming message from a first unified communications server, the incoming message comprising source address data, destination address data, and digital content. A real address of a destination address is computed by using the source address data, and an alias address of a source address is computed by using the destination address data. The incoming message is processed, wherein processing the incoming message includes enforcing policies. An outgoing message is generated comprising the digital content, the real address and the alias address. The outgoing message is transmitted to a second unified communications server. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254327 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR BANDWIDTH SAVING AND ON-DEMAND DATA DELIVERY FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for reducing data bandwidth usage in wireless communication comprises receiving a request from the a mobile device to provide the an e-mail message; sending a request to the an e-mail server for delivery of the e-mail message; analyzing the e-mail message delivered from the e-mail server to determine if a size of the e-mail message is above a threshold value, and if not expanding the e-mail content to be above the threshold value; acknowledging to the mobile device the existence of the e-mail message and its respective size; and delivering to the mobile device header content of the e-mail content, thereby only a small fraction of the data corresponding to the e-mail message is actually delivered to the mobile device. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254328 | WITHIN-A-RADIUS CHATTING SYSTEM AND SERVICE METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a within-a-radius chatting system and a service method thereof, which can perform chatting with a user of a mobile terminal positioned within a certain radius and meeting a search condition set by the user. The within-a-radius chatting system comprises: an application transmission unit; a member join/authentication unit; a storage unit; a radius information receiving unit; a position information receiving unit; a member search unit; and a chatting relay unit. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254329 | SELECTABLE ACTIVATION/DEACTIVATION OF FEATURES OF APPLICATIONS ON END USER COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Control of access to sets of features implemented by an enhanced services program operating on a first end-user communication device is provided. Predetermined access commands are stored in memory of the end-user communication device where each command has associated stored data that determines a corresponding set of features of the first enhanced services program to which the user is permitted access. On receipt of such a command, first stored data corresponding to the command is identified where the first stored data identifies a first set of features of the enhanced services program to which the user is provided access. The determination of whether to permit user access to a certain feature of the first enhanced services program is based on whether the certain feature is part of the first set of features. Generation of the access command by a server is another embodiment. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254330 | OPERATION METHOD APPLICABLE TO ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH OPERATION SYSTEM - Provided is an operation method applicable to sender device having a screen and a currently opened file displayed on the screen. When the sender device identifies a user gesture matching a predefined send command, the sender device performing following steps: (1) setting the currently opened file as a to-be-sent file when the sender device knows a file name of the currently opened file; otherwise capturing a current screen display on the screen as the to-be-sent file when the sender device does not know the file name of the currently opened file; (2) sending a sending request to a receiver device; and (3) sending the to-be-sent file to the receiver device when the sender device receives a response from the receiver device. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254331 | System and Method for Dynamic Throttling During Bulk Message Delivery - An flexible, extensible, and dynamically configurable intelligent throttling capability that among other things can support the bulk processing of a wide range of information (including inter alia Short Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, IP Multimedia Subsystem, etc. messages; E-Mail messages; Instant Messaging communications; Session Initiation Protocol-addressed artifacts; signaling, command-and-control, application, etc. data; etc.) that may result following for example service interruptions, system outages, bursts of traffic (for example in response to a tele-voting initiative, from a mass broadcast of alert or information messages in response to a news item or an emergency situation, etc.), equipment failures, etc. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254332 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPORTING MEDIA FILE EMAIL ATTACHMENTS - The invention provides systems and methods for importing media files from emails. A method for importing media files includes searching email accounts for media files attached to or embedded in emails, and importing any media files found in the search from the emails accounts into an electronic storage unit. The media files in some cases can be processed, such as by converting the media files from one format to another. A harvested media file ready for use can be committed for use with broadcast content. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254333 | AUTOMATED DETECTION OF DECEPTION IN SHORT AND MULTILINGUAL ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method and apparatus for automatically identifying harmful electronic messages, such as those presented in emails, on Craigslist or on Twitter, Facebook and other social media websites, features methodology for discriminating unwanted garbage communications (spam) and unwanted deceptive messages (scam) from wanted, truthful communications based upon patterns discernable from samples of each type of electronic communication. Methods are proposed that enable discrimination of wanted from unwanted communications in short electronic messages, such as on Twitter and for multilingual application. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254334 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC, CONTROL AND INFORMATION COLLECTION USING A DYNAMIC LINKED LIBRARY OF MULTIPLE FORMATS AND MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS WITH RESTRICTION ON PROTOCOL - A method, system and computer program product for (1) collecting information from a remote application unit and/or (2) diagnosing or controlling the remote application unit. By utilizing a shareable computer code device (e.g., a dynamic linked library), a new application can utilize tested, proven code without having to reproduce existing functionality. Moreover, by supporting multiple data formats and/or multiple communication protocols, a computer code device increases the likelihood that a supported format and/or protocol will be either receivable or understandable by a receiver. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254335 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING VARIABLE SIZE MESSAGES BASED ON SPAM PROBABILITY - There is disclosed a system and method for delivering a message to a communication device. In an embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a probability that the message is spam; in dependence upon the probability that the message is spam, determining a variable message size; and sending the message to the communication device in dependence upon the determined variable message size. In an embodiment, the method further comprises receiving a user response whether the message is spam; and if the message is verified as being spam, then filtering the message from the communication device. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254336 | PRESERVING A MESSAGING SERVICE IN A HIGHLY AVAILABLE ENVIRONMENT - A system receives an identifier for a temporary destination in response to messaging software at a client requesting that a messaging server create the temporary destination. The messaging software uses the identifier to indicate the temporary destination as a destination for responses to messages from the messaging software. The identifier is logged. A disconnection from the messaging server is detected. A second request for a temporary destination is created. The identifier is indicated in the second request. The second request indicating the identifier is transmitted to the messaging server to preserve a messaging service in a highly available environment. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120259924 | Method and apparatus for providing summary information in a live media session - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving media from a live media session, processing the media to generate summary information for the live media session, and transmitting the summary information for a specified segment of the live media session to a user during the live media session. An apparatus is also disclosed. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259925 | IM CONTINUATION ACROSS SIP SESSIONS AND ACROSS CLIENTS FOR POINT-TO-POINT AND MULTI-USER CHAT - A communication system can create a conversation identifier (ID) for a logical IM conversation. The conversation ID can identify messages that are associated with the same IM conversation. The associated IM messages can be stored in an archive for later use. When a SIP session ends but an IM conversation continues, a SIP server can rebuild the IM conversation with messages retrieved with the conversation ID. Further, an IM conversation can be restarted on a different IM client by retrieving messages from the archive associated with the previously established conversation ID. Thus, the conversation ID ensures that an IM conversation does not end due to system changes or reconfigurations in IM clients. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259926 | System and Method for Generating and Transmitting Interactive Multimedia Messages - An interactive multimedia messaging system that enables users to obtain media components from multiple sources (including live recording, the cloud, a mobile web site, a local device, personal computer, etc.) and put, edit, mix and organize them into a single interactive multimedia message that can be shared in various formats (email, SMS, streaming, wmv, mp4, etc.) with any other device or location where they play as videos. The messaging system includes a multimedia message creator interface that has a plurality of timelines capable of being populated by multiple types of user-selected media content intended to be combined and synchronized into a single multimedia message, and a content selector tool configured to enable a user to select media content for inclusion in the single multimedia message from among a plurality of sources. The system also includes multimedia message transmission interface is configured to enable the user to transmit the single multimedia message to at least one third party. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259927 | System and Method for Processing Interactive Multimedia Messages - An interactive media creator that enables users to obtain media components from multiple sources (including live recording, the cloud, a mobile web site, a local device, personal computer, etc.) and put, edit, mix and organize them into a single interactive multimedia message that can be shared in various formats (email, SMS, streaming, wmv, mp4, etc.) with any other device or location where they play as videos. Transmission of the media and media messages is performed through the use a messaging container format that includes information regarding attributes and storage location of each media component in the message. The message container enables recipients not only to view the created message, but also use, edit, mash, save, synthesize, and/or include any of the individual media components in new messages that can be shared over and over. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259928 | Removing or Correcting Email Recipients From an Email Chain - An email server receives an email. The email has a list of email addresses that includes the sender email address and the recipient addresses. The email is then sent to the recipients. An indication associated with one of the email addresses, such as the email address is invalid, the email address is for an incorrect recipient, the recipient does not want to receive responses to the email, and the like, is received. In response to the indication, responses to the email are filtered by not sending the response to an email address in the list of email addresses. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259929 | GEO-DATA SPAM FILTER - Geo-data spam filters are described. In one or more implementations, origin data and language data of a message are evaluated to establish a score for the message indicating a likelihood that the message is spam. The evaluation includes comparing the origin data and the language data to ranked lists indicating message origins and languages with which a respective message recipient interacts positively and ranked lists indicating message origins and languages with which the respective recipient interacts negatively. Interactions of the respective recipient with previously sent messages may be tracked to form these lists. Based on the score established by evaluating the origin data and the language data of the message, the message is filtered for delivery. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259930 | COMPUTER SERVER AND METHOD FOR SHARING DATA IN GROUPS - A method for sharing data in a group using a computer server establishes sharing groups to share data queried by a communication device. A query is sent to the computer server using a Subscriber Identity Module Application Toolkit (STK) application in the communication device. The method receives a query from the communication device, acquires a query result, and transmits the query result to the communication device and group members in one or more selected sharing groups in response to receiving a group selection command from the communication device. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259931 | SOCIAL NETWORK ENABLER - A method and apparatus are provided for connecting a first group of users from at least one first social network with users from at least one second social network. The first group of users is registered on the second social network as a generic first user. The method is carried out by a network scheduler and includes collecting a first message from at least one second user from the second social network intended to the generic first user, selecting a user from the first group of users based on a predefined criterion, and providing the first message to the selected user and presenting the second user as the sender of the first message. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259932 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGE - A message to be transmitted is converted into an image file. The image file is stored and location information about a location where the image file is stored, is generated. The image file is transmitted to at least one device based on the location information. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259933 | Methods, Systems, And Computer Program Products For Managing Electronic Subscriptions - Managing electronic subscriptions includes receiving user input for modifying an electronic subscription of a user to prevent receiving a redundant subscription message for the electronic subscription. Whether a future subscription message is redundant is determined based on at least one of an identifier for the subscription message and content included in the subscription message. Redundant future subscription messages associated with the electronic subscription is excluded from presentation to the user based on the redundancy determination and the user input. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259934 | GROUP COMMUNICATION FOR A VARIETY OF MEDIA TYPES AND DEVICES - In order to provide non-confusing information on supported media types in a group to group members, information on messages indicating supported media types are cross-checked with usable media types in the group. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259935 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect one or more user-generated comments from each of a plurality of computing devices, detect a correlation in the one or more user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices, and establish a social network between the plurality of computing devices according to the detected correlation. The one or more user-generated comments can be temporally associated with media content presented at the plurality of computing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259936 | DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL API FOR MIME - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate interpreting Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) data. An interface can obtain MIME data. For instance, a stream of MIME data can be obtained, MIME data can be loaded from a static file, etc. Moreover, any disparate type of RFC 822 data can additionally or alternatively be received by the interface. Also, a MIME reader can analyze the MIME data (and/or normalized RFC 822 data) to interpret encoded structural information and generate at least one primitive based on the encoded structural information. Further, a hierarchical model can be built utilizing the at least one primitive. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259937 | INITIATING INSTANT MESSAGING (IM) CHAT SESSIONS FROM EMAIL MESSAGES - Systems and methods for integrating instant messaging (IM) services and email services are described. In one embodiment, email messages and IM chat session transcripts are threaded to each other so that an email thread history may be traced back to an IM chat session transcript and, conversely, an IM thread history may be traced back to an email message. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259938 | Systems and Methods for Messaging to Multiple Gateways - Systems and methods for providing message communication among multiple communication gateways. In particular, systems and methods for providing non-voice message delivery to intended recipients with increased speed and reliability to multiple users on multiple platforms. The systems and methods relate to non-voice messaging to multiple messaging gateways. In at least one embodiment, the systems and methods include Internet based electronic messaging using a messaging subsystem configured to optimize text message delivery to communication gateways. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120265823 | ON DEMAND LOCATION SHARING - An on demand location sharing technique protects the location of a client device until the user of the client device elects to share the location. The location of the user device is not broadcasted to other user devices. In an on demand request for the location or from initiation from the user, the location of the user device is shared with other users. In an embodiment, the on demand location sharing technique may be used in a messaging service application used in wireless devices. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265824 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURATION-CONTROLLED INSTRUMENTATION OF APPLICATION PROGRAMS - Embodiments of the present invention provide tools and facilities for instrumentation of application programs, including application programs that execute on mobile-electronics devices, including web browsers. The application-program and mobile-electronics-device environment is a superset of the web-analytics problem domain and provides many new opportunities and challenges for instrumentation-based data collection and data analysis. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide configuration-controlled embedded instrumentation that allows fine-granularity control of instrumentation operation by remote date-collection servers. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265825 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING PERCEPTIBILITY OF LOCATION-BASED MESSAGES - Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling perceptibility of location-based messages. A method may include determining a distance between a location of an apparatus and a location associated with a received message. The method may further include controlling perceptibility of content of the message based at least in part on the determined distance. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265826 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CREATING E-MAIL - In a communication terminal, an extraction section extracts predetermined keyword data from text data input for an e-mail, an acquiring section acquires predetermined associated data associated with the keyword data extracted by the extraction section from an internal memory (such as a RAM or a storage device) of the communication terminal or from predetermined external equipment through a communication device, based on storage location reference data that indicates the storage location of the associated data and is stored in the internal memory, and an inserting section inserts the associated data acquired by the acquiring section into the text data in place of the keyword data. With this communication terminal, an input operation necessary to create an e-mail can be performed efficiently. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265827 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD AND SOCIAL NETWORK AND METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENT INFORMATION - Portable electronic equipment and method share content information about content, e.g., music, audio content, video content; by sharing the content information it may be possible to share the content itself. The equipment and method provide for selecting a “LIKE” function regarding content; a unique identifier of the content information and where it may be found is obtained, e.g., from a local or remote source, such as a server, and sent, e.g., to a user's social network page for posting or to another person via sms or email, for use by another person to obtain the content information. The other person may use the content information to learn about the content and may obtain permission, e.g., by purchasing the content, to use, perform, display, etc. the content. A social network and method permit a user to indicate a “LIKE” or similar entry to gain access to the content information. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265828 | HOME BRIDGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DELIVERING CONFIDENTIAL ELECTRONIC FILES - A private document delivery system and method includes a home bridge computer configured to securely deliver an electronic document over a computer network. The home bridge computer combines SSL security, authentication, and direct data transfer in a link delivery system to maintain security of private electronic documents. The private electronic documents and messages transmitted via the home bridge computer are not stored during transit on the computer network, and no third parties to the message receive a permanent copy of the message. The systems and methods also include signaling mechanisms configured to notify the receiving computer that the electronic document is awaiting delivery. The system and method includes a network registry configured to verify the receiving computer's identity with a protocol specified by the sending computer and to provide access instructions to the receiving computer with which the receiving computer locates the home bridge and retrieves the private message. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265829 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVER AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - The invention provides a system and method for determining when a message is received by a recipient or an agent for the recipient. A link is activated at the recipient to provide an indication that the message has been opened by the recipient. The activation of the link may cause a server remote from the recipient to take some further action. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265830 | Method and System for Sharing Load Dynamically in Short Message System - The present invention discloses a method for dynamically sharing load in a short message system, and the method includes: classifying real network elements of same type into a virtual network element, wherein the adjacent network element of short message gateway acts as a real network element; according to a load sharing policy, the short message gateway forwarding short messages to a real network element belonging to virtual network element via the virtual network element. The present invention discloses a system for sharing load dynamically in a short message system, and in the system, a classifying unit is used to classify real network elements of same type into a virtual network element; a load sharing unit is used by a short message gateway to forward short messages to a real network element belonging to virtual network element via the virtual network element according to load sharing policy. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265831 | System and Method for Transmitting and Filtering Instant Messaging Information - The present disclosure provides a method, a system and a device of transmitting instant messaging information. The techniques use at least two determinations. A first determination evaluates whether a first user identification of a sender of the instant messaging information is identified as a high priority user associated with a second user identification of a receiver. A second determination ascertains whether operation information relating the second user identification corresponding to the first user identification is stored. When the result of the first determination is negative, the instant messaging information is not directly treated as instant messaging information. The result of the second determination may be used to determine whether the instant messaging information is junk information. The techniques, when achieving the purpose of filtering junk information, reduce the possibility that the valid information is treated as junk information, and improve the accuracy of filtering junk information. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265832 | MESSAGE THREAD MANAGEMENT USING DYNAMIC POINTERS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for message thread management using dynamic pointers. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for message thread management using dynamic pointers is provided. The method includes selecting a message thread in a message inbox of a messaging client, comparing characteristics of the message thread to a pre-established set of criteria, and removing the selected message thread to remote storage, generating a message thread pointer to the selected message thread and inserting the message thread pointer into the message inbox in place of the selected message thread in response to the characteristics of the message thread satisfying the criteria. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265833 | Managing Email Disk Usage Based on User Specified Conditions - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for managing email disk usage based on user specified conditions. An incoming email for a user is scanned for email expressions. A determination is made as to whether one of the email expressions matches one of a number of listed expressions forming a matched expression. Responsive to a presence of a matched expression, a determination is made as to whether a first threshold associated with the matched expression is met or exceeded. Responsive to the first threshold being met or exceeded, a notification is sent to the user of the first threshold being met. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265834 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM TO BLOCK SPAM - A system, method and program product for blocking unwanted e-mails. An e-mail is identified as unwanted. A source IP address of the unwanted e-mail is determined. Other source IP addresses owned or registered by an owner or registrant of the source IP address of the unwanted e-mail are determined. Subsequent e-mails from the source IP address and the other IP addresses are blocked. This will thwart a spammer who shifts to a new source IP address when its spam is blocked from one source IP address. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120271890 | Systems And Methods For Classification Of Messaging Entities - Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for assigning a reputation to a messaging entity. A method can include receiving data that identifies one or more characteristics related to a messaging entity's communication. A reputation score is determined based upon the received identification data. The determined reputation score is indicative of reputation of the messaging entity. The determined reputation score is used in deciding what action is to be taken with respect to a communication associated with the messaging entity. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271891 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND USER MANAGEMENT SERVER - A user management server stores access information which is created by associating each item of access identification information, which identifies an access destination in accordance with the number of users who have been permitted to connect to it, together with access conditions which show the attributes of users, and with user identification information which identifies the user terminals associated with this access destination, and with connection destination information which identifies a comment storage section where the comments transmitted from the user terminals are stored, and when a connection request is received from a user terminal, then if a vacancy exists in the access information which has been associated with the corresponding access conditions, the connection is permitted, and if a comment server receives a comment transmitted from a user terminal, it shares this comment with the user terminals with which this same connection destination information has been associated. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271892 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING VISUALLY-ENCODED INFORMATION TO FACILITATE CONSUMER INFORMATION COLLECTION - The present invention provides an engine, system and method for providing a method for capturing data, comprising executing a set of actionable instructions including an email address being visually encoded into a mark or symbol, executing the encoded instructions based on the voluntary actions of an individual on at least one system of hardware and software reading and decoding the mark, receiving at least one email message at the encoded address, and parsing of the email message to extract consumer-specific information. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271893 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PLAYLISTS - The present invention relates to a computerized method and systems for managing feeds so that a user's playlists may be automatically updated in accordance with a user's desired media preferences. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271894 | Method and System for Sharing Information About Media Items - A method for sharing information between users of a media management application is disclosed. In one embodiment, a server computer receives a media information share request, retrieves artist or album information according to the media information share request, constructs a media message form, and sends the completed media message form to the client computer. The server computer then receives a completed media message form from a client computer, constructs a media message containing artist or album information according to the media message form, extracts a list of e-mail addresses from the media message form, and sends a media message to at least one e-mail address in the list of e-mail addresses. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271895 | LOCATION AWARE MASS INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system, node and method for location aware mass information distribution to peers. The method includes overlaying a distributed hash table (DHT) network over an existing physical communication network to which the peers are connected, wherein the DHT network is a peer to peer (P2P) network; providing at least one application layer multicast (ALM) protocol over the overlayed DHT network to form an ALM tree topology for the peers, wherein the ALM tree topology is based on location information of the peers; using the ALM tree topology for establishing logical connections within a group, between a leader of the group and peers of the group; and using the overlayed DHT network for establishing connections, between the leader and the peers, to be followed by a message to be distributed to the peers. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271896 | System and Method for Handling Electronic Messages - Systems and methods for handling messages on a mobile device. A system and method could be configured to receive at a mobile device a message that is associated with a message expiry indicator. If a message expiry indicator is determined to be associated with the received message, then the received message is removed from the mobile device. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271897 | CLEARINGHOUSE FOR MESSAGES BETWEEN DISPARATE NETWORKS - A system and method are directed towards managing interoperability between disparate IM networks. A clearinghouse server is provided that receives IM messages from disparate IM networks. The clearinghouse server examines the IM message to determine it is in a compatible protocol for a destination IM network. If the IM message is incompatible a translation service is used to translate the message into a compatible protocol. The translation service further determines if the destination IM network supports a feature employed by the received IM message. If the feature is supported or can be translated to a supported feature, the translation service will also perform the feature translation. Otherwise, the translation service may return an error message indicating that the received IM message includes an unsupported feature for the destination IM network. Upon satisfactory translation, the clearinghouse server forwards the translated IM message towards the destination IM network. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271898 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING RESPONSE HANDLING TIME AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SCORES - A system and method disclosed for using and updating a database of template responses for a live agent in response to user communications. The method includes computing an average string distance between each response from a live agent and a template, use to generate the response, modifying the computed average string distance based on a customer satisfaction score associated with each response and selecting a response that minimizes the computed average string distance and maximizes customer satisfaction. Upon receiving a further communication on a certain issue, the system presents a prototype response that has been added to the template database to the live agent for use in generating a response to the further communication that reduces handling time and increases customer satisfaction. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271899 | ELECTRONIC MAIL FORWARDING SERVICE - A system and method are disclosed that enable an email service provider to implement an email forwarding service without losing associated page views. In one embodiment, rather than forwarding the entire email message, the email forwarding service generates a summary email message, and sends this summary email message to the forwarding email address pre-specified by the subscriber. This summary email message includes a link that is selectable by the user to view the original email message on a web site of the email service provider. Thus, even if the forwarding email address is hosted externally, the subscriber still views the full email message on a web site of the provider of the email forwarding service. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271900 | Managed Messaging Platform - Software is executed on a wireless device for presenting a response aggregation drawn upon a message having at least two desired recipients. The software of presenting at least two message-structure item questions via the wireless device and receives input requesting response aggregation drawn upon the message having at least two desired recipients and transmits the message to at least one of the at least two desired recipients using the wireless device. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120278396 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MESSAGES - According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for managing messages is provided. The method comprises receiving a first message, the message containing one or more recipient identifiers and a subject; controlling a display to generate a message interface comprising a representation of the first message; receiving a command from an input device, the command being a command to suppress subsequent messages related to the first message; selecting suppression criteria including the subject and at least one of the one or more recipient identifiers; receiving input data comprising at least one additional suppression criterion; and, suppressing the display of subsequently received messages based on the suppression criteria and the at least one additional suppression criterion. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278397 | APPLYING ACTIONS TO ITEM SETS WITHIN A CONSTRAINT - Items of an item set may be stored by an item server (e.g., mail messages comprising a mailbox stored by a mail server) that supports the application of actions, but only within a constraint (e.g., a maximum duration or computational resources consumed by the action). The application of complex actions to large item sets may exceed the constraint if performed in one request. Moreover, the request may be made by a user interface of a user device, but the user interface may stall while interoperating with the item server to perform the action. Instead, a background process may issue a sequence of requests applying the action to respective batches of items within the constraint. This architecture may enable the user interface to remain responsive to the user while the action is performed, and even to be terminated without jeopardizing the completion of the action upon the item set. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELIABLE DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION WITH GUARANTEED SERVICE LEVELS - A computer-implemented system and method are described for exchanging messages between nodes and servers in accordance with specified service level guarantees, while at the same time retaining compatibility with other nodes and servers not subject to the same service level guarantees. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: a first cluster of servers having messaging applications executed thereon for enabling message passing between a first plurality of nodes, a first message database maintained by the first cluster of servers for storing an archive of messages passed between the first plurality of nodes; a second cluster of servers having the same messaging applications executed thereon for enabling message passing between a second plurality of nodes; and a second message database maintained by the second cluster of servers for storing an archive of messages passed between the second plurality of nodes; wherein the first cluster of servers implement a first set of protocols for ensuring latency and/or data retention requirements above a first specified threshold when exchanging messages between the first plurality of nodes. The first set of protocols may ensure various other characteristics of communication including, by way of example and not limitation, message delivery receipts and guaranteed call quality for voice calls. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278399 | PROFILE MESSAGE COMMUNICATIONS - A first user device receives user profile data from a user of the first user device, generates a user profile based on the user profile data, receives profile availability data from the user of the first user device, and designates a user profile availability status based on the profile availability data. A second user device receives target profile data from a user of the second user device, generates a profile message based on the target profile data, and communicates the profile message. The first user device receives the profile message, determines whether the target profile data corresponds to the user profile data of the first user device, generates a user alert when the target profile data corresponds to the user profile data, and enables the user of the first user device to respond to the profile message via a dynamic dashboard. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278400 | Effective Circuits in Packet-Switched Networks - The creation of an effective circuit between a sender device and a receiver device over the packet-switched network is described herein. To establish the effective circuit, the sender device sends a request to the receiver device through the packet-switched network. The request is associated with a bandwidth reservation from the receiver device for reception of a message from the sender device. The receiver device receives multiple requests from multiple sender devices and reserves bandwidth for at least one of the sender devices. The receiver device then sends a response to the at least one sender device providing clearance to send the message to the receiver device using the reserved bandwidth, the request and response establishing the effective circuit. The receiver device may also decline the requests of the other sender devices, causing the other sender devices to send other requests to other receiver devices. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278401 | MAKING DOCUMENT CHANGES BY REPLYING TO ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Document changes are sent within a body of an electronic message to reviewers that are collaborating on the document. The document may be any type of document to which changes/comments are made, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, slides, and the like. A reviewer receiving the electronic message may accept/reject changes and/or make comments/modifications to the document changes that are contained within the electronic message. For example, a reviewer may edit the document changes that are included within the body of the electronic message to add a comment and/or make changes to the change. A reviewer may also have the option to accept/reject changes directly from within the electronic message. After making any changes, the reviewer replies to the electronic message and the changes that are included within the electronic message are applied to the document. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278402 | PRESENTING LINKS TO CONTENT AS ATTACHMENTS IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A user receiving an electronic message is presented with linked content within an attachment area of the message for easier access than having to locate the link within the body of the message. Links to content that are placed within the body of a message are automatically detected and displayed as an attachment. When a user views the message, the linked content remains in view when scrolling the body of the message. The links may be to any type of content, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, slides, websites and the like. The linked content may also be automatically downloaded such that the content is available offline. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278403 | PRESENTING LINK INFORMATION NEAR LINKS WITHIN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Link information is presented near a link within an electronic message that describes activity information relating to the linked content. The link information may include many different type of information. For example, the link information may include editing information for the linked content (e.g. editors, editing time, number of edits), who has/has not reviewed the linked content, linked content information (e.g. summary, permissions, type of content, update times) and the like. The linked content may be a link to any type of content, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, slides, websites and the like. Viewing the link information for the linked content provides a user with an indication of the activity regarding the linked content. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278404 | UPLOAD OF ATTACHMENT AND INSERTION OF LINK INTO ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - An option is presented with an electronic message to automatically upload and permission an attachment to the electronic message. A single click may be received to upload the attachment to a shared location (e.g. network share, online service, and the like). Permissions may be automatically set for the message recipients of the electronic message. For example, a default set of permissions and/or custom permissions may be set for each of the recipients listed on the To:/Cc:/Bcc: lines. A link to the shared location may also be automatically inserted into the electronic message along with or in place of the attachment. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278405 | UPLOADING ATTACHMENT TO SHARED LOCATION AND REPLACING WITH A LINK - The size of attachments to an electronic message are examined before the message is sent to determine if the attachments exceed a size threshold. When the size of the attachments exceed the threshold, one or more of the attachments are uploaded to a shared location that is accessible to the recipients of the message. A link replaces each attachment that was uploaded to the shared location. Permissions are automatically set at the shared location such that each of the recipients of the message are able to access the uploaded attachment. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278406 | MOST RECENTLY USED LIST FOR ATTACHING FILES TO MESSAGES - A user may select an attachment for an electronic message from a most recently used (MRU) list of files. For example, when a user is composing an electronic message, they may select a file to attach to the message from the MRU list. The recently used files that are included within the MRU list may be related to or more applications/locations and/or one or more computing devices. For example, the MRU list may include files accessed by one or more different authoring applications and/or files that have recently been accessed/created that are associated with the user. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278407 | AUTOMATIC UPLOADING OF ATTACHMENTS TO A SHARED LOCATION - Electronic messages are examined before they are sent to determine any attachments to the message. One or more of the attachments are automatically uploaded to a shared location that is accessible to the recipients of the message. A link replaces each attachment that was uploaded to the shared location. Permissions are automatically set at the shared location for each of the recipients of the message. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278408 | Meeting Management System Including Automated Equipment Setup - In an illustrative embodiment, a method comprises displaying at least one preset parameter associated with a conference type. The conference type is associated with preset resources. The method further comprises accepting information defining the conference type, receiving preset information from the at least one displayed preset parameter, automatically determining a room by communicating with a scheduling server the availability of the preset resources based on the received preset information, and sending at least one command to control the associated preset resources in response to the start time and end time. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278409 | MAIL SYSTEM - A mail system includes: a data store server that stores a mail transmitted to a user of a terminal device; a mailbox server that controls the storage of the mail. A storage part of the data store server has a first storage part and a second storage part. A control part of the mailbox server determines whether a mail is stored in the first storage part or in the second storage part, based on at least one of a feature of the mail, a feature of the storage part of the data store server, and setting information. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278410 | SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SETTING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN USERS BASED ON MOTION OF MOBILE TERMINAL AND INFORMATION ABOUT TIME - A social network service providing system and method for setting a relationship between users based on a motion of a mobile terminal, and information about time. The social network service providing system may include a request receiver to receive, from a mobile terminal, a request generated in accordance with a motion of the mobile terminal, an information providing unit to provide location information of the mobile terminal, and information about at least one of a local time when the request is transmitted by the mobile terminal, and an arrival time when the request is received, a mobile terminal identifying unit to identify at least one other mobile terminal based on the location information and the information about the at least one of the local time and the arrival time, and a user information providing unit to provide information about a user of the at least one other mobile terminal. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278411 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXPANDING A WEBSITE - Information regarding the structure of information in a content database is maintained in a structure database. The structure database is used to correlate the data structure of a query to the structure of the content database, in order to determine that information in the content database which needs to be provided to a searcher in response to the query. In one embodiment, this search method is used in an online forum, and the forum maintains a reputation score for users with respect to given subject matter. The reputation score is dependent upon the quality of a user's participation in the forum. A user's reputation score depends upon the evaluation by others of information he posts and. upon the user evaluating information posted by others. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278412 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE DELIVERY EMPLOYING THIRD PARTY INFLUENCES - A method and system for providing personalized message delivery to one or more users is disclosed. In accordance with the method and system, data descriptive of two or more events in the one or more users' lives is gathered, analyzed and used to determine priority of messages; and personalized message delivery is provided to the one or more users based upon the priority of messages. The method and system may employ the two or more events to correlate [holistic messages] considered important by the user. The method and system may also employ third party influences when generating the messages. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278413 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER INITIATED ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - A method and system for providing personalized message delivery to one or more users is disclosed. In accordance with the method and system, data descriptive of two or more events in the one or more users' lives is gathered, analyzed and used to determine priority of messages; and personalized message delivery is provided to the one or more users based upon the priority of messages. The method and system may employ user's emotions to correlate holistic messages considered important by the user. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278414 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC EVENT CORRELATED MESSAGE DELIVERY - A method and system for providing personalized message delivery to one or more users is disclosed. In accordance with the method and system, data descriptive of two or more events in the one or more users' lives is gathered, analyzed and used to determine priority of messages; and personalized message delivery is provided to the one or more users based upon the priority of messages. The method and system may employ a predetermined objective associated with the one or more users to identify events and correlate holistic messages considered important by the user. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278415 | EMAIL SERVER SYSTEM AND METHOD - An email system comprises a plurality of email servers connected by a data communications network. The email system avoids single points of failure by employing multiple email servers which self configure, without requiring dedicated servers, through self addressing and discovery and announcement protocols. An email server can act as a primary email server by executing an administration tool allowing an administrator to modify the configuration data set which the email servers utilize, and the primary email server will then announce the resulting change in the version level of the configuration data set to other email servers. Each email server will then determine and request any needed updates to its respective configuration data set from the primary email server or another email server. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278416 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR USING BEARER MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TO REDUCE TRAFFIC WITHIN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention a method may be provided, which method may comprise receiving a first message comprising a bearer management information for a session of a user, selecting a first network device wherein the selected first network device may be located in a down-stream direction towards the user and sending a second message comprising the bearer management information to the selected network device. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278417 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - The invention provides a system and method for determining when a message is received by a recipient or an agent for the recipient. A link is activated at the recipient to provide an indication that the message has been opened by the recipient. The activation of the link may cause a server remote from the recipient to take some further action. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278418 | Initiating Multiple Connections from Multiple Communication Devices - Methods for establishing simultaneous connections on a plurality of communication devices associated with a user implemented on an instant messaging program by issuing ring tones, audible notifications, or visual indications to the plurality of communication devices and constructing a state diagram for sending the ring tones, the audible notifications, or the visual indications to the plurality of communication devices. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278419 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STORAGE OF ELECTRONIC MAIL - A method of storage of an e-mail includes either receiving the e-mail at a portable electronic device or sending the e-mail from the portable electronic device. The e-mail is marked for saving at the portable electronic device and transmitted by radio communication for receipt by a server and for storage of the e-mail in a backup database. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278420 | Methods and Systems for Facilitating the Provision of Opinions to a Shopper from a Panel of Peers - In particular embodiments, a request for at least one opinion is received from one or more participants regarding an image of the user's appearance. An image of the user's appearance is determined, wherein the image showing how the user's appearance is changed by a product or changed after a service has been performed. The one or more participants from whom to obtain the at least one opinion are then selected. Each of the one or more participants may have a rating above a certain level. At least one response to the request is received from at least one of the one or more participants, each response comprising an opinion of the respective participant. An indication of at least one opinion of at least one participant from whom a response was received is then provided, the indication being based on the received responses regarding the user's appearance. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120284343 | Program Guide Based on Sharing Personal Comments about Multimedia Content - Members of a social network service may share real-time comments about multimedia content they are viewing. The comments are attached to bookmarks that allow other members to view the video and add to the discussion thread. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284344 | CHANGES TO DOCUMENTS ARE AUTOMATICALLY SUMMARIZED IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Changes made to a document are automatically summarized within an electronic message. The changes may be made to a document that is being collaborated on. For example, the document may be an attachment to an electronic message, a link to a shared document that is contained within the electronic message and/or a document that is being shared between a different users. The document may be any type of file to which changes/comments are made, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets, slides, and the like. A reviewer may make many different types of changes to the document (e.g. deleting/adding content, adding comments, and the like). After making any changes to the document, a summary of the changes is automatically inserted into an electronic message that is then sent to one or more recipients. Live information relating to the document may also be displayed with one or more electronic messages. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284345 | SETTING PERMISSIONS FOR LINKS FORWARDED IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A permission manager detects when the message including the link is forwarded and sends a notification to the author indicating that the message was forwarded to another recipient. A notification may also be sent to the recipient who received the forwarded message indicating that the author has been notified that the recipient is not authorized to access the linked content within the forwarded message. The author may set the permissions for accessing the linked content from permission options that are displayed with the notification message sent by the permission manager. Once the permissions are set, the permission manager may send a notification to the recipient of the forwarded message with information relating to the set permissions. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284346 | Requesting Computer Data Assets - A computer management apparatus, method and computer program operable for displaying a data file on a client computer, wherein the data file comprises a structure file and a first plurality of data elements, the apparatus comprising: a send component operable for sending a first message comprising a request for the structure file; a receive component operable for receiving the structure file; an evaluate component operable for determining a second plurality of data elements, wherein the second plurality of data elements is associated with a visible area; a send component further operable for sending a second message, wherein the second message comprises a request for the second plurality of data elements; a receive component further operable for receiving the second plurality of data elements; and a display component, responsive to receipt of the second plurality of data elements, operable for displaying the second plurality of data elements in the visible area. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284347 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIRMING DELIVERY OF AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A method for confirming delivery of an electronic message from a sender computer to a recipient over a computer network includes: converting by a server at least part of the content of the message to a dynamic image, and saving it on the server; generating a link to the dynamic image with a unique tracking key; generating a secondary electronic message transmitted to the recipient computer, the secondary electronic message including the link to the dynamic image and recipient details; transmitting the secondary electronic message to the recipient computer; updating the server to reflect that the dynamic image has been viewed by the recipient when the recipient opened the secondary electronic message and the link to the dynamic image to view the dynamic image; and informing the sender that the dynamic image has been viewed by the recipient, thereby confirming the delivery of the original electronic message; | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284348 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL INTERACTIVITY WHILE USING AN E-BOOK READER - Embodiment of the disclosure may include methods, systems, and devices of interacting with digital media on an electronic book (e-book) reader. Embodiments include presenting e-book content on a first mobile device as receiving input from a first user based on the e-book content on the first mobile device. Further, an electronic message is generated based on the input from the first user. In addition, the electronic message is transmitted with associated identification information of the first mobile device, and an e-book content identifier to a remote media computer server through a communication network. Moreover, the electronic message is received with associated identification information of the first mobile device and the e-book content identifier by the remote media computer server which determines a set of third party mobile devices having the e-book content based on the e-book content identifier. The electronic message is transmitted to each third party mobile devices. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284349 | METHOD FOR BROADCASTING A DATA STREAM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTION AMONG USERS - The current invention pertains to a method for distributing at least one excerpt from a data stream sent or received by at least one first member of a group of users of a communication network to at least one second member of the group of users, comprising the following stages:
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| 20120284350 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF SPAM PROBABILITY - There is disclosed a system and method for visually representing the probability of spam messages on a mobile communication device. In an embodiment, the method comprises: obtaining a probability that a message is spam; and for each of one or more messages in a message list, visually representing the probability that a message is spam such that any differences in the probabilities as between messages are discernable from the visual representation. In another embodiment, the method further comprises: determining the percentage of the message downloaded to the mobile communication device; and displaying for each of one or more messages appearing in the message list an object or icon visually representing at least one of the probability that the message is spam, or the percentage of the message downloaded to the mobile communication device. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284351 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING NETWORK COMMUNICATION IN RESPONSE TO NETWORK CONDITIONS - A system and method for facilitating communications between a mobile device and a network application are provided. A mobile device transmits a request for data change information that includes a time out interval. The network application receives the request and measures a time elapsed since the receipt of the data change request. The network application will only transmit a notification to the mobile device client if new data is received or the time out interval has elapsed. As notifications are received, the mobile client device tunes the time out interval based upon network and device parameters. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284352 | USING THE ADDRESSING, PROTOCOLS AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF EMAIL TO SUPPORT REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION - Transmitting time-based media, intended for a recipient, as the media is created, across a network, using an email address associated with the recipient is disclosed. Once the email address is defined, a first DNS lookup result of the email address associated with the recipient is immediately used to determine if the recipient receives a near real-time communication service and to ascertain a delivery route to deliver the time-based media of the message to the recipient using a near real-time communication protocol. If the first lookup result is positive, the time-based media of the message is progressively and simultaneously transmitted to the recipient as the time-based media is being created using the ascertained delivery route and the near real-time communication protocol. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120284353 | ANALYTICS OF HISTORICAL CONVERSATIONS IN RELATION TO PRESENT COMMUNICATION - A method of analyzing historical communications. During a first communication session between a first user and at least a second user, at least a first communication exchanged between the first user and the second user can be detected and stored. A second communication exchanged in a second communication can be compared with the first communication to determine a degree of similarity between the first communication and the second communication. In one aspect, when the degree of similarity is at least a threshold value, an indication can be provided to at least one user participating in the second communication session that the first communication potentially is relevant to the second communication session and that the first communication is available to be reviewed. In another aspect, a report pertaining to hierarchical relationships between users and the context of the communications can be generated based on the first and second communications. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120290662 | MINING EMAIL INBOXES FOR SUGGESTING ACTIONS - Embodiments are directed towards automatically learning user behavioral patterns when interacting with messages and based on the learned patterns, suggesting one or more predicted actions that a user might take in response to receiving subsequent message. One or more classifiers are trained and employed to predict one or more actions that a user might take in response to receiving the message. In one embodiment, the one or more predicted actions are provided suggested to the user as an action the user might take on the message. Messages may be rank ordered within a given suggested action based on a confidence level of the prediction. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290663 | Transferring Application State Across Devices with Checkpoints - A first client device executes a plurality of actively running applications, each having one or more checkpoints, each checkpoint identifying an execution breakpoint at which a respective application can be suspended and subsequently resumed. The first client device detects a transfer triggering condition, stores an application state for each of the plurality of actively running applications, and transmits the stored application state for each of the plurality of actively running applications to a second client device or system. The stored application state for each respective application of the plurality of actively running applications corresponds to a checkpoint of the respective application. Optionally, the transfer triggering condition includes presence of the second client device or system within a predefined proximity of the first client device or system, wherein the predefined proximity is a predefined proximity for near field communication. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290664 | CROSS-MEDIA, CROSS-CHANNEL, CROSS-PROTOCOL, AND CROSS-NETWORK CAPABLE AUTOREPLY WITHIN A SINGLE APPLICATION - According to one embodiment, a communication device capable of cross-media, cross-channel, cross-protocol messaging within a first application includes a processor adapted for executing logic, logic adapted for receiving an incoming message using the first application, logic adapted for notifying a user of the incoming message using the first application, logic adapted for processing the incoming message using the first application to determine details of the incoming message, logic adapted for determining to generate an autoreply to the incoming message using the first application, logic adapted for generating the autoreply to the incoming message using the first application, and logic adapted for sending the autoreply using the first application to at least a communication device which generated the incoming message. Other systems, methods, and computer program products for autoreplying are presented according to more embodiments. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANGING APPLICATION INFORMATION - Systems and methods are disclosed to replace a received message received by a communications application of a computer or a mobile phone with a replacement message that includes a time and date stamp that is approximately the same as the time and date stamp of the received message in response to input received from an input device of the computer or the mobile phone. The received message is, for example, a private, confidential, or potentially embarrassing message, and the replacement message is a message used to appear as the received message in the communications application. The replacement message can be, for example, a stored message created by the user, a message generated by the computer or the mobile phone, a message from a stored randomized list, a message requested from an outside source. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290666 | MESSAGE TRACKING FUNCTIONALITY BASED ON THREAD-RECURRENT DATA - A method, system, computer program product, and related business methods are described in the context of a web-based business information system having an internal e-mail facility, wherein e-mail communications between a native e-mail system of an end user of the web-based business information system and an external contact are facilitated and automatically tracked by the web-based business information system, the native e-mail system lying outside the web-based business information system but often being preferred by the end user over the internal e-mail facility of the web-based business information system. The described preferred embodiments provide for easy-to-use, reasonably transparent, “no-click” integration of the web-based business information system with the end user's native e-mail system in a manner that is independent of the particular type and choice of native e-mail system. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290667 | Method and System of File Folder Transmission in Instant Messaging - File folder transmission in instant messaging may be implemented by an instant receiving client, which receives information of a file folder and information of each file in the file folder. The instant receiving client may display the information of the file folder and the information of each file in the file folder. In some embodiments, the instant receiving client may further receive selection information inputted by a user, and receive the files in the file folder that correspond to the selection information from an instant sending client. Such file folder transmission in instant messaging can efficiently save network resources within a process of file folder transmission. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290668 | MULTI-PARTICIPANT CONFERENCE SETUP - Some embodiments provide an architecture for establishing a multi-participant conference. This architecture has one participant's computer in the conference act as a central content distributor for the conference. The central distributor receives data (e.g., video and/or audio streams) from the computer of each other participant, and distributes the received data to the computers of all participants. In some embodiments, the central distributor receives AN data from the computers of the other participants. From such received data, the central distributor of some embodiments generates composite data (e.g., composite image data and/or composite audio data) that the central distributor distributes back to the participants. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290669 | Zero-Click Sharing of Application Context Across Devices - A first client device performs a handoff operation to a second client device by transmitting application information, associated with a first application, to the second client device when the first client device is positioned within a predefined proximity of the second client device. The first application has a first client device user interface state when the handoff operation is performed. Further, the first client device, in response to receiving from another client device application information associated with a second application executed by the other first client device, executes a third application corresponding to the second application with an initial user interface state corresponding to a user interface state of the other client device. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290670 | NETWORK-AWARE COMMUNICATIONS - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to detect a device connecting to a network, determine the identity of the network, and publish at least a portion of a list of active contacts to a display, while hiding a list of inactive contacts. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290671 | DYNAMIC SUPPORT OF MULTIPLE MESSAGE FORMATS - A method, system, computer system and computer program product to enable a single interface to be used to prepare and present messages in a variety of different formats. For example, the single interface can be used to prepare, receive or display messages in different languages, such as English or Japanese, which require different character sets. Furthermore, the single interface supports preparing, sending, and receiving messages in multiple text formats, such as plain text, rich text, and Multiple Internet Mail Extension (MIME) format. A message can be received in a native format, and a format for providing a response to the message can be dynamically selected. The response is provided in the dynamically-selected format. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290672 | System And Method For Displaying Message-Related Relationships - A system and method for displaying message-related relationships is provided. Messages are analyzed by identifying entities associated with each message, wherein the entities include senders and recipients of the messages and by accumulating a number of messages communicated between each sender and each recipient. A social network is created by connecting one or more of the senders and recipients via a link based on the number of messages communicated between that sender and that recipient. A semantic network is generated from concepts of the messages. The social network and the semantic network are simultaneously displayed. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290673 | IMPLEMENTING A WEB SERVER ON A MOBILE STATION - A system and method are provided for implementing a web server on a mobile station. A first mobile station may include a database of information. A network address for the first mobile station may be transmitted to a second mobile station to enable the second mobile station to communicate with the first mobile station directly over a wireless network. The second mobile station may then be provided access to the database of information by communicating directly over the wireless network with the first mobile station, wherein the first mobile station operates as the wireless server for the second mobile station. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290674 | Method and network for sharing sensor data among mobile terminals - The present disclosure discloses a method for sharing sensor data among mobile terminals, which includes that: when any mobile terminal in the network for sharing sensor data needs sensor data not owned by itself, the mobile terminal sends a request message to a mobile terminal owning the sensor data needed by the mobile terminal according to routing table information and a sensor resource list which are currently stored in the mobile terminal itself; and the mobile terminal which receives the request message returns the sensor data needed to the mobile terminal which sends the request message according to the received request message. The present disclosure further discloses a network for sharing sensor data among mobile terminals. Sharing of sensor data among multiple mobile terminals can be realized by adopting the method and the network provided by the present disclosure. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120296981 | Method for Reduction of Disk Space Usage of Electronic Messages in a Network - A method is presented for reducing the total amount of disk space used by multiple recipients of an electronic message in a network. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296982 | Automatic Scheduling Tool - Embodiments of the invention relate to a message based scheduling tool employed to function with an electronic calendar. As messages are transmitting between clients, a tool is employed to parse the messages to search for one or more string(s) of characters characteristic of a meeting. Based upon these characteristics and the parsing, the electronic calendars are searched to find an available time slot on both calendars in which a meeting can take place, and, if an available time is found, the meeting is scheduled and the clients are sent notification of the scheduling. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296983 | MANAGING COMPRESSION DICTIONARIES - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for managing compression dictionaries. In particular, messages between a sender and a recipient may be compressed using a combination of static compression dictionaries and/or dynamic dictionaries. The static compression dictionaries may be updated with new dictionary entries based upon a recipient decompressing a compressed message received from a sender, a dynamic dictionary associated with the compressed message and/or a prepared response. In this way, the static dictionary may evolve over time to provide a flexible and customized approach for managing compression dictionaries. Dictionary versioning may be provided, such that a sender dictionary and a recipient dictionary may be updated to maintain synchronization. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296984 | PRESENTING INSTANT MESSAGING CONTACTS LISTED BY PROXIMITY TO SET LOCATION - An electronic device having instant messaging (IM) capabilities within one or networks. The technology provides means and methods whereby an electronic device is enabled to evaluate and present information regarding available IM contacts based on geographic criteria. Location information from devices which are associated with instant messaging contacts of a first electronic device are received. IM contacts contact can be display based on geographic location, including proximity to one or more set locations. The technology can be customized dynamically on a per device basis. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296985 | Apparatus, Method, and a Computer Program for a Form Identification Number - Embodiments of the present invention pertain to an apparatus and a method that are configured to receive a request to generate a form identification number for a particular form and generate a form identification number for the particular form in response to the request. The apparatus and method also configured to transmit a message comprising the form identification number to a form generator. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296986 | AUTO CONNECT IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - A wireless device that automatically forms a connection to a remote device in accordance with a peer-to-peer protocol. The remote device may be designated as an auto-connect device for the wireless device such that, when the wireless device determines that it is in the vicinity of the auto-connect device, it can re-form a connection to the remote device based on stored information for re-establishing connections among a persistent group of devices, but without any express user input. When a user requests that the wireless device perform a function that involves interaction with an auto-connect device, that function may be performed with the delay associated with forming a connection. Any of multiple techniques may be employed for identifying devices designated as auto-connect devices and for determining when the wireless device and a remote, auto-connect devices are in close proximity. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296987 | Lightweight Messaging with Location Between Users of a Social Networking System - A social networking system provides a mechanism for lightweight messaging (e.g., a “poke”) between users of a social networking system. To initiate a new message from one user to another, the sender requests a poke by specifying the intended recipient. The system receives the request, obtains a location of the sender, verifies that the sender and recipient are both users of the social networking system and have established a connection, and then transmits a lightweight message to the recipient. The message history between users may be stored for later viewing, and third party services may access the messaging capability, e.g., via APIs. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296988 | EMAIL SPAM ELIMINATION USING PER-CONTACT ADDRESS - A method and system to transparently generate or manually allocate an authorized email address per contact and accept email sent to the authorized email address from the contact. If an authorized email address is leaked, it will be detected quickly, revoked and the assignee of the authorized email will be notified. When one of the user's contacts has sent an email to multiple recipients including the user, replies to the present conversation are allowed from other recipients. The user can generate a few open addresses that can receive email from any address. This allows the user to post email addresses on print or electronic publications and websites to allow readers to send email. This address could be revoked after a certain point in time or expire after an allocated lifetime. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296989 | FILE TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND FILE TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR SUPPORTING FILE TRANSMISSION IN MOBILE MESSAGING SERVICE - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a file transmission management system and a file transmission management method for supporting a file transmission in a mobile messaging service. The file transmission management system may include a file transmission manager to receive a file from an Internet storage space associated with a user when the user requests a transmission of the file stored in the Internet storage space. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296990 | SHARED CONTENT SERVER FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for reducing the total amount of disk space used by multiple recipients of an electronic message in a communications network. The present invention removes the requirement that all recipients ( | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296991 | ADAPTIVE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR IDENTIFYING POPULAR TOPICS FROM MESSAGES - An adaptive system architecture for identifying popular topics from messages are disclosed. In one aspect, one example of a system which includes a client device which determines, from the set of messages, commonly or frequently occurring topics and computes at least a portion of the analytics for the commonly or frequently occurring topics in the set of messages that indicate respective levels of popularity. Other portions of the analytics used to determine the respective levels of trendiness of the commonly or frequently occurring topics can be computed by other client devices. Such computation can take place in the web-browsers forming a web-based crowd computing platform for message stream analysis. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296992 | INSTANT MESSAGING VALIDATION - A character string can be received. A determination can be made of whether the received character string includes or is a request for a network resource. When it is determined that the received character string comprises a request for a network resource, an identical network resource address can be determined from a browser history of a web browser. The identical network resource address can be communicated to an instant messaging client application. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296993 | Automatic Scheduling Tool - Embodiments of the invention relate to a message based scheduling tool employed to function with an electronic calendar. As messages are transmitting between clients, a tool is employed to parse the messages to search for one or more string(s) of characters characteristic of a meeting. Based upon these characteristics and the parsing, the electronic calendars are searched to find an available time slot on both calendars in which a meeting can take place, and, if an available time is found, the meeting is scheduled and the clients are sent notification of the scheduling. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296994 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATING COMMUNICATION SERVICE WITH MULTI-PLAYER APPLICATIONS - A method provides users of a communication service access to a third party application over a wide area network. The method includes (a) receiving from one of the users a request for access to the third party application; (b) over a predetermined application program interface, sending a message to a server hosting the third party application indicating the request for access; (c) receiving from the server one or more resource locators for use by the users to access the third party application; and (d) distributing the resource locators to the users. The third party application may be a game, for example. Upon receiving the message, the server of the third party application initiates the game. The application program interface may be provided through a POST command under the hypertext transport protocol. In addition, parameters for the third party application may be specified in the POST command. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296995 | Network-Application Association Method and System - A network-application association method comprises: performing corresponding operations for applications according to instructions of users; sending out association information according to users' relationship chains of the users and relations among the applications; judging whether the users respond to the association information; if the users respond to the association information, updating the users' relationship chains of the users or performing corresponding operations for the applications, according to operations for the users responding to the association information. In addition, the present invention further provides a network-application association system. In the above network-application association technology analyzes the users' relationship chains of the users and the relations among the applications, to find out the implicit relations among the users of the different applications, so as to use the association information to built the association among the different application and inform the users, such that the different applications are combined together, to enrich network service. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296996 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS OF MESSAGE TRANSACTIONS IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - The invention provides a method and system for fusing message paths that occurred in a first domain in a communication network, with message paths that occurred in a second domain in the communication network a communication channel exists between the two domains. A first message path that occurred in the first domain and included a message sent to the second domain along the communication channel is fused to a second path that occurred in the second domain that included the message received from the first domain. Each message that is transmitted in the communication channel between the two domains is assigned a message unique identifier that allows each domain to associate a message sent from one domain to the other with a response message sent in the opposite direction. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296997 | Method and device for message prompting - A message prompting method applied in the field of computer technology is disclosed, which comprises acquiring a feature of an operation of a user on software as well as whether or not the operation is successful, determining a feature group of the feature and its corresponding weight, the feature group containing features of a same category and having a weight which represents a relevance among the features within the group, and determining the message to be prompted to the user according to the weight and a pre-determined threshold in combination with whether or not the operation is successful. A message prompting device is also disclosed. The disclosure prompts software features with better pertinence to a user according to behavior features of the user, provide a personalized way of feature notification, avoid disturbing the user, improve the user experience, enhance friendliness, and can provide effective guidance to the user. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296998 | RECEPTION ACCORDING TO A DATA TRANSFER PROTOCOL OF DATA DIRECTED TO ANY OF A PLURALITY OF DESTINATION ENTITIES - A data processing system arranged for receiving over a network, according to a data transfer protocol, data directed to any of a plurality of destination identities, the data processing system comprising: data storage for storing data received over the network; and a first processing arrangement for performing processing in accordance with the data transfer protocol on received data in the data storage, for making the received data available to respective destination identities; and a response former arranged for: receiving a message requesting a response indicating the availability of received data to each of a group of destination identities; and forming such a response; wherein the system is arranged to, in dependence on receiving the said message. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296999 | DYNAMIC OBJECT MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL - An extensible communications protocol configured to enable dynamic discovery and management of self-aware devices in a multiple element computing architecture is provided. The protocol enables a message consisting essentially of a destination ID, a source ID, a message type, optional payloads, and a delimiter arrangement. The protocol is based on a scheme which represents structured data. Within the scheme, stacked delimiting characters are used to separate higher level data. Escape sequencers are selected to represent at least the escape character, the delimiting character, and the NULL (nothing at all). | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120297000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC MAIL - A method and system for managing email between a sender and a recipient wherein the method and system provide the recipient with control over routing an email message, wherein the control includes predefining directions to be performed upon the receipt of an email message, and wherein the directions are dependent upon the properties of the email message. The recipient may enable or disable the control at any time. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120297001 | Method and System for Message Pacing - A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits first and second messages to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by a characteristic of the second message. The system receives a first message and sends the first message to an intended recipient. When the system receives a second message for the recipient, the system determines a separation based on a pacing algorithm and send the second message to the recipient according to the separation. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120297002 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING HEADER FIELDS IN A MESSAGE - Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein facilitate the transmitting, receiving, and processing of encoded messages wherein the header fields in the message header are protected. In one embodiment, the contents of the header fields to be protected are inserted into the message body as one or more additional lines of text, for example, prior to encoding and transmitting the message to a message recipient. Upon receipt of the message, the message recipient processes the encoded message such that the contents of the protected header fields can be extracted from the message body. Accordingly, by inserting the contents of the header fields to be protected into the message body, the header fields may be protected using existing standards and protocols for facilitating secure message communication. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120297003 | NEGOTIABLE INFORMATION ACCESS IN ELECTRONIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method for implementing an electronically-based negotiation session between users within an ESN. The method includes sending a message including a request portion and a response portion from a first user to a second user in a round of successive rounds, and in response to receiving the message from the first user, sending a message from the second user to the first user in a subsequent round, the message from the second user including a response portion responsive to the request portion of the message from the first user and a request portion. When a new round is performed, evaluating whether an agreement exists by checking messages previously exchanged, and exchanging subsequent messages, when any rounds remain and the session has not been terminated, and granting access and exchanging data between the users, executing actions, and setting policies as negotiated, when the session has been terminated and an agreement exists. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120297004 | MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A messaging method is implemented by a system in a mobile network in which there are mobile devices including devices A, B, C, D, and E. An originating device sends a message addressed to multiple terminating devices. The system receives the messages and correlates them and routes them to the terminating devices. The system correlates the messages by grouping them according to originating device and sending time frame. The system allocates a global title record address from a pool for the session. The system forwards the messages with an MT-FSM, in which the originating device information is included in the message body, and the recipient address is that of the specific terminating device. The system transmits a confirmation message to the originating device. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120303718 | RECEIVING EMAIL ATTACHMENTS WHEN A MAILBOX IS FULL - Within a system comprising a processor and a memory, a method of sending an attachment of a first electronic mail (email) to a recipient. The method includes receiving the first email addressed to the recipient and, via the processor, determining whether a volume of data contained in the recipient's electronic mailbox has reached a threshold level. When the volume of data has reached the threshold level, via the processor, establishment of an instant messaging session with an instant messaging client associated with the recipient can be initiated. The attachment can be caused to be attached to an instant message. Sending of the instant message to the instant messaging client associated with the recipient can be initiated. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303719 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES AND SERVICES - A shared resource system, method of sharing resources and services and a computer program product therefor. Client computers communicate with at least one provider computer that selectively makes resource capacity available to the client computers. The client computers and provider computer pass messages to each other negotiating access to provider resources and services. The provider computer(s) notifies each requesting client computer of any potential conflicts with any portion of the requested capacity in confirmation qualification messages. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303720 | RAPID NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - Improved techniques of fulfilling a request to perform a task involve a master computer placing the request in a first queue and a copy of the request in a second queue, the second queue being frequently accessed by a set of worker computers which rapidly scans the second queue for requests to fulfill. If, during the scanning, a worker computer determines that it has a capability to fulfill the request, the worker computer removes the copy of the request from the second queue. Furthermore, if the copy of the request remains in the second queue after a brief time period, it is clear that the set of worker computers is unable to perform the task. In this case, the master computer takes a remedial action such as notifying a client computer which sent the request that the worker computers, as currently configured, are unable to perform the task. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303721 | HYBRID REQUEST/RESPONSE AND POLLING MESSAGING MODEL - A hybrid messaging model including a method that sends a first request message from a control process executing on a computer to a plurality of subordinate processes. The first request message directs the subordinate processes to enter a first state. An expected state is set equal to the first state in response to sending the first request message. A status message, including the expected state, is periodically broadcast from the control process to the plurality of subordinate processes. At least one confirmation message is received from each of the subordinate processes confirming that the subordinate process is in the expected state. Each of the confirmation messages is responsive to either the first request message or to the status message. A second request message is sent from the control process to the plurality of subordinate processes in response to receiving at least one confirmation message from each of the subordinate processes. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303722 | Social Data Inputs - In particular embodiments, a method comprising accessing, at a client device, an object model representation of a structured document displayed in a browser client of a user to identify one or more elements of the structured document, and modifying, at the client device, the object model representation of the structured document to add one or more first controls proximal to respective ones of the one or more identified elements, wherein the one or more added first controls are operative, when executed, to transmit a message including an identifier of the respective element and an identifier associated with the user to a social networking system. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303723 | Apparatus and Method for Sending Mass Short Messages - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for implementing mass texting. In the present invention, when sending short messages massively, the synchronous transmission of each short message between the application CPU and communication CPU is ensured by the synchronization mechanism of the thread, which prevents the communication CPU being blocked caused by disorderly asynchronous sending. It achieves each mass texting of mobile phone users, and the number of telephone numbers of each mass texting can be unlimited. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303724 | METHOD FOR REALIZING A SHORT MESSAGE CUSTOMIZATION SERVICE AND A SHORT MESSAGE CUSTOMIZATION SERVICE PLATFORM - The present invention discloses a method for realizing a short message customization service and a short message customization service platform, wherein the method comprises: a message customizing module edits customization information inputted by a user to be a customization task, wherein the customization task comprises the number of a mobile terminal which receives a customized Internet message (S | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303725 | Message Distribution System and Message Distribution Method - The message delivery system has a first and a second computer and a storage device. The first computer receives messages sent from a sender, delivers the messages to at least a part of receiver computers and gets states of message delivery to these receiver computers. Based on the message delivery states, a check is made as to whether there are any slow receiver computers that have the message delivery thereto delayed. When there are slow receiver computers, a request is made to switch a message delivery control over the detected slow receiver computers from the first computer to the second computer. Then the second computer takes over the message delivery control over the slow receiver computers and resumes delivering the messages to the slow receiver computers. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303726 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - An electronic device including a communication unit configured to receive a social network formation history for a subscriber of a specific Social Networking Service (SNS) for other subscribers of the specific SNS in an SNS environment including the specific SNS; and a controller configured to change an application range of a function provided by an application for the specific SNS and to form a social network based on the social network formation history for the subscriber. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303727 | Method and System for Anonymously Initiating Social Exchange - One embodiment for anonymously initiating social networking provides for a message ( | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303728 | REPORT GENERATION SYSTEM WITH RELIABLE TRANSFER - A data collection and report generation system that included mobile devices in the field that are used to collect data, such as during a property inspection. The data is uploaded to a server system to analyze and generate reports and other documents. The documents are then delivered to desired recipients. Correctness of the data is an essential need and, the transfer of the data from the mobile device to the server is accomplished by first compressing the data and then attaching the data to an email message. An email server operates to automatically decompress the data, pass the data to the server and initiate the process of report generation and delivery automatically without any further user interaction either by the user device or a server operator. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303729 | Email Management Method, Apparatus and Terminal Device - The present invention provides an email management method, apparatus and terminal device, wherein the method comprises: receiving an email, and judging whether said email is attached with an attachment; if said email is attached with an attachment, extracting attachment information of said email, and saving said attachment information. The solution of the present invention improves the efficiency of email searching, and makes it more convenient for the user to perform searching. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303730 | ENABLING PUBLISHER INITIATED CHATS - Enabling publisher initiated chats by injecting an application into a publisher's website; identifying a user's entry to the publisher's website; reporting the user's entry to the publisher; allowing the publisher to initiate a chat with the user; and mediating the chat between the publisher and the user. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303731 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES BEING COMPOSED BY A USER - A system and method for processing messages being composed by a user of a computing device (e.g. a mobile device). Embodiments are described in which the performance of certain tasks is initiated before a direction is received from a user to send a message being composed by the user. This may involve, for example, “pre-fetching” security-related data that will be required in order to send a message that is in the process of being composed by the user securely. Such data may include security policy data, certificate data, and/or certificate status data, for example. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303732 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING RECEIVED E-MAIL IN COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus includes: an e-mail creating unit configured to create the e-mail with specifying an e-mail address of a destination; an e-mail transmitting/receiving unit configured to transmit/receive the e-mail; a display unit provided with a received mail display area for displaying a received e-mail set if necessary and a created mail display area for displaying an e-mail being created; and a control unit configured to set the received mail display area and display the received e-mail if the e-mail is received during creating the e-mail and the e-mail address of a sender of the received e-mail matches with the e-mail address of the destination of the e-mail being created. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303733 | Method and System for Monitoring Domain Name Registrations - Improved approaches to domain name monitoring are disclosed. The monitoring of domain names, e.g., registrations therefor, is beneficial to holders of similar domain names, trademark owners, and competitors. Such monitoring can be automatically performed. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303734 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SYSTEM WITH CONFIGURABLE DELIVERY THAT MAINTAINS RECIPIENT PRIVACY - A messaging service allows message senders to reach a web site owner in the way the owner wants. Users authorized by the owner drop a message into the message service of a site owner, and it gets delivered to the site owner in exactly the manner specified by the site owner. The site owner can organize incoming messages by time, calendar, user, or viewing method. The site owner can receive messages in the way she wants, but all her friends need to know is one address, the owner's site address. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120311045 | NOTIFICATION SERVICES TO ONE OR MORE SUBSCRIBER DEVICES - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing notification services to one or more subscriber devices are disclosed. One exemplary method comprises receiving, from a notification source, a notification directed to a first user device associated with a subscriber. The method further includes accessing filtering criteria associated with the subscriber to determine whether to deliver the notification to at least one user device associated with the subscriber and delivering a notification message associated with notification to the at least one user device if the filtering criteria is satisfied. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311046 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES - An approach is presented for facilitating automated processing of targeted (push) notification messages for integration with notification recipients of different type and function. A universal notification platform receives data for identifying one or more notification recipients, one or more attributes of the one or more notification recipients, or a combination thereof. It then processes the data along with one or more other attributes pertaining to one or more service providers of the notification recipients in order to determine one or more rules for specifying routing of one or more notification messages to the one or more notification recipients by one or more information sources. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311047 | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING UNSOLICITED FEEDBACK - A system and method for designating or tagging an electronic message, such as an email that includes feedback about an employee's performance. The tagged email can then be automatically embedded within, or otherwise associated with, a performance management document such as a performance review. An example method includes providing a user interface display screen, whereby a user may view contents of an electronic message; providing a first user option, in association with the user interface display screen, to selectively designate the electronic message for a predetermined purpose and providing a signal in response thereto; and associating the electronic message with a document in response to the signal in accordance with a designation of the electronic message. In a specific embodiment, the designation of the electronic message includes a feedback designation, such that the electronic message is designated as a feedback message. The feedback message represents unsolicited feedback. The step of associating includes embedding the electronic message in the document, which may include a performance review document. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311048 | INSTANT MESSAGING ASSOCIATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A messaging method and system. The method includes enabling by a computing apparatus for a user, an instant messaging software application and all associated contacts to communicate with the user via the instant messaging software application. The computing apparatus enables a software application for the user and presents an option for allowing only a first group of contacts of the associated contacts to communicate with said user. The first group of contacts are associated with the software application. In response, the computing apparatus receives a command associated with the option from the user. The computing apparatus performs functions associated with the first command. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PASSIVE COMMUNICATION SERVICES - Passive presence information for a first user of a service, such as a conversation service, is obtained by analyzing user activity logs. This is performed upon request for a second user. Thus lightweight presence information can be obtained without requiring the higher overhead required in a conventional Internet Protocol Multimedia Service (IMS) environment. Such a lightweight presence feature can enable other services including a conversation service that allows users to update a conversation object. Users can listen for updates to particular conversation objects, thus providing a simulated real-time push experience. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311050 | USER BROWSING EXPERIENCE - A method for automatically providing a computer application to a user connected to a network, based on the user's searching. A software agent embedded in the user's computer monitors message traffic between a browser and a network search server. The agent detects a search query from the browser to the search server as well as a search result from the search server. The agent reports search parameters to a designated network server, which selects an application relevant to the user's search and automatically installs the application title on the computer. The full application can also be installed for local execution. The application is launched upon installation and a popup window demonstrates the application to the user. An icon representing the application can also be automatically installed on a toolbar in the browser window, so the user can benefit from running the application even when not actively searching on the network. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311051 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - There is provided a system for facilitating communications over a telecommunications network, the system comprising a data communications device having a unique identifier, the device adapted to generate information elements comprising machine information, the information elements conforming to a first message protocol, the first message protocol being a session-based message protocol. The system further comprises a network subsystem to provide an interface for communication with a plurality of entities. The network subsystem is adapted to receive the information elements and extract the machine information, generate an output message comprising the machine information, the message conforming to a second message protocol different from the first message protocol, and, forward the message to a specific entity of the plurality of entities in dependence on the unique identifier of the data communications device. The data communications device may be a cellular data communications device. An associated method is also provided. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311052 | MESSAGING SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXPANDING MEMBER ADDITION OPERATION - Provided is a messaging service system and method for adding a contact through a grouping operation. The messaging service system includes a member registering unit configured to create a group, and to register a first member designated by a user as a first participant of the group; and a member managing unit configured to disclose the group to the first participant of the group, to assign, to the first participant, a permission to add a second participant to the group, in which, the member registering unit is configured to add a second member designated by the first participant of the group as the second participant of the group, and the member managing unit is configured to display a list of members registered by the member registering unit and a list of groups created by the member registering unit. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311053 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE ANALYSIS - A system and method for intelligently combining CAD, inspection, and building guideline data for intelligently setting roof facet directionality, analyzing repair and replacement decisions and estimating material, material waste and recyclables, material recycling requirements, and repair or replacement costs for building facets is described. One embodiment includes receiving digital inspection data of a building facet of a property; receiving a first layer of geographic-based guideline data; receiving a second layer of geographic-based guideline data; reconciling a conflict between guideline data of the first and second layers of guideline data to reach a resulting guideline data item; determining a repair indicator for the building facet based at least in part on the resulting guideline data item and the digital inspection data; and sending an electronic message, wherein the electronic message includes at least a portion of the digital inspection data and the repair indicator. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311054 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ON-DEMAND COMMUNITIES - In an embodiment, communities are generated on demand. In this specification a community is a group of webpages in which users share ideas with one another by posting ideas and sending messages for one another to read. An on-demand community is a community that may be created via tools specialized for creating communities, with just a few keys strokes and/or mouse clicks and by adding information (e.g., about the members and/or the topic or set of topics that the community is focused upon), such that a community may be established within a short amount of time, such as a few minutes or a few hours. Optionally, the communities may be initially populated with ideas related to a particular topic or set of topics. Optionally, each member may be provided with tools for establishing one or more profile page and/or one or more friend pages. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311055 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING MESSAGE THREADS - A method for updating an electronic mail (“email”) message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system, the email message belonging to a thread of email messages received by the data processing system, the method comprising: determining whether one or more of the email messages in the thread was received after the email message is opened on the display screen; and, if so, displaying an update message on the display screen indicating that one or more of the email messages in the thread was so received. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311056 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention includes: acquiring a message related to a web site designated by a first user and link information to a web page of the web site, from a storage means that stores the message and the link information (S | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311057 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING E-MAIL ACCOUNTS ON MOBILE TERMINAL - The disclosure discloses a method for switching e-mail accounts on a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal. The following steps are involved in a solution of the disclosure: setting the information of multiple mail accounts on the mobile terminal; editing an e-mail under a first mail account which is currently activated and selecting a mail account for sending; when determining that the selected mail account for sending is the first mail account, performing the sending process directly; when determining that the selected mail account for sending is not the first mail account, switching the mail account for sending to a second mail account, saving the currently edited e-mail to the second mail account, and performing the sending process. The disclosure implements the function that the mail is edited under one of the mail accounts and sent under another already-configured mail account when there are multiple mail accounts. Furthermore, the mail account which is currently activated is switched only at the sending stage, and it is re-switched back to the previous mail account after the completion of the sending. Then system resources are saved. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311058 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERING - Messages having a reputation score higher than at least one message already on a queue are added to the queue when the queue has already reached the predetermined maximum permitted size. One or more messages having a low reputation score may be discarded from a bottom of the queue in favor of a new incoming message having a higher reputation score. This may be particularly useful in the context of Internet e-mail, wherein mail delivery protocols (i.e. SMTP) allow a connection for an incoming message to be held open for a limited time period and during this period the message processing apparatus does not assume responsibility for onward transmission of the message. Thus, the message processing apparatus is able to selectively accept only those messages having a highest reputation score for detailed analysis, without adversely affecting the operations performed by other parts of the electronic messaging system. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311059 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A COMMUNITY-BASED USER INTERFACE - Systems and methods for providing a desktop user interface for accessing and using community-based contact management, communication tools, websites and application pods in a convenient and integrated fashion, in an always-on mode. The desktop user interface resides on the user's desktop as an application and provides access to the aforementioned community-based services in a convenient, integrated manner without the need to open a browser in order to access the community-based services. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311060 | Methods and Apparatus for Identifying and Facilitating a Social Interaction Structure over a Data Packet Network - A software suite for managing the publishing and consumption of information and payload data across one or more transport protocols supported by a data-packet-network includes a posting application for publishing the information and payload data, and a consuming application for accessing and consuming the information and payload data. In a preferred embodiment the posting application enables posting of information that is consumable separately from the payload data wherein the information richly describes the payload data including provision of instructions for sampling the payload data before consuming the payload data. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120311061 | CHAT SYSTEM WITHOUT TOPIC-SPECIFIC ROOMS - A method, system and graphical user interface for a chat system is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes sending target messages to users based on the respective selection and filtering criteria selected by the respective users instead of having users enter topic specific rooms. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120317205 | ANONYMOUS LOCATION-BASED NOTIFICATION - Architecture that enables communication of a message from a requesting (sending) user to a single target user and/or group of target users based on current geographic location of the target user(s) while hiding the identities of the requesting user and the target user(s). This anonymity capability is provided by mediating messages between the users (requesting and target) via an anonymous messaging component (e.g., a service) that maintains anonymity of the users relative to one another. The anonymous messaging component does not publish user identities, since the component mediates between the sender and the receiver(s). | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317206 | COMMUNITY BASED MEASUREMENT OF CAPABILITIES AND AVAILABILITY - Systems and methods herein monitor the ability of an electronic mail (e-mail) computer server to send and receive e-mail messages to and from e-mail clients of the e-mail computer server. The e-mail computer server provides, to the e-mail clients, updates regarding the ability to send and receive e-mail messages. When the e-mail clients determine that the e-mail computer server is unable to send the e-mail messages, the e-mail clients activate a special software program of instructions. When the program of instructions is active and the e-mail clients then receive an e-mail message from the e-mail computer server, the program of instructions causes those e-mail clients who have received an e-mail message to provide an indication of e-mail receipt to the e-mail computer server. When the e-mail computer server receives this indication of e-mail receipt from the e-mail clients, the e-mail computer server can provide an update to the other e-mail clients that e-mail can now be sent. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317207 | Directing Messages Based On Domain Names - A communication system has a plurality of collections. Each collection comprises a security boundary within which private data is accessible. Each collection is associated with a director. The directors receive messages that specify domains. When a director for a given collection receives a message, the director identifies one of the collections as being a home collection for the domain specified by the message. If the specified domain's home collection is the given collection or another collection within a given privacy boundary, the director forwards the message to a server pool associated with the specified domain's home collection. Otherwise, if the specified domain's home collection is not within the given privacy boundary, the director forwards the message to the director of the specified domain's home collection. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317208 | SELECTIVE LINKING OF MESSAGE ACCOUNTS - The present application relates to message account linking that allows users to selectively link message accounts and customize those linked message accounts. In one embodiment, the user selects a number of message accounts for selective linking. A message application updates a message account database to selectively link the message accounts and create a combined message box. When a user selects the combined message box for display, all messages from the selectively linked message accounts are displayed. In one embodiment, a user can create multiple combined message boxes on a single device, and may assign names to each of the combined message boxes. In yet another embodiment, an icon associated with a combined message box is added to the device's home screen. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND IMPLEMENTING PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES - A method of implementing a procedure in one or more organizations includes storing content messages relating to procedures (such as best practices). A procedure to be performed by one or more responsible persons is identified. A workflow timeline for the procedure is generated. The workflow timeline includes actions for the procedure, a sequence for the actions, and responsible persons assigned to the actions. An activation for the workflow timeline is received from a timeline initiator. Times or due dates for performing actions on the workflow timeline, a responsible person to perform at least one of the actions, and content messages for at least one of the actions are automatically determined. The content messages provide information relating to the procedure. Content messages for one or more of the actions are automatically sent to the responsible person determined for the one or more actions. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317210 | Asynchronous Video Threads - Described are systems and user interfaces for facilitating asynchronous communication with video threads. Implementations may enable members of a team to have threaded view of video messages, from which they can capture video, record their screen, and send, receive, and reply to a video message. The screen recording feature enables team members to share parts of their screen while simultaneously narrating, if desired. Video messages are threaded by topic and each conversation is visually represented. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317211 | MESSAGE CONVERSION APPARATUS, MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREOF - A message conversion apparatus, a message transmission system, a message transmission method and a computer program product thereof are provided. The message transmission system comprises a first message conversion apparatus and a second message conversion apparatus. The first message conversion apparatus is configured to receive a TCP/UDP packet, convert the TCP/UDP packet into a dedicated protocol packet according to a first conversion rule and transmit the dedicated protocol packet. The second message conversion apparatus communicates with the first message conversion apparatus. The second message conversion apparatus is configured to receive the dedicated protocol packet and convert the dedicated protocol packet into the TCP/UDP packet according to a second conversion rule. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317212 | DEGREES OF SEPARATION FOR HANDLING COMMUNICATIONS - A sender's degrees of separation from a recipient may be used to aid in spam filtering or to otherwise handle a communication. The “degrees of separation” represent a metric used to quantify whether/how the recipient is linked to the sender through intermediary people or other entities. For example, a recipient may know a first user (first degree of separation) and the first user may know a second user (second degree of separation) who knows the sender of an e-mail. In this case, the sender is separated from the recipient by two degrees of separation (by two other contact). A level of “trust” or “legitimacy” about a sender's communication can be inferred by looking at whether the sender is linked to an intended recipient. Typically, user contact lists are evaluated to determine the number of degrees (or hops) are required to link or relate two users. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317213 | TRANSMITTING INSTANT MESSAGES - Transmitting instant messaging (IM) messages is disclosed, including: receiving an instant messaging (IM) message including a recipient IM account identifier, wherein the recipient IM account identifier comprises a main account identifier; determining that the recipient IM account identifier is not logged on; determining whether the recipient IM account identifier is associated with a sub-account identifier; in the event that the recipient IM account identifier is associated with a sub-account identifier, determining whether the sub-account identifier is logged on; and in the event that the sub-account identifier is logged on, sending the IM message to the sub-account identifier and sending identifying information of the sub-account identifier associated with receiving the IM message to an IM account identifier associated with sending the IM message. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317214 | METHOD FOR STRUCTURED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PARTIES - A method for structured communication comprises initiating an electronically mediated interaction pertinent to a communication transaction between specified parties; attempting to establish an initial context for the transaction based upon previous electronically-mediated interactions that include the initiating party; establishing a transaction type from a predetermined set of transaction types; establishing a defined role for each of the parties, each role defining bounds upon the activity of each party within the transaction; establishing a state information repository to be updated throughout a transaction, wherein changes in the state information are constrained at least in part based upon the transaction type; and providing a controller configured such that upon advancement of the state information from a first state to a second state, associated parties are engaged through a user interface operatively coupled to the controller. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317215 | SYSTEM FOR STRUCTURED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PARTIES - A system may comprise a remotely-accessible controller configured to present a user interface to one or more of the parties; and a state information repository to be updated throughout a transaction, wherein changes in the state information are constrained at least in part based upon a transaction type determined from a predetermined set of transaction types; wherein the controller is configured to initiate an electronically mediated interaction pertinent to a communication transaction between the parties, attempt to establish an initial context for the transaction based upon previous electronically-mediated interactions that include the initiating party, establish a defined role for each of the parties, each role defining bounds upon the activity of each party within the transaction, and, upon advancement of the state information from a first state to a second state, engage associated parties through the user interface. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317216 | SYNCHRONIZATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Systems, methods and computer readable media for synchronization of electronic message accounts. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information to establish an electronic message account on a first data processing system, the electronic message account being defined by setup information, and synchronizing the setup information onto a store on a second data processing system. In another embodiment, a method includes receiving information to establish an electronic message account, defined by first setup information, on a host and synchronizing the first setup information onto a device when the device is coupled to the host for synchronization. Systems, other methods and computer readable media are also described. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317217 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL IDENTITIES - A method of monitoring a plurality of user generated interaction sessions. The method comprises providing a list of a plurality of defined users, where each defined user is associated with at least one response to a user-application interaction of a respective defined user with one of a plurality of defined applications accessible via a client terminal, identifying a current user of the client terminal from the plurality of defined users and at least one current interacted application from the plurality of defined applications, selecting a at least one respective response according to the at least one current interacted application and the current user, and triggering the at least one respective response. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317218 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO MESSAGING AND CONFIRMATION - Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include systems, method, and software for video messaging generation, sending, view tracking, and automated follow-up. Such embodiments provide mechanisms allowing users to engage with recipients and to track and collect recipient information and their tendencies in order to increase communication effectiveness. Some embodiments include sending messages with links to video though various messaging platforms. For example, some embodiments include sending electronic messages via email or via an online hosted computer application system for delivery by the online hosted computer application. Examples of the online hosted computer applications include social networking websites such as FACEBOOK®, TWITTER®, and LINKEDIN®. Messages may be generated and sent by a video messaging system directly; through integration of a customer relationship management application with a video messaging system; through an email, text message, social networking message that includes a link to a video message; and other mechanisms. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317219 | METHOD, SYSTEM, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, AND DATA STRUCTURE FOR CREATING ELECTRONIC CALENDAR ENTRIES FROM EMAIL MESSAGES - A method, system, and data structure for creating electronic calendar entries are disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer data structure that includes an email message with an embedded link. The embedded link contains event information corresponding to multiple parameters for an event described in the email message. The embedded link is configured, upon activation, to initiate generation of an electronic calendar entry form with multiple fields. A plurality of the multiple fields contain event information from the embedded link. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317220 | Automated Messaging Tool - A system and method for an automatic messaging system which automatically sends emails or pages to groups of people with specific data from a database. Other messaging tools may be utilized. The data source that provides information may be any ODBC compliant data source including standard DBMS (SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, DB2, Sybase, etc.) Access databases, or Excel spreadsheets. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317221 | MESSAGING PERSONALIZATION - Participants in a communication are rendered by determining whether each entry in a list of participants in the communication satisfies criteria specified by a user participating in the communication. The criteria are used to identify a first subset of participants that is to be rendered in a first style that differentiates the first subset from remaining participants in the list. The first subset of participants is formatted in the first style. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317222 | Virtual email method for preventing delivery of undesired electronic messages - A method is used to filter an electronic message using virtual email sent to a server using a virtual email address created by the server for a recipient-identified. The virtual email address comprises a sender identification in combination with the recipient's non-encoded email address. The server identifies the email recipient using the recipient's non-encoded email address, identifies the email sender as authorized, stores the email sender's identification, stores email comprising the virtual email address; enables the recipient to access the email; enables the recipient to create a virtual email address, receives the virtual email; receives a second electronic message from a non-user-identified sender at the server, responds to the non-user-identified sender requesting an answer that only a human could provide; and, receives the answer from the non-user-identified sender and if the answer is correct, then creates an electronic account on the server for the non-user-identified. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120324018 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - A first request for a creation of a social networking space is received, over a network, from a first user. The first request comprises a geospatial location, a start time, and an end time. A social networking space is creating, using a computing device, based on the request. The social networking space comprises facilities for posting messages visible to users signed into the social networking space. A second request is received, over the network, from second user to sign into the social networking space. The second request is transmitted from a mobile device associated with the second user. It is verified, using the computing device, that a first current time falls between the start time and the end time. It is further verified, using the computing device, that a first current geospatial position of the mobile device is within the geospatial location. In response to verifying the first current time and the first current geospatial position, the second user is signed into the social networking space. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324019 | SPAM MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING IN A MOBILE DEVICE - Spam management by a mobile device includes transmitting an IMAP command to a voicemail server, the IMAP command identifying a voicemail associated with the mobile communication device as being a spam message; and receiving, relative to the IMAP command, a response regarding the spam message from the voicemail server. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324020 | NAME RESOLUTION - A method, device and computer program product for name resolution in a collaborative environment may include receiving initiation of a collaboration from a user, where the collaboration includes actions from at least two applications. The method may also include determining an identity of the user initiating the collaboration. The method may further include retrieving an alias of the user and attaching the alias of the user to the collaboration. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324021 | Method and Apparatus for Obtaining Size of Emails of Terminal - A method for obtaining a size of an Email of a terminal includes: the terminal extracting a preset standard mail template from a terminal file system, and using the standard mail template as a standard size of the Email; obtaining a size of contents input when a user edits the Email, and obtaining a size of a mail header and a size of a mail body of the Email according to the size of the contents input and the standard mail template; and adding the size of the mail header to the size of the mail body to obtain and display the size of the Email, so as to accurately obtain the size of the Email of the terminal. Accordingly, an apparatus for obtaining a size of an Email of a terminal is also provided by the invention. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324022 | PUSH GATEWAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A push gateway includes a number of socket servers, a queue server, and arbiter serving, a mapping server and a number of worker servers. Each of the socket servers and the arbiter server includes a network interface. The queue server is coupled to the socket servers for bidirectional communication with the socket servers. The mapping server is coupled to the arbiter server and to the socket servers for bidirectional communication with the arbiter server and each of the socket servers. The worker servers are coupled to the queue serer and the mapping server. The arbiter server is configured to facilitate communications over a network with the worker servers by at least partially balancing loads on the number of socket servers based, at least in part, upon the mapping server. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324023 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DATA FROM SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES FOR THE REAL-TIME EVALUATION OF PUBLICLY TRADED ASSETS - A system for generating data from social media messages for the real-time evaluation of publicly traded assets includes an ingest component for ingesting the social media messages and a filter module eliminating expressions not considered useful language from social media messages and configuring input social media message into useful formats to form filtered social media messages. The system also includes a language processor processing the filtered social media messages based upon lexical databases to form filter and processed social media messages. The system further includes a sentiment calculator applying rules to the filtered and processed social media messages so as to compute a representation of sentiment values associated with the social media messages. A graphical user interface displaying the sentiment values is also provided. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324024 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AND SYNCHRONIZING INTERFACES REMOTELY - A processing device pairs an emitting device with a recipient device to synchronize media content between the emitting device and the recipient device. The processing device receives an instruction from the emitting device, the instruction comprising a parameter and a value for the media content, and forwards, the instruction to the recipient device for execution on the media content. The processing device receives a notification from the recipient device indicating a status of the execution of the instruction. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324025 | REAL TIME URL UNIFICATION, SCORING, AND MARKETING AUTOMATION - Systems and methods for analyzing link name page visits are disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, one or more computer readable storage media encoded with instructions executable by one or more processing units of a computing system is disclosed. The instructions may comprise instructions for determining if logged data satisfies a first set of criteria, storing an entry indicative of the logged data and a page type, updating a lead score corresponding to the logged data, determining if the logged data satisfies a second set of criteria, and generating an automated mailing signal responsive, at least in part, to determining the visit satisfies the second set of criteria. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324026 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DATA - A user information management method for a hub server connected to a terminal and service provider server, the method including registering user information for the terminal or the service provider server, receiving history information including data created by a user from the registered terminal or the registered service provider server, storing integrated history information obtained by sorting the received history information based on the user information, and transmitting the integrated history information in response to an integrated history information request message received from the registered terminal. Thus, the user can check the functions executed by the terminals owned by the user in an integrated manner and the data generated by multiple diverse terminals and service provider servers are managed in an efficient and integrated manner. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324027 | Building a Social Graph with Sharing Activity Between Users of the Open Web - A social graph is built which includes interactions, sharing activity, and connections between the users of the open Web and can be used to improve ad targeting and content personalization. Sharing activity between two users will affect ads or content that both users will be presented while surfing the Web. This sharing activity includes sending of links, sending of videos, sending of files, cutting and pasting of content, sending text messages, and sending of e-mails. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324028 | TERMINAL DEVICE WITH FUNCTION TO AUTOMATICALLY ATTACH AN EMAIL ADDRESS, METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ATTACHING AN EMAIL ADDRESS AND PROGRAM FOR SAME - Disclosed is a terminal device which automatically attaches an email address, capable of transmitting and receiving text messages conforming to Short Message Service (SMS) and transmitting and receiving electronic mail, which stores the email address of the terminal device which automatically attaches an email address. The terminal device accepts commands from a user. If the terminal device detects from the content of received commands that a text message conforming to SMS is being generated, it acquires the email address and inserts the acquired email address into the generated text message. After the insertion is completed, it transmits the generated text message to the other terminal. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324029 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING AGGREGATION SERVER FOR DETERMINING UPDATED METADATA OF E-MAIL MESSAGES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system includes a mobile wireless communications device and an e-mail server configured to store pushed e-mail data and metadata associated therewith already pushed to the mobile wireless communications device. An aggregation server is configured to download a first set of metadata of pushed e-mail data at a first time, and generate and store a first set of hash values corresponding to the first set of metadata. The aggregation server is also configured to download a second set of metadata of pushed e-mail data at a second time after the first time, and generate and store a second set of hash values corresponding to the second set of metadata. The aggregation server is further configured to determine an updated set of metadata based upon a comparison of the first and second sets of hash values, and push the updated metadata to the mobile wireless communications device. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324030 | System and Method for Message Processing and Routing - A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of learning and executing new routing rules and message transformations in formats previously unrecognized by the system. The system enables precise and reliable logging of messages throughout processing and supports publication of enterprise-wide broadcast messages. The system further preferably employs cooperating inbound and outbound transport processes for consuming, routing, processing, safely storing and publishing messages in batches of logical units of work to ensure that the logical units of work are not lost in system transactions. The system also preferably utilizes a replay server for preserving and replaying messages that might otherwise fail to reach their intended destinations. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324031 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION PROCESSOR SERVICES FROM A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system is for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device upon sensing a triggering event. A redirector program operating at the host system enables a user to continuously redirect user-selected data items from the host system to the user's mobile data communication device upon detecting that one or more user-defined triggering events has occurred. The redirector program operates in connection with event generating applications and repackaging systems at the host system to configure and detect particular user-defined events, and to repackage the user-selected data items in an electronic wrapper prior to pushing the data items to the mobile device. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324032 | CONTINUOUS APPLICATION EXECUTION BETWEEN MULTIPLE DEVICES - In one example, a device includes a display, an interface configured to exchange data with external devices, a control unit configured to execute an application to cause the display to display a current visual representation of the application, determine a current application state of the application, wherein the current application state includes at least a portion of the current visual representation of the application, and means for sending, without user intervention, an indication of the determined current application state from the device to a second, different device via the interface, wherein the indication of the determined current application state comprises information for recreating at least the portion of the current visual representation of the application, wherein the control unit is configured to prevent subsequent indications of the current application state from being sent to the second device in response to an indication that a third device is executing the application. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120331062 | DYNAMIC ENCODING OF EMAIL ADDRESSES - Embodiments of the invention may provide the ability to convert a non-supported email address (i.e., an email address that conforms to a standard that is not supported by the receiving device) into a supported email address (e.g., an email address that conforms to a standard that is supported by the receiving device). Embodiments of the invention may perform this conversion, for example, when an email communication containing a non-internet-standard email address is to be delivered or synchronized to a mobile device that only supports standard internet addresses. Similarly, embodiments of the invention may perform this conversion when a calendar entry, a task, a contact, or other data package containing such a non-supported email address is to be delivered or synchronized to a mobile device that does not support such an email address. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331063 | INFERRING TOPICS FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS - A social networking system determines the meaning of an anchor term used in a communication received from a communicating user. Candidate nodes are identified in the dictionary based on the anchor term, where each candidate node represents a possible meaning of the anchor term. The context of the anchor term is determined, and a score is determined for each candidate node based on the determined context. A candidate node is selected that most likely represents the meaning of the anchor term based on the determined candidate node scores. The context of the anchor term may be a social context derived from users connected to the communicating user that use the anchor term in communications. A communicating user may be prompted to identify the meaning of the anchor term explicitly based on the use of the term in communications from other users connected to the communicating user. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331064 | SUGGESTING TAGS IN STATUS MESSAGES BASED ON SOCIAL CONTEXT - A social networking system determines the meaning of an anchor term used in a communication received from a communicating user. Candidate nodes are identified in the dictionary based on the anchor term, where each candidate node represents a possible meaning of the anchor term. The context of the anchor term is determined, and a score is determined for each candidate node based on the determined context. A candidate node is selected that most likely represents the meaning of the anchor term based on the determined candidate node scores. The context of the anchor term may be a social context derived from users connected to the communicating user that use the anchor term in communications. A communicating user may be prompted to identify the meaning of the anchor term explicitly based on the use of the term in communications from other users connected to the communicating user. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331065 | Messaging In A Parallel Computer Using Remote Direct Memory Access ('RDMA') - Messaging in a parallel computer using remote direct memory access (‘RDMA’), including: receiving a send work request; responsive to the send work request: translating a local virtual address on the first node from which data is to be transferred to a physical address on the first node from which data is to be transferred from; creating a local RDMA object that includes a counter set to the size of a messaging acknowledgment field; sending, from a messaging unit in the first node to a messaging unit in a second node, a message that includes a RDMA read operation request, the physical address of the local RDMA object, and the physical address on the first node from which data is to be transferred from; and receiving, by the first node responsive to the second node's execution of the RDMA read operation request, acknowledgment data in the local RDMA object. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331066 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING TEMPORAL DATA - In one embodiment, a method and system are provided that receive, during a selected time period, a plurality of different media streams exchanged, over a communications network, in one or more communications between a plurality of parties; and generate a multimedia presentation of the plurality of different media streams, wherein, in the multimedia presentation, the different media streams are referenced according to a common time scale. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331067 | Dynamic Chat Box - In particular embodiments, a method comprising, by one or more computing devices, communicating, from a client device, to a remote host a resource locator of a content object being currently accessed by a first user at the client device, receiving from the remote host an indication that one or more second users have accessed the content object or a domain hosting the content object, and responsive to the indication, displaying a chat messaging interface to the first user at the client device, wherein the chat messaging interface includes identifiers for the one or more second users and messaging controls operative to establish a chat session with the one or more second users. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331068 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MESSAGE - According to one embodiment, a communication device is described that comprises a determining circuit configured to determine a type of an information indicated by a first message, wherein the first message is formed in accordance with a first transmission protocol; a selecting circuit configured to select a type of message according to a second transmission protocol based on the determined type of information; and a message generating circuit configured to generate a second message of the selected type according to the second transmission protocol indicating the information. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331069 | PROBABILITY BASED WHITELIST - A system and method are disclosed for maintaining a whitelist, including: obtaining message data based on an email message sent by a user; extracting recipient information from message data; updating the whitelist using the recipient information. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331070 | DYNAMIC ENCODING OF EMAIL ADDRESSES - Embodiments of the invention may provide the ability to convert a non-supported email address (i.e., an email address that conforms to a standard that is not supported by the receiving device) into a supported email address (e.g., an email address that conforms to a standard that is supported by the receiving device). Embodiments of the invention may perform this conversion, for example, when an email communication containing a non-internet-standard email address is to be delivered or synchronized to a mobile device that only supports standard internet addresses. Similarly, embodiments of the invention may perform this conversion when a calendar entry, a task, a contact, or other data package containing such a non-supported email address is to be delivered or synchronized to a mobile device that does not support such an email address. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331071 | EMAIL ATTACHMENT MANAGEMENT IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - An e-mail management system that includes an e-mail browser having a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of e-mail messages that have been received over time. The time variance interface of the e-mail browser also provides for retrieval, from the storage media, of the e-mail messages corresponding to a user specified date. The retrieved e-mail messages each include an indication of the presence of an accompanying attachment(s) in the e-mail message. An affirmative indication provides the user with an option of retrieving content of the attachment(s) from the storage media such that the content of the attachment(s) is retrieved by the e-mail browser only when specifically requested by the user. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331072 | Remote Communication Method - A remote communication method is provided. A service end generates a communication message. The service end attaches a first data to the communication message. The first data denotes a content of a first message which comprises a parameter. The service end attaches a second data to the communication message. The second data denotes a content of a second message which is used for substituting the parameter of the content of the first message and for restoring a content of an original message. The service end transmits the communication message containing the first data and the second data to the user end. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331073 | Peer-to-Peer Network Chatting - A peer in a peer-to-peer network joins an advertisement room having an associated identifier. A joining peer identifies a peer closest to the advertisement room. In various embodiments, the peer that is closest to the advertising room is the peer having a discreet hash table ID closest to the advertisement room identifier. The joining peer requests from the closest peer information about peers that the closest peer knows to be part of the advertisement room. The closest peer provides the joining peer with connection information for those peers, and the joining peer establishes connections with the peers. Peers in the advertisement room provide advertisements for chat rooms. To join a chat room, a peer determines which of its peers in the advertisement room is the closest peer to the chat room, based on the chat room identifier, and informs that peer that it is now part of the chat room. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331074 | Trusted Electronic Communications - A first party provides a key phrase to a second party so that the second party can later initiate and send an electronic communication, such as an email message, to the first party with the key phrase included, typically in a prominent fashion such as in the subject line of the email message. In this way, the first party recipient of the email message can readily tell that the electronic communication was sent by the second party sender of the email message thus providing a measure of trust in the electronic communication. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331075 | SEPARATION OF INSTANT MESSAGING USER AND CLIENT IDENTITIES - A data structure defining two-level identification allows the integration of mobile instant messaging to Internet based instant messaging, for instance, by providing an identification of both a user of the IM system (IM user) and an IM client used to access an IM system (IM client). The client may be a hardware device, software, or a combination thereof. A method, a terminal device with the client installed, a server and a system are shown for communicating such identification information between the terminal device and the server with a primitive having such two-level identification contained in information elements. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331076 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE PRESENCE INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus to present presence information are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request from a first user for presence information associated with a second user, analyzing information from a monitoring sensor associated with the second user to determine that the second user is available for communication with the first user using a first communication method and is unavailable for communication with the first user using a second communication method, and sending a message to the first user indicating that the second user is available for communication using the first communication method and is unavailable for communication using the second communication method. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331077 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSNIG APPARATUS, PROGRAM FOR CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROGRAM - In a case where session management information is created from request information concerning a Web-based e-mail transmitted as HTTP data, if the request information coincides with a previously defined session start event for each Web-based e-mail service, a relay server adds a new entry to the session management information. On the other hand, if the request information coincides with a previously defined data operation event for each Web-based e-mail service, the relay server updates entry data of the session management information. Consequently, an administrator can execute higher accurate mail browsing by extracting, from the request information concerning the Web-based e-mail, not only the content of the Web-based e-mail but also a mail creation start method and a transmission state of the Web-based e-mail. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331078 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENCOURAGING SECURE COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention enable a user to engage in secure communications using digital certificates and other cryptographic technologies in an easy way with a minimum of distracting interaction. In some embodiments of the present invention, webmail is enabled to allow users to obtain and use S/MIME certificates to secure his or her e-mails. Embodiments of the present invention can also be implemented to other forms of messaging, such as text messages, instant messages, etc. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331079 | COMPRESSIBLE DISPLAY OF E-MAIL MESSAGE STRING TO FACILITATE READABILITY - A displayed string of emails is effectively compressed for improved readability by deleting some or all headers and/or by skipping the cursor from one message body to another in response to hot key actuation(s) by a user. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331080 | PRIVATE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION EXCHANGE - Methods and apparatuses for private electronic information exchange are described herein. In one embodiment, when electronic information is received to be delivered to a recipient, the electronic information is transmitted over an electronic network with a private routing address. The private routing address is routable within a private domain, which is a subset of the electronic network. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120331081 | Caching and Exposing Pre-Send Data Relating to the Sender or Recipient of an Electronic Mail Message - Technologies are described herein for caching and exposing pre-send data relating to the sender or recipient of an e-mail message. A mail client program is configured to cache recipient and configuration mail tips at a client computer. The configuration mail tips may be retrieved from a server computer and cached when the mail client program is started. Recipient mail tips may be retrieved and cached as each recipient of an e-mail message is identified. When subsequent e-mail messages are created, cached mail tips for an e-mail recipient are utilized instead of retrieving the mail tips from the server computer. The cached mail tips may be updated after a predefined period of time has elapsed. The cached mail tips may also be utilized when the client program is offline or unable to establish a connection to the server computer. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130007137 | Electronic Conversation Topic Detection - Automatic conversation topic detection, generation and storage are provided. Electronic conversation threads and associated metadata for a variety of types of electronic communications are retrieved. Topic properties such as keywords or terms and information about the conversation threads are extracted from the conversation threads and metadata. Extracted thread terms and properties are used for identification of a topic title associated with the conversation threads and metadata. An identified topic title is compared with previously identified topics to determine whether the identified topic is new or whether the identified topic is the same as a previously identified topic. A short and useful topic title is generated in order to allow subsequent users to know what the conversation thread is about at a glance. A user interface component may allow users to accept, reject or modify a generated topic title. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007138 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INCORPORATING A THIRD USER INTO AN INSTANT MESSAGE SESSION - A method and apparatus for incorporating a third user into an instant message (IM) session. In one embodiment, an IM server receives a first IM from a first user directed toward a second user. The IM server makes a determination that the second user is not available to respond to the first IM. In response to the determination, the IM server identifies a third user to whom the first IM is to be forwarded, and automatically forwards the first IM to the third user. In another embodiment, the IM server receives a transfer request from the second user to transfer the IM session from the second user to the third user. The IM server automatically determines a subset portion of a plurality of IMs communicated between the first user and the second user, and provides the transfer request and the subset portion to the third user. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007139 | LOGICAL THREAD MANAGEMENT THROUGH EMAIL INFRASTRUCTURE - A method that includes, via a processor, receiving at least one user input within an electronic mail (email) client associating a first email with a logical thread. The first email can specify a task assigned to at least one recipient of the first email. The method further can include sending the first email to the at least one recipient, adding the first email to a logical thread list associated with the logical thread, and receiving a task response from the recipient. Within the logical thread list, a task status associated with the first email based upon the task response can be automatically updated. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007140 | SELECTIVE DELIVERY OF CONTENT VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL - A method that includes identifying a first electronic mail (email) addressed to at least two groups of recipients, the first email comprising content. The method further can include communicating the first email comprising the content to a first group of recipients. The method also can include generating a second email different than the first email and not comprising the content, the second email comprising information that indicates a contact that the second group of recipients are to contact regarding subject matter associated with the first email, and communicating the second email to a second group of recipients. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007141 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN THE SOCIAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method, system and computer program product for improving information exchange in a social network environment. Actions (e.g., copying) being performed on an electronic object (e.g., e-mail) are detected. Furthermore, the entry of the electronic object in a social networking website is detected thereby identifying an association between this electronic object and this social networking website. Rule patterns are identified based on these detected actions and these associations. Indications of these associations are stored in terms of concept nodes in a hierarchical tree using the identified rule patterns. Social networking feeds of interest are then searched using the hierarchical tree as well as a current electronic object of a user (e.g., status message on a social networking feed, e-mail). The user would then be provided an opportunity to repost an information nugget from the current electronic object in one or more of these social networking feeds of interest. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007142 | Processing A Message - A method of processing a message for communication from a sender user terminal of a sender in a first time zone to a recipient user terminal of a recipient in a second time zone, the method comprising: receiving, at the sender user terminal from the sender, content of the message; determining that the content includes an indication of a time in the first time zone; sending the message over a network from the sender user terminal to the recipient user terminal; determining a corresponding time in the second time zone which corresponds to the time in the first time zone indicated by the indication; and conveying the message to the recipient at the recipient user terminal, the conveyed message including a second indication which indicates the determined corresponding time in the second time zone. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007143 | LIMITING NOTIFICATION TEMPLATE MODIFICATION BASED ON USER ACCESS LEVELS - Methods for modifying a notification template based on user access levels are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first request, from a first user having a first level of access, to modify a first parameter from a first state to a second state in a notification template, and receiving a second request, from a second user having a second level of access, to modify a second parameter in the notification template from a first state to a second state. The method also includes storing the modified notification template. When the modified notification template is retrieved from storage, the first parameter is in the second state for both the first user and the second user, and the second parameter is in the first state for the first user and the second state for the second user. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007144 | EMAIL QUESTION OBJECT OWNERSHIP AND STATUS TRACKING - Enabling question object owner and status tracking can include establishing one or more question objects within an email message from a sender to a set of recipients. Question objects can be maintained on the server with unique identifiers. The question object(s) can have multiple sub question objects. Each question object or sub question object can be delegated a question owner, which can be maintained in the server. Recipients (answer providers) can take responsibility for answering various parts of the question object or the whole question object or for tackling a task associated with the question object. The server can associate and record question providers with their various responsibilities or answers. The server can then dynamically update a portion or all of the originally sent email message in the question owner's email account and the recipients' (answer providers') email accounts to show the answer and the answer provider. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007145 | SERVICE BASED EVENT PLANNING - Services are queried for resources to be used at an event. For example, service based event planning may be used in conjunction with directory services, social networking services, custom databases, web services, email servers and address book services. Service based event planning may apply constraints to the resources obtained over services. The service based event planning may also be used in conjunction with email or other messaging services to share representations of events with attendees or other interested parties. Both recipients and senders of the event may be able to dynamically modify event details in event representations. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007146 | DETERMINING COMMUNICATION RECIPIENT AVAILABILITY - A method, computer program product, and system for determining communication recipient availability is described. A method may comprise receiving, via one or more computing devices, an indication that there is an intended recipient of a communication. The method may further comprise, in response to receiving the indication that there is the intended recipient of the communication, determining, via the one or more via one or more computing devices, if the intended recipient is available enough to receive the communication based upon, at least in part, one or more registries of availability, a communication type associated with the communication, and one or more user-defined parameters for the communication type. The method may also comprise, in response to determining, via the one or more via one or more computing devices, that the intended recipient is not available enough to receive the communication, suggesting one or more additional recipients to receive the communication. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007147 | TECHNIQUES FOR EXTENDING AND ASSOCIATING CHATS WITH EXECUTION INSTANCES OF PROGRAMS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for extending and associating chats with execution instances of programs. A method includes, in a computer system, extending and associating chats with execution instances of programs. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007148 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE INCLUSION OF EDITED INFORMATION IN AN INFORMATION FEED - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media for controlling the inclusion of edited information in an information feed to be displayed on a display device. In some implementations, a message associated with a user is received and stored on one or more storage mediums. A request to edit the message is received, and it is determined whether the message is in an editable state. When the message is in the editable state, an edited message is generated and stored on the one or more storage mediums. When the message is not in the editable state, information is generated indicating that the request to edit the message is denied. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007149 | Social network with secret statuses and Verifications - User profiles are on a social networking site, and that profile includes three different parts: a public part, a private part only to be shown to friends of the user, and a personal private part that is not shown to anyone who does not meet the specified criteria, whether friends or not friends. That other private part can be, for example, information about personal or dating preferences, that is only shown to those people who expressed similar desire to see personal or dating preferences. In one embodiment, the users profile is verified before showing them anyone else's private information. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007150 | UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A universal communication system including a processor configured to execute a client application is described and includes first logic configured to provide a client interface for accessing a plurality of communication and media types from the command window, and second logic configured to integrate a plurality of contact information from the plurality of media and communication types into a single contact list, where the single contact list being accessible from the client interface. The system further includes third logic configured to receive executable instructions from a multi-protocol application program interface to alter the plurality of communication and media types and the plurality of contact information received therefrom. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007151 | DETERMINATION OF A SPAMMER THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORK CHARACTERIZATION - A system for determining a spammer includes a session division apparatus configured to acquire short message events associated with a user and divide them into a plurality of sessions in terms of time; a social network building and characteristic calculating apparatus configured to build a social network of the user in each of the sessions, and calculate at least one type of social network characteristic in each of the sessions, respectively; and a determination apparatus configured to determine whether the user is a spammer or not according to the social network characteristic. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007152 | ONLINE ADAPTIVE FILTERING OF MESSAGES - In general, a two or more stage spam filtering system is used to filter spam in an e-mail system. One stage includes a global e-mail classifier that classifies e-mail as it enters the e-mail system. The parameters of the global e-mail classifier generally may be determined by the policies of e-mail system owner and generally are set to only classify as spam those e-mails that are likely to be considered spam by a significant number of users of the e-mail system. Another stage includes personal e-mail classifiers at the individual mailboxes of the e-mail system users. The parameters of the personal e-mail classifiers generally are set by the users through retraining, such that the personal e-mail classifiers are refined to track the subjective perceptions of their respective user as to what e-mails are spam e-mails. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007153 | DETERMINING COMMUNICATION RECIPIENT AVAILABILITY - A method, computer program product, and system for determining communication recipient availability is described. A method may comprise receiving, via one or more computing devices, an indication that there is an intended recipient of a communication. The method may further comprise, in response to receiving the indication that there is the intended recipient of the communication, determining, via the one or more via one or more computing devices, if the intended recipient is available enough to receive the communication based upon, at least in part, one or more registries of availability, a communication type associated with the communication, and one or more user-defined parameters for the communication type. The method may also comprise, in response to determining, via the one or more via one or more computing devices, that the intended recipient is not available enough to receive the communication, suggesting one or more additional recipients to receive the communication. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007154 | SELECTIVE DELIVERY OF CONTENT VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL - A method that includes identifying a first electronic mail (email) addressed to at least two groups of recipients, the first email comprising content. The method further can include communicating the first email comprising the content to a first group of recipients. The method also can include generating a second email different than the first email and not comprising the content, the second email comprising information that indicates a contact that the second group of recipients are to contact regarding subject matter associated with the first email, and communicating the second email to a second group of recipients. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007155 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING GAME MECHANICS TO THE COMPLETION OF TASKS BY USERS - The methods and systems described herein provide for effective and efficient completion of tasks by users of a computing device. Specifically, the present invention provides users with a proprietary workflow for timing the completion of a task by a user and scoring a user's ability to complete a task within a predetermined length of time. One exemplary embodiment provides for managing the completion of tasks in a task list, timing a user's ability to complete certain tasks, and providing feedback to the user according to their progress. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007156 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING PROTOCOL INTERFACE DEVICE PROVIDING ENHANCED OPERATING PROTOCOL SELECTION FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of different operating protocols. Further, at least one of the data storage devices may operate using multiple operating protocols. The system may also include mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the at least one data storage device, and each may use at least one of the plurality of operating protocols. Moreover, the system may further include a protocol interface device. The protocol interface device may include a front-end proxy module for communicating with the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol interface may also include a protocol engine module for communicating with the data storage devices using respective operating protocols. The protocol engine module may also select a desired operating protocol for communicating with the at least one data storage device from the multiple operating protocols. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007157 | System and method for maintaining presence and communicating over a computer network using the HTTP protocol - A computer-implemented process facilitates communication with an entity over a network. A static HTTP URL is associated with the entity. Communications information reflecting the entity's current online presence including the entity's dynamic session information as determined using the HTTP protocol is linked with the URL. Communication with the entity is facilitated using the URL and the communications information. The forms of communication facilitated include type chat/instant messaging, voice communication over a computer network, video communication over a computer network, voice communication from a computer network to a telephone network and two-way text messaging to Internet enabled wireless devices. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007158 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of Information Over a Network - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007159 | WIRELESS EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING SUBSCRIBER ACCOUNT UPDATE FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - A wireless communications system may include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each having a subscriber account associated therewith including a respective personal identification number (PIN) and a unique identification (ID). The system may further include at least one electronic mail (email) server comprising a database of subscriber accounts and for sending emails to and receiving emails from the mobile wireless communications devices based upon the PINs and unique IDs. The at least one email server may compare a given PIN and unique ID, based upon a communication from a given mobile wireless device, with a corresponding PIN and unique ID for the corresponding subscriber account in the database, and update the corresponding subscriber account based upon a discrepancy. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007160 | System and Method for Regulating Electronic Messages - A system for regulating e-mail comprises a database of information profiling legitimate e-mail usage. When an e-mail is received at the system, it is scrutinized relative to the information in the database. If the e-mail is found to be legitimate based upon this evaluation, it is delivered to the intended recipient. If, however, the e-mail appears on the basis of the evaluation to be the last in a series of illegitimate e-mails or otherwise has characteristics inconsistent with the profile of legitimate e-mail usage, the e-mail may not be delivered and the postmaster and administrator at the source of the e-mail is contacted. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007161 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of Information Over a Network - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007162 | Facilitating a Sender of Email Communications to Specify Policies With Which the Email Communication are to be Managed as a Record - Specifying the policies with which (portion of) an email communication is to be stored as a record, within the content of the email communication. In an embodiment, an attachment file specifies such policies in the form of XML tags. As a result, a user may merely need to attach a file specifying the desired policies, and send the email communication. In one implementation, the user specifies a pre-specified email address as a recipient to cause the email communication to be saved as a record. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007163 | PROVIDING BLENDED SYNCHRONOUS/ASYNCHRONOUS MESSAGING - A system for blending synchronous and asynchronous computer communication applications that determines when a user of a synchronous communication application, such as an instant messaging application, attempts to send a message to another user that is unavailable for synchronous communications, and that forwards the message from the synchronous communication application to an asynchronous communication application for delivery. The forwarded message may be an email message, and the system may operate to determine a destination electronic mail address of the destination user for inclusion in the forwarded message, and include an indication in the forwarded message that it has been forwarded from the synchronous communication application. This indication enables the asynchronous communication application to perform special processing with regard to the forwarded message. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007164 | EMAIL SERVER WITH PROXY CACHING OF UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS - An electronic mail (email) server has a database that stores unique identifiers (UID's) of electronic messages. A proxy obtains mappings from the database for previously existing UID's of electronic messages that have been determined from a polling operation. A cache caches the mappings of UID's and the proxy is operative for purging the cache of the previously existing UID's after polling. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007165 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and computing device for processing data are provided. Rule data for visually coding incoming data is stored. First and second profile data are stored, independent of the rule data. Each profile data comprises a respective range of time and a respective recurrence pattern that repeats indefinitely. Each profile data is associated with a respective subset of the rule data. Respective indications are received that first profile data and second profile have been activated. In response, the respective subset is automatically applied during the respective range of time such that incoming data is visually coded at the display device according to the respective subset during the respective range of time. Automatic application of the respective subset during the respective range of time repeats indefinitely according to the respective recurrence pattern until another indication that the respective profile data has been deactivated is received. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007166 | PLAYBACK OF INSTANT MESSAGING SESSION HISTORY - Systems, methods and media for playback of instant messaging session history in an instant messaging system by facilitating recording and playback of an instant messaging session history to a user are disclosed. Embodiments may include, during an instant messaging session where one or more instant messaging events occur, determining a timestamp associated with the one or more instant messaging events and recording an indication of the one or more instant messaging events and their associated timestamps. Embodiments may also include receiving one or more playback commands and, in response to the received playback commands, displaying playback of the one or more instant messaging events based on their associated timestamps. The instant messaging events may include one or more of a text message, file transfer, input device movement, or a status indication such as offline, returned from offline, away, returned from away, secure session established, session beginning or session ending. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007167 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCOUNTS - In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for integrating a plurality of electronic mail (email) accounts. A plurality of email services may be used to send and receive electronic messages over a wide area network, one of the email services being a preferred email service and another of the email services being a secondary email service. An email integration service may be used that is coupled to the wide area network and that is independent of the plurality of email services. The email integration service may be operable to receive account information regarding the preferred email service and the secondary email service and use the account information to configure a means for forwarding electronic messages from the preferred email service to the secondary email service. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007168 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND TIME-LIMIT DISPLAY METHOD - An information processing apparatus including: a processor to receive data transmitted via an electronic mail; to detect time-limit information representing a reply time-limit of the electronic mail from the received data; to display the electronic mail; and to display the reply time-limit in the way of being associated with the displayed electronic mail on the basis of the time-limit information and the present date-time. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007169 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of Information Over a Network - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007170 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of Information Over a Network - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007171 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of Information Over a Network - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007172 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT BASED NOTIFICATION USING HIERARCHICAL GROUPS - Methods and apparatus for content based notification using hierarchical groups. In an aspect, a method is provided that operates to provide an event notification. The method includes maintaining an event description dictionary comprising one or more event descriptors, and associating content with a selected event descriptor. The method also includes compressing the selected event descriptor to generate a compressed event descriptor, and transmitting the compressed event descriptor on a notification channel. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007173 | DIFFERENTIATING A PORTION OF A TEXT MESSAGE SHOWN IN A LISTING ON A HANDHELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING AN ICON - A handheld wireless communication device includes features to send and receive text messages. The handheld wireless communication device is further equipped with a microprocessor configured to run software programs on the device such as text message management program. The text message management program displays a listing of a plurality of received text messages on a display screen and differentiates at least a portion of the display-listed plurality of received text messages using an icon associated with at least one text message and wherein said icon corresponds to a domain address of the associated text message. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007174 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Providing Time Data in a Messaging Environment - An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method are provided in which time data regarding certain aspects of a messaging conversation on a handheld electronic device are made available to a user. Such time data is provided, for instance, in situations where an interruption has occurred during a messaging conversation. Time data can also be provided to a user on demand in certain circumstances. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007175 | CONTROLLING DELIVERY OF NOTIFICATIONS IN REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON COMMUNICATION CHANNEL STATE - A critical notification is reliably delivered to at least one participant in a real-time communication session. A candidate delivery channel is selected, and a set of one or more communication state variables associated with the candidate delivery channel are identified. Current values associated with the communication state variables and determined, and a determination is made as to whether the current values associated with the communication state variables indicate that the notification can currently be reliably delivered using the candidate delivery channel. If the notification cannot currently be reliably delivered using the candidate delivery channel, an alternative delivery option is selected that may include using an alternative delivery channel and/or delaying delivery of the notification. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007176 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM USING HIERARCHICAL QUEUE STRUCTURE FOR EMAIL MESSAGE DELIVERY AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one destination server for hosting email message boxes, and communications devices for generating email messages each associated with a respective message box. A delivery server may have a plurality of queues and a controller. The controller may store the email messages in a first queue, and attempt to send the stored email messages to the destination server at a first sending rate. The controller may also move email messages stored in the first queue to a second queue based upon a delivery failure. Email messages may be sent from the second queue at a second sending rate less than the first sending rate. The controller may also move email messages from the second queue to the first queue having a common characteristic with a successfully delivered email message. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130007177 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PLURALITY OF PRIORITISED EMAIL DOMAIN NAMES - The system and method are for provisioning an electronic mail (email) account for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email. A mobile office platform includes a configuration module and a communications module which are operative for accessing an electronic mailbox. The communications module is to receive email address parameters of the user and transmit a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records, including email domain names, corresponding to the email address parameters of the user. The configuration module is to process returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email. The configuration module is to determine candidate configuration parameters based upon expanding a plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130013698 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING MEDIA CONTENT BETWEEN USERS - An exemplary system includes a first user device associated with a first user and a second user device associated with a second user. The first user device is configured to detect a request input by the first user to share media content being processed by the user device with the second user, generate an invite message including data configured to be utilized by the second user device to access the media content, and send the invite message to the second user device by way of a messaging service. The second user device is configured to receive the invite message from the first user device by way of the messaging service, determine that the invite message is associated with a media sharing service, and perform one or more operations to facilitate access to the media content by the second user. Corresponding methods, systems, and apparatus are also disclosed. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013699 | Online Photosession - Methods, systems and computer readable medium with program instructions for sharing documents with other users in an online document sharing session include identifying a set of documents to share with viewing users at a document sharing website. The set of documents may have been uploaded onto the document sharing website by a sharing user and selected for sharing in an online document sharing session. One or more viewing users are selected for sharing the documents of the online document sharing session and access information to access the identified documents are provided. The access provides uniform level of control to both the viewing users and the sharing user so as to interact and manage the documents in the online document sharing session. The viewing users and the sharing user access, view and interact with the documents equally and the interactions are gathered and propagated to all the viewing the sharing users in substantial real-time. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013700 | Audience Management in a Social Networking System - A social networking system manages the accessibility of content items provided by users and directed to various audiences in the social networking system. An author provides the social networking system with a content item, a content item tag indicating an association between the content item and a tagged user, and a definition of a first audience who may view the content item. The social networking system then allows the tagged user to provide a definition of a second audience who may view the content item, where the second audience may contains users who are not in the first audience defined by the original author. The social networking system then determines whether a viewing user may view the posted content item (and tag) based on whether the viewing user is in at least one of the first audience and the second audience. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013701 | OPEN INVITE FOR VIDEO CALLS - In one embodiment, a video chat source | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013702 | MESSAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MESSAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A message processing system with improved maintainability, while ensuring availability, is provided. A filtering section | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY MANAGING "MESSAGES SENT" FILE AND RESENDING OF MESSAGES FROM MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An enhanced email system incorporating mobile wireless communication devices includes program logic for efficiently managing (i.e., at least partially synchronizing) “messages sent” files in the mobile device and in a related message server. The exemplary program logic also more efficiently handles resending of previously sent email messages from the mobile wireless communication device (especially in the context of synchronized messages sent files) by sending to the message server only abbreviated unique message ID in the first instance. In this way, wireless bandwidth is conserved as is the device battery. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013704 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MESSAGE AND AN EVENT BASED VIDEO SERVICES CONTROL PLANE - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes establishing a connection between a client and a messaging fabric of a conductor element associated with a video system and authenticating the client (e.g., involving a plurality of device credentials associated with the device). The method also includes assigning a name to identify a device associated with the client; updating a client directory with the name and a device status associated with the device; and establishing a service connection to the conductor element to enable message exchanges with the device. The service connection establishes an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)-based service. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013705 | IMAGE SCENE RECOGNITION - A method for filtering content with a communication device includes, with the communication device, applying a filter function to a message associated with the communication device, the filter function finding at least one content element. The method further includes comparing the content element with a set of restricted content elements, and withholding the message from communication in response to determining that the content element matches one of the restricted content elements. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013706 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP INFLUENCE INFORMATION USING TEXTUAL CONTENT FROM INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONS - A computer-implemented method determines interpersonal relationship influence information between participants in an interaction channel that includes inputting an interaction text response of communication by a participant made in an interaction channel. A type of influence relation of the interaction text response is determined on at least one other participant in the interaction channel based on relational descriptors. An influence score value for the interaction text response is determined, where the influence score value indicates how strongly the interaction text response influences the at least one other participant in the interaction channel. A pair-wise indication of a direction of influence of at least two participants in the interaction channel is determined. Interpersonal relationship influence information is output for the interaction text response for a participant pair in the interaction channel. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013707 | Method, Server and Client for Aggregating Microblog Single Message - Embodiments of the application provide a method, server, client and system for aggregating a microblog single message. The method includes: triggering, by a user, to aggregate a microblog single message; and displaying a relaying process of the microblog single message for the user. The server includes: a receiving module, which is to receive a triggering message to aggregate a microblog single message from a client; an obtaining module, which is to obtain aggregation data of the microblog single message, according to the triggering message; a transmitting module, which is to transmit the aggregation data of the microblog single message obtained by the obtaining module to the client. Embodiments of the application also provide a corresponding client and system. By adopting the technical solution of the application, a user may clearly see a message relaying process. Thus, user satisfaction may be improved. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013708 | MAINTAINING MESSAGE PRIVACY ON AN EXPOSED DISPLAY DEVICE - A determination is made as to whether a computer is in a slide presentation mode. In response to determining that the computer is in the slide presentation mode, a configured designee alert mode is automatically selected. Message data is received through a communications medium. The message data is transferred to an alternate designated recipient according to the automatically selected designee alert mode when the computer is in the slide presentation mode. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013709 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING IDLE MODE SERVICE - A method for providing an idle mode service uses an idle mode service server system interlocking with a contents provider server and at least one mobile communication terminal. State information is received from the at least one mobile communication terminal, and a push message is transmitted to the at least one mobile communication terminal in consideration of the sate information upon receiving a push message transmission request from the contents provider server. Thereafter, contents are transmitted to the at least one mobile communication terminal according to the push message transmission. Also, specific contents can be provided with or without the request and consent of a user. Consequently, the system and method according to the present invention can control an idle-screen application through a combination between interworking systems. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013710 | METHOD FOR PROMPTING USER CONFIRMATION - Prompting user confirmation of an action in a display window on a display of a mobile electronic device including displaying a pair of soft key icons, receiving a request to initiate an action from a user and displaying a confirmation message to confirm that a user wishes to proceed with the action. When the confirmation message is displayed, the pair of soft key icons are modified to create a pair of updated soft key icons. The receiving of the request may include detection of a soft key event. The updated soft key icons provide a first response and a second response to the confirmation message for selection by the user. The soft key icons and updated soft key icons may be displayed at the bottom portion of the display in a manner that does not obstruct the display window. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013711 | SORTING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES USING ATTRIBUTES OF THE SENDER ADDRESS - Systems and methods for sorting electronic messages using attributes of senders or of sender addresses. An electronic messaging server sorts electronic messages using attributes associated with the senders or sender addresses of the electronic messages. The sender addresses and associated attributes are stored in an accept list. A sorting module uses the accept list to sort the electronic messages into various folders. The sorting module can also access other data sources, such as a contact list, to assist in sorting the electronic messages. The attributes can be determined independently of the user or can be set directly by the user. The attributes can also identify a status of a sender such as whether the sender is authorized, unauthorized, or unconfirmed. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013712 | Enhanced Message Display - Informational items are displayed in a scrollable area of a message display. The informational items may be any number of type of items (e.g., RSS feeds, new items, images, application tips, and so on). A user is provided the ability to scroll forward and backward through the informational items. A user may choose the informational item (e.g., by clicking) and more detailed information about the informational item is presented to the user. Depending on the display view of the message application (e.g., InBox, conversation), different informational item types will have different probabilities of display. A user may customize the types of informational items to be displayed. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013713 | AUTOMATED AGENT FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SYSTEMS - A method to automatically process social media data includes capturing captured data, describing actions and/or context relating a user across multiple social media systems. The captured data is stored within a database. One or more interfaces are provided in order to provide access to the stored captured data. A rules database is configured to store multiple social media rules (e.g., behaviors) that may be associated with a user. A behavior engine is configured to perform autonomous activities, on behalf of a user with respect to multiple social media platforms, based on the social medial rules and/or the captured data. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013714 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ENCODED MESSAGES - Systems and methods for processing encoded messages within a wireless communication system. A server within the wireless communication system provides one or more indications to a mobile device as to certain conditions existing with respect to an encoded message. The mobile device performs a different message processing function based upon whether the indication is provided. The indications may include indicating whether a message exceeds a message size threshold and/or may indicate whether a partial message is being sent. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013715 | Communication Terminal Apparatus - A communication terminal apparatus is provided that is capable of sending and receiving an e-mail, includes an e-mail address storage unit storing recipient information of an e-mail address, a mail analysis unit for analyzing whether the subject area of a received e-mail includes a first prescribed symbol, an e-mail address acquisition unit for acquiring a sender's e-mail address from the received e-mail, and an e-mail address registration unit for registering the sender's e-mail address of the received e-mail with the e-mail address storage unit where the subject area of the received e-mail includes the first prescribed symbol. The communication terminal apparatus advantageously relieves users from cumbersome task of entry of recipients' e-mail addresses and makes the entry of the e-mail addresses accurately stored. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013716 | Labeling Messages with Conversation Labels and Message Labels - A server having one or more processors and memory stores a conversation including a plurality of messages, where the conversation is associated with a first label and a respective message of the plurality of messages is associated with a second label. The server receives a predefined request from a remotely located client system and responds to the predefined request by producing and sending to the client system a list of conversations. When the predefined request corresponds to a request for conversations associated with the first label, the server sends, to the client system, a first list of conversations associated with the first label. When the predefined request corresponds to a request for conversations including messages associated with the second label, the server sends, to the client system, a second list of conversations that include at least one message to which the second label has been assigned. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013717 | Compacted Mode for Displaying Messages in a Conversation - A server having one or more processors and memory receives a plurality of messages organized as conversations associated with a user. The server receives, from a client, a request for a selected conversation that is associated with a first message, a second message that was sent after the first message and a plurality of interstitial messages that were sent at times between when the first message was sent and when the second message was sent. The server sends, to the client, display information for displaying content of the selected conversation that includes a representation of the second message in an expanded mode, a representation of the first message in a first compacted mode and a representation of the plurality of interstitial messages in a second compacted mode that is different from the first compacted mode. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013718 | Primary and Secondary Recipient Indicators for Conversations - A server having one or more processors and memory receives a plurality of messages organized as conversations associated with a user. The server receives, from a client, a request for a list of conversations associated with the user and sends, to the client, display information for displaying a list of conversations comprising a set of rows, each conversation in the list of conversations being represented as a single row. The list of conversations includes a first row representing a first conversation and a second row representing a second conversation. The first row includes a first recipient indicator that indicates that the user is a primary recipient of a message in the first conversation. The second row includes a second recipient indicator, different from the first recipient indicator, that indicates that the user is a secondary recipient of a message in the second conversation. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013719 | Chat System Without Topic-Specific Rooms - A method, system and graphical user interface for a chat system is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes sending target messages to users based on the respective selection and filtering criteria selected by the respective users instead of having users enter topic specific rooms. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013720 | Scaling Notifications of Events in a Social Networking System - A social networking system notification system is scaled so a user is notified of an event when a unit or level of notification utility has been reached. For the average user, a single event may be noteworthy enough for which to receive a notification. However, when this user is especially important or highly connected (or received a large number of interactions), that user will have decreasing utility for each additional comment he has received. To manage these types of situations, and avoid inundating users with notifications that are of less utility to the user, the notifications are filtered/aggregated so that these users are notified less often. The notification scheme is optimized for each user, so the user is notified only when he has reached a level of notification utility. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013721 | ELECTRONIC FILE TRANSFER FOR A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - Systems and methods are provided for identifying an electronic file that is accessible by a communications node to be transmitted to a recipient. A communications device sends an identification of the electronic file. The communications node receives the identification of the electronic file, identifies the electronic file based on the identification, and accesses the electronic file for transmission to the recipient. The electronic file is not transmitted from the communications device to the communications node. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013722 | Method for a mobile email client to access to a server, and mobile terminal thereof - The present disclosure provides a method for a mobile email client to access to a server, and a mobile terminal, which include: determining a type of an access point that connects the mobile email client and the server according to information of the access point; establishing a data link between the mobile email client and the server according to the determined type of the access point; performing data exchange between the mobile email client and the server. The solution of the present disclosure enables a mobile terminal to send and receive mobile emails as long as the access point is an access point that the mobile emails can use, no matter what kind of access point that the user selects, and no matter what kind of access point that the client account configuration information, which is transmitted by a mobile operator, adopts, thereby ensuring the normal use of the mobile email in a mobile terminal better. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130018963 | Journaling, Analysis, and Archiving of Electronic CommunicationsAANM Brauff; Craig A.AACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Brauff; Craig A. Bellevue WA USAANM Cochran; Calvin R.AACI TacomaAAST WAAACO USAAGP Cochran; Calvin R. Tacoma WA USAANM Perkins; Justin D.AACI RentonAAST WAAACO USAAGP Perkins; Justin D. Renton WA US - Disclosed is a communication journaling and archival system which obtains content from social networks, handles re-authentication requirements which occur with respect to monitored users and social networks, includes content obtained from social networks in a journal and archiving system compatible with email journaling and archiving, and can be configured to send a journaled communication to multiple journal destinations and journal formats. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018964 | MESSAGE CATEGORIZATIONAANM Osipkov; IvanAACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Osipkov; Ivan Bellevue WA USAANM Jiang; WeiAACI RedmondAAST WAAACO USAAGP Jiang; Wei Redmond WA USAANM Davis; Malcolm HollisAACI KirklandAAST WAAACO USAAGP Davis; Malcolm Hollis Kirkland WA USAANM Hines; DouglasAACI KenmoreAAST WAAACO USAAGP Hines; Douglas Kenmore WA USAANM Korb; JoshuaAACI IssaquahAAST WAAACO USAAGP Korb; Joshua Issaquah WA US - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for defining a message behavior profile for a sender, which may be used to categorize messages from the sender. A message behavior profile may be defined based upon, for example, message distribution behavior of the sender (e.g., volume, frequency, variance in content amongst messages sent to recipients, etc.); recipient interactions with messages from the sender (e.g., message read rates, message response rates, etc.); unsubscription options comprised within messages from the sender; and/or other factors. In this way, the message behavior profile and/or features extracted from a message may be used to categorize a message from the sender (e.g., newsletter, commercial advertisements, alert, social network etc.). Categorized messages may be organized into folders, displayed or hidden within views, and/or processed based upon their respective categorizations. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018965 | REPUTATIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL SPAM MITIGATIONAANM Ramachandran; Aravind K.AACI RedmondAAST WAAACO USAAGP Ramachandran; Aravind K. Redmond WA USAANM Davis; Malcolm HollisAACI KirklandAAST WAAACO USAAGP Davis; Malcolm Hollis Kirkland WA USAANM Costea; MihaiAACI RedmondAAST WAAACO USAAGP Costea; Mihai Redmond WA US - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for identifying abusive message objects (e.g., URLs, email addresses, etc.), abusive infrastructure components and/or abusive users of a message communication medium(s). In particular, abusive message objects may be identified by aggregating abuse reports to assign abuse values to message objects used within messages by reported users identified within the abuse reports. Abusive users may be identified based upon (e.g., unreported) users that have sent messages comprising message objects identified as abusive. Users may also be identified as abusive users based upon account usage patterns within the message communication medium(s) (e.g., a broadcast usage pattern where a user sends a large number of messages, but receives few responses). Additionally, infrastructure components associated with abusive users may be identified as abusive infrastructure components. In this way, abusive content, such as spam, may be identified and/or mitigated within the message communication medium(s). | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018966 | MESSAGE ATTACHMENT TRACKINGAANM Kubovsky; Inbal ZilbermanAACI Givat SchmuelAACO ILAAGP Kubovsky; Inbal Zilberman Givat Schmuel ILAANM Soffer; GuyAACI Ra'ananaAACO ILAAGP Soffer; Guy Ra'anana IL - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for tracking files attached to electronic messages. One process includes operations for receiving a message, the message including information to be displayed by a message reading application, the message including a first indication that a file was attached to the earlier message, wherein the first indication is marked to not be displayed with the information by the message reading application; determining that the file is not attached to the message; sending a request for the file to a user identifier, the user identifier being included in the message and associated with the file or the earlier message or both; and receiving the file. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DERIVING USER EXPERTISE BASED ON DATA PROPAGATING IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENTAANM Gannu; Satish K.AACI San JoseAAST CAAACO USAAGP Gannu; Satish K. San Jose CA USAANM Malegaonkar; Ashutosh A.AACI MilpitasAAST CAAACO USAAGP Malegaonkar; Ashutosh A. Milpitas CA USAANM Raina; DeepaliAACI Santa ClaraAAST CAAACO USAAGP Raina; Deepali Santa Clara CA US - A method is provided in one example and includes evaluating network traffic; identifying data within the network traffic that is associated with a uniform resource locator (URL); identifying at least one condition associated with the URL; and classifying the URL as a transitional web page or as a valuable web page based on the condition. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018968 | AUTOMATIC PROFILING OF SOCIAL MEDIA USERSAANM Pennacchiotti; MarcoAACI Mountain ViewAAST CAAACO USAAGP Pennacchiotti; Marco Mountain View CA USAANM Popescu; Ana-MariaAACI Mountain ViewAAST CAAACO USAAGP Popescu; Ana-Maria Mountain View CA US - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for classifying users. In accordance with one embodiment, a plurality of messages posted by a user via a microblogging service may be obtained. A set of feature values associated with the user may be obtained, each of the set of feature values corresponding to a different one of a set of one or more features. One or more of the set of feature values may be obtained based, at least in part, on content of the plurality of messages posted by the user, messaging behavior of the user via the microblogging service, and/or social connections of the user established via the microblogging service. The user may be classified based upon the set of feature values associated with the user. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018969 | MISSED INSTANT MESSAGE NOTIFICATION - A method and system for capturing missed communications is provided. An enhanced real-time communication system receives a communication from an initiating participant for a receiving participant that is not available. The enhanced real-time communication system detects that the receiving participant missed the received communication from the initiating participant. Upon detecting that the receiving participant missed the communication, the enhanced real-time communication system stores the missed communication for later retrieval by the receiving participant. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018970 | System and Method for Providing an Application to a Device - The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for providing at least one electronic application to at least one device. In one embodiment, the method includes acquiring device information that relates to the device and determining whether the device supports the at least one application based on the device information. The method may further include generating an electronic message for the device wherein the message contains at least one link for acquiring the at least one application when the device supports the application. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018971 | Message Screening System - A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electronic message then is forwarded to the intended recipient if the electronic message is approved by the supervisory recipient. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND UPDATING REPUTATION RECORDS - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is provided for generating a reputation record and filtering electronic messages, each reputation record including a reputation score and a reputation key. The method includes receiving at least one incoming event notification, including a reputation key; determining, based on the reputation key, whether a corresponding reputation record exists; creating a new reputation record if the corresponding reputation record does not exist; determining a trust determination function based on the incoming event notification; calculating a reputation score based on the determined trust determination function, the incoming event notification, and an attribute associated with the reputation key; storing the calculated reputation score along with the reputation key in either the new reputation record or the corresponding reputation record; and filtering one or more electronic messages based on the calculated reputation score. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018973 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPLEMENT AN EXCHANGE MESSAGING POLICY - Systems for and methods of evaluating messaging, comprising, receiving, via at least one server device, one or more messages, and said at least one server device processing at least one of the one or more messages by grading content included in said at least one message, applying a weighting factor to said at least one message according to said grading, thereby determining a weighted message count for said at least one message, aggregating the weighted message count for said at least one message, and initiating an action if the aggregated weighted message count meets or exceeds a predetermined count threshold. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018974 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, EMAIL CREATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUMAANM Itani; HiroshiAACI Osaka-shiAACO JPAAGP Itani; Hiroshi Osaka-shi JPAANM Sumida; YoshiakiAACI Osaka-shiAACO JPAAGP Sumida; Yoshiaki Osaka-shi JP - This invention is directed to provision of a communication terminal apparatus that allows a reply email to be created by a simple operation without interrupting a current email creating process in a case where the remaining battery charge has been reduced during the email creating process. The communication terminal apparatus comprising: a communicating portion for sending/receiving a mail; a displaying portion; a storage portion that a preliminarily created power reducing message registered; a character string editing portion for displaying characters input by an input portion and conversion candidates of the characters on the displaying portion; a predictive conversion controlling portion for acquiring conversion candidates corresponding to characters input to the character string editing portion; and a remaining battery charge determining portion for determining a state of a remaining battery charge, wherein the predictive conversion controlling portion acquires and adds the power reducing message from the storage portion to conversion candidates if the remaining battery charge determining portion determines that a remaining battery charge level is equal to or less than a first prescribed value. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130024520 | Systems And Methods For Managing Commercial Emails - Systems, methods and software products manage a commercial email message by (a) intercepting, within add-in software installed into an email client of a user, a request to send the commercial email message addressed to an addressee, (b) searching for an email address of the addressee within an unsubscribe list, and (c) if the email address is found in the unsubscribe list, removing the addressee from the commercial email message prior to sending the commercial email message. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024521 | MULTIPLE MESSAGING COMMUNICATION OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods for use with a communication system. A plurality of devices employing a plurality of messaging modalities may be used to send or receive message data. In any regard, message data may comprise a plurality of portions of message data in machine readable form. The plurality of portions of message data may be indexed. The indexing may include storing representations (e.g., vectors or other mathematical constructs) representing the content of the plurality of portions of message data in a message data index. The representations of the content of the plurality of portions of message data may be compared to one another to determine a relationship between the various representations. If the relationship between a first representation (e.g., a first vector) and a second representation (e.g., a second vector) exceeds a predetermined threshold, the portions of message data corresponding to the first and second vectors may be determined to be related. A notification and/or alert may be presented to a user regarding the related portions of message data. In one embodiment, the related portions of message data or messages from which the portions derive may be accessed by a user. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024522 | Email to Content Conversion and Publication System for Use in Knowledge Management Solutions - An Email to Content Conversion and Publication System for Use in Knowledge Management Solutions giving users of any email system the ability to utilize all features and functionality provided by knowledge management solutions by creating and sending an email using any email system. Users of knowledge management solutions typically create conversations or participations to existing conversations with whatever interface has been provided within the solution. Users of knowledge management solutions create conversations or participations only with the interface provided for creating this content within the knowledge management solution being used. The Email to Content Conversion and Publication System allows users wishing to create content for publication and use in knowledge management solutions to create any content using any email system. Any device capable of sending emails may create content and allow the content to have the appropriate permission settings and publish the content within Knowledge Management Solutions, producing the exact same results as if the user had created the content within knowledge management solutions. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024523 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW TERMINATION OF A TCP SESSION - A Gateway GPRS Support Node initiates the termination of a session at both session endpoints in response to releasing flow information for an idle flow when performing a transparent content enrichment procedure. The Gateway GPRS Support Node instructs each of the source and destination nodes to terminate the session in an effort to mitigate the occurrence of a TCP signaling storm in a communication network. The Gateway GPRS Support Node can observe a mismatch condition in TCP messages and invoke procedures to prevent a signaling storm. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024524 | TARGETED MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Various implementations of the present invention are provided as a network computer system configured to allow for creating, rating, tracking, monitoring, and disseminating user-created and user-customizable messages. The network computer system provides a user interface that allows a user to create templates for message creation, messages from the templates, ratings for messages (message “bias”), databases for storing templates and messages (message queue), and ratings, as well as storage for information related to the monitoring and tracking of messages as they are delivered to the intended recipients. The ability to create multiple messages, with disparate content, intended for disparate audiences, with batch sorting and sending, is also provided. Messages can be provided via commercial messaging services such as email, snail mail, telephone, SMS, facsimile, social media networking sites (e.g. Facebook® messages, Twitter® “tweets”, etc.). In some implementations of the invention, a computer-implemented method of messaging for an educational environment is provided. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024525 | Augmented Aggregation of Emailed Product Order and Shipping Information - Product order and shipping information received via email messages is automatically aggregated for ready user review. Once the user is authenticated, authorization to access their email mailbox is obtained and the email message headers of their entails are analyzed to identify those messages of interest. The bodies of the email messages of interest are parsed to extract the product order and shipping information which is stored and presented for display to the user typically grouped by individual product thus greatly simplifying user review of orders. The aggregated product order and shipping information can be augmented with additional information such as shipping status, delivery status, a product image, and/or a last date that the product can be returned. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024526 | METHOD OF MANAGING FEEDS BASED ON CLASSIFICATIONS - Primary and secondary messages are included in a feed according to a “full thread” mode or a “stream” mode. The “full thread” mode causes a feed, when viewed, to include both primary and secondary messages. In contrast, the “stream” mode causes a feed, when viewed, to include only primary messages. In this way, a feed viewed in “full thread” mode provides to users a comprehensive view of messages included in the feed. Alternatively, a feed viewed in “stream” mode provides to users a concise view messages included in the feed. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024527 | HIERARCHICAL PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM - A method for publishing a publication message includes receiving, at one of a plurality of first relays, a subscription request from a first client and transmitting the subscription request from the one of the plurality of first relays to first and second central relays of a plurality of central relays. The method also includes receiving, at another of the plurality of first relays, a publication request from a second client. The publication request includes the publication message. The method further includes transmitting the publication message from the another of the plurality of first relays to all of the plurality of central relays, transmitting the publication message from at least one of the first and second central relays to the one of the plurality of first relays, and transmitting the publication message from the one of the plurality of first relays to the first client. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024528 | HIERARCHICAL PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM - A method for publishing a message includes receiving, at a first relay, a subscription request from a first client, wherein the subscription request includes a target. The method also includes: recording, at the first relay, subscription information of the first client based on the subscription request; receiving, at the first relay, a publication request from a second client, wherein the publication request includes a message string characterized by a pattern; determining, by the first relay, that the target matches at least a portion of the pattern; determining, by the first relay, if the publication request is a local publication request based on a predetermined policy rule; and transmitting the message string to the first client if the publication request is determined to be a local publication request. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024529 | HIERARCHICAL PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM - A method for transmitting messages in a publish/subscribe message system. The method also includes: receiving, at a first relay, a subscription request from a first client; recording, at the first relay, subscription information of the first client based on the subscription request; receiving, at the first relay, a publication request from a second client, wherein the publication request includes a message; and transmitting the message to the first client. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024530 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMUNITY SERVICE IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for providing a community service in a portable terminal is provided. The apparatus includes a community management part for requesting community generation by transmitting information regarding a member constituting community in a community generation request; a control part for assigning and registering a main number identifying the community through the community generation request; and a communication part for transmitting information for the community generation, wherein the control part posts a message to the community using the main number, and the community management part obtains the information regarding the member using at least one of an address book stored on a web server which manages the address book and an address book stored on the portable terminal. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024531 | Systems and methods for controlling information sharing among and between individuals and groups of individuals - A conference organizer uses conference software to define a conference and to store conference information, including a list of individuals attending the conference. The software assigns each individual a personal proxy with storage space for information to be shared. Responsive to input from the individuals, the software organizes the individuals into groups, such as interest-based groups and lists of “buddies.” Messages and can then be directed between individuals or broadcast to groups buddy groups via their respective proxies. The use of proxies allows attendees to send messages to one another and to receive messages from one another without divulging their primary email addresses. The proxy storage also allows individuals to store and selectively share textual information, video information, digital pictures, and audio information. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024532 | Program Guide Based on Sharing Personal Comments about Multimedia Content - Members of a social network service may share real-time comments about multimedia content they are viewing. The comments are attached to bookmarks that allow other members to view the video and add to the discussion thread. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024533 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR TRANSFERRING MESSAGE - A method and server for transferring a message, belonging to the IM field. The method includes: receiving a message body from a first user through a first client terminal, finding an address of a second client terminal, and sending the message body to the second client terminal. The server includes a receiving module and a sending module. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024534 | SHARING EMAIL - A trust relationship may be established between a first email user and at least a second email user. At least one email message received by the second user is automatically propagated to the first user based upon, at least in part, the trust relationship. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024535 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE INCLUDING UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR - A method and system for providing a message including a URL. The method includes: detecting whether a first URL is included in message content within a message input by a user; if the first URL is included in the message content, calculating the length of the message by taking a first length value as the length of the first URL; if the calculated message length is less than the predetermined message length, allowing the user to keep on adding message content to the message; replacing the first URL included in the message by a second URL, and saving corresponding relationship between the first URL and the second URL. The length of the second URL is less than or equal to the first length value; providing the message including the second URL. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024536 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DERIVING PRESENCE INFORMATION USING MESSAGE TRAFFIC ANALYSIS - A method and apparatus for deriving presence information of a mobile device at a presence node in a wireless system, the method having the steps of: analyzing a message received from the mobile device to determine a message type; and allocating a state for the mobile device depending on the message type found in the analyzing step. The apparatus is a presence node for deriving and maintaining presence information of a mobile device in a wireless system, the mobile device communicating with a network node, the presence node having: a communication system for communicating with the network node; a processor; and an application running on the processor, the application having means for analyzing a message received from the mobile device at the network node to determine a message type; and allocating a state for the mobile device depending on the message type found in the analyzing step. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024537 | NETWORK SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A communication terminal includes a touch panel, a communication device for communicating with an other communication terminal, and a processor for reproducing contents using a touch panel, temporarily stopping reproduction of the contents and transmitting a stop instruction to the other communication terminal according to a first input, resuming the reproduction of the contents and transmitting the resumption instruction to the other communication terminal according to a second input, temporarily stopping the reproduction of the contents according to a stop instruction from the other communication terminal, and resuming the reproduction of the contents according to a resumption instruction from the other communication terminal. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130031183 | ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCESSING AND PUBLICATION FOR SHARED ENVIRONMENTS - Techniques for electronic mail processing and publication for shared environments are described, including evaluating a data packet indicating receipt of an electronic message at a shared destination, retrieving the electronic message from the shared destination, processing the electronic message to generate a processed message configured to be posted to a shared environment, and posting the processed message to the shared environment. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031184 | OUT-OF-OFFICE AGGREGATOR - A computing device receives and stores configuration data for out-of-office calendar events and information for an employee out-of-office event. The computing device generates, in response to the receiving the information for the employee out-of-office event, a notification message for a manager, wherein the notification message is based on the configuration data and the information for an employee out-of-office event. The computing device receives a request to present an out-of-office calendar for a portion of an organization associated with the employee and sends, to a user device, a calendar with the stored information for the employee out-of-office event that is responsive to the request to present the out-of-office calendar. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031185 | Exporting an Email Thread to a Persistent Chat Room - A method, an apparatus and computer readable storage media facilitate establishing an email thread utilizing an email application used by a client device that communicates with other client devices across a network, where the email thread includes at least one email circulated to a group of users over the network relating to a discussion topic. The email application is linked with a synchronous communication application so as to establish a real-time discussion between at least some of the users of the group in relation to the topic utilizing the synchronous communication application and so that each email of the email thread is accessible via a graphical user interface associated with the synchronous communication application. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031186 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE MESSAGE DELIVERY TO A TRANSIENT RECIPIENT IN A DYNAMICALLY ROUTED NETWORK - Systems and methods are provided that route messages for a message consumer to a predicted future connection point of the consumer to a messaging network, while the consumer is not connected to the messaging network. In various embodiments, the network predicts or projects the future connection point based on the consumer's last connection, an itinerary or schedule for the consumer, the consumer's past connection behavior, and/or connection patterns of the consumer and/or a group of message consumers that are similar to the consumer. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031187 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING CUSTOMIZED CONTENT FROM A LIVE EVENT - A server system receives event content for a live event. The server system determines user preferences for the live event filters the received content according to the user preferences. The system prepares customized content for the user based on the filtered content. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031188 | Integrated Physical and Electronic Mail Delivery - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media. A method includes receiving virtual mail piece data and receiving a mail piece, the mail piece having machine-readable indicia on an exterior surface. The method includes decoding the indicia to produce a mail piece identifier and identifying a recipient of the mail piece using the mail piece identifier. The method includes retrieving subscription preferences from a recipient database according to the identified recipient. The method includes electronically sending a virtual mail piece to the recipient, the virtual mail piece corresponding to the mail piece, the virtual mail piece data, and the subscription preferences. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031189 | NOTIFICATION ENGINE - A method and apparatus are provided. The method is carried out by a notification engine, for delivering to a user equipment a group of incoming notifications from at least one application running on the user equipment. The application running on the user equipment is registered on the notification engine. The method includes: defining at least one criterion for delivering notifications, buffering the incoming notifications, and delivering according to the criterion a group of previously buffered notifications. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031190 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS - A computer-based method is provided for selectively providing notifications based on social relevance to a user. The notification is first parsed to determine a sender, a proposed recipient, and at least one topic addressed in the notification. The parsed notification is then evaluated against a social graph of the proposed recipient. A relevance score is assessed based on linkages traversed in the social graph to a predetermined degree of separation from the proposed recipient. The score is increased for linkages that match or relate to the at least one topic. The notification is released to the proposed recipient if the relevance score exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031191 | MOBILE DEVICE USAGE CONTROL IN A MOBILE NETWORK BY A DISTRIBUTED PROXY SYSTEM - Systems and methods of mobile device usage control in a mobile network by a distributed proxy system are disclosed. One embodiment includes, a proxy server remote from a mobile device that monitors, traffic activities, including inbound or outbound traffic, on the mobile device, receives, controlling information regarding usage of the mobile device and enforces the usage of the mobile device according to the controlling information. The controlling information can include usage limits or limitations to access to mobile applications potentially delivering inappropriate content and can be configured by a parent or supervising user of a user of the mobile device. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031192 | Methods and Apparatus for Interactive Multimedia Communication - Embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for establishing a synchronized interactive multimedia communication among a plurality of users. The method includes generating, at a first device, first information associated with a multimedia content selected by a first user. The first information is generated based on parameters. The method includes transmitting the first information to a second user. The first and second user is associated with a social computer network. Further, the method includes, at second devices, receiving the first information from the social network. The method includes processing the first information to establish a synchronized multimedia interactive communication between the second and the first user. The presentation of the multimedia content in the synchronized interactive multimedia communication is synchronized among the first device and the second device(s). The synchronized interactive multimedia communication is performed along with the presentation of the multimedia content. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031193 | Method and System for Controlled Distribution of Information Over a Network - An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information management and distribution system can also include a corporate administrator application. Still another aspect of the invention is that contact information can be distributed to registered users in a common format. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031194 | Automatically Managing Objectionable Behavior In A Web-Based Social Network - A system and method for curtailing objectionable behavior in a web-based social network is disclosed. The method includes monitoring various actions of users of a web-based social network for objectionable behavior. The monitored actions are those that affect other users of the social network. A policy is determined based on behaviors of users. The policy may be violated by a user if the user exceeds a policy threshold. Some monitored actions include the poking, friend requesting, and wall posting. A policy may be violated by multiple occurrences of a single type of action or by a combination of different types of actions. Upon a policy violation, a warning may be issued to the user or the user's account may be suspended. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031195 | Preventing Execution of Programs that are Embedded in Email Messages - Systems and methods are presented which generate modified email messages, which are largely devoid of embedded functions, from original email messages, which have embedded functions. The embedded functions are amenable to self-executing codes such as viruses, worms, and Trojan programs Thus, the modified email message without these embedded functions, and any argument associated with these functions, provides a more secure email environment. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031196 | Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Facilitating Determination of a Message Recipient - Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating determination of a message recipient. A method may include determining a message to be sent in one of multiple active messaging conversations. The method may further include determining a conversation to which the message is relevant from among the active messaging conversations based at least in part on data from historical conversations. The method may additionally include designating the message to be sent to at least one recipient. The at least one recipient may be a party participating in the determined conversation. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130036173 | PERSONALIZING COMMUNICATIONS USING ESTIMATES OF THE RECIPIENT'S SENSITIVITY LEVEL DERIVED FROM RESPONSES TO COMMUNICATIONS - A “message broker” personalizes messages based on the recipient's estimated “privacy sensitivity.” By carefully estimating the sensitivity, the message broker can achieve the advantages of personalized messaging without incurring the disadvantages of offending or scaring away the recipient. In a first set of embodiments, messages are sent to a recipient, and information about the recipient's responses is collected and analyzed. The sensitivity level of the recipient is estimated based on this collected information. In a second set of embodiments, messages are sent that include an offer in which an incentive will be given to the recipient in exchange for allowing a certain type of access to specific information associated with the recipient. In a third set of embodiments, the message broker sends messages that request information associated with the recipient, but the messages do not include explicit offers to give incentives in exchange for the information. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036174 | PERSONALIZING COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON AN ESTIMATED SENSITIVITY LEVEL OF THE RECIPIENT - A “message broker” personalizes messages based on the recipient's estimated “privacy sensitivity.” By carefully estimating the sensitivity, the message broker can achieve the advantages of personalized messaging without incurring the disadvantages of offending or scaring away the recipient. In a first set of embodiments, messages are sent to a recipient, and information about the recipient's responses is collected and analyzed. The sensitivity level of the recipient is estimated based on this collected information. In a second set of embodiments, messages are sent that include an offer in which an incentive will be given to the recipient in exchange for allowing a certain type of access to specific information associated with the recipient. In a third set of embodiments, the message broker sends messages that request information associated with the recipient, but the messages do not include explicit offers to give incentives in exchange for the information. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036175 | DISASTER RESPONSE SYSTEM - A disaster response system receives location data and status data from participating devices in an area affected by a disaster. The disaster response system provides data to client devices outside the affected area. The data indicate statuses of people within the affected area. Disaster response system also instructs routers to perform actions to adjust bandwidth available for a particular use during and after the disaster. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUSINESS PROCESS GATEWAY TOKEN FLOW - Systems and methods are provided, for use in a messaging subsystem, which manages gateway flow. A system for use in a messaging subsystem, which manages gateway flow, can comprise a computer, including a computer readable medium and processor. The system can also comprise a business process, stored on the computer, wherein the business process includes a plurality of gateways; and a plurality of counters, each associated with a different gateway, wherein each counter indicates how many tokens are required for the associated counter to activate. The system can statically analyze the business process to identify each of the plurality of gateways, determine, at runtime, for each gateway whether to decrement the counter associated with a subsequent gateway, and decrement the counter associated with the subsequent gateway to manages gateway flow. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036177 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR MANAGING SOCIAL INTERACTION HISTORIES - According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for managing social interaction information. The method includes receiving first social interaction information associated with a user of a first over the top (OTT) service platform. The method also includes receiving second social interaction information associated with the user, the second social interaction information from a communications service platform distinct from the first OTT service platform. The method further includes generating, using the first social interaction information and the second social interaction information, consolidated social interaction information and providing the consolidated social interaction information to the user. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036178 | DISSEMINATING INFORMATION - A method of, and server for, disseminating information, the method comprising uploading information to a server, selecting a first set of recipients and a second set of recipients, applying at the server a first template to the information to create a first electronic message, applying at the server a second template to the information to create a second electronic message, and the server sending the first electronic message to the first set of recipients and the second electronic message to the second set of recipients. Thus, electronic messages containing the information in different formats can be sent to the different set of recipients with the user only having two upload the information once. The first set can comprise media contacts (such as journalists and public relations professionals), whereas the second set can comprise potential recipients, such as customers of the user, uploaded to the server by the user. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036179 | MESSAGING SERVICE USING DIFFERENT TEXT MESSAGING CHANNELS - A system and method for providing a messaging service in a community is disclosed. The system includes a communication interface and a message routing module. The communication interface receives a message from a first member of the community using a first text messaging channel. The message includes a community number identifying the community. The message routing module is communicatively coupled to the communication interface. The message routing module determines one or more second members of the community based at least in part on the community number. The message routing module determines one or more second text messaging channels for the one or more second members. The communication interface sends the message to the one or more second members of the community using the one or more second text messaging channels. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036180 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING MULTILINGUAL CONVERSATIONS IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE PARTICIPANT - A computer-implemented method of providing real time translation of a conversation and presenting additional content, typically advertising related to the conversation or other conversations related to the topic of the present conversation. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036181 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SERVICE BASED ON COMPONENT USING PERSONAL NETWORK - Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing a service based on Personal Network Entity (PNE) components and resources within an apparatus without implementing a function of generating and managing a service group only in a case in which a plurality of PNEs provide a similar function by providing a function of generating and managing the service group based on components included in a network apparatus or resources with the apparatus in an environment providing a Converged Personal Network Service (CPNS) service. Accordingly, it is possible to avoid inefficient overlapping developments and operations and prevent resources from being wasted. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036182 | METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATING EMAIL RECIPIENT FIELDS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device and a method implemented within the electronic device for disambiguating email recipient fields by extracting sufficient information from the domain portion of an intended recipient's email address to disambiguate between a personal and a business email address. An exemplary method includes parsing at least one of said multiple addresses in a recipient field of the email to extract information capable of distinguishing the at least one of said multiple addresses from at least another of the multiple addresses, and displaying the information in the recipient field of the email. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036183 | METHOD AND PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR ROUTING A MESSAGE REQUEST - A method and a processing system for routing a message request are provided in the present invention. Using the present invention, a message, which is returned by a party receiving the message request, is routed, according to a predefined designation, to a designated client, which is one of multiple simultaneous online clients sharing the identical user identifier, via a server, and therefore the requirements of the users are satisfied and the experiences of the users are improved. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036184 | System and Method for Providing Time Zone as Instant Messaging Presence - A system and method are provided to obtain and use time zone information as presence in instant messaging. The time zone information is obtained by a user's mobile device and is sent to other mobile devices corresponding to the user's contacts. The time zone information of a contact may be displayed on the user's IM application, including the contact list and instant messaging conversation window. The location of the mobile device may also be provided. The user uses the time zone and location information to discern the status of a contact. Rule-based decisions that rely on the time zone information are also used to affect the operation of the instant messaging application. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130041955 | Subscriber reputation filtering method for analyzing subscriber activity and detecting account misuse - Systems and methods are provided for allowing subscriber message sending profiles to be maintained and used in conjunction with behavior-based anomaly detection techniques and traditional content-based spam signature filtering to enable application of appropriate message disposition policies to outbound subscriber message traffic. According to one embodiment, subscriber profiles are constructed for multiple subscriber accounts associated with a service provider based on outbound message flow originated from the subscriber accounts. Then, possible subscriber account misuse may be discovered by performing behavior-based anomaly detection, including a comparison of a subscriber profile associated with the subscriber account with recent subscriber account usage information, to identify one or more behavioral anomalies in outbound message flow originated from a subscriber account, the behavior-based anomaly detection. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041956 | Rescinding Messages in a Messaging System With Multiple Messaging Channels - A messaging system facilitates communication between users through various messaging channels. The messaging system supports multiple communication channels and includes a messaging module that automatically selects one or more of the messaging channels for delivering a message to a recipient of the message using, for example, a set of policy rules or a trained model. The messaging module may also provide, in a user interface for sending and receiving messages, a visual indication of the selected messaging channel to the sender of the message to provide the user with transparency about how the message will be delivered. Additionally, the message may be delivered via multiple messaging channels, where the messaging module may rescind messages from some of the messaging channels upon receiving a reply from the recipient of the message or other confirmation that the recipient has seen the message via one of the communication channels. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041957 | Providing Transparency in a Messaging System With Multiple Messaging Channels - A messaging system facilitates communication between users through various messaging channels. The messaging system supports multiple communication channels and includes a messaging module that automatically selects one or more of the messaging channels for delivering a message to a recipient of the message using, for example, a set of policy rules or a trained model. The messaging module may also provide, in a user interface for sending and receiving messages, a visual indication of the selected messaging channel to the sender of the message to provide the user with transparency about how the message will be delivered. Additionally, the message may be delivered via multiple messaging channels, where the messaging module may rescind messages from some of the messaging channels upon receiving a reply from the recipient of the message or other confirmation that the recipient has seen the message via one of the communication channels. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041958 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OPERATION USING ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for project management database update for a project management application. An interface may be provided for variable definition by user-input in a rule to trigger an action within the project management database, where the variable is identified by a label and the label is provided to signal a location of data for the variable in an electronic message, such as an e-mail or text message. An electronic message received for a mailbox may be parsed to locate the label in the received electronic message and thereby obtain data in the electronic message that corresponds to the variable. An action may be triggered according to the data corresponding to the variable, where the action causes an update to the project management database of the project management application. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041959 | SYNCHRONIZING MESSAGES ON CONNECTED DEVICES - A method, system and computer program directed to synchronizing messages of an associated user that uses a plurality of electronic devices to receive messages, wherein each of the electronic devices utilizes a common messaging application. If two phone with two different phone numbers, both use the same app for sending and receiving messages and communication with a unique device identifier (e.g., telephone number, MSIDSN, etc.) as the address identity, all information such as messages and more can be synchronized in a secure way between the phones and applications if both applications are registered with the same secure identity on a messaging application server. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041960 | SYSTEM CONTROLLING USE OF A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - A system controlling use of a communication channel in a communication network. The system comprising a network including service nodes. The service nodes comprising one or more sets having one or more nodes adapted to provide service functions in response to messages in the network. At least one of the sets comprising a member node having an interface for communication with a remote terminal, and a user interface process coupled with the interface to include a user of the remote terminal in the network. At least one of the sets comprising a member node having an interface to the communication network, and a process coupled to the interface to control establishment of the communication channel for the user, | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041961 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION USING UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS ASSOCIATED WITH ELECTRONIC ADDRESSES - A method and system for electronically communicating with a user knowing only a unique identifier associated with that user is described. An electronic message having an address based upon the unique identifier and consistent with an assigned convention is sent from a portable device and received by a server system. The message sent may include attachments such as, for example, pictures, audio and/or video files. The server system includes or is capable of accessing an electronic repository in which a plurality of unique identifiers are respectively associated with a corresponding plurality of profiles. Upon receipt at the server system, the message and any attachments are stored in association with a profile corresponding to the unique identifier. The server system then facilitates access to the message information and any attachments in accordance with the profile. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041962 | Information Filtering - The present disclosure introduces a method, an apparatus, and a system of filtering information. In one example embodiment, a message is received and a text is retrieved from the message. It is then determined whether a filtering container includes a sample that is similar to the retrieved text. If a determination result is positive, a new sample is created for the retrieved text and the sample is added to an attribution sample database of the filtering container and the message is not transmitted. If a determination result is negative, a new sample is created for the retrieved text and the sample is added to a new sample database of the filtering container and the message is sent. The present techniques may reduce the probability of missing filtering information, improve the successful rate of filtering information, and improve the data processing efficiency. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041963 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING CALLEE INFORMATION AND LOCATION BEFORE CALL ESTABLISHMENT - The present disclosure relates to providing user information. In a method for requesting user information of an information requesting device in a mobile communication system, the method includes selecting a callee from a user, acquiring a user identifier (ID) of the selected callee, transmitting a user information request for the selected callee and the user ID to a relay server, evaluating whether an admission message is received from the relay server, and if the admission message is received, receiving user information from the relay server. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041964 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGING SYSTEM TO CONVERT EMAIL TO SMS, EMS AND MMS - Upon receiving an email for a mobile station containing a subject and a body, the subject and body are combined into a first message. If the email contains an attachment, the first message can be converted into a MMS message. If there is no attachment, the number of characters in the first message can be counted. If the number of characters is less than or equal to a first number of characters, the first message can be converted to a SMS message. If the number is greater than the first number of characters and less than or equal to a second number of characters, the first message can be converted to an EMS message. In addition, if the number of characters is greater than the second number of characters, the first message can be converted to the MMS message. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041965 | System and Method for Processing Instant Messages - Various aspects relate to using structured messages within systems that implement instant messaging function in a distributed computing environment. In particular, structured information may be encoded and embedded in unstructured instant messages and communicated among one or more computer systems, networks, applications or other entities. In one aspect, instant messaging may be leveraged as middleware for application integration. Other aspects relate to using structured message information to perform functions in a distributed instant messaging system. For example, structured message information may be used to control the display of instant message information to a user, or may be used to control how the instant message information is distributed, processed, or otherwise handled by a receiving system, application or process. Other aspects relate to an interface for displaying information relating to a number of instant messaging conversations to a user. Further, aspects relate to using instant messaging in a trading environment. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041966 | METHOD OF DETECTING COMPROMISED COMPUTERS IN A NETWORK - A method of detecting a compromised machine on a network. The method receives an email message from a machine on the network and classifies it as either spam or non-spam. A probability ratio is then updated, according to whether the message was spam or non-spam, by applying a sequential probability ratio test. If the probability ratio is greater than or equal to a first threshold, then the machine is compromised. If the probability ratio is less than or equal to a second threshold, then the machine is normal. The operations of receiving a message, classifying the message, updating the probability ratio, and indicating the machine is normal or compromised until the probability ratio is greater than or equal to the first threshold are repeated for a plurality of messages. Such repeated operations are performed on each of the messages one at a time, as each of the messages is received. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041967 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND SERVER FOR FEEDING BACK STATE OF RECEIVING END - The present invention provides a method, a system and a server for feeding back the state of a receiving end. The method includes: the server activating the function of feeding back the state of the receiving end for a first terminal ( | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041968 | PRIORITY INBOX NOTIFICATIONS AND SYNCHRONIZATION FOR MESSAGING APPLICATION - Systems and methods for priority inbox notifications and synchronization are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method includes, at a computer system, obtaining message information from a server system. The message information represents a set of messages and an importance score associated with each message in the set of messages. The importance score is generated based at least in part on a global importance prediction model and a user importance prediction model. A new mail notification is presented when a determination is made that the set of messages include one or more unread priority messages. The priority messages comprise messages with which the associated importance score satisfy one or more predefined message importance criteria: Optionally, presentation of a new mail notification is foregone when there is a determination that the set of messages do not include any unread priority messages. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130046830 | Retrieval of Stored Transmissions - An instant messaging client application is executed on a first terminal, to participate in threads of instant messaging between user terminals over a packet-based network, each thread comprising exchanging text-based messages between the user terminals of a selected group of contacts comprising the first user and at least one second user. A digital record of the messages is maintained in a data storage medium. A further text-based message is received from one of the second terminals over the packet-based network, comprising a citation of a cited one of the text-based messages previously transmitted over the packet-based communication network and stored in the storage medium. The further message is processed at the first terminal so as, by reference to the storage medium, to recover a context of the cited message in relation to others of the text-based messages in the respective thread. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046831 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT-BASED VIEW CONTENT MANAGEMENT - An approach for providing context-based view content management is described. A request for content associated with a user is received. A view of a subset of the content is dynamically generated based on the request and context information associated with the user. Access to the view is provided for one or more user devices. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046832 | MESSAGING POLICY CONTROLLED EMAIL DE-DUPLICATION - Example methods and apparatus associated with a messaging policy controlled email deduplication are provided. In one example a messaging policy is accessed. It is determined whether a received message complies with the policy based on rules of the messaging policy. If a message complies with the messaging policy, the message is displayed. If the message does not comply with the messaging policy, it is determined whether the message is duplicative. If the message is deemed duplicative it is not displayed. Conversely, if the message is not deemed duplicative it is displayed. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046833 | Method and System for Sending a Digital Invitation Requesting a Data Upload - There is provided a method and system for sending, to a contact, a digital invitation requesting a data upload. There is provided a system comprising a server having a processor configured to receive the contact selected by a requester having a registered user account of a content sharing service, to transmit, to the contact, the digital invitation comprising a unique location identifier of the content sharing service, to receive a request to access the unique location identifier, to provide a file upload dialog associated with the registered user account and to receive a data upload in response to an uploading from the file upload dialog. Accordingly, an unregistered user of a content sharing service may upload a file to a registered user without registering a new account or obtaining the registered user login credentials. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046834 | UNIVERSAL DELIVERY NOTIFICATION FOR DIGITAL MESSAGES - A sending device transmits a message to a receiving device. After receiving the message, the receiving device transmits a delivery confirmation to a third party notification service. The delivery confirmation includes an ID corresponding to the receiving device, an ID corresponding to the sending device, the time of transmission, the time of reception, the format of the message and/or a message ID. This delivery confirmation is subsequently stored by the notification service. The sending device then sends a delivery inquiry to the notification service. The delivery inquiry includes information that allows the notification service to identify a stored delivery confirmation. If a message corresponding to the delivery inquiry is identified, the notification service responds to the sending device affirming that the message was successfully delivered. The notification service may also respond with multiple delivery confirmations that meet the criteria of the delivery inquiry. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046835 | GENERATING AND/OR PROVIDING ACCESS TO A MESSAGE BASED ON PORTIONS OF THE MESSAGE INDICATED BY A SENDING USER - Message processing is disclosed that includes detecting an action by a sending user selecting at least one portion of a message. An indication of the selected portion of the message is stored in the message, and the message transmitted to at least one message recipient. Contextually related content from the message for the selected portion may also be indicated in the message. The selected portion or portions of the message may be displayed to a recipient user, and selection by the recipient user of a portion of the message selected by said sending user may be detected. Contextually related content may be retrieved from the message in response detecting the recipient user's selection of the portion of the message selected by said sending user, and the contextually related content displayed to the recipient together with the portion of the message selected by said sending user. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046836 | SYNCHRONIZING CONVERSATION STRUCTURES IN WEB-BASED EMAIL SYSTEMS - Web-based email systems are enabled to synchronize conversations and conversation properties. Conversations are enumerated to new clients providing folder-specific and global conversation information. After receiving the initial conversation information, clients maintain a conversation state, which is used in updating clients from a web service store through a conversation synchronization command employing an internal application programming interface within the email service. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046837 | Method and Arrangement for Registering a User - A method, computer arrangement and computer program product for creating a user account for a content management service is executable in a server computer and accessible through a network, e.g. a wireless network. The method involves receiving a mail message containing valid input data of a new content submission transaction of the content management service, storing the input data in the service to initiate a new user account creation process, and sending a reply mail message to the sender of the mail message. The reply mail message may include a computer executable instruction for continuing the user account creation process and/or amending the input data of the content submission transaction, or receiving a second message and continuing the user account creation process and/or the amending of the input data of the content submission transaction using the data of the second message. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046838 | SUPPORT FOR NETWORK ROUTING SELECTION - Retrieval of address data for control of routing through a network, such as a telephone network or an e-mail network is supported by a database with pre-stored address resolution information. Input from users is used to expand the database. When a first user inputs information that links a destination in the network to an information item, the database is expanded by adding a record that links the information item to a source identifier of the first user and a destination identifier of the destination. Subsequently, the added record is compared with address describing data from a second user. A destination address may be derived from the address describing data for example when at least one attribute associated with the second user and the source identifier match and at least part of the address describing data matches the information item. In another embodiment an address of the source identifier may be used as a destination address for the second user, when address describing data from the second user matches with the information item from the record. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046839 | PROVIDING ONLINE PROMOTIONS THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORK PLATFORMS - Systems and methods for providing online promotions integrated with social network-based platforms are disclosed. Promotion details such as rules, offered prizes, incentives and descriptions, survey questions, display banners, terms and conditions, privacy policy, and social networks to integrate the promotion with, are provided by the sponsoring organization to a server. The server generates a custom promotion application or widget for integrating with the organization's social network webpage external to social networks. A participant enters the promotion through these webpages or other links and lists friends in the social network to receive an invitation to enter the promotion. Viral features such as friend invite features, newsfeeds, minifeeds, other features that display online activities of users and people in the users' social network, notifications, requests, and other social media-based platform features to deliver messages to members of the one or more social networks further spread the word about the organization's promotion. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING AN EMAIL MESSAGE - A method and system to dynamically instantiate and manipulate objects using string and math operations while rendering an email in a web-application server. The method takes directives from the administrator on the objects to instantiate and manipulations to perform using a template language. The administrator can configure manipulation such as finding lengths of strings, sub-strings, addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and modulus operations. The method provides a highly flexible method of determining and rendering the content of the message at run-time. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046841 | GROUP-BASED M2M COMMUNICATION METHOD - A specific M2M communication device according to the present invention is grouped with other M2M communication devices, and performs communication with a base station as a representative of the group. To this end, at least one of location information, battery information and signal quality information of a corresponding M2M communication device is provided to a base station during the initial network entry with the base station. On the basis of this, the base station then provides a message announcing that the specific M2M communication device has been selected as a representative of the group (also called a ‘group head’), together with a group ID and a group head ID. Accordingly, the M2M communication device thus selected as the representative of the group is able to perform the transmission of uplink and/or downlink signals with the base station, while representing the group. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046842 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMUNITY FINDING - Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130054702 | MONITORING OF REGULATED ASSOCIATES - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for monitoring regulated associates are presented. According to one or more aspects, a user command to send an electronic message using a mobile computing device may be detected. Subsequently, content of the electronic message may be analyzed to determine whether the message violates one or more policies. In response to determining that the message violates one or more policies, the message may be added to a listing of flagged messages. According to one or more additional aspects, at least one occurrence of an application installation event may be detected on a computing device. In response to detecting the at least one occurrence of the application installation event, an application corresponding to the at least one occurrence of the application installation event may be identified. Subsequently, it may be determined whether the identified application is approved for use on the computing device. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054703 | Virtual Service Delivery Platform - A system, computer-implemented method and a computer-readable medium for accessing content on a plurality of computing devices from a plurality of independent frameworks. The system includes a virtual backend service (VBS) platform. A plurality of independent frameworks hosted on the VBS platform, where each independent framework is configured to provide access to an independent set of applications that provide a service over a network. The system also includes a configuration module for configuring each computing device in the plurality of computing devices to access the set of applications particular to the independent framework, wherein the configuring dynamically switches access of each computing device between the independent frameworks, and access the service from each framework by the configured computing device. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054704 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES - According to embodiments described in the specification, an electronic communication device and method for processing messages are provided. The method comprises receiving message data at a processor of the computing device, the message data comprising one or more of an address, a subject and a body; receiving a state indicator at the processor, the state indicator being an indication of a state of the message data; storing the message data and the state indicator in a memory of the computing device, the state indicator being stored in association with the message data; determining, at the processor of the computing device, if the state indicator indicates that the message data is in a draft state; and when the determination is affirmative, preventing transmission of the message data. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054705 | Tracking Desktop Application Referrals to Content Distributed Over a Network - Tracking initiation of network content requests is achieved by receiving at a network device requests from clients for network content, and tracking initiation of network content requests based upon initiator information, wherein the initiator information comprises information relating to each type of application hosted by a client that initiates the client request for network content from the network device. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054706 | Modulation of Visual Notification Parameters Based on Message Activity and Notification Value - A communications device that modulates one or more operating parameters of a visual message indicator to reflect one or more aspects of messaging activity directed or relating to a user. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054707 | ONLINE MONITORING FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE - A system can monitor online services based on conditions that can be selected by an administrator. The system can identify and select messages from within the online services. The system can then transform the selected messages into a specific format and forward the transformed messages to an agent console application. The agent console application can be located, for example, at a call center. Within the agent console application, an agent can respond to the forwarded messages using a single unified interface that an agent uses to respond to a chat session request, or telephone call, for customer service. Thus, the specific communication details of the online services can be abstracted by the system, so that the agent can respond to the forwarded messages of different online services using the single unified interface. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054708 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUGGESTING A TOPIC IN AN ONLINE GROUP - Systems and methods for suggesting a thread in an online group is disclosed. The method includes the following steps. First, the system calculates an average in-reply time to each user in the online group on history data. Second, the system calculates an average out-reply time from each user in the online group on history data. Third, the system identifies, in a computer, a root message in the thread by a first author. Fourth, the system identifies a second message in the thread that follows the root message. Fifth, the system determines an estimated growth rate of the thread based on average in-reply time and average out-reply time of the first author and a time delay between the second message and the root message. Finally, the system suggests the thread to users in the online group according to the estimated growth rate of the thread. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054709 | System and Method for Displaying a Belonging-Related Stream - A system and machine-implemented method for displaying a belonging-related stream of posts relating to belongings, including receiving a user request from a first user of one or more users of a system, the system maintaining a social graph of belongings, wherein the social graph of belongings defines an association between each of the one or more users and one or more belongings, retrieving a plurality of posts provided by the one or more users, the plurality of posts concerning the one or more belongings, identifying one or more of the plurality of posts associated with the first user and displaying a selected number of the one or more posts to the first user. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054710 | CATEGORIZING EMAIL RECIPIENTS INTO LOGICAL GROUPS WHEN SENDING A MASS EMAIL - Receiving from an email sender a plurality of recipient identifiers corresponding to recipients to whom the email is to be sent. The recipient identifiers can be grouped into a plurality of groups. A respective version of the email can be generated for each of the groups of recipient identifiers, wherein each version of the email exclusively identifies as recipients recipient identifiers for a respective group of recipients. Each version of the email can be sent to the group of recipients for whom the version of the email is generated. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054711 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING THE COMMUNICATION OF AN INVESTIGATED USER WITH AT LEAST ONE OTHER USER - A method and apparatus for classifying a communication of an investigated user with at least one other user has the steps of providing electronic messages exchanged by the investigated user with the at least one other user; and classifying the communication of the investigated user with the at least one other user depending on at least one calculated communication metric of the electronic messages exchanged by the investigated user with the respective at least one other user. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054712 | TRI-STATE PRESENCE INDICATOR - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communication system by delivering an e-mail message from a sender to at least one recipient and indicating the online state of at least one of the sender and any other recipient of the e-mail message upon opening of the e-mail message by the recipient. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054713 | FILE UPLOAD SYSTEM USING COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREOF - A file upload system using a communication terminal includes a communication terminal, a mail server and a web server. The mail server receives an attached file together with an e-mail transmitted to at least one previously allocated reception-side mail account from the communication terminal and stores the received e-mail and attached file. The web server provides a webpage to which a file is to be uploaded to the communication terminal, and provides a web service through which the file is uploaded to the corresponding webpage. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054714 | Computer Implemented Methods and Apparatus for Sharing Data of an Information Feed of an Online Social Network - Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for sharing data of an online social network. In some implementations, a selection of data of an information feed is received. The information feed includes a plurality of feed items configured to be stored on one or more storage mediums and capable of being displayed in a presentation on a display device. The selected data includes at least a portion of one or more of the feed items. A first network communication including the selected data is generated. The generated first network communication is sent to a designated network address via a network. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054715 | EVENT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique for user notification involves modifying a title associated with a process to include information about an event that calls for user notification. A method according to the technique may include running a process, processing an event, generating a string of characters that includes information associated with the event, and displaying the string of characters as a title associated with the process. A system constructed according to the technique may include a client, a title array, an event processing engine, and a title provisioning engine. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054716 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABSTRACT COMMUNICATION - Systems and methods for providing communication between a user and at least one entity are disclosed. In one example, the method comprises receiving an entity selection input of the at least one entity, and a message from the user to the at least one entity, analyzing the selection input and the message to determine entity information and inquiry information associated with the message and the selection input, determining least one communication channel based on the entity information and the inquiry information, obtaining a response to the message via the at least one communication channel from the at least one entity, and transmitting the response to the user. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054717 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - If a stored electronic mail is selected, an information processing apparatus determines whether information about storage location exists in the attribute information of the electronic mail and, if the information about storage location exists in the attribute information of the electronic mail, the information processing apparatus acquires mail identification information for identifying an electronic mail from the attribute information and issues to the mail unit instructions for starting a specified electronic mail including the mail identification information and the information about storage location. The information processing apparatus searches for the electronic mail identified by the mail identification information from the storage location indicated by the information about storage location based on the information about storage location and the mail identification information included in the instructions and, if the electronic mail is found, the information processing apparatus starts the processing displaying the selected electronic mail. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054718 | CONTEXT-BASED MESSAGING SYSTEM - Socially provided context-based messaging can include receiving a message content in a messaging system from a user, wherein the content includes objects; matching one or more objects of the message content to socially provided context information, which the socially provided context information is information relevant to an object obtained from a social network to which the user belongs; and displaying the socially provided context information with the message content for a recipient user to receive. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054719 | MEDIA FILE PLAYING APPARATUS AND MEDIA FILE PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND METHODS THEREOF - A media file playing apparatus and a media file providing apparatus are provided. The media file playing apparatus includes: a communication unit which communicates with at least one media file providing apparatus which provides a media file; a media file player which plays the media file; and a controller which receives a request to play the media file from the media file providing apparatus, transmits control information about the playing of the media file to the media file providing apparatus, receives the media file and a control signal from the media file providing apparatus, and controls the media file player to play the media file in accordance with the received control signal. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054720 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING ACTIVITIES OF DEVICES - A method and system for sharing activities of devices enabling sharing of various Social Network Services (SNS) based user activities and enabling a shared activity to be directly performed by a user device by collecting, by a first device, information on activities performed by a user of the first device, providing, by the first device, the collected activity information for sharing, and performing, by a second device, an event depending on the shared activity information provided by the first device. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054721 | FUTURE MESSAGING SYSTEM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a future messaging system that can be configured to analyze data from one or more data sources in an automated manner in order to detect with a degree of accuracy the occurrence of a possible future event, which may or may not occur in the future. Upon detection of the future event, the future messaging system in some embodiments provides content to a set of one or more recipients. Alternatively, in some embodiments, the future messaging system only provides notification of the detection to the set of recipients. In some embodiments, a user provides the content for release upon the detection of the future event. Along with this content, the user in some embodiments provides a description of the event and a list of one or more recipients for receiving the content upon the detection of the event. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054722 | INTERACTION AMONG ITEMS CONNECTED TO A NETWORK - Particular embodiments provide interaction between items in a network. For example, lists of content may be shared between items connected through a network. A user may use a first item to select a second item in which content should be outputted. Instead of sending the content to the second item, the first item may generate and send a list of content to the second item. A messaging infrastructure is used to allow the items to communicate the list of content between each other. The second item can then process the list and then determine how to access the item. This allows two different items to share content without the transfer of content between them. In another example, an item may be used to interact with a user interface of a second item. For example, an input device on a first item is used to provide input to a second item. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054723 | REPRESENTATIVE DEVICE SELECTION METHOD IN COEXISTENCE SCHEME - According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a method in which a server enabling heterogeneous wireless devices to coexist in an equal frequency band selects a master management device among multiple management devices for coexistence. The method for selecting a master management device may include: receiving from a server a request message from a certain management device among the multiple management devices; selecting a master-candidate device among the multiple management devices in response to reception of the request message; transmitting, to the selected candidate device, a request message for requesting the selected candidate device to take charge of a master management device; receiving a response message from the selected candidate device; selecting the selected candidate device as a master management device when the response message includes an acceptance response; and transmitting an announcement message including the result of the selection to the multiple management devices. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130060861 | CHANGING EMAIL ADDRESSEE CATEGORIZATION - A request to change an addressee category of a received email is received by a computing device. An indication of a changed addressee category is also received by the computing device. The changed addressee category is propagated to one or more instances of the received email. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060862 | Enabling Wireless Device Communication - A wireless communication device is configured to communicate with at least one other electronic user communication device that is connected to communicate on an electronic communication network. The user's device automatically creates a communication list comprising the at least one other electronic user communication device on the network, and the user communication device sends the communication list to a remote server device. So configured, the user communication device can automatically create a communication list of devices with which the user can use instant messaging or chat-like communications, without having to separately discover, search, or otherwise locate such devices and add them as friends or buddies or approved communication devices to a communication list. Accordingly, the electronic user communication device will provide to a user a communication list without additional registration or other set-up procedures. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060863 | Method and System for Filtering Outgoing Email - A system, device and method to receive, from a user, an email to be sent to a recipient, determine whether the email contains one of a plurality of sensitive keywords, determine whether the email contains sensitive context content, approve the email to be sent to the recipient, if the email does not contain a sensitive keyword and if the email does not contain sensitive context content and reject the email, if the email contains a sensitive keyword or if the email contains sensitive context content. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060864 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTION OF A MESSAGE - A message distribution apparatus and method for distribution of a message submitted by a user by a terminal connected to a communication network to a previously unknown group of receiving users has an access to a database which stores a semantic network data model with terms linked to each other by semantic relations and/or a social network data model with users linked to each other by social relations; a mapping engine which maps at least one term being associated with the submitted message to terms being associated with users of the social network data model and/or with terms of the semantic data model for generating a group of potential receiving users for the submitted message; and a distribution engine which distributes the submitted message of the submitting user via the communication network to a group of receiving users filtered from the at least one generated group of potential receiving users. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060865 | SYNCHRONIZATION OPERATION BASED ON A FILTER TAG - A method performed by a processing system includes receiving a synchronization command that includes a filter tag as a parameter from a user device of a user and providing only a set of items for the user that include the filter tag to the user device. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060866 | Computational systems and methods for identifying a communications partner - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one email communication from at least one member of a network; disambiguating the at least one search term including associating the at least one search term with at least one of network-participation identifier data or device-identifier data; and presenting the sender profile in association with the at least one email communication. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060867 | Computational systems and methods for identifying a communications partner - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one email communication from at least one member of a network; disambiguating the at least one search term including associating the at least one search term with at least one of network-participation identifier data or device-identifier data; and presenting the sender profile in association with the at least one email communication. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060868 | Computational systems and methods for identifying a communications partner - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one social network message from at least one member of a network; disambiguating the at least one search term including associating the at least one search term with at least one of network-participation identifier data or device-identifier data; and presenting the sender profile in association with the at least one. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060869 | Computational systems and methods for identifying a communications partner - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting at least one social network message from at least one member of a network; disambiguating the at least one search term including associating the at least one search term with at least one of network-participation identifier data or device-identifier data; and presenting the sender profile in association with the at least one. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060870 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND DELIVERING PERSONALIZED MESSAGES - A method for creating and delivering a personalized message, comprises the steps of: receiving, via an Internet web site, data from a client, including a selection of a celebrity and contact information for an intended recipient of the message; storing the data in a database; retrieving a message script from a database based on the selected celebrity; prompting the client to enter certain personal information about the intended recipient of the message; receiving the personal information about the intended recipient of the message; creating the personalized message from the message script and the personal information; and delivering the personalized message to the intended recipient using the contact information. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060871 | Systems and Methods for Performing Live Chat Functionality Via a Mobile Device - Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for extending chat capabilities of traditional computer-to-computer chat systems to mobile devices. As will be generally understood, chat sessions typically allow users and chat agents to type and send/receive messages through a chat system. According to one aspect, such a mobile consumer messaging system (MCMS) utilizes existing mobile communication channels to interface with existing traditional chat systems. Specifically, in various embodiments of the MCMS, chat agents using existing, traditional chat systems are able to participate in chat sessions with end users through the users' mobile devices without specific modifications to the existing chat system. Further, according to one embodiment, chat agents utilize a single chat platform to participate in chat sessions with end users through the end users' mobile devices as well as with various other users utilizing a traditional chat system on a computer. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060872 | METHOD, SERVER, CLIENT AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK PLATFORM INTERACTION - The present invention discloses a method, a server, a client and a system for network platform interaction which belong to the technical field of communication. The method comprises steps wherein: an intermediate platform detects a location event which includes selecting a contact person on a first platform and locating the contact person at a certain position; the intermediate platform acquires the information about the contact from the first platform, determines a corresponding second platform according to the position, and sends the location event to the second platform; the second platform analyzes the location event to acquire the related data of the position, acquires the contact person's information from the intermediate platform, and executes corresponding operations according to the contact person's information and the related data of the position. The system comprises a server and a client, wherein the server comprises an intermediate platform and the client comprises a first platform and a second platform. The invention reduces the complexity and development cost of the network platform and the mutual dependence and coupling degree of two interacting parties. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060873 | REAL TIME EVENT REVIEWING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Collating real time comments associated with an event enables a user to provide the real time comments on proceedings occurring in the event. The method of collating real time comments comprises providing real time comments for the event, wherein the real time comments are provided on a communication device. Thereafter, identifying a position parameter value of the real time comment by the communication device and sending the comments data to the central server by the communication device, wherein the comments data comprises real time comments and the position parameter values, followed by processing the comments data by the central sewer. Processing of the comments data would further comprise collating the real time comments of the user with real time comments from the plurality of users. The user comments are thus synced using algorithms, with a single timeline of the respective event stored in the central server. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060874 | Method of Recording and Delivering Messages through an Online Platform - A method of recording and delivering messages through an online platform includes a user account where the user account uploads the messages to the online platform. The user account includes a user profile and also creates a plurality of guest profiles where the plurality of guest profiles is assigned to view the uploaded messages. All of the uploaded messages are saved into a database through the online platform and secured until the user's death. The application software continuously searches through a vitality database for information which can be matched with the user profile. When a match is found for the user profile from the vitality database, the application software notifies a plurality of guests with a deceased notification link and a time sensitive password. The deceased notification link and the time sensitive password allow the plurality of guest to selectively view the uploaded messages. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060875 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AND USING A VIDEO-BASED ICON IN A MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE - A method for generating and using a video-based icon (videcon) in a message, where a videcon comprises a (preferably short) video and an associated code, comprising identifying the code within a message, retrieving the video associated with the code, inserting either the video or a link to the video into the message, and sending the message to its intended recipient. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060876 | REAL-TIME DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS AND RELATED COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS - Real-time data transmission systems and related methods are provided. Such systems may include a computer-implemented content management interface that includes a macro and/or a template configured to receive content-specific data entry, a subscriber database including subscriber data that includes at least one content-specific identifier, an advertisement database that is configured to manage advertisement data that includes at least one target identifier, and a data management engine. The data management engine may be in operative communication with the computer-implemented interface, the subscriber database, and/or the advertisement database. The data management engine may be configured to transmit content-specific data and advertisement data to one or more subscribers based on the subscriber data. The computer-implemented content management interface may include at least one administrative control associated with at least one administrative level. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060877 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING REPOSTED MESSAGE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for presenting reposted messages. The method includes: respectively establishing, in a server for each piece of original message X, a reposting chain, which takes the each piece of original message X as a root node, generating a piece of reposted message each time the original message X is reposted, and adding the reposted message to the reposting chain as a sub-node; and pulling needed reposted messages from the server when a client terminal device, at which a user locates receives an instruction instructing viewing the reposted messages corresponding to the original message X in a full amount message aggregation mode, and displaying the reposted messages on a page. Embodiments of the present invention also provide a system for presenting reposted messages. With the scheme of the present invention, a whole reposting chain of the original message may be presented to the user. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060878 | INTEGRATED DOCUMENT DELIVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS - A document delivery network server having a set of integrated functions including sending, receiving, routing and filing of FAXes and e-mails to other users which achieves numerous advantages over the prior art. The document delivery system is based on a client/server model having both analog and digital Fax line capabilities. The server side provides very highly integrated systems functionality based on industry standard, commercially available hardware and a mix of industry stardard and proprietary software components including integrated FAX/modem modules, an embedded OS, embedded plug-and-play driver sets, embedded e-mail gateways, an embedded FAX archive, embedded back-up/restore, proprietary high efficiency line utilization and highly efficient load balancing. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060879 | Informing Recipient Device of Message Content Properties - According to one aspect of the present invention, a content class of a data set for a message to be transmitted to the recipient device is defined. A network element transferring messages to the recipient device specifies at least one information element in a message to the recipient terminal such that the information element includes an indication of the content class. The message is transmitted to the recipient device. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130066976 | Systems and Methods for Customizing Mobile Applications Based Upon User Associations with One or More Entities - Systems and methods for customizing mobile applications are provided. The systems and methods may include storing one or more computers, an identifier associated with (i) a user and (ii) an entity with whom the user is affiliated; receiving a mobile application request; facilitating delivery of a mobile application to a mobile device associated with the user; receiving the identifier; and directing a delivery of customization information for customizing the mobile application of the mobile device, the customization information associated with one or both of the user or the entity with whom the user is affiliated. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066977 | MESSAGE QUEUE BEHAVIOR OPTIMIZATIONS - Network and storage calls are reduced by batching messages. Messages are collected from a client and sent to the gateway or backend application in one round trip. Alternatively, the messages are collected for different entities, and the batched messages are durably stored. Related messages, which may have the same sessionID, are grouped into a logical unit or session. This session may be locked to a single message consumer. A session may be associated with an application processing state as an atomic unit of work while other operations are performed on the messages in the session. Acknowledgements are accumulated by a broker on a message server, but the messages are not immediately deleted. Instead, multiple messages in a selected range are periodically truncated from a message store in a single operation. Expired messages for active sessions are proactive cleaned up to prevent sessions from reaching a quota or limit. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066978 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A COMMUNICATION SESSION IDENTIFIER - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for a communication session identifier. A communication session identifier can act as a virtual relay between conference participants, forwarding emails, phone calls, attachments, messages, and other information from a central address associated with the communications session identifier. In this manner, a user who desires to communicate with other conference participants only needs to send the communication to the communication session identifier, which in turn distributes the communication to the other parties. These communications can include emails, social networking messages, instant messaging, voice messages, and other forms of communication. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066979 | DISTRIBUTING EVENTS TO LARGE NUMBERS OF DEVICES - Distributing events to a large number of event consumers in a fashion that may minimize message copying and message latency. A method includes determining that an event should be sent to a set of specific consumers. The method further includes copying the event and providing individual copies to a plurality of distribution partitions. The method further includes, at each of the distribution partitions packaging a copy of the event with a plurality of routing slips to create a plurality of delivery bundles. The routing slips describing a plurality of individual consumers intended to receive the event. The method further includes using the delivery bundles, distributing the events to individual consumers as specified in the routing slips. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066980 | MAPPING RAW EVENT DATA TO CUSTOMIZED NOTIFICATIONS - Delivering a notification to a user device. One method includes receiving a generic event as part of a broadcast of the generic event to a plurality of consumers. The method further includes mapping the generic event to a specific notification for a specific end user consumer. The method further includes delivering the specific notification to the end user consumer. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066981 | METHOD OF PROVIDING TOPIC-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Provided are method of providing topic-based social network service. Present invention provides a method of providing a topic-based social network service (SNS), in which from among comment content written about a specific topic entity, comment content uploaded by users having a personal relationship (such as a friend or acquaintance relationship) with a logged-in user or by users designated as experts on the specific topic entity is provided to the logged-in user so that the logged-in user can secure reliable information about the specific topic entity. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066982 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SUPPORT DEVICE, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SUPPORT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information obtaining unit ( | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066983 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND BROWSER ON MOBILE TERMINAL - The present invention discloses an information transmission method and system, and a browser on a mobile terminal, and belongs to the field of the mobile Internet. Through the technical solutions of the present invention, an entire information transmission procedure does not require cooperation of an operator and a process having a specific function to be embedded, so that the information transmission procedure is simplified. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066984 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BROADCAST MESSAGE GROUP - A method for managing a broadcast message group includes storing a broadcast message and multiple messages associated with the broadcast message, classifying the multiple messages into multiple message subgroups, generating the broadcast message group including the broadcast message and the multiple message subgroups, and displaying the broadcast message and the multiple message subgroups if the broadcast message group is selected. An apparatus includes a storage unit to store a broadcast message and a reply message associated with the broadcast message, a display unit to display a broadcast message group in a message list, a controller to generate the broadcast message group including the broadcast message and the reply message. The display unit displays the broadcast message and the reply message if the broadcast message is selected. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066985 | System and Method for Updating Presence Information in Instant Messaging Applications on a Mobile Device - A system and method for controlling the presence status on a mobile device is provided. The method comprises determining an active notification profile for said mobile device, said active notification profile defining how said mobile device notifies of new events; determining a corresponding presence status for said active notification profile; and setting said corresponding presence status as a current presence status. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066986 | AGGREGATING CHECK-IN SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method includes processing location data received from a mobile device with the communication interface, identifying a number of check-in locations located within a predetermined distance of the mobile device based on the location data, and generating a first message including the check-in locations located within the predetermined distance of the mobile device. The location data is associated with a user account. A second message received with the communication device from the mobile device is processed, and check-in data included in the second message is stored in a non-transient machine readable storage medium such that the check-in data is associated with the user account. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066987 | MULTI-USER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for enabling communication between a user and at least one entity by a communication service are disclosed. In one example, the method comprises acts of receiving a search for the at least one entity, analyzing the search, by a processor, to determine search results based on the search including the at least one entity, receiving a message from the user to the at least one entity, the message including inquiry information directed to the at least one entity, determining, by the processor, presence status associated with the at least one entity, establishing, by the processor, a communication channel between the user and the at least one entity based on the presence status, and transmitting a response to the message based on the inquiry information via the communication channel. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING PRESENCE IN A BROKERED CHAT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for determining status of a user in a brokered chat service are disclosed. In one example, the method comprises acts of receiving, via the brokered chat service, a check-in message from the user, establishing the status of the user as available in the brokered chat service, transmitting at least one message to the user via the brokered chat service in response to establishing the status of the user as available, and updating the status of the user in the brokered chat service in response to communication from the user. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066989 | Video Messaging - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communications system by receiving, at an instant messaging host, a video file from a sender and intended for a recipient; authenticating the video file; and sending the video file to the intended recipient. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066990 | IDENTIFYING AND USING IDENTITIES DEEMED TO BE KNOWN TO A USER - The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example access to a user's online presence may be restricted based on the known people such that access to presence is provided only to those people that the user knows. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066991 | IDENTIFYING AND USING IDENTITIES DEEMED TO BE KNOWN TO A USER - The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example access to a user's online presence may be restricted based on the known people such that access to presence is provided only to those people that the user knows. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066992 | IDENTIFYING AND USING IDENTITIES DEEMED TO BE KNOWN TO A USER - The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example access to a user's online presence may be restricted based on the known people such that access to presence is provided only to those people that the user knows. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066993 | Identifying Users Sharing Common Characteristics - Displaying electronic information in an instant-messaging application includes accessing a first electronic message providing information describing a first user that has an identifier included in a set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application. A second electronic message providing information describing a second user that has an identifier included in the set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application is accessed. Content contained within the first and second messages is analyzed to determine that at least a portion of content is common to the first and second electronic messages. Based upon the content analysis, an indication that the first and second messages include common content is provided to the user. Alternatively or additionally, an indication that two users are in physical proximity to a geographic location may be provided in response to detecting that the two users are within a threshold distance from the geographic location. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066994 | Identifying Users Sharing Common Characteristics - Displaying electronic information in an instant-messaging application includes accessing a first electronic message providing information describing a first user that has an identifier included in a set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application. A second electronic message providing information describing a second user that has an identifier included in the set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application is accessed. Content contained within the first and second messages is analyzed to determine that at least a portion of content is common to the first and second electronic messages. Based upon the content analysis, an indication that the first and second messages include common content is provided to the user. Alternatively or additionally, an indication that two users are in physical proximity to a geographic location may be provided in response to detecting that the two users are within a threshold distance from the geographic location. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066995 | Identifying Users Sharing Common Characteristics - Displaying electronic information in an instant-messaging application includes accessing a first electronic message providing information describing a first user that has an identifier included in a set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application. A second electronic message providing information describing a second user that has an identifier included in the set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application is accessed. Content contained within the first and second messages is analyzed to determine that at least a portion of content is common to the first and second electronic messages. Based upon the content analysis, an indication that the first and second messages include common content is provided to the user. Alternatively or additionally, an indication that two users are in physical proximity to a geographic location may be provided in response to detecting that the two users are within a threshold distance from the geographic location. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066996 | Presence and Geographic Location Notification Based on a Setting - A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, may store contact information about people on the mobile device. Information describing the on-line presence of the user within the instant messaging system or the geographic location of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone associated with the user, may be disseminated to users on the participant list or to people on the contact list based on notification information that is associated with groups of users or contacts. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066997 | Presence and Geographic Location Notification Based on a Setting - A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, may store contact information about people on the mobile device. Information describing the on-line presence of the user within the instant messaging system or the geographic location of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone associated with the user, may be disseminated to users on the participant list or to people on the contact list based on notification information that is associated with groups of users or contacts. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066998 | Method And System For Publishing An Electronic File Attached To An Electronic Mail Message - Publishing content associated with an electronic file attached to an electronic mail message by executing instructions contained in the electronic mail attachment and accessing the content at a remote computer server identified by the attached file. The attached file includes computer-executable instructions, such as a computer program or script, which include an identifier for a remote server connected to a distributed computer network. In response to launching the attached file of the electronic mail message with a viewer program, a browser program can be opened to enable the recipient to view the content of the identified remote server. This supports the communication of electronic content by using an electronic mail message to transport an electronic file attachment having instructions that, when executed by the recipient's computer, enable the recipient to view the electronic content by accessing a server computer connected to distributed computer network. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066999 | AUTOMATED SELECTION AND INCLUSION OF A MESSAGE SIGNATURE - A system and method for the creation and automated selection and inclusion an automated signature text with an electronic message, wherein the automated selection of the automated signature text is dependent on attributes of the message, the designated recipients, or attributes of the designated recipients as compared to the sender's attributes, such as the encoding type and/or transport method selected for the electronic message or the location of the recipient without the need for multiple user profiles or manual editing by the sender. At least one of a plurality of automated signature texts is associated with at least one encoding type of a plurality of encoding types, at least one message transport type, or with at least one predetermined recipient attribute or the outcome of a comparison of the recipient attribute with the sender's attributes. The appropriate automated signature text is inserted prior to encoding of the message for transport. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067000 | OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGE IMPROVEMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention relate to set of improvements to the out of office assistant that send out of office messages to senders of messages while a recipient is out of the office. One embodiment of the out of office assistant associates an out of office message with a calendar event to ensure the out of office message is sent only for the predetermined time period associated with the calendar event. Other embodiments of the out of office assistant generating different messages to people internal to an organization and people external to an organization, and the out of office assistant allows different rich text formatting for the different messages. In a further embodiment, a persistent reminder reminds the user that the out of office message application is turned on. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067001 | ENABLING MAPPING IDENTIFICATION OF ONLINE IDENTITIES BETWEEN DIFFERENT MESSAGING SERVICES - A method and system for populating identities in a message service involves registering a user of a first messaging service with a second messaging service. User identities for users other than the registered user may be identified. These user identities may be associated with the first messaging service and may be stored in a list associated with the registered user. It is determined if each identified user identity has a matching user identity associated with the second messaging service. If so, a database associated with the second messaging service is populated with the matching user identities. Determining whether a matching user identity exists may be performed, for example, by making character strings comparisons between user identities or using a database that stores a mapping of first messaging service user identities to second messaging service user identities. The mapping database may be generated as corresponding user identities are discovered. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067002 | Managing Instant Messages - Managing instant messages may include receiving instant messages created by or on behalf of one or more message sources for delivery to an intended recipient. From among the received instant messages, qualifying instant messages may be identified that satisfy a capture rule, and two or more of the qualifying instant messages may be captured. The intended recipient may be informed of the captured instant messages unobtrusively, and also may be enabled to manage the captured instant messages. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067003 | Managing Instant Messages - Managing instant messages may include receiving instant messages created by or on behalf of one or more message sources for delivery to an intended recipient. From among the received instant messages, qualifying instant messages may be identified that satisfy a capture rule, and two or more of the qualifying instant messages may be captured. The intended recipient may be informed of the captured instant messages unobtrusively, and also may be enabled to manage the captured instant messages. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067004 | Electronic Message System with Federation of Trusted Senders - Systems and methods for allowing challenge messages to be sent directly to a recipient's inbox where normally the challenge message would be sent to a pending folder or deleted. Challenge messages sent between federated messaging services contain a federated token which can be identified, authenticated and validated to determine whether the challenge message should be sent to a recipient's inbox. The federated token can include an authentication portion and a validation portion. Authentication methods for the authentication portion can include, for example, checksums, salts, hashes and digital signatures. Once a federated token is authenticated by decrypting the authentication portion according to one or more of these authentication methods, the federated token is validated by determining the defined use-base and determining whether the receipt of the federated token satisfies the defined use. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067005 | BUDDY LIST- BASED CALENDARING - Instant messaging (IM) entities may be invited to an electronic calendar event using an instant message. Selecting the IM entities as invitees to the event may include dragging and dropping names of the IM entities from a buddy list of an IM application to an event from an electronic calendar application, or vice versa. A method of inviting an entity to a calendar event includes providing a calendar event from a calendar application and recognizing, by the calendar application, an IM entity as an invitee to the event. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067006 | Information Combining Method, Terminal, and IM System - Embodiments of the present invention provide an information combining method, a terminal and an Instant Messaging (IM) system. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, original tips, and the original tips comprise a tag; parsing, by the terminal, the tag, replacing the tag in the original tips with corresponding terminal information, and generating final tips; displaying, by the terminal, the final tips. The information combining method, terminal and IM system provided by the present invention achieve the tips' generation in terminal, thereby simplifying the process for the server to issue tips to the terminal, and then enhancing the efficiency of the server, saving resources. In addition, it promotes the enrichment of content of the tips, and enhances the user experience. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067007 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE OUTPUT OF DEVICES IN THE NETWORK - A wireless network system includes a platform device transmitting a first message including display capability information to at least one device and at least one device transmitting a second message to the platform device in response to the first message. The display capability information includes information on a display space and a display format supportable by the platform device. The second message includes display output information of the at least one device. The display output information includes: information on a display space, a display format, and display contents selected by the at least one device based upon the display capability information; and field type information that indicates characteristics of a field in which the display contents are displayed. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067008 | Method and Apparatus for Establishing Independent Message Page - A method for establishing an independent message page is provided. The method includes: obtaining, by an IM client, a trigger event for a message in a main panel, and obtaining identification information of the message according to the trigger event; determining, by the IM client, an independent message page corresponding to the identification information of the message; displaying, by the IM client, the independent message page. By using the present invention, the usability and interactivity of the IM client are improved. An apparatus applying the above method is also provided. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067009 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING ELECTRONIC MAIL MISMATCHES - A system and method for handling e-mail address mismatches between the address contained within a user's certificate or certificate chain, and the account address actually being used is disclosed. In order to resolve address mismatches a canonical or generic domain name or user name may, for example, be used as a lifelong address of a user that is contained in the user's certificate. Upon detection of an address mismatch, the system and method disclosed herein may automatically re-check the certificate or search for a certificate containing the canonical or generic domain name and/or user name to attempt to resolve the mismatch. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067010 | NETWORKING ACTIVITY INTERACTIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD, CLIENT TERMINAL AND SERVER THEREOF - A networking activity interactive system includes: a creating module for creating networking activity contents; an interactive module for receiving requests for participating the networking activity and participant data submitted by a user, to ensure only participant data in conformity with the networking activity contents is added to the participant user group of the networking activity, and the user is added to the participant user group; a database for storing the networking activity contents, the participant user group of the networking activity, and the participant reply content volume; a presenting module for presenting the networking activity content and the participant reply content volume of the networking activity. Furthermore, a method, a client terminal and a server for networking activity interactive are also provided. The present interactive system and method hereof, ensure that the participant data submitted by the user is in conformity with the created networking activity contents. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067011 | Data Transmission/Reception System and Data Transmission/Reception Program - Provided is a data transmission/reception system which can display a title created based on an attribute information of a data on a monitor with high visibility. When a command is inputted via an input unit, a CPU creates a title information file used for creating the title, and when the data is created, the CPU creates a title attribute information table. A communication terminal transmits and receives the data and the title attribute information table. The CPU creates the title in accordance with the title information file and the title attribute information table. The monitor displays plural titles on a title list screen. Accordingly, a user can display the plural titles on the monitor with the high visibility. Moreover, the user can easily manage the data in accordance with the title. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067012 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE USE OF MESSAGING SYSTEMS - A system and method for secure use of messaging systems. A mediator may receive an original message, process the original message to produce a processed message, and may forward the processed message to a server or a messaging system. A mediator may receive a processed message from a server or a messaging system, process the received processed message to produce an unprocessed message that may be substantially identical to the original message and may forward the unprocessed message to a destination. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067013 | MESSAGE SYNCHRONIZATION - A computerized device, comprising communications facility, a foreground program and a background task configured to launch the foreground program responsive to incoming communication by the communications facility. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130073634 | EMAIL CLIENT WITH ERP TASK INTEGRATION - Various arrangements for handling enterprise resource planning (ERP) tasks external from ERP software are presented. An email client, executed on a user computer system, may retrieve ERP tasks that are assigned to a user from an ERP computer system. The email client executed on the user computer system may integrate the ERP tasks retrieved from the ERP computer system into an email client task list such that the email client task list displays the ERP tasks assigned to the user. The email client executed on the user computer system may display the email client task list that comprises the ERP tasks retrieved from the ERP computer system. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073635 | ADAPTATION METHOD AND ADAPTER APPARATUS BASED ON MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICE - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for adaptation based on the multimedia messaging service. The apparatus comprises: an integrity detecting unit for performing integrity detection for first multimedia message data to determine that the first multimedia message data is integrated; and a data import unit for import the first multimedia message data from a mobile storage apparatus into a terminal. The technical solution according to the present invention can prevent the destroyed multimedia message data from being imported into the terminal, which avoids abnormity occurring when the terminal starting a multimedia message application. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073636 | GROUP CHAT ACROSS NETWORKS - A system and method for enabling a multi platform chat service defines communication channels in accordance with group member presence information and allows the delivery of messages to the group members through the channels. When a recipient of a message replies, the reply is distributed in the same manner as the original message. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073637 | MOBILE TERMINAL, SERVER, AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION CHANNEL USING AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) - A method for performing a communication using a virtual object includes displaying a dynamic virtual object on a display screen; identifying the dynamic virtual object in response to a selection input; determining a target to which the identified dynamic virtual object is to be transmitted; and performing a communication using the identified dynamic virtual object. A terminal to communicate using a virtual object includes a virtual object providing unit to provide a dynamic virtual object on a display screen; a virtual object managing unit to store the dynamic virtual object and target information of a target corresponding to the dynamic virtual object; a virtual object selection unit to select the dynamic virtual object in response to a selection input; and a channel establishing unit to establish a communication channel with the target using the dynamic virtual object. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073638 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus receives, from a site on Internet, first messages related to a first broadcast station and posted on the site. The apparatus scores each of the received first messages based on a number of characters in each of the received first messages so as to give a higher score to first messages each with a smaller number of characters, and calculates a first evaluation value for content data being broadcast by the first broadcast station based on the scores for the received first messages. The apparatus transmits the calculated first evaluation value to a user terminal. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073639 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - A mechanism for reducing an operator's time and effort in image data distribution is provided. To accomplish this, an image processing apparatus, which is capable of communicating with a server that provides a microblogging function for publicizing a message registered by a user to other users, registers the first message with the server if image data is stored in a memory; monitors a second message newly registered with respect to the registered first message; analyzes the second message if the second message is detected; and transmits image data based on the result of the analysis. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073640 | METHOD AND COMPUTER DEVICE FOR INSERTING ATTACHMENTS INTO ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A method for inserting attachments into an electronic message is provided. The method may include searching a keyword database to determine if a content of the electronic message includes a keyword, a key phrase, or a key sentence defined in the keyword database. The method may also include applying a condition to a file database, if the determination is affirmative, so as to search for at least a candidate item. The candidate item may be presented in a menu to the user. The method may further include enabling, in response to the user's confirmation of the candidate item, the confirmed candidate item to be inserted into the electronic message automatically to become an attachment thereto. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073641 | MULTI-APPLICATION FOLLOW-UP - A system that responds to a user setting a follow-up flag on a message within a first communication application by associating the flagged message with another user, such that the flagged message is available to a second communication application. When a user sets a flag on an electronic mail message contained in an electronic mail mailbox provided by an electronic mail application, the system responds by associating the flagged message with another user in a list of other users with whom flagged messages are associated. When a communication session occurs with the other user through another communication application, the system checks the list and determines that a flagged message is associated with the other user. The flagged message is then brought to the attention of the local user, for example within a list of flagged messages associated with the other user displayed simultaneously with the instant messaging session. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073642 | Personalized Location Information for Mobile Devices - Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device that has provided the signal. A geographic location for the mobile device is calculated by using the information contained in each of the received signals. A representation of the geographic location of the mobile device is generated. The representation of the geographic location is included within an electronic message that provides information describing a user of the mobile device to other users of an electronic communications system. The electronic message is transmitted to another device to provide an indication of the geographic location for the user to one of the other users of the electronic communications system. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073643 | Personalized Location Information for Mobile Devices - Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device that has provided the signal. A geographic location for the mobile device is calculated by using the information contained in each of the received signals. A representation of the geographic location of the mobile device is generated. The representation of the geographic location is included within an electronic message that provides information describing a user of the mobile device to other users of an electronic communications system. The electronic message is transmitted to another device to provide an indication of the geographic location for the user to one of the other users of the electronic communications system. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073644 | Personalized Location Information for Mobile Devices - Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device that has provided the signal. A geographic location for the mobile device is calculated by using the information contained in each of the received signals. A representation of the geographic location of the mobile device is generated. The representation of the geographic location is included within an electronic message that provides information describing a user of the mobile device to other users of an electronic communications system. The electronic message is transmitted to another device to provide an indication of the geographic location for the user to one of the other users of the electronic communications system. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073645 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO A REFERENCED INDIVIDUAL - Providing supplemental contact information for an individual referenced in an electronic message typically includes receiving an electronic message, examining the electronic message, detecting an identifier for a referenced individual contained in the electronic message, and making supplemental contact information for the referenced individual available to a recipient of the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include information that is in addition to information contained in the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include at least one of an e-mail address, a screen name, a telephone number, a facsimile number, and a mailing address, each of which is associated with the referenced individual. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073646 | PRESENTING A RECIPIENT OF AN E-MAIL WITH AN OPTION TO INSTANT MESSAGE A SENDER OR ANOTHER RECIPIENT BASED ON THE SENDER'S OR THE OTHER RECIPIENT'S ADDRESS AND ONLINE STATUS - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communications system include a host system structured and arranged to receive and deliver messages of various types between users of the communications system. The host system includes an instant messaging network; a mail gateway; and a configuring network in communication with both the instant messaging network and the mail gateway. The instant messaging network enables instant messaging communication between users of the communications system and has the capability to monitor whether a certain user is capable of receiving an instant message at a particular moment. The mail gateway receives and delivers e-mail messages to users of the communications system. The configuring network is dedicated to automatically configuring instant messaging communication between an intended recipient of an e-mail message and the sender of the e-mail message. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073647 | PRESENTING A RECIPIENT OF AN E-MAIL WITH AN OPTION TO INSTANT MESSAGE A SENDER OR ANOTHER RECIPIENT BASED ON THE SENDER'S OR THE OTHER RECIPIENT'S ADDRESS AND ONLINE STATUS - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communications system include a host system structured and arranged to receive and deliver messages of various types between users of the communications system. The host system includes an instant messaging network; a mail gateway; and a configuring network in communication with both the instant messaging network and the mail gateway. The instant messaging network enables instant messaging communication between users of the communications system and has the capability to monitor whether a certain user is capable of receiving an instant message at a particular moment. The mail gateway receives and delivers e-mail messages to users of the communications system. The configuring network is dedicated to automatically configuring instant messaging communication between an intended recipient of an e-mail message and the sender of the e-mail message. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073648 | PRESENTING A RECIPIENT OF AN E-MAIL WITH AN OPTION TO INSTANT MESSAGE A SENDER OR ANOTHER RECIPIENT BASED ON THE SENDER'S OR THE OTHER RECIPIENT'S ADDRESS AND ONLINE STATUS - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communications system include a host system structured and arranged to receive and deliver messages of various types between users of the communications system. The host system includes an instant messaging network; a mail gateway; and a configuring network in communication with both the instant messaging network and the mail gateway. The instant messaging network enables instant messaging communication between users of the communications system and has the capability to monitor whether a certain user is capable of receiving an instant message at a particular moment. The mail gateway receives and delivers e-mail messages to users of the communications system. The configuring network is dedicated to automatically configuring instant messaging communication between an intended recipient of an e-mail message and the sender of the e-mail message. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073649 | VOICE INSTANT MESSAGING - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data include enabling instant messaging communication between a sender an at least one recipient through an instant messaging host. In addition, voice communication is enabled between the sender and the recipient through the instant messaging host. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073650 | VOICE INSTANT MESSAGING - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data include enabling instant messaging communication between a sender an at least one recipient through an instant messaging host. In addition, voice communication is enabled between the sender and the recipient through the instant messaging host. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073651 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO A REFERENCED INDIVIDUAL - Providing supplemental contact information for an individual referenced in an electronic message typically includes receiving an electronic message, examining the electronic message, detecting an identifier for a referenced individual contained in the electronic message, and making supplemental contact information for the referenced individual available to a recipient of the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include information that is in addition to information contained in the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include at least one of an e-mail address, a screen name, a telephone number, a facsimile number, and a mailing address, each of which is associated with the referenced individual. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073652 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO A REFERENCED INDIVIDUAL - Providing supplemental contact information for an individual referenced in an electronic message typically includes receiving an electronic message, examining the electronic message, detecting an identifier for a referenced individual contained in the electronic message, and making supplemental contact information for the referenced individual available to a recipient of the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include information that is in addition to information contained in the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include at least one of an e-mail address, a screen name, a telephone number, a facsimile number, and a mailing address, each of which is associated with the referenced individual. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073653 | Managing Instant Messages - Managing instant messages may include receiving instant messages created by or on behalf of one or more message sources for delivery to an intended recipient. From among the received instant messages, qualifying instant messages may be identified that satisfy a capture rule, and two or more of the qualifying instant messages may be captured. The intended recipient may be informed of the captured instant messages unobtrusively, and also may be enabled to manage the captured instant messages. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073654 | Shared Groups Rostering System - Systems and techniques for sharing information among members of a group. Information about all current members of a group is stored. Instructions are received from at least one current member to invite at least one prospective member to join the group and the invitation to join the group is sent to the prospective member. In the event that an affirmative response is received, the prospective member is added to the current members of the group and automatically updated services are provided to current members of the group. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073655 | RECIPIENT CONTROL OF SOURCE AUDIO IDENTIFIERS FOR DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS - Enabling a recipient to control presentation of an audio identifier informing the recipient of an arrival of a digital communication from a sender in a communication session includes receiving a digital communication from a sender directed to a recipient. A sender-designated first audio identifier or sender-related information that identifies the sender to the recipient is accessed upon arrival of the digital communication. The first audio identifier or sender-related information is presented to the recipient contemporaneous with receipt of the digital communication. The recipient is able to specify, upon presentation of the first audio identifier or sender-related information, whether to enable subsequent presentation of the first audio identifier prior to or concurrent with receipt of a future digital communication from the sender. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073656 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE FORWARDING - The invention provides a method of transmitting electronic messages in a computer environment. The preferred embodiment receives an electronic message addressed to a telephone number and determines an instant message identifier associated with the telephone number. In response to the determination that an instant message identifier associates with the telephone number, it is further determined whether an instant message receiver is available to receive messages addressed to the instant message identifier. In response to a determination that an instant message receiver is available to receive instant messages addressed to the instant message identifier, the electronic message is forwarded as an instant message addressed to the instant message identifier. In response to a determination that no instant message receiver is available to receive instant messages addressed to the instant message identifier, the electronic message is sent to a mobile device at the telephone number. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073657 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE FORWARDING - The invention provides a method of transmitting electronic messages in a computer environment. The preferred embodiment receives an electronic message addressed to a telephone number and determines an instant message identifier associated with the telephone number. In response to the determination that an instant message identifier associates with the telephone number, it is further determined whether an instant message receiver is available to receive messages addressed to the instant message identifier. In response to a determination that an instant message receiver is available to receive instant messages addressed to the instant message identifier, the electronic message is forwarded as an instant message addressed to the instant message identifier. In response to a determination that no instant message receiver is available to receive instant messages addressed to the instant message identifier, the electronic message is sent to a mobile device at the telephone number. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073658 | Rolling View Virtualization - Rolling view optimization is initiated by receiving electronic mail data corresponding to a plurality of mail pieces, the electronic mail data including a first cycle and determining whether substantially all electronic mail data from the first cycle can be processed for mailing. In response to determining that substantially all of the electronic mail data from the first cycle cannot be processed for mailing, a determination is made whether a portion of the mail data from the first cycle can be processed for mailing and in response to determining that a portion of the mail data from the first cycle can be processed for mailing the electronic mail data corresponding to the first cycle for mailing is sent. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073659 | Methods and Systems for Providing Application Level Presence Information in Wireless Communication - Methods and apparatus for determining and maintaining user presence information include capturing user presence data with an application presence server. The application presence server can be configured to update user presence data as a user initiates or exits an application. Applications associated with user presence data are configured to query an application proxy client concerning user presence data of a selected user and, based on a returned user status, deliver, discard, or redirect a message intended for the user. User presence data is stored in a user presence repository and can be provided via Internet-based or other connections to applications executed on external networks. User activity status can be used to select or update user presence data. In some examples, an application server of an external network is configured to receive user presence data from the presence server. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073660 | Broadcasting in Chat System Without Topic-Specific Rooms - A method, system and graphical user interface for a chat system is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes broadcasting popular messages to users that have not previously received the popular messages and including with the popular messages one or more qualitative signals based on user feedback. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073661 | INSTANT MESSENGER AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CONVENIENT SEARCH BY INSTANT MESSENGER - The embodiments of the present invention disclose an instant messenger and a method for performing convenient search by the instant messenger. The instant messenger includes a search starting module, a text selecting module and a searching module, wherein the search starting module is configured to receive a command of starting convenient searching function; the text selecting module is configured to monitor a command of starting to select text and a command of terminating to select text, and select text contents according to the command of starting to select text and the command of terminating to select text; and the searching module is configured to monitor the command of terminating to select text, and start to search for the text contents after the text selecting module selects the text contents. By the embodiments of the present invention, the convenient searching function may be implemented in the instant messenger. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING AN ELECTRONIC CALENDAR - A computer implemented system and method are disclosed for updating an electronic calendar. The method includes receiving an electronic message in a natural language in which a change in role is expressed and, with a natural language processor implemented by a computer processor, automatically detecting the change in role within the email message, optionally storing the change in role in a contacts database, and proposing updates for entries in an electronic calendar based on the detected change in role. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073663 | Performing Services on Behalf of Low-Power Devices - Techniques are generally described that relate to a computer-implemented method of using a virtual device operating in a first computer network to perform a service on behalf of a low-power device operating in a second computer network includes receiving, by the virtual device, device data reports and a device descriptor from the low-power device. The virtual device may be adapted to store the device data reports and/or the device descriptor in computer-readable memory coupled to the virtual device. The virtual device may also be adapted to receive a low-power device service request from a requesting device operating in a third computer network and may determine that the device descriptor indicates that the low-power device is unavailable to respond to the low-power device service request. A response to the low-power device service request may be generated by the virtual device based on the device data reports. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073664 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING CREATING CALENDAR ENTRIES IN CLIENT DEVICES - A method for facilitating creating one or more calendar entries in one or more client devices is provided. The method includes receiving an iTIP (iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol) message from a first client device. The method further includes generating an iMIP (iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol) message using the iTIP message. The method also includes providing at least one of a copy of the iTIP message and a copy of the iMIP message to a least one of the second client device and a second communication server device connected to the second client device for enabling the second calendar application to generate a calendar entry in the second client device. The method also includes determining whether one of a first action and a second action is to be taken. The method further includes performing one of said first action and said second action based on said determining. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073665 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR NOTIFICATIONS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Methods and apparatuses for providing notification data, e.g. in a presence service, referring to a plurality of presentities (B | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130080538 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR AFFECTING USER ASSOCIATIONS IN OVER THE TOP (OTT) SERVICE PLATFORMS - According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for affecting user associations in over the top (OTT) service platforms. The method includes receiving a first message for initiating associations or disassociations between a first user and a second user of over the top (OTT) service platforms. The OTT service platforms are controlled and operated by distinct entities. The method also includes determining, using at least one of information in the first message and stored information, the OTT service platforms in which associations are to be established or disestablished. The method further includes sending at least a second message for establishing or disestablishing an association between the first user and the second user in the OTT service platforms. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080539 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING QUICK LINK COMMUNICATIONS - Various systems and methods for performing quick link communications are described. One embodiment is a method for initiating communications on a communications device. The method comprises retrieving, by the communications device, communication information from a display terminal, the communication information being derived by the display terminal. The method further comprises displaying, by the communications device, at least one quick link according to the communication information. Based on a user input relating to the at least one quick link, a communications session is initiated by the communications device. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080540 | ARCHIVE CONTROL FOR TEXT MESSAGES - Systems and methods for controlling how text messages are archived. A system identifies a text message for delivery over a mobile network, and identifies protection information for controlling archiving of the text message. The system inserts the protection information in the text message, and transmits the text message with the protection information towards a destination. The same or another system, such as a message center, receives the text message, and identifies the protection information inserted in the text message. The receiving system further identifies an end user associated with the text message, and identifies privacy policies provisioned for the end user. The receiving system then processes the privacy policies and the protection information to determine if the text message is authorized to be archived, such as in an archive server. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080541 | Peer-Based Messaging Systems and Methods - Peer-based messaging systems and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a method for transmitting electronic messages may include receiving an electronic message, originated at a first communication device, over a first protocol. The electronic message is received at a second communication device. The method may also include converting, at the second communication device, the electronic message to a second protocol. The first protocol is different from the second protocol. The method may also include sending the electronic message to a third communication device over the second protocol. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080542 | INTERFACE GATEWAY AND METHOD OF INTERFACING A PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH A GUEST SERVICE DEVICE - An interface gateway interfaces between a first device and a second device serving a hospitality establishment. The first device is one of a property management system (PMS) and a guest service device, and the second device is the other of the property management system (PMS) and the guest service device. One or more communication ports perform data communications with the first device and the second device. One or more processors receive a message from the first device, determine that the message is in a first format, convert the message from the first format to an internal data structure, parse the message in the internal data structure to determine that the message is applicable to the second device, determine that the second device supports a second format, convert the message from the internal data structure to the second format, and send the message in the second format to the second device. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080543 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE MONITORING - A tool for preventing incorrect addressing of an electronic message. The tool analyzes incoming and outgoing electronic messages for indications that the user previously sent a message to a recipient mistakenly. The tool flags the recipient as potentially incorrect for future electronic messages. When selecting a recipient from a list, flagged recipient IDs display lower than other recipient IDs. The tool may require verification if a flagged recipient ID is selected. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080544 | SOCIAL NETWORK STEALTH AND COUNTER MESSAGING - Stealth and counter messaging, in some embodiments in the context of social networking sites, is disclosed. A first user may provide a first, counter-message along with a second, stealth message. When posting the first message, its corresponding identifier as set by the social networking site is recorded in a linked relationship to the second message. When an authorized second user retrieves the first message from the social networking site, its identifier is queried to determine whether there is a corresponding second message. After locating the identifier for the first message, the associated second message is retrieved and transmitted to the second user. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080545 | AUTOMATIC ACCESS SETTINGS BASED ON EMAIL RECIPIENTS - A system is provided for automatically designating access and permission settings for documents in a collaborative authoring environment. The system may automatically configure the access and permission settings based on an email message with a link to a document for collaborative editing. The system may determine that certain recipient users in the “CC:” line of the email message be granted read only access while other recipient users in the “To:” line of the email message be granted editing access. Designating the access and privilege settings for the linked document in the email may be transparent to the sender and the recipients of the email. The system may automatically designate the access and privilege settings to the linked document for the recipients of the email without requiring any external input by the sender of the email. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080546 | PERSISTING CONTACT INFORMATION IN MAILBOX - Multiple contacts are aggregated through contact linking into a unified profile view addressing conflicting data, duplicates, etc. By persisting contact information in a server-maintained mailbox that is used as a storage model and as the contact linking system, roaming solution across form factors (mobile, slate, PC, etc.) can be provided with higher accuracy and fewer false positives. By centralizing the solution in the mailbox, redundancy and manual work by the user is substantially reduced. Contact data, communication heuristics, corporate directory meta-data, instant messaging data, etc. can be leveraged in linking contacts. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080547 | Network facilitation of multi-modality communication modification - Disclosed herein are example embodiments for a network communication device in conjunction with multi-modality communication modification. By way of example but not limitation, a network communication device may propagate first communication data of a communication that relates to at least a first and a second communication device and may determine to modify at least one user interaction communication modality associated with the second communication device after at least a portion of the first communication data has been propagated between the first and second communication devices. It may effectuate at least one conversion with regard to second communication data of the communication, with the at least one conversion causing at least a portion of the second communication data to comport with the at least one modified user interaction communication modality. It may further propagate the second communication data of the communication responsive at least partially to the at least one conversion. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080548 | Email Enabled Project Management Applications - A web application for managing multiple matters may have an email interface that may be used to update status items as well as upload and categorize documents. The web application may authenticate the source of the information, and may apply the various input received via email to an appropriate matter. The email interface may generate email queries for users, and the queries may include various identifiers that may be used to apply a response to the appropriate matter. The email interface may allow a user to create new matters or activities within matters. An email's subject line, contents, attachments, or other information may be analyzed. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080549 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN - The server | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080550 | VOICE INSTANT MESSAGING - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data include enabling instant messaging communication between a sender an at least one recipient through an instant messaging host. In addition, voice communication is enabled between the sender and the recipient through the instant messaging host. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080551 | Passive Personalization of Buddy Lists - Personalizing communications for a first communication platform includes accessing status information for communication sessions by a communication identity that leverage a first communication platform other than an instant messaging platform. A participant list associated with the communication identity and the first communication platform is passively configured to persistently reflect a list of participant identities from communication sessions in which the communication identity recently participated using the communication platform. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080552 | Federated Challenge Credit System - Systems and methods for reducing the number of challenge messages that are sent in response to an incoming message in situations where the incoming message is likely not unsolicited. The systems and methods include evaluating the behavior of a sender with regard to one or more federated messaging services and determining if the sender is approved or unapproved. If the sender is approved, the incoming message is deliver to a recipient's inbox without issuing a challenge message. Unapproved senders are required to respond to a challenge message. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080553 | MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080554 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING LOGIC IN E-MAIL MESSAGES - Computer program products, apparatus, and methods for processing a human-readable message are provided. The message is received at a first computer in the form of an e-mail. A check is performed to determine whether the message includes (i) a tag originated by a sender of the message and (ii) human-readable instructions interpretable by the first computer to pre-process the message by a pre-process routine. The pre-process routine calls for (i) requesting and receiving, over a network or the Internet from a third computer, data from one or more data fields of a database responsive to the human-readable instructions and (ii) modifying the human-readable message, thereby creating a plurality of processed human-readable messages. When it is determined that the message includes (i) the tag and (ii) the human-readable instructions the message is pre-processed in accordance with the human-readable instructions using the pre-process routine. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080555 | Mass Multimedia Messaging - A method and system of mass multimedia messaging in a system having a service provider and a plurality of subscriber communication terminals supported by the service provider, wherein at least some of the subscriber terminals have different messaging capabilities and different message format requirements. The method includes adaptation and handling of a mass multimedia message, and mass multimedia message notification. The system uses a retrieval platform and a processing platform. The retrieval platform generates a unique message identifier for the mass multimedia message, and pre-adapts the message into adapted content messages for the terminal types supported by the service provider. The processing platform formats message notifications for the subscriber terminals based on each terminal's messaging capabilities, with each notification containing the unique message identifier. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080556 | Social Network Site Recommender System and Method - Particular embodiments evaluate a plurality of messages. Each message may be associated with an author. Information may be logged for each message, such as information associated with the author, information associated with one or more designated recipients of the message, and time information. Correlation values may be determined for one or more sets of designated recipients based on at least a portion of the logged information. Particular embodiments may determine an association amongst a plurality of users over time. The determination may be based on the correlation values. At least one of the plurality of users may comprise at least one of the designated recipients. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080557 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC, CONTROL, AND INFORMATION COLLECTION BASED UPON A CONNECTION OR CONNECTIONLESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR SENDING MESSAGES TO THE RESOURCE MANAGER - A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a service center or from a service center to a resource administrator, but also may remain within a local or wide area network for transmission between a machine and a resource administrator. E-mail messages may be transmitted from a computer which is attached to a device that is being monitored or controlled and include information regarding the status, usage, or capabilities of the attached device. The device may send status messages and usage information of the device to either a resource administrator or to a service center on the Internet through a firewall. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080558 | PERSISTING A GROUP IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - Various technologies pertaining to instant messaging are described herein. A persistent instant messaging group is created, wherein the persistent instant messaging group comprises a plurality of members and persists over a plurality of instant messaging sessions. Instances of an instant messaging application are installed on mobile telephones, and the instant messaging application is used to transmit instant messages between members of the persistent instant messaging group. Messages directed towards offline members of the persistent instant messaging group are transmitted to such members when they come online. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130086174 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING COMMUNICATIONS - A computer system includes instructions recorded on a computer-readable storage medium and executable by at least one processor. The computer system includes a process component of a first deployment unit and a component module. The process component has a handling module and an object module. The handling module is operatively coupled to the object module. The handling module is operatively coupled to the component module. The handling module is configured to receive a message from a second deployment unit. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086175 | INLINE MESSAGE COMPOSING WITH VISIBLE LIST VIEW - A compose form for drafting a message is presented inline within a window along with a message list. For example, instead of overlaying the message application's user interface (UI) with a new window for composing a message, the compose form is displayed within a portion of the window reserved for viewing content of messages. While composing the message using the compose form, the rest of the message application's UI remains visible and accessible to the user. For example, the user may navigate to another folder and/or move to another message/conversation by interacting with the tree view/message list view. A draft of the message being composed may be automatically saved when the user navigates away from the compose form (e.g. by selecting another conversation in the list view). | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086176 | DELAYED ELECTRONIC MAIL SENDING - A method can include associating an electronic document with an electronic mail message as an attachment and determining that the electronic document is in an uncompleted state using a processor. The method can include replacing the electronic document with an updated version of the electronic document as the attachment to the electronic mail message and sending the electronic mail message with the updated version of the electronic document as the attachment responsive to detecting a completion condition for the electronic document. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ADJUSTING CONTACT IMPORTANCE FOR A COMPUTING DEVICE - A list of contacts is stored in at least one contact repository such as an address book of an electronic device. Contacts can be assigned an importance value. An importance value is determined for contacts based on criteria such as the recentness that a contact's information was updated or revised, how recently the contact was added to an electronic device's address book, whether a contact's website was recently accessed by an electronic device, the identity of a contact or the nature of the relationship between a contact and an electronic device. Contact importance criteria can be set in response to selections and inputs, for example via the use of slider bar on a display. Contacts can be dynamically ranked according to their importance and a ranked list of contacts can be displayed. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086178 | DELIVERING AN IN-APPLICATION MESSAGE - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for identifying an in-application message to display to a user. A user may perform a user action in an application, which can be identified. The identified user action can be compared to metadata data associated with a plurality of in-application messages for the application, and an in-application message that is eligible for display to the user can be identified based on the user action. A determination can be made whether to display the eligible message to the user in the application, based upon one or more in-application messages that the user may have previously viewed, as may be found or tracked in a user message viewing history. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086179 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONFIGURING OPERATIONS OF COMMUNICATION SERVICES - Information is recorded that corresponds to an online activity of a user. The information identifies at least one or more instances of time when the online activity occurred. A communication from the communication service is delivered to the user at a selected transmission time that is based at least in part on the one or more instances of time. The communication service may be configured or otherwise instructed to send (or not send) the communication at a particular time. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086180 | Message Classification and Management - Message management and classification techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a message received from a sender for delivery via a user account is examined to extract one or more features of the message. A determination is then made as to whether the message corresponds to one or more categories based on the extracted features, the categories usable to enable features to be applied to the message in a user interface. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086181 | IDENTIFYING FIRST CONTACT UNSOLICITED COMMUNICATIONS - Techniques involving identification of electronic messages that are the first contact between the sender identification and addressed recipients. One representative technique includes identifying electronic messages originating from a sender that are first contact electronic messages between the sender and targeted recipients. The sender of the electronic messages may be designated as a source of unsolicited messages if heuristics involving the first contact electronic messages indicate a distribution of unsolicited messages by the sender. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086182 | SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method and computer program for proving a short message service (SMS) message was sent and received. The computer-implemented method includes: designating a message type for the SMS message, wherein the message type includes a normal type and a legal type; in response to designating a legal type for the SMS message, changing a header for the SMS message, wherein the header indicates that the SMS message should be stored; storing the SMS message with a trusted authority; and sending the SMS message, from a sender, to a receiver. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086183 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE QUEUES FOR MULTINODE APPLICATIONS IN A MIDDLEWARE MACHINE ENVIRONMENT - A middleware machine environment can provide message queues for multinode applications. The transactional middleware machine environment includes a message control data structure on a message receiver and a heap data structure in a shared memory that is associated with the message receiver. The message sender operates to write a message directly into the heap data structure, and to maintain metadata associated with the message in the message control data structure. Furthermore, the message control data structure can be a ring structure with a head pointer and a tail pointer. Additionally, the message receiver resides on a server that is connected with a plurality of clients, with each of said clients keeping a private copy of the message control data structure. Also, the message receiver can support concurrent access to the message control data structure associated with the message receiver. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086184 | ENFORCEMENT OF CONDITIONAL POLICY ATTACHMENTS - Framework for conditionally attaching web service policies to a policy subject (e.g., a web service client or service endpoint) at subject runtime. In one set of embodiments, a constraint expression can be defined that specifies one or more runtime conditions under which a policy should be attached to a policy subject. The constraint expression can be associated with the policy and the policy subject via policy attachment metadata. The constraint expression can then be evaluated at runtime of the policy subject to determine whether attachment of the policy to the policy subject should occur. If the evaluation indicates that the policy should be attached, the attached policy can be processed at the policy subject (e.g., enforced or advertised) as appropriate. Using these techniques, the policy subject can be configured to dynamically exhibit different behaviors based on its runtime context. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MULTIMEDIA SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - The present application is directed to methods and systems for a social networking media system. Users may record brief media messages comprising video and/or audio, via a desktop computing machine, portable computing machine, laptop, tablet, smart phone, or other computing device, and upload the media message to a web provider. Although sometimes referred to as multimedia, in many embodiments, the messages may comprise only audio or only video. Other users of the system may view the media message and record reply media messages, which are similarly uploaded to the web provider. In some embodiments, the message and reply messages may be linked, providing an interactive media-based asynchronous dialogue. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086186 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR COLLECTION, AGGREGATION AND AUTHENTICATION OF ELECTRONIC DATA - A method for the collection, aggregation and authentication of data comprises the storage of blank copies of a specially pre-prepared form at a server, the distribution of copies of the form to remote users by email or web download, the input of data to the forms by remote users, the electronic submission of the data to the server; the transmission of a message to remote users' email address requesting a confirmation of signing, the confirmation including the collection of information identifying the remote user to the server, the incorporation of the data transmitted from the remote user into the copy of the form stored at the server and the return of a filled out and authenticated form to an email address designated for the receipt of the data. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086187 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING VALID SENDER - Systems, methods, computer program products, and networks for messaging. An example of a method includes outputting a receiver specific indication of validation to a receiver of a message if a sender of the message has been validated. In this example data regarding the receiver specific indication was selected prior to the outputting, the selected data including data associated with the receiver on a website of the sender. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086188 | MESSAGE DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for handling large numbers of messages of one or more message types. In embodiments, the scalable messaging system reads from lists of recipient addresses and template messages, mergers them into messages, removes known blacklisted addresses, facilitates the rapid delivery of these messages via a dynamic queuing and dynamic message server deployment, and stores errors and other statistics. In embodiments, the scalable messaging system may include messaging system instances at different locations. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086189 | METHOD OF CATEGORIZING MESSAGES RECEIVED BY A USER OF A COMPANY SOCIAL NETWORK - The invention relates to a method for categorizing messages received by a user of a company's social network, said method being provided to:
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| 20130086190 | Linking Sounds and Emoticons - A method and apparatus for linking sounds and emoticons to allow a recipient of a message containing an emoticon to hear audio associated with the emoticon. In one aspect of the invention, a first user or sender establishes a link or association between the emoticon being sent and a sound file to be associated with that particular emoticon. The emoticon is then transmitted from the sender to the recipient along with the link or association such that the recipient can hear the audio when the emoticon is displayed. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086191 | ADJUNCT USE OF INSTANT MESSENGER SOFTWARE TO ENABLE COMMUNICATIONS TO OR BETWEEN CHATTERBOTS OR OTHER SOFTWARE AGENTS - A method and article of manufacture are provided for communicating confidential information during an electronic chat session. The chat session has a plurality of participants, including human users and associated software controlled agents. The software controlled agents have artificial intelligence. A first human user requests a first software controlled agent associated with the first human user to request information from a second software controlled agent associated with a second human user. The second agent receives authorization to release the requested information. The second agent transmits the requested information, wherein the transmitted information is not revealed to the human users. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086192 | GROUP SWARM METRICS AND CONTENT - Methods for providing group swarm metrics and content are described herein. In different aspects, the methods may include compiling a content access metric. The methods may also include determining a threshold metric for a user. Further, the methods may include generating a notification message for the user when the compiled content access metric reaches the threshold metric. The methods may additionally include delivering the notification message to the user. The techniques described herein may enable the user to retrieve the content. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086193 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, LINKAGE SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130091223 | SELECTIVE DELIVERY OF SOCIAL NETWORK MESSAGES WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORK - The present disclosure provides for selective delivery of social network messages within a social network. When it is determined that one or more new messages to be communicated to members of a social group of the social network have content substantially similar to a given content of a plurality of messages previously communicated to the social group, notification of the one or more new messages to the one or more members of the social group can be selectively adjusted. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091224 | Managing Meetings Relative to Messages - Methods and systems of managing meetings may involve intercepting an outgoing message from a sender to a recipient, and conducting an analysis of the outgoing message with respect to a calendar associated with the sender. In addition, delivery of the message may be suspended if the analysis indicates that the sender and the recipient have a scheduled meeting. In one example, the outgoing message includes at least one of an email message, a chat message and a text message. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091225 | WIRELESS CHARGING AND COMMUNICATION WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A personal computing system and a mobile phone interoperate according to a wireless charging protocol while in a charging arrangement. The personal computing system can wirelessly charge a power source of the mobile phone. The personal computing system and the mobile phone are in a communication system. A server communicatively coupled to a first network and a wireless communication network can inhibit in the wireless communication network transmission of messages destined for reception by one of the personal computing system and the mobile phone, in response to determining that the personal computing system and the mobile phone are in a charging arrangement. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091226 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING EMAIL AND EMAIL PARTICIPANT PROMINENCE - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for calculating prominence of an email with regard to a user. During operation, the system determines an importance value associated with an email participant in the user's conversations, wherein the email participant is an email sender and/or recipient other than the user. Next, the system calculates a prominence value associated with a received email based upon at least the importance values associated with the email participants in the received email. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091227 | SYNCRONIZATION OF CONVERSATION DATA - Systems and methods for synchronizing conversation data between a client and a server in a networked computing environment. A data structure associated with an e-mail conversation is encoded and shuttled between the client and the server. When received at the server, the data structure is analyzed to determine changes within the e-mail conversation. The data structure is subsequently modified to reflect or include only those changes to minimize the amount of information transferred between the server and client. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091228 | NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A server and methods relating to a notification system having a client request gateway for validating client requests and for mapping client requests with transactions. The notification system also has an enterprise interaction engine for receiving the transactions and mapping transactions with interactions. These interactions are sent to applications servers that produce interactions results. Interaction results are then associated with transactions results. Based on the transaction results, notifications are created and sent to members of an audience. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091229 | Computer Implemented Methods And Apparatus For Providing Selective Notifications In An Online Social Network - Disclosed are various implementations of different methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing selective notifications in an online social network. In some implementations, an information update is capable of being stored in a database and capable of being included in an information feed displayed on a display device. One or more notification options is provided in association with the information update. A selection of the one or more notification options can be received. The selected one or more notification options can define one or more conditions for sending a network communication indicating data received in association with the information update. The one or more notification options is stored on a storage medium. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091230 | TRANSFER OF FILES WITH ARRAYS OF STRINGS IN SOAP MESSAGES - A method of transferring files in a data-processing network using a current node within the network includes reading an outbound content and outbound characteristics of an outbound file. An outbound message is created having outbound strings including a first set of the outbound strings representing the outbound characteristics and a second set of the outbound strings representing the outbound content. The outbound message is sent to a receiver node within the network. An inbound message is received from a sender node within the network. The inbound message has inbound strings including a first set of the inbound strings representing inbound characteristics and a second set of the inbound strings representing inbound content. An inbound file having the inbound content is stored, and the inbound characteristics are applied to the inbound file. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091231 | SIMPLE MESSAGE DELIVERY DEVICE WITH INTERNET FUNCTION - A simple message delivering device with internet function is revealed. The device has a simple message module electrically connected with one or more peripheral devices and a server, and receives warning signals corresponding to a status information and a connection information from the peripheral devices through an I/O unit, in which the connection information of the peripheral device is related to locations of the peripheral devices for a NAT unit obtaining a LAN network address of one of the peripheral devices and an internet network address of a simple message module. A message unit generates a simple message according to the LAN network address, the internet network address and the status information to output to a server for delivering the simple message to an electronic device. Thus, the present invention prevents the peripheral device having no network reporting from the retirement, and it further reduces the arrangement cost. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091232 | MESSAGE PUBLISHING WITH PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED CONTENT REMOVAL - Publishing of a message that is free of prohibited or restricted content by a message publishing system that is provided with criteria concerning acceptable content. A message is received at the message publishing system, is processed by a processor to detect any prohibited or restricted items in the message which are outside of the criteria of the acceptable content, and the prohibited or restricted content is removed in response to the detection of the prohibited or restricted items in the message. Either the message or only a remainder of the message which is free of the prohibited or restricted content is published in accordance with the criteria provided to the message publishing system. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091233 | METHOD FOR VIEWING NON-IMAGE ATTACHMENTS ON A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Method for viewing an attachment of an email message on a portable electronic device in which the attachment has a renderable format is provided. The method includes: requesting to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device, building a graph structure within an attachment server representing a map of the attachment, the graph structure including at least one renderable identifier corresponding to a page of the attachment, requesting rendering of the attachment, the rendering request being send from the attachment viewer to the attachment server and including the at least one renderable identifier, initializing a rendering library and storing rendering commands corresponding to command types of the graph structure in the rendering library, drawing the rendering commands in an off-screen bitmap, saving the off-screen bitmap as a JPEG file, sending the JPEG file to the electronic device and displaying the JPEG file in the attachment viewer. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091234 | MICROBLOG CLIENT, METHOD FOR AGGREGATING MICROBLOG MESSAGES, AND INSTANT MESSAGING CLIENT - The application provides a microblog client, a method for aggregating a microblog message, and an Instant Messaging (IM) client. The microblog client includes: a message pulling module, which is to pull a microblog message from an external network server according to location information; a message pool, which is to store the microblog message pulled by the message pulling module; and a geography page service module, which is to generate one or more geography pages, and display the microblog message on a corresponding geography page, based on the location information corresponding to the microblog message pulled. By adopting the client and method provided by the application, microblog messages may be aggregated based on the location information. And users may be facilitated to obtain microblog messages. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130097248 | COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY BY ENFORCING OFFLINE CONSUMPTION AND AUTO-TERMINATION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A restrictive presentation system can receive an electronic message configured for offline consumption expressed as user-specified delivery conditions. The electronic message can be securely conveyed to a computing device in an online state using a communications network. A client application of the restrictive presentation system can be installed upon the computing device and can receive the electronic message. The client application can detect a change of the computing device from the online state to the offline state. In response to user-acceptance, the electronic message can be presented upon the computing device while in the offline state. Upon user-termination of the presentation, the electronic message can be automatically deleted from a storage location of the computing device. When the computing device returns to the online state, the client application can notify the restrictive presentation system of the offline consumption. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097249 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROACTIVELY PROVISIONING EMERGENCY COMPUTER RESOURCES USING GEOSPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS - An emergency response system, method of responding to emergencies and a computer program product therefor. Networked provider computers are distributed over a geographical area that includes multiple regions with at least one providing computing capability to each region and each region receiving emergency response resources during emergencies from an emergency response computer. During any local emergency the area emergency response computer provides a local response and notifies other emergency response computers for other regions that are potentially affected by the emergency. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097250 | Protocol and Method for Securely and Remotely Controlling a Plurality of Target Applications on a Server Network - There is disclosed a Protocol and Common Method for remotely and securely controlling a plurality of target applications on a server network. The system includes a mail server configured to send and receive emails to and from a plurality of remote users, the mail server having a unique mailbox for storing emails received from each of the remote users. The system further includes a control application configured to control each target application by means of a plurality of text commands and read emails in the unique mailboxes. The control application is further configured to identify a text command in an email. The control application is configured to read a reference file containing a set of instructions for each target application on how the control application shall treat text commands for that target application, the control application being further configured to execute the text commands pursuant to the sets of instructions. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097251 | Method and System for Directly Targeting and Blasting Messages to Automatically Identified Entities on Social Media - Some embodiments provide a communication tool that directly sends messages to accounts of different entities across different social media sites by automatically identifying and associating the accounts of the entities when the entities are referenced in the contents of the messages. Such identification and association is performed without the message originator manually specifying the accounts as intended recipients for the messages. The communication tool also automatically sends messages to different social media accounts of the message originator. The communication tool also blasts messages to an information aggregator that aggregates messages to develop a database from which the messages that target a particular entity can be presented irrespective of whether the particular entity has registered an account with any social media site, irrespective of which social media site the messages are originally destined for, and irrespective of whether a recipient is explicitly specified for the messages by the message originator. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097252 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING AN OBJECT FROM AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE IN RESPONSE TO USER INPUT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating an object from an electronic message in response to user input. These mechanisms and methods for creating an object from an electronic message in response to user input can enable an automated technique for users to create an object from an electronic message. The ability to provide automated creation of objects from electronic messages may allow users to avoid manually creating an object storing information associated with an electronic message. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097253 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GROUP-RELATED SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION - Disclosed are computer implemented methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable media for providing information to an information feed associated with a group of an online social network. In some implementations, a network communication including a group address and data is received at a computing device. The group address is encoded to include a first identifier associating the network communication with a first user and a second identifier associating the network communication with the group. The group address is decoded to obtain the first identifier and the second identifier. At least a portion of the data in the network communication is provided as an information update to the information feed associated with the group, and the information update is included in the information feed for display on a display device. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097254 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE DELIVERY BASED ON PRESENCE NOTIFICATION - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097255 | TIME BASED ELECTRONIC MESSAGE DELIVERY - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097256 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECONFIGURING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097257 | MESSAGE TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SYSTEM, MESSAGE TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention aims to promote communication and provides a chat service in which users exchange messages while viewing a video. In the chat service, the messages are transmitted to users participating in the channel until an opening time period has passed, the messages being allowed to be sent and received during the opening time period. If any of the users pays a price, the opening time period of the channel is extended. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097258 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus and method includes receiving a plurality of addresses for transmitting mail including URL of a web page provided by the image forming apparatus, transmitting the mail including the URL of the web page to the plurality of addresses, and delivering, in response to a download request from an external apparatus via the web page indicated by the URL, to the external apparatus a setup file of a device driver for the image forming apparatus registered in a storage region of the image forming apparatus. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097259 | IN-PRODUCT MICRO-BLOGGING FOR DESIGN SHARING - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for generating a status update message. The method involves defining one or more status update criteria and monitoring user activity in a software application for the one or more status update criteria. The method further involves determining, based on the user activity, that the one or more status update criteria have been met and generating, via a processing unit, a status update message. The status update message includes multimedia content related to a project associated with the software application. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097260 | GROUPING AND DISPLAYING MESSAGES EXCHANGED BETWEEN A SENDER AND MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS - The disclosure is related to grouping and displaying messages exchanging between a sender and a plurality of recipients. A first message including a first tag may be sent to a plurality of recipient terminals. A second message may be received from at least one of the recipient terminals. The received second message may be grouped into a related message group based on the first tag and a second tag. The second tag may be included in the second message. The received second messages may be displayed within the related message group. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097261 | SAFE AND MONITORED VIRTUAL WORLD - The present invention relates to a system and method for safe electronic communication for children. According to one exemplary embodiment, the present invention provides a virtual world with avatars and online social interaction for children that is monitored by a parent or other guardian. In one embodiment, children may complete certain tasks for points that can be redeemed for certain awards. These tasks may include caring for a virtual pet that would allow the child to earn points to adopt a real pet from a pet store or humane society. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097262 | TWO-WAY REAL TIME COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS ASYMMETRIC PARTICIPATION IN CONVERSATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE ELECTRONIC PLATFORMS - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for receiving from responders conversation selection criteria and mode of communication information. A request for a conversation is received, from an initiator using a first communication mode, that identifies a topic, but does not identify any responders. A conversation identifier is created. Possible responders are determined based on the topic and the conversation selection criteria. The topic of the conversation is sent to the possible responders, without identifying the initiator. A first response from a first responder is received using a second communication mode that is different than the first communication mode. The first response is mapped to the conversation based in part on the conversation identifier. The response is sent to the initiator using the first communication mode. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097263 | COMPLETION PROCESSING FOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS INSTRUCTIONS - Completion processing of data communications instructions in a distributed computing environment with computers coupled for data communications through communications adapters and an active messaging interface (‘AMI’), injecting for data communications instructions into slots in an injection FIFO buffer a transfer descriptor, at least some of the instructions specifying callback functions; injecting a completion descriptor for each instruction that specifies a callback function into an injection FIFO buffer slot having a corresponding slot in a pending callback list; listing in the pending callback list callback functions specified by data communications instructions; processing each descriptor in the injection FIFO buffer, setting a bit in a completion bit mask corresponding to the slot in the FIFO where the completion descriptor was injected; and calling by the AMI any callback functions in the pending callback list as indicated by set bits in the completion bit mask. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097264 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING RESPONSE HANDLING TIME AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SCORES - A system and method disclosed for using and updating a database of template responses for a live agent in response to user communications. The method includes computing an average string distance between each response from a live agent and a template, use to generate the response, modifying the computed average string distance based on a customer satisfaction score associated with each response and selecting a response that minimizes the computed average string distance and maximizes customer satisfaction. Upon receiving a further communication on a certain issue, the system presents a prototype response that has been added to the template database to the live agent for use in generating a response to the further communication that reduces handling time and increases customer satisfaction. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097265 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING AND STORING CPM SERVICE MESSAGE AND SERVICE THEREOF - All the messages (even a session invitation message transmitted to establish a session for conversation) transmitted for conversion are stored by using a conversation ID and a contribution ID. Thus, a user A and a user B can read the stored conversation history any time through a certain terminal by using the conversation ID, the contribution ID, and the information regarding the object. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097266 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS IMPLEMENTING EDITING MESSAGE - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives messages, and a control unit that sends an editing message indicating that a reply message responding to a received message received by the receiving unit is being edited, to a sending source of the received message. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097267 | Method and Radio Communication Device for the Transmission Efficient Editing Of Multimedia Messages - In order to edit, in a transmission-efficient manner, multimedia news before sending or receiving such news, the existing user data volume (VOL) of a piece of multimedia news (MM) is determined prior to, during, and after putting together such piece of multimedia news (MM). At least one application reducing the original user data volume (VOL) of such piece of multimedia news (MM) is supplied and run in case a predefined user data volume threshold (SGx) or an upper price limit (SPx) is exceeded. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097268 | Message Filtering System - A message filtering system is provided including a message management unit and a message monitoring unit in communication with the message management unit. The message management unit is configured to send and receive message over a network and to route messages to the message monitoring unit based on a message source, and the message monitoring unit is configured to parse the message and locate identifiers in the message and to re-route the message based on the identifier located in the message. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097269 | Context-Sensitive Auto-Responder - In response to detecting an incoming message (such as an email message, a text message, or a voice message) sent by a sender to a recipient, a computer system determines whether a current context of the recipient satisfies a condition. If the current context of the recipient satisfies the condition, then the system selects a response message based on the current context and sends the response message to the sender. The system's decision about whether to respond automatically to subsequent messages sent to the recipient may vary as the recipient's context changes. Furthermore, the system may select and send different response messages based on changes in the recipient's context. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097270 | Conditional Auto-Responder - In response to detecting an incoming message (such as an email message, a text message, or a voice message) sent by a sender to a recipient, a computer system determines whether a current context of the recipient satisfies a condition. If the current context of the recipient satisfies the condition, then the system selects a response message based on the current context and sends the response message to the sender. The system's decision about whether to respond automatically to subsequent messages sent to the recipient may vary as the recipient's context changes. Furthermore, the system may select and send different response messages based on changes in the recipient's context. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097271 | METHOD, TERMINAL AND SERVER FOR DISPLAYING TEXT IN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEMS - The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for displaying texts in an instant messaging system. The method includes: obtaining the preconfigured text display format information while logging in the instant messaging system; displaying the received message sent from the instant message sender terminal using the preconfigured text display format. The embodiments of the present invention also disclose an electronic terminal, a server, or a communication system. The embodiments of the present invention can be implemented to achieve the automatic display of the received instant message according to the user's desired format, solving the problem of the current technologies that the text message display cannot meet user's individual needs, avoiding resetting the text display format for each chat, enhancing the performance of real-time instant messaging system, helping the user to use instant messaging systems more conveniently and improving the user experiences. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130103765 | Social Ad Hoc Networking Protocol and Presentation Layer - In one embodiment, a method includes implementing an ad hoc network protocol comprising transmitting, from a first mobile device, one or more neighbor messages that includes a first user identifier corresponding to a first user of the first mobile device, wherein the first user identifier corresponds to a user account of the first user in a social networking system, receiving, at the first mobile device, one or more second neighbor messages from one or more second mobile devices that include second user identifiers corresponding to respective second users of the one or more second mobile devices, wherein the second user identifiers correspond to respective user accounts of one or more second users in the social networking system, and storing, at the first mobile device, information received in the one or more second neighbor messages for access by one or more applications hosted on the first mobile device. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103766 | DYNAMICALLY UPDATING EMOTICON POOL BASED ON USER TARGETING - Embodiments are directed towards dynamically updating, in real-time, an emoticon pool of a user based on a current personal construct of the user. In one embodiment, real-time changes in the current personal construct of a user may result in a real-time update to the emoticon pool of the user, which can allow the user's emoticon pool to dynamically track the user's current personal construct. The current personal construct of a user may be determined by examining user targeted information associated with the user. In some embodiments, the user targeted information may include, but not limited to, static user information, dynamic user information, implicit user information, and/or dynamic external information. In one embodiment, a user's emoticon pool may be dynamically updated by modifying an appearance of one or more base emoticons in a base emoticon pool and/or one or more existing emoticons in the user's emoticon pool. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103767 | RETURN NOTIFICATIONS OF TASKS PERFORMED WITH ENTITIES - Feedback is provided to sources of information entities regarding subsequent utilization of those entities, thereby providing a measure of control through feedback loops that can include incentives or disincentives for specific tasks performed on entities, or tasks performed by specific services. An entity source, including intermediate sources and original authors of a cohesive collection of information that is an “entity”, provide those entities together with a return message template and an interface to which a return message is to be directed when a subsequent task is performed on that entity. Intermediate services, such as user agents, can add their own return message templates and interfaces to which return messages are to be directed. Subsequent performance of tasks on those entities comprises the creation and transmission of return messages to the interfaces specified and transmitted with the entity, thereby enabling prior systems to maintain logs of the utilization of an entity. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103768 | PHYSICIAN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD - The LynxIT Mobile System (LMS) provides efficient and economical communications solutions for healthcare professionals. The LMS provides physician to physician communication through mobile smartphone platforms, and rules, including role based rules that prevent unauthorized communications between users. The LMS interfaces with a paging system that provides paging services to the facilities, healthcare professionals, including physicians. The LMS and paging system may interface with staff directories and on-call schedules for hospitals and healthcare facilities accessible through a network. The LMS uses a staff directory and on-call schedule request service that communicates a request to accessible staff directories and on-call schedules for hospitals, healthcare professionals, and other healthcare facilities. The LMS and SPS ingest the directories returned from the request. In this way, physicians control communications between themselves and other healthcare professionals, and create private communications channels based on physician defined rules. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103769 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING COMMUNICATIONS - According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for processing messages are provided. The method comprises storing a plurality of messages in a memory of the server, each message having one of a plurality of thread identifiers; receiving a closing message via a communications interface, the closing message including a first thread identifier and a thread closing instruction; responsive to receiving the closing message, locating each of the plurality of messages having thread identifiers which match the first thread identifier; and updating a status indicator in association with each of the located messages. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103770 | DISTRIBUTED SEMI-SYNCHRONIZED EVENT DRIVEN PLAYBACK OF MULTIMEDIA - A system is provided for enabling attendees of an online broadcast within a collaborative environment to interact with multimedia content during the online broadcast. By rendering the content itself instead of images derived from the content that cannot be interacted with, attendees are enabled to either drive their own multimedia experience, including play, seek, pause/stop, or follow the presenter and consume the multimedia based on the presenter's action (play, pause, stop, seek). The multimedia content may be rendered on each attendee's individual client device through local caching, which contributes to playback quality such that each individual attendee may be able to interact with and control the playback experience of the multimedia content independently. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103771 | GENERATING PROCESSED WEB ADDRESS INFORMATION - Generating processed web address information is disclosed, including: receiving a request to share a webpage, wherein the request includes at least a first web address information associated with the webpage and user identification information associated with a first user; generating a second web address information based at least in part on the first web address information and the user identification information associated with the first user; and presenting the second web address information. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103772 | METHOD FOR AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - Processing for an Instant Messaging IM system includes obtaining contents of an IM session, identifying participants of the IM session, extracting, using a central processing unit, keywords of the IM session from the contents, and associating the keywords of the IM session, the participants of the IM session with the corresponding IM session. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103773 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION CONTROL DEVICE AND INFORMATION PRESENTATION CONTROL METHOD - An information presentation control device includes: an acquisition unit which acquires information items; an information total amount calculation unit which calculates a total amount of the information items; a sender importance level determining unit which determines sender importance levels each of which indicates how important a different one of senders is; an information total amount determining unit which determines whether or not the total amount of the information items is greater than a predetermined value; a filtering unit which performs, when it is determined that the total amount of the information items is greater than the predetermined value, at least one process on an information item having a lower sender importance level, among the information items, so that an amount of the information item is reduced more; and an output unit which outputs the information items after the filtering unit performs the process. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103774 | TRANSPORT HIGH AVAILABILITY VIA ACKNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT - Architecture that facilitates transport high availability for messaging services by providing the ability of a receiving entity (e.g., receiving message transfer agent (MTA)) to detect if a sending entity (e.g., sending MTA or client) is a legacy sending entity. When the receiving entity detects that the sending entity is a legacy system, by advertising transport high availability capability to the sending entity, if the sending entity does not opt-in to this capability, the receiving entity keeps the sending entity client “on hold”, that is, waiting for an acknowledgement (ACK) until the receiving entity delivers the message to the next hops (immediate destinations). This approach maintains at least two copies of the message until the message is successfully delivered (to the next hop(s)). Hence, if the legacy sending entity or the receiving entity fails, the message is still delivered successfully. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130103775 | INTERNET-PADS THAT INCLUDE A DIGITAL CAMERA, A TOUCH SENSITIVE SCREEN INTERFACE, AND SUPPORT FOR VOICE ACTIVATED COMMANDS - New Internet-Pad specifications that include voice activated command functions are disclosed and enabled. The Internet-Pad may include a touch sensitive screen, a digital camera, a wireless communication unit, an operating system, a graphical user interface, an e-mail application, an Internet browsing application, and an application for playing audio or video content. The Internet-Pad operating system supports an application programming interface (API). A user can install additional applications. The Internet-Pad may further include a microphone and a speaker for interacting via voice commands with the user. In some examples, the user may take a picture with the digital camera included in the Internet-Pad and transfer or synchronize the picture to a wireless output device. In other examples, the Internet-Pad may transmit an e-mail upon receiving voice commands, and the Internet-Pad also may stream or mirror digital content over the air to an output device via voice commands. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130110939 | Multi-Network Multi-Plane Structure Short Message Centre System and Implementation Method Thereof | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110940 | Setting Reminders From An Instant Messaging Application | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110941 | DOCUMENT SHARING THROUGH BROWSER | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110942 | Intelligent Message Routing And Delivery In A Telecommunications Network | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110943 | NOTIFICATION AND REMINDER GENERATION, DISTRIBUTION, AND STORAGE SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110944 | GENERATING AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE DURING A BROWSING SESSION | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110945 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110946 | AD HOC GROUP CHAT USING A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110947 | Systems and Methods of Providing Personalized Alerts | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110948 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONAL DELIVERY OF MESSAGES | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110949 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING RELEVANCY OF MESSAGES DELIVERED TO A DEVICE OVER A NETWORK | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110950 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT DELIVERY USING MULTIPLE TEMPLATES | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110951 | CONTENT BASED DATA ROUTING | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110952 | MANAGING VIRTUAL UNIVERSE AVATAR BEHAVIOR RATINGS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110953 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COHERENT UPDATING OF COLLATED MESSAGE LISTINGS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110954 | Inline Media | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110955 | Message Processing in a Messaging Service Client Device | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110956 | Group Messaging | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130117380 | DYNAMIC CONTENT GENERATION IN EMAIL MESSAGES - Certain embodiments enable improved email communications by including a dynamic-content section in an email where the dynamic-content section is updated with current values when the email is opened by a user. Both the user and the dynamic content may be selected based on network behavior of the user as well as other characteristics of the network. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117381 | Controlling Notification Based on Power Expense and Social Factors - In one embodiment, a computer system determines a wireless transmit cost for each of one or more outgoing messages for a first user, and transmits to the first user's mobile device at least one of the one or more outgoing messages based on the mobile device's power state and respective wireless transmit costs of the one or more outgoing messages. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117382 | PUSH MESSAGING PLATFORM WITH HIGH SCALABILITY AND HIGH AVAILABILITY - A push messaging platform includes a push server system having push engines (PE) for maintaining persistent connections with mobile devices, and push controllers (PC) for maintaining records of mobile devices' connections. The platform provides high scalability by including a load balancer for distributing connection requests received from mobile devices across the PEs, and dispatchers for forwarding each received message to a PC associated with the mobile device identified in the message. The platform provides high availability by using local backup PCs and remote mirror PCs. A global registered process (GRP) on each PC is linked to a process on a backup PC, and the backup process replaces the GRP if the GRP fails. Local registered processes (LRP) on each PC are linked to corresponding processes on a remotely located mirror PC, and the mirror process replaces the LRP if the LRP fails. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117383 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSERTION OF ADDRESSES IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A system and method are provided for identifying suggested addressees of for messages being composed, based on keyword content of the composed message's subject line and/or message body. When a message is being composed at a messaging client, a request comprising at least a portion of the subject line or body is sent to a server or similar device. In response, the server provides an identification of possible addressees having a highest score associated with keywords identified in the transmitted portion. One or more of these addressees can be selected for inclusion in an address field of the composed message. Identification of the suggested addressees is based on a score assessed based on the number of forwarded messages received by those addressees containing those keywords, where repeated receipt of forwarded messages increases the addressee's score associated with those keywords. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117384 | Reconfiguring Remote Controls for Different Devices in a Network - A control device transmits a first type of signal and a second type of signal as part of transmitting an instruction. An electronic device receives the first signal and determines the control device is paired with another device. The electronic device displays a notification indicating such as well as a prompt requesting confirmation to pair the control device. Upon receiving an affirmative response, the electronic device notifies the other device, which transmits unpairing information to the control device. The control device then unpairs from the other device. The other device also transmits pairing information to the control device via the electronic device and the control device utilizes the information to pair with the electronic device. In some implementations, the other device may receive a request to locate the control device. In response, the other device displays that the control device has been paired with the electronic device. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117385 | PERSONAL AREA NETWORK OF DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS - A device receives, by using a first communication technique, a message from a first user device. The device identifies a profile associated with the first user device or a user of the first user device. The device further identifies, in the profile, a relevant rule, based on the message, and a second user device that is designated as a primary user device of the user associated with the profile. By using a second communication technique, the device transmits a request for instructions to the second user device based on the relevant rule, and receives the instructions from the second user device. The instructions specify a third user device selected by the user. The device generates a command based on the relevant rule. The device transmits, by using a third communication technique, the command to the third user device. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117386 | CONTROL METHOD FOR PERFORMING SOCIAL MEDIA FUNCTION BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING REMOTE CONTROLLER AND THE REMOTE CONTROLLER THEREOF - A control method for performing a social media function by an electronic device using a remote controller and the remote controller thereof are disclosed. After issuing to the electronic device a command of playing media, the remote controller uploads a media play latest status data to a server. Then, the server sends a connection status data to the remote controller according to the media play latest status data as well as directories and media play latest status data previously uploaded by the other remote controller. The remote controller makes reference to the connection status data, displays on a display the latest connection information pertaining to persons recorded in the directories, and optionally executes a social chat program to enable interactive communication. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117387 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFIED CONTRACT ACCEPTANCE - The invention provides a system and method for determining when a message is received by a recipient or an agent for the recipient. A link is activated at the recipient to provide an indication that the message has been opened by the recipient. The activation of the link may cause a server remote from the recipient to take some further action. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117388 | Method and System for Creating Multimedia Message - The present invention provides a method for creating a multimedia message, including: receiving a request for creating the multimedia message; establishing a connection channel of a multimedia message resource pool and a module storing multimedia message content resources on a mobile terminal; storing a required multimedia message content resource into the multimedia message resource pool through the connection channel; and organizing the multimedia message content resource in the multimedia message resource pool according to preset multimedia message organization parameters, and generating the multimedia message. With the technical scheme of the present invention, it can be avoided that switching always happens between the multimedia message creation interface and the resource management interface repeatedly in the multimedia message creation process and the user operation can be simplified. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117389 | POSTED MESSAGE PROVIDING SYSTEM, POSTED MESSAGE PROVIDING APPARATUS, POSTED MESSAGE PROVIDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Posted message providing systems, apparatuses, methods, and programs obtain a message posted on a computer network by a poster and location information associated with the posted message. The systems, apparatuses, methods, and programs obtain a poster location history that includes the specific locations of the poster in the past obtained at predetermined intervals. The systems, apparatuses, methods, and programs correct the location information associated with the posted message based on a text of the obtained posted message and the obtained poster location history, and communicate the posted message based on the corrected location information. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117390 | LOCAL AREA SOCIAL NETWORKING - A local area social networking server limits social networking activity to people likely to be in close physical proximity to one another and likely to be engaged in similar activities, even people previously unknown to each other, by only permitting social networking between computing devices that are connected to one another through a common local area network. The server identifies recipient devices for a message that (i) are coupled to the same local area network as the sending device, (ii) are associated with demographic characteristics that match those specified for the message as intended recipients, and (iii) are indicated by receptivity data to be receptive to the message and the sender. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117391 | Messaging System - Disclosed herein is a messaging method for a recipient and a sender. Inputs for composing a first message are received from the sender. Inputs for a predetermined amount of time for the first message to expire are also received from the sender. The first message is sent to the recipient and stored in a memory associated with the sender. The electronic device of the recipient attempts to receive the first message. The first message is deleted from the electronic device of the recipient after the predetermined amount of time has expired. If the first message is not read by the recipient before the predetermined amount of time has expired, a non-delivery notification is created and sent to the sender. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117392 | Messaging System - Disclosed herein is a communication method between two or more users which involves using a single software application to switch between a first mode of electronic messaging and a second mode of electronic messaging. Both the first mode of electronic messaging and the second mode of electronic messaging are between a first electronic device associated with a first user and a second electronic device associated with a second user. In the first mode of messaging, inputs are received from the first user for composing a regular message which is then sent to the second user in data transmitted through a server and saved in a memory. In the second mode of messaging, inputs are received from the first user for composing a confidential message which is then sent to the second user in data transmitted through the server, and the data is irretrievable at a later time. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117393 | EMAIL MESSAGE HANDLING BASED ON DATA OF NON-EMAIL INTERACTIONS - Systems, methods, and/or computer program products for handling email messages. In some embodiments, data relating to non-email interactions involving a user and one or more parties may be stored in memory. Therefore, in these embodiments it may be determined, at least partly based on this data, how to handle an email message for the user from an email address associated with any of these party/ies. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117394 | METHOD FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION CONTAINED IN MESSAGES IN A MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL, A SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES, AND A MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL - A method for presenting information contained in messages in a terminal (MS). In the method, the message includes at least one component. The message is transmitted to a terminal (MS) in a system for transmitting multimedia messages. In the method, a presentation model (SMIL) is formed to contain information related to the presentation of each component attached in the message. The aforementioned presentation model (SMIL) is supplemented with a reference about the location of each component in the message, and the aforementioned presentation model (SMIL) is attached to the aforementioned message. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117395 | Remote Home/Office Monitoring and Control Using Skype - Disclosed is a method for monitoring and control of local or remote premises using a peer-to-peer communication infrastructure. The method uses messages transmitted over the peer-to-peer communication infrastructure to relate various data and control signals. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117396 | MESSAGE FILTERING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods and systems can filter messages, such as electronic mail (email) messages. According to one example, a method reads sender information for an electronic mail message, wherein the sender information comprises a domain name and a first IP address. The method determines a second IP address associated with a web page associated with the domain name. The method compares the first IP address to the second IP address and provides an indication of likelihood that the electronic mail message constitutes spam based on the comparison of the first IP address to the second IP address. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117397 | STOPPING AND REMEDIATING OUTBOUND MESSAGING ABUSE - Systems and methods are provided for allowing subscriber message sending profiles to be maintained and used in conjunction with behavior-based anomaly detection techniques and traditional content-based spam signature filtering to enable application of appropriate message disposition policies to outbound subscriber message traffic. According to one embodiment, subscriber profiles are constructed for multiple subscriber accounts associated with a service provider based on outbound message flow originated from the subscriber accounts. Then, possible subscriber account misuse may be discovered by performing behavior-based anomaly detection, including a comparison of a subscriber profile associated with the subscriber account with recent subscriber account usage information, to identify one or more behavioral anomalies in outbound message flow originated from a subscriber account, the behavior-based anomaly detection. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117398 | Annotating and Routing Message Content - Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business for improving communication, whereby message content is routed efficiently while allowing different recipients to receive different versions of the content. A portion of the electronic conversation in an instant messaging session (or of messages in other messaging systems) can be identified as being relevant to a third party (or parties), and information can be specified for routing the relevant information to that third party. A variety of delivery mechanisms may be used. Approval may be obtained prior to routing an annotated message. The recipients of annotated message may be human users and/or automated processes. The message author may also be a human or an automated process. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117399 | RECONFIGURING AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE TO EFFECT AN ENHANCED NOTIFICATION - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117400 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - The present invention relates to an electronic document distribution system and to an electronic document distribution method, which can construct an electronic document distribution system for providing not only enterprise/institutions with reliability, but also individuals and small companies. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130124639 | MAIL DELIVERY METHOD AND MAIL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE TERMINAL - The present invention provides a mail delivery method for a mobile terminal, which method comprises: a server sending a mail from a sender to a mobile terminal; and the mobile terminal displaying the mail at the time point set by the sender. The present invention further provides a mail system, which system comprises: a server for sending a mail from a sender to a mobile terminal; and the mobile terminal for displaying the mail at the time point set by the sender. The present invention solves the problem in the prior art, which is the fixed-time sending of the mail may be delayed, by means of fixed-time display, thus making the mail alert more punctual. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124640 | Aggregate Provider for Social Activity Feeds and Contact Information - A method is presented for obtaining contact information on a client computer. A request is received to display contact information for a person on an email application running on the client computer. A determination is made as to whether third party contact information is available for a user of the email application. Instructions are obtained from a server computer for obtaining the third party contact information from a third party computer associated with a social network. Instructions are obtained from the server computer for formatting the third party contact information on the client computer. Using the instructions from the server computer for obtaining the third party contact information, the third party contact information is obtained from the third party computer. Using the instructions from the server computer for formatting the third party contact information, the obtained third party contact information is formatted and displayed on the client computer. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124641 | System for Interacting with a Web Visitor - A system for interacting with a person browsing a web site has an Internet-connected server and a connected data repository, and software executing on the server from a non-transitory physical medium. The software provides an identity function identifying the person, a selection function checking the data repository for stored information regarding the identified person, including any tracking rules associated with the identified person, and one or more tracking functions monitoring and recording behavior of the person browsing the web site. The one or more tracking functions follow the tracking rules, if any, associated with the identified person in monitoring and recording behavior of the browsing person. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124642 | USER AVAILABILITY AWARENESS - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing awareness of user availability. A user may activate a device, and a request to manage an availability status can be sent from the device to a communication service. The communication service may resultantly set up monitoring of the user status, and the availability status of the user can be set to available. If an active status update is not received from the user device, the availability status of the user can be changed from available to away. If an active status update for the user continues not to be received (e.g., for a few hours) and/or device connectivity seems lost, the availability status of the user can be changed from away to offline. This can be done in a resource/power efficient manner by not requiring continual execution of an associated application and/or continual network connectivity of the device. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124643 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION THREAD MANAGEMENT - Described are systems and methods for managing an electronic communication thread. A thread is identified between a first electronic device and a plurality of second electronic devices. A parameter is generated to stop watching communications generated by the second electronic devices related to the thread. At least one new communication from the second electronic devices is detected, the at least one new communication related to the thread. An action is performed in accordance with criteria established with respect to the thread in response to detecting the at least one new communication. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124644 | REPUTATION SERVICES FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA IDENTITY - Reputation services can determine a “reputation” to associate with a Social Media Identity. For example, a social media identity may develop a trustworthy or an untrustworthy reputation. An untrustworthy reputation can be attained if a user (i.e., identity) posts content similar to email spam messages or links to inappropriate content. Inappropriate content can include illegal copies of material (e.g., violation of copyright) or malicious content among other types. Reputation can be used to inform other users of the potential “quality” of that identity's posts or to filter posts from a particular identity so as not to “bother” other users. An identity's reputation could also be calculated across a plurality of Social Media sites when identifying information from each site can be related to a real world entity. Individual users could set their own filtering options to enhance and refine their own experience on Social Media sites. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124645 | PROVIDING USER-DEFINED MESSAGES - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products provide user-defined messages. In one embodiment, user-defined messaging configurations can be defined. Then, a record queue can be monitored for the entry of new records. New records can be evaluated to determine whether they are associated with user-defined messaging configurations. For the records so associated, reports defined in the user-defined messaging configurations can be requested and used to create user-defined messages. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING, COLLECTING, ENRICHING AND RANKING OF EMAIL OBJECTS - Enriching emails includes: receiving a user's email messages; performing a semantic analysis on the email message body; deriving a plurality of objects of interest; associating search-based content with the objects of interest; ranking the objects of interest; and outputting the ranked objects with the search-based content into a current email message of the user. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124647 | GROUPWARE-INTEGRATED BUSINESS DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT - A system may include generation of a markup language representation of a business document based on a business object model, and generation of a first multi-part MIME electronic mail message comprising a first part and a second part, the first part associated with a text content-type and the second part associated with an attachment content-disposition, and the second part comprising the markup language representation of the business document. The first electronic mail message may be transmitted to a business application platform associated with the business document and implementing the business object model. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124648 | Email Filtering Based on Social Networking Information - A system and machine-implemented method for automatically generating an email filter based on social networking groups, including receiving an indication of one or more social groups associated with a user, wherein each of the one or more social groups is associated with the user's account in a social networking service, determining, using the one or more computing devices, one or more contacts associated with each of the one or more social groups associated with the user at the social networking service, determining, using the one or more computing devices, one or more email addresses corresponding to each of the one or more contacts, generating an email filter according to the one or more email addresses and applying the generated email filter to an email list of a user. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124649 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CONTENT MODIFICATION MESSAGES - System and methods for managing content modification messages are provided. In some embodiments, a request to send a modification message to a second user is received from a first user. The request to send the modification message pertains to a modification made to a first user-specific version corresponding to the first user and represented by a first delta. The modification message comprising a second delta is generated. The modification message includes second instructions to modify a second user-specific version to include the modification within the second user-specific version by resolving the first delta and the first user-specific version to the second user-specific version. A message indicator for the modification message is provides to a client device of the second user. The message indicator identifies the first user as the sender of the modification message. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124650 | E-mail Integrated Instant Messaging - A system and method supporting instant messaging which removes many of the problems and harriers to the use of instant messaging through the use of universally unique identifiers to web pages for instant messaging sessions, with recipients invited to the instant messaging session via email. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124651 | GROUP MESSAGING FOR FACILITATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN USERS - A group messaging relationship establishment method is provided. The method includes determining, by a web server, whether a number of comments relating to information exceeds a predetermined first numerical threshold within a predefined first time period, in response to the number of comments relating to the information exceeding the predetermined first numerical threshold within the predefined first time period, establishing a corresponding instant messaging group relating to the information, and recording a unique identifier information for the instant messaging group relating to the information. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124652 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS RECOMMENDATION SERVICE - An electronic device and a method for providing a content recommendation service are disclosed. A controller detects a user action for requesting content recommendation, extracts content information about content displayed on a screen in response to the detected user action, and generates a content post request message including the extracted content information and ID information. A network interface transmits the generated content post request message to an electronic device or a server. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124653 | SEARCHING, RETRIEVING, AND SCORING SOCIAL MEDIA - Computer-implemented systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating a social media score comprising: receiving a request for a score of an asset from a client computing device; receiving a plurality of posts from one or more social media networks relating to the asset; identifying a sentiment of each post; identifying a reach of each post; storing an identification of the asset, the sentiment of the post, and the reach of the post in association with each post in a dataset; generating a score for the asset, the score being a function of the sentiment the posts relating to the asset, the reach of the posts relating to the asset, and a volume of posts relating to the asset; and transmitting the score to the client computing device for display in a user interface. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124654 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING MESSAGES BY MEANS OF TOKENS BROUGHT IN PROXIMITY TO SAID TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND TOKEN - The invention pertains to a terminal for exchanging messages by placing tokens near it. The terminal comprises communication means to exchange information with a database, detection means for identifying local tokens placed near the terminal, display means for displaying remote tokens, and proximity logic configured to assert a proximity relationship between tokens or between a token and a reference point. The terminal exchanges information about the topology of its tokens and that of tokens present at other terminals via the database. The terminal displays tokens present near remote copies of the local tokens, based on information obtained from the database. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124655 | Electronic Communication Clarification System - A computer implemented method and system is provided for clarifying electronic communication between an originator and a recipient. The originator declares characteristics of an originating message by specifying intent and linguistic type of communication using an application software provided on an originator communication device. The originator transmits the originating message to the recipient via a communication network. The application software on the recipient communication device recognizes the properties and declared characteristics for classification and categorization of the transmitted originating message. The application software determines requirement of a first response message as a reply to the transmitted originating message and generates response message templates that declare characteristics of the first response message based on the categorization. The recipient creates the first response message by selecting one of the response message templates and transmits the first response message to the originator. The communication loop continues until the electronic communication is declared complete. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124656 | Processing Method for Mobile Device to Display Email, Server, and Mobile Device - The present invention relates to a processing method for a mobile device to display an email, a server, and a mobile device. The method for processing an email includes: after receiving an email downloading request from a client, checking, by a server, a processing capability of the client, where the processing capability is reported to the server by the client when the client is connected to the server, and where the processing capability includes a supported coding/decoding manner and character set; in the case that the client does not have a capability for processing an email that is requested to be downloaded, converting, by the server and according to the processing capability of the client, a body of the email into a format that is processable for the client; and sending, by the server, a converted email to the client, so that the client displays an attachment. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124657 | Routing Function Multimedia Message Service Gateway - The present invention discloses a multimedia message system, which includes: aSP; a Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC), which is configured to receive, store and send multimedia messages; and a Multimedia Message Service Gateway (MMSG) connecting with at least one MMSC and the SP belonging to the MMSG respectively, which serves to authenticate the SP and a user in the multimedia message and a provided service, and to send the multimedia messages from the SP or the MMSC. And the present invention provides three methods for sending multimedia messages. The system and methods provided by the present invention can lower the load of the MMSC and enhance the security of the MMSC. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124658 | INTEGRATION OF COLLABORATION SYSTEMS IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - A user of an instant messaging application may interact with instant messaging contacts in other collaboration applications (e.g., e-mail, calendar applications, etc.). IM conversations may relate to information in the collaboration applications. For example, an employee may send an e-mail containing marketing data to his manager and wishes to discuss the data further. The employee sends an IM to the manager referencing the data. The manager should read the e-mail before responding, but the manager may not know that she received the e-mail. Information from a plurality of collaboration applications can be integrated into an instant messaging application. A collaboration integration unit can collect and associate information from the collaboration applications with instant messaging contacts and provide suggestions based on the information. In the previous example, the manager's instant messaging application collects information from an e-mail application and indicates that she has an unread e-mail from the employee. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124659 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PEER-TO-PEER MEDIA ROUTING USING A THIRD PARTY INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR SIGNALING - An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to engage in a call with another endpoint using a third party instant message system to carry instant messages containing signaling information and a route that is external to the third party instant message system for both signaling and media information. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124660 | Messenger Client And Method For Updating Messages In Messenger Client - Updating messages in a messenger client includes a messenger client judging whether it is necessary to pull a new message or a new message notification from a messenger server according to a state of the messenger client; performing an action of pulling a new message notification from the messenger server in response to a determination that it is necessary to pull a new message notification; and performing an action of pulling new messages from the messenger server in response to a determination that it is necessary to pull a new message. The messenger client includes a state judging module and a pulling module. A new message notification is pulled when it is determined it is only necessary to pull a new message notification. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124661 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SIMPLIFIED COMPUTING FUNCTIONALITIES TO A USER - Described herein are systems and methods for providing simplified computing functionalities to a user. In overview, an arrangement is provided whereby a simplified computing device is provided to a user, for example a user with relatively low computer literacy. The device provides a user interface, which is preferably remotely configurable by another user via a remote terminal. This in some embodiments is achieved by a web-based intermediary service, which may be a subscription-based service. In some embodiments the user interface is remotely configured to provide the user with simplified access to multimedia, messaging, and some data obtained from social networking facilities. In some embodiments various forms of web content shared by various channels are normalized for display on the simplified computing device. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124662 | INFORMATION REGISTRATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION REGISTRATION METHOD, INFORMATION REGISTRATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - While making it possible to register generation information used to generate a Web page for each topic by sending element information being components of the Web page by an email and add element information to the generation information by an email, it is made difficult for persons other than a person who registered the generation information to add the element information. When a receiver address included in a received email is a first address, an information registration apparatus registers generation information included in the email and transmits an email including a unique second address corresponding to the generation information to a sender of the received email, and when the receiver address is a second address and the receiver address is not the same as receiver addresses included in emails received before, the information registration apparatus adds element information to the generation information corresponding to the receiver address included in the currently received email. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130132487 | PEER-TO-PEER CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - In a peer-to-peer connection establishment method, processing modules installed at the two peers use a reliable network space as a transmission medium to transmit an online transmission request to the space to obtain channel establishment information from the opposite party, such that data can be communicated between both parties directly via a remote connection to assure the privacy of information, so as to enhance the safety of using a network. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132488 | Location Aware Sticky Notes - In one embodiment, a computer system creates for a first user a location-triggered note specific for a second user and for a particular location, determines the second user's location, and transmits the location-triggered note to the second user if the second user is at the particular location. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132489 | LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system incorporating techniques described in this paper includes a bubble server capable of facilitating the creation of location-based virtual networks (“bubbles”) that bubble clients can join. Bubble clients can be implemented on mobile devices that can contact the bubble server via a network connection. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132490 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN APPLICATION MESSAGING INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for an application messaging integration framework. An example method includes receiving a user input at a first clinical viewer via an integrated interface. The example method includes sending a message based on the input to a second clinical viewer via an application and messaging integrator. The application and messaging integrator is created to facilitate communication between the first and second clinical viewers. The example method includes updating information at the second clinical viewer based on the message. The example method includes displaying the updated information at the second clinical viewer via the integrated interface. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132491 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DATABASE MANAGEMENT METHOD, DATABASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES SAID PROGRAM | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132492 | Electronic Mail Display Device - To provide a technique for facilitating the management of an attachment file attached to an electronic mail. A client apparatus acquires attachment position information in a text of the electronic mail and stores it associated with an identifier of the electronic mail, in receiving the electronic mail with attachment file. Upon receiving an instruction for displaying the electronic mail from the user, the client apparatus arranges a graphic representing the attachment file of the electronic mail on a child screen that displays the reduced screen of a parent screen that displays the electronic mail based on the corresponding attachment position information, and displays the child screen together with the parent screen. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132493 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION AND SHARING RELATIONSHIPS - Systems and methods for synchronizing and sharing data associated with sharing relationships are disclosed. Such systems and methods may be implemented by interfacing with an application that manages or accesses the data to be shared, and by making shared data available using a feed along with some mechanism for tracking changes or enabling synchronization between different endpoints. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132494 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE PACING - A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits first and second messages to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by a characteristic of the second message. The system sends the first message to an intended recipient. The system determines a separation based on a pacing algorithm and sends the second message to the recipient according to the separation. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132495 | MESSAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A message processing system, including an e-mail server for receiving and storing e-mails for a recipient, and an e-mail manager for processing e-mails for a recipient to determine if the e-mails are approved based on stored criteria, sending approved e-mails for the recipient to a location for access by the recipient, and storing and sending a notification to the recipient of unapproved messages. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132496 | COMPUTER BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOGGING IN A USER MOBILE DEVICE AT A SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEM - The invention provides a computer-based method for logging a user mobile device onto a server computer system including registering a unique identifier of a user mobile device, receiving a first message from the user mobile device, detecting an Internet Protocol address associated with the user mobile device, receiving the unique identifier corresponding to the Internet Protocol address; and transmitting to the user mobile device a second message. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132497 | COLLABORATIVE HELP FOR USER APPLICATIONS - Collaborative help for user applications includes: generating a message, the message being reflective of a user's experience in using a user application; sending the message to a collaborative help server to share the message with other users; and receiving a response from the server providing information regarding one or more other users' experience similar to the user's experience reflected in the message. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130138744 | FAST MANEUVERING AND HIGH-SPEED DATA ATTACHMENTS FOR MESSAGE SERVICES - Embodiments are directed towards a message system that stores and tags message attachment files to enable a user to navigate a personalized hierarchical structure of tags (“PHST”) and to select files for attachment to a message. The files may be received as a message attachment sent to the user and/or uploaded by the user as an attachment to a message sent from the user. The tags may include automatic tags determined by the system and/or custom tags defined by the user. The PHST may be provided to the user in a graphical user interface that enables the user to expand and/or collapse tags within levels of tags and to select a tag to attach files associated with the selected tag to a message. In some embodiments, targeted advertisements may be provided to the user based on information associated with the tags. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION INQUIRIES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a processor that can determine a standard inquiry message from an inquiry command captured at a first communication device of a first user. The standard inquiry message can have an importance rating based on an urgency of the inquiry command and based on behavior information associated with the first user. The processor can deliver the standard inquiry message and the importance rating to a communications management agent of a second communication device, where an inquiry indicator accompanies the delivery of the standard inquiry message at the second communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138746 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION EXCHANGES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a message and an importance rating for the message where the importance rating is determined by a second communications management agent of a server based on an analysis of content of the message. The system can access rating feedback information associated with the second communications management agent. A rating accuracy for the importance rating of the particular message can be determined based on the rating feedback information, and the method of providing the message to the intended recipient can be adjusted based on the determined accuracy. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138747 | SOLICITED AUTHENTICATION OF A SPECIFIC USER - Secure web-based messaging according to a “push” paradigm is augmented by specific, intended recipient authentication. In particular, a document can be sent to a specified, intended recipient through the Web using e-mail recipient notification, and the recipient is authenticated prior to delivering the document to the recipient. Such authentication prevents a cracker from snooping a delivery notification e-mail message and retrieving the document prior to retrieval by the true intended recipient. In addition, such authentication of the recipient is driven by the sender such that prior participation by the recipient in the messaging system according to the present invention is required. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138748 | BUDDY LIST- BASED CALENDARING - Instant messaging (IM) entities may be invited to an electronic calendar event using an instant message. Selecting the IM entities as invitees to the event may include dragging and dropping names of the IM entities from a buddy list of an IM application to an event from an electronic calendar application, or vice versa. A method of inviting an entity to a calendar event includes providing a calendar event from a calendar application and recognizing, by the calendar application, an IM entity as an invitee to the event. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138749 | SOCIAL DIALOGUE LISTENING, ANALYTICS, AND ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of social media listening, analytics, and engagement systems and method are described herein where a system user may listen to and analyze social media content based on one or more key terms. The system may expand the key terms and listen to additional social media content based on the expanded terms. The system may also enable a user to engage social media participants related to the social media content via multiple campaigns. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138750 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES - In a method for processing messages with the aid of at least one Ethernet controller having a message store, the at least one Ethernet controller checks a received message for the presence of at least one property, and the received message is stored in the message store if this at least one property applies to the message. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138751 | ROLE-INDEPENDENT CONTEXT EXCHANGE - Technologies for conversations between various parties, the conversations including context information that can be persisted to maintain the conversation when the parties or the communications media they communicate over operate intermittently. In such a conversation, any party can embed its view of the context into a message and any party can send the next message regardless of role and regardless of the underlying network, transport, or application message exchange pattern. Such technologies provide for durable services. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138752 | RELATIONSHIP-MANAGED COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - Systems and methods for managing computer-assisted communications channels based on relationships between users who wish to communicate with one another are described. The relationship-managed communications system allows users to retain control over whom they permit to communicate with them and under what conditions such communications may take place, for example when they take place and/or using which communications channels, by allowing pairs of users to establish relationships which specify communications permissions. Users of the system provide their contact information to the relationship-managed communications system, and the system uses the securely stored information to mediate the establishment of communications channels between users. Embodiments of the system may intelligently route communications to substitute channels based on relationship-related and other information. Systems and methods are further provided for selectively publishing information about users and for providing event notification services in association with the establishment of relationships. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138753 | TOPIC-BASED MESSAGING USING CONSUMER ADDRESS AND POOL - In a multicast publisher-subscriber environment, a configurator machine manages a consumer pool of multiple receiver machines. The consumer pool is dedicated to a topic. Each receiver machine has a unique consumer address within the consumer pool allocated by the configurator machine. The configurator machine receives registration data from a receiver machine to be added to the consumer pool and provides a consumer address to the receiver machine. The receiver machine transmits a multicast communication to advertise its availability to receive messages on the topic. The multicast communication includes the consumer address. A transmitter machine may publish a message on the topic. The message may be a multicast communication directed to any receiver machine in to the consumer pool, or the message may be a point-to-point communication directed to the receiver machine with the consumer address. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138754 | Displaying A Known Sender's Identifier To A Recipient Of A Joint Senders' Message - An approach is provided in which a request is received from a requestor to send a new email message to one or more recipients on behalf of a selected joint sender group (JSG). The selected JSG includes multiple JSG members with one of the JSG members being the requestor. Permissions corresponding to the JSG are then retrieved and compared to the requestor and the contents of the new email message are identified. The new email message is then sent to the recipients in response to determining, based on the comparison, that the requestor has permission to send the new email message on behalf of the selected JSG. On the other hand, the sending of the new email message is inhibited in response to determining that the requestor lacks permission to send the new email message on behalf of the selected JSG. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138755 | System and Method for Multiple Accounts to Access Internet Message Access Protocol Server - A method and system for multiple accounts accessing an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) server are provided by the present document. The method includes: an IMAP client establishing a single IMAP link between the IMAP client and the IMAP server for multiple accounts of one user; and when logging in the IMAP server, the IMAP client sending a login request to the IMAP server based on the IMAP link, and the IMAP server completing verification of the multiple accounts after receiving the login request. In the present invention, it can be implemented that the user uses the multiple accounts (i.e. mail boxes) to access the IMAP server simultaneously, thereby improving the user experience. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130144956 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A message data acquisition unit acquires message data including a message and additional information. An event ID acquisition unit acquires, when a condition fulfillment detection unit determines that a condition is fulfilled, condition identification information identifying the fulfilled playing condition in the game. A display information generation unit displays a message in the message data including the additional information corresponding to the acquired condition identification information, in a game screen displayed on a display device. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144957 | Real-Time Social Networking - Techniques for exploring social connections in an in-memory database include identifying an attribute in a user profile associated with a first user; executing a query against a data element stored in an in-memory database, the query including the attribute in the user profile; identifying a second user from results of the query, the second user associated with the data element based on a relationship between the second user and the first user defined by the attribute; and generating displayable information associated with the second user. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144958 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING GAME MECHANICS TO ENCOURAGE SMARTER REPOSITORY USE BY EMAIL USERS - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for processing an email are disclosed. For example, the method receives a statistic associated with the email, calculates a score for the email based upon the statistic, updates an overall score of a sender of the email based upon the score that is calculated, and presents the overall score that is updated to a display device of the sender. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144959 | Using Text Summaries of Images to Conduct Bandwidth Sensitive Status Updates - Systems and methods of conducting status updates may incorporating a text summary of an image into a status update message, and determining whether to incorporate the image into the status update message based on a network condition associated with a network. In addition, the status update message can be sent via the network wherein, in one example, the status message is sent only to remote parties having a status that satisfies a relevance condition with respect to the content of the text summary. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANNOUNCING DEATH OF A USER IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and a system are provided for announcing and checking an accuracy of a user death event in a worldwide communication network. The identity of an announcer of a death news is registered in the network. The inquiry messages are sent to the user and his/her reliable friends to authenticate or deny the death news. The user profile in the network is customized based on the predefined conditions set by the user before his/her death to send a user created preset death message to the friends/members and to display the preset message in a personal page of the user profile after confirming the death news. The preset messages are sent to the friends/member at preset dates/intervals, after the death of the user. The preset user request is sent to the internet service providers to block the user email addresses and registered profiles after the death. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION INTERACTIVELY BY INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - An information providing method and system that may provide information while conversing with a user through an instant messaging application is disclosed. The information providing system enables a user terminal to add, as a friend, a software bot which may be a virtual friend configured in an artificial software program through the instant messaging application executed in a user terminal. When the user inputs and transmits a message to the software bot through a conversation session, the information providing system may retrieve an appropriate response corresponding to the message from a database by inputting the message as a query, and may transmit the response to the user terminal, thereby providing the response to the user through the conversation session. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144962 | System and Method for Enhancing Digital Content - A computer-readable medium including computer-executable code for enhancing an electronic document with one link and being served via a network responsively to a request received via the network and correspondent to an electronic document. The chat application may be for use with a mobile device and be less computing resource intensive. Certain embodiments of the present invention may not require a code or applets to be inserted to provide chat functionality. Advantageously, only a link may need to be inserted, for example. This may provide particularly well suited for use with websites where traditional chat code or applets may not be inserted. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144963 | Sua sponte establishment of large-scale person-to-person emergency electronic messaging communications based in part on subscriber telephone numbers - Lessons of the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attack (9/11), the Aug. 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, the Mar. 11, 2011 tsunami off the coast of Tohoku Japan and ensuing Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant malfunction, and the Oct. 29, 2012 Hurricane Sandy are incorporated. Methods are disclosed for rapidly establishing alternate electronic messaging for person-to-person communications in a large-scale emergency. Details for constructing electronic access addresses comprised in part by subscriber telephone numbers and an event identifier, allows the provider to establish a default system with no specific information from the user while allowing the user to access the messages in a systematic way. No registration or passwords are required, which allows free access to all interested parties. Methods are disclosed to reunite lost pets with owners and employ cloud computing and data storage services to provide the equipment on an as needed basis. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144964 | MANAGING INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS ON MULTIPLE DEVICES - Transferring instant messaging sessions includes receiving a selection, from a user within a user interface, of at least one instant messaging session from among multiple instant messaging sessions to transfer from a first instant messaging controller on a first device to at 5 least a second instant messaging controller on a second device, where the user is signed on concurrently to the first instant messaging controller on the first device and the second instant messaging controller on the second device. At least a portion of the selected instant messaging session is transferred from the first instant messaging controller on the first device to the second instant messaging controller on the second device and the transferred portion of 10 the instant messaging session is made perceivable on the second instant messaging controller on the second device. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130151628 | Time Based System for Urgent Email Messages - An email client receives an urgent tagged email sent by said sender. An urgent timestamp is obtained based on a stored timestamp of a previous urgent tagged email by said sender. Based on the urgent timestamp, it is determined whether said urgent tagged email is allowed. The allowed determining comprises determining whether the urgent tagged email was received within a defined time interval and determining whether the previous timestamp is an allowed value. If the urgent tagged email is allowed, the urgent tagged email is displayed in the email client with an urgent response; a user evaluates whether the urgent tagged email was worth being tagged as urgent; if the urgent tagged email is not worth being tagged urgent, the stored timestamp is updated to the urgent tagged email date; and if the urgent tagged email is worth being tagged urgent, the stored timestamp is updated to the allowed value. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151629 | PRE-TRANSMISSION CONTEXTUAL ELECTRONIC MESSAGE PROMPTING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to provide to a user creating an electronic message one or more informational messages related to the content and addressees of the electronic message. A computer system identifies one or more addressees of the electronic message created by the user. The computer system identifies any informational messages associated with each of the addressees, and displays to the user the identified informational messages. Each step is performed prior to the computer system transmitting the electronic message for delivery to any addressee. The informational messages can be predefined by the addressees of the electronic message and include hyperlinks and other programmable elements for execution by the user. The electronic message can be an e-mail, instant message, or other form of electronic message. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151630 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INCOMING AND OUTGOING EMAIL MESSAGES - A system and method for managing incoming email messages. A computing device operating an email client receives an incoming email message from an email server. A first time rule is applied to a time attribute in the email header. The email message is saved in a hidden folder when the time attribute satisfies the first time rule. A second time rule is applied to a current time. When the current time satisfies the second time rule, email messages in the hidden folder are moved to a folder that is accessible to the email client. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151631 | AGGREGATING DATA IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Methods, systems, and computer program products may aggregate data in electronic communications. The method may include detecting, by a computer system, receipt of one or more text-based electronic communications, and identifying, by the computer system, first data of interest with a predetermined characteristic in the text-based electronic communications. The method may additionally include extracting, by the computer system, the identified first data of interest from the text-based electronic communications, and obtaining, by the computer system, an initial first set of associated data that is associated with the extracted first data of interest from at least one electronic resource external to the computer system. The method may further include displaying, by the computer system and independently of the text-based electronic communications and the at least one electronic resource, the extracted first data of interest with the obtained initial first set of associated data. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151632 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS - A system and method to manage social relationships by gathering information about social relationships for a particular user from a variety of sources, and automatically to recommend or execute potential socially desirable actions by the particular user with respect to the relationship. The method includes automatically aggregating social relation data from a plurality of social media, maintaining social relationship information for a plurality of social relations based on aggregated social relation data, automatically identifying potentially socially desirable actions by the user, and alerting the user to the identified desirable actions, or automatically executing the desirable actions. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151633 | EMAIL SHARING - Sharing email content includes: receiving from a user a selection of an email to share; capturing the subject and content of the email; generating an identifier for the captured subject and content; storing the captured subject and content with the identifier; providing a window with the subject and content for user editing; and transmitting the edited subject and content to the user's social contacts. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151634 | Processing Content Streams that Include Additional Content Segments Added in Response to Detection of Insertion Messages - A reader device monitors a content stream which includes a source stream that is received from a content source and modified by adding an additional content segment in response to detection of an insertion message. The reader detects an insertion message and signals a stream processing device. In response, the processing device performs an operation on the portion of the content stream that includes the additional content segment corresponding to the detected insertion message, which may include omitting performance of an operation that would have otherwise been performed. In some implementations, the reader and the processing device may be separate while in other implementations the reader may be integrated into the processing device. In various implementations, the reader and the processing device may be connected via one or more contact closures and the reader may signal the processing device by activating the contact closure. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151635 | Embedding active contextual information in a message - Technology for embedding active contextual information in a message is disclosed. One method comprises displaying information in a message on a computing device. The information is scanned for a selected term. A user interface representation for the selected term is displayed relative to the message. Active contextual information is provided from the server for the selected term to the computing device. The active contextual information is accessible via the user interface representation. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151636 | DELIVERY CONTROL FOR EMAIL COMMUNICATED AMONG MULTIPLE END USER COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An exemplary method is implemented by end-user communication devices for transmitting and receiving emails in which acknowledgement of receipt by an addressee of an email is requested by an originator of the email. The email includes a digital packet having a header segment and a user data segment, the user data segment containing a user message and a command portion. An acknowledgement request command is stored in the command portion of an email. Upon receipt of the email by the addressee device and authorization to send an acknowledgement by the user, a reply email with an acknowledgement request is transmitted to the originator. Viewing of the content of the received email by the addressee is prohibited until the authorization is given. Accounting for acknowledgement receipts from multiple addressees is managed by the originator's device. A technique using a self-addressed email prevents an email recipient, who uses one device to initially read an email with an acknowledgement request from one email account, from having to again authorize an acknowledgement request when the same email is later read from the same email account using a different device. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151637 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR FILTERING AND ORGANIZING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES - Embodiments described herein relate generally to social networking, and more particularly, to methods to filter and manage various events and group activities. In one embodiment, a system for filtering and managing events and activities is disclosed. The system may include a hardware processor configured to manage a site, allow users to create user areas within the site, allow users to create events and designate invitees through the user area, automatically generate and send invitations to invitees and to monitor the status of these invitations, allow users to receive invitations to other events, integrate all events into a single calendar, and automatically send e-mail to users regarding various event updates. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151638 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING FILE TO USER OF INSTANT MESSAGE SYSTEM - Disclose is a method for transferring a file to a user of an instant message system, where the method includes: receiving a file sent by a user of a first instant message system to a user of a second instant message system; sending a file transfer notification message to the user; and sending the file to the user according to a response of the user. In the method, an ND is set at an instant message agent server side, the ND stores a file sent by sender to the receiver. The instant message agent server sends a URL of the file to the receiver. In this manner, a user of a different IM system acquires the file by using the URL of the file, thereby achieving the objective of transferring the file to a user of a different IM system. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151639 | SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention is embodied in methods and system for obtaining information about a category of interest from a computer network, the computer network including a plurality of user networks with each user network including a plurality of users. The network further including an electronic database of information associated with the plurality of users. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151640 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LEVERAGING IDENTIFIED CHANGES TO A MAIL SERVER - A method and system for identifying changes to a data set, such as data within a mailbox, and performing actions based on the identified changes is discussed. In some examples, the system receives an indication of a change to a mailbox, creates a change journal entry for the change, and identifies data to be copied via the change journal entry. In some examples, the system leverages the change journal to associate messages with changes to a mailbox. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151641 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR FACT CHECKING EMAIL - A fact checking system verifies the correctness of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151642 | Online Network and Associated Methods - Computer program products, computer systems and related methods are provided which compare a URL, title and/or content of an online site viewed by a user with a first index of keywords relating to a plurality of subject matter categories, to determine any subject matter categories to which the online site relates; cross-reference any determined subject matter categories with a second index of alternative online sites categorised by subject matter, in order to determine any alternative online sites in the same or similar category; and perform a variety of actions in response including displaying a determined alternative online site to the user. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151643 | Invitation Information Push Method And System - An invitation information push method includes after receiving an invitation request sent by a microblog user, a server sending invitation information to a number of clients corresponding to invited users carried in the invitation request, wherein the invited users are users who have not registered microblog, and the number of the invited users N is greater than or equal to 1. Each client, upon receiving the invitation information, creating an invitation information guide to guide the users who have not registered the microblog to register the microblog. The method further comprises, when a predetermined time is reached, a server actively sending invitation information to at least one client corresponding to at least one user who has not registered the microblog. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130159425 | Display of user relationships - Information regarding each recipient of a selected group of users is retrieved, such as each recipient of a number of recipients of an email, and such as responsive to a request made in relation to the email. One or more relationships among the users are determined, based on the information retrieved regarding each user. Such relationships can include job groups, job titles, locations, and/or family relationships, among other types of relationships. The one or more relationships among the users are displayed. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159426 | Dynamic Control of an Electronic Message System - Methods of dynamic control of an electronic message system are described. In an embodiment, a system which is separate from a messaging service within the electronic message system generates an event signal which relates to an event external to the messaging service. The event signal is received by the messaging service and this triggers a dynamic update in one or more electronic messages which are identified based on the event signal received. For example, the dynamic update may result in the message content being displayed in a different manner or the message being delivered or deleted. Examples of external events include a community response to a particular message, based on a subset of information about the message which has been shared, the location of one or more users and a change in membership of a group. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159427 | INTEGRATED INCIDENT MANAGEMENT FOR HYBRID LANDSCAPES - Systems and methods to provide integrated incident management for hybrid landscapes are provided. In example embodiments, an incident ticket is received, at a communication hub, from a first component of a first landscape indicating an incident. A second component in a second landscape is determined to which to route incident information including the incident ticket. The determination of the second component is based on an attribute extracted from the incident ticket. The incident information is transmitted to the second component by the communication hub. A solution for the incident ticket is received from the second component based on the second component having the solution or is received from a component of a service backbone based on the component of the service backbone having the solution by the communication hub, and the solution is forwarded to at least one of the first component or the second component. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159428 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AN E-MAIL-BASED MANAGEMENT INTERFACE FOR VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS - A server system is configured to provide an e-mail based interface for executing management operations on a virtualized infrastructure which includes a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), underlying host computers, clusters, and/or data centers. Such an interface may be provided in a virtualized infrastructure to enable a system administrator to execute administrative operations remotely from a mobile device without requiring custom installation of an application on the mobile device or a secure connection to the server system. The server system receives e-mails at a pre-determined e-mail address, authenticates the sender of the e-mail, and extracts and executes commands from the e-mail. A number of techniques for validating the e-mail containing server commands may also be provided. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159429 | SHARING AND TRANSFERRING MESSAGE CONTENT BETWEEN USERS - Messaging content that is associated with a user is selected for sharing and transferring with one or more other recipients. A user may select all/portion of the messaging content to transfer. For example, a user may select a single folder from their mailbox, their entire mailbox, one or more conversation threads, one or more subjects, and the like. The selection may be made manually/automatically. For example, a user may use a graphical user interface to select messaging content to share and/or messaging content may be automatically selected based on a rule and/or some other condition. After selection, the selected messaging content is transferred to the other recipient(s) with which the user has selected for sharing/transferring. The recipient(s) of the selected messaging content may accept/decline the transfer of messaging content. Upon accepting the invitation, the messaging content is transferred and stored in the recipient's mailbox. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159430 | Communications Among Users Belonging To Affiliations Spanning Multiple Virtual Spaces - Communications may be facilitated among users belonging to affiliations spanning two or more virtual spaces accessible via virtual environments. In exemplary implementations, affiliations within individual virtual spaces may be managed. A given affiliation within a given virtual space may comprise a discrete group of users with a relationship having a functional significance within the given virtual space. A communications interface may be provided for presentation to individual users. The communications interface may be configured to enable a given user to observe in-coming communications and provide out-going communications. Synchronous and/or asynchronous communications may be facilitated via the communications interface between users belonging to one or more common affiliations. The communications may be facilitated among users belonging to a common overarching affiliation, which may encompass two or more affiliations from different virtual spaces that include substantially the same group of users. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159431 | LOGO MESSAGE - A method for augmenting any communication, text, iMessage, instant message, social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter) and other such user interfaces and applications now known or shall be known in the future that provides the ability to insert and/or place logo, icon, symbol and other such material into individual message interfaces or character bubbles; providing further capability for an end user to “click” such material and subsequently be directed to any desired destination (i.e. content, web, video, audio, mobile, satellite, etc); user may be re-directed back to their original location prior to clicking on said material once desired. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159432 | Providing Parameterized Actionable Communication Messages Via an Electronic Communication - A method, an apparatus and computer readable storage media facilitate initiating an actionable message at a computing device in response to input of a defined sequence of characters at the computing device, and executing an action associated with the initiated actionable message in accordance with information that is specific to the actionable message. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159433 | SERVER-SIDE MODIFICATION OF MESSAGES DURING A MOBILE TERMINAL MESSAGE EXCHANGE - A method, system, and computer program product for server-side modification of messages during a mobile terminal message exchange. Upon receiving a dialog message (e.g., an email message) from a first user device, the method determines the format (e.g., IMAP) of the dialog message in order to insert similarly-formatted additional content. Then, the method modifies the dialog message by inserting selected additional content into the dialog message. The method receives a request from a second user (at a mobile terminal) and the method transmits the outbound dialog message with the inserted additional content to the second user's mobile terminal. The second user's mobile terminal supports native applications for reviewing the additional content, and some modified dialog messages include personalized content, including personalization based on the dialog message from the first user device. The second user reviews the personalized content on the mobile terminal without having to explicitly launch a browser. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159434 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIEWING A CONTACT NETWORK FEED IN A BUSINESS DIRECTORY ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are provided for viewing a contact network feed in a business directory environment. A system searches, based on a user specified search, a business directory to determine contacts, identifies network feeds associated with the contacts, and outputs the network feeds. For example, the system outputs network feeds from data center managers identified by the business directory. The system filters, based on a user specified filter, the network feeds to determine filtered network feeds, and outputs the filtered network feeds to a display device. For example, the system outputs the network feeds from data center managers that mention a specific product. The system can enable communication with a contact using contact information from the business directory. The system can subscribe a user to the network feed of a contact, wherein the user receives updates for the network feed of the contact via a feed to a display device. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159435 | Method and System for Processing User Contact Information - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and a system for processing user contact information. Specifically, there is provided a method for processing user contact information, comprising: obtaining, at a user equipment of a first user, contact information associated with a second user; and initiating a social networking service (SNS) operation between the first user and the second user based on the contact information. Corresponding system is also disclosed. According to embodiments of the present invention, user contact information may be processed in a more effective and intelligent way. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159436 | Method, System, and Apparatus for Providing Self-Destructing Electronic Mail Messages - A method, system, and apparatus for providing a self-destructing e-mail messages are described. An e-mail client application provides a user interface through which the sender of an e-mail message can enter the message and a time period for destruction of the message. Once the sender has provided this information, the e-mail client application sends a request to an e-mail server application to transmit the self-destructing e-mail message. The e-mail client application may also receive self-destructing e-mail messages. When a self-destructing e-mail message is received, the destruction date associated with the e-mail message is identified and the message is destroyed at the specified time. The e-mail client application can also limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on a self-destructing e-mail. An e-mail server application is also provided that receives requests from the e-mail client application to transmit self-destructing e-mail messages and perform other functions. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159437 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device of the present invention includes a connecting section which connects application modules capable of performing application processing, a receiving section which receives an electronic mail including a command transmitted from a terminal device, an interpreting section which interprets the command included in the electronic mail received by the receiving section, a designating section which designates, from among the application modules connected by the connecting section, an application module corresponding to the command interpreted by the interpreting section as the execution destination of the command, an acquiring section which acquires a processing result of processing performed by the application module designated by the designating section, and a transmitting section which creates a response electronic mail with the processing result acquired by the acquiring section as a response, and transmits the response electronic mail to the terminal device. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159438 | Composing Packages of Electronic Mail Attachments - The present invention is directed to a method and system for composing a package of application files to be sent as e-mail attachments in e-mail communications. A plurality of data structures are created, wherein each data structure groups together a plurality of different user application files designated as attachments to an e-mail communication. Application files designated from within user applications are associated with selected data structures, such that each designated application file is associated with a selected data structure. During composition of an e-mail communication having attachments, a list of the data structures containing application files are provided. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159439 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOTIFICATION DELIVERY - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159440 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERING MULTIPLE NOTIFICATIONS - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159441 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZED NOTIFICATION DELIVERY - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159442 | NOTIFICATION ARCHIVE - An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159443 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZABLE COMMUNICATIONS - The various implementations of the present invention are provided as a computer-based system configured to allow for controlling the flow of communication options in a multi-user, multi-organizational environment. The computer-based system focuses on providing significant customization of the communication flow, delivery, and relevance by focusing on intermediation and integration of multiple disparate messaging platforms that may be used by a message originator to send messages to a message originator, providing for an integrated messaging platform. Additional embodiments provide for automated or enhanced communication using variables such as place, time, message recipient affiliation, etc. to prioritize and adapt message flow for a specific person or organization. While useful for many different environments, the most preferred embodiments of the present invention are adapted for use in an educational environment. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159444 | Systems and Methods for Adaptive Communication Control Using A Profile - Computer program products, apparatus, and methods for processing digital messages to recipients at destination domains are provided. A plurality of profiles are established, each profile for handling digital to a specific domain or set of domains. A request to process a plurality of outbound digital messages is handled by, for each given digital message, processing the given digital message by (i) determining a destination domain for digital messages, (ii) reading a profile for the determined destination domain for the digital messages and (iii) based on at least one parameter set in the profile: (a) sending the given digital message to the determined destination domain in accordance with the profile when permitted by the at least one parameter set in the profile, or (b) not sending the digital message to the determined destination domain when required by the at least one parameter set in the profile. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159445 | MULTI-MEDIA ELECTRONIC GREETING CARD WITH SOCIAL MEDIA COMPONENT - A system and method of generating and sending an electronic greeting card. Webpage data is generated for display to a user. User browsing and selection input is received and webpage data is updated for display back to the user. Licensed media for attachment to the electronic greeting card is also displayed. An indication of particular licensed media that, if purchased, results in charitable donations is also displayed. The electronic greeting card is generated based on the remote user input received. Generated electronic greeting cards may include attached licensed music or links thereto that can be downloaded and stored locally or remotely for a recipient's later playback. The system and method may also include a social networking component whereby user pages are linked together for sharing and viewing of media and e-cards. The system and method may also include location-based features that use global positioning satellite (GPS) information. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130166655 | CROSS-PLATFORM SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION - Methods, apparatus, and systems for cross-platform software distribution are described. An example method includes receiving, at a first distribution server of a first vendor, a first version of a software application for a first platform and information about the software application, wherein the information about the software application includes: an identification of a second version of the software application for a second platform and an identification of a second distribution server of a second vendor at which the second version of the software application is available; storing the information in a physical storage; and transmitting the information from the physical storage to a purchaser of the software application. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING DIGITAL IMAGES - A method, implementable on a computing device, for downloading original images includes downloading an image via a communications network; calculating a unique picture ID (UPID) for the downloaded image, where the UPID is a mathematical construct with a generally unique, resolution independent, relationship with the downloaded image; sending a download request with at least the calculated UPID to an image brokerage server, where the brokerage server is configured to store at least the UPIDs associated with the original resolution images stored on other devices; and receiving the original resolution image of the downloaded image from one of the other devices, where the UPID associated with the original resolution image matches the calculated UPID. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166657 | E-mail Systems - Here, we are providing solutions to improve the performance of email systems in different aspects, e.g. in terms of reliability, efficiency, redundancies, safety, security, and convenience for the users. The system can be on a computer, PDA, tablet computer, phone, smart phone, electronic device, game device, e-book reader, game console, communication device, computing device, PC, server, terminal, kiosk, video game, entertainment device, multimedia device, movie player, or calendar device. Other than the email, these teachings also apply to SMS, MMS, XMS, and texting. Various applications and examples are given. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166658 | Processing Method and Processing System for Instant Messages in Network Conference - The embodiments of the present invention provide a processing method and processing system for instant messages in a network conference. The processing method for instant messages comprises: establishing connection between a conference application server and an instant message server, wherein the conference application server is further connected to a conference client, and the instant message server is further connected to an instant message client; and controlling message transfer between the conference application server and the conference client or between the instant message server and the instant message client according to the state of the conference client and the state of the instant message client. With the manners above, the processing method and processing system of the present invention enable a message client to which the conference client in the network conference corresponds to receive instant messages in a more humanized manner, thereby improving the experiences of the user. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166659 | METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENTS TO PEERS BY MEANS OF MULTICAST CONNECTIONS WITHIN A P2P INFRASTRUCTURE, AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL SERVER - A control server is intended for controlling content distribution to peers coupled to a communication network which comprises at least one content serving means (CNS, N | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166660 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ATTACHED FILE OF MESSAGE IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method list and manage information about an attached file of a multimedia message in a portable terminal. An apparatus for managing a message in a portable terminal includes a communication unit for transmitting/receiving a message including an attached file, a display unit for displaying a message transmission process and a content of an attached file included in a message, a message analyzing unit for acquiring an attached file from a message including an attached file, a file list generating unit for generating an attached file list about an acquired attached file, and a control unit for performing control to display an attached file list. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166661 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED NOTIFICATIONS - A networked computer system provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users. For example, in one embodiment, users can identify other users based on their affiliations with particular schools or other organizations. The system also provides a mechanism for a user to selectively establish contact relationships or connections with other users, and to grant permissions for such other users to view personal information of the user. The system may also include features for enabling users to identify contacts of their respective contacts. In addition, the system may automatically notify users of personal information updates made by their respective contacts. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166662 | Methods, Systems And Computer Program Products For Electronic Identification Card Creation And Transfer During Communications - A method for creating an electronic identification card during a communications session including: presenting a user with an option to enter personal information; receiving a command from the user to send the electronic identification card including the personal information during the communications session; recording the personal information for the electronic identification card with a data entry method; and sending the electronic identification card to a device involved in the communications session. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166663 | WORKFLOW AND IN-CONTEXT E-MAIL RECIPIENT HANDLING - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the workflow process for resolving data elements, such as email addresses. These technologies and techniques allow the user to perform such tasks in the same context as the activity or message. In addition, user can start and stop the resolution process at any point in the process of composing the activity or email. The activity cannot be finalized, such as an email message being sent, until all of the data elements are resolved. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166664 | SCHEDULABLE E-MAIL FILTERS - An e-mail filter may be associated with a schedule defining a recurrent active time period. As such, some e-mail filters may be active at specific times of day and on specific days of the week and inactive the rest of the time. Before applying any filters, the current time is determined and it is determined which filters are active. The determination of which filters are active is based on the current time being within the active time period. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166665 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTION OF MESSAGING SETTINGS ON A MESSAGING CLIENT - A method and system of selecting messaging settings on a messaging client are provided. When an outgoing message to be sent from the messaging client is addressed to a message recipient, the messaging client accesses a data store to determine whether specific messaging settings have been stored for the message recipient. If specific messaging settings have been stored for the message recipient, the messaging client selects the specific messaging settings for the message recipient to control the message characteristics of the outgoing message. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166666 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SENDING DEVICE, SEND TIME SETTING METHOD, SEND TIME SETTING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic mail such as a remind mail is sent at a timing which encourages bidding on an auction to apply to purchase a product. An electronic mail sending device sends an electronic mail which notifies an application deadline in transaction for which the application deadline to purchase a product is set, and which includes link information to a webpage which lists information about the product to be traded, receives access information to the webpage indicated by the link information included in the electronic mail, from a terminal device, receives application information to purchase the product whose information is listed in the webpage, from the terminal device, decides whether or not the application information is received by the application deadline, compares the access time to the webpage and the first time, and, when it is decided that the application information is received by the application deadline and when the access time comes later than the first time, makes a relative send time of an electronic mail to be sent next come earlier than a relative send time of an electronic mail which has already been sent. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166667 | DYNAMIC NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention provides a system and method for filtering unsolicited network messaging in a network comprising at least one remote messaging device, at least one data routing device and at least one remote destination device. The invention provides a means for determining a probability of the network message being unsolicited; and means for translating a first network address into a second network address associated with unsolicited network messaging when the probability determining means indicates a high probability of unsolicited network messaging. In a further embodiment there is provided a means for translating the first network address into the at least one second network address associated with legitimate network messaging, when the probability determining means indicates a low probability of unsolicited network messaging. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130173716 | DATA DELIVERY OPTIMIZATION - The various embodiments provide systems, devices, and methods which optimize the way in which data is delivered between devices a group of interconnected devices. In one embodiment a data set intended for multiple devices may be segmented and different portions of the data set may be provided to each device. The intended devices may then share their data set portions to recreate the complete data set on each device. In another embodiment, multiple devices each storing a complete data set may need to upload the complete data set to a single device. The multiple devices may assign upload responsibility for segments of the complete data set among each other, and the multiple devices may each upload their assigned segments to the single device. The single device may then combine the segments to recreate the complete data set. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173717 | METHOD OF ENFORCING METERED DATA USAGE - A method and system for enforcing metered data usage is disclosed for automatically providing top-ups to a cumulative user data quota. The method for enforcing metered data includes determining cumulative data usage associated to a customer, comparing the cumulated data usage to a quota threshold, and in the event that the cumulated data usage exceeds the threshold, to automatically apply a quota top-up if one is provided for in an associated customer plan. This allows the customer data transfers to continue without requiring manual intervention on the part of the service provider in the event that quota is exceeded. The method and system for enforcing metered data usage also provides for expressing cumulative data usage in terms of a percentage of base quota, thereby facilitating determination if an increase in base quota should be arranged. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173718 | CRITERION-DEPENDENT EMAIL DISPLAY AGENT - There is set forth herein a computer program product, computing device, and method for displaying an email message. In one example, a computing device receives an input comprising at least one criterion for redacting email messages; stores the at least one criterion in a configuration of a client computer program; receives an email message having a field, the field comprising a first content; determines whether a condition of at least one of the email message and a current state of the computing device satisfies the at least one criterion stored in the configuration of the client computer program; and, in response to determining that the condition satisfies the at least one criterion, displays a second content in place of the first content in a user interface of the client computer program, wherein the second content is different than the first content. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173719 | INTELLIGENT MEDIATION OF MESSAGES IN A HEALTHCARE PRODUCT INTEGRATION PLATFORM - An example method to mediate messages in a product integration platform includes receiving a message request from a source healthcare system where the message request contains a message payload. The example method includes determining an interface to be used to route the message to a target healthcare system. The example method includes creating a platform message based on the message request. The example method includes adapting the platform message into a message format expected by the interface and routing the platform message to the interface. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173720 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NETWORK DOMAINS IN A SERVICE CLOUD - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for integrating a service console application by providing communication between a first and second network domain. In various implementations, first data is received at a second network domain, where the first data includes one or more functions. A first message may be received at the second network domain, the first message being provided at the second network domain in response to the one or more functions being invoked, and the message identifying the one or more functions. Responsive to receiving the message, the one or more functions may be executed at a computing device associated with the second network domain. Responsive to executing the one or more functions, a second message may be sent to the first domain indicating that the one or more functions have been executed, where the second message is operable to invoke and execute one or more call back functions. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173721 | Message Screening System - A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electronic message then is forwarded to the intended recipient if the electronic message is approved by the supervisory recipient. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173722 | PEOPLE LISTS - Enabling management of contacts includes passively recognizing a set of contacts that are, as a group, repeatedly sent communications by a member, bringing the member's attention to the recognized set of contacts, enabling the member to name the set of contacts, and enabling the member to address future communications to the set of contacts through use of the name associated by the member with the set of contacts. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173723 | USING AUTOMATED AGENTS TO FACILITATE CHAT COMMUNICATIONS - An automated agent, such as an instant message robot, is be used to facilitate introduction of a chat participant to a small group of other chat participants in a chat room. To do so, for example, a BOT may present a chat participant who desires to be introduced to a small group of chat participants in a chat room with a series of multiple-choice questions, identify a subset of chat participants based on responses to the multiple-choice questions, and provide introductions among the chat participants in the subset to facilitate conversation therebetween. For example, the introductions provided by the BOT may indicate areas of mutual interest among chat participants in the subset, similar responses to one or more multiple-choice questions, and/or diverse responses to one or more multiple-choice questions. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173724 | DIRECT FILE TRANSFER BETWEEN SUBSCRIBERS OF A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Systems and techniques for transferring a file from a first client associated with a first subscriber to a communications system to a second client associated with a second subscriber to the communications system by connecting from the first client to a communications system host; sending, through the communications system host, a request to the second client to establish a direct connection to the second client; when the second client accepts the request, establishing a direct connection to the second client that bypasses the communications system host; and transferring a file over the direct connection. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173725 | SOCIAL SEARCH ENGINE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a social search engine. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a question from an asker in which the question is associated with one or more topics; selecting candidate answerers based at least partly on each answerer's respective relationship to the asker; sending the question successively to groups of one or more candidate answerers according to the ranking until an answer is received from a particular one of the candidate answerers; and sending to the asker the received answer and information that identifies the particular answerer. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173726 | JOINT COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - Online communication sessions may be joined in an environment that includes receiving a first communication between a first user and a second user and enabling the rendering of the first communication at devices associated with the first and second users. A second communication between the first user and a third user is received and the rendering of the second communication at devices associated with the first and third users is enabled. After receiving the first and second communications, a trigger to join at least the communication sessions associated with the first, second, and third users is received from the first, second, or third user. Information structured and arranged to render, in a single window, text associated with the first and second communications at the devices associated with the first, second, and third users is generated. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173727 | FAST MOBILE MAIL WITH CONTEXT INDICATORS - Facilitating replying to received email messages includes presenting a selectable set of fast reply tokens that correspond to snippets of multimedia content, providing a mechanism to superimpose a selected subset of the fast reply tokens on to different portions of the received email message to compose an annotated email messages, wherein the fast reply tokens are separate from any reply email text, and sending the annotated email message. The fast reply tokens may include action icons, status icons, emoticons, emojis, expressive elements, clip art, highlighters, geometric shapes, arrows, short tunes, audio clips, video clips, abbreviated standard texts, and freehand notes. Facilitating replying to received email messages may also include providing cultural adaptations and localization of fast reply tokens based on a setting provided by a recipient of the annotated email message. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173728 | DISCOVERING REAL-TIME CONVERSATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for discovering conversations related to a location. One method includes receiving, at a server, location information related to a location of a user and determining a plurality of real-time conversation objects that are associated with locations within an area related to the received location of the computing device. The location associated with each of the plurality of real-time conversation objects indicates a location of a user at the time the user requested creation of the real-time conversation object. The method also includes sending, to a computing device of the user, information representing the determined real-time conversation objects. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173729 | CREATING REAL-TIME CONVERSATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating conversations related to a location. One method includes receiving a topic for a real-time conversation from a user, receiving location information related to a location of the user, and creating a real-time conversation object that includes the received topic. The method also includes tagging the created real-time conversation object with the received location information, indexing, based on the received topic and the received location information, the tagged real-time conversation object with respect to other real-time conversation objects, and providing the tagged real-time conversation object in response to a search for real-time conversation objects received from another user. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173730 | Multi-User Multimedia Messaging Services - Methods, devices, and computer programs for efficient reporting of a transmission state of a multimedia message addressed to recipient user devices. A multimedia message is sent from an originator user device to an originator server and further to one or more recipient servers with which the recipient user devices are associated. The recipient servers send the multimedia message to the addressed recipient user devices associated with the recipient server and receive status messages, each status message including an indication of an individual message transmission state of the multimedia message at one of the recipient user devices. The recipient servers aggregate the indications according to at least two message transmission state types into a report representing the transmission state of the multimedia message, and send the report to the originator server. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173731 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - When a mail sender and receiver ( | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173732 | NETWORK CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR SHARING DATA AMONG INDEPENDENT NETWORKS - The present invention relates to a network connection system for sharing data among independent networks, and more particularly, to a network connection system for sharing data among independent networks, which enables networks to share data using a shared storage in an independent environment to enable easy mail transception, file transception, and use of clipboards among independent networks. To this end, a network connection system for sharing data among independent networks according to the present invention comprises a first terminal connected to a first network so as to be used in said first network; a first network connection server interposed between a shared storage and said first terminal so as to control or transceive data; a second terminal connected to a second network so as to be used in said second network; a second network connection server interposed between said shared storage and said second terminal so as to control or transceive data; and the shared storage having a single storage space shared by said first network connection server and said second network connection server. Thus, the necessity of using separate portable storage media for sharing data among independent networks is eliminated, and a clipboard may be used among the independent networks so as to increase convenience. In addition, a mail may be automatically converted and transceived among the independent networks to eliminate security risks, and files may be efficiently transceived among the independent networks even when multiple terminals are simultaneously accessed, thus eliminating loads on a server and improving the quality of the shared storage. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130179514 | SMARTER MECHANISM TO IMPLEMENT PUSH EMAIL ON HANDHELD DEVICES - A push email system which includes an email server and an unstructured supplementary service data (USSD)-type server. The email server is configured to receive email for an email account of a mobile user and notify the USSD-type server of the receipt of the email for the mobile user. The USSD-type server is configured to send a USSD or USSD-like message to a mobile user's handheld device, the USSD or USSD-like message notifying the mobile user's handheld device of the receipt of the email by the email server for the account of the mobile user. Also disclosed is a method of pushing email to a mobile user's handheld device. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179515 | FACILITATING COORDINATED AND COLLABORATIVE AUTHORING USING MESSAGING - A first message associated with a collaborative task is received from a user. The first message includes an identification of the collaborative task, a plurality of participants for the collaborative task, and a request from the user for each of the participants to provide content for the collaborative task. In response to receiving the first message, a processor generates a request message for each of the participants. Each of the request messages includes a notification of the collaborative task and the request from the user for that participant to provide the content for the collaborative task. The request messages are sent to the participants. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179516 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING EMAIL - A method for classifying email includes receiving an email. Several recipient email accounts of the email are extracted. Several email feature values of the email are generated according to the recipient email accounts. A classification algorithm is utilized to classify the email as an official email or a private email according to the email feature values of the email. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179517 | E-MAIL PROTOCOL OPTIMIZED FOR A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT AND GATEWAY USING SAME - A message delivery server system for delivery of electronic content to a receiving client, comprises: a data storage for storing electronic content, a connection unit for maintaining a connection with the receiving client, and a connection establishment unit for allowing a receiving client to establish a connection with the server. The connection establishment unit comprises a definition unit for placing one or more connection definitions relating to the connection in an entity that is independent of any actual connection socket used for the session. The definition unit can be use to establish additional sockets to maintain the session and the definitions within can be used to find the best way to download media to the receiving client. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179518 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HAVING A CONFERENCE ACROSS IM SYSTEMS - A method for having a conference across IM systems is provided, comprising: receiving a conference creation request sent from a conference creating user by an IM agent, establishing a conference room and generating a list of conference accounts, adding user accounts of the conference creating user on various IM systems to the list of conference accounts; receiving an invitation request sent by the conference creating user, the invitation request comprising an account of a user to be invited; the IM agent sending an invitation request in a message format of a corresponding IM system to the user to be invited using an IM system user account of the conference creating user that has been logged in. In this invention, a conference creating user creates a conference room through the IM agent, and realizes conference message communication with and between users on various IM systems through IM agent forwarding. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179519 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATION, MESSAGING AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN ENGINEERING TOOLS - A system and method are provided for the collaboration between engineering tools and engineers. A data processing unit is combined with or includes a source engineering tool having a source engineering data storage. The data processing unit exchanges data with at least one target data processing unit associated with at least one target engineering tool having its own engineering data storage. The collaboration system and method provides engineers of the source or target engineering tools to generate collaboration requests or collaboration responses which are automatically assigned to the corresponding engineering data object, and the owner and receivers of regarding engineering data objects are automatically notified about corresponding collaboration requests or responses across engineering tools and data processing units. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179520 | IMAGE BASED ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM - An image based email system associates images with different electronic mail (email) senders. The email system receives email messages from different email senders and then looks through either website member profiles or user contacts for associated images. Any located image is displayed in a list of recent senders. This allows the email user to associate recently received email messages with particular sender images or photographs. The images can also be used in a list of favorite or most frequent email senders. Other features of the email system extract information from received email messages to better identify the email senders. These and other features of the email system provide more intuitive and easier to perform email operations. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179521 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING A GROUP SESSION - The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and a device for implementing a group session, relating to communication technologies, for implementing a CPM/IM message group session based on signalling. The method for implementing a group session comprises: receiving a group message that is sent by a terminal participating in a message group session, the group message carrying a session serial number corresponding to the message group session; and sending the group message carrying the session serial number to other terminals participating in the message group session corresponding to the session serial number. The solution in the embodiments of the present invention is well suited for performing a group session via messages. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179522 | SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING THREAD-BASED MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION - To perform thread-based message prioritization, metadata may be extracted from a received electronic message. Based on the extracted message metadata and accumulated metadata extracted from previously received messages, a message thread to which the received electronic message belongs may be identified. Based on a set of thread priority assessment criteria, a priority level for the message thread may be determined. At least part of the message thread may be processed according to the priority level. The processing may be altering a notification behavior of an electronic messaging client for electronic messages of the message thread. Thread priority assessment may be based on user-configurable criteria that may be set via a graphical user interface. Message thread identification may also be based on user-configurable criteria that may be set via a graphical user interface. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179523 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION-BASED, JUST IN TIME SOCIAL NETWORKING - In one embodiment, the present disclosure is a method and apparatus for location-based, just in time social networking. In one embodiment, a method for providing a social network includes receiving a request from a first user of the social network to provide information from a location of interest specified by the first user, and locating a group comprising at least one other user of the social network, where each of the at least one other user is currently at the location of interest and has volunteered to provide information from the location of interest, wherein the group is selected from a larger group of other users who are at a plurality of locations of interest. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179524 | IDENTIFYING USERS SHARING COMMON CHARACTERISTICS - Displaying electronic information in an instant-messaging application includes accessing a first electronic message providing information describing a first user that has an identifier included in a set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application. A second electronic message providing information describing a second user that has an identifier included in the set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application is accessed. Content contained within the first and second messages is analyzed to determine that at least a portion of content is common to the first and second electronic messages. Based upon the content analysis, an indication that the first and second messages include common content is provided to the user. Alternatively or additionally, an indication that two users are in physical proximity to a geographic location may be provided in response to detecting that the two users are within a threshold distance from the geographic location. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179525 | IDENTIFYING USERS SHARING COMMON CHARACTERISTICS - Displaying electronic information in an instant-messaging application includes accessing a first electronic message providing information describing a first user that has an identifier included in a set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application. A second electronic message providing information describing a second user that has an identifier included in the set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application is accessed. Content contained within the first and second messages is analyzed to determine that at least a portion of content is common to the first and second electronic messages. Based upon the content analysis, an indication that the first and second messages include common content is provided to the user. Alternatively or additionally, an indication that two users are in physical proximity to a geographic location may be provided in response to detecting that the two users are within a threshold distance from the geographic location. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179526 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - An information processing apparatus includes a transfer unit that accesses a mail server in response to a mail browsing request from a user terminal, and reads mail data in the mail server from the mail server so as to be transferred to the user terminal, a transmission unit that transmits a notification mail for notifying the user terminal of a predetermined event to the mail server, and a deletion unit that accesses the mail server in response to a mail deletion request from the user terminal, and deletes mail data in the mail server, wherein deletion of the notification mail by the deletion unit is restricted. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130185360 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REVIEWING ATTACHMENT CONTENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Messages with an associated attachment document are first delivered to a mobile device without the attachment document. If the mobile device user wishes to review attachment data related to the attachment document, the user submits an attachment processing request to an attachment server that handles the attachment processing requests to provide the attachment data in one of several possible formats to the user. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185361 | TRANSMITTAL OF BLOCKED MESSAGE NOTIFICATION - A method according to one embodiment is for transmitting a message. In one embodiment, one or more processor of a messaging system identifies a certain message of the messaging system, the certain message being a blocked message intended for transmission to a certain user of the messaging system. In one embodiment, the one or more processor further determines one or more of a popularity of content of the certain message and a relevance of content of the certain message to the certain user, the certain user being a prospective recipient of a message. In one embodiment, the one or more processor transmits a message to the certain user responsively to a result of the determining of the one or more of a popularity of content of the certain message and a relevance of content of the certain message to the certain user of the messaging system. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185362 | Installation and Management of Client Extensions - Application extension management may be provided. Upon logging into a user device by a user, a list of a plurality of extensions associated with the user may be retrieved from a central repository. Access to each of the plurality of extensions associated with the user on the user device may then be provided to the user device. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185363 | Selective Display of Past Instant Messages - A method for allowing selective display of past instant messages includes establishing an instant messaging session among at least two participants. Each participant has an associated computer system, with all of the associated computing systems in communication across a network. A list of instant messages between the at least two participants is displayed on monitors associated with the computing systems. At least one instant message is selected from the list of instant messages using an access control. At least one new participant is invited to join the instant messaging session. When the selected at least one instant message corresponds to the at least one new participant, the selected at least one instant message is displayed on a monitor used by the at least one new participant. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185364 | EMAIL APPLICATIONS - A machine-readable storage device contains machine-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform various actions including, for example, receiving an email message destined for an email printer, selecting an ad based on a parameter contained in the email message, inserting the selected ad into the email message, and transmit the email message for printing. Other embodiments are directed to executing a particular application based on an email address, while yet other embodiments are directed to rerouting an email message. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING AN ELECTRONIC ACCOUNT TO A CUSTOMER - An electronic account is provided to a customer to enable the customer to access electronic services, such as e-mail and electronic transactions. The electronic account links an electronic address of the customer to a physical address of the customer. Using the electronic account, electronic services can be provided to the customer at either the electronic or physical address, or both. The services can be both secure and non-secure and can be provided by any service provider, such as an online merchant, a government agency, or a bank. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING USER GENERATED CONTENT - A system and method for publishing and managing user generated content is provided. The system includes an authoring module, a subscription management module, and a publishing module. The authoring module may be configured to receive request from content publishers and generate online magazines in response to those requests. The interface for creating the magazine articles may provide real time previews of the input content across various reading platforms, providing the content creator with an efficient mechanism for ensuring that the magazine can be viewed across various platforms without errors and distortions. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185367 | Method and System of Creating a Graylist for Message Transmission - Techniques for text message transmission are described herein. These techniques may include collecting multiple user IDs for electronic commerce. Using the user IDs, a server transmits a text message to multiple clients, and obtains activities of particular clients of the multiple clients in response to the text message to determine particular user IDs associated with the particular clients. Based on the obtained activities, the server generates and/or updates a graylist that includes one or more user IDs of the multiple user IDs different from the particular user IDs. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185368 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICE USERS - Provided are systems and methods for establishing a communication between mobile device users that register with a collaboration system. The collaboration system determines a match between profile data of the first registered mobile device and profile data of the second registered mobile device. Displayed at the first registered mobile device is a first list of user identifications, which includes an identification of a user of the second registered mobile device and an identification of a user of at least one other mobile device. Displayed at the second registered mobile device is a second list of user identifications. The second list includes an identification of a user of the first registered mobile device and an identification of at least one other mobile device user. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185369 | COMMUNICATION AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The invention generally relates to a communication and notification system and method thereof, and more particularly to a method and system for providing, tracking, sending reminders, and receiving communications/notifications in response to end-users in a variety of commercial market segments, e.g., medical, governmental compliance and criminal. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185370 | EFFICIENT PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION SUPPORT IN SOC FABRICS - Methods and apparatus for efficient peer-to-peer communication support in interconnect fabrics. Network interfaces associated with agents are implemented to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions between agents in a manner that ensures data accesses correspond to the most recent update for each agent. This is implemented, in part, via use of non-posted “dummy writes” that are sent from an agent when the destination between write transactions originating from the agent changes. The dummy writes ensure that data corresponding to previous writes reach their destination prior to subsequent write and read transactions, thus ordering the peer-to-peer transactions without requiring the use of a centralized transaction ordering entity. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185371 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING LOCATION BASED SERVICE - A location-based message transmission and reception system and method comprises a terminal configured to transmit location information of a specified area and a message made by a user to a server; a mobile terminal configured to include a message receiving application to receive a message transmitted to a specified area and to transmit its location information to the server in response to executing the message receiving application and output a message received from the server on a display; and the server configured to store the message and location information of the specified area received from the terminal, to confirm, based on the location information received from the mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal is located within a radius from a location in an area specified by the location information received from the terminal, and to transmit the message received from the terminal to the mobile terminal. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130191459 | Method, System and Computer Readable Medium for Addressing Handling from an Operating System - A method, system and computer readable medium for information handling within an operating system, including providing a record retrieval program; providing an input device within a window or screen of the operating system and configured to enter an execute command which initiates a record retrieval from local and remote information sources using the record retrieval program; using the record retrieval program to enter first information into search fields provided in the record retrieval program; entering the execute command using the input device after the step of entering the first information; searching, using the record retrieval program, the local and remote information sources for second information associated with the first information; and displaying the second information in the record retrieval program, when one of the local and remote information sources includes second information associated with the first information. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191460 | MANAGING TEAM MAILBOX INTEGRATING EMAIL REPOSITORY AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT STORE SERVICES - A communication application creates a team mailbox integrating messages from an email repository and documents from a content management store (CMS). The application enables an administrator to define and manage members of the team mailbox with varying privilege status for accessing the team mailbox. Content such as aggregated messages and associated documents are displayed through a unified view to standardize ease of access. The members are enabled to receive messages sent to the team mailbox by others. Policies inherited from email repository, CMS, and/or third party policy providers are enforced within the team mailbox. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191461 | COLLABORATION WITHIN A VISUALIZATION APPLICATION - In a method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable device having instructions for collaboration within a visualization application, a visualization application is used to display a visualization for at least a portion of an object, wherein the object comprises a plurality of parts, a request is received to display collaboration data for a part of the object using the input device, information is received about a part, wherein the information comprises details about the part, an association between collaboration data and visualization data for a part of an object is retrieved and the collaboration data comprises data input by one or more to be associated with the part of the object, and information is displayed about a part and collaboration data associated with the visualization for the part of the object. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191462 | PRIORITIZING AND PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT USER CONTACTS - The present disclosure provides for prioritization and display of relevant news information for at least one watched contact in order to present only news of interest about a user's contacts to a user. A news information spike analysis of news information associated with a watched contact determines whether the watched contact has experienced a news information spike during a time period. News information associated with a news information spike is retrieved and at least one news information item representative of the news information spike are selected and presented in a user interface. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191463 | MANAGING ADDRESS VALIDATION STATES IN SWITCHES SNOOPING IPV6 - In one embodiment, a particular device (e.g., switch) receives a neighbor discovery (ND) message from a non-trusted non-switch device, the ND message having an associated address, and creates a corresponding binding entry for the address in a temporary tentative state without forwarding the ND message. In addition, the switch then generates and forwards a first duplicate address detection (DAD) message on behalf of the non-trusted non-switch device. In response to receiving a second DAD message from a non-owner device, the switch may either drop the second DAD message when a corresponding second address of the second DAD message is stored as a tentative-state entry, or else forward the second DAD message to a corresponding owner device of the second address for neighbor advertisement (NA) defense when the second address is not stored as a tentative-state entry. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191464 | BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods for providing a social network. The methods involve: creating a relationship between a first entity and a second entity; setting authorization which indicates that a user of said first entity is authorized to view inventory data of said second entity; receiving a request to view first inventory data of said first entity and second inventory data of said second entity by said user; and determining whether said user is authorized to view said second inventory data. If said user is authorized: querying a first remote inventory management system of said first entity for said first inventory data and a second remote inventory management system of said second entity for said second inventory data; receiving said first and second inventory data; generating an aggregate view comprising said first and second inventory data; and providing content of said aggregate view to a client computing device of said first entity. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191465 | FACILITATING MESSAGE SERVICES USING MULTI-ROLE SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and software are provided for facilitating a message service. A multi-role system is identified based on where an active message database associated with a user identity resides. Service communications generated by a messaging client associated with the user identity are directed from an entry system to the multi-role system for handling in the multi-role system by a messaging server and a content server to provide the message service. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191466 | Claiming Conversations Between Users and Non-Users of a Social Networking System - Users of a social networking system initiate conversations between other users and additional users who may not be registered to use the social networking system. Each additional user is identified by an item of contact information, and conversation messages are sent to an additional user using the contact information. The conversations are associated with the item of contact information and saved in the social networking system. A user of the social networking system may subsequently claim the item of contact information. The claiming user is given access to the associated conversations if the social networking system can verify that the item of contact information belongs to the claiming user. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191467 | Temporary Suspension of Electronic Communications - Disclosed are various embodiments for a transmission service to suspend temporarily transmission of electronic communications to a recipient. In one embodiment, the transmission service receives a request to suspend receiving electronic communications temporarily for a suspension period. In response, the transmission service suspends transmitting electronic communications to the recipient during the duration of the suspension period. Then, the transmission service resumes transmitting electronic communications to the recipient upon the expiration of the suspension period. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191468 | Systems and Methods for Spam Detection Using Frequency Spectra of Character Strings - Described spam detection techniques including string identification, pre-filtering, and frequency spectrum and timestamp comparison steps facilitate accurate, computationally-efficient detection of rapidly-changing spam arriving in short-lasting waves. In some embodiments, a computer system extracts a target character string from an electronic communication such as a blog comment, transmits it to an anti-spam server, and receives an indicator of whether the respective electronic communication is spam or non-spam from the anti-spam server. The anti-spam server determines whether the electronic communication is spam or non-spam according to features of the frequency spectrum of the target string. Some embodiments also perform an unsupervised clustering of incoming target strings into clusters, wherein all members of a cluster have similar spectra. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191469 | Systems and Methods for Spam Detection Using Character Histograms - Described spam detection techniques including string identification, pre-filtering, and character histogram and timestamp comparison steps facilitate accurate, computationally-efficient detection of rapidly-changing spam arriving in short-lasting waves. In some embodiments, a computer system extracts a target character string from an electronic communication such as a blog comment, transmits it to an anti-spam server, and receives an indicator of whether the respective electronic communication is spam or non-spam from the anti-spam server. The anti-spam server determines whether the electronic communication is spam or non-spam according to certain features of the character histogram of the target string. Some embodiments also perform an unsupervised clustering of incoming target strings into clusters, wherein all members of a cluster have similar character histograms. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191470 | AUTOMATIC LIVE PUBLISHER EVENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SAME - An automatic live publisher event system and method interact with multiple travel reservation systems and social network applications, and instantaneously publishes a user's travel-related information in real-time upon the occurrence of an event regardless of whether the user is connected to the system. The system may parse information from reservations so that users do not have to manually enter information in the system to send to members of their social networks. The system may include an event journal repository, an event parser module, a media manager module, a publisher module and a GPS manager module, which are integrated with each other, and which may interface with a reservation system. The system facilitates the customization of content and communications media of a user's travel-related information associated with an event that is published and shared with multiple users via multiple communications media concurrently. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191471 | NOTIFICATION DELIVERY SYSTEM - Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for providing notifications. A ticket that specifies at least one activity to be performed, a location at which the activity is to be performed, and a period of time in which that activity is to occur is received. A message to be delivered is identified based on the activity, the location, and the period of time, wherein the message describes one or more measures to be taken based on the activity. The identified message describing the one or more measures is delivered to enable at least one of the measures to be taken before the activity occurs in the period of time specified in the ticket. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191472 | E-mail Integrated Instant Messaging - A system and method supporting instant messaging which removes many of the problems and barriers to the use of instant messaging through the use of universally unique identifiers to web pages for instant messaging sessions, with recipients invited to the instant messaging session via email. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191473 | DECLASSIFYING OF SUSPICIOUS MESSAGES - Handling a message comprises: classifying an incoming message for a recipient, storing the classified message and providing a notification to the recipient, wherein the notification includes summary information about the classified message and an interface that allows the recipient to operate on the classified message. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191474 | Electronic Messaging Recovery Engine - The disclosure relates to ensuring wanted electronic messages are reliably delivered to recipients by distinguishing between wanted, authenticated messages and other messages. Notifications of messages that have been identified as spam are received ( | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191475 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION FACILITATION - The invention relates to systems and methods for communication facilitation. Such communications may include work communications and/or personal communications. Communications may be made without disclosing or requiring knowledge of recipient contact information. Pre-communications disclosures may be provided to a recipient prior to actually connecting a sender with a recipient. Communications may be made in accordance with one or more recipient template, which may include pre-determined contact modes for pre-determined scenarios in accordance with recipient or third party instructions. Peripheral information or sender responses to one or more queries may assist with determining the scenario that a communication falls under. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191476 | ELECTRONIC-MAIL FILTERING FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods for dynamic electronic-mail filtering for mobile devices are provided. Incoming e-mail messages are received and provided to an e-mail inbox associated with the intended recipient. Those e-mail messages are evaluated to determine whether they may be desirable to the recipient. Desirability of an e-mail may be determined by such factors as the e-mail address of origin or key words in subject line. E-mail messages determined to be desirable are provided to a mobile device associated with the recipient. The recipient may then be notified concerning the desirable messages. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191477 | MAPPING SYSTEM, NETWORK, AND METHOD FOR ADAPTATION OF ID/LOC SEPARATION TO DATACENTER FOR CLOUD COMPUTING - Provided is a mapping system, a network, and a method for adaptation of identifier (ID)/locator (LOC) separation to a cloud datacenter. A cloud datacenter environment may be divided into layers hierarchically for adaptation to ID/LOC separation, an ID may be defined for each layer, and a networking service may be provided through various IDs defined through the mapping system, to enable adaptation of host-based ID/LOC separation to a cloud computing environment established through a large-scale datacenter. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191478 | Opinion forming using social networking - Methods are described of ascertaining public opinion using character-limited messages. In one method, a character-limited message is sent from a sender account to each of a plurality of follower accounts seeking a response chosen from among possible responses including multiple predetermined responses. Responses are received including a response from each of multiple follower accounts. The received responses are electronically tabulated to obtain tabulated results. An identical character-limited message may be sent to each of the multiple follower accounts. Alternatively, different character-limited messages may be sent to different ones of the multiple follower accounts. Follow-on character-limited message may also be sent and responses received and tabulated. In effect, choices are “percolated up” to arrive at a collective judgment or opinion. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191479 | MULTIPARTY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT OPTIMIZE COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON MODE AND AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH - Improved methods, systems, and devices for managing communications are provided. A user device may display all ongoing communications so that a user can visualize the communications network or some subset thereof (e.g., a subgroup or group of users). A system may maintain the user device in an instant ready-on mode of communication with the other user devices. A user may then initiate communications with a subgroup (e.g., a pair) or group without initiating a new connection. Accordingly, a user can simultaneously and fluidly communicate at the subgroup level, at the group level, or at the inter-group level. Moreover, users can function as independent actors that can freely form and leave subgroups as well as groups. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191480 | MESSAGE CHALLENGE RESPONSE - A system and method are disclosed for registering a email sender for the purpose of sending an email message to an email receiver including receiving a challenge message wherein the challenge message includes a machine answerable question; processing the challenge message to determine that it is a challenge message sent for the purpose of authorizing delivery of the email message; analyzing the question to determine a valid response to the challenge message; and sending the valid response that includes the answer wherein a nontrivial amount of resources are required to send the valid response. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191481 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-CHANNEL CONTEXT AWARE COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - A method may include receiving, via a first network, a message identifying an event, where the event is associated with an entity, and the event is destined for at least one user. The method may include determining, by a processor of a computing device, a type of the event, and accessing, by the processor, a user profile associated with a first user of the at least one user, where the user profile associates the first user with the entity. The method may include determining, by the processor, a communication channel for delivering information associated with the event to the first user, where the user profile includes an association between the communication channel and the type of the event. The method may include forwarding, via a second network, to the first user, the information associated with the event, where the information associated with the event is forwarded via the communication channel. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191482 | MANAGING AN ELECTRONIC MAIL IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method, a system, and a computer program product for managing an electronic mail in a communication network. Recursive parameters are provided in a command list of a communication protocol associated with the electronic mail. The command list is partitioned into of command sub-lists using the recursive parameters. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191483 | SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATING CURRENT AND FUTURE ACTIVITY INFORMATION AMONG MOBILE INTERNET USERS AND METHODS THEREFOR - A computer-implemented method implemented via the Internet for coordinating a current or future event between a user of a mobile Internet device and other users communicating through the Internet. The method includes receiving the current or future activity information pertaining to the future event from the user via the mobile Internet device. The current activity pertains to an activity occurring at a current time relative to a time the future activity information is received. The future activity pertains to an activity occurring at a future time relative to a time the future activity information is received. The method further includes transmitting the current or future activity information to a backend database coupled to the Internet, the backend database being remote from the mobile Internet device. The method further includes rendering the current or future activity information accessible to at least one recipient via the Internet. The recipient represents a subset of the users coupled to the Internet and having access privilege to information pertaining to the current or future event involving the user. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191484 | MAIL TRANSFER SYSTEM, MAIL GATEWAY AND DATA STORE SERVER - It is provided a mail transfer system including a mail gateway, a network and a data storage area. The mail gateway, in a case where destinations of the received electronic mail include a plurality of destinations accommodated in the same mail transfer server, generate a piece of first mail management information including the plurality of destinations, and store mail data linking the generated piece of first mail management information and a body of the electronic mail to each other in the data storage area. The mail gateway, in a case where the destinations of the received electronic mail include one destination accommodated in the same mail transfer server, generate mail management information, which includes the each of the destinations, and store mail data linking each of a plurality of pieces of the generated mail management information and a body of the electronic mail in the data storage area. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130198293 | TECHNIQUES TO DISTRIBUTE MESSAGES USING COMMUNICATION PIPELINES - Techniques to distribute messages using communication pipelines are described. An apparatus may comprise a message receiving component operative to receive a message at a first server for forwarding to a virtual receiver, a routing component operative to identify a second server maintaining the virtual receiver and determine a communication pipeline between the first server and the second server, and a message sending component operative to send the message from the first server to the second server over the communication pipeline. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198294 | DYNAMIC CROSS-SITE REQUEST FORGERY PROTECTION IN A WEB-BASED CLIENT APPLICATION - A canary value is used to validate a message from a non-web browser client application to a web server providing web services to mitigate cross-site forgery attacks. The canary value is generated by the server in party by applying a hash function to a user identifier and a time stamp. The server provides the canary value to the client application in response to receiving a message that does not have a canary or has an expired canary. The client application upon receiving an error message with a canary message will resend the prior message with the canary value present. The client application caches the canary value for subsequent messages until a new canary value is received. The canary value allows the server to ignore messages generated by the client application under control of an attacker. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198295 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE STATUS DETERMINATION - A method, computer program product, and computer system for processing a status request received from a requester concerning an electronic message addressed from a sender to a recipient. A probable route between the sender and the recipient for the electronic message is predicted. A message status for the electronic message is determined from one or more status indicators based at least in part upon the probable route. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198296 | System and Method for Processing Messages in a Messaging Service - A method, system and server for processing messages sent from a client in a network are provided. The method comprises: for a message for a conversation to be transmitted from a client associated with a first user account of a plurality of user accounts associated with the network to a set of user accounts of the plurality of user accounts, upon activation of a command to send the message, sending to the set of user accounts a request message requesting acceptance of the conversation; receiving replies from the set of user accounts to the request message; and sending the message for the conversation to a first subset of accounts associated with the set of user accounts that generated an acceptance message for the request message and updating a message log associated with the conversation to indicate that the first subset of accounts has accepted the conversation as participants in the conversation. A method, system and server for message archiving are also provided. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198297 | Processing Data Relating To A Communication Event - Method, user terminal and computer program product for processing data relating to a communication event at a communication client, the communication event occurring over a communication system. An input of the communication event is received at the communication client from a user of the communication system. The input is analyzed to determine attributes of the input. At least one other user of the communication system who is likely to be a participant of the communication event is determined based on the occurrence of attributes, corresponding to the determined attributes of the input, in previous communication events over the communication system involving at least one of the at least one other user. The communication client indicates, to the user, the determined at least one other user as being a likely participant for the communication event. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SYNCHRONIZE VIDEO PLAYBACK ON MOBILE DEVICES - System and method to synchronize video playback on mobile devices, the method including: receiving, from a first mobile device, a message directed to a second mobile device, the message including an instruction to display a video on the second mobile device; an indication of the time at which the first mobile device sent the message; and a video position of the first mobile device when the message was sent; calculating a delay between the first mobile device and the second mobile device; estimating a video seek time for the second mobile device to seek a video position on the second mobile device; seeking a video position p | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198299 | REAL-TIME TARGETED MESSAGES - Technologies and implementations for providing real-time targeted messages are generally disclosed. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198300 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND USING A HYBRID-DIGITAL MAILBOX - A method, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium are. In one embodiment, a method is provided for receiving tracking data regarding a delivery item, determining, based on the tracking data, whether supplemental content is associated with the delivery item, and automatically scheduling delivery of the supplemental content when supplemental content is associated with the delivery item. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198301 | System and Method for Conveying Information - A system and method for conveying data include the capability to determine whether a transaction request credit has been received at a computer module, the transaction request credit indicating that at least a portion of a transaction request message may be sent. The system and method also include the capability to determine, of a transaction request message is to be sent, whether at least a portion of the transaction request message may be sent and to send the at least a portion of the transaction request message if it may be sent. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198302 | MAIL GATEWAY, MAIL DELIVERY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In a mail gateway, a collection part collects, for each specific information contained in a mail entered into a resending queue, statistical information of the specific information. A provisional queue creation part creates a provisional queue based on the collected number of the statistical information. The provisional queue handles a mail which has a possibility of causing congestion. This can prevent a normal queue from entering into a congestion state. Also in the mail gateway, if the congestion state is brought about in the provisional queue which performs a send of a mail containing the specific information, a mail sort part restricts an entry of a mail into the provisional queue. This can limit an influence of the congestion state only to the provisional queue. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198303 | AUTOMATED USER-INITIATED INVITATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for sending invitations potential subscribers of a service provider includes a registration engine configured to complete a registration process with a registering user. Furthermore, the registration engine is further configured during the registration process to receive from the registering user: a) an e-mail address of the registering user; b) access information for that e-mail address; c) permission to access the e-mail address; and d) an instruction to send an invitation to join the service provider to at least some of a plurality of addresses within an address book of the registering user. The system also includes an authorization engine configured to extract the plurality of addresses from the address book; and an invitation engine configured to send a respective invitation to at least one of the extracted plurality of addresses. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198304 | GROUP MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FILE SHARING THROUGH BIDIRECTIONAL INTERLOCK WITH A CLOUD SERVER - Disclosed herein is a group messaging system for providing file sharing through bidirectional interlock with a cloud server, including: a messenger server receiving information requesting creation of a group chatting room including group members and instructing user terminals of the respective group members to create the group chatting room; and a cloud server interlocking with the messenger server, receiving information about the creation of the group chatting room from the messenger server, and creating a sharing group mapped to the group chatting room in a one-to-one scheme. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198305 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING MESH DEVICES IN MULTI-TREE OVERLAPPING MESH NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and devices described herein can allow a mesh device to participate in multiple mesh networks. The method comprises associating with a first access point over a first mesh network, wherein the first access point manages the first mesh network; responsive to receiving a neighbor information broadcast from a neighboring mesh device, updating a neighborhood table stored in an accessible memory, wherein the neighbor information includes a neighboring mesh device information and a neighboring mesh device network identifier; responsive to a request to transmit a message to a destination, determining a next device, wherein the next device is on a calculated path towards the destination, the path including mesh devices from a plurality of mesh networks; and transmitting the message to the next device. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198306 | Messaging Personalization - Participants in a communication are rendered by determining whether each entry in a list of participants in the communication satisfies criteria specified by a user participating in the communication. The criteria are used to identify a first subset of participants that is to be rendered in a first style that differentiates the first subset from remaining participants in the list. The first subset of participants is formatted in the first style. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198307 | Apparatus and Method for Subscription to a Service and Use of the Service - An apparatus and mechanism to subscribe to a single address and or session management service from multiple devices (such as e.g. tablets, smart phones, netbooks or other types of communication terminals or client devices) with a single account and password through the automatic assignment of a dynamic opaque SIP service profile to each device a user uses to signin to the service. After sign-in transparent call management services are provided to the user and allow the user to control sessions on any signed-in device from any signed-in device without revealing the distinct dynamic opaque SIP service profiles to the user. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198308 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING PUBLISHED MESSAGES - A method for delivering published messages to subscribers comprises: —storing a set of subscriptions (F | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130204946 | EMAIL MAILBOX MANAGEMENT - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive an instruction to establish a rule to take an action on each email message received from a first email address, determine that the first email address is associated with contact data, determine that the contact data is associated with a second email address, and apply the rule to take the action on each email message received from the second email address. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204947 | AUTOMATED PARTICIPANT ACCOUNT DETERMINATION FOR A COMMUNICATION SESSION - A unified communication application can allow a user to communicate with contacts across multiple electronic communication services. When the user desires to send a message, the communication application can identify a set of candidate account addresses associated with several electronic communication services in response to receiving a partial identifier of an intended recipient. The communication application can present a list including the set of candidate account addresses to the user. In response to receiving a user selection of one of the candidate account addresses, the communication application can determine a sender account from which to send the message. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204948 | CENTRALIZED CONFIGURATION AND MONITORING OF A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING CLUSTER - Systems and methods for centralized configuration and monitoring of a distributed computing cluster are disclosed. One embodiment of the disclose technology enables deployment and central operation a complete Hadoop stack. The application automates the installation process and reduces deployment time from weeks to minutes. One embodiment further provides a cluster-wide, real time view of the services running and the status of the host machines in a cluster via a single, central place to enact configuration changes across the computing cluster which further incorporates reporting and diagnostic tools to optimize cluster performance and utilization. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204949 | METHOD FOR LAUNCHING A CONTEXTUALIZED ON-THE-FLY CONFERENCE - A method for launching a contextualized on-the-fly conference between at least two users connected to a unified communications client and whose respective email addresses are included in an email, which method includes the following steps:
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| 20130204950 | System and Method for Reducing Unsolicited E-Mails - A method for reducing unsolicited e-mails includes receiving an e-mail message from a sender, storing the e-mail message within a holding unit, and sending a confirmation response request e-mail to the sender in response to the e-mail message from the sender. The confirmation response request e-mail may include a request for at least one confirmation code from the sender according to at least one calculation type/method specified in the confirmation response request e-mail. The method may also include receiving a confirmation e-mail from the sender in response to the confirmation response request e-mail, determining whether the confirmation e-mail includes a code correctly computed according the at least one confirmation code calculation type, and performing an action with respect to the e-mail message based upon the confirmation e-mail. The sender's support of the method creates an explicit agreement regarding legal jurisdiction governing any disputes arising out of the e-mail. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204951 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DATA - System and methods are disclosed, one method can comprise the steps of receiving a request for a diagnostic message, receiving a selection of diagnostic information, retrieving at least a portion of the selected diagnostic information, generating the requested diagnostic message, wherein the diagnostic message comprises the portion of the selected diagnostic information, and transmitting the requested diagnostic message. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION - A computing device may be operable to receive a first email via a network connection. The computing device may be operable to parse a first email to extract one or more fields of the first email. The computing device may be operable to determine, based on the extracted field(s), a category of an electronic forum with which to associate the first email. The computing device may be operable to determine, based on the extracted field(s), a thread of the determined category with which to associate the first email. The computing device may be operable to associate, in a memory, the first email with the determined thread. The computing device may be operable to present content of the first email in a first post in the determined thread. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204953 | Connection Device and Protocol - A common communications protocol is described among devices in a unified communications network. Native devices receive upstream commands and forward them to downstream devices without interpreting the commands. The native devices reformat commands intended for mapped devices in the unified communications network. The common communications protocol calls for left shifting address fields for transmitted commands until the command arrives at its intended destination. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204954 | COMMUNICATING INFORMATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE ABOUT ACTIVITIES FROM ANOTHER DOMAIN - A social networking website logs information about actions taken by members of the website. For a particular member of the website, the website generates socially relevant ads for the member based on the actions logged for other members on the website to whom the member is connected (i.e., the member's online friends). The advertiser associated with the social ad may compensate the social networking website for publishing the ad on the website. When presenting a member with a social ad, the website may optimize advertising revenue by selecting an ad from the received ads that will maximize the expected value of the social ad. The expected value may be computed according to a function that includes the member's affinity for the ad content and the bid amount. The technique is also applied for providing socially relevant information off the social networking website. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204955 | Computer-Implemented System and Method for Visualizing Message-Related Relationships Within a Social Network - A computer-implemented system and method for visualizing message-related relationships within a social network is provided. Entities associated with a group of messages are identified. A social network is built based on a relationship of the entities and messages by connecting those entities that share at least one of the messages from the group. A representation of the social network is generated by representing each message with a node. The nodes are organized based on at least one characteristic of the messages. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204956 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND RELATED PROGRAM - When a user selects an image, a control unit detects a face image from the selected image and acquires person data corresponding to the face image. Moreover, the control unit specifies address book data of the person and acquires an e-mail address from the address book data. When the user inputs an e-mail address, the control unit also has a function of detecting an image in which a person having the input e-mail address as a destination is an imaged object and creating an e-mail attached with the image. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204957 | Method, System, and Graphic User Interface for Enabling a Customer to Access a Media File - A method, system, GUI, apparatus, and computer readable media for enabling a customer to access to a media file uploaded by a user are provided. A user profile may be generated using received login and profile information. The user profile may be hosted on, for example, a web site, SMS/MMS gateway, and a WAP site. A media file may be received from the user and may be upload to the user profile. The media file may be associated with a user account. A request to access the media file may be received from a customer. An account associated with the customer may be updated to indicate their requested access to the media file. The customer may then be enabled to access the media file. The user's account may be updated to indicate the transaction. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204958 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING AND ELECTRONIC ACCOUNT TO A CUSTOMER - An electronic account is provided to a customer to enable the customer to access electronic services, such as e-mail and electronic transactions. The electronic account links an electronic address of the customer to a physical address of the customer. Using the electronic account, electronic services can be provided to the customer at either the electronic or physical address, or both. The services can be both secure and non-secure and can be provided by any service provider, such as an online merchant, a government agency, or a bank. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130212183 | APPLICATION BROKER - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, provide a broker for client applications. In one aspect, a method includes providing an electronic document that has a document format compatible with a document reader application. The electronic document includes a broker application and a client application. The broker application can be loaded into a virtual machine running in the document reader application on a client device. The loaded broker application loads the client application into the virtual machine, and the loaded client application provides a graphical user interface for display. In some instances, the loaded broker application receives data from the loaded client application and stores the received data as a data set in the electronic document. In some instances, the loaded broker application retrieves a data set from the electronic document and provides the retrieved data set to the loaded client application. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212184 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to the Use of Identifying Images for Social Content Sources - A control circuit monitors treatment of incoming social content and then uses this treatment information to determine an identifying image to present for given social content sources. The monitored treatment can comprise, for example, whether the recipient opens incoming social content from various social content sources over some relevant period of time. By one approach, when the recipient user is tending to ignore social content from a given social content source, these teachings can provide for automatically selecting and displaying an image of a non-face portion of that social content source (such as an image of the backside of a person's head) to thereby convey a sense that the recipient's relationship with this particular person has been neglected. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212185 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE METERING AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - A system, method, electronic device and server are provided for metering electronic messages and for managing message traffic within an organization. An electronic message resistance value is stored for recipients within an organization. When a message is composed and addressed at a sending terminal, the electronic message resistance value may be retrieved and displayed at the sending terminal. The message server receiving the composed message for transmission to the recipient sends the message to the recipient in accordance with a priority determined based on the recipient's electronic message resistance; for example, the message may be sent with a low priority attribute, or the transmission of the message to the recipient may be delayed for a set period of time. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212186 | METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVELY ASSISTING A CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR - Methods for collaboratively assisting a control room operator are disclosed. An example method disclosed includes receiving a notification associated with a person via a portable wireless device. The notification includes information regarding a process control variable in a process control environment. The example method further includes altering the notification by the person via the portable wireless device and transmitting the altered notification via the portable wireless device. The control room operator and other persons associated with the notification are to receive the altered notification. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212187 | Mail Management - The instant application discloses, among other things, techniques to allow a user to inform direct mail senders of their preferences with respect to communications. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212188 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY SESSION USERS WITH COOKIE INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify session users with cookie information. An example method includes identifying activity associated with a first cookie having a first type, in response to identifying the first, parsing the first cookie to identify a first panelist, when the first cookie includes an identifier associated with a first panelist, associating current usage activity of the computing device with the first panelist, and when the first cookie includes an identifier unassociated with the first panelist, associating current usage activity of the computing device with a guest. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212189 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING ONLINE CONTENT - Systems and methods are disclosed for sharing online content and, in particular, for allowing users of an online community to manage the delivery and sharing of messages received from other users of the community or those external to the community. In one or more implementations, the system may include clients, servers, and a network. Clients may communicate with the servers using the network in order to exchange data, messages, and other content with users of the online community. The online community includes configurable settings, allowing users to control the manner in which messages are delivered to them, as well as the extent to which their sent messages are automatically shared with users not identified by the sender. Using the online community, users may also communicate with, and receive communications from, individuals that have accounts on social media websites. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212190 | INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED MESSAGING FOR COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED DEVICES - Various computer-implemented systems and methods are provided here for purposes of intelligent predictive messaging. An exemplary system can be operated to obtain message context data associated with a messaging session, process the message context data to obtain suggested message content for the messaging session, and automatically populate a message field of a user device with at least some of the suggested message content. The system may proceed by sending a message from the user device, where the message includes content of the message field. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212191 | DEVICE-AGNOSTIC NETWORK AND SOCIAL NETWORK SHARING OF... WEB-APPLICATIONS - A Software as a Service framework that supports the creation and adoption of web-application availability to users' contacts without needing technical knowledge of computer code, network architectures, devices, or protocols. Forwarding is controlled by sending a link through said framework over SMS, MMS, email, social networks, etc. Depending upon permissions set by the application's owner, a recipient may also forward the web-application link to his/her own contacts, promoting viral propagation of the web-application's availability. Recipients may also be granted permission by the web-application's owner to contribute towards its functionality and/or its source data, enabling crowd-sourced enhancement of the web-application. Web-applications developed within said framework may be utilized and distributed via any web-enabled device able to access the link to the web-application. Restrictions may be imposed by the web-application owner regarding the duration and/or number of accesses permitted to it. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212192 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR POSTING MESSAGES ABOUT FUTURE EVENTS TO USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - The present disclosure relates in general to social networks run in a computer environment and in particular to methods and systems for posting messages about future events to users of a social network who are registered users of the social network, preferably in accordance with selectable, pre-selectable or adjustable settings for individual users. The method and system allows a user to post a message about a future plan or event that is taking place at a specified time rather than the time that the message is sent. The approach according to the present disclosure is directed to a unique way of social networking via an ordered list of events, such as a timeline or calendar, that shows when future plans will take place, and to a ‘matchmaking’ service between people organizing or taking part in such an event and other users who may also be interested in that event. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212193 | SYSTEM FOR SHARING IMAGES - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for sharing studies and medical images via a one click mechanism whereby only an email address is required to share a medical image or a study with a third party without assistance from information technology administrators or copying patient image and information somewhere else. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212194 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a communication system ( | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212195 | System and Method for Servers to Send Alerts to Connectionless Devices - A method of sending alerts from servers to client devices is provided. The alert can be generated with a server application and may include customer information. The alert may then be sent to a message router. The message router retrieves a station ID of the client device based on the customer information. A communication type of the client device can be determined based on the station ID and one or more of a plurality of protocol gateways can be selected based on the communication type. The alert can be forwarded to the selected one or more of the plurality of protocol gateways where is may be formatted for the selected client device. The formatted alert may then be forwarded via the network to the selected client device. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212196 | Systems and Methods for Messaging to Multiple Gateways - Systems and methods for providing message communication among multiple communication gateways. In particular, systems and methods for providing non-voice message delivery to intended recipients with increased speed and reliability to multiple users on multiple platforms. The systems and methods relate to non-voice messaging to multiple messaging gateways. In at least one embodiment, the systems and methods include Internet based electronic messaging using a messaging subsystem configured to optimize text message delivery to communication gateways. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212197 | REMINDER SYSTEM - A reminder system is provided. The system provides a user-friendly interface to a user's existing email, and in some embodiments to the user's document management, calendar and other systems, in order to ensure that an appropriate user is notified when action should be taken, and also provides notation to the user indicating the appropriate course of action to be taken. The system provides a calendaring feature where a supervisor or manager can determine the workload of a group of workers for an upcoming time period. The system provides an easily accessible and traceable database of information pertaining to a project checklist, document, a client name, a client matter number, a document type, or other customizable fields in order for a user to search and sort the information for their own use. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212198 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF DYNAMIC MAIL SYNCHRONIZATION FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods of dynamic mail synchronization for mobile devices are provided. At least one state of a mail box corresponding to a mail application on the electronic device is monitored, wherein the mail application has a predefined mail synchronization mechanism for checking and receiving mails from a server. It is determined whether the monitored state reaches a corresponding threshold value. When the monitored state reaches the corresponding threshold value, the predefined mail synchronization mechanism of the mail application is adjusted, such that the mail application periodically checks and receives mails from the server based on the adjusted mail synchronization mechanism. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212199 | EVENT BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for facilitating networked communication. An event creation module is configured to create an event profile within a social networking service. A check in module is configured to associate a plurality of user profiles of the social networking service with the event profile. A message interface module is configured to provide a message interface in response to determining that a user profile of a first user of the social networking service and a user profile of a second user of the social networking service are associated with the event profile. The message interface is operable by the first user to send a private message to the second user. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212200 | MIGRATION PROJECT AUTOMATION, E.G., AUTOMATED SELLING, PLANNING, MIGRATION AND CONFIGURATION OF EMAIL SYSTEMS - Technology is generally described for automating the project management and execution of data migration from a source email system to a destination email system. In some examples, the technology can include receiving a domain name of a second computing system; obtaining domain name system (DNS) records for the received domain name; determining an email hosting provider for the second computing system; determining, by the processor, based on the obtained DNS records, an email system service type of the source email system on the second computing system; discovering mailboxes and message delivery rules of the source email system; displaying customization options for migrating discovered source email system mailboxes; migrating data items from the source email system to the destination email system; and managing migration of data from source email system client computing devices to the destination email system. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212201 | ON-DEMAND MARKETING LITERATURE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A literature on demand (LOD) distribution system comprises a secure server hosting a LOD database and a vendor's electronic data processing device on which a LOD application is loaded. The vendor's electronic data processing device is configured to execute the LOD application to perform operations including: storing a local LOD database containing a portion or all of the LOD items stored in the LOD database at the secure server; selecting an LOD item stored in the local LOD database; displaying the selected LOD item or causing the selected LOD item to be displayed by a viewer application executing on the electronic data processing device; constructing an email including a hyperlink for downloading or streaming the selected LOD item from the LOD database of the secure server; and sending the constructed email to a recipient or causing the constructed email to be sent to the recipient by an email application executing on the electronic data processing device. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212202 | CONVERSATIONAL MESSAGE SERVICE OPERATING METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - A method of operating a conversational messaging service may include assigning an identification number to messages transmitted by users participating in a group chat, sequentially, selecting an identification number of any one of messages associated with each of the users as a watermark of each of the users, and determining a number of users failing to read each of the each of the messages, based on the watermark of each of the users. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130212203 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING MOBILE MESSAGE - A method and apparatus for receiving a mobile message are provided. The apparatus includes a Short Messaging Service (SMS) client for receiving a short message by using a short message service; a Mobile Message (MM) client for receiving a mobile message; and a push client for, when an arrival notification informing that the mobile message has arrived from a push server is received, informing the MM client that the mobile message has arrived and, when the MM client is turned off, waking the MM client, wherein, when the push client is turned off, the SMS client receives the arrival notification from the push server through a short message. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130218979 | Consistent Interface for Feed Collaboration Group and Feed Event Subscription - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a feed collaboration group and/or a feed event subscription business object. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218980 | Consistent Interface for User Feed Administrator, User Feed Event Link and User Feed Settings - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a user feed administrator, a user feed event link and/or a user feed settings business object. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218981 | Consistent Interface for Flag and Tag - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a flag and/or a tag business object. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218982 | INTELLIGENT DOWNLOADING OF MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS TO MOBILE DEVICES - A method of downloading data to a mobile device, the method comprising receiving a message at the mobile device, the message including an indication that there is an attachment to the message that is available for downloading to the mobile device, determining if the attachment relates to a calendar event, determining if a user of the mobile device requires the attachment for participating in the calendar event, and automatically downloading the attachment to the mobile device in response to the mobile device determining that the attachment is required for participation in the calendar event. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218983 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN TWO OR MORE INTERESTED PARTIES - A method and system for communicating anonymously between two parties until such time that the parties may wish to reveal their identities to each other. This is accomplished by using a portable device that enables anonymous communications between a sender (operating a sender device such as a smartphone) and a recipient (operating a recipient device such as a smartphone) via an anonymous communications server computer. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218984 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONFIGURED WITH MESSAGING COMPOSITION INTERFACE - An electronic device and method for sending a message is provided. The electronic device includes a network interface, an input device and a processor in communication with the network interface and the input device. The processor is configured to establish a connection with a plurality of messaging applications, select a messaging service, receive content and input via a messaging composition interface and send the message. The method involves establishing a connection with a plurality of messaging applications, selecting a messaging service, receiving content and input via a messaging composition interface, and sending the message. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218985 | APPLICATION PLATFORM FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for an application platform for electronic mail. A method includes, in a network of interconnected computers, receiving a request in an email server to start up an email client, initializing an app platform client residing in the email client, receiving a request in the email server to open an email message, determining if there is an app associated with the email message, and rendering the app within the email message. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218986 | Time-Managed Electronic Mail Messages - Systems, method sand computer program products for facilitating the automatic deletion of received emails after a user-selectable time period has elapsed are disclosed. In various embodiments, email messages contain a header field referred to as an “Expiration Time” header field that dictates the length of time the email will reside in a designated Inbox prior to its automatic deletion by an email server. The server is able to automatically delete the received email as long as the email is residing in a folder that is synched to the server. A user receiving the email has access to the Expiration Time Header field and can modify its value if desired and allowed by the sender. The user can move the retrieved email to a folder that is not synched to the server, thus preventing the email from being automatically deleted by the server. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218987 | Aggregation and Visualization of Multiple Chat Room Information - The information made available in a series of chat windows which each represent a different chat room is summarized and displayed in a single chat window summary screen. In this way a user can monitor a single window in a single display rather than many windows occupying a series of displays. When one of the chat room summaries indicates something of interest to the user, the user may return to a view of the entire chat window for that chat room. In some implementations the user may designate one or more of the chat room summaries as an active window. The active window may include more information in its summary that the chat room summaries for the remaining chat room summaries which are not designated as active windows. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218988 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING RELATED MESSAGES AT A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method, system and apparatus for managing related messages at a communication device are provided. Related messages are received, at a communication device comprising a processor and a communication interface. A most recent message of the related messages is automatically stored at an inbox folder in a memory. Remaining messages of the related messages are automatically storing in a given folder at the memory, the given folder different from the inbox folder. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218989 | METHOD FOR THE CERTIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC MAIL DELIVERY - The object of the invention is a method to receive and send electronic mail from a transmitting user to a recipient, generating proof of the operation transactions to submit the transmitting user a certificate as a trusted third party. To that end, it features the steps of reception in a mail server of a copy of the first electronic message sent by the transmitting user to the recipient, the later delivery of a copy of the first electronic message to the recipient together with a particular indication, so that the recipient receives a second electronic message copy of the first electronic message from the mail server, which comprises that particular indication. Finally, the data processing unit creates an electronic document with the transactional data of the delivered copy and signs it digitally creating a certificate that is sent to the initial user. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218990 | METHOD FOR THE CERTIFICATION OF DATA MESSAGES TRANSMISSION TO MOBILE TERMINALS - The invention consists of a method so that a telecommunications operator can deliver data messaging, digitally sign it and deliver it to the user with a certificate. The method has the following steps:
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| 20130218991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION FROM A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for providing recommended information relating to a person from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving by a server a message from a user system associated with a user including a request for information relating to a target person and information identifying the target person. The method also includes identifying, based on the information identifying the target person, accessible records associated with an enterprise and relating to the target person, where the records are managed by a CRM system, and collecting public social media content relating to the target person from social networking entities. A comprehensive profile associated with the target person is generated based on the accessible records and on the social media content, and at least a portion of the profile is included in a response message that is transmitted by the server to the user system. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218992 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING AVAILABILITY STATUS FOR MULTIPLE SIP USERS - Systems and methods for obtaining availability status in respect of a plurality of user identifiers are provided. For each user identifier, a respective SIP cluster identifier is obtained. The user identifiers are then grouped according to SIP cluster identifier, each such group of user identifiers containing at least one user identifier for which the same SIP cluster identifier was obtained. For each SIP cluster identifier for which there is a group of user identifiers, a request is sent for availability status information in a single message to a SIP cluster associated with the SIP cluster identifier, the request containing the user identifiers of the group of user identifiers. A response to each single message is received in a single message containing availability status information for the user identifiers belonging to the group of user identifiers. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218993 | CONTEXTUAL PRESENCE IN COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for ‘broadcasting’ presence notifications either directly or through complex user-driven systems by replacing the rule-driven approach or the subscription approach with an presence arrangement that is based on context, otherwise known as contextual presence. When a user publishes his or her presence information, either one state or as a set of states, a contextual presence system notifies only those users whose interactions are either expected or do not cause interruptions to users' work. Other than publishing their current presence state or states, contextual presence does not require any configuring or managing from the user and is dynamic both in terms of the changing set of people it notifies and in relation with time. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218994 | PEER-TO-PEER EMAIL - A peer-to-peer email system and methods are provided for distributed email distribution, prevention of SPAM, and efficient email storage. Each email client also serves as a node in the peer-to-peer system, relaying email messages and/or attachments. Large attachments may be transmitted directly from sender to receiver, and if the receiver is not online at the time the sender sends the attachment, the receiver can request the attachment from the sender at a later time. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218995 | TWO-WAY INSTANT MESSAGE FORWARDING - Systems and methods providing users with a rich web experience are disclosed. In one embodiment, a client and at least one server are in communication using a dual communication link. In another embodiment, a markup language based instant messaging application is disclosed. The instant messaging application may include group instant messaging. The instant messaging application may also provide group member persistence and message persistence at the server. In another embodiment, a card based web application is disclosed, where the card information and character may be shared with other users or within a group. The cards may also be configurable by users. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218996 | SYNCHRONIZATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Systems, methods and computer readable media for synchronization of electronic message accounts. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information to establish an electronic message account on a first data processing system, the electronic message account being defined by setup information, and synchronizing the setup information onto a store on a second data processing system. In another embodiment, a method includes receiving information to establish an electronic message account, defined by first setup information, on a host and synchronizing the first setup information onto a device when the device is coupled to the host for synchronization. Systems, other methods and computer readable media are also described. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218997 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MESSAGE SERVICE IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An apparatus and method implement a messenger service in an electronic device. The method operates in a server of a wireless communication system and includes detecting a search word from a message received from at least one electronic device, determining supplementary information dependent on the search word detected from the message received from the at least one electronic device, and transmitting the message and the supplementary information to at least one electronic device providing a supplementary service among the at least one electronic device. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218998 | System, Method, and Computer-Readable Medium for Interactive Collaboration - A system, method, and computer-readable medium for facilitating interactions for a computerized collaboration session are disclosed. Such a system includes a distribution network communicatively connected to each of at least two computer stations, wherein, during a collaboration session, the distribution network is configured to synchronize user interactions associated with project data at any of the at least two computer stations such that any user of any of the at least two computer stations is able to observe in real-time or near real-time the user interactions associated with the project data of another user at another one of the at least two computer stations. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218999 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE RESPONSE AND REMEDIATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided is a method, system and software for responding to an incoming electronic message, including determining whether the incoming electronic message is relevant or irrelevant to a user, and if the incoming electronic message is irrelevant to the user, parsing the incoming electronic message for message origination information and replying to the message using the message origination information. Also provided is responding to irrelevant messages in a social networking, website and other electronic content repository context, and detecting and responding when a irrelevant message attempts to access a device. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130219000 | Restricting Distribution of Electronic Messages by Identifying Potential Recipients that Violate the Restricion - A method of restricting distribution of electronic messages may include receiving an electronic message, the message including message content and message-specific distribution restriction information, enabling a recipient of the electronic message to compose a related message that includes at least a portion of the message content, the composed message including a list of proposed recipients. In connection with an operation to process a draft of the composed message without initiating transmission of the composed message to the list of proposed recipients, the method includes identifying recipients from the list of proposed recipients that violate the distribution restriction information and notifying the recipient of the identified recipients that violate the distribution restriction. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130219001 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT DELIVERY - An approach is provided for sharing dynamic content among users. A communication system receives a request, via a voice communication session with a user device, for visual content that includes dynamic content. The communication system determines one or more of a plurality of destination devices to direct the visual content, wherein the one or more destination devices includes the user device. The communication system then initiates transmission of the visual content to the one or more destination devices over a communication session that is separate from the voice communication session. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130219002 | AUTOMATICALLY POPULATING RECIPIENTS IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING OR OTHER COMPUTER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A system and a method for automatically populating chat recipients in an instant messaging system in which chat recipients are automatically populated from external data sources, e.g. clipboard, spreadsheet, document, database, directory, etc., and a chat session started with the click of a single user interface button or the like. A pop-up window is generated that allows the user to select a data source from which the chat recipients are to be obtained. The data source may be scanned to identify candidate names matching a predetermined name format, or the user is prompted to provide at least a portion of a search string. The user can then select which of the returned names are to be used in initiating the chat session. The disclosed system then generates a user interface object allowing the initiating user to perform an action with the selected recipients, including initiating a chat session. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130219003 | Method And System For Organizing Electronic Messages Using Eye-Gaze Technology - Organizing messages received and transmitted over a network is described. In one aspect, a method includes tracking where a user is gazing as the user is composing an outgoing message on a first computer system. During a composition time period in which the user is composing the message, a relevance rating for one or more of a plurality of gaze areas is determined. The relevance rating of a gaze area is based on a number of times the user's gaze dwells on the displayed message associated with the gaze area after the user's gaze is directed away from the displayed message. The method further includes identifying at least one displayed message that is related to the outgoing message based on at least one of the relevance ratings, and associating an identifier for at least one of the at least one related message with the outgoing message. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130227027 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC SUBSCRIPTIONS AT A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method, system and apparatus for managing electronic subscriptions are provided. An indication of unsubscribing to an electronic subscription is stored. Thereafter: at least one message in the electronic subscription is received; and the at least one message is prevented from being stored at an inbox folder in a memory associated with the communication device. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227028 | ENHANCED REPLICATION FOR MESSAGE SERVICES - Systems, methods, and software are disclosed that provide enhanced replication for message services. In one implementation, updates to a message source are replicated to message targets. The replication is monitored to identify an individual health of the replication for each of the message targets. A composite health of the replication is determined based on the individual health of the replication for each of the message targets. The updates to the message source are then controlled based on the composite health of the replication. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227029 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALERTING UNOPENED ITEMS IN COMMUNICATIONS - The present matter relates to a method and system for alerting unopened items in communications, particularly attachments and external resources referenced (e.g. Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) or other Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), etc.), in communications such as email or meeting invite messages. The alerting may be triggered by a meeting reminder, telephone communication, search or other event. Alerting may be to senders, recipients or both. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227030 | Integrated Messaging - An system, apparatus, and methods for integrated messaging are disclosed. The apparatus may include a user interface engine, an authorization module and a messaging module. The user interface engine receives input describing a recipient and a message to be received by the recipient. The authorization module generates an authorization signal indicating whether the recipient is authorized to exchange messages via a group messaging engine. The authorization module is coupled to the user interface engine to receive the input describing the recipient. The messaging module selectively transmits the message for dispatch to a user device of the recipient via the group messaging engine or a fallback messaging service based at least in part on the authorization signal. The messaging module is coupled to the authorization module to receive the authorization signal and coupled to the user interface engine to receive the input describing the recipient and the message. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227031 | RETRIEVAL AND PRESENTATION OF CONTACT DATA AT AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device and method for suggested recipients for a message being composed is described herein. Input of a partial recipient identifier is detected in a recipient identifier entry field of a message composition screen. In response, an initial set of suggested entries is presented, matching the partial recipient identifier. At least one suggested entry is a combination of recipient identifiers specified in a previous message, where at least one recipient identifier of the combination of recipient identifiers matches the partial recipient identifier. The entries may be suggested for either a direct addressee field or an indirect addressee field. Suggested entries may also be suggested based on a match with a subject line input in the message composition screen. As the partial recipient identifier or input subject line is updated or changed, the suggested entries are likewise updated. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227032 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIRECT PUSH E-MAIL SERVICE, AND E-MAIL CLIENT AND E-MAIL SERVER THEREFOR - An E-mail client establishes a connection to an E-mail server to provide a Direct Push E-mail service by sending to the E-mail server a request message periodically to check whether an E-mail has arrived at the E-mail server and a connection item in a header of the request message, which is set as a closed state, and disconnects the connection upon receiving a response message to the command from the E-mail server. The E-mail server establishes a connection to the E-mail client to provide the Direct Push E-mail service by receiving the request message from the E-mail client, sending a response message to the command to the E-mail client, determining a connection item in a header of the request message, and disconnecting the connection if the connection item is set as a closed state. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227033 | TERMINAL DEVICE - A client device including a first message receiver that receives a first message from an external device; a second message receiver that receives a second message from the external device; a display unit that displays one of the first message received by the first message receiver and the second message received by the second message receiver; and a controller that determines whether or not a specific address or a specific keyword is stated in the body of the second message received by the second message receiver, and discards the received second message on the basis of the determination result. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227034 | EFFICIENT EMAIL PROCESSING BY INSTANT STATE NOTIFICATION - Processing an email includes receiving, using a processor, operation status information of an operation on an email by a user. The operation status information includes user identification information of the user, email identification information of the email, and the current operation status on the email by the user. The operation status information of the operation on the email by the user is stored. Using the processor, the stored operation status information is transmitted to other users associated with the email. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227035 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA OF MOBILE TERMINAL - A method of processing data of a terminal device is provided. The method includes processing selected cloud data, requesting a download of the selected cloud data when selecting a function menu while processing the selected cloud data, downloading the cloud data, and automatically setting the downloaded cloud data as data of the selected function. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227036 | PROVIDING MACHINE-TO-MACHINE SERVICE - The disclosure is related to providing a machine to machine (M2M0 service. A user interface (UI) template associated with a M2M device may be retrieved when a message is received from the M2M device. Then, data collected from the M2M device may be combined with the retrieved UI template. The M2M service associated with the M2M device may be provided by embedding the combined data to application data for producing a M2M service user interface (UI) of the associated M2M service. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227037 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A BUSINESS CARD APPLICATION - A system and method for delivering information is disclosed. The system and method includes a first computing device that includes information that is displayed on the screen of the first computing device, the first computing device scanning for a connection point and prompting for selection of a plurality of second devices to receive the information, wherein once ones of the plurality of second devices are selected, a user initiates the delivery of the information from the first computing device to the selected ones of the plurality of second devices by interacting with the first computing device. A user initiates with a flick across the screen of the first computing device. The information may be a business card. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227038 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING USER-CONTROLLED FEATURES RELATING TO MEDIA CONTENT IN MULTIPLE ONLINE MEDIA COMMUNITIES AND NETWORKS - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating playlist assistance and sharing of media content over multiple media communities according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving, at a first computing device, a request relating to media content. The request may be placed by a user at a second computing device. The method may further include researching a plurality of media playlists at a plurality of media communities for the media content, selecting one or more of the plurality of media playlists at one or more of the media communities having the media content, and transmitting, from the first computing to the second computing device, the one or more media playlists having the media content. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227039 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A COMMUNICATION - In a method for carrying out a communication in a control unit, a message having an identification number is transmitted between a microcontroller and at least one system component, this identification number being used in the at least one system component as basis for a decision with the aid of a message filter as to whether this message is forwarded to a first module for linking a physical layer or to a second module for functions of the system component. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227040 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING MESSAGES - A computer-implemented method and system of sending messages, comprising: performing processing for a person associated with receiving a request for location information for the person for an effective time; performing processing associated with receiving any travel information; performing processing associated with receiving any geolocation information: performing processing associated with receiving any expense information; performing processing associated with receiving any home or office location information; performing processing associated with receiving any current schedule/delay information for scheduled travel services; performing processing associated with determining a locations of the person using the travel information; performing processing associated with determining the location of the person using geolocation information, home/office information, expense information, or current schedule/delay information, or any combination thereof; performing processing associated with receiving information related to the location of the person using the travel information; and performing processing associated with sending a message to a device utilized by the person. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227041 | Identification of Message Recipients - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for identifying a recipient for an electronic post. An electronic post that was authored by an authoring user is received. The post is detected to include text that partially, but not fully, identifies a target recipient for the post. The text that partially identifies the target recipient is determined to be associated with a valid first user account for a first domain or a valid second user account for a second domain. The first user account or the second user account is selected as a selected user account for the target recipient based on the determining. The electronic post is transmitted to a different remote computing device that is associated with the selected user account. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227042 | System and Method for Creating Relationships Among Users of an Instant Messaging Service - A computer-implemented method of introducing users of a service includes sending a suggestion to a first user of a service and suggesting an introduction of a second user to a third user of the service. The second and third users are both identified as contacts of the first user in a contact list of the first user and the second and third users satisfy predefined selection criteria with respect to shared contacts, comprising users identified in contact lists of both the second and third users. The method also includes receiving, from the first user, a response to the suggestion; and upon receiving a positive response to the suggestion from the first user, sending the introduction to at least one of the second and third users. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227043 | ACCESS RESTRICTION DEVICE, ACCESS RESTRICTION METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An access restriction device including a processor; and a memory. The processor executes: receiving an email from a transmission source; specifying including analyzing, when a file is attached to the email, information in the file, and specifying a character string from the file; executing including specifying, from a storing unit in which a character string is associated with an access restriction process, an access restriction process that is associated with the character string specified at the specifying the character string, and executing the specified access restriction process on the file; and sending including attaching, instead of the file attached to the email, the file that has been subjected to the access restriction process at the executing to the email, and sending the email to which the file subjected to the access restriction process is attached to a transmission destination of the email. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ON A RECEIVED COMMUNICATION FOR AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The disclosure relates to a system, method and device for providing information relating to a received communication for a device. The method comprises: while the device is composing an outbound communication, monitoring for receipt of an inbound communication; upon receipt of the inbound communication, evaluating a subject field of the inbound communication against a subject field of the outbound communication to determine whether the inbound communication is related to the outbound communication; and if the inbound communication is related to the outbound communication, generating a first message on a display of the device providing a warning indicating that the inbound communication has been received and when a send command is activated on the device for the outbound communication generating a second message on the display providing a command for merging the inbound communication with text of the outbound communication. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227045 | Bot-Network Detection Based on Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Characteristics of E-Mail Senders Within IP Address Aggregates - A method and system for determining whether an IP address is part of a bot-network are provided. The IP-address-aggregate associated with the IP address of an e-mail sender is determined. The IP-address-aggregate is associated with an IP-address-aggregate-category based on the current SMTP traffic characteristics of the IP-address-aggregate and the known SMTP traffic characteristics of an IP-address-aggregate-category. A bot-likelihood score of the IP-address-aggregate-category is then associated with IP-address-aggregate. IP-address-aggregate-categories can be established based on historical SMTP traffic characteristics of the IP-address-aggregates. The IP-address-aggregates are grouped based on SMTP characteristics, and the IP-address-aggregate-categories are defined based on a selection of IP-address-aggregates with similar SMTP traffic characteristics that are diagnostic of spam bots vs. non-botnet-controllers spammers. Bot likelihood scores are determined for the resulting IP-address-aggregate-categories based on historically known bot IP addresses. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227046 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION - A method and system for routing intelligence information related to security. The security system provides rules that identify conditions and routing instructions that are to be applied to intelligence information. A security organization may create and modify rules to ensure the appropriate routing of intelligence information in a timely manner. The security system may receive intelligence information from various sources. Regardless of the form or source of intelligence information, the security system analyzes the intelligence information to determine whether any conditions of the rules are satisfied. When a condition of a rule is satisfied, the security system sends a notification of the intelligence information in accordance with the routing instructions for that rule. In this way, intelligence information can be automatically and quickly routed to the appropriate security personnel for further processing. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130232204 | IDENTIFYING AND PROCESSING PREVIOUSLY SENT AND RECEIVED MESSAGES - Automated response options manage messaging by comparing content of an input message to content saved in a store of previous messages, and to meta data content of each of a plurality of frequently asked question web pages. If the compared content matches to either of the saved content or to the frequently asked question web pages meta data content and the message meets a requirement of a policy rule, a reply message is automatically composed and sent by a processing unit, the reply including the matching content or a link to the matching content if the input message is a newly received message. If the content does not match or the input message does not meet the policy rule requirement, a copy of the message is saved and a user prompted to manually compose and send a reply. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232205 | EMAIL ATTACHMENT HELPER - A computing device receives instructions, from a user, to send an email message and determines if the email message includes an attachment. When the email message does not include an attachment, the computing device conducts a scan of text of the email message for implications that an attachment should be included. When the email message includes an attachment, the computing device conducts a scan of the email text for implications of a particular type of attachment. The computing device provides, to the user, a notification when there is a positive result from the scan of the email text for implications that an attachment should be included or from the scan of the email text for implications of a particular type of attachment. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232206 | SELF-MANAGEMENT OF GROUP EMAIL RECEPTION - A method for self-managing group membership is disclosed. The method has a portion operating on a client terminal. The client-side portion includes determining if an email received at an email address is an intra-organizational email from a mailbox of a group. Additionally, the method provides a graphical interface element when the received email is determined to be an intra-organizational email from a mailbox of a group. The graphical interface element is configured to selectablely transmit a remove instruction to the group. Moreover, the method has a portion operating on a server. The server-side portion includes receiving the remove instruction; identifying a sender of the remove instruction; locating the sender in the group member list; and unsubscribing the sender from the group member list. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232207 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING ATTENTION TO WEB SITE FUNCTIONALITY - A system determines if functionality offered via a Web site is being underutilizing by a user, e.g., not being using at all or not being using with some desired degree of regularity. When it is determined that the functionality offered via the Web site is being underutilized by the user, the system provides an email to the user to direct the attention of the user to this functionality of the Web site. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232208 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UPDATING MESSAGES - The invention discloses a method and a device for updating messages, which belong to the technical field of microblog technology. The method comprises: acquiring message indexes from a microblog server when a user requests updating messages; determining K message indexes as message indexes of the messages for initial message display from the acquired message indexes according to the preset number K, acquiring the corresponding messages from the microblog server according to the message indexes of the messages for initial message display and displaying the corresponding messages to the user; wherein K is a natural number. The device comprises: an acquisition module and an initial display module. The invention reduces the load on the microblog server, avoids resources waste at the client and improves the user's experience. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232209 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING BI-DIRECTIONAL MESSAGING COMMUNICATIONS WITH WIRELESS DEVICES AND WITH REMOTE LOCATIONS OVER A NETWORK - A method, server, device and computer readable medium for facilitating communication between users permitted to access a messaging server is provided. The messaging server comprises a user database, a processor and memory. The user database is configured to store user information for the users and at least one name directory. The name directory includes a list of users permitted to communicate with each other. The memory has stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the messaging server to transmit the name directory to the users listed therein at predefined times. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232210 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT DELIVERY INSTRUCTIONS TO A CONTENT SERVER - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for policy-based content insertion. A client device transmits to a content server a request for the delivery of content. The content server modifies the request based on an ingress policy. The content server transmits the modified request to a second server where the second server processes the request. The second server transmits a reply to the modified request to the content server. The reply includes a content insertion instruction. The content server transmits the content to the client device based on the content insertion instruction and/or one or more egress policies. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232211 | Wireless Handheld Device, System, and Method of Detecting and Storing Email Settings - A method and apparatus for changing settable email parameters in a system supporting email using a wireless device, the system including a wireless electronic device and a wireless network. Provided is a way of changing email settings on the wireless device, and storing those changes on both the device and, as needed or desired, on the wireless network. The wireless network and wireless device are adapted to wirelessly communicate with each other. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232212 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products For Processing a Request For a Resource in a Communication - Methods and systems are described for processing a request for a resource in a communication. In an aspect, a criterion is received, by a second node, for requesting a resource via a first communication addressed to a first node. The first communication is sent, to the first node, including an attachment request based on the criterion. A second communication is received, by the second node, including the resource as an attachment. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130232213 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CALENDAR AND SPEED DATING FEATURES FOR MATCHING USERS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request at a communication broker for a communication session to involve a first endpoint and a second endpoint, where the communication broker includes a processor and a memory element. The method may also include evaluating first calendar information for a first end user associated with the first endpoint and second calendar information for a second end user associated with the second endpoint. The method may also include reconciling the first calendar information with the second calendar information to provide a time slot for the communication session. Additionally, the method may include mapping first end user data to a first identity associated with the first end user, where the second endpoint is shown the first identity, and where the first end user data associated with the first endpoint is hidden from being shown to the second endpoint. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130238713 | NOTIFYING ONLINE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT OF PRESENTING IDENTIFIED PORTION OF CONTENT - In a method for notifying a participant of an online conference of when a portion of content will be presented during the online conference, a computer receives at least one data item identifying the portion of content. The computer determines an estimate of a time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. The computer transmits a user notification including the estimate of the time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238714 | Occasionally-Connected Computing Interface - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for allowing a user to switch between interfacing with a service through a network or through short message service (SMS). A chat service is executed through which a first user at a first computer can communicate directly with a second user at a second computer. A request is received from the first computer to enable the first user to interface with the chat service through a mobile device of the first user using SMS instead of through the network using the first computer. The chat service is configured to interface with the mobile device through SMS, including communicating chat information through SMS to the first user's mobile device, and communicating control information through SMS to the first user's mobile device such that the first user can control a full functionality of the chat service using SMS. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238715 | ENABLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SOURCE AND TARGET MAIL TRANSFER AGENTS - A system is provided for enabling a source MTA to communicate with a target MTA via an SMTP proxy using SMTP commands for transmitting email messages in a networked environment. An email message may be received by a source mail transport agent (MTA) and the source MTA may route the incoming email message to a target MTA via an SMTP proxy. The SMTP proxy may serve as an intermediary proxy server for enabling the source MTA to communicate with an external and internal target MTA. The SMTP proxy may connect to a target MTA via a connection command, and the SMTP proxy may implement custom SMTP commands to communicate additional information about the source MTA to the target MTA. The system may additionally enable the SMTP proxy to perform actions designated by the SMTP commands and to communicate the result of the SMTP proxy's actions back to the source MTA. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238716 | PROVIDING A COLLABORATIVE STATUS MESSAGE IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product for providing a collaborative status message in an instant messaging system. Instant Messaging (“IM”) users that belong to a group are identified. A collaborative status message (e.g., “In Meeting with User 2 and User 3”) is generated that specifies the IM users of the group (e.g., User 2 and User 3) that are participating in an event (e.g., meeting) with an IM user upon the event occurring. The collaborative status message is broadcasted to other IM users. In this manner, more detailed information can be provided to other IM users regarding the status of the IM user in question. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238717 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE ALERTING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to provide a user creating an electronic message one or more alerts related to the content and addressees of the electronic message. A computer identifies the one or more addressees of the electronic message. The computer determines one or more alerts associated with each of the identified one or more addressees. The computer displays the alerts in a manner that each step is performed prior to the computer transmitting the electronic message for delivery to one or more addressees. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238718 | STORING AND PARTITIONING EMAIL MESSAGING DATA - A system is provided for storing messaging data at a mail transport agent in a network environment. An email message may be transmitted over a network from a sender client to a recipient server through a plurality of mail transport agents (MTA). An MTA may receive an email message and may store messaging data for the email message in a data store associated with the MTA. The MTA may partition the messaging data into generations representing a defined time frame for the date and time that an email message was received. The MTA may enable a search operation to be performed on the stored generations for retrieving and replaying messaging data to a downstream recipient server. The MTA may continually clean the data store by deleting from the data store a generation of data that has expired and outlived the predefined hold period. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238719 | OPTIMIZED ROUTING FOR PROXY USE - A system is provided for applying optimized selection to route an email message over a network to a recipient mailbox. An email message may be enabled to be transmitted through a plurality of servers to a destination recipient mailbox server. An external message transfer agent may receive the email message using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and may transmit the received email message to a proxy transport server. The proxy transport server may apply a selection for an optimal store-and-forward (SAF) transport server to which to route the email message. The selection may provide for identifying available SAF transport servers, organizing the SAF transport servers into server groups, and selecting the optimal SAF transport server belonging to a server group where a recipient mailbox server is located. The proxy transport server may transmit the email message to the SAF transport server for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238720 | METHOD FOR SHARING A FILE WHEN MULTIPLE VERSIONS EXIST - The present disclosure provides a method for sharing a file when multiple versions exist. Differences between the different versions of a file (e.g., attachment) are determined and only the determined differences are communicated. The complete file (e.g., attachment) can be recreated on user devices using a previous version of the file (e.g., attachment) and the transmitted differences, and the complete file (e.g., attachment) can be displayed on user devices so that the operation of the method is not visible to device users. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238721 | Method for Detecting and Unsubscribing an Address from a Series of Subscriptions - A method for detecting and unsubscribing one or more addresses from a series of subscriptions by examining the emails in the mailbox of the address and determining if they are from a subscription/automated mailing/list server by examining the header contents, the sender's address, the subject, the body and comparing each message to other messages to identify patterns. Then, examining each message to identify methods of unsubscribing from the Subscription. Finally, unsubscribing from the Subscriptions either automatically, or in a semi-manual method and optionally deleting all messages associated with the Subscription. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238722 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES - According to embodiments described in the specification, a communication device and method for processing messages are provided. The method includes receiving message data at the communication device, the message data including at least a subject; receiving an instruction to send the message data; determining, responsive to receiving the instruction, whether the message data includes a message body; and when the determination is negative, automatically adding an indicator to the subject prior to sending the message data, the indicator corresponding to the negative determination. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238723 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING STATUS INFORMATION - To avoid the need to access multiple applications and perform multiple corresponding status changes each time a user or device's status or availability changes, multiple status updates can be generated and provided to corresponding systems, according to a detected event. To enable status updates to be provided to multiple systems based on the detected event, a status update module can be used, which is operable to send multiple status updates to multiple systems on behalf of a mobile device. By using a status server or other network-based component to performing such updating, processing can be offloaded from the mobile devices and updates can be performed even when the mobile devices are not communicable with the systems being updated. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238724 | SHARING IMAGES FROM IMAGE VIEWING AND EDITING APPLICATION - Some embodiments provide an image-editing application. The image-editing application uploads an image to a remote image hosting website. From the image hosting website, the application receives data that identifies the image on the remote image hosting website. The application uses the received data to identify when a user of the remote image hosting website has commented on the image. The application displays the user comments from the remote image hosting website in the image-editing application. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238725 | CHAT AND NOTIFICATION SERVICES FOR A WEB-BASED CONFERENCE COLLABORATION TOOL - A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238726 | Method And System Of Transferring Electronic Messages - The invention relates to a method and system of transferring internet electronic messages (e-mails). The method comprises the steps of creating a first e-mail by sender's mail user agent ( | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT ENHANCED MESSAGING - A system and method for media enhanced messaging. A message from a message sender to be delivered to at least one message recipient is received over a network. The message comprises at least one delivery criteria and at least one content criteria. When it is determined, via the network that the delivery criteria of the message has been satisfied, a query is formulated based on the content criteria so as to search, via the network, for user profile data, social network data, spatial data, temporal data and topical data that is available via the network and relates to the content criteria and to media files so as to identify at least one media file that is relevant to the content criteria. The media files are inserted into the message and the message is transmitted over the network to the recipient. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238728 | Cross Platform Messaging - Described herein are methods and systems for displaying an email conversation similar to an instant message format by integrating aspects of an email system with an instant messaging interface. In one aspect, messages may be sent over existing email channels using email protocols through email servers and an email system (e.g., email client and/or email server) may identify the messages as cross-platform messages (CPM) based on whether the message body includes either no or only predefined content, or the message includes a predefined unique identifier. If a message is identified as a CPM then the message is treated similar to an instant message and may be displayed in a threaded view. In some embodiments, messages having content in the body may be treated as conventional email messages. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238729 | COMMUNICATION COLLABORATION - A communication collaboration system may include a memory storing machine readable instructions to receive a first signal representing a first mode of communication for a user. The communication collaboration system may further include machine readable instructions to seamlessly escalate the first signal to a second signal representing a second mode of communication for the user. The second mode of communication may be different from the first mode of communication. The communication collaboration system may further include a processor to implement the machine readable instructions. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238730 | ONLINE BACKUP SYSTEM - A system and a method are disclosed for synchronizing files from email account systems. In one embodiment, the method comprises accessing a file stored in a memory of a local device, including determining a local file path specifying the location of the file in the memory. The file is uploaded to an email server, where it is stored in association with a user's email account. The local file path, email account information, and an identifier of the file are sent for storage by a management server. The uploaded file is accessed by the email account information and the file identifier. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238731 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing system includes a handwritten comment acquisition unit configured to acquire, as an image object, handwritten comment information for a print product obtained by printing an original image, a selection unit configured to select the handwritten comment information based on a user's instruction, an electronic comment acquisition unit configured to acquire electronic comment information for the handwritten comment information selected by the selection unit, a thread management unit configured to manage, as thread information, the handwritten comment information selected by the selection unit and the electronic comment information acquired by the electronic comment acquisition unit in association with each other, and a display unit configured to superimpose the thread information managed by the thread management unit on the original image to display the thread information in a thread shape. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238732 | INSTANT MESSAGING ROBOT TO PROVIDE PRODUCT INFORMATION - Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238733 | INTERFACE BETWEEN WEB APPLICATIONS FOR TEXT MESSAGING AND PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORKS - Systems and methods are disclosed for interfacing SMS/MMS web applications with packet-switched networks. One embodiment comprises a system that handles a Mobile Terminated (MT) text message from a web application to a packet-switched network. The system receives a send command for the MT text message from the web application. The send command is based on a standard used by the web application, such as Parlay X. The system converts the send command for the MT text message to a SIP send request, and transmits the SIP send request for the MT text message to a packet-switched network for delivery to a recipient. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238734 | BOOKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system for communicating over a telecommunications network between a service provider and one or more users, wherein the service provider can have access to multiple distinct addresses in the telecommunications network and each user is identified by an address, more specifically, where a first message can be sent over at least a portion of the telecommunications network to a user's address and based on a response from the user determining the message to which the response is a reply. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238735 | BOOKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system for communicating over a telecommunications network between a service provider and one or more users, wherein the service provider can have access to multiple distinct addresses in the telecommunications network and each user is identified by an address, more specifically, where a first message can be sent over at least a portion of the telecommunications network to a user's address and based on a response from the user determining the message to which the response is a reply. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238736 | COMMUNICATION NODE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A COMMUNICATION - A communication node includes a transmission and receipt setting part configured to perform a transmission setting or a receipt setting for each information based on a transmission request or a receipt request included in a transmission and receipt request information corresponding to a second communication node detected by a communication node detector among the transmission and receipt request information stored in a memory part, a communication part configured to transmit information representing the transmission setting or the receipt setting set by the transmission and receipt setting part and to receive information representing the transmission setting or the receipt setting from another first communication node, and a consistency determining part configured to determine consistency of the transmission setting or the receipt setting set by the transmission and receipt setting part and the transmission setting or the receipt setting received by the communication part from another first communication node. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238737 | PROVIDING A COLLABORATIVE STATUS MESSAGE IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product for providing a collaborative status message in an instant messaging system. Instant Messaging (“IM”) users that belong to a group are identified. A collaborative status message (e.g., “In Meeting with User 2 and User 3”) is generated that specifies the IM users of the group (e.g., User 2 and User 3) that are participating in an event (e.g., meeting) with an IM user upon the event occurring. The collaborative status message is broadcasted to other IM users. In this manner, more detailed information can be provided to other IM users regarding the status of the IM user in question. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238738 | DISTRIBUTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING LINK AGGREGATION CONTROL PROTOCOL (LACP) STANDARD STATE MACHINES - The present invention provides a distributed method for implementing Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) standard state machines, wherein the method includes: after receiving a message, a physical port transmits it to a receive machine; the receive machine, a periodic transmission machine, a multiplexer (MUX) machine, and a transmit machine are triggered to operate in turn; the selection logic on a master controller is triggered to operate, and the processing of the message is completed according to the physical link selection state of the selection logic on the master controller; wherein, the receive machine, periodic transmission machine, MUX machine, and transmit machine operate on the link card at which the physical port is located, and the selection logic operates on the master controller | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238739 | USER DEVICE GROUP FORMATION - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first device group including a plurality of the other user devices. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130246534 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERFORMING AN ACTION BASED ON AN ASPECT OF AN ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE THREAD - A system, method and computer program product are provided for performing an action based on an aspect of a thread associated with electronic mail messages. In use, an aspect of a thread associated with a plurality of electronic mail messages is identified. Further, an action is performed based on the aspect of the thread. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246535 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONDITIONALLY RESTRICTING AN ASPECT OF AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE BASED ON THE EXISTENCE OF A PREDETERMINED DATA STRUCTURE - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for conditionally restricting an aspect of an electronic message based on the existence of a predetermined data structure. In use, an electronic message is received. In addition, it is determined whether the electronic message includes a predetermined data structure. Furthermore, an aspect of the electronic message is conditionally restricted based on the determination, for preventing data leakage. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246536 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A RATING OF AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A system, method, and computer program product are included for providing a rating of an electronic message to a recipient. In use, an electronic message intended for a recipient is rated. Additionally, the rating and die electronic message are provided to the recipient. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246537 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING SOCIAL ENGINEERING IN A COMPUTER NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method in one example implementation includes providing a memory component with one or more alternative email entries associated with a plurality of name records. The name records represent one or more authorized users of a network. The method further includes determining whether any of the one or more alternative email entries corresponds to a sender email address in an incoming email message, where the incoming email message is being sent from the sender email address to at least one official email address associated with the network. In more specific embodiments the method includes tagging the incoming email message with a first or second flag depending on whether any of the one or more alternative email entries corresponds to the sender email address and whether a username of the sender email address includes an identifiable portion of one of the plurality of name records. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246538 | Delivering Notification in an Internal Network - A computer-implemented method for delivering notifications in an internal network of an organization includes: receiving, at a notifications server in the internal network and from a user, an electronic message formulated using a message format; reading, by the notifications server, a setting of an importance parameter for the electronic message; determining one or more proper recipients for the electronic message, wherein if the importance parameter has a first setting the proper recipients are all users of the internal network regardless of addressee specification, and if the importance parameter has a second setting the proper recipients are determined by the addressee specification; and sending, by the notifications server, a notification having a markup-language format to the proper recipients for presentation in a client, wherein the client has no function for responding to the notification. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246539 | CUSTOM MESSAGE PRESENTATION - For custom message presentation, an identification module identifies an optical code as not communication ready. A message module generates a custom message indexed to the optical code in response to identifying the optical code as not communication ready. The message module further makes the optical code communication ready in response to generating the custom message. In addition, the message module communicates the custom message in response to receiving the optical code and identifying the optical code as communication ready. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246540 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, CONSOLIDATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND CONSOLIDATION SUPPORT APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium stores a consolidation support program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes acquiring an electronic message transmitted and received among apparatuses; converting the electronic message into a first electronic message based on a first consolidation rule selected from a consolidation rule group to convert the electronic message by substituting with a specific value, a character string that matches a specific pattern and is included in the electronic message; converting the electronic message into a second electronic message based on a second consolidation rule having a priority rank that is higher than that of the first consolidation rule; determining whether the first and the second electronic messages match; and producing when the first and the second electronic messages do not match, a restrictive condition that the first consolidation rule is to be selected after the second consolidation rule, from the consolidation rule group. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246541 | DATA STORING METHOD USED FOR DATA STORE SERVER IN MAILING SYSTEM - A method in which a mail server for receiving mails manages sequence management information that records the sequence of mails stored in a data store server and the times at which a mail server sends the mails to a destination server, wherein the sequence management information is so managed as to satisfy the two conditions: one is to make not greater than a predetermined number the number of entries in any one of respective pieces of the divided sequence management information resulted by dividing the sequence management information into a plurality of pieces, each entry being included in each divided sequence management information piece and defined as a combination of key having the mail body of a certain mail as its value, and the time at which the certain mail is sent to the destination server. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246542 | METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO A PLURALITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method is disclosed for acting on a plurality of electronic messages. The method includes the step of receiving the plurality of electronic messages. Each of the plurality of electronic messages is then portioned into a plurality of message components. Each of the plurality of message components is then grouped into common-themed sets. Once grouped, the method allows the viewing of one of the common-themed sets to determine an appropriate response to each of the plurality of messages having one of the plurality of message components grouped in the common-themed set. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246543 | NETWORKED SENSOR DEVICE - Disclosed are various embodiments for networked sensor devices. In one embodiment, a networked sensor device is configured to obtain sensor readings from one or more sensors and then store the sensor readings in an email server by way of a wireless or wired network. In one embodiment, a client is configured to obtain one or more reporting emails generated by a networked sensor device, extract data from the reporting email(s), and render a user interface that presents the data extracted from the reporting email(s), where the data includes sensor readings generated by the networked sensor device. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246544 | Flagged Messages in an Automatic Integrated Unified Messaging Escalation System - An automatic message escalation system includes attaching an acknowledgement flag to a message after it is received in the message mailbox of an identified message recipient. The status of the acknowledgement flag indicates whether or not the message has been retrieved. After a given or specified period of time, the acknowledgement flag is checked to see if the message was retrieved. If the message was retrieved, the message will not be escalated. If the message was not retrieved, the message will be sent to the next message recipient on an escalation list. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246545 | Method and Apparatus for Quickly Adding Recipient and Mobile Terminal - A method for quickly adding a recipient includes: receiving mail information, where the mail information includes information of at least two recipients; creating a recipient group according to the recipient information; and when a user needs to add a recipient to send a mail, if the added contact is in the recipient group, displaying information of other recipients in the recipient group, and prompting the user whether to add other recipients. The technical solutions of embodiments of the present invention make an operation of adding a recipient quite flexible and intelligent, and provide an intelligent group contact recommendation function, so that the user can quickly add a contact when sending a mail or information. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246546 | System and Method of Supporting Constructive Discourse on Computers and Mobile Devices - A system and method to allow a user to engage in a collaborative discourse embedded in messaging platforms such as email or instant messaging, and to visualize the structure of that discourse. The system provides the ability to create and modify tree-like structures, which can represent outlines or tables of contents employed in documents. These structures take the place of traditional documents in representing the work product of a knowledge worker. These structures are related to the discourse in that messages may refer to nodes of these structures, and hence be understood to be related. It is the interplay between the creation of a structured message-based discourse and the persistent outline-form knowledge structures that allows message-based correspondence, including the reading and writing of documents, to be performed with increased efficiency and at a higher level of integration. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246547 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING HEADER FIELDS IN A MESSAGE - Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein facilitate the transmitting, receiving, and processing of encoded messages wherein the header fields in the message header are protected. In one embodiment, the contents of the header fields to be protected are inserted into the message body as one or more additional lines of text, for example, prior to encoding and transmitting the message to a message recipient. Upon receipt of the message, the message recipient processes the encoded message such that the contents of the protected header fields can be extracted from the message body. Accordingly, by inserting the contents of the header fields to be protected into the message body, the header fields may be protected using existing standards and protocols for facilitating secure message communication. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246548 | SPAM DETECTION - Methods and systems of filtering spam messages for cellular network subscribers are provided that may include receiving a message from a decoy subscriber number. The method and systems may further be adapted to determine whether the message at the decoy subscriber number may be spam. If the message at the decoy number tends to be spam, the message may be output to a filtering service for further analysis. In the final analysis if a message is determined to be spam, then new rules may be created and distributed to front end spam and/or virus engines to restrict such traffic from reaching subscribers. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246549 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING MESSAGING SETTINGS ON A MESSAGING CLIENT - A system and method of selecting messaging settings on a messaging client are provided. A display configured to operate in conjunction with the messaging client displays a compose screen that includes a message portion and a messaging settings portion when an outgoing message is to be composed on the messaging client. Messaging settings selected to control message characteristics of the outgoing message are displayed in the messaging settings portion of the compose screen. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246550 | Address Couplet Communication Filtering - A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed that provide an approved address couplet listing for communication handling. An inbound communication including sender and recipient field entries may be compared as a pair or couplet against the listing to determine whether the inbound communication should be discarded, subjected to additional (spam related) processing, or forwarded for storage or delivery purposes. The comparison may take place in conjunction with one or more hashing functions. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130254299 | SENDER FEEDBACK ON EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE - Method, system, and computer program product for sender feedback on email correspondence are provided. The method performed at an email client or server includes: activating a feedback service; receiving one or more emails; generating a feedback request to an email sender; receiving a response to the feedback request providing feedback; and handling an email in accordance with the received feedback. The method may also include filtering received emails to determine if a feedback request is to be sent. If the feedback indicates that an email is no longer relevant, the handling step may include deleting or marking the email accordingly. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254300 | Computer-based Methods and Systems for Verifying User Affiliations for Private or White Label Services - Systems and methods that allow one or more individuals to verify or authenticate their affiliation or status and thereby join or have access to multiple private or white label deals, offerings or services. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254301 | SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computing system for providing a plurality of users of a social network with the ability to indicate affinity with an electronic object. An indication is received from a first user of the plurality of users to initiate an object-specific, synchronous communication session concerning the electronic object. Electronic invitations to join the object-specific, synchronous communication session are provided to one or more invited users of the plurality of users of the social network. A request is received, from at least one of the invited users, to join the object-specific, synchronous communication session. The object-specific, synchronous communication session is provided for the first user and the at least one of the invited users. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254302 | SUPPORTING INTERMEDIATE BACK TO BACK USER AGENTS BETWEEN USER AGENTS AND A CONFERENCE FOCUS - A communication system, method, and components are described. Specifically, a communication system having one or more Back-to-Back User Agents (B2BUAs) therein is described. The communication system also includes an RFC 4579 conference focus. Mechanisms are described which enable User Agents (UAs) to subscribe to conference state events and create ad-hoc conferences even though the conference focus is operating in a B2BUA environment. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254303 | LEVERAGING A SOCIAL GRAPH FOR USE WITH ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Techniques for analyzing a social graph of a social network service to identify and then present connection paths connecting various entities are described. With some embodiments, subsequent to a user selecting or otherwise identifying a person to whom a message is to be communicated, a social graph is analyzed to identify connection paths connecting the message sender, or an entity on whose behalf the message sender is acting, to the message recipient. The social graph is implemented with a graph data structure having nodes and edges representing entities and associations between entities, respectively. With some embodiments, the nodes represent people, companies, educational institutions (e.g., schools, universities, etc.), and groups. After identifying the connection paths, the connection path having the highest path score, as derived by aggregating edge scores assigned to the edges, may be presented. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254304 | CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE REQUEST SYSTEM USING SMART DEVICE - A method and computer for responding to an assistance request message. An assistance request message from a requester mobile device associated with a requester is received at a response computer. The assistance request message includes at least one input parameter. A responder is determined, from multiple potential responders, to respond to the assistance request message. The responder is associated with responder data corresponding to the at least one input parameter. An availability inquiry message to a responder device associated with the responder is transmitted. A response to the availability inquiry message is received from the responder device. When the response to the availability inquiry message indicates that the responder is available to respond to the assistance request message, the requester mobile device is notified that the responder is available. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254305 | TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING AND PRESENTING CONNECTION PATHS - Techniques for analyzing a social graph of a social network service to identify and then present connection paths connecting various entities are described. With some embodiments, subsequent to a user selecting or otherwise identifying two entities represented as nodes in a social graph, the social graph is analyzed to identify connection paths connecting the nodes representing the two entities. The social graph is implemented with a graph data structure having nodes and edges representing entities and associations between entities, respectively. With some embodiments, the nodes represent people, companies, educational institutions (e.g., schools, universities, etc.), and groups. After identifying the connection paths, the connection path or paths having the highest path scores, as derived by aggregating edge scores assigned to the edges, may be presented. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254306 | Voting in Chat System Without Topic-Specific Rooms - A method, system and graphical user interface for a chat system is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes receiving from respective users feedback data regarding the received messages or authors of the received messages and providing the feedback to the respective authors. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254307 | REMOTE INITIATED FRAGRANCE DELIVERY SYSTEM AND FRAGRANCE-ENHANCED COMMUNICATION METHOD - A fragrance delivery system includes a fragrance release module electronically coupleable with a suitable computing device so as to provide an electronic interface for remotely actuating the fragrance release module, to bring about a release of fragrance in response to a received command from a remote source. The fragrance release module is acquired by a recipient him or herself, or presented to the recipient by a party desirous of sending a future correspondence to the recipient. Based upon suitable protocols, the fragrance release module is selectively actuated in response to a particular communication or command received by the recipient from the presenting party or by a command generated based on the outcome of a preestablished criteria, such as a positive or negative gaming result. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254308 | CONTENT PROVISION SYSTEM - This present invention relates to a system for providing users access to audio/visual content. The system comprises means for enabling a plurality of users to connect to the system, means for enabling users to browse available content items; means for receiving a message from at least one user connected to the system, and means for transmitting said message to at least one further user connected to the system. The system also provides means for enabling connected users to synchronise consumption of available content items. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254309 | SENDING COMMUNICATIONS TO CONTACTS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - Sending communications to contacts on a social networking service includes receiving a target geographical location of a computing device, identifying a vicinity based on the target geographical location, using the vicinity to identify a set of contacts associated with an account on a social networking service, where the set of contacts are used to produce a contact list that excludes one or more contacts that are not associated with locations within the vicinity, and sending a communication to members of the contact list, where the communication relates to the target geographical location. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254310 | DELEGATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A method for providing a management function requested by a user that uses a managed device includes establishing a session on a managed device in response to a user logging into an account on the managed device, establishing a delegated management session on a management device, the delegated management session corresponding to the session on the managed device, receiving a management message on the management device, the management message being related to a management function requested by the user, and in response to the received management message, performing the management function using the management device. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254311 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROL OF THE COLLECTION OF EMAIL MESSAGES - Email message collector system with ability to control the mail collection for both registered users of the mail system and for new users, containing interconnected internal and external interface means for control of the message collection, and a collection module for dividing up the tasks of message collection and control of the collection processor, providing for a periodic checking of specified source mail boxes and, if messages are present in them, their forwarding to a common recipient box, while the external interface is designed to designate a source box, register the recipient box if necessary, and launch the collection, being accessible both to users authorized on the recipient server and unauthorized users, and the internal interface makes possible the adding of a source box and launching of the message collection, being part of the interface of the recipient box mail system and accessible to users authorized on the recipient server. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254312 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FINDING PEOPLE IN A PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for finding people in a physical environment. A server receives data indicating a location and identifies events corresponding to the location. Event data is transmitted to a computing device. Attendees at a selected event are identified and transmitted to the computing device. The server can receive a message addressed to an attendee and store data regarding the attendee. In some implementations, attendees may be identified from content posted on a social network. Additionally, certain attendees or events may be emphasized. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254313 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OVER TRACING OF MESSAGES RECEIVED BY A MESSAGE BROKER - A method, system and computer program product for dynamically controlling a tracing of messages. A header (referred to herein as the “trace header”) is placed in a message by a sending application, where the trace header includes a structure for storing fields of data for defining tracing operations. Once the message with the trace header is received by a message broker after being sent by the sending application, the message broker will analyze the fields of the trace header and perform the appropriate tracing operation in response to the information provided in the trace header. Through the use of the trace header, the tracing overhead can be minimized as well as a faster diagnosis of the problem (e.g., errors while processing the messages through a message flow of the message broker) can be provided since less data will be needed to be analyzed. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254314 | DIGITAL CONTENT DELIVERY - Methods and systems for automated retrieval of content embedded in or referred to in a message or request received in relation to a user account are provided. For instance, A UCM and/or a UCR may access a user account and retrieve a message from the account. The message may be then analyzed to extract information related to the content that may be included in the message. The content associated with the extracted information is accessed and retrieved. The retrieved content is presented to the user. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254315 | REMOTE CONTROL USING INSTANT MESSAGING - An instant messaging client may operate on a host device and enable various forms of control of the host device via instant messaging commands. The instant messaging client may connect to an instant messaging service using a user name and having a list of authorized users. The client may be able to sense that a user is on line and initiate a message session with the user. The user may also be able to initiate a session with the host device through the instant messaging client and perform a variety of functions through the instant messaging session. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254316 | OFFLINE AWAY MESSAGES - A computer program or method provides away messages from a first user to other users of a communications system, where the first user has grouped the other users into two or more groups. An interface is provided to the first user that displays representations of the other users in a manner that identifies how the first user has grouped the other users into the groups. The first user is able to select a selected group from the groups using the interface. The first user also is able to set a group away message for the selected group using the interface. The group away message is sent to a second user that has been grouped in the selected group when the second user attempts to communicate with the first user using the communications system and the first user is offline. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254317 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE REAL TIME COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - Methods and systems to facilitate real time communications and/or commerce via a social network. In one embodiment, communication references are provided to facilitate the requests for real time communications with a member of the social network via a connection provider, which performs scheduling, filtering, payment processing, etc. for the member of the social network. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to a request from a first member of a social network, determining a preference of a second member of the social network based at least in part on a characteristic of a social connection between the first and second members who are not socially directly connected in the social network; and facilitating real time communications between the first and second members in accordance with the preference. In one embodiment, the presentation of the advertisement or the advertiser is at least partially based on the social network. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254318 | DYNAMIC MESSAGE RETRIEVAL - Exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for dynamically changing a message retrieval scheme during runtime. Aspects of the exemplary embodiment include accessing messaging business rules from a memory by a message retrieval component at runtime, wherein the messaging business rules define a primary retrieval scheme and a secondary retrieval scheme, and wherein a value provided for each of the primary retrieval scheme and the secondary retrieval scheme are selected from a combination of different message retrieval types including: First In First Out (FIFO), Last In First Out (LIFO), and random. The message retrieval component subdivides the message queue into sub-queues based on at least one of a message quantity limit and a message received time limit specified in the business rules. Each of the sub-queues is then accessed using the value of the secondary retrieval scheme; and messages from each of the sub-queues are retrieved using the value of the primary retrieval scheme. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254319 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL COMPRISING IMAGE INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM - The degree of importance and the origin of a picture image attached to an e-mail can be known without a complicated operation. A communication terminal receives an e-mail and image data attached to the e-mail. “Mail information” which is information contained in the received e-mail and which is information for understanding a specific content of the e-mail, is stored. The mail information extracted from the e-mail to which the image data is attached, is added to the image data as metadata. A specific browsing folder storage unit for storing the image data to which the mail information is added as the metadata, is prepared. When the image data is browsed, the mail information added as the metadata can be also browsed, by referring to the image data stored in the specific browsing folder storage unit. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130262589 | COMMUNICATING PER-RECIPIENT DELIVERY STATUSES OF MULTI-RECIPIENT MESSAGES IN MULTILINE SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL RESPONSES - A simple mail transfer protocol (“SMTP”) computer fails to deliver a multi-recipient e-mail to another SMTP computer. The SMTP computer generates a multi-line SMTP response including a per-recipient delivery status for each recipient of the multi-recipient e-mail message. The multi-line SMTP response may include a line for each recipient of the e-mail message. The multi-line SMTP response alternatively may include a line only for recipients for which delivery of the e-mail message has failed. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262590 | RECIPIENT CHANGES IN EMAIL THREADS - A tool for notifying a recipient of an email message, belonging to an email thread, that a recipient address has been added to or dropped from the thread. Address fields of the email message received are compared to the address fields of the most recent prior email message in the thread. Addressed that are determined to be added or dropped are stored in the metadata of the email message received so the added or dropped recipient addresses can be accessed to notify recipients of subsequent emails in the email thread. The metadata of previous email messages in the email thread are accessed to notify the recipient of recipient addresses added or dropped between any two consecutive email messages in the thread. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262591 | Apparatus and Method for Managing User Chat Experiences with Businesses - A computer-implemented method of managing a chat experience of a user desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses utilizes in various aspects a chat management server running computer processes for communicating with user devices. In another aspect, a computer-implemented method of providing a chat experience to a user having a user device and desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses utilizes computer processes running on the user device. Corresponding embodiments similarly provide an apparatus performing any of the foregoing methods. Other corresponding embodiments similarly provide a computer readable medium storing instructions, which when loaded into a computer, perform processes corresponding to any of the foregoing methods. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262592 | DETERMINING CROWD TOPICS FROM COMMUNICATIONS IN A FOCUS AREA - An embodiment of the invention provides a system and method for managing computing resources, wherein a data analyzer analyzes communications from electronic devices to identify a common topic among the communications in a predetermined area. In at least one embodiment, only communications that have been created within a predetermined time period are analyzed. A processor connected to said data analyzer generates a title based on the common topic. A communications module connected to the processor sends an electronic message to a user, wherein the electronic message includes the title and the predetermined area. In at least one embodiment, the title and the predetermined area are displayed on a graphical user interface. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262593 | IDENTIFYING MESSAGE THREADS OF A MESSAGE STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING RELEVANCE TO A FIRST FILE - Methods and systems for providing related message threads in a message storage system are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of message threads within the message storage system, wherein the plurality of message threads each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the message storage system provides a platform for storing and sharing message threads, and each message thread includes a message and associated information. The method further includes generating a list of inquiries based on the plurality of message threads, providing, by the system server, the list of inquiries to at least one sender of the first file, receiving from the at least one sender at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of message threads based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of message threads. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262594 | MANAGEMENT AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF RELATED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product for managing and synchronizing electronic communications having one or more common topics. A computer system detects a first electronic communication involving a first user and a first set of users. The computer system analyzes the first electronic communication to identify a topic and determines whether the identified topic matches a topic of a second electronic communication involving the first user and a second set of users. Responsive to the identified topic of the first electronic communication matching a topic of the second electronic communication, the computer system provides to the first user an option to initiate an electronic communication involving the first user and the first and second sets of users. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262595 | IDENTIFYING CONVERSATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM HAVING RELEVANCE TO A FIRST FILE - Methods and systems for providing related conversations in a social network system are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of conversations within the social network system, wherein the plurality of conversations each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the social network system provides a platform for storing and sharing conversation, and each conversation includes a conversation and associated information. The method further includes generating, by a system server, a list of inquiries based on the plurality of conversations, providing, by the system server, the list of inquiries to at least one sender of the first file, receiving from the at least one sender at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of conversations based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of conversations. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262596 | IDENTIFYING AUDIO FILES OF AN AUDIO FILE STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING RELEVANCE TO A FIRST FILE - Methods and systems for providing related audio files in an audio file storage system are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of audio files within the audio file storage system, wherein the plurality of audio files each have a relationship with the first file, and wherein each audio file includes an audio and associated information. The method further includes generating, by a system server, a list of inquiries based on the plurality of audio files, providing, by the system server, the list of inquiries to at least one creator of the first file, receiving from the at least one creator at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of audio files based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of audio files. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262597 | SERVER APPARATUS, PRIVILEGE RECEIVING OPPORTUNITY, AND PRIVILEGE RECEIVING OPPORTUNITY NOTIFICATION METHOD - A server apparatus includes a memory that stores location information that identifies a second website from which a privilege is granted when the second website is used after having been accessed through a first website; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes first determining whether the location information acquired includes information that is identical to location information that identifies the first website. The processor executes second determining, when it is determined that the information identical to the location information of the first website is not included therein, whether location information of the second website is stored in the memory, the location information being identical to the location information acquired. The processor executes when the identical location information is stored in the memory, generating appeal information with which to appeal for accessing the second website through the first website, and notifying the user of the appeal information. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262598 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - According to various embodiments, a social media message posted on a social media system is accessed. One or more similar messages determined to be similar to the social media message may be selected from a database of previously posted messages, based on, for example, an author, product, problem, keyword, etc., identified in the social media message. The similar messages may be displayed in a similar message recommendation list of a user interface. One or more relevant knowledgebase articles determined to be relevant to the social media message may be selected from a knowledgebase repository, based on, for example, a product, problem, keyword, etc., identified in the social media message. The relevant knowledgebase articles may be displayed in a knowledgebase article list of a user interface. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262599 | METHOD FOR BOOKMARK FUNCTION APPLICABLE IN MESSENGER APPLICATION AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS THEREOF - A method and apparatus for a bookmark function is applicable in a messenger application. The method includes checking whether other application is selected during the use of a messenger application, storing a predetermined dialog location in the messenger application when the other application is selected, backgrounding the messenger application and foregrounding the other application, and returning to the predetermined dialog location when the messenger application is foregrounded. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262600 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an image reading unit for reading image data of an original; a communication unit for communicating through a communication network; an image data transmission unit for transmitting the image data to a server specified with an input operation of an operator through the communication unit; and an electric mail transmission unit for transmitting an electric mail to a destination specified with an input operation of the operator through the communication unit. The electric mail transmission unit is configured to transmit the electric mail including storage information of the image data in the server specified with the input operation of the operator and reading permission information of the image data to the destination specified with the input operation of the operator when the image data transmission unit transmits the image data to the server. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262601 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING EMAILS - A method and a device for sending and receiving emails. The present invention provides a method for sending an email that includes determining at least one identical data block between the email to be sent and a historical email. The method further includes determining whether there is a record of the identical data block in a first historical data block index table which includes a matching pair. The matching pair records the correspondence between one historical data block and a hash value. The method further includes, expressing the identical data block in the email to be sent as the corresponding hash value. The method further includes forming a modified email to be sent in response to the presence of the record. The present invention increases the efficiency of sending and receiving emails. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262602 | COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL APPARATUS - A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing therein a control program that causes a computer to execute a procedure, the procedure comprises, receiving a first message from an information processing apparatus, searching for a second message in a storage unit in response to reception of the first message, the storage unit storing messages received from the information processing apparatus in a chronological order of the messages, the second message including a same content with the first message, comparing a third message that is stored in the storage unit prior to the first message with a fourth message that is stored in the storage unit prior to the second message, and specifying a processing performed in response to a reception of the second message, when the third message includes a same content with the fourth message, the processing being specified based on information associated with the second message stored in the storage unit. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262603 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A data processing apparatus includes a reception unit, a processor, a storage controller and a reception controller. The reception unit checks for an e-mail sent to the apparatus at a predetermined time interval, and, when the e-mail sent to the apparatus exists, receives the e-mail. The processor performs processing in accordance with a command when the received e-mail includes the command. The storage controller stores a receipt time of the e-mail including the command on a storage unit. The reception controller makes an interval between the checks of e-mails shorter than the predetermined time interval at and within a predetermined time before and after a time corresponding to the receipt time stored in the storage unit. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262604 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING AND REPAIRING NETWORK CONFIGURATION - Aspects of a method and system for matching and repairing network configuration are provided. In this regard, one or more circuits and/or processors may be operable to determine a configuration of one or more parameters in a plurality of devices along a network path, and detect whether any of the one or more parameters are configured such that communication between the plurality of devices is disabled and/or suboptimal. The devices may comprise at least one server and one or more of a network switch, a network bridge, and a router. In instances that one or more parameters are incompatibly or sub-optimally configured, a notification of the incompatibility may be communicated to a network management entity and/or one or more messages may be generated to reconfigure the one or more parameters in one or more of the plurality of devices. The determining and/or detecting may be performed automatically in response to various events. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262605 | Retrieving and Snoozing Categorized Conversations in a Conversation-Based Email System - A method and system for processing messages includes receiving a plurality of messages directed to a user. Each of the plurality of messages is associated with a respective conversation and list of conversations is displayed in an order determined in accordance with second predefined criteria, as a set of rows, where each row corresponds to one of the listed conversations and includes at least a sender list, a conversation topic and a date/time value. A user is enabled to identify one or more conversations in the list of conversations, to mark the identified conversations as belonging to a particular category, and to display another list of conversations comprising conversations marked as belonging to the particular category. A user may cause a conversation to be removed from certain displays, but to become visible again after the passage of a certain amount of time or the occurrence of an event. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262606 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for communicating between an operator at an operator device and a user recipient includes enabling an operator of the operator device to enter a device-independent unique identifier for a user recipient by requiring interaction between the operator and the operator device without requiring interaction between the operator and software on the operator device that is designed for communication over an IP-based network. The method includes identifying an IP network address associated with the user recipient based on the device-independent unique identifier and routing a message entered by the operator to the determined IP network address. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING UPPER LAYER PROTOCOL MESSAGE BOUNDARIES - Systems and methods that identify the Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) message boundaries are provided. In one example, a method that identifies ULP message boundaries is provided. The method may include one or more of the following steps: attaching a framing header of a frame to a data payload to form a packet, the framing header being placed immediately after the byte stream transport protocol header, the framing header comprising a length field comprising a length of a framing protocol data unit (PDU); and inserting a marker in the packet, the marker pointing backwards to the framing header and being inserted at a preset interval. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262608 | Method and Device for Securing Email Address - A method for securing an email address includes: establishing a secure group constituted by associates in response to an establishment request from a sender, wherein the associates comprise the sender and a recipient; obtaining a secure-group address in response to a sending operation of an email; and replacing an email address of the sender of the email with the secure-group address and transmitting the email to an email address of the recipient of the email. A device for securing an email address is also provided. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262609 | EFFICIENT MAINTENANCE OF A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM MEMBERSHIP VIEW - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for maintaining a membership view of a distributed computing system comprising a multitude of members, wherein each of said members sends out a message indicating that said each of the members is available in the system. In one embodiment, the method comprises maintaining a first list of at least some of the members in the distributed system; and over a period of time, when one of the members sends out the message indicating that said one of the members is available in the distributed system, adding said one of the members to a second list. At defined times, the first list is replaced with the second list. In an embodiment, the method further comprises at said defined times, starting a new, empty second list. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130268600 | TRANSFERRING MESSAGE CONTEXT INFORMATION USING EXTENDED SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL BINARY DATA CHUNKING - A client computer sends an extended simple mail transfer protocol extended hello command to a server computer. In response, the server computer sends an advertisement to the client computer to identify a capability to receive message context information. The client computer, in turn, analyzes the capability advertisement to determine if it has any blobs associated with the capability identified in the capability advertisement to send. If the client computer has one or more blobs to send, the client computer sends a parameter in a MAIL command to the server computer specifying that the client computer will utilize the capability identified in the capability advertisement and specifying an order in which to expect the blobs if the client computer intends to send more than one blob. The client computer sends the blob(s) to the server computer after receiving an indication that the server computer is ready to receive the blob(s). | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268601 | PLATFORM INDEPENDENT ALERT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention describe systems, apparatuses and processes for monitoring one or more sensors associated with one or more physical units in order to generate data associated with the one or more sensors. One or more errors associated with the one or more sensors are identified from the generated data. In response to indentifying said error(s), a message including the error(s) is sent alone with and a web-client with a server stub, wherein the web-client with the server stub is operable to provide a user with an interface for accessing the data associated with the one or more sensors in the one or more physical units. Said interface also allows to user to modify operating parameters associated with the one or more physical units. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268602 | Systems and Methods For Messaging Systems For Transit Systems - Systems and methods for transit system messaging are disclosed. One or more user computing devices, configured to communicate with a transit system server and access transit system functionality, can communicate in real-time with one another and may further communicate data, or links to data, related to the transit system. Communicated data may further be directly acted upon based on the receiving user computing device's knowledge of the transit system and its data. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268603 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COMMUNICATING IN A NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods of communicating in a networking environment is disclosed. The method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The program instructions are operable to: obtain a selectable list of mutual channels or friends of the user and a current contact or friend within a networking environment; provide the selectable list of mutual channels or friends to the user with a fillable field for a message; and send the message to selected mutual channels or friends provided on the selectable list of mutual channels or friends. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268604 | SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS IN THE PACKET SWITCHED DOMAIN - Technology for communicating a short message service (SMS) communication in a packet switched (PS) domain of an evolved packet system (EPS) network. One method comprises receiving, at a core network (CN) control node, a request message from a user equipment (UE) indicating that the UE supports PS based SMS and performs a circuit switched (CS) registration only to receive SMS service via a CS domain; and sending, from the CN control node, an accept message to the UE indicating that SMS over a non-access stratum (NAS) is supported by the CN control node. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268605 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LIVE REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION VIA TEXT BETWEEN MOBILE USER DEVICES - A method and system for providing real-time communication via text between multiple user devices, the method including receiving, at an application server, a conversation request from a first user device, wherein the conversation request is based upon a selection of a second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device, sending the conversation request from the application server to a push server, receiving, at the application server, a conversation session ID from the second user device, if the conversation request is accepted by the second user device, sending the conversation session ID from the application server to the push server, receiving, at the application server, a first datagram message from the first user device, sending the first datagram message from the application server to the second user device, receiving, at the application server, a second datagram message from the second user device, and sending the second datagram message from the application server to the first user device. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268606 | System and Method for Determining and Presenting a Status from Multiple Sources and Devices - A method and device are able to determine the status of an owner of a device based on at least two status sources. The system is also able to determine the owner's status from several different devices belonging to the same person. The status of the person is then transmitted to others using the system, using a symbol that is also colored to reflect the type of contact and the status of the owner. A determination of whether to send an alert out is also provided. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING ELECTRONIC MAIL MISMATCHES - A system and method for handling e-mail address mismatches between the address contained within a user's certificate or certificate chain, and the account address actually being used is disclosed. In order to resolve address mismatches a canonical or generic domain name or user name may, for example, be used as a lifelong address of a user that is contained in the user's certificate. Upon detection of an address mismatch, the system and method disclosed herein may automatically re-check the certificate or search for a certificate containing the canonical or generic domain name and/or user name to attempt to resolve the mismatch. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268608 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION AND PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information distribution and processing system contains a remote site, a sender and a receiving apparatus. The remote site contains a first set of digital data. The sender delivers a second set of digital data to the receiving device. In one embodiment of the present invention, the receiving device contain a timing device for automatically receiving the second set of digital data at predetermined times. The second set of digital data contains a first set of displayable data, a second set of displayable data, at least one non-displayable symbol, and at least one linking reference associated with the second set of displayable data. If desired, a user can select the second set of displayable data. The associated linking reference is sent to the remote site. The associated linking reference is used by the remote site to search for the additional information, and returns the requested information to the user. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268609 | Social Network Site Recommender System and Method - Particular embodiments evaluate a plurality of messages. Each message may be associated with an author. Information may be logged for each message, such as information associated with the author, information associated with one or more designated recipients of the message, and time information. Correlation values may be determined for one or more sets of designated recipients based on at least a portion of the logged information. Particular embodiments may determine an association amongst a plurality of users over time. The determination may be based on the correlation values. At least one of the plurality of users may comprise at least one of the designated recipients. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268610 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Identifying Near Duplicate Messages - A computer-implemented system and method for identifying near duplicate messages is provided. Messages each including a content body are grouped by conversation thread. One or more of the messages also includes an attachment. The messages for each conversation thread are sorted in order of message length. At least one of the messages is selected from one of the threads and the body of the selected message is compared with the body of one such shorter message in that thread. A determination is made that the body of the shorter message is included in the body of the selected message. Hash codes of the attachments for the selected message and the shorter message are compared. The shorter message is marked as a near duplicate message of the selected message when the hash codes of the attachments match. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268611 | METHOD FOR SENDING AN ENHANCED VISUAL VOICE MAIL AND AN APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present invention provides a method and system for an enhanced visual voice mail (VVM). In one embodiment, emotion and blank indications are included in a voice mail (VM) and deposited on a server. The server may send a SYNC SMS notification including emotion and blank indication headers to the client via the VM server. The client initiates IMAP connection setup to the VM server and the user is authenticated by the VVM server based on the received SYNC SMS notification. Then, the client may select VM INBOX and then the VM server sends a list of VM available for playback. Further, the client may fetch VM headers of the VMs available for playback and as a result, the server returns the header information including emotion and blank indications. Moreover, the server returns the VM selected by the client based on the emotion and blank indication. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268612 | ENABLING A COMMUNICATION SERVER TO USE MSC-S RELATED FUNCTIONS - The invention relates to a method of registering a communication client at a communication server, wherein the communication client is associated to a mobile terminal and wherein the communication server is associated to a mobile switching node of a circuit switched network, the method comprises the steps of: initiation a connection between the communication server and the communication client, sending identification information to the communication server by the communication client via the connection, interrogating an authentication module of the mobile switching node to perform a user authentication by the communication server, fetching subscriber information from a database by the communication server, and sending subscriber information to the communication client via the connection. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130275516 | Avoiding Communication at Designated No-Contact Times - Apparatus and methods for controlling communications allow a recipient of electronic communications to be designated as in a no-contact state based on a profile data associated with the recipient. An attempt to send an electronic communication to the recipient when the recipient is in a no-contact state will result in the electronic communication not being transmitted at that time, although variants may allow queuing the electronic communication for later delivery. The no-contact state based on the profile data may be determined by evaluation of rules. The rules may be based on a location of the recipient, including a time zone or other characteristics associated with the recipient. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275517 | Image Based Interaction - A method and apparatus for receiving an image associated with an interactive service on at least one social media server, the image belonging to a group of images. The image is stored and accessing of the image by a user is detected. In response, a request with an identification of the image is sent to a back-end server to access the interactive service. Interaction messages are exchanged with the interactive service so that the interactive service associated with the image is made available to users by accessing the image. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275518 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING THE RESILIENCY OF A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SERVICE BY INDUCING A LATENCY - Techniques are disclosed for validating the resiliency of a networked application made available using a distributed computing infrastructure. In one embodiment, a latency monitoring application observes each active application component and at specified or unspecified intervals, selects one and introduces latency or error messages in one or more messages emanating from the selected active application component. The latency monitoring application then measures the effect of the latency or error messages on other active application components that are dependent on the affected active application component. By observing the effects of the failed server on the rest of the network application, a provider can ensure that each component can tolerate any unexpected latency or error conditions with the distributed computing infrastructure. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275519 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESPONDING TO A MESSAGE ABOUT UNVIEWED CONTENT - Embodiments provide methods and systems for automatically generating a response to a message related to unviewed content. In some embodiments, a user sends a message that relates to a particular media asset to another user. A server that receives the message from the sender identifies the media asset to which the message relates. The server also maintains or accesses a viewing history that identifies media assets that the recipient has viewed. The server cross-references the identity of the media asset with the viewing history to determine whether the recipient has viewed the media asset. If the recipient has not viewed the media asset, the server refrains from transmitting the message to the recipient, and the server automatically generates a response to the sender of the message indicating that the recipient has not seen the media asset. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275520 | Bragging Rights Social Media Business Integrator - Software linking corporate social media to Enterprise Business email and documents, capturing popularity and allowing sharing between environments. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275521 | MESSAGING CLIENT-BASED REMINDERS - Implementing messaging client-based reminders includes monitoring, via a computer processor, a communication exchange for a communication session and determining an occurrence of an alarm event from contents of the communication exchange in response to the monitoring. Upon determining the occurrence of the alarm event, a reminder is generated and a timer is set indicating a time value corresponding to a time expression in the communication exchange. Upon expiration of the timer, the reminder is transmitted. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275522 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR MONITORING DELIVERABILITY OF ELECTRONIC MAIL BASED ON SUBSCRIBER AND SEED DELIVERABILITY DATA - A system monitor delivery of electronic mail based on subscriber and seed deliverability data. Seed deliverability data is received that includes information indicating a number of email messages associated with an email campaign that are delivered to a folder associated with one or more intended recipients of the email campaign based on a sampling of seed accounts. The seed accounts are not associated with actual recipients of the email campaign. Subscriber deliverability data is received that includes information indicating a number of email messages associated with the email campaign that are delivered to a folder associated with the one or more intended recipients of the email campaign based on one or more subscriber accounts. The seed accounts are associated with a subset of human recipients of the email campaign. One or more deliverability metrics are determined based on the seed deliverability data and the subscriber deliverability data. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275523 | MESSAGING CLIENT-BASED REMINDERS - Implementing messaging client-based reminders includes monitoring, via a computer processor, a communication exchange for a communication session and determining an occurrence of an alarm event from contents of the communication exchange in response to the monitoring. Upon determining the occurrence of the alarm event, a reminder is generated and a timer is set indicating a time value corresponding to a time expression in the communication exchange. Upon expiration of the timer, the reminder is transmitted. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275524 | Time Sensitive Audio and Text Feedback Process for a Prioritized Media Rich Digital Messaging System - This invention relates to a messaging priority system that allows for a rich-media digital message sent over an electronic media to an intended recipient to be prioritized over several levels. Each level corresponds to a time limit. If the message does not reach or is not viewed by the intended recipient within the selected level's time limit, a notification is sent to the sender informing that the message was not viewed within the time limit. The rich-media digital message includes text, images, video and audio all sent over electronic media including email, text, instant message, and the like. The notification back to the sender that the message was unread in the allotted time is a dual notification that includes both text and audio. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275525 | MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A messaging system, comprising an electronic message having integrated digital content that is scripted by seamless linking of multiplicity of electronic media components. An electronic media component is comprised of a compilation of one or more electronic media element, with an electronic media element comprised of one or more data. Communication protocols for delivery and receipt of the electronic message is used, with the multiplicity of electronic media components of a received electronic message seamlessly executed in an order, arrangement, and sequence intended by the scripted digital content at one of a first and second client-device. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275526 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO A REFERENCED INDIVIDUAL - Providing supplemental contact information for an individual referenced in an electronic message typically includes receiving an electronic message, examining the electronic message, detecting an identifier for a referenced individual contained in the electronic message, and making supplemental contact information for the referenced individual available to a recipient of the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include information that is in addition to information contained in the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include at least one of an e-mail address, a screen name, a telephone number, a facsimile number, and a mailing address each of which is associated with the referenced individual. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275527 | SOCIAL FEED TREND VISUALIZATION - Technology for a visual representation of trending topics on social media platforms is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for presenting a dynamic squarified treemap includes steps of retrieving multiple messages from a social networking service, the messages containing multiple trending topics; for each respective trending topic of the trending topics, determining a trending speed and a trending acceleration of the respective trending topic at a time point; and presenting a treemap including multiple shapes. Each respective shape of the shapes is associated with a corresponding trending topic of the trending topics. An area of the respective shape indicates a trending speed of the corresponding trending topic at the time point. A color of the respective shape indicates a trending acceleration of the corresponding trending topic at the time point. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275528 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGE COLLECTION - The invention provides systems and methods for processing communication content from a user device. The method performed by a computer and comprising inputting an electronic communication that includes communication content and a routing character string. The communication content constituted by data generated as a result of, and representative of, characters keyed into the user device by the user. Maintaining a bin collection including bins. Performing processing on the communication content including identifying the user and a bin collection of the user based on the routing character string; and processing the communication content including (1) mapping first data to a command; and (2) mapping second data to a bin. The command dictates particular action to be performed, and the bin identifies an identified bin upon which to perform the action; and performing the action on the identified bin. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275529 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR NOTIFYING AND LEARNING ADDRESS INFORMATION INVALIDATION - The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for notifying and learning address information invalidation. The present invention includes: receiving, by a mobile device, a first notification message that indicates release of a default bearer and is sent by a core network, where the first notification message includes a first default bearer that is allocated to the mobile device and already released by the core network; determining, by the mobile device and according to the first default bearer, address information corresponding to the first default bearer; and sending, by the mobile device and to a terminal device, a second notification message indicating address information invalidation, where the second notification message includes the address information invalidation indication information and the address information corresponding to the first default bearer, so that the terminal device deletes the address information corresponding to the first default bearer. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275530 | Reduced Latency Messaging For Mobile Communication Devices - A mobile electronic communication device includes a controller, memory, wireless transceiver, and output device supported by a housing. The controller executes a program with instructions stored in the memory and suspends execution of the program. The controller resumes execution of the program to retrieve a communication message from an online data storage service with the wireless transceiver in response to receiving a notification message with the wireless transceiver. The controller executes the program to retrieve a communication message and outputs the communication message with the output device. The mobile electronic communication device outputs messages with a reduced delay between transmission of the communication message and output of the communication message. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275531 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING FEED INFORMATION IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for collecting feed information in a mobile terminal are disclosed. The method and apparatus collects information explicitly clipped by a user as well as content items exchanged between users as feed information. The method for collecting feed information in a mobile terminal includes: detecting a share event corresponding to transmission or reception of content through a communication application implemented in the mobile terminal; generating feed information based on the content; and storing the generated feed information. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275532 | Electronic Message Content Party Restriction System and Method - Electronic messaging system and method with a determination of message content information that includes a restricted indication of a sender and/or a recipient. A message content that includes a restricted indication of a sender and/or recipient may be rejected. A rejected message content may be limited in deliverability from a sender's computer. A rejected message content may also prompt a warning and/or be modifiable to allow for transmission. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275533 | PEER-TO-PEER COLLABORATION OF PUBLISHERS IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for an enhanced pub/sub environment whereby a peer group of publishers is defined and can collaborate to determine when to cache data being sent to a common broker or brokers. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, configuration data or the like will be read to define a peer group among the publisher systems in the pub/sub messaging environment. Once such a group has been identified, communication therebetween will be established. Once cacheable data has been identified, a unique identifier/set of cache keys will be generated corresponding thereto and associated with the set of data. A message comprising the set of data and corresponding unique identifier will then be sent to a broker system (e.g., from the publisher system(s)), which will store (or have stored) the set of data in a cache, and pass the underlying message along to applicable subscriber system(s). | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING AN AGILE NETWORK PROTOCOL FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS USING SECURE DOMAIN NAMES - A system for connecting a first network device and a second network device includes one or more servers. The servers are configured to: (a) receive, from the first network device, a request to look up a network address of the second network device based on an identifier associated with the second network device; (b) determine, in response to the request, whether the second network device is available for a secure communications service; and (c) initiate a virtual private network communication link between the first network device and the second network device based on a determination that the second network device is available for the secure communications service, wherein the secure communications service uses the virtual private network communication link. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275535 | VIDEO MAIL THROUGH PEER TO PEER NETWORK - Illustrated is a system and method to record video mail using a peer to peer network. In some embodiments, a first computer system is operatively coupled to a second computer system, wherein the first and second computer systems are in a peer-to-peer configuration, a receiver resides on the second computer system to receive a video mail message, and a storage device resides on the second computer system to store the video mail message. In some embodiments, also illustrated is a method including configuring a first computer system and a second computer system into a peer-to-peer configuration, receiving a video mail message at the second computer system, and storing the video mail message on the second computer system. The method may further include receiving an audio signal on the first computer system, receiving a video signal on the first computer system, and transmitting the video signal using the first computer system. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275536 | LOCATING A USER BASED ON AGGREGATED TWEET CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH A LOCATION - A user submitting a query from a computer at an unknown location is located using a language model. The language model is derived from an aggregation of tweets that were sent from known locations. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275537 | WIRELESS DEVICE ADDRESS BOOK UPDATES - A system for maintaining an address book, wherein the address book includes a plurality of entries with each entry containing contact information and wherein address book updates are transmitted over a wireless network. The system includes a gateway for storing the address book and transmitting the address book updates to a wireless device. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275538 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGING CONTENT DELIVERY - An integrated system for messaging content delivery for use in a wireless network that incorporates a messaging application broker that interfaces with messaging applications; management applications, a plurality of user devices, and external networks. The interfaces use the appropriate protocols to interact with the messaging applications, management applications, user devices and external networks. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275539 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MEANINGFUL CLINICAL ALERTS - A messaging system ( | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275540 | Method, Device, System and Network Architecture for Handling a Service Request - The present invention relates to a method for handling a service request within a local area network. First a service request is received from a user device. The service request comprising information regarding one or more requirements needed to perform the service. Then a download location is localized by means of a localization service within a public network to obtain computer executable information on the basis of the information in the service request. The computer executable information is then retrieved for performing the service from the download location and installed on a networked device within the local area network. Finally, a message is sent to the user device regarding the availability of the service within the local area network. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130282833 | DYNAMIC GROUP AND EVENT UPDATE METHOD IN PHONE BASED IMPROMPTU MEET-UP APP - This disclosure relates to generating a group of invitees in a wireless communication system. An embodiment of the disclosure receives criteria for an event from an organizer of the event, compares the criteria to contact information of each contact of a plurality of contacts, assigns a recommendation ranking to each contact based on the comparison of the criteria to the contact information for each contact, and displays a subset of the plurality of contacts sorted according to the recommendation ranking. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AN EFFECT OF CHARACTERISTICS OF A MESSAGE ON INTERACTION WITH THE MESSAGE - Method and apparatus are provided for determining an effect of characteristics of a first message on interaction with the first message over an electronically meditated forum. The first message may be posted to the electronically mediated forum to provide a first posted message. The first posted message includes characteristics. The electronically mediated forum may be monitored to detect at least one instance of interaction with the first posted message. Interaction data may be extracted. Interaction data may include data describing at least one interaction the first posted message. The interaction data may be analyzed to determine the effect of the characteristics of the first posted message on the interaction(s) with the first posted message to provide determined effect data. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282835 | Filtering Message Posts in a Social Network - A social media mechanism processes messages for content that may require filtering of recipients of the message, and informs a user who drafted the message when the message might need to be filtered so it is not sent to all potential recipients of the message. The user may then select to send the message to all potential recipients, or to filter the recipients so the message is sent to less than all of the potential recipients. User profiles are created and maintained, and may include information that helps to determine when filtering of messages is desirable. Feedback buttons are also provided to provide feedback when a user does not like a message. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282836 | Propagation of Message Having Time-Based Information - A method for propagating a message includes searching a plurality of messages for time-based information; associating located time-based information with the corresponding message as meta-data; extracting the meta-data and propagating the message as the time-based information approaches; and displaying the propagated message in a graphical user interface. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGE PERSONALIZATION - Systems and methods for building personalized messages to one or more recipients. In one aspect, one or more personalized messages are created from one or more templates and one or more token lists. The templates include global tokens and local tokens. The token lists contain fields in the templates and corresponding token values. For each respective target recipient, a personalized message is generated by identifying and storing global tokens and corresponding global token values in a global cache, and identifying and storing local tokens and corresponding local token values in a local cache. The personalized messages are then created using the templates and substituting tokens with token values stored in the global and local cache. The personalized messages are then distributed to the corresponding target recipients. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282838 | GROUP SMS MESSAGING - A system and method for enabling a network messaging center to identify messages for further processing or distribution is provided. The source and destination addresses of a received message are compared to determine if the received message should be flagged for further processing, without forwarding the message to the indicated destination address. The further processing can include extracting recipient information from the received message determining how to distribute the message to each of the extracted recipients. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282839 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY MESSAGING A CONTACT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Embodiments provide methods and systems for automatically sending a communication to a contact in a social network. In some embodiments, a social network server receives a user selection of a competitor involved in a competition about which the user would like to send messages. The social network server identifies a media asset that is associated with the competitor, such as a video clip of the competition. The social network server then identifies one of the user's contacts who is also interested in the competition. The social network server automatically transmits the media asset to the identified contact. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282840 | Streamlined Messaging Client Provisioning System - A first enrolled user of a message transmission uses the system to transmit an invitation to a second user, who is not enrolled as a user of the system. The second user uses the invitation to download and install a messaging client onto the second user's local machine automatically. The system generates a unique ID for the second user automatically. The system executes the second user's messaging client and configures the second user's account and messaging client with the second user's unique ID and account information obtained from the second user. The system automatically transmits any message contained within the invitation to the second user upon completion of the previous steps. The system thereby minimizes the number of manual steps that must be performed by the second user to create an account and to configure the second user's messaging client for use with the message transmission system. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282841 | FILTERING MESSAGE POSTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A social media mechanism processes messages for content that may require filtering of recipients of the message, and informs a user who drafted the message when the message might need to be filtered so it is not sent to all potential recipients of the message. The user may then select to send the message to all potential recipients, or to filter the recipients so the message is sent to less than all of the potential recipients. User profiles are created and maintained, and may include information that helps to determine when filtering of messages is desirable. Feedback buttons are also provided to provide feedback when a user does not like a message. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282842 | PROCESS FOR SENDING AN ELECTRONIC FILE TO AT LEAST ONE CONTACT OF A USER - Process for sending an electronic file to at least one contact ( | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282843 | ON-VEHICLE APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND INFORMATION TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - An on-vehicle apparatus system and a terminal device protect personal information and location information readable from message information viewed by others. The on-vehicle apparatus, which is included in a vehicle and which is connected to the terminal device, includes an application for transmitting location information representing a position of the terminal device along with message information, to a message management system, and includes a first area determination unit which determines whether the position of the terminal device represented by the location information is included in a predetermined first area, and a posting controller, which bans assignment of the location information performed before the message information is transmitted to the message management system by the application, when the first area determination unit determines that the position of the terminal device is included in the first area. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282844 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-MODE ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION - A method includes receiving at a host device a first communication associated with a transaction from at least one electronic device included in a set of electronic devices. The host device includes at least a memory, a processor, and a database. The first communication received at a first time and via a first communication mode. The method includes sending a response to the first communication at a second time after the first time and independent of the first time. The host devices receives a second communication associated with the transaction from the at least one electronic device at a third time. The first communication, the response to the first communication, and the second communication are displayable in a persistent record of the transaction regardless of a difference between the first time and the third time. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282845 | SOLUTION FOR BROADBAND MOBILE OVERAGE CHARGING AND BANDWIDTH ISSUES - The present invention provides for the chunking of the data, and the delivery of high bandwidth chunks to a requesting user at times that are more convenient for the network. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SIMILAR EMAILS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and a method for processing similar emails, and relate to the field of web technologies. The system includes: a control node, configured to receive a sample of a preset format, and determine whether the sample of preset format is a final result of similarity computing; if not, combine or split the sample of preset format according to a preset criterion to obtain multiple subtask packets, and allocate the multiple subtask packets to multiple similarity computing nodes; and multiple similarity computing nodes, configured to: compute similarity relationships for the samples in received subtask packets to obtain an intermediate similarity computing result that is a sample in the preset format, and feed back the sample in the preset format to the control node, where the intermediate similarity computing result includes a unique similar sample, a similarity relationship, and similarity count of unique similar sample. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282847 | CRITERION-DEPENDENT EMAIL DISPLAY AGENT - There is set forth herein a computer program product, computing device, and method for displaying an email message. In one example, a computing device receives an input comprising at least one criterion for redacting email messages; stores the at least one criterion in a configuration of a client computer program; receives an email message having a field, the field comprising a first content; determines whether a condition of at least one of the email message and a current state of the computing device satisfies the at least one criterion stored in the configuration of the client computer program; and, in response to determining that the condition satisfies the at least one criterion, displays a second content in place of the first content in a user interface of the client computer program, wherein the second content is different than the first content. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282848 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING HEADER FIELDS IN A MESSAGE - Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein facilitate the transmitting, receiving, and processing of encoded messages wherein the header fields in the message header are protected. In one embodiment, the contents of the header fields to be protected are inserted into the message body as one or more additional lines of text, for example, prior to encoding and transmitting the message to a message recipient. Upon receipt of the message, the message recipient processes the encoded message such that the contents of the protected header fields can be extracted from the message body. Accordingly, by inserting the contents of the header fields to be protected into the message body, the header fields may be protected using existing standards and protocols for facilitating secure message communication. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282849 | ASYNCHRONOUS REAL-TIME RETRIEVAL OF DATA - A data retrieval system includes a gateway server and an access client. The gateway server is communicatively connected to the access client through a network. The gateway server provides a presentation service (PS) and a real-time service (RTS), which cooperate with the access client to retrieve data from a data store and then provide the retrieved data to a user's remote communication device. More particularly, when a user wishes to retrieve data from the data store or to send data to the data store, the user establishes a communication connection between his or her remote communication device and the gateway server, and then requests the desired data from the gateway server. In response, the gateway server sends a command to the access client, instructing it to retrieve the requested data. The access client retrieves the requested data from the data store, and returns the retrieved data to the gateway server. The gateway server then relays the requested information back to the user's remote communication device. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282850 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING MEDIA MESSAGES - A method and a system for processing media messages. The method includes a sending party client generating and sending a media message, wherein the media message carries at least two media contents and marker information indicating a playing relationship between the media contents; a media server receiving the media message sent by the sending party client; and a receiving party client acquiring the media message from the media server and playing the media contents according to the instruction of the marker information. The method and system provide a new media content processing mechanism. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130290434 | NOTIFYING ELECTRONIC MEETING PARTICIPANTS OF INTERESTING INFORMATION - Described are a system and method for notifying electronic meeting participants of information of interest. For an electronic meeting, a relationship is determined between a first participant and one or more second participants having a relationship with the first participant. A degree of interest by the second participants of a portion of the electronic meeting is determined. A notification is generated for the first participant in response to the determined degree of interest. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290435 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UPDATING MESSAGE BODY CONTENT BASED ON RECIPIENT CHANGES - A method, device and system are provided for automated insertion of message conversation or thread participant changes in a message body prior to receipt of the message by a recipient of the reply message. Once a reply message is initiated at a first device and an initial recipient set defined for the reply message based on the participants of a previous message of the thread, one or more changes may be made to the recipients specified for the message. In response to a trigger detected at the device, changes to the initial recipient set are identified and indicated by a textual or other notification within the body of the reply message, rather than merely in a header or addressing portion of the reply message. The indication may then be viewable using a recipient messaging client even if header information reflecting the change in recipients is not displayed by the client. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290436 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UPDATING MESSAGE RECIPIENTS BASED ON MESSAGE BODY INDICATORS - A method, device and system are provided for automated updating of message recipients designated for a reply message based on a declaration or notification in a body of the message. Once a reply message is initiated at a first device and an initial recipient set defined for the reply message based on the participants of a previous message of the thread, a declaration or instruction may be inserted in the message body identifying a change to be made to the initial recipient set. In response to a trigger detected at the device, any such declarations are identified and a determination is made whether the current recipient set is consistent with them. If not, changes are made to the current recipient set to render it consistent. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290437 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MINING ORGANIZATIONAL DATA TO FORM SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and methods are provided for mining organizational data to form social networks, by identifying an initial user; sending a first query to a directory server for a first directory service record of the initial user; receiving and parsing the first directory service record of the initial user to determine at least one group to which the initial user belongs; sending a second query to the directory server for a second directory service record of the group; receiving and parsing the second directory service record of the group to determine at least one other user different from the initial user; and storing an association between the initial user and the other user in a storage medium, wherein the stored association forms part of a social network containing the initial user and the other user. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290438 | PROVIDING A REQUISITE LEVEL OF SERVICE FOR AN ELECTRONIC MEETING - Providing a requisite level of service for an electronic meeting. An embodiment can include receiving a request to schedule a first electronic meeting in a time slot, identifying an electronic meeting system to host the first electronic meeting, identifying a second electronic meeting scheduled to be hosted by the electronic meeting system in the time slot, determining an estimate of resource usage within the electronic meeting system during the time slot at least based on the second electronic meeting being scheduled to be hosted by the electronic meeting system in the time slot, comparing the estimate of resource usage with a threshold value, responsive to determining that the estimate of resource usage exceeds the threshold value, providing the requisite level of service to the first electronic meeting in the time slot by reducing anticipated resource usage of the electronic meeting system by the second electronic meeting. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290439 | Method and apparatus for notification and posting at social networks - An approach is provided for processing of one or more communication messages to determine one or more contexts. Further, a comparison is made of contextual information associated with one or more potential posting users against the one or more contexts. Furthermore, one or more posting alerts are presented to the one or more potential posting users based, at least in part, on the comparison. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290440 | Point-To-Point Data Synchronization - Concepts and technologies for point-to-point data synchronization are provided. A personal area network connection between a first user device and a second user device is established. State change information of first data stored on the first user device is received by the second user device, and second data stored on the second device is updated to reflect the state change to synchronize the first data and the second data. Alternatively, a synchronization message including the state change information of first data stored on a first user device is received by the second user device. The state change information is extracted from the synchronization message, and second data stored on a second user device is updated to reflect the state change to synchronize the first data and the second data. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290441 | SERVER LOGGING MODULE - Techniques are described herein for logging messages at a server. In some embodiments, a plurality of client request messages from one or more client machines may be received at a server logging module in a server. The received client request messages may be parsed to extract one or more request headers and an request body from each received client request message. Request body characterization information may be created based on the parsed request body. Message information may be stored in a server log in accordance with a standard log format. The message information may include the one or more request headers and the request body characterization information associated with each received client request message. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290442 | DOWNLOADED ATTACHMENTS FLOW - A system and method for organizing and accessing attachments to messages from a plurality of different message accounts in a single location. A plurality of attachments to messages from a plurality of different message accounts are downloaded by a mobile device, and a plurality of links for the plurality of attachments are displayed in a single location by the mobile device. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290443 | Disassociated Content Electronic Message System and Method - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. An electronic message is separated into a message content and a message header. The message content and header information are entered by a user separately and transmitted from the user computer separately. The message content and header information are stored and displayed separately throughout the process of entry by a sending user and reading by a recipient user. In yet another implementation, an electronic message is permanently automatically deleted from the system at a predetermined time. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290444 | CONNECTED MULTI-SCREEN SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATION - Techniques and mechanisms are described herein for providing a connected multi-screen social media application. According to various embodiments, a selection of one of a plurality of media content items available for presentation in association with a content management account may be received. The selected media content item may be presented at a first client machine associated with the content management account. A message may be transmitted to a second client machine associated with the content management account. The message may include an instruction for displaying a social media application at the second client machine. The social media application may facilitate the exchange of user-generated content related to the selected media content item. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290445 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR RECIPIENT CONTROLLED COMMUNICATIONS - A communication system is provided in which users associate handling data identifying how messages are to be processed with contact data. Handling data for the identified contacts in the contact data is then dispatched to those contacts. Subsequently when messages are dispatched from the locations identified by the contact data a sender of a message selects handling data to be associated with a message being dispatched. Upon receipt of a message associated with handling data the message is then processed in the manner identified by the handling data. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290446 | Reactive Avatars - Avatars are used to graphically represent users in a communications session, and the avatars are capable of being animated. An indication of an animation of one of the avatars is received. Another avatar that represents another of the users is animated in response to, and based on, the animation of the avatar in the same communications session. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290447 | JUNK ELECTRONIC MAIL DETECTOR AND ELIMINATOR - A method and system for parsing and analyzing incoming electronic mail messages to determine a confidence factor indicative of whether or not the messages are junk e-mail. The method and system utilize message services which attempt to contact the purported sender in order to verify that the identified host computer actually exists and accepts outgoing mail services for the specified user. The routing history is also examined to ensure that identified intermediate sites are also valid. Likewise, seed addresses can alert an e-mail provider to potential mass mailings by reporting when mail is received for ghost or non-existent accounts. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290448 | GENERATING NETWORK ACTIVITY INDICATORS FOR USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290449 | PRIVACY-BASED SOCIAL CONTENT BROADCAST SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A technique and system for delivering content to users and subscribers in a privacy based network. The technique can include creating a circle between the user and any number of subscribers by a privacy based social content broadcasting server system. Content can be received from the user and sent to the any number of subscribers through the circle. Content can also be received from one of the any number of subscribers and sent to the user and the other subscribers through the circle. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290450 | METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT STREAMS REAL-TIME, PROCESSED DATA FROM REMOTE PROCESSOR-CONTROLLED APPLIANCES - The current document is directed to systems and methods that stream real-time, processed data from remote processor-controlled user appliances, including personal computers, tablets, mobile phones, and laptops, to application programs for display, analysis, and other purposes and to other data-consuming devices and systems. In one implementation, a real-time processed-data streaming system includes instrumentation within remote, processor-controlled user devices, data collection at geographically distributed data-collection centers, consolidation of event messages generated by the geographically distributed data-collection centers within consolidation systems, processing of the consolidated event messages within one or more processing centers, and streaming of processed data, in the form of various types of processed-data-containing messages, to consumers of the data, including application programs that render the data for display on electronic display devices. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290451 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LIMITING UNWANTED ON-LINE COMMUNICATION - A method for controlling unwelcome communication among a network of users (a) maintains for each user an account to which communication units are credited by the network according to a schedule; and (b) for each user that initiates communication with a respondent user, the network (i) determines whether or not the account of the initiator user holds greater than a predetermined number of communication units; and (ii) when the account is determined to hold greater than the predetermined number of communicating units, deducts from the account of the initiator user the predetermined number of communication units, and allows the initiated communication to proceed. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290452 | COLLEGE AND FINANCIAL AID TRACKING - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for college admission and financial aid application tracking. A method includes, in a server residing in a network of interconnected computers, downloading admission and financial information from a plurality of web servers communicatively linked to the server, storing the downloaded admission and financial information in the local database, receiving registration information from user equipment communicatively linked to the server, receiving a college selection from the user equipment, matching the received college selection to admission and financial information in the local database, populating a dashboard with the matched college admission and financial information, receiving input from the user equipment through the dashboard, updating information in the dashboard in response to the received input, and sending a status report in response to the updated information. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290453 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CONNECTOR BEING ABLE TO ADAPT TO NEWER FEATURES INTRODUCED TO A MESSAGING PROVIDER WITH ONLY CONFIGURATION CHANGES - A computer-controlled method can include providing a resource adapter with an object wrapper having a plurality of features, a wrapper generation tool receiving a change to be made to the object wrapper, and the wrapper generation tool generating a new object wrapper based on the change. The resource adapter can receive an object from a messaging provider, adapt the object based on the newly generated object wrapper, and send the wrapped object to an application. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290454 | Mailbox-Based Communications System for Management Communications Spanning Multiple Data Centers and Firewalls - System and methods for effecting communications between a trusted management process and one or more managed processes in a distributed computing environment where direct communications between processes via a data communications network is blocked by a firewall or other security system. The method includes a file server that is accessible to all communicating processes. The file server provides a secure mailbox for each managed process. The mailbox is used to hold messages that are stored as individual files. The management and managed processes communicate by writing and reading files in the mailbox of the managed process. The stateless manner of the message-based communications makes it easy to replicate the management process in order to provide scalability and fault-tolerance for the management functions. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290455 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE INCLUSION IN E-MAIL MESSAGES - While populating an e-mail message with, among other details, an e-mail address for a receiver, an image of the sender is included as part of the e-mail message. Advantageously, at a device in use to execute an e-mail client application on behalf of the receiver, the e-mail client application may automatically add the included image to an address book entry associated with the identity of the sender. Alternatively, the user may be prompted to allow the association of the image with the address book entry of the sender of the message. Later, upon receiving an incoming call from the sender with corresponding CLID information, the call display application may perform a lookup of the CLID information and display the image associated, in the address book, with the sender. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING WEB PAGES FOR MEMBERS - The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for generating web pages for members. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PRESENCE INFORMATION - A method for processing presence information in a network server is provided in the present invention. Firstly, receiving from a subscriber a definition request for defining a virtual publisher, and then assigning a unique identity for the virtual publisher, judging whether a data source list of the virtual publisher includes an unsubscribed data source and initiating a subscription to the unsubscribed data source. When receiving a notification message or a regular query result from a data source, determining virtual publisher(s) corresponding to the data source; for each of the virtual publishers, determining the latest state of the virtual publisher and sending a notification message including the latest state of the virtual publisher to a user in a subscriber list of the virtual publisher. By this method, a subscriber may voluntarily define information the subscriber requires rather than passively receiving, thereby providing customized information based on specific needs of a subscriber. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290458 | CONTEXTUAL PEER BASED GUIDANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An embodiment includes a mobile computing device determining user profile elements and user goals for a user; determining user activity levels corresponding to the user goals; determining peer group activity levels corresponding to the user profile elements, user goals, and user activity levels; determining a peer group activity level exceeds a user activity level; sensing an environmental condition corresponding to the user's current environment; and communicating a message to the user, which corresponds to a peer group activity, based on (a) determining a peer group activity level exceeds a user activity level, and (b) the sensed environmental condition. Other embodiments are described herein. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130297706 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING INPUT FROM A PLURALITY OF USERS TO IDENTIFY A TYPE OF MEDIA ASSET SEGMENT - Systems and methods for processing input from a plurality of users to identify a type of media asset segment are provided. A plurality of messages is received from a plurality of users at a remote server. The received messages are processed to extract a plurality of words from each message. Each of a first plurality of the words is cross-referenced with a first database of media asset information to identify a media asset that corresponds to a portion of the received messages. A segment within the media asset is identified based on the portion of the received messages. Each of a second plurality of the words of the portion of the received messages is cross-referenced with a second database of segment types to assign a type to the identified segment. Information is stored for the media asset identifying a position and type of the segment within the media asset. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297707 | ENABLING AND SUPPORTING A PRESENCE SERVER CACHE - A method, computer program product, and computer system for enabling and supporting a presence server cache are described herein. A presence server cache may receive a plurality of requests to poll a status of a contact from a plurality of clients. The presence server cache may determine the status of the contact. If the status of the contact is unavailable at the presence server cache, the presence server cache may transmit a request for the status of the contact to a presence server. The presence server cache may transmit the status of the contact of the user to the plurality of clients. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297708 | ENABLING AND SUPPORTING A PRESENCE SERVER CACHE - A method, computer program product, and computer system for enabling and supporting a presence server cache are described herein. A presence server cache may receive a plurality of requests to poll a status of a contact from a plurality of clients. The presence server cache may determine the status of the contact. If the status of the contact is unavailable at the presence server cache, the presence server cache may transmit a request for the status of the contact to a presence server. The presence server cache may transmit the status of the contact of the user to the plurality of clients. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297709 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN A SERVER AND A CLIENT - A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297710 | POSTHUMOUS MESSAGE DELIVERY SYSTEM - A posthumous message delivery system provides an online means to leave messages after death. The system utilizes inspirations to help the user prepare messages for each of the individuals on their recipient list, and the user can select from a variety of messaging platforms in which the message will be sent, including e-mail systems and social media systems, and the system automatically incorporates the inspirations into a message or selects a completed message. At the time of the user's death, the messages are authorized for release by an appointed trustee using a pin or password. The messages may be immediately released at the time of authorization or the messages may be configured for release at various milestones. The user has the capability of adding, deleting, and editing messages. Messages can be sent to groups of recipients, including social media contacts, or the messages may be limited to selected recipients. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297711 | KEYS AND SENSORS FOR DAILY CONSUMER ACTIVITIES - Communication accessories, such as keyfobs (KFs) and/or transmitter/receiver dongles, which can transmit and receive signals to enable connectivity between owners of different portable devices even when the devices are off or when in a sleep mode, are described. In some examples, the keyfobs and/or the dongles are programmed with connectivity tokens, such as being programmed with Facebook (FB) information, FB accounts or FBIDs, LinkedIn ID, or generically social network user information, that can be used to authenticate different smart portable devices belonging to different users to facilitate networking. Once the keyfobs and/or dongles are authenticated, they will buzz, sound, or otherwise alert their respective owners that one or more social network users, such as a FB user or a LinkedIn user, are within the general vicinity and that further actions through smart portable devices may be needed to connect the users. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297712 | INTERFACE FOR MANAGING MESSAGES IN A MOBILE TERMINAL - An interface method for a mobile terminal includes: receiving in the order of time and saving two or more types of messages corresponding to two or more types of first applications; integrating and configuring the two or more types of messages using a second application, which integrates and manages the two or more types of first applications; and displaying the two or more types of messages with the identification information on the type of each of the messages using the second application. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297713 | ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONFERENCE - An apparatus, method, computer readable medium, and system are provided for associating content with a conference. A viewer of content may elect to partake in a conference and may select one or more options associated with the conference. The viewer may be authenticated and billed based on the viewer's participation in the conference. The viewer may be assigned to a conference group based on a location of the viewer and/or the viewer's selections of conference options. A lookup may be performed to determine conference parameters, comprising one or more of a terminal identifier associated with the viewer, a conference code identifier and a participant code. A conference setup message may be transmitted to one or more of a switch and a customer premise equipment device (CPE) based on the conference parameters. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297714 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TARGETING MESSAGES TO USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network, for example by first identifying topics in the social network is provided. One embodiment of a method for discovering topics in a social network includes collecting information from the social network, the information including at least one of: interactions between users of the social network or profile information for the users, determining a global topic model including at least one topic, based on the collected information, and locally refining the global topic model in accordance with the collected information. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297715 | Configurable Electronic Messaging System That Maintains Recipient Privacy - A messaging service allows message senders to reach a web site owner in the way the owner wants. Users authorized by the owner drop a message into the message service of a site owner, and it gets delivered to the site owner in exactly the manner specified by the site owner. The site owner can organize incoming messages by time, calendar, user, viewing method, etc. The site owner can receive messages in the way she wants, but all her friends need to know is one address, the owner's site address. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130304825 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CALENDAR EVENTS - According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for processing calendar events are provided. The method comprises: receiving a calendar event invitation message addressed to at least one recipient device and storing the calendar event invitation message in a memory; determining, at a processor, whether to disable at least one recipient device function; when the determination is affirmative, generating a recipient policy including a recipient device function identifier, and a rule associated with the function identifier; and deploying the recipient policy for the at least one recipient device such that the function is disabled at the recipient device for at least a period of time. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304826 | SCHEDULED MESSAGES IN A SCALABLE MESSAGING SYSTEM - Techniques are provided for scheduled and non-scheduled delivery of messages. A message directed to at least one consumer is received at a message entity. The message is determined to include a scheduled delivery time. The received message is stored in a scheduled sub-queue of the message entity. Activation metadata is retrieved and stored for any messages stored in the scheduled sub-queue that include a scheduled delivery time within a predetermined upcoming time period. If when the message is received, the scheduled delivery time of the message is within a current activation window, the activation metadata for the message may be extracted and stored immediately. The stored activation metadata is analyzed to determine a batch of messages in the scheduled sub-queue ready for delivery. The determined batch of messages is stored in an active sub-queue of the message entity, to be ready for delivery at the request of a consumer. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304827 | ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK HANDLE TYPE AHEAD ENHANCEMENT - Determining a correct user with whom to communicate, e.g., the correct intended recipient of an electronic message in electronic communications. In one aspect, an unintended recipient may identify the message as unintended. In another aspect, a time lapse in response or lack of response from the recipient may flag an unintended recipient. Using a likeness algorithm, users related to the recipient is identified and the message may be sent to those identified related users. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304828 | SOCIAL MEDIA DATA PLAYBACK SYSTEM - A method of displaying social media data is provided. The method includes accessing stored social media data from a plurality of social media outlets and obtaining social media data having associated context information. The obtained social media data includes at least first social media data from a first social media outlet and second social media data from a second social media outlet. The method includes providing a user interface that displays representations of the first and second social media data as a function of the context information. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304829 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL MEDIA COOPERATION PROTOCOL - Methods and systems for social media cooperation, via allowing inter-social network communications between users of different networks is provided. The inter-social network communications may be facilitated by sending inter-social network communications in a format determined by a protocol that is used by the social networks agreeing to allow inter-social network communications. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304830 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL MEDIA COOPERATION PROTOCOL - Methods and systems for social media cooperation, via allowing inter-social network communications between users of different networks is provided. The inter-social network communications may be facilitated by sending inter-social network communications in a format determined by a protocol that is used by the social networks agreeing to allow inter-social network communications. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304831 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGING AND PRESENCE MODIFICATION - An electronic message modifying systems and methods are disclosed. The system includes a sending terminal, at least one modification parameters database, which contains a plurality of modification parameters, at least one message modification agent and a recipient moiety, including a message user agent. The modification parameters in the database are updated dynamically. The method includes sending a message, obtaining at least one modification parameter, from a database which contains a plurality of modification parameters, applying to the message at least one modification parameter by a message modification agent and delivering a modified message to the recipient. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304832 | METHOD, CLIENT AND SERVER OF TRANSMITTING GROUP COMMUNICATION INFORMATION - The present disclosure discloses methods, IM clients, and IM group servers of transmitting Instant Messenger (IM) group communication information. Based on the technical scheme of the embodiments of the present disclosure, upon identifying that group communication information inputted by a user includes a predefined name identifier, an IM client on a sending end sends the group communication information to group users that are listed after the name identifier. In response to identifying that the received group communication information includes the name identifier, an IM client at a receiving end prominently displays the group communication information that includes the name identifier, and sends a user response of the group communication information to users (other than the user himself/herself) that are listed after the name identifier and a user who sends the group communication information. The IM clients can perform sending or receiving group communication information with designated recipients, and can identify confidentiality of group communication information. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304833 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERIC LOOP DETECTION - A system and method for detecting generic loops is described. In one example, an inbound email is inspected for a loop token. If a loop token is found, then an event identification and a sender identification is extracted. The extracted sender identification and event identification is applied to a loop token record, and the inbound email is conditionally discarded based on the application to the loop token record. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304834 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACCOMPLISHING BUSINESS APPLICATION PROCESSES THROUGH A MESSAGING SERVICE - Systems and methods for accomplishing a business application process of a business application through a standard messaging platform are disclosed. A user sends a request message having a subject field through a standard messaging platform. If the subject field includes at least one command pattern corresponding to a predetermined action for the business application, command action logic corresponding to the at least one command pattern is invoked. Information and potential user actions resulting from the business service function are identified and returned to the user in a response message. In response to the user taking action on the response message, an action message having a subject line corresponding to the action taken by the user on the response message is generated. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304835 | TRANSMITTING AND DISPLAYING OFFLINE DATA - The present disclosure discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for transmitting and displaying offline data. When communication application software on a client terminal is under an offline state, a background service corresponding to the communication application software at the client terminal is started so that the client terminal establishes a communication connection between the client terminal and a message server via the background service. The client terminal receives offline data from the message server via the background service. The background service also analyzes the offline data to generate a prompt message for displaying, and displays the prompt message at a pre-determined display area. The present techniques enable a user to obtain updated messages in real-time and improve an efficiency of the user for acquiring data and user experiences. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304836 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MICRO WEB LOG MESSAGES - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for processing micro web log messages in a micro web log system, where a unified rich media control is configured in each client side in the micro web log system, and the rich media control is obtained by encapsulating rich media information processing logics according to an operation type and a media type of rich media information. The method includes: receiving, by the client side in the micro web log system, an operation request for processing rich media information in a micro web log message; and invoking, by the client side in the micro web log system, a corresponding rich media control according to the operation type and the media type of the requested rich media information, and running the control to process the rich media information properly. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304837 | PROGRAMMATIC MESSAGE PARTNER LIST MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and real-time communications systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for automated partner list management in a real-time communications system. In one embodiment, a real-time communications data processing system can include a real-time communications server, a history log configured to record user interaction records for different users of the real-time communications server, a set of partner lists for the different users, and partner list management logic coupled to each of the real-time communications server and history log. The partner list management logic can include program code enabled to remove individual ones of the different users from a single one of the partner lists which individual ones of the different users meet at least one configurable criteria. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINING ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE - According to the present invention, even while a chat opening process is in progress, users can join chats by means of a simple procedure from a video game machine . Once a chat has been opened, an invitation signal can further be transmitted to other chat guests. A video game machine of an expected guest receiving the invitation signal displays a screen prompting the guest to enter the chat room, and the expected guest can join the chat by transmitting an enter room signal to a database. At this time, a chat answer signal indicating that the expected guest accepts the invitation from a chairman is transmitted from the expected guest to the chairman. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304839 | METHOD OF CANCELING LOCATION INFORMATION REQUEST - A method of canceling a location information request including receiving a request from a location service client for location information of a target terminal; performing location tracking of the target terminal; and sending a message to the location service client when a privacy profile state has changed. Further, the message indicates that the request from the location service client for location information of the target terminal is canceled. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304840 | NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A notification system with a method for providing a notification including storing a notification request at a home unit; receiving the notification request at a central location, the notification request comprising a message, a notification time, and a destination; storing the message at the central location; associating the message with the notification time and destination; determining a current time; comparing the determined current time to the notification time; opening a communication session with the destination based on the determination; and transmitting the stored message to the destination during the communication session based on the opening. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130311574 | SELF REGISTRATION OF EVENT-CONSUMERS/PRODUCERS AND AUTO DISCOVERY - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with automatic registration and discovery of services in a network using a platform independent interface are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from an event producer on the network to add an entry to a registration table. The example method may also include broadcasting a message to devices on the network to announce the presence of the event producer. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311575 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECEIVING MULTIPLE USER MESSAGES THAT IDENTIFY A MEDIA ASSET SEGMENT POSITION - Systems and methods for receiving multiple user messages that identify a media asset segment position are provided. A plurality of messages from a plurality of users is received with a remote server. Each message identifies a segment within the media asset through which a fast-access playback operation was performed. The received messages are processed to extract media asset information and the identified segment. The extracted media asset information of each message is cross-referenced with a media asset information database to identify the media asset that corresponds to each of the received messages. The identified segments extracted from each of the plurality of messages are processed to determine a position of the segment within the identified media asset. The position of the segment within the media asset is stored in the media asset information database for the media asset that corresponds to each of the received messages. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311576 | PRIORITIZING RESPONSES TO COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON USER'S EFFORTS IN CREATING COMMUNICATIONS - A method, system and computer program product for prioritizing responses to communications. Various metrics (e.g., the duration of time spent in creating the communication, the number of keystrokes used in creating the communication, the number of words used in creating the communication, the number of mistakes made and corrected in creating the communication, and the number of attachments to the communication) associated with creating a communication are recorded which are used to assess an effort provided by the author in creating the communication. A weighted priority to be associated with responses to the communication is determined based on these recorded metrics. The weighted priority is then assigned to responses to such a communication. In this manner, the responses to the created communication will be able to be prioritized based on the weighted priority thereby enabling the author to determine which responses are more important to read than other responses. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311577 | Marketing Message Analysis and Reporting - A system, software, or service that receives a message stream or feed representing the messages between senders and receivers forwarded from a service provider (client) to interpret and analyze messages for the collection of marketing data, and serve as a platform for direct marketing. Some of the System's capabilities can be used to collect usage data about service, product, or topics mentioned in messages, to collect demographic data from user's (sender/receiver or device) account information or based on content and context of messages, and to provide raw and analyzed data to the system's clients (messaging service provider or marketing entity). The System may also be used to send targeted messages to the user, and gather market data related to these direct messages. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311578 | INTEGRATED LOCAL/REMOTE SERVER COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE FOR ELECTRONIC DATA TRANSFER - Systems, methods, and computer program products for an integrated local/remote server computer architecture for electronic data transfer are disclosed. In some implementations, a local server computer in a local area network (LAN) is integrated with a network-based server computer outside the LAN, such that the local server computer acts as a cache server computer to the remote server computer. For data transfer between client devices within the LAN, a Domain Name System (DNS) server redirects requests for data transfer destined for the remote server computer to the local server computer to improve data transfer performance within the LAN. In some implementations, the data is also transferred or “mirrored” to the remote server computer (e.g., encrypted backup data) at a data transfer rate that is different from the data transfer rate in the LAN. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311579 | PRIORITIZATION OF INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS - The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a method performed by a computing device. In these examples, the method includes determining an identity of an originator of an incoming communication using an originating address of the incoming communication, and applying a first set of rules to the identity of the originator of the incoming communication to determine an importance of the incoming communication. The first set of rules includes rules generated based at least on information about the originator included in a directory of the computing device. The method may also include applying a second set of rules to the identity of the originator. The second set of rules includes rules generated based at least on previous interactions between the computing device and the originator. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311580 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC, CONTROL AND INFORMATION COLLECTION BASED ON VARIOUS COMMUNICATION MODES FOR SENDING MESSAGES TO USERS - A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines and end users connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or a via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a service center or from a service center to a resource administrator, but also may remain within a local or wide area network for transmission between a machine and an end user or a resource administrator. E-mail messages may be transmitted from a computer which is attached to a device which is being monitored or controlled and include information regarding the status, usage or capabilities of the attached device. The device may send status messages and usage information of the device by an end user to either a resource administrator or to a service center on the Internet through a firewall. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311581 | TRANSMISSION OF COMMAND EXECUTION MESSAGES FOR PROVIDING A SHARED EXPERIENCE TO BOTH INTERNAL, AT-VENUE PARTICIPANTS, AND EXTERNAL, NETWORKED PARTICIPANTS - Command execution messages are transmitted to both internal, at-venue participants and external, networked participants. An event server sends messages to local, at-venue users. In order to avoid overloading the event server, transmissions to remote users are directed to a staging server that is not required to be at the venue. Cloud capability may be utilized. The event server may send a message to the staging server. The staging server will subsequently send the message to all registered remote participants. Incoming messages from remote participants are processed by the staging server to determine if the messages need to be sent to the event server. If so, compression and other techniques to reduce the size of messages relayed to the event server are used. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311582 | MAXIMIZING CIRCLE OF TRUST IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods are provided for constructing an on-the-fly circle of trust for a user of an online social network to enable the user to reduce the likelihood that information will be leaked to an unwanted target. In one embodiment, a maximum circle of trust is constructed by using an iterative greedy construction (IGC) algorithm with leakage estimation using disjoint cut-sets. In another embodiment, the maximum circle of trust is constructed by using the IGC algorithm with leakage estimation using a hybrid method where the initial CT is constructed using the disjoint cut-sets and then the neighbors not included in the CT are sorted in non-decreasing order of visibilities and then each of these neighbors is included in the CT one at a time while checking if the leakage is below a threshold using a Sampling algorithm. In yet another embodiment, randomized rounding is used to construct the maximum circle of trust. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311583 | RE-ROUTING INCOMING EMAIL FOR A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - A method for processing email for a multi-tenant database system is presented here. The system includes a plurality of data centers and a plurality of instances of a multi-tenant database system core. Each data center implements at least one instance of the multi-tenant database core. The method receives an incoming email at a first local mail transfer agent (MTA) of a first data center, wherein the incoming email is erroneously directed to a first instance of the multi-tenant database system core. The method continues by searching a private domain name service (DNS) database maintained at the first data center, based on an identifier of the first instance and an identifier of the first data center. The method then obtains an identifier associated with a second data center of the plurality of data centers, and routes the incoming email in accordance with the identifier of the second data center. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311584 | COMPUTER-BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A FILE REQUEST IN RESPONSE TO A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM A USER MOBILE DEVICE - The invention provides a computer-based method of transmitting a file, including receiving a message from a user mobile device at a service computer system, determining at the server computer system whether the message includes a search identifier, extracting at least one search result from a data store at the server computer system based on a search term in the message if the server computer system determined that the message included a search identifier, and transmitting a file corresponding to the search result from the server computer system to the user mobile device. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311585 | RECIPIENT CHANGE NOTIFICATION - An electronic communication device may, perhaps with the assistance of a mobile device server, determining that a new electronic message received by the device is part of a message thread that includes the new message and at least one prior electronic message previously received at the device. A comparison may be made of address information of the new message with address information of the at least one prior electronic message in the message thread to determine that there has been a change in addressed recipients between the new message and the at least one prior electronic message. The device may then notify a user of the device of the change. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311586 | METHOD OF INTERACTIVE VIDEO BLOGGING - A method and apparatus are provided for interactive video blogging. The method includes receiving, by a server, a comment attached to a video blog file from a first terminal, the comment being associated with a point of time at which the comment is displayed along with the video blog file; converting, by the server, the comment into a descriptor file; storing, by the server, the descriptor file; receiving, by the server, information on a selected one of a plurality of descriptor files stored in the server from a second terminal, the plurality of descriptor files representing a plurality of comments attached to the video blog file; and transmitting, by the server, the selected one of the plurality of descriptor files to the second terminal. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311587 | Organizing Messages in a Messaging System Using Social Network Information - A messaging system receives a message that is intended for a recipient, who is a user of a social networking system. An object associated with the message is identified based on the message content and/or metadata associated with the message. The messaging system accesses a social networking system database to obtain social information about a relationship between the recipient and the identified object. The message is then indexed using the social information, wherein an entry for the message is stored in a message index based on the social information. This process may be repeated for each received message, and multiple different message indexes may be generated for received messages to track different types of social information. A user interface for viewing messages uses the message index to organize the messages, such as to filter, categorize, and/or sort the messages in the display. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311588 | MAIL SENDING METHOD AND EMAIL SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a mail sending method and an email system and relates to the field of internet communications. The method includes: receiving a mail sending request which carries a mail template filled out by a sender; encapsulating the mail template into an anonymous mail that includes no receiver mailbox ID and no sender mailbox ID; and obtaining a receiver mailbox ID and delivering the encapsulated anonymous mail to a mailbox corresponding to the obtained receiver mailbox ID. The email system includes: a receiving module, an encapsulating module, and a delivering module. The present invention enables a sender to send an anonymous mail to a stranger whose mailbox address is unknown to the sender and provides a service for users to talk about privacy issues. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADDING RECIPIENT INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for adding recipient information are disclosed in the present invention, which relate to the field of communication technologies and are proposed in order to solve the problem in the prior art that the recipient information cannot be added according to the message content edited by the user. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention comprise: matching message content edited by a user with contact information in an address book to obtain matched characters in the message content; acquiring corresponding contact information of the matched characters from the address book; and adding corresponding contact information of the matched characters into an recipient list corresponding to the message content. The embodiments of the present invention can be applied into mobile terminals such as the cell phone. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311590 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING, INDIVIDUALIZING AND UPDATING CONTACT INFORMATION ACROSS VARIOUS PLATFORMS - A method and system for managing contact information for a user is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of managing contact information for a user includes creating one or more personas for a user, as well as one or more contact handles that each includes an identifying name, one or more communication protocols, and a value. The method further includes creating, for each of the personas of the user, one or more availability statuses that each includes a persona-specific listing of selected contact handles and communication methods that may be used to reach the user. The method further includes determining a current availability status among the one or more availability statuses, and communicating to one or more other users the persona-specific listing of contact handles and communication methods associated with the current availability status for each persona of the user that the other users have been granted access to. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311591 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR THE EXCHANGE OF MESSAGES - A computer system for the exchange of messages via the Internet for the online processing of trade transactions has a plurality of client computers with Internet interfaces, at least one central lead-server connected to a central data base, and distribution points with a filter function arranged between client computers and the lead-server. A plurality of proxy computers act as distribution points between the client computers and the central lead-server. The proxy computers have at least one load balancer module adapted to distribute messages among the predefined proxy computers arranged upstream of them. Hach proxy computer comprises a relevance filter module which is adapted to check arriving messages coming in from client computers for their relevance according to predefined criteria and to forward only relevant messages. The communication between client computers and proxy computers is based on the HTTP protocol. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311592 | Conversational Interfaces - In accordance with some implementations, a method for responding to requests submitted through a conversational interface is disclosed. The method is performed on a server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The server system receives a request from a user through a conversational interface. The server system determines, based on the request, whether the system is able to fulfill the request automatically. In accordance with a determination that the system is able to fulfill the request automatically, the server system fulfills the user request with no human interaction. In accordance with a determination that the system is not able to fulfill the request without human intervention, the server system sends the request to a human operator for fulfillment. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130318170 | SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF ROGUE DOMAIN NAME SERVICE PROVIDERS THROUGH PASSIVE MONITORING - A method, system, and computer program product embodied in a computer readable storage medium are disclosed for identifying a rogue domain name service (DNS) server. Embodiments include passively monitoring traffic on a target network; and identifying a DNS resolution response in the traffic on the network. The DNS resolution response includes a mapping of a domain to an internet protocol (IP) address. The DNS resolution response is compared with a preconfigured list of known mappings of domains to IP addresses. Based on the results of the comparison, it can be determined whether the DNS resolution response is correct. In cases where the DNS resolution response is incorrect, the provider of the DNS resolution response is a rogue DNS server. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING A NOTIFICATION BASED UPON INFORMATION CONVEYED VIA UNILATERAL MESSAGING - A method for sending a notification based upon information conveyed via unilateral messaging includes: (a) receiving a plurality of unilateral messages; (b) gleaning selected information from selected unilateral messages of the plurality of unilateral messages; (c) evaluating the selected information according to predetermined criteria to ascertain a trend; (d) when the trend indicates the notification is justified, sending the notification; and (e) when the trend does not indicate the notification is justified, returning to receiving unilateral messages. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318172 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMAIL SEQUENCE IDENTIFICATION - A system and method for identifying causal email threading. In one aspect, a computing device identifies a plurality of email templates, each email template corresponding to characteristics of a received machine-generated email, the characteristics of the received machine-generated email relating to static data of the machine-generated email. The computing device generates a template causality graph by analyzing the plurality of email templates to determine a statistical causality between templates of the plurality of email templates, the determining of the statistical causality between templates comprising determining that a first received machine-generated email associated with a first template is a result of a second received machine-generated email associated with a second template. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318173 | AUTOMATICALLY REPLACING LOCALHOST AS HOSTNAME IN URL WITH FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAME OR IP ADDRESS - A method, system and computer program product for electronically communicating a correct Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The browser detects a copying of a URL to be placed in an electronic communication. In response to determining that the URL specifies an address of a loopback interface of the computing device via a localhost, the browser obtains the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computing device hosting the resource (e.g., application) referenced by the URL. The browser replaces the localhost in the URL with either the FQDN or IP address of the computing device. The modified URL is then made available to be shared with other users via electronic communication. In this manner, the localhost is automatically replaced with the correct domain name or IP address thereby ensuring that third party users will be able to retrieve the resource hosted on the computing device. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318174 | PROVIDING CLIENT SYSTEM SUPPORT - In one embodiment, a support request message is received. Further, a check is made to determine whether a support request repository includes an analogous support request message analogous to the support request message. When the analogous support request is included in the support request repository, a response associated with the analogues support request is sent. When the analogous support request is not included in the support request repository, a client system connection associated with the support request message is determined. Furthermore, when the client system connection is established, the support request message, and a plurality of related prior support request messages and associated responses are sent to an escalation support unit. Also, a response received from the escalation support unit, and the support request message, are stored in the support request repository. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318175 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING RECIPIENTS WHILE COMPOSING ELECTRONIC MAILS - A computer-implemented method of generating recipients while composing electronic emails includes identifying a trigger from a user in response to the user composing an electronic mail (email). The computer-implemented method also includes receiving one or more alphabets subsequent to the trigger. The alphabets imply a recipient of the email. Further, the computer-implemented method includes fetching email addresses comprising the one or more alphabets from an address book corresponding to the user. Furthermore, the computer-implemented method includes displaying a list of the email addresses to the user. Moreover, the computer-implemented method includes filling appropriate fields in response to the user selecting one of the email addresses. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318176 | Enhanced Electronic Communication Draft Management - Draft management for new electronic communication messages in a mailbox folder is provided. When a user selects to create a new email message, a draft of the new message may appear in a list view of one or more of the user's mailbox folders. The list view may display aggregated contents from both a mailbox folder and the drafts folder. Drafts may be identified as draft messages so that it may be easy for the user to distinguish between draft messages and other email messages. When a draft is deleted or when a draft is sent, it may be removed from the list view. Additionally, selection controls may be provided in the user interface to sort email items by groupings. Selection of a drafts selection control may cause a display of the draft items in the user's email account. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PORTFOLIO MONITORING - Systems and methods for determining portfolio monitoring are provided. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for monitoring a portfolio of domain names for expiration, availability, and collection of redirection analytics. In some embodiments, a portfolio monitoring system can provide change warnings about various domain names along with historical information (e.g., ownership, snapshots, valuation, redirection analytics, etc.) about the domains. This information can be used in making an automated or manual decision to purchase or renew the domain name. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318178 | Systems and Methods for Processing Emails - An e-mail processing system includes: a non-persistent or random memory storing a message queue map having a plurality of message queues, an input handler, and an output handler. Each message queue includes a plurality of data nodes, and each data node represents one message intended for delivery to a respective domain. The input handler comprises instructions for: (i) obtaining an incoming first e-mail, (ii) digesting the incoming first e-mail into a first data node representing the incoming first e-mail, and (iii) analyzing the first data node to determine a first message queue in the number of message queues based at least on the destination domain of the first data node, (iv) appending the first data node to the plurality of data nodes in the first message queue. The output handler processes a data node in a message queue in the message queue map to send e-mail to an intended recipient. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318179 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE A CENTRALIZED ALERTING AND AWARENESS SYSTEM THROUGH THE USE OF AN EAR PIECE OR OTHER USER INTERFACE - The personal information manager system comprises a centralized information manager (CIM) and a personal information manager (PIM) device. The centralized information manager is encoded on a server and is accessable by the PIM device through Internet protocols over a wireless medium. The PIM, to be carried by a user, is connected to the CIM by a wireless transmitter, receives context-sensitive, customized, prioritized, filtered, and aggregated information from the CIM, and can directly receive GPS data and other sources of local information. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318180 | LEVERAGING A SOCIAL GRAPH TO DELIVER RELEVANT RECOMMENDATIONS - Techniques for leveraging a social graph to identify senders and recipients of relevant recommendations and to facilitate the delivery of the relevant recommendations from the senders to the recipients are described. For example, a recommender is identified based on the recommender being a member of a social networking service who has interacted with an item of web-based content. A recommendee is identified based on the recommendee being another member of the social networking service who is connected to the recommender via a social graph maintained by the social networking service and based on having an affinity score for the item that exceeds a recommendee affinity score threshold and a connection strength to the recommender that exceeds a connection strength threshold. The recommender is sent a communication that invites the recommender to recommend the item to the recommendee. With some example embodiments, the communication is sent to the recommender within a pre-determined time measured from the time the recommender initiated an interaction with the item of web-based content. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318181 | EMAIL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND EMAIL PROCESSING METHOD - To execute data processing without waste in a plurality of devices, on the basis of a multi-address transmitted email, in a cloud computing system for processing an email, an email processing system is provided with: a communication unit for receiving an email sent to a pre-established address; a determination unit for determining whether the received email is a first class of email for providing notification of a first state where some sort of action is needed regarding a predetermined data process with respect to a separate email or a second class of email for providing notification of a second state where no action is needed regarding the predetermined data process corresponding to the separate email; and a processing unit for executing the predetermined data process based on an email determined to be the first class of email, but not executing the predetermined data process based on the determined result by the determination unit. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318182 | TARGETED LOCATION-BASED MESSAGING - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for targeted location-based messaging. A method includes, in a server residing in a network of interconnected computers, the server including a processor and a memory, maintaining a repository of content, receiving geolocation information from a mobile device, determining appropriate content to be sent to the mobile device according to the received geolocation location information, and sending the appropriate content to the mobile device for projection on to a projection surface. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318183 | PROCESSING METHOD AND PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR INSTANT MESSAGES IN NETWORK CONFERENCE - The embodiments of the present invention provide a processing method and processing system for instant messages in a network conference. The processing method for instant messages comprises: establishing connection between a conference application server and an instant message server, wherein the conference application server is further connected to a conference client, and the instant message server is further connected to an instant message client; and controlling message transfer between the conference application server and the conference client or between the instant message server and the instant message client according to the state of the conference client and the state of the instant message client. With the manners above, the processing method and processing system of the present invention enable a message client to which the conference client in the network conference corresponds to receive instant messages in a more humanized manner, thereby improving the experiences of the user. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318184 | Method, System And Apparatus For Reducing Download Of Redundant Attachments - A method, apparatus and system for reducing download of redundant attachments to a communication device from a server is provided. An identifier of attachment to a message, for transmission from the server to the communication device, is compared with identifiers of attachments already stored in a memory at the communication device. The communication device is caused to retrieve a copy of the attachment from the memory if a match is found between the identifier and the identifiers of attachments already stored in the memory. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318185 | VENUE-CENTRIC SOCIAL NETWORK - A venue may be registered with a venue-centric social networking service. The venue may be associated with a physical location where subscribers may congregate. Subscribers may join the venue by visiting the physical location, receiving an invitation, receiving a password (or other credential), or the like. The venue-centric social networking service may track which subscribers are at which venues and provide a “Who's here” listing to other subscribers. Subscribers at the same venue may be introduced to one another through the venue-centric social networking service by, inter alia, browsing the profiles of the subscribers in the “Who's here” list and/or initiating contact with other subscribers at the venue through the venue-centric social networking service. Subscriber visibility and contact preferences may be determined by subscriber privacy settings and/or privacy settings of the venues. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318186 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPUBLISHING MOBILE CONTENT - A system and method is provided for republishing content for a wireless device. In the wireless device, this may comprise: receiving a content manifest associated with a new content, the content manifest providing information about the new content; identifying any changes to existing content stored in the device, based on the information in the content manifest; retrieving updates in the new content corresponding to the changes; and storing the updates. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318187 | METHOD OF ENABLING DIGITAL MUSIC CONTENT TO BE DOWNLOADED TO AND USED ON A PORTABLE WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICE - The invention enables digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. An application running on the wireless device has been automatically adapted to parameters associated with the wireless device without end-user input (e.g. the application has been configured in dependence on the device OS and firmware, related bugs, screen size, pixel number, security models, connection handling, memory etc. This application enables an end-user to browse and search music content on a remote server using a wireless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content. The application also includes a digital rights management system that enables unlimited legal downloads of different music tracks to the device and also enables any of those tracks stored on the device to be played so long as a subscription service has not terminated. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318188 | METHOD FOR NAMING SENSOR DEVICES IN A LOCAL NETWORK, SERVICE GATEWAY AND REMOTE MANAGEMENT SERVER - A method for associating name information to a sensor device in a local network, the local network being connected to an access network by means of a service gateway and the service gateway being adapted for communicating with the sensor device. The method includes, at the service gateway, receiving sensor identification information for the sensor device, and forwarding the sensor identification information to a mobile device of a user through a wireless telecommunication network. The method further includes receiving naming information for the sensor device from the mobile device through the telecommunication network, and storing the naming information for the sensor device. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318189 | Method and Arrangement for Notifications in a Communication Network - Method and arrangement in a notification server ( | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130325969 | DYNAMIC POST-DELIVERY CUSTOMIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATION MESSAGES - Systems, methods, and products for described herein. One aspect provides for transmitting a message template comprising at least one template element to at least one receiver device, the at least one template element comprising (i) at least one rule and (ii) content having at least one customized element; receiving at least one instantiation request responsive to the message template being opened by at least one receiver device; instantiating the message template as at least one customized message based on the at least one rule and at least one attribute associated with the receiver device, wherein the at least one customized message comprises a specified value for the at least one customized element; and transmitting the at least one customized message to the at least one receiver device. Other embodiments and aspects are also described herein. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325970 | COLLABORATIVE VIDEO APPLICATION FOR REMOTE SERVICING - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for sharing annotated videos. During operation, the system establishes a real-time video-sharing session between a remote field computer and a local computer. During the established real-time video-sharing session, the system receives a real-time video stream from a remote field computer, forwards the real-time video stream to a local computer to allow an expert to provide an annotation to the real-time video stream, receives the annotation from the local computer, and forwards the annotation to the remote field computer, which associates the annotation with a corresponding portion of the real-time video stream and displays the annotation on top of the corresponding portion of the real-time video stream. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325971 | Automatically Updating a Display of Text Based on Context - A context-aware message may be displayed differently based on the context in which it is displayed. A message composed on a first device may be determined to include context-based portions that may be modified based on the context of a device that displays the message. The message may be supplemented with context-dependent data that is associated with a context-based portion of the message. The context-dependent data may include a context-neutral representation of the context-based portion as well as instructions on how to convert the context-neutral representation according to the context in which the message is displayed. The original message and the context-dependent data may be transmitted as a context-aware message. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325972 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A PERSONALIZED DIGEST OF MEETINGS - Automatically generating a meeting digest of a set of meetings is provided. A set of topics of interest to the parties to the set of meetings is detected utilizing a user model associated with a user that is based on at least one of communications, relationships, and roles of the parties to the set of meetings. Topic-related content associated with the set of topics of interest to the parties is extracted from meeting data corresponding to the set of meetings. Then, the meeting digest of the set of meetings is generated using the topic-related content associated with the set of topics of interest to the parties extracted from the meeting data corresponding to the set of meetings. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325973 | Two-way Message Service and Voice Communication - Various embodiments support two-way message service and voice communication. In at least some embodiments, temporary numbers from a pool of numbers are automatically assigned to outgoing messages and grouped with the intended recipient's phone number. Recipients can reply to the message by replying to the assigned number and the reply will be sent back to the originator of the message. In at least some embodiments, the pool of numbers includes different types of numbers such as, by way of example and not limitation, shared numbers and dedicated numbers. Further, at least some embodiments can utilize various policies in order to determine how to automatically assign temporary numbers. Such policies can be driven by business rules, regulatory concerns, carrier-based considerations, and the like. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325974 | STATISTICS REPORTING IN A NETWORK TEST SYSTEM - A report manager for a network test system. At least one present statistic load count may be maintained, the present statistics load count representing a cumulative number of statistics required to generate one or more reports in near-real time. A report request may be received from a user. An incremental statistics load associated with the report request may be determined. A decision whether or not the report request can be fulfilled may be made based on the at least one present statistics load count and the incremental statistic load. When the report cannot be fulfilled, a message denying the report request may be provided to the user. When the report request can be fulfilled, the incremental statistics load may be added to the present statistics load count and the report request may be fulfilled. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325975 | LOCATION ESTIMATION OF SOCIAL NETWORK USERS - Various embodiments of the invention relate to estimating the location of social network users. In one embodiment, a plurality of social media messages generated by a given user is received. A plurality of location features is extracted from the social media messages. Each of the location features is processed with at least one classifier from an ensemble of classifiers. A location classification is generated by each of the classifiers for each of the social media messages. Each classification comprises a location and a weight associated with that location. Once of the locations is selected from the location classifications as the location of the given user based on a combination of the weights of the location classifications. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325976 | TRANSFERRING ITEMS FROM ONE PARTY TO ANOTHER - Among other things, a person who wants to give a tangible, physical, virtual, or digital item to another family member of a different generation (e.g., at a future time) can provide information from which the item, the future time, and the recipient can be determined. The giver and the recipient are individuals (a) who are not both living or not both competent at the time when the information is provided by the giver, (b) or may not both be living or may not both be competent at the future time, or (c) both (a) and (b), storing the information. The item is transferred to the other family member at the future time based on the provided information. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325977 | LOCATION ESTIMATION OF SOCIAL NETWORK USERS - Various embodiments relate to estimating the location of social network users. In one embodiment, a plurality of social media messages generated by a given user is received. A plurality of location features is extracted from the social media messages. Each of the location features is processed with at least one classifier from an ensemble of classifiers. A location classification is generated by each of the classifiers for each of the social media messages. Each classification comprises a location and a weight associated with that location. Once of the locations is selected from the location classifications as the location of the given user based on a combination of the weights of the location classifications. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325978 | CURATING COMMUNICATIONS - A computer-implemented method includes notifying a first person that a significant event is going to occur with respect to a second person; receiving from the first person, the second person, or another person a communication that relates to the significant event and to the first person and that has been curated at least in part from information that has been accumulated automatically from online resources; and sending the curated communication to the communication target. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325979 | LOCATION-BASED COMMUNICATIONS - A computer-implemented method includes generating a communication to be sent from a sender to a recipient who are related to one another by blood or employment; and scheduling delivery of the communication to the recipient based on a future location of the recipient. The content of the communication and the future location of the recipient are determined from an analysis of electronically-accessible resources by or about the sender, the recipient, or both. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325980 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND DELIVERING COMPLEX GRAPHIC EMAILS WHICH AUTOMATICALLY ADAPT TO FIT A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT RECIPIENT DEVICES - A method and system for providing an email that is configured to be displayed based on a type of email platform upon which the email is displayed, the method including: (a) obtaining a plurality of sets of image files, each of the set of image files adapted for display on a respective email platform; (b) sending a multi-view email to a recipient email platform; (c) receiving an image request from the recipient email platform; (d) sending a set of image files adapted for display on an email platform similar to the recipient email platform. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325981 | METHOD FOR SUPERVISING A CHAT CONNECTION - A method for supervising a chat connection between at least two terminals is provided. The method includes verification of first conditions, including a camera at each terminal is operated, video streams of each camera are live streams, and/or each video stream contains images of a live person. The connection is allowed if all of the first conditions are met and if one second condition is met. A second condition can include one first subset of the persons is identified as belonging to one defined restricted group and an identity of a second subset of the persons is determined at least on the basis of facial and/or body features and the identified second person is classified as an allowed exception. The method also includes a pre-defined reaction if any of the first conditions and/or all of the second conditions are not met. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325982 | CHAT ROOM VIEWING - A system and method allows a user to view communications exchanged between other participants within an online chat room without the user becoming a participant within the online chat room. The online chat room enables ongoing exchanges of electronic communications between two or more participants whose participation within the chat room are mutually revealed to each other. A user is enabled to perceive the existence of the online chat room without the user becoming a participant within the online chat room. Selection of the online chat room by the user is received. Responsive to user selection of the online chat room and without the user becoming a participant within the online chat room, at least some of the communications exchanged between the participants within the online chat room are made perceivable to the user as the communications are exchanged. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325983 | System and Method for Communicating in a Telecommunication Network via Common Key Routing and Proxies - A combination of a common key routing (CKR) method and data proxy architecture (DPA) method may be used to route communication messages in a telecommunication network to achieve improved data locality and reduce secondary key lookups. A processor in a multiprocessor computing system may receive a first communication message that includes subscriber identifiers that uniquely identify a subscriber, generate a common key based on the subscriber identifiers, identify a first logical scalable unit that includes a first database memory that stores subscriber data relating to the subscriber via a database application programming interface (API) and the common key, store the first communication message in the first database memory included in the first logical scalable unit, and receive a second communication message in response to storing the first communication message in the first database memory and routing the second communication message to another component the telecommunication network. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325984 | System and Methods for Communicating in a Telecommunication Network Using Common Key Routing and Data Locality Tables - A combination of a common key routing (CKR) method and a data locality table (DLT) method may be used to route communication messages in a telecommunication network to achieve improved data locality and reduce secondary key lookups. A processor in a multiprocessor computing system may receive a first communication message that includes subscriber identifiers that uniquely identify a subscriber, generate a common key based on the subscriber identifiers included in the first communication message, and identify a first logical scalable unit that includes a first database memory that stores subscriber data relating to the subscriber by querying a data locality table with the common key. The processor may also identify a first application processor in the multiprocessor computing system that is part of the first logical scalable unit and send the first communication message to the first application processor. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325985 | System and Method for Communicating in a Telecommunication Network via Independent Key Routing and Data Locality Tables - A combination of an independent key routing (IKR) method and a data locality table (DLT) method may be used to route communication messages in a telecommunication network to achieve improved data locality and reduce secondary key lookups. A processor a multiprocessor computing system may receive a first communication message that includes subscriber identifiers that uniquely identify a subscriber, generate a plurality of keys for a plurality of message types based on the subscriber identifiers, identify a first logical scalable unit that includes a first database memory that stores a first type of data relating to the subscriber by using a first key of the plurality of keys to query a data locality table, identify a first application processor in the multiprocessor computing system that is part of the first logical scalable unit, and send the first communication message and the plurality of keys to the first application processor. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325986 | System and Methods for Communicating in a Telecommunication Network via Independent Key Routing and Proxies - A combination of an independent key routing (IKR) method and a data proxy architecture (DPA) method may be used to route communication messages in a telecommunication network to achieve improved data locality and reduce secondary key lookups. A processor may receive a first communication message that includes subscriber identifiers that uniquely identify a subscriber, generate a plurality of keys for a plurality of message types, identify a first logical scalable unit (LSU) that includes a first memory that stores a first type of data via a database API and a first key, identify a second LSU that includes a second memory that stores a second type of data relating to the subscriber via the database API and a second key of the plurality of keys, store the first communication message and the first key in the first database memory, and store the first key in the second database memory. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325987 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SCHEDULING SERVICE BASED ON MOBILE MESSAGING APPLICATION - Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing a scheduling service based on a mobile messaging application. The method for providing the scheduling service includes, in an electronic device including a messaging application, the messaging application generating schedule information by receiving at least one of a candidate time and a candidate location for an event and receiving a selection of a user to be invited to the event among users registered in the messaging application, and transmitting the schedule information to the invited user so that the invited user votes on at least one of a possible time and a possible location for attending the event. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325988 | PROFILE-BASED MESSAGE FILTERING AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A server-based system filters and distributes messages based on a user-supplied profile. The server receives data messages from registered users and stores the data messages on data storage. Each data message is tagged with a profile identifier. The data storage also stores a user profile for each of the registered users. The server's processor selects ones of the data messages for distribution to selected ones of the registered users based on a correspondence between the data message's profile identifier and the stored user profiles. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325989 | System And Method For Content-Based Message Distribution - A system and method for content-based message distribution are provided. An incoming message with a recipient address and a tag address including at least one content tag associated with one or more users is received. The content tag within the tag address and a recipient associated with the recipient address are identified. The recipient is added to the content tag as one of the users. The incoming message is displayed to at least one of the users associated with the content tag. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZING AND DISPLAYING MESSAGES - A device and method for displaying received messages, such as email, SMS, IM, multimedia, and voicemail, are provided. Each of a plurality of received messages, initially unread, is associated with a value. The device concurrently displays a first message listing and a second message listing, the first message listing comprising entries for messages of the plurality of received messages associated with a value meeting a specified threshold, and the second message listing comprising entries for other messages of the plurality of received messages. When a message associated with a value meeting the specified threshold and having an entry in the first message listing is marked read, the displayed message listings are updated to remove the entry for the message from the first message listing and to include an entry for the message in the second message listing. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325991 | Filtering Unsolicited Emails - A method for filtering unsolicited emails may comprise dynamically aggregating historical email data associated with a user or a group of users and dynamically determining one or more trusted trends criteria associated with the historical email data. The method may further comprise receiving a new email addressed to the user or the group of users, calculating a score associated with the new email based on the one or more trusted trends criteria, determining that the score is above a predetermined threshold score, and, based on the determination, selectively filtering the new email. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325992 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING OUTCOMES OF ON-LINE CONVERSATIONS AND SIMILAR DISCOURSES THROUGH ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSIONS OF SENTIMENT DURING THE CONVERSATIONS - Systems and methods for automatically analyzing on-line conversations or similar discourses among individuals and determining through such analyses outcomes of the conversations as evidenced, for example, by expressions of sentiment during the conversation. Sentiments are derived from analyses of intentions of a user as expressed in an on-line conversation or other user generated content (UGC). These intentions are identified and subsequently acted upon, for example by making others aware of the conversation and suggesting possible responses to the UGC. The intention signals derived from the UGC may also be used to fashion or update a user profile or inform a broader view of the individual associated with the UGC. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325993 | GROUP BASED COMMUNICATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SPACE - The present invention provides a method and system for enabling group based communication in a social networking space. In one embodiment, a method includes creating an online event associated with a context by a source group device of an originator of a source group and privately publishing the online event to publishers of target groups via the Internet so that the online event is privately distributed to one or more members of the target groups and one or more groups associated with the target groups. The method further includes tracking status of participation of the one or more members of the target groups, and the one or more associated groups in the online event using the source group device. Moreover, the method includes automatically sending reminders to one or more members who have not yet participated in the online event till a preset threshold limit is reached. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130332537 | DYNAMICALLY MODIFYING PARTICIPANTS IN AN ONLINE CHAT SESSION - In a method for managing an online chat session, an instant message received from a customer participating in the online chat session is examined. A determination that the examined instant message indicates characteristic of a problem being experienced by the customer is made. One or more chat participants to include in the online chat session to address the problem are determined based on the characteristic of the problem. A set of chat participants participating in the online chat session is modified to include the determined one or more chat participants in the set of chat participants. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332538 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION USING MAIL AND PUSH NOTIFICATION SERVICES - Systems, methods, and computer program products for data synchronization across multiple devices using mail and push notification services is disclosed. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332539 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Unauthorized Bulk Forwarding of Sensitive Data Over a Network - Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting unauthorized bulk forwarding of sensitive data over a network. A bulk forwarding of email from a first network environment is automatically detected by determining an arrival rate for internal emails received from within the first network environment into one or more user accounts; determining a sending rate for external emails sent from the one or more user accounts to a second network environment; and detecting the bulk forwarding of email from a given user account by comparing the arrival rate for internal emails and the sending rate for external emails. The bulk forwarding of email from a given user account can be detected by determining whether statistical models of the arrival rate for internal emails and of the sending rate for external emails are correlated in time. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332540 | Structural Presentation and Smart Alerts for Instant Messaging Contacts - An approach is provided that receives an instant message request from a user. The instant message request includes attributes. Instant messaging contacts are retrieved from one or more instant messaging repositories. The retrieved instant messaging contacts are retrieved because of one or more attributes requested by the user. Instant messaging presentation rules are retrieved with the rules being configurable by the user. A presentation type is then selected based on the retrieved rules. The instant messaging contacts are displayed in a display format corresponding to the selected presentation type. User selections are received that correspond to one or more of the instant messaging contacts being displayed. An instant message is then sent from the user to the instant message contacts selected by the user. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332541 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Unauthorized Bulk Forwarding of Sensitive Data Over a Network - Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting unauthorized bulk forwarding of sensitive data over a network. A bulk forwarding of email from a first network environment is automatically detected by determining an arrival rate for internal emails received from within the first network environment into one or more user accounts; determining a sending rate for external emails sent from the one or more user accounts to a second network environment; and detecting the bulk forwarding of email from a given user account by comparing the arrival rate for internal emails and the sending rate for external emails. The bulk forwarding of email from a given user account can be detected by determining whether statistical models of the arrival rate for internal emails and of the sending rate for external emails are correlated in time. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332542 | MESSAGE-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A message-based identification process can facilitate reliable interoperation between accessories and host devices. During an identification process, the devices can negotiate an operating agreement that specifies particular communications (e.g., messages) that each device is permitted to send to or receive from the other, for example by having one device send a list of specific messages that it intends to send to and/or receive from the other. The other device can review the proposal and either accept or reject it. If a proposal is accepted, the devices can begin interoperating using messages that were included in the agreed-upon proposal while ignoring any received messages that were not included in the agreed-upon proposal. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332543 | MESSENGER-LINKED SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A SOCIAL GRAPH OF A MESSENGER PLATFORM - A messenger-linked service system and method using a social graph based on a human relationship of a messenger are provided. The messenger-linked service system may include a relationship extraction unit to extract a social graph of a friend relationship of the messenger, a selection unit to select data in the messenger-linked service, and an execution unit to either transmit or to execute a sharing request of the selected data to the friend using the social graph. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332544 | Method and System for Validating Email from an Internet Application or Website - An improved method for controlling a computer device user's email accessibility to an email receiver includes the steps of: (a) providing software configured to generate a unique email address link for use by the email sender, (b) configuring this email address link to include code that causes any email message created by the email sender to have included within it a token which identifies the email sender and causes the email server handling this message to communicate with the server on which the software is running for the purpose of receiving authorization from this server as to whether to deliver the email message to its intended receiver, and (c) establishing a set of rules which seeks to restrict the email message of spammers from being authorized for delivery to the email receiver. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332545 | COLLABORATIVE MODERATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS - A mobile and web-enabled method provides oversight used to control posts and tweets to social media sites such as TWITTER, FACEBOOK and TUMBLR. Using a collaborative moderation approach which enables a user selected jury of friends, parents or colleagues to view, recommend edits to, and ultimately approve or deny the posts, the method is used to monitor, manage and prevent inappropriate content or incorrect posts before they go live. The collaborative moderation approach utilizes different rules established by the user that determine when and if a post will be approved. The method allows any person, organization or business to proactively manage the online reputation and control the brand of the user before damage is caused by an offending social media post. In addition, a third party can be designated to initiate posts on behalf of the user. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332546 | EMAIL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND EMAIL PROCESSING METHOD - To process data in a plurality of devices without waste, on the basis of a multi-address transmitted email in a cloud computing system for processing emails, an email processing system, provided with: a communication unit for receiving an email sent to a pre-established first address; a determination unit for determining whether or not the received email is a specific email where the transmission destination includes a second address other than the first address and where a response by email can be sent to the first address from the second address; and a processing unit for executing a predetermined data process based on an email determined not to be the specific email but not executing the predetermined data process based on an email determined to be the specific email. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332547 | SYNCHRONIZING CONVERSATION STRUCTURES IN WEB-BASED EMAIL SYSTEMS - Web-based email systems are enabled to synchronize conversations and conversation properties. Conversations are enumerated to new clients providing folder-specific and global conversation information. After receiving the initial conversation information, clients maintain a conversation state, which is used in updating clients from a web service store through a conversation synchronization command employing an internal application programming interface within the email service. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332548 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SECURE REMOTE ACCESS AND CONTROL - A network appliance is configured to communicate with a representative system and a customer system. The network appliance permits control and access to the customer system by the representative system or to the representative system by the customer system for providing remote support service. The network appliance manages, logs, and routes screen updates of the customer system to the representative system. In addition, the network appliance logs and provides reports for all actions taken during the support service. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332549 | Cohesive Team Selection Based on a Social Network Model - A method is disclosed that enables the selection of a team of people in an organization, such as a business enterprise, to participate in a task that involves communicating with each other, in which the selection of the team seeks to maximize the team cohesiveness. The illustrative embodiment of the present invention incorporates the use of a social network model to describe the communication pattern in the organization. Based on the relationship between the organization's social network structure and the cohesiveness between the people in the organization, the technique of the illustrative embodiment estimates the dyadic cohesiveness of each pair of people, which is defined as the expected value of relationship strength between each evaluated pair of people. One component of the relationship strength is the number of interactions between the two people in the pair. The technique of the illustrative embodiment then uses the cohesiveness estimates to select teams. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332550 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED DOMAIN MESSAGES - Methods and apparatus are provided for providing customized domain messages. A customized message for one of a plurality of domains is received at one of a plurality of servers of a content delivery network. A request is received from a user device for content for the one of the plurality of domains at the one of the plurality of servers. The customized message is provided by the one of the plurality of servers to the user device in response to the request when the one of the plurality of domains is unavailable. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332551 | MULTIPLE DISPLAY REGIONS IN A UNIFIED MESSAGE INBOX - Various embodiments are provided herein of a method of displaying an inbox window of a message application. The method includes partitioning a display of the inbox window into a first message display region and a second message display region, displaying located messages that satisfy user-defined designation criteria in the first message display region; and displaying remaining messages of the inbox window in the second message display region. The method can be performed by a communications device and can also be stored as program code on a computer readable medium. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332552 | REAL-TIME NETWORK UPDATES FOR MALICIOUS CONTENT - A global response network collects, analyzes, and distributes “cross-vector” threat-related information between security systems to allow for an intelligent, collaborative, and comprehensive real-time response. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332553 | System and Method for Managing Items in a List Shared by a Group of Mobile Devices - A method and system are provided for operating a mobile device, the method comprising: reading a barcode being displayed by another mobile device, to identify a group, by capturing at least one image of the barcode; and joining the group identified by the barcode. Another method and system are provided, the method comprising: storing a barcode on the mobile device, the barcode identifying a group; and displaying the barcode on a display of the mobile device such that the entire barcode is visible on the display to enable another mobile device to scan the barcode to join the group. Another method and system are provided, the method comprising: reading a barcode being displayed by another mobile device, to identify an individual associated with the other mobile device, by capturing at least one image of the barcode; and inviting the individual identified by the barcode to join a group. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332554 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING SESSION FOR INTERWORKING IN CONVERGED IP MESSAGING SERVICE - A session control apparatus and method are provided in a converged IP messaging (CPM) server for supporting a CPM session between a first client subscribing to a CPM service and a second client not subscribing to the CPM service. After the CPM session is initiated between the first and second clients through the CPM server and an interworking function (IWF), a session modification request message including specific media is received from the first client. The session modification request message including the specific media is sent to the IWF through the initiated CPM session. A response message is received from the IWF. The response message including a reason for rejection when the specific media is unsupported by the IWF. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130339453 | PRESENCE INFORMATION BASED MESSAGING - Methods and devices for providing presence based messaging are disclosed. For example, a method receives a message including a message content, an identifier of a recipient and a presence parameter. The presence parameter may comprise a speed parameter pertaining to a speed of a device associated with the recipient or a mood parameter pertaining to a mood of the recipient. The method then stores the message and delivers the message to the device associated with the recipient when the presence parameter is satisfied. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339454 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN MULTIPLE ACCESS DEVICES - A method includes verifying, via an application chat server, an association between a first access device and a second access device, wherein the first access device and the second access device associated with a first statement of task capability and a second statement of task capability, respectively. The method further includes analyzing, based upon one or more of the first and second statements of task capability, a task command to determine that the second access device is capable of executing at least one task. The method further includes generating, in response to the determining, an execution command, wherein the execution command associated with the at least task and transmitting an execution signal, wherein the execution signal associated with the execution command. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339455 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying an Active Participant in a Conferencing Event - Presented are systems and methods for identifying an active participant in a conferencing event. A sound input is received from the active participant in the conferencing event at a microphone associated with an electronic device. The sound input is compared to a pre-defined voice of a particular participant, and when a match is found, the active participant is identified to be that particular participant. A message is then sent to a server indicating that the active participant has been identified. The server then provides the identity information of the active participant in the conferencing event. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339456 | TECHNIQUES TO FILTER ELECTRONIC MAIL BASED ON LANGUAGE AND COUNTRY OF ORIGIN - Techniques to detect spam using language and a country of origin of an e-mail may include receiving an e-mail message for a recipient, detecting a country of origin for the e-mail message and detecting a language of the e-mail message. A technique may further include determining a country frequency with which the recipient communicates with the country of origin by e-mail, and a language frequency with which the recipient communicates in the language by e-mail. A technique may assign a first score to the message according to the country frequency, and a second score to the message according to the language frequency. The scores may used to determine whether the e-mail message is spam. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339457 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ENTERPRISE COMPLIANCE ISSUES - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium includes code that causes a processor to receive, at a compliance device, a message from a source communication device addressed to a destination communication device. The code causes the processor to analyze at a context engine, the content of the message to determine a first risk level associated with a preference of an organization. The code further causes the processor to analyze at a regulatory engine, the content of the message to determine a second risk level associated with a regulatory standard of a specific industry and to define a composite risk level based on the first risk level and the second risk level. The code further causes the processor to send a notification to an administrator if the composite risk level satisfies a criterion, and to send the message to the destination communication device irrespective of the composite risk level. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339458 | EFFICIENT USE OF RESOURCES IN MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION - A system and method are disclosed for routing a message through a plurality of test methods. The method includes: receiving a message; applying a first test method to the message; updating a state of the message based on the first test method; and determining a second test method to be applied to the message based on the state. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339459 | INFORMATION SHARING APPARATUS, INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information sharing apparatus for sharing an operation on contents with another apparatus includes a generating part configured to generate a message containing a command corresponding to the operation on the contents, a sending part configured to send the message to a server, which delivers the message to the another apparatus, an interpreting part configured to interpret the message to obtain the command, and an updating part configured to update a display of the contents based on the obtained command. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339460 | Protocol Expander System and Method - A protocol expander system and method operable to provide expanded capabilities for handling of electronic communications and documents including, for instance, by expanding capabilities of email-access software by incorporating an expanded email protocol layer between an email client and one or more electronic communications and/or document services. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339461 | ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SYSTEM WHICH ENABLES EMAIL-BASED TRANSACTIONS - An electronic information system which enables email based transactions comprises an information database storing information regarding a plurality of individuals in a group and selections available to individuals in the group. A first email message with a mail to hyperlink having a plurality of fields including actionable parameter is generated and sent. A reply email message is received in response to selection of the mail to hyperlink. The received email message includes the plurality of fields and the actionable parameter that indicates that a specific selection has been made. A processor performs the action indicated by the actionable parameter in response to the received email message, including updating the information database to indicate the specific selection that has been made. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339462 | Pre-Send Evaluation of E-Mail Communications - A system for identifying attributes associated with content of an e-mail message and alerting a user includes a client device programmed to allow a user to create an e-mail message including at least one recipient and a message content, a server programmed to check an attribute of the e-mail message, and to send the e-mail message, and one or more information stores in communication with the server, the information stores including information about the e-mail message. The server is programmed to query the information stores to obtain information about the e-mail message as the message is being composed by the user, and the server sends a mail tip to the client regarding the e-mail message. The client is programmed to provide the mail tip to the user, the mail tip being formatted and positioned by the client so that it is integrated within a header section of the e-mail message. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339463 | ELECTRONIC BUSINESS POSTAL SYSTEM - An electronic business postal system collects, clears and delivers electronic business mail through a closed access, secure messaging system. A collection subsystem consists of access portals that are associated with secured system nodes. The access portals provide authenticated users access to the system to send and retrieve electronic business mail that includes postal system electronic delivery addresses, physical delivery addresses, or both. Secured message servers that are associated with the respective access portals process the electronic business mail into uniquely identified messages for delivery over the system nodes and also process received messages to provide the corresponding electronic business mail to the intended recipients through associated access portals. A delivery subsystem directs the messages through the system nodes associated with the senders' access portals to the system nodes associated with the recipients' access portals. A clearance subsystem confirms the integrity of both the messages and their delivery and ensures that each message is delivered once and intact. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339464 | CONTACT AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK WITH DISPARATE CLIENTS - The present disclosure describes one embodiment of an operating center server for managing contact information and user identifiers of users who communicate with others using a plurality of different communication platforms that operate on disparate networks (e.g., a cellular network or a wireless local area network). The operating center server converges cellular connectivity services (e.g., cellular calls or SMS messages) with internet protocol (IP) services (e.g., email or VOIP calls) and provides these services to terminal devices regardless of the specific network connectivity available to the devices. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339465 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SPREADING A MICROBLOG LIST - Disclosed are a method, a terminal and a system for spreading a microblog list, relating to a network communication field and used for facilitating fast spreading of a microblog list. The method for spreading the microblog list includes: receiving, by a terminal, a microblog list sharing instruction issued by a user; automatically generating a microblog list sharing message according to basic information of a microblog list to be shared; and distributing the microblog list to be shared. According to the solution of the present disclosure, the microblog list sharing message which includes microblog lists that the user participates can be automatically generated at the microblog terminal. Thus, the user's operation is simplified and the microblog list can be spread fast and conveniently. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130346509 | Digital postal mail gateway - A digital postal mail connector (or “gateway”) is supported within an enterprise's (a mailer's) digital delivery infrastructure, preferably as a rack-mounted hardware appliance or software install. The digital postal mail gateway interfaces with the mailer's existing print process (e.g., a print stream processor) to automatically create an alternative output stream that is sent as one or more digital files and received online by the mailer's customers in web-based electronic mailboxes. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346510 | EXTRACTING DATA FROM EMAIL ATTACHMENTS - A method of extracting data from email attachments comprising receiving an email in which the email comprises a data file attached thereto; receiving a keyword, in which the keyword describes at least a portion of the data file; and extracting from the data file portions of the data file that contain the keyword. A system for extracting an attachment from an email, the system comprising a server; a processor communicatively coupled with the server; a memory communicatively coupled to the server; and an application stored within the memory; in which the system receives an email comprising a data file, and with a keyword, extracts from the data file portions of the data file that contain the keyword. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346511 | LIFE MANAGEMENT SERVICES - System and methods for enhancing user productivity by integrating multiple services and providing a centralized output to a user as disclosed. A message notification server may receive various notifications, and may dynamically prioritize them for a ranked order presentation to users. The system may automatically re-rank the notifications based on changed conditions or to present messages of greatest urgency or importance. The system may also store sender-specific sets of rules, governing how notifications are to be handled for different application servers or services. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346512 | ENHANCED AVAILABILITY FOR MESSAGE SERVICES - An enhanced availability environment for facilitating a message service provided by a plurality of service elements is disclosed herein. The enhanced availability environment comprises a monitoring element and an enhanced availability element. The monitoring element monitors a first service element of the plurality of service elements for a monitored characteristic, generates monitoring information corresponding to the monitored characteristic, and communicates the monitoring information to the enhanced availability element. The enhanced availability element determines an availability of the first service element for the message service based at least in part on the monitoring information and an availability characteristic of the first service element, and communicates the availability to initiate an availability action. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346513 | MIGRATING A CHAT MESSAGE SERVICE PROVIDED BY A CHAT SERVER TO A NEW CHAT SERVER - Migrating a chat messaging service provided for a chat user is disclosed. At a second chat server from a first chat server, static information associated with a chat user is received. The static information is received before the chat user is indicated as being associated with a migration state. At the second chat server from the first chat server, dynamic information associated with the chat user is received. At least a portion of the dynamic information is received after the chat user is indicated as being associated with the migration state. After the chat user is no longer indicated as being associated with the migration state, a chat message for the chat user is received at the second chat server. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346514 | GATHERING CONTEXT INFORMATION FOR A COMMUNICATION - A computer receives a first information related to a communication sent to a user device of a second person. The computer determines a user device of a first person using the first information. The computer sends a context information request to the user device of the first person. The computer receives a context information reply responsive to the context information request. The computer sends context information of the context information reply to the user device of the second person. The computer releases the communication to the user device of the second person. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346515 | Content-Sensitive Notification Icons - Methods and systems may provide for receiving a message, determining a mood condition for the message, and generating a message notification icon based on the mood condition. In one example, the mood condition estimates one or more of a mood of the sender of the message and a mood impact of the message on a recipient of the message. Moreover, one or more additional messages may be received, wherein one or more additional mood conditions are determined for the additional messages, and the mood conditions are combined to form an aggregate mood condition. The message notification icon may be further generated based on the aggregate mood condition. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346516 | PRIORITIZING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BASED ON COMMUNITY VALUES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to prioritize a plurality of electronic messages. In an exemplary embodiment, a computer receives at least one vote, from at least one first user of a plurality of user, for each of the plurality of electronic messages. The at least one vote indicates which of the plurality of user is required to respond to each of the plurality of electronic messages. In the exemplary embodiment, the computer creates a community value for each of the plurality of electronic messages based, at least in part, on the at least one vote. The computer prioritizes the plurality of electronic messages based, at least in part, on the community value. In the exemplary embodiment, the at least one vote is received from at least one of a sender or an addressee of the plurality of electronic messages. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346517 | PERSONAL MODE CONTEXTUAL PRESENCE - Systems and processes for determining a contextual status of a resource, such as a user, using a contextual presence framework are described. A plurality of modes may be associated with the resource, where each mode represents a context of the resource. A presence value of the resource may be determined for each mode, which represents the extent to which the resource is engaged in the mode. An availability value of the resource may be determined for each mode, which represents the extent to which the resource is willing to be interrupted in the mode. A contextual presence status summary having a status summary availability value and a status summary presence value may be determined based on, for example, a weighted average of the presence values and a weighted average of the availability values of multiple modes of the resource. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346518 | CREATION OF A SOCIAL NETWORK OF MEMBERS OF A VIRTUALIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE - A computer-implemented method for creating a social network of members of a virtualization infrastructure. At a virtualization infrastructure manager, at least a portion of the members of the virtualization infrastructure are identified. Parent/child relationships of identified members of the virtualization infrastructure are identified. A social network of the identified members of the virtualization infrastructure is generated based on the parent/child relationships. Affiliation relationships between parent members and child members of the virtualization infrastructure are established, wherein the child members can access shared message streams corresponding to the parent members, such that a child member can establish an association of a message with an indication that the child member identifies with content of the message. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346519 | ADMINISTRATION OF A NETWORK - A computer-implemented method to facilitate administration of a network of members. Members of a network are provided with access to a shared message stream such that the members of the network are able to monitor messages generated by other members of the network posted to the shared message stream, wherein at least some of the messages are indicative of operational conditions of particular other members which generated the messages. Responsive to a first member of the network identifying a specific operational condition of the first member, the shared message stream is monitored for a message related to the specific operational condition. Provided the shared message stream includes a message related to the specific operational condition identified by the first member, an association of the message with an indication that the first member identifies with the specific operational condition is established, wherein the first member is configured to establish the association. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346520 | METHOD, DEVICE AND EMAIL SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PUBLIC EMAIL - A method, device, and system for providing public email are disclosed. The method may include receiving an email. In response to receiving an email marked as public, the method may include acquiring information about public recipients. The method may also include sending the email marked as public to the public recipients and recipients specified in the email marked as public. According to one embodiment, email marked as public can be provided conveniently and timely without increasing the overburden of the email system. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346521 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRIORITY-BASED NOTIFICATIONS FOR MOBILE DEVICES - A method comprising of receiving, by a user system that includes at least a processor system having at least one processor and a memory system, a first push notification associated with a first priority level for display on the user system; receiving, by the user system, a second push notification associated with a second priority level for display on the user system, the second priority level being higher than the first priority level; and displaying, by the user system, the second push notification prior to the first push notification based on the first and second priority level. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346522 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING, DELIVERY AND RECEIVING OF DIGITAL CONTENT - Embodiments of a content delivery system are disclosed herein. In particular, an embodiment of a content delivery system may receive content associated with a first destination identifier associated with a first delivery method, determine a second destination identifier and a second delivery method associated with the first delivery destination, and deliver the content to the second destination identifier according to the second delivery method. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346523 | WEATHER FORECASTS BASED ON EXPECTED LOCATION - A computing system is described that can automatically provide weather forecast information to a user based on the user's expected future location. In some embodiments, the methods can include predicting a future location of a user and storing the future location in the memory, fetching weather forecast information associated with the future location of the user, and outputting, to a mobile device associated with the user, the weather forecast information associated with the future location of the user. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346524 | GATHERING CONTEXT INFORMATION FOR A COMMUNICATION - A computer receives a first information related to a communication sent to a user device of a second person. The computer determines a user device of a first person using the first information. The computer sends a context information request to the user device of the first person. The computer receives a context information reply responsive to the context information request. The computer sends context information of the context information reply to the user device of the second person. The computer releases the communication to the user device of the second person. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346525 | PRIORITIZING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BASED ON COMMUNITY VALUES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to prioritize a plurality of electronic messages. In an exemplary embodiment, a computer receives at least one vote, from at least one first user of a plurality of user, for each of the plurality of electronic messages. The at least one vote indicates which of the plurality of user is required to respond to each of the plurality of electronic messages. In the exemplary embodiment, the computer creates a community value for each of the plurality of electronic messages based, at least in part, on the at least one vote. The computer prioritizes the plurality of electronic messages based, at least in part, on the community value. In the exemplary embodiment, the at least one vote is received from at least one of a sender or an addressee of the plurality of electronic messages. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346526 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AUTOMATING DATA CAPTURE FROM ELECTRONIC CORRESPONDENCE - In some embodiments, electronic data may be automatically captured to provide a user with a universal Internet identity and e-mail address, comprehensive e-mail filtering and forwarding services, and e-receipt identification and data extraction. Detailed user e-mail preferences data stored at a central server may be selectively altered such that incoming correspondence is redirected in accordance with the user's preferences. Computer program code at the central server may parse incoming e-mail header information and data content, selectively extract data from identified types of correspondence, and forward the extracted data in accordance with the user's preferences. Additional computer program code may manipulate the extracted data in accordance with format requirements and display the manipulated data to a user in a desired format. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346527 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING TEXTSITES ON A GLOBAL TEXTSITE PLATFORM - A method for accessing content using a global textsite platform including registering a unique keyword received from a publisher, receiving content from the publisher for creating a textsite associated with the unique keyword, creating the textsite on behalf of the publisher, receiving, from a user, a request to access the textsite, processing the request from the user, and providing access to the textsite by sending the content of the textsite, via a text messaging service (TMS), to a user mobile device. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346528 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING UNWANTED EMAIL MESSAGES - A method, system, and computer program product for scanning incoming emails reduces the server resources needed, which improves server throughput and reduces costs. A method for processing incoming email messages comprised the steps of scanning incoming email messages to obtain an address of a sender of each incoming email message and to determine whether the email message is spam, for each email message that is determined to be spam, incrementing a count of email messages that are spam for a sender of the email message, determining that a count of email messages that are spam for a sender of an email message has exceeded a threshold, and thereafter, discarding all incoming email messages from the sender for which the count of email messages that are spam for a sender of an email message has exceeded a threshold without scanning the email messages to determine whether they are spam. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346529 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING MICRO-BLOG MESSAGE AS FAVORITE - The present invention provides a method for adding a micro-blog message as favorite, comprising the following steps: acquiring, by a micro-blog client device, an instruction from a user for adding a micro-blog message as favorite; setting, by the micro-blog client device, a favorite tag for the micro-blog message added as favorite by the user; and sending, by the micro-blog client device, an identifier of the micro-blog message with the favorite tag to a server. The method improves the operation convenience. Also provided are a system for adding a micro-blog message as favorite and a micro-blog client. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140006519 | CONSISTENT INTERFACE FOR EMPLOYEE MASTER DATA REPLICATION REQUEST AND EMPLOYEE WORK CALENDAR | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006520 | Consistent Interface for Customer - Message Set 1 | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006521 | Systems and Methods for Delivering An Entity Report Associated With An Attendee Of A Calendared Event | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006522 | TECHNIQUES TO SELECT AND PRIORITIZE APPLICATION OF JUNK EMAIL FILTERING RULES | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006523 | System and Method to Enable Communication Group Identification | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006524 | ENHANCING POSTED CONTENT IN DISCUSSION FORUMS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006525 | SHARING OF MESSAGING INFORMATION | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006526 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WEBPAGE CREATION AND UPDATING | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006527 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING AN INTELLIGENT COLLABORATIVE CONTENT INFRASTRUCTURE | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006528 | PROTOCOL AGNOSTIC DYNAMIC MESSAGING PLATFORM AND A SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006529 | CONTEXTUAL AWARENESS ARCHITECTURE | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006531 | MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006532 | MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006533 | Instant Messaging Terminal and Method for Displaying Session Message in Real Time | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140012923 | Forgotten Attachment Detection - A user is writing an email or other message. A text processing layer prepares the message for analysis and performs some initial analysis and preparation such as a sentence separator, a “tokenizer”, a “unique body” identification, and/or possibly other filtering or analysis routines. An analytics layer analyzes the message using a “regular expressions” analysis, a statistical natural language processing analysis, and/or a template matching analysis. If an attachment is indicated, a suggestion to add an attachment is provided to the user. The analysis may begin when the user begins creating the message, indicates that the message should be sent, or at some point in between. The user may provide feedback that the suggestion is accepted or that the suggestion is rejected. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012924 | System and Method for Providing Application Feedback - A system and method of providing application feedback on a client device is provided. The method comprises determining a group application feedback for an application, the group application feedback generated from feedback submitted by at least one other member of a group in which a device user of the client device is a member; and displaying the group application feedback on the client device. A system and method are also provided for providing application feedback. The method comprises detecting selection of an option to send a recommendation for an application; enabling selection of at least one contact; incorporating application feedback related to a group associated with at least one selected contact; and sending the recommendation and the application feedback to the at least one selected contact. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012925 | Incorporating External Event Information Into a Social Networking System - A social networking system allows a user to create an event in the social networking system while viewing a web page from a third-party website from a domain different than the social networking system. A widget or other social plug-in is included in the web page, and user interaction with the widget communicates information from the web page to the social networking system. An event object is created in the social networking system from the information from the web page. The social networking system may perform various actions to increase user interaction with the created event object, such as identifying additional users to invite the event or identifying users attending the event to other users. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012926 | Recommending Additional Users for an Event Using a Social Networking System - Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. While an inviting user initially specifies the group of users to invite to the event, the social networking system suggests additional users to invite to the event. The social networking system suggests additional users based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. Invitations to the suggested additional users may be automatically sent or sent to a set of the additional users selected by the inviting user. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012927 | CREATION OF REAL-TIME CONVERSATIONS BASED ON SOCIAL LOCATION INFORMATION - A social networking system determines common location information included in a set of posts between a set of users. Using the determined common location information, the social networking system generates a message interface for grouping a set of messages into a conversation thread. For example, the messages may be grouped into a conversation thread based on common location information in the messages and being associated with participants sharing a social relationship. When a group conversation is created, the social networking system presents a message interface containing the conversation thread to one or more participants of the thread. The social networking system adds the set of messages to the conversation thread based on social information about the social relationships among the participants of the conversation thread. The social networking system then presents the message interface for display to one or more of the participants. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012928 | PROCESSING CONNECTION REQUEST IN ONLINE SERVICE - Disclosed is a system and method for processing a connection request in an online service by a server corresponding to the online service. A connection request message that originates from a personalized account for a first user is sent to a personalized account for a second user and a certain threshold of access to posts related to the personalized account for the first user is provided to the personalized account for the second user for a certain period of time. An access to the posts related to the personalized account for the first user is otherwise accorded to authorized contacts of the personalized account for the first user on the online service. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012929 | DELIVERING MESSAGES OVER MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION PATHS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for delivering a message to one or more recipients over multiple data communication paths. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012930 | SHARING EMOTION USING REMOTE CONTROL COMMANDS - Sending emotional feelings through remote control commands and allowing one person to control another person's co-operating application. Sending emotional commands between people having an established relationship and who are in the midst of an conversation and causing actions to change the remote computer thus creating an emotional in the recipient. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012931 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - The invention provides a system and method for determining when a message is received by a recipient or an agent for the recipient. A link is activated at the recipient to provide an indication that the message has been opened by the recipient. The activation of the link may cause a server remote from the recipient to take some further action. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012932 | INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK POSTS - A system and method for integrating social network posts is provided. The system, for example, may include a communication system and a processor communicatively coupled to the communication system. The processor may be configured to receive a message in a first social media network, determine when the message is designated as shareable on a second social media network, create, when the message is designated as shareable on a second social media network, reposting information enabling addressed users to repost the message on the second social media network, and transmit the message and reposting information to addressed users of the first social media network via the communication system. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012933 | System and Method for Regulating Electronic Messages - A system for regulating e-mail comprises a database of information profiling legitimate e-mail usage. When an e-mail is received at the system, it is scrutinized relative to the information in the database. If the e-mail is found to be legitimate based upon this evaluation, it is delivered to the intended recipient: If, however, the e-mail appears on the basis of the evaluation to be the last in a series of illegitimate e-mails or otherwise has characteristics inconsistent with the profile of legitimate e-mail usage, the e-mail may not be delivered and the postmaster and administrator at the source of the e-mail is contacted. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012934 | Method, Apparatus and System for Forwarding Multimedia Message and Apparatus for Receiving Multimedia Message - The disclosure provides a method, an apparatus and a system for forwarding a multimedia message and an apparatus for receiving a multimedia message. The method includes: a first terminal acquiring, in response to a forwarding operation of a user, a multimedia message notification message of a multimedia message to be forwarded; the first terminal transmitting a port short message to a second terminal, wherein the multimedia message notification message is carried in the port short message; and the second terminal receiving the port short message, extracting the multimedia message notification message from the port short message and downloading the multimedia message according to the multimedia message notification message. The technical solution provided by the disclosure solves the problem of unnecessary data traffic, network resource consumption and the like which are generated in the process of forwarding a multimedia message in related technologies. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012935 | INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods and apparatuses for processing an instant message from a source wireless communication device to a destination device are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes receiving the instant message from the source wireless communication device, the instant message having a source wireless communication identifier, a destination instant messenger identifier, and data contents; extracting the source wireless communication identifier, the destination instant messenger identifier and the data contents from the instant message; retrieving a source instant messenger identifier corresponding to the source wireless communication identifier; binding the source instant messenger identifier with the source wireless communication identifier; and transmitting the data contents with the source instant messenger identifier to the destination device over a communication network, based on the destination instant messenger identifier. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140019556 | Autism Social Media - A social media site where parents, guardians, caregivers and individuals of autism can interact with each other. The social media website can also provide articles and information regarding autism. The website can also provide books and other products that will provide entertainment, help and support. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019557 | System and Method for Determining the Value of a Crowd Network - The present invention proposes that the value of a crowd network comes from network entropy and a very well engaged crowd has more value than a poorly engaged crowd. The engagement (and the resultant value generated from the engagement) of a crowd network can be measured in terms of the entropy of the network. The entropy is calculated as a function of the probability distribution of incoming and outgoing messages, which represents the entropy or uncertainty in the activity over the network. In this way, the activity occurring over a network in terms of message exchange is translated as a measure of the value of the network. An evolutionary algorithm is presented to optimize the entropy of a network by successively changing the network topology. Results indicate that the value of a crowd network very closely relate to its small world-ness, sparsity, and connectedness. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019558 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SHORT DOMAIN NAMES USED FOR REMAILING TO APPLY COMPUTATIONS TO EMAIL EN ROUTE AND ENABLE PRIVATE SHARING OF FILES STORED IN THE CLOUD - A system and a process for performing identified modifications of content in an e-mail message at a server or server farm electronically distal from an e-mail origin site. The process acts so that:
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| 20140019559 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FACILITATING EMAIL ACCOUNT CONFIGURATION - Methods and electronic devices for facilitating email account configuration are described. In one aspect, a first electronic device establishes a connection with an administration server that stores email information received from a second electronic device. The first electronic device then receives the email information from the administration server, and subsequently populates one or more interface elements in an account configuration interface of an email application based on the received email information for email account setup of one or more email addresses. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019560 | PERFORMANCE STRESS EVALUATION OF MULTI-MODAL NETWORK NOTIFICATION SERVICE - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for evaluating performance stress in a multi-modal network notification service. In a particular embodiment, a method provides generating a covering array of test factors corresponding to a plurality of modes and a plurality of test level values for each mode and determining an escalation hierarchy of the covering array comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein each node corresponds to a set of test factors in the covering array. The method further provides performing a notification test run of the set of test factors for each node in the escalation hierarchy to determine performance stress for each set of test factors. The method further provides generating a first factor-level-run table with the notification test runs corresponding to each of n-wise test factors and possible test level values and indicating which of the notification test runs in the factor-level-run table resulted in performance stress. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019561 | Systems and Methods for Interactive Content Generation - The present invention is a computer network implemented communication platform that enables senders to send to recipients electronic communications based on one or more selected locations, each location being associated with at least one recipient. The present invention includes validating the senders so as to establish trust with recipients. The platform of the invention provides a map based utility enabling a sender to define the scope of location based communication. The platform also incorporates a change of address procedure that enables the updating of location based records. The system and method provide significant advantages over postal mail and traditional email systems. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019562 | SHARING USER-GENERATED NOTES - A method for sharing notes created in a multilayered document among users of a social network within a digital education platform is provided. In one embodiment, the digital education platform allows a user to create notes linked to a particular location in the document using a notepad application. Notes are aggregated and stored in the user's personal library on the digital education platform. When a user requests to share another user's notes and is granted access, the digital education platform retrieves the other user's notes and inserts the shared notes into the requesting user's existing notes associated with the document, based on their individual sharing attributes and metadata. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019563 | MESSAGE TARGETING PLATFORM - There is provided a method of operating a message targeting platform ( | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019564 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BASED UPON DYNAMIC CONTENT - Systems and methods are provided for dynamic electronic message content. A first template is associated with a first electronic message service provider, and a second template is associated with a second electronic message service provider. The first template is incompatible with the second electronic message service provider and/or the second template is incompatible with the first electronic message service provider. Dynamic content for electronic messages is stored in a database accessible by the first electronic message service provider and the second electronic message service provider. The dynamic content includes electronic message addresses associated with intended recipients of the electronic messages. The first electronic message service provider is instructed to generate a set of electronic messages based on the dynamic content, wherein the first electronic message service provider uses the first template to generate the set of electronic messages. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019565 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING MULTIPLE FILES IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An apparatus and a method for selecting multiple files in an electronic device are provided. In the apparatus, a display unit displays data stored in a server device, and a processing unit sends information of the data stored in the server device to a common location of the server device when the data is selected, and downloads at least one data selected from the data stored in the common location to the electronic device. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019566 | Lost and Found Tagging and Communication System and Method - A method and system of facilitating communication between a finder of an article and an owner of the article including providing a unique ID to the owner and allowing the owner to register an association between the ID and owner contact information, allowing the owner to associate the ID and a virtual locale with the article, and forwarding communications of the finder of the article to the owner where the finder may provide no more information to the virtual locale than the ID and the communication. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019567 | On Demand Email Response - An improvement to an electronic mail program is disclosed. In particular, the improved electronic mail program enables a user to mark individual action items within a message and set attributes for each action item. In the preferred embodiment, attributes include priority, deadline, abstract, and responsibility. The electronic mail program stores the action items and associated attributes in a database and sends the message to one or more recipients. The electronic mail program then displays the message and action items to the recipients. Message recipients then navigate through the list of action items to read descriptions and to determine the priority and nature of the actions necessary. The responsibility attribute further indicates which recipient should respond to the action item. The improved electronic mail program updates the status of each action item in the database as recipients respond. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019568 | IDENTIFICATION OF CONTENT - Systems and methods for identifying content in electronic messages are provided. An electronic message may include certain content. The content is detected and analyzed to identify any metadata. The metadata may include a numerical signature characterizing the content. A thumbprint is generated based on the numerical signature. The thumbprint may then be compared to thumbprints of previously received messages. The comparison allows for classification of the electronic message as spam or not spam. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140025749 | System and Method for Delivering Alerts - A technique is provided for delivering an alert to a user. The technique includes identifying which single device of a user's multiple devices should receive the alert. A server is configured to collect device statistics about the user's devices and determine which device should receive the alert. Example device statistics include locations of the devices, last use time of the devices, statistics received from other applications that the user is accessing (e.g., email, search engine, applications, mobile apps, etc.), statistics from other users in the same location as the user, statistics from cameras, motion detectors, or proximity sensors associated with the devices, history/pattern of the user consuming previous alerts, what type of message is associated with the alert (e.g., email, SMS, picture, video, etc.), and/or whether a particular device is ON/OFF or locked/unavailable, among others. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025750 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION BASED PING DURING CHAT MODE - A system or method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a predetermined motion profile during a chat mode with a remote communication device and sending a ping signal to the remote receiving device in response to detecting the predetermined motion profile. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025751 | Method and Devices for Message Disposition Notification after Session Termination - This invention provides a method as well as a client apparatus and a server apparatus which will support sending and receiving a disposition notification to session based messaging clients after the message session has terminated. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025752 | MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION AND VIEWING RULES IN A NETWORK - A system, method and computer-readable medium for displaying a message over a network are disclosed. A distribution indicator is associated with a defined distribution rule for displaying messages over the network. A message includes the distribution indicator in the message. The message is displayed over the network according to the distribution rule indicated by the distribution indicator included in the message. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025753 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRIVATE TOKEN COMMUNICATION SERVICES - Rather than forcing users to give personally identifying contact data to information providers, this disclosure teaches an apparatus and method enabling the use of “private tokens,” which allow information providers to send electronic communications to targeted users without having access to personally identifying contact information. These features are provided by an anonymous communication service that manages the private tokens and provides communication proxy services intermediating the electronic communications between the information providers and the users targeted by those communications. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025754 | MOB SOURCE PHONE VIDEO COLLABORATION - Methods and systems for identifying video clips in a video clip repository that are of the same event are disclosed. Video clips are identified as being of the same event based on timestamps and geolocation stamps associated with the video clips. In one embodiment, authors of video clips receive messages that notify them of the existence of other video clips of the same event. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025755 | INFERRING EVENTS BASED ON MOB SOURCE VIDEO - Methods and systems are disclosed for inferring that an event of interest (e.g., a public gathering, a performance, an accident, etc.) has likely occurred. In particular, when there are at least a given number of video clips with similar timestamps and geolocation stamps uploaded to a repository, it is inferred that an event of interest has likely occurred, and a notification signal is transmitted (e.g., to a law enforcement agency, to a news organization, to a publisher of a periodical, to a public blog, etc.). | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025756 | INTER-MODAL MESSAGING COMMUNICATIONS - Inter-modal messaging communication is described. In one embodiment, a method of communication includes receiving an electronic mail message to be distributed and determining whether the electronic mail message is a multi-modal distribution message. Respective portions of the message may be separated for each mode of distribution. The separated portions may represent portions to be delivered by SMS messaging and facsimile, for example. The method further includes the steps of transmitting a short message comprising the short message portion of the mail message and establishing a conversation comprising conversation attributes. The conversation attributes are referenced, in certain aspects, to maintain a conversation between an originator of the received electronic mail message and a distribution address of short message portion of the mail message. For example, upon receipt of a short message in reply, the short message may be forwarded to an originator of the conversation. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025757 | System and Method for Providing Multi-Modal Asynchronous Communication - Embodiments include receiving a first synchronous communication message in a first modality from a first user device. The method may further include generating a first asynchronous communication message in a second modality, based at least in part on the first synchronous communication message in the first modality, wherein the first modality differs from the second modality. The method may also include receiving a second asynchronous communication message in the second modality from a second user device. The method may further include generating a second asynchronous communication message in the first modality based at least in part on the second synchronous communication message in the second modality. The method may also include providing for display to the first user device, the second asynchronous message in the first modality. The method may further include providing for display to the second user device, the first asynchronous message in the second modality. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025758 | System and Method for Delivering Alerts - A technique is provided for delivering an alert to a user. The technique includes identifying which single device of a user's multiple devices should receive the alert. A server is configured to collect device statistics about the user's devices and determine which device should receive the alert. Example device statistics include locations of the devices, last use time of the devices, statistics received from other applications that the user is accessing (e.g., email, search engine, applications, mobile apps, etc.), statistics from other users in the same location as the user, statistics from cameras, motion detectors, or proximity sensors associated with the devices, history/pattern of the user consuming previous alerts, what type of message is associated with the alert (e.g., email, SMS, picture, video, etc.), and/or whether a particular device is ON/OFF or locked/unavailable, among others. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025759 | Alert Management System - In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a system for monitoring device status and for forwarding service notifications to customers. The system broadly comprises a first module for downloading and storing e-mail alerts from the customer's servers, a second module for interpreting the alerts and storing the alerts for action, and a third module for creating service calls and sending e-mail notifications. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025760 | AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED LINKS AND/OR SUGGESTED LINKS WITHIN A COMMUNITY OF INDIVIDUALS INTERFACED VIA A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Described herein are methods and systems for regulating the communication between a group of heterogeneous nodes. In one embodiment, the heterogeneous nodes include parents and their children. According to techniques of one embodiment of the present invention, children are permitted to communicate with one another via a social network if their respective parent(s) are acquaintances (e.g., dad of first child is a friend of dad of second child). Conversely, children are not permitted to communicate with one another via a social network if their respective parent(s) are not acquaintances. In one embodiment, one parent is an “acquaintance” of another parent, if the parents are connected via a social network. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025761 | MOBILE DEVICE STREAMING MEDIA APPLICATION - A system and process for coordinating streaming content or messages is provided. A network-connected server maintains a database containing media content-related data, such as the text of a message, accompanying media, time of airing, payment and related comments. A user can view these feeds or streams of these consciousness messages by downloading a mobile application or browsing to a website. The application can also be used to create, schedule and pay for a media content message. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025762 | SCHEMA-BASED DYNAMIC PARSE/BUILD ENGINE FOR PARSING MULTI-FORMAT MESSAGES - A parse/build engine that can handle multi-format financial messages. The engine converts the different format messages into a common format, and the common format message is then processed by the business service application. A parser examines the message and determines an appropriate schema for the particular format of message received. The schema is a data structure in a schema registry that includes a grammar structure for the received format as well as pointers to handlers for converting the different fields of the message into the internal message format using the grammar structure (the “grammar” can include field sequence, field type, length, character encoding, optional and required fields, etc.). The handlers are individually compiled. As formats change, new formats or changes to old formats can be dynamically added to the parse/build engine by loading new schema and handlers. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025763 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE DELIVERY OF DIGITAL MESSAGES - A system and method for automatically adapting digital message traffic flow evaluates message delivery disposition, latency and performance metrics such that the system operates more optimally in terms of both overall throughput as well as with respect to system sending reputation. Reputation is in the context of maintaining message flow within limits that are acceptable for a given destination, such that the sender behavior avoids being flagged as abusive or otherwise undesirable. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025764 | System and Method for Efficient Unified Messaging System Support for Speech-to-Text Service - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for communicating information about transcription progress from a unified messaging (UM) server to a UM client. In one embodiment, the transcription progress describes speech to text transcription of speech messages such as voicemail. The UM server authenticates and establishes a session with a UM client, then receives a get message list request from a UM client as of a first time, responds to the get message list request with a view of a state of messages and available transcriptions for transcribable messages in a list of messages associated with the get message list call at the first time, and, at a second time subsequent to the first time, transmits to the UM client a notification that provides an indication of progress for at least one transcription not yet complete in the list of messages. The messages can include video. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025765 | RERANKING OF GROUPS WHEN CONTENT IS UPLOADED - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the logical connection strengths, the first device group including a plurality of the other user devices. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025766 | Method and Apparatus for Identifying and Facilitating a Social Interaction Structure over a Data Packet Network - A telecommunications device has a data repository storing a directory of contact identities categorized by common activity, and machine intelligence executing from a non-transitory physical medium. The machine intelligence provides for determining an activity category for a telecommunications event by one or more of identity of sender, identity of intended recipient, message content, and event history, and applying a policy associated with the determined activity category to manage the event. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025767 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING ANONYMOUS COLLABORATION AMONG MEMBERS ALONG VALUE CHAINS - The invention concerns a computer-implemented collaboration platform comprising:
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| 20140025768 | System and Method for Creating Content for an Event Using a Social Network - A system and method for creating content such as artificial reality (AR) messages at an event, particularly among members on a social network, thereby enhancing and expanding the event experience. Typically, a participant shares an event with spectators, such as friends or a subset of friends in the participant's social network. The AR message may include geo-referenced artificial reality words, products or symbols and appear in a perspective view of the event to the participant or spectators. In addition to creating an active gallery for an event, messages, audio and video can be exchanged among participants and spectators, and virtual goods, money, bets, applause, other feedback, and donations exchanged. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140032680 | Multimedia mail system - There is provided a method and a system to initiate streaming of a multimedia content message. The system includes a receiving module to receive a stream that includes a multimedia content message and a recipient list that includes a first recipient. Further the system includes a multimedia module to store the stream in a multimedia content file, the multimedia module to generate a multimedia retrieval message that includes a stream identifier that identifies the stream, the multimedia module to communicate the multimedia retrieval message, over a network, to the first recipient, the multimedia retrieval message to enable a selection of the stream identifier to initiate the stream of the multimedia content file, over the network, to the first recipient. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032681 | Method and system for document-driven message-based communication - A system for document-driven message-based communications may include a presentation module to open a subject electronic document at a first electronic system; an attribute detector to detect that the subject electronic document is a message-enabled document; an RTC module to initiate an RTC session between a first user associated with the first electronic system and a second user associated with a second electronic system; and a storing module to store one or more RTC messages generated during the RTC session as associated with the subject electronic document. The message-enabled document includes an infrastructure required for real time communications (RTC). | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032682 | Method and Apparatus for Expiring Messages in Electronic Communications - The present disclosure includes systems and methods for off-the-record communication including expiring messages. An example method comprises receiving an electronic communication from a source device, the electronic communication including at least one expiring message, temporarily storing content of the expiring message in a non-durable memory for a predetermined amount of time, durably storing envelope information associated with the expiring message in a durable memory, and determining whether a recipient device for the expiring message is available to accept transmission of the expiring message and determining whether an expiration event has occurred. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032683 | AUTOMATED RICH-CONTENT MESSAGING - Various embodiments include systems, methods, and software for automated rich-content messaging. Some such embodiments generating messages to be sent via email, MMS, social media, or other electronic mechanisms from a business application based on message templates authored within a content management program. Messages may be generated and sent based on event occurrences, monitored data conditions, and the like. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032684 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ON-AIR SERVICE USING OFFICIAL ACCOUNT - A method and a system for providing a messenger on-air service using an official account include providing an interface for creating and managing an event using an official account, and creating an event chat room in which a plurality of users sharing a relationship with an event creator participate based on a request of the event creator through the interface. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032685 | APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING EXECUTION OF SOFTWARE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - The present invention provides a software execution control apparatus, a software execution control method, and a computer-readable recording medium having a computer program for software execution control. The software execution control apparatus of the present invention includes a reference information management unit for collecting and renewing reference information to be referred to for execution of a plurality of applications, a user message preprocessing unit for receiving a user massage, extracting one or more components from the user message, and analyzing the user message based on the extracted components, a message processing unit for specifying one or more actions required by the user based on the analysis result of the user message, and an APP execution unit for selecting and executing one oe more applications based on reference information managed by the reference information management unit. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032686 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR A REMOTELY CHANGEABLE NON-VIRTUAL PERSONAL MESSAGE BOARD FOR AN UNKNOWN AUDIENCE - The invention is a system for posting personal messages to a display device for an unknown audience, whereby the communicator does not know who will view the personal message. Messages are sent directly to the communicator's display device over a network and are not contained or “housed” in a virtual (server) context. The communicator is able to post a message when not at the device's location by “texting” the device via a variety of possible input devices. The invention displays a new message by replacing the previous message (or as determined by configuration preferences). The invention includes user preferences, security, and low power options. User preferences affect how a message is displayed. Security features protect the system from displaying unauthorized messages. And the low-power option is a dual device configuration wherein the display operates on battery power receiving data from a relay that is powered by an external source. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032687 | METHOD, CLIENT DEVICE, SERVER SYSTEM FOR PARSING A DATA USAGE VALUE - The method is performed as a client device and includes receiving a first message that includes a first data usage value. The first message is formatted according to a respective format. After receiving the first message, the method further includes acquiring a data usage template corresponding to the respective format. The method further includes receiving a second message that includes a second data usage value. The second message is formatted according to the respective format. The method further includes parsing the second message according to the data usage template so as to obtain a second data usage value. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032688 | F.B. Immortal - A social network design feature and direct revenue business model that activates and designates a persistant and perpetual state of electronic existance. Whereas the unique and never before implemented method preserves an individuals imprint on existance then, now, and always by elective contract and interactive contribution periodically and continually by ongoing and pre-programed imput by the user. In the most simple terms; if you want your social network page to persist as a historical record of “you”, and you elect to designate certain parts of your daily contributions to be permanent and pay a small fee according to the quantity of data saved, with a minimal amount at little or no cost, you can guarantee that if the site exsists, you exist. You may also elect to have a time capsule like pre-programed feature that will allow indefinite interaction on your page. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032689 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING MESSAGE CONTENT THAT IS STORED AT A MESSAGE SERVER - Methods and systems for processing message content that is stored at a message server are described. In one embodiment, a method for processing message content that is stored at a message server involves mapping access networks to a set of processing rules, receiving a request for message content that is stored at a message server from a client device via one of the access networks, where the request is made according to a messaging protocol, determining from which access network the request was received, and making a decision on processing the requested message content as a function of the access network from which the request was received and the mapping. Other embodiments are also described. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032690 | Method and Apparatus For High-Speed Processing of Structured Application Messages in a Network Device - A method is disclosed for high-speed processing of structured application messages in a network device. According to one aspect, a network device receives a structured application layer message and identifies, in message classification requirements at the network device, a reference to a classification portion of the structured application layer message and an operation portion of the structured application layer message. The system extracts, based on one or more expressions, a portion of the message for classifying the structured application layer message and classifies the message using the extracted portion and according to the message classification requirements. At least in part by accessing information indicated by one or more location identifiers, at least one operation is performed on the classified structured application layer message. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032691 | Policy-Based Application Management - Improved techniques for managing enterprise applications on mobile devices are described herein. Each enterprise mobile application running on the mobile device has an associated policy through which it interacts with its environment. The policy selectively blocks or allows activities involving the enterprise application in accordance with rules established by the enterprise. Together, the enterprise applications running on the mobile device form a set of managed applications. Managed applications are typically allowed to exchange data with other managed applications, but are blocked from exchanging data with other applications, such as the user's own personal applications. Policies may be defined to manage data sharing, mobile resource management, application specific information, networking and data access solutions, device cloud and transfer, dual mode application software, enterprise app store access, and virtualized application and resources, among other things. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032692 | Handling Notifications in Instant Messaging Systems - To reduce the communications in an IM conversation between two devices, two or more IM events of the conversation at the first device are confirmed by sending to the second device a single IM communication that confirms the most recent of the events. In order that the user of the second device not experience undue delay in receiving the confirmation, the method may be applied where the time interval between any two consecutive ones of the events is less than a predetermined time. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140040383 | System and method for communicating instant message information between an instant messaging node and one or more programs - A system and method receives and stores instant messaging messages, and provides them upon request by one or more programs, such messages containing text, status of other users or other information. Instant messages received from programs may also be provided as instant messages using the system and method. The programs may be validated before allowing them to communicate using the instant messaging network. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040384 | EMAIL DISTRIBUTION LIST MEMBERSHIP GOVERNANCE METHOD AND SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method for controlling email distribution list membership in an enterprise email system, including the steps of monitoring and collecting continuously updated information regarding access to email distribution lists of an email system by members of the email distribution lists, ascertaining that a particular member of at least one of the email distribution lists has not accessed the at least one of the email distribution lists for a predetermined period of time, and responsive to the ascertaining, at least one of recommending revoking membership of the particular member to the at least one of the email distribution lists and automatically revoking membership of the particular member to the at least one of the email distribution lists. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040385 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR EXPERT IDENTIFICATION TO ANSWER USERS QUERIES - Embodiments disclosed herein may relate to determining individual experts to answer user queries utilizing computing platform in a communication system. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040386 | Facilitating and Tracking Processing of a Message Through a Workflow - A message tracking engine facilitates processing of a message through a determined workflow. In particular, the message tracking engine may route the message to various services in an order specified by the workflow. During processing, the message tracking engine tracks the progress of the message through the workflow. If any issues are encountered, the message tracking engine handles the encountered issues. In one aspect, the message tracking engine facilitates performance of one or more synchronous processing steps of the workflow during a first phase. Following the first phase, the message tracking engine serializes one or more asynchronous processing steps of the workflow to a storage device. After serializing the asynchronous processing steps, the message tracking engine facilitates performance of the asynchronous processing steps during a second phase. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040387 | DISCOVERING AND RANKING TRENDING LINKS ABOUT TOPICS - A system and a method for discovering and ranking trending links about topics are presented. The method comprises steps of receiving a plurality of messages from a social networking server, identifying a plurality of trending objects from the plurality of messages, generating at least one trending score for each trending object of the trending objects, and presenting a list of the trending objects based on the trending scores. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040388 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING E-MAIL TRAFFIC - According to a first embodiment of the invention, if an e-mail sender attempts to make too many connections within a predetermined period of time, the excess connections are automatically rejected. According to a second embodiment of the invention, an agreement is established between an e-mail sender and an e-mail recipient that states when the sender may send e-mail messages to the recipient. According to a third embodiment of the invention, trend data reflecting an amount of e-mail sent by a sender is collected. The trend data can be used to establish a rate limit for the sender. According to a fourth embodiment of the invention, separate rate limits are established for authenticated and unauthenticated mail from addresses. According to a fifth embodiment of the invention, a sender may have a rate at which their e-mail is transmitted reduced if they exceed predetermined rate limits. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040389 | PHASED DELIVERY OF PUBLICATIONS TO SUBSCRIBERS - A method, system, and/or computer program product controls a transmission of messages to subscribers in a publish/subscribe messaging network. One or more processors receives a message delivery requirement for a published message, where the message delivery requirement describes delivery parameters for each of a plurality of subscribers in a publish/subscribe messaging network. One or more processors then controls a delivery of the published message to each of the plurality of subscribers in accordance with the message delivery requirement, where said delivery is initiated to at least some of the set of subscribers at different times in order to comply with the message delivery requirement. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040390 | Publish Information on Website - The present disclosure provides an example method, device, and system for publishing information to various websites. Publishing Information is collected from a corresponding registration server based on registration information. The publishing information includes the receiving terminal registration information. The publishing information is sent to a corresponding website according to the receiving terminal registration information. The receiving terminal registration information corresponds to a server domain address of the corresponding website. The present techniques reduce redundant posting steps at the websites and improve the efficiency of posting. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Third party verification of the content and delivery of an electronic message such as an e-snail, is provided using a server that receives an e-mail sent or forwarded to a specified addressee, and “tags” the message to indicate that it is “registered” with the service provider. The server establishes a direct connection with the addressee's Mail User Agent (MUA), and transmits the tagged email to the addressee's MUA, as well as to the MUA's of any other addressees. After receiving responses from the receiving MUA's that the message was successfully received, the server creates and forwards an electronic receipt to the message originator. The system operators can provide independent third party verification that the receipt is a genuine product of their system and that the information pertaining to content and delivery of the message is accurate, without the need to archive either the original message or the receipt. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040392 | EVENT SCHEDULING - In one aspect, the invention is a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon. The instructions when executed by the processor, cause that processor to schedule a network-based media event; and to invite an attendee to attend the network-based media event. Other aspects of the invention includes a process and a method. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040393 | System and Method for Improved Social Networking - A geographically defined social network is provided, the network including a personal communications device; a means for detection of data regarding a first networked user based on a predetermined geographic condition, and a means for delivery of said data regarding said first networked user to a second networked user in response to a geographically-defined user request. Other, “layered” options in which information originally concealed by the first user can be selectively revealed to subsequent users, and a wide variety of selection and data distribution criteria are also provided. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040394 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES - Disclosed are a method and device for processing messages. The method includes: determining, when a message sent by software is intercepted, whether the message is a spam message; when the message is not a spam message, having the message displayed in a notification toolbar; and when the message is a spam message, prompting a user in the notification toolbar that the software may be implanted with a malicious plug-in, and providing an option label for the user to judge and select whether to inhibit displaying all messages sent by the software, including the message. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040395 | CONCURRENCY CONTROL IN A FILE SYSTEM SHARED BY APPLICATION HOSTS - A manager program for managing virtual machines includes a process which receives a notification message indicating an occurrence of an event affecting a data storage unit in a data storage system that supports a shared file system. The notification message might have come from a virtual machine host or resulted from a hardware reconfiguration. The manager program then determines whether another virtual machine host is sharing the data storage unit. The manager program might make this determination by polling each of the virtual machine hosts it manages or by checking information previously collected and stored in a database. If another virtual machine host is sharing the data storage unit, the manager program sends a refresh message to that virtual machine host that causes the virtual machine host to update information relating to the data storage unit in a cache associated with the virtual machine host. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040396 | AUTOMATED SELECTION AND INCLUSION OF A MESSAGE SIGNATURE - A system and method for the creation and automated selection and inclusion an automated signature text with an electronic message, wherein the automated selection of the automated signature text is dependent on attributes of the message, the designated recipients, or attributes of the designated recipients as compared to the sender's attributes, such as the encoding type and/or transport method selected for the electronic message or the location of the recipient without the need for multiple user profiles or manual editing by the sender. At least one of a plurality of automated signature texts is associated with at least one encoding type of a plurality of encoding types, at least one message transport type, or with at least one predetermined recipient attribute or the outcome of a comparison of the recipient attribute with the sender's attributes. The appropriate automated signature text is inserted prior to encoding of the message for transport. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040397 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SECURE REMOTE ACCESS AND CONTROL - A network appliance is configured to communicate with a representative system and a customer system. The network appliance permits control and access to the customer system by the representative system or to the representative system by the customer system for providing remote support service. The network appliance manages, logs, and routes screen updates of the customer system to the representative system. In addition, the network appliance logs and provides reports for all actions taken during the support service. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040398 | Enforced Unitasking in Multitasking Systems - A computer system includes one or more devices that are capable of multitasking (performing at least two tasks in parallel or substantially in parallel). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a first one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the first task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a second one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the second task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040399 | Enforced Unitasking in Multitasking Systems - A computer system includes one or more devices that are capable of multitasking (performing at least two tasks in parallel or substantially in parallel). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a first one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the first task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a second one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the second task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040400 | Enforced Unitasking in Multitasking Systems - A computer system includes one or more devices that are capable of multitasking (performing at least two tasks in parallel or substantially in parallel). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a first one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the first task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a second one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the second task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040401 | MESSAGE DELIVERY IN MESSAGING NETWORKS - In response to receipt of a request message from a requester, a reply message is created. The reply message includes a message identifier of the request message copied from the received request message. The reply message is published to each of a group of replicated message queues. The reply message is identifiable by the requester using the copied message identifier of the request message on any one of the group of replicated message queues prior to being consumed by the requester. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040402 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - An email system, configured by creating a user controlled email domain for each user, rather than a dedicated email address. The user is then allowed to create unlimited email addresses within the user controlled email domain. The system and method of the present invention provides improved policing of unwanted email communications. When unwanted communications on a compromised email address are detected, they can be identified and effortlessly subverted while known communicators may continue use of the compromised email address. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040403 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GATHERING INFORMATION RELATING TO ELECTRONIC CONTENT UTILIZING A DNS SERVER - A system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, a checksum associated with electronic content is calculated. Further, a domain name service (DNS) server is queried utilizing the checksum. In response to the query, information is received from the DNS server which relates to the electronic content. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FEDERATING CHAT ROOMS ACROSS DISPARATE UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A system and method for federating chat rooms across disparate unified communications systems is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system includes a federation server that is configured to connect to a first unified communications system and a second unified communications system. The federation server has a moderator that includes an address. The federation server has a translation engine that intercepts a first formatted message from the first unified communications system. The translation engine generates a second formatted message from the first formatted message, where the second formatted message includes a request from the moderator to a chat room with the second unified communications system to provide an invitation to the first unified communications system. The federation server routes the second formatted message to the second unified communications system. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040405 | Method and Apparatus for Messaging Service Internetworking - A method and system for converting data message formats in a message server is provided. The message server receives a first data message including origin format information from a first user. The message server then sends the first data message including origin format information to a second user. The message server receives a second data message from a second user, the second data message including the origin format. The second data message is converted to the origin format if the first user is unable to receive the second data message. The message server then sends the converted second data message to the first user. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040406 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUGGESTING A MESSAGE SEGMENT FOR A DRAFT A MESSAGE BASED ON A CONTEXTUAL CHARACTERISTIC - An apparatus may include a messaging module configured to suggest a message segment in order to draft a message. A contextual characteristic determiner may be used to determine contextual characteristics of the apparatus, the recipient of a call, and/or the user of the apparatus and thereby the messaging module may suggest the message segment based on the contextual characteristics. The contextual characteristics may include user emotions, which may be recognized by an emotion recognizer. Message segments may also be based on prior messaging history. Thereby, the apparatus may suggest message segments in order to more easily draft messages when, for example, initiating or responding to attempted voice communications. Further, the apparatus may include a reminder scheduler which is configured to schedule a reminder to respond to an attempted voice communication. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040407 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARSING MMS INFORMATION - Disclosed are a method and device for parsing MMS information. The method includes: determining the storage location information corresponding to a first keyword of the received MMS information; determining keyword information in the storage location corresponding to the storage location information; when the first keyword is identical to a second keyword in the determined keyword information, taking the keyword attribute of the keyword information as the keyword attribute corresponding to the first keyword; and parsing the MMS according to the keyword attribute corresponding to the first keyword. There is no need to conduct a large amount of comparisons when determining the keyword attribute corresponding to the keyword in MMS information according to the correlation between the storage location information and the keyword information, thus the parsing speed and response speed are increased, and the parsing efficiency improved. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140047037 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONFIGURED WITH UNIVERSAL MESSAGING INTERFACE - An electronic device and method for sending a message is provided. The electronic device includes a network interface, an input device and a processor in communication with the network interface and the input device. The processor is configured to establish a connection with a plurality of messaging applications, select a messaging service, receive content and input via a messaging composition interface and send the message. The method involves establishing a connection with a plurality of messaging applications, selecting a messaging service, receiving content and input via a messaging composition interface, and sending the message. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047038 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING SCANNED DOCUMENTS TO MOBILE DEVICE USING OPERATOR'S NETWORK - The present disclosure discloses a method for utilizing a scanning device for sending scanned output to mobile devices. The method includes scanning one or more documents as input. The method further includes saving the scanned output in a pre-defined format. Thereafter, a phone number of a destination mobile device is received. Then, an operator associated with the phone number is identified. Finally, the scanned output is sent to the mobile device using the mobile device operator's network. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047039 | CONTENT BASED MESSAGE DELIVERY - Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating message sessions. In one implementation, a notification is received relating to a message submitted for delivery on behalf of a sender to a recipient. The message includes several components. At least one delivery policy is identified based on the content identified in at least one of the components. Delivery of the message is initiated according to the delivery policy. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047040 | DATA STORAGE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE - An application programming interface for a data storage service provides a convenient mechanism for clients of the data storage service to access its various capabilities. An API call may be made to initiate a job and in response a job identifier may be provided. A separate API call specifying the job identifier may be made and a response providing information related to the job may result. Various API calls may be used to store data, retrieve data, obtain an inventory of stored data, and to obtain other information relating to stored data. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047041 | MESSAGE SUBSCRIPTION BASED ON MESSAGE AGGREGATE CHARACTERISTICS - A method for message subscription based on a message aggregate characteristic is described. The method includes receiving a message subscription from a user. The message subscription is based on the message aggregate characteristic including an aspect other than textual content and bibliographic content. The method also includes determining a published message in response to receiving the message subscription. The published message satisfies the message aggregate characteristic. The method also includes providing an indication of the published message to the user. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047042 | METHOD AND A SERVER FOR ROUTING BETWEEN DEVICES OF A COMPUTER BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - The invention concerns a method and a server for routing between devices of a computer based social network having a plurality of users, wherein upon receipt of a first message from a device ( | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047043 | Disposable Email Address Generation and Mapping to a Regular Email Account - An integrated system allows easily creating and using disposable email addresses. The disposable email address is created by an email server, which manages correspondence using the disposable email address to avoid exposing the associated non-disposable email address. Context information may be associated with a disposable email address, where the context information is not visible in email sent using the disposable email address. Expiration information may also be associated with the disposable email address, where the expiration information defines conditions that cause the disposable email address to expire. Should the disposable address be misused, the associated context may allow a user to recognize what correspondent exposed the disposable address to misuse. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SESSION THRESHOLD FOR IMS SCIM/SERVICE BROKERING - In accordance with various embodiments, systems and methods that integrate threshold management into a SCIM/Service Broker are provided. Such a system can include a plurality of applications, executing on one or more application servers. The system can also include a SCIM/Service Broker which is operable to manage a threshold set by the applications. Each application can determine an application threshold, a current threshold and a met threshold. When an application receives a message from the SCIM/Service Broker, the application can determine if the met threshold exists and, if the met threshold exists, update the application threshold accordingly. The application can also determine if the application threshold has been met, and if the application threshold has been met, execute business logic associated with the application threshold and set a new application threshold. The application sends a request to SCIM/Service Broker requesting a new current threshold value be set. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047045 | CUSTOMIZED PRESENTATION OF EVENT GUEST LISTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A user creates an event in a social networking system specifying a location, a time, and a guest list of other users invited to the event. The social networking system generates a page associated with the event that provides information about the event and identifies whether users have responded to invitations to the event. The content of the page may be customized for the user viewing the page to encourage the viewing user to attend the event. For example, the viewing user's relationship to and/or similar characteristics with other users on the guest list is determined and used by the social networking system to identify the users whose responses to invitations are shown to the viewing user via the page. Additionally, a notification method more prominently distributes acceptances of invitations to other users to encourage attendance. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047046 | METHOD OF ADDING A POSTSCRIPT MESSAGE TO AN EMAIL - A system and method providing for appending of a note or instruction to the contents of an email such that the note or instructions is only appended to emails of selected recipients of a group of recipients, with only the email going to the other recipients of the group of recipients is provided. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047047 | MAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM AND MAIL RECYCLING CORRECTION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a mail transit system and a mail recycling correction method. The mail transit system includes a sending-end device and a cloud transit device. The sending-end device is configured to provide a user to send a mail message via a first mail box interface. The cloud transit device is connected to the sending-end device, and configured to receive the mail message, perform address transformation, and transmit the transformed mail message to a second mail box interface. The first mail box interface is different from the second mail box interface, and when the mail message in the second mail box interface is in an unread state, the sending-end device is provided for the user to amend the mail message and send a correction command to the cloud transit device, so as to recycle or amend the mail message at the second mail box interface by the cloud transit device. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047048 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RESOURCE SHARING BETWEEN DEVICES - Electronic devices and methods communicate over a network with at least one other electronic device within a group of electronic devices. Each electronic device can transmit and/or receive resource information over the network, and the resource information includes a resource identifier for identifying a remote resource accessible through another electronic device and source information for identifying a location from which the remote resource can be obtained. An electronic device can select one of a plurality of resources including the remote resource, and in response to the remote resource being selected, requests the selected remote resource from the location identified by the source information in order to share the remote resource. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047049 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LINKING AND PRIORITIZING CHAT MESSAGES - Embodiments are directed at methods and systems for facilitating social interactions between viewers watching media inputs and interacting with each other before, during, and after the viewing process. One embodiment is directed to delivering chat messages to a user computer. The method comprises receiving a request including a user identifier from the user computer and determining a first user account associated with the user identifier. The method further comprises calculating an importance score for a plurality of chat messages. The importance score may be calculated for the first user account differently than for a second user account. The method further comprises selecting a first set of chat messages. The first set of chat messages may have a specified number of chat messages with importance scores that are highest amongst the chat messages. The method also comprises sending a response including the first set of chat messages to the user computer. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047050 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONIZING EMAILS - A device and method for synchronizing emails are provided. The method includes identifying configuration information for synchronizing emails, identifying email information to be provided from an email server through email synchronization based on the configuration information, and displaying the email information. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047051 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING PROMPT INFORMATION TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES COMMUNITY USERS - A method for sending prompt information to Social Networking Services (SNS) community users comprises the following steps: acquiring the inactive users in an SNS community; acquiring the friend relationship chains of the inactive users; acquiring the active users in the friend relationship chains; acquiring the writing operations of the active users; sending prompt information related to the writing operations of the active users to the inactive users. The method described above for sending prompt information to SNS community users can increase the success rate for activating the inactive users, and thus effectively reducing the loss of the SNS community users. Besides, a system for sending prompt information to SNS community users is also provided. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047052 | FACILITATING THE SENDING OF MAIL FROM A RESTRICTED COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The sending of mail from a restricted communications network is facilitated. A communications unit external to the restricted communications network periodically pulls the mail from the restricted communications network and forwards the mail to a receiver. The receiver may be the intended recipient of the mail or an intermediary used to further send the mail to the intended recipient. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047053 | RICH PRESENCE STATUS BASED ON LOCATION, ACTIVITY, AVAILABILITY AND TRANSIT STATUS OF A USER - A method and system for determining and sharing rich presence status of a user is presented. Multiple types of presence status options are associated with user's status based on location, activity, availability, transit status, and user's text updates, which the user can selectively share on their mobile device with different groups of users, and make one or more aspects of their presence status broadly available to everyone. Also a system to determine status based on auto-updates and manual updates is presented. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047054 | Unified Message Management Method and System - The proposed Advanced Messaging Solution (AMS) provides a non-intrusive cloud-based software application infrastructure through which MSOs and Service Providers can unify Web, mobile and set-top box device technologies with Enterprise and 3 | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140047055 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A transmission device ( | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140052791 | Task Based Filtering of Unwanted Electronic Communications - Mechanisms are provided for dynamically generating a task-based filter rule for filtering electronic communications. Characteristic data for at least one of electronic communications exchanged by, or user interactions performed via, a data processing system are collected. The characteristic data is automatically analyzed to determine if a task-based filter rule is to be generated. The task-based filter rule is automatically generated in response to determining that the characteristic data satisfies the dynamic task-based filter rule creation condition. Future electronic communications are automatically filtered by applying the task-based filter rule to the future electronic communications such that electronic communications satisfying a condition of the task-based filter rule are not filtered out. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052792 | SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING EMOTIONAL TONE-BASED NOTIFICATIONS FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATED METHODS - Systems for providing emotional tone-based notifications for communications and related methods are provided. In this regard, a representative system includes an electronic device having a network/communication interface operative to facilitate communication over a networked environment. The electronic device is operative to automatically associate information corresponding to an emotional tone of the communication with the communication such that a recipient of the communication is informed of the emotional tone. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052793 | MESSAGE SYNCHRONIZATION WITH EXTENDED PROPERTIES - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for synchronizing a text message, such as an MMS message and/or an SMS message, in full fidelity between a computing device and a message synchronization service. That is, content, natively supported by message synchronization protocols, and extended properties, not natively supported by message synchronization protocols, of a text message may be synchronized between a computing device and a message synchronization service. In particular, a message synchronization protocol may be modified to support annotations and/or extended headers, within which one or more extended properties may be specified. In this way, a synchronization message may comprise natively supported content and/or an extended property specified within an annotation and/or an extended header within the synchronization message. The synchronization message may be communicated between the computing device, the message synchronization service, and/or an email service for synchronization of the text message. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052794 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING CLARITY AND EXPRESSIVENESS IN NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments for increasing clarity and expressiveness in network communications include: obtaining a message from a first user as part of a network-enabled conversation with a second user; applying at least one embellishment to the message to produce an embellished message, the embellishment including either an explicitly user-selected embellishment or an automatically generated embellishment based on content of the message; and causing transmission of the embellished message via a network to the second user. Embodiments include: receiving a message from a first user via a network, the message including configuration data for configuring embellishment properties of the message; decoding the configuration data and generating an embellished message with the corresponding embellishment properties, the embellishment properties including either an explicitly user-selected embellishment or an automatically generated embellishment based on content of the message; and displaying the embellished message for the second user as part of a network-enabled conversation with the first user. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052795 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A social network system includes one or more participant terminals operable to act as a client on a social network and a computer operable to act as a server on the social network and to communicate with each of the participant terminals over the social network. The computer includes: a memory configured to store a set of instructions; and a processor configured to execute the set of instructions. The set of instructions cause the processor to: receive email content from a user in the social network; generate an email to be sent from the social network website, wherein the email includes the received email content; and send the email to at least one intended recipient. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052796 | LINKING SOUNDS AND EMOTICONS - A method and apparatus for linking sounds and emoticons to allow a recipient of a message containing an emoticon to hear audio associated with the emoticon. In one aspect of the invention, a first user or sender establishes a link or association between the emoticon being sent and a sound file to be associated with that particular emoticon. The emoticon is then transmitted from the sender to the recipient along with the link or association such that the recipient can hear the audio when the emoticon is displayed. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052797 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR GENERATING ACTION ITEM FROM EMAIL - Methods and devices for generating an action item based on an email message are described. In one embodiment, a processor-implemented method is described. The method includes: receiving an email message via a communication subsystem; determining that the received email message includes a follow up flag that indicates that an action is required regarding the email message; and in response to determining that the received email message includes a follow up flag that indicates that an action is required regarding the email message, creating an action item based on the received email message. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052798 | Ordered Processing of Groups of Messages - A data flow processing system represents processing by a directed graph including processing nodes that generate, and process, groups of dependent messages and that can process such groups of messages in order. To identify a group of messages, the system applies message identifiers to messages. Processing of a message may generate child messages. A child message is assigned a message identifier that incorporates the message identifier of the parent message. The message identifier of the parent message is annotated to indicate the number of related child messages. The processing node maintains a buffer to store messages in the group. When a message is received, its message identifier indicates whether it is in a group and information about the group. From this information the processing node determines whether all messages within the group have been received, at which time the processing node can process the messages in order. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052799 | GLOBALLY ADDRESSABLE INTERNET PROTOCOL AND SYNTAX MAPPING TO PHYSICAL ADDRESSES - Methods, systems, platforms, and software utilizing a unique addressable URI mapping to physical addresses to provide educational resources, registered electronic messaging, hyperlocal forums, micropayments, and user identity verification. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052800 | DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL API FOR MIME - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate interpreting Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) data. An interface can obtain MIME data. For instance, a stream of MIME data can be obtained, MIME data can be loaded from a static file, etc. Moreover, any disparate type of RFC 822 data can additionally or alternatively be received by the interface. Also, a MIME reader can analyze the MIME data (and/or normalized RFC 822 data) to interpret encoded structural information and generate at least one primitive based on the encoded structural information. Further, a hierarchical model can be built utilizing the at least one primitive. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052801 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGES IN INSTANT MESSAGING, CLIENT AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - A method for transmitting messages in instant messaging, an instant messaging client, and a storage medium. An instant messaging client receives a conversation message including text content from a remote instant messaging client. The conversation message includes a font sign of an individualized font. The instant messaging client receives the font sign from the conversation message. The instant messaging client calls a profile of the individualized font corresponding to the font sign according to the font sign. The instant messaging client makes a composition of the individualized font profile with the text content contained in the conversation message, and displays the composition. The individualized fonts could be dynamically composed according to the text contents of the conversation message and the individualized font profile corresponding to the font sign. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052802 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND DELIVERING PERSONALIZED MESSAGES - A method for creating and delivering a personalized message, comprises the steps of: receiving, via an Internet web site, data from a client, including a selection of a celebrity and contact information for an intended recipient of the message; storing the data in a database; retrieving a message script from a database based on the selected celebrity; prompting the client to enter certain personal information about the intended recipient of the message; receiving the personal information about the intended recipient of the message; creating the personalized message from the message script and the personal information; and delivering the personalized message to the intended recipient using the contact information. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052803 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROFILE BUILDING USING LOCATION INFORMATION FROM A USER DEVICE - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for building a profile for a contact. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes: identifying, via a computing device, missing information from a profile of a contact of a user, wherein the missing information includes a current physical location of the contact; determining whether to include the missing information in the profile based on satisfaction of a threshold; and in response to a determination to include the missing information: obtaining the missing information, wherein obtaining the current physical location of the contact includes retrieving a current physical location of a device of the contact; and adding the missing information to the profile. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052804 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT-BASED PROFILE BUILDING - Systems and methods build a profile for a contact. In one aspect, missing information from a profile of a contact is identified. A determination is made regarding whether the missing information is necessary for the profile based on satisfaction of a threshold. In response to the satisfaction of the threshold, a user is prompted to request the missing information from the contact. The missing information is obtained. The missing information is added to the profile. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052805 | E-MAIL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR E-MAIL SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide an e-mail system for ensuring that a user is able to know content of an e-mail sent addressed to the user even when the e-mail is not delivered to the user. An e-mail sending unit ( | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140059140 | FORMATTING RICH TEXT DATA INTO A JSON ARRAY - Formatting rich text data into a JSON array. A parent JSON object can be created within the JSON array. Header information defined as a field of the rich text data can be identified and represented in a root property of the parent JSON object. A plurality of parts of the rich text data can be identified. For each of the plurality of parts of the rich text data, content of the part can be identified. A first respective child JSON object can be inserted into the parent JSON object. The content of the part can be represented in a content property of the respective child JSON object. Header information of the part can be identified and represented in a header property of the respective first child JSON object. The JSON array can be output as a JSON file. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059141 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SYSTEM UTILIZING SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION RULES - Techniques for identifying and organizing electronic messages are described. With some embodiments, a method receives a user interaction update from a messaging client associated with a first user. The user interaction update has data indicating that the first user interacted with an electronic message. The method may then determine that the first user is associated with a classification attribute that defines a relationship in a social network. Using the user interaction update, the a social classification rule corresponding to the classification attribute associated with the first user is then updated. The social classification rule may include data usable to organize a plurality of electronic messages. Finally, the method may optionally send the updated social classification rule to a messaging client associated with a second user, where the updated social classification rule can be used to organize electronic messages displayed by the messaging client associated with the second user. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059142 | SENDING TEXT MESSAGES TO MULTIPLE DEVICES USING A JOINT SERVICES ACCOUNT - A network device receives a message that identifies a relationship between a wireless user device and a client device, the relationship allowing text messages, intended for the wireless user device, to be sent to the client device. The network device stores the information identifying the relationship. The network device receives a text message intended for the wireless user device. The network device determines to send the text message to the client device, based on the information identifying the relationship stored by the network device; and the network device sends the text message to the client device for display on a display device associated with the client device. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059143 | REMOTE CONFIGURATION OF A HARDWARE SETTING ON ONE OR MORE TARGET COMPUTING DEVICE(S) - A method includes registering one or more target computing device(s) with a request processing module of a server computing device and an application executing on a client computing device communicatively coupled to the server computing device, and initiating, through the application, a request to configure a hardware setting on the one or more target computing device(s) based on a communication mechanism. The method also includes processing, through the request processing module, the request to generate a validated message related to the hardware setting configuration and to extract information related to identifiers of the one or more target computing device(s), a hardware thereof and the hardware setting. Further, the method includes redirecting the validated message to the one or more target computing device(s) along with the extracted information, and interpreting the received validated message and the extracted information at the one or more target computing device(s). | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059144 | ACTION NOTIFICATION FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for generating action notifications for business applications. One computer-implemented method includes receiving notification data from a plurality of data sources; determining, based upon the received notification data, at least one action item to perform with an application on a client device; generating, by a notification engine, an application notification event, wherein the application notification event includes a unified list of at least one determined action item applicable to a user and a particular client device associated with the user; and transmitting the generated application notification event to the client device. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059145 | MESSAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE - A message display method for use in a device, including: determining a sending time and recipients of a mass message sent from the device by a user; and displaying the mass message on a conversation page of a separate conversation between the user and a first one of the recipients according to the sending time of the mass message. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059146 | USE OF BACKCHANNEL WITH DATACASTING VIA BROADCAST MEDIUM - Expansion of unidirectional datacasting includes the use of backchannel communication link(s) for clients communication with the datacasting infrastructure, producing a closed-loop or bidirectional system, possibly for both the acknowledgement of datacasting message receipts and a request-response service over datacasting. In one implementation, a server creates a message including a data object and a data object identifier associated with the data object. The server datacasts the message via the broadcast medium to client device(s). A given client device receives the message datacasted by the server via the broadcast medium, creates a given message including the data object identifier, and sends the given message to the server via a given backchannel. The server receives the given message including the data object identifier from the given client device via the given backchannel and records the receipt of the given message for the data object identifier. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059147 | Including a Plurality of Users in a Conversation over a Communication Network - Methods and devices are disclosed for including a plurality of users in a conversation over a communication network. A conversation is initiated when a text message is received requesting the conversation. A conversation is established using conversation gateways currently unused by users to be included in the conversation. Communication may occur across gateways in order to conserve conversation gateway resources. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059148 | Computer-based Methods and Systems for Arranging Meetings Between Users and Methods and Systems for Verifying Background Information of Users - Methods and systems for verifying, authenticating, and/or rating the identity or profile characteristics of users of online social networks and other websites and applications. And improved systems and methods that allow one or more individuals to meet or otherwise network or connect or transact or exchange information, tangibles or intangibles with other individuals and methods and systems for verifying and/or rating the identity or profiles of users of online social networks and other websites or applications. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059149 | Method to Display a Video in an Email - The present invention provides a method and a system to display a video in an email without the need to execute a player on the computerized device. The video email allows video to be displayed in emails without flagging the emails as a virus or spam. The video emails get through most firewalls. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059150 | METHOD FOR PRESENTING AN ATTACHMENT WITHIN AN EMAIL MESSAGE - A method for presenting an attachment within an email message on a display of a portable electronic device includes displaying the email message using a messaging application, sending a conversion request to an attachment server in order to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device, receiving a converted attachment from the attachment server; and upon receiving the converted attachment from the attachment server, inserting a thumbnail image in a message body of the email message. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059151 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTACT SPECIFIC DELIVERY REPORTS - A method includes selecting a contact for receiving a message from a computing device, and determining delivery report options individually for the selected contact, where the delivery report options are maintained for each message sent to the contact regardless of a global setting for delivery reports in the computing device. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059152 | SUPPORT SERVER FOR REDIRECTING TASK RESULTS TO A WAKE-UP SERVER - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at a wake-up server, an indication that an agent device will be suspended, including at least one criterion for reestablishing the agent device; determining that the at least one criterion has been met; and, in response, reestablishing the agent device. Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: transmitting, by an agent device to a support server, a request message; transmitting, to a wake-up server, an indication that resources associated with the agent device will be released, including at least one criterion for reestablishing the agent device; transmitting, to the support server, an instruction to transmit a result message associated with the request message to the wake-up device; and releasing the system resources associated with the agent device. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059153 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INTERCEPTION, QUARANTINE AND MODERATION OF INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS OF UNCONTROLLED SYSTEMS - Embodiments disclosed herein may intercept, quarantine, and moderate communications internal to an uncontrolled system. An example of an uncontrolled system may be a web application associated with a social networking site. In accessing the social networking site, a user may type in a message. An instance of the uncontrolled system running on the user's device may prepare a request containing the message. Some embodiment disclosed herein may determine that the message is subject to moderation, intercept the request, and place the message in a queue. This determination may be based on the destination of the request as well the type of the message. Some embodiments may reconstruct the original request for resubmission. If the session is expired, some embodiments may log in for the user and resubmit the reconstructed request. Some embodiments may simply wait for the next time the user logs in to resubmit the reconstructed request. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140067962 | DIRECT ELECTRONIC MAIL - Techniques are disclosed for enabling improved electronic mail handling in communication networks. For example, a method of handling an electronic mail message in an electronic mail system comprises the following steps. A secure connection is established between a client of a message sender and a server of a message recipient in the electronic mail system. An authentication exchange is employed to verify the identity of the message sender. The message sender deposits an electronic mail message with the server of the message recipient upon successful verification of the identity of the client of the message sender. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067963 | DYNAMIC MULTIMODAL VISUAL MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Methods and systems for providing a depiction of the relative importance of messages directed to a user of a multimodal communication endpoint are provided. More particularly, message indications are placed within a schema having two or more dimensions, depending on a determined classification or importance. Accordingly, the location, and optionally other attributes, of the message indication provides distinguishing characteristics that communicate a relative importance and/or relevance of a message to a user. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067964 | TARGETED STATUS UPDATES - Techniques for designating a desired target audience to receive a message or status update are described. Consistent with some embodiments, an authorized representative of an entity or organisation represented in a social graph of a social network service is presented with a variety of member profile attributes from which to select targeting criteria for defining a desired target audience to receive a message or status update published on behalf of the entity or organization. With some embodiments, the selectable profile attributes correspond with those possessed or associated with the members of the social network service who have subscribed to receive messages or status updates published on behalf of the entity or organisation. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067965 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING DEVICE MESSAGING - The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for enhanced messaging. Specifically, methods and apparatus are presented for transmitting a communication characteristic indicator of a communication message substantially simultaneous to an input of data defining at least a portion of the communication message at the sending device. In one aspect, the communication characteristic indicator represents one or more characteristics of the data. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067966 | VIRTUAL DISCUSSION THREADS FOR ACTIVITIES IN A TRUSTED NETWORK - Managing discussion threads within an electronic communication system includes detecting that an electronic message sent from a sender to a first recipient is forwarded from the sender to a second recipient and, responsive to the detecting, identifying at least one electronic message related to the forwarded message exchanged between the sender and the second recipient as a virtual discussion thread. A client is notified of that the virtual discussion thread exists and is correlated with the electronic message from the sender. The virtual discussion thread is provided to the client of the first recipient. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067967 | RECOMMENDING GROUPS TO JOIN IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Based on information associated with users, a social networking system recommends one or more groups for a target user to join or to create. Characteristics of the target user, characteristics of users connected to the target user, characteristics of candidate groups in the social networking system may be used to identify groups for recommendation. The social networking system may provide questions to the target user and recommend a group to the target user based on received answers to the questions. For example, the answers to the provided question identify one or more characteristics of the target user, which are used to select a group for recommendation. Additionally, the social networking system may recommend additional users for the target user to add or invite to a group based on characteristics of the target user, the additional users, and/or the group. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067968 | Methods and Systems for Providing Application Level Presence Information in Wireless Communication - Methods and apparatus for determining and maintaining user presence information include capturing user presence data with an application presence server. The application presence server can be configured to update user presence data as a user initiates or exits an application. Applications associated with user presence data are configured to query an application proxy client concerning user presence data of a selected user and, based on a returned user status, deliver, discard, or redirect a message intended for the user. User presence data is stored in a user presence repository and can be provided via Internet-based or other connections to applications executed on external networks. User activity status can be used to select or update user presence data. In some examples, an application server of an external network is configured to receive user presence data from the presence server. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067969 | Sharing Television And Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, a social networking system identifies a user viewing video content on a first display device, identifies the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determines a second display device associated with the identified user. The social networking system sends one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display one or more chat messages associated with the identified video content. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067970 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGAGEMENT IN A POLITICAL PROCESS - Methods and related apparatus and compositions of matter for engaging a user in a political process are disclosed herein. In various aspects the methods may include the steps of notifying a verified user of an action item by electronic messaging, with the action item relating to a political issue preselected by the verified user. The methods may include the step of collecting an actual response to the action item generated by the verified user, and transmitting the actual response to a decision maker. The methods may include, in various aspects, creating a report card using a plurality of decision maker actions of the decision maker, with the report card indicative of the agreement between each decision maker action of a number of decision maker action with the corresponding actual responses of the verified user. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067971 | Method and Arrangement for Controlling Actions in a Notification Service - Method and arrangement for controlling actions in a notification server ( | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067972 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus of managing a community site. Upon execution of processor-executable instructions by a processing unit, the processing unit manages the community site in accordance with management data so as to permit access to the community site by a plurality of terminal apparatuses based at least in part on terminal data from each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses. The terminal data indicates at least one of a time or a location associated with the terminal apparatus. The processing unit further stores content uploaded from at least one of the plurality of terminal apparatuses to at least one storage device, the content being accessible via the community site. In response to at least one predetermined condition relating to the usage of the community site being satisfied, the processing unit sends a signal to delete the content from the at least one storage device. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067973 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING VERTICAL SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR CLIENT ORIENTED SERVICE PROVIDERS - An apparatus, system and method for providing an advisor decision enabling tool. The apparatus, system and method includes a plurality of networked computers, wherein at least one user of each of the plurality at least electronically communicates with a plurality of clients at least partially over the network, and a first computing engine comprising at least computing code associated with at least a first processor capable of accumulating data regarding ones of the plurality if clients and actions by each of the at least one user, wherein the first computing engine accepts a plurality of tags indicative of the accumulated data, and wherein the tags are dictated by the at least one user. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067974 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELAYED NOTIFICATIONS IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - Communications is the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information. However, whilst immense investments into evolving communications infrastructure supporting multiple communications channels have been made the vast majority of communications models, standards, and developments focus to the transmission of the message as a single process with other aspects of the communications channel are considered simply delays in the communications channel. However, it would be beneficial to provide enhancements to such communications channels to provide additional information to the sender with respect to the delivery to and recovery by the recipient of the message such that not only do they have the option to elect to receive a delivery notification in communications systems that today do not provide such information, but that in these systems and those supporting delivery notifications increased information is provided to the user allowing them to ascertain or estimate the recipient's absorption/reading of the message. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067975 | PROCESSING MESSAGES - A message processing method and system. According to embodiments of the present invention, the preference of a user for messages may be determined based on actions of the user regarding those messages. The message is analyzed to determine one or more categories to which content of the messages belongs to. Thus, a matching degree between the user and a corresponding category may be determined or adjusted according to the preference of the user for the messages. Such a matching degree may be then used for filtering an incoming message. According to embodiments of the present invention, for each specific user, the information that a user is not interested in may be filtered in a more accurate and adaptive manner. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067976 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSENGER SERVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An apparatus and a method for providing a messenger service in an electronic device are provided. In the method, the messenger service with at least one counterpart electronic device is provided. First application setting information is determined during the messenger service. The first application setting information is transmitted to the at least one counterpart electronic device through the messenger service. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067977 | Systems and Methods for Uploading Media Content In An Instant Messaging Conversation - System and methods for uploading media content in an instant messaging application are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a first electronic device having one or more processors and memory: obtaining a request by a first user to associate a media content item with a conversation between the first user and a second user. The conversation includes a message and one or more responses to the message. In some implementations, the method also includes, responsive to the request: (i) causing a thumbnail of the media content item to be displayed in-line in the conversation; and (ii) causing the media content item to be display to the second user, in response to a predefined user action by the second user. The thumbnail is displayed in a first resolution; and the media content item is displayed in a second resolution that is different than the first resolution. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067978 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention has as its object to avoid occurrence of garble even when an e-mail message to be created includes text information described in character codes of different kinds of language. To achieve this object, a communication apparatus according to this invention includes an input unit which inputs image information, a recognition unit which extracts text information included in the image information input by the input unit, and recognizing a type of character code of the extracted text information, an embedding unit which embeds the extracted text information in a text of e-mail using character codes of the type recognized by the recognition unit, and describing the recognized type ( | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067979 | SYSTEM CONTROLLING USE OF A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - A system controlling use of a communication channel in a communication network. The system comprising a network including service nodes. The service nodes comprising one or snore sets having one or snore nodes adapted to provide service functions in response to messages in the network. At least one of the sets comprising a member node having ace for communication with a remote to final, and a user interface process coupled with the interface to include a user of the remote terminal in the network. At least one of the sets comprising a member node having an interface to the communication network, and a process coupled to the interface to control establishment of the communication channel for the user. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067980 | CONTROL FOR INVITING AN UNAYTHENTICATED USER TO GAIN ACCESS TO DISPLAY OF CONTENT THAT IS OTHERWISE ACCESSIBLE WITH AN AUTHENTICATION MECHANISM - Enabling an authenticated user to access content associated with an authenticated user as though the authenticated user had a selected user relationship with the authenticated user. The user relationship may comprise a relationship degree, a relationship category, a relationship rating, and/or the like. An invitation to join an electronic service, such as an online social network, is sent to the unauthenticated user at an address known to the authenticated user. The invitation includes a time-limited token, such as a URL, that includes an invitation identifier, which relates the invitation to the authenticated user content. The token may be encrypted in the invitation. The unauthenticated user returns the token as a request to preview the authenticated user content without first becoming an authenticated user of the electronic service. If the token is still valid, access is granted. The unauthenticated user may also request to establish a connection with the authenticated user. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067981 | Classification and Status of Users of Networking and Social Activity Systems - Classifications and statuses can be assigned to entities and devices associated with a network (e.g., users of a social activity or networking system) based on media, application, network and/or other information (e.g., purchasable product information). A status or classification can pertain to a subject matter that is, for example, associated with a media and/or applications in a very broad sense or in a specific context (e.g., category, genre, item). As such, a status or a classification can, for example, provide valuable information regarding a user to other users of a social activity system. By way of example, a user can be classified as a music expert, as a high volume application user, as an expert with respect a particular genre of music or movies, or as a novice with respect to a specific media asset, item, or event (e.g., a particular song, a movie, concert, gaming application, product). Among other things, a status or a classification can be used to manage a social activity system, as well as managing information provided by the social activity system. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140074940 | DESTINATION PLANNING METHOD - A destination planning method suitable for use on a vehicle comprises the following steps: a, destination editing and file transmission; b, using electronic apparatus or navigation device to receive the file; and c, using the destination file. The destination file can be automatically sent to the navigation device after it is edited by a sender, which improves the ease of use and solves the inconvenience caused manual operation. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074941 | Messaging and updating services over the air from application servers to applications in mobile devices - The present invention provides a method, system and program product for messaging and updating services over the air from application servers to applications in mobile devices, so that applications in mobile devices can receive instant messages over the air from application servers via instant messaging servers and communication networks, with option to communicate back to application servers to fetch updates over the air via communication networks, and execute updates in mobile devices or applications. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074942 | IDENTIFYING A WEBPAGE FROM WHICH AN E-MAIL ADDRESS IS OBTAINED - Detecting an e-mail client generating a first e-mail identifying as a recipient e-mail address an e-mail address identified in the webpage. A screen shot of the webpage can be captured. An association can be automatically created between the screen shot of the webpage and the first e-mail, and the screen shot of the webpage is stored. The first e-mail is sent to the recipient e-mail address. Responsive to receiving or opening the first e-mail or a second e-mail related to the first e-mail, the screen shot of the webpage can be automatically retrieved and presented. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074943 | Electronic Communication Warning and Modification - Techniques for electronic communication warning and modification. A method includes automatically detecting an emotional state of a sender of an electronic communication, encoding the detected emotional state of the sender, using input from at least one additional source, as metadata, embedding the metadata in the electronic communication to create an annotated version of the electronic communication, and transmitting the annotated version of the electronic communication to a recipient. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074944 | Establishing A Communication Event - Methods and computer program products for establishing communication events between an initiator user and a recipient user over a first communication system. The initiator and recipient users are contacts within a second communication system but are not contacts within the first communication system. For the initiator and recipient users, an association between a first user identity in the first communication system and a second user identity in the second communication system is determined. The initiator user device uses the association for the recipient user to determine the first user identity of the recipient user. A setup request to establish the communication event is sent over the first communication system from a first initiator client to a first recipient client. A communication event is authorized to proceed over the first communication system on the basis that the initiator user and the recipient user are contacts within the second communication system. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074945 | Electronic Communication Warning and Modification - A system and article of manufacture for electronic communication warning and modification include automatically detecting an emotional state of a sender of an electronic communication, encoding the detected emotional state of the sender, using input from at least one additional source, as metadata, embedding the metadata in the electronic communication to create an annotated version of the electronic communication, and transmitting the annotated version of the electronic communication to a recipient. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074946 | EMBEDDED COMMUNICATION IN MESSAGE BASED TRANSPORTS - Systems and methods for utilizing unused space in expensive message based communication to embed messages from a sender device to a receiver device to maximize payload usage over a potentially fee-based messaging service. One or more machine-to-machine messages may be embedded in unutilized transport space when other communications, that may potentially be delivered over a fee-based network, are initiated at a device. The machine-to-machine message and other communications may be extracted from a combined message package at a receiving device and processed as if they were independently transported. Machine-to-machine messages may be segmented and embedded across multiple unrelated communication packages and later reassembled. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074947 | AUTOMATED E-MAIL SCREENING TO VERIFY RECIPIENTS OF AN OUTGOING E-MAIL MESSAGE - A system includes an e-mail client for creating an e-mail message to be sent and for selecting an e-mail distribution list containing prospective recipients of the e-mail message. A subject matter database contains a set of predefined subject matter types. A user database associates one or more user attributes with each of the prospective recipients. An exclusions database defines a set of exclusions uniquely associating each user attribute with one of the subject matter types. A screening module comprises control logic for referencing the exclusions database and sending the e-mail message to the e-mail distribution list except for the prospective recipients excluded by the subject matter type of the e-mail message. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074948 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMAIL TRACKING AND EMAIL SPAM REDUCTION USING DYNAMIC EMAIL ADDRESSING SCHEMES - An email redirection server handles email sent by subscribers or intended for subscribers, obfuscating the subscriber's identity through replacement of the subscriber's native email address with a proxy address in the message header and forwarding the email with only the proxy address. Acquiring a proxy address includes assignment by the email redirection server of a child domain in the DNS namespace for the subscriber's exclusive use. When a subscriber intends to send an email to a particular recipient without revealing the subscriber's native email address to the particular recipient, the subscriber addresses the message by putting the recipient's full email address in the local part of the “To” field, replacing the “@” symbol with a known replacement character, and placing the subscriber's assigned subdomain in the domain part of the “To” field, assuring that the email gets to the email redirection server for appropriate readdressing and forwarding. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074949 | BLOG MIGRATION MANAGEMENT - Technologies are generally described for a blog migration management scheme. In some examples, a blog migration management system may include a blog content extraction unit configured to extract blog content posted on a source blog, a user identification unit configured to identify from the source blog an identification of a user who posted the blog content, and a blog content loading unit configured to load the blog content onto a destination blog, with granting the user an authority for the blog content on the destination blog. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074950 | DETERMINING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION INFORMATION - Determining additional information associated with geographic location information included in a message is disclosed, including: receiving a message including geographic location information from a first device; extracting the geographic location information from the message; determining additional information associated with the geographic location information; and sending the message and the additional information to a second device. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074951 | ENHANCED CHAT FUNCTIONALITY AND SEARCHING - Methods and systems for providing new functionality in chat applications are provided. In one embodiment, the new methods and systems associate commands with particular characters appearing in a chat message which instruct the chat application to perform certain protocols. In one embodiment, an application identifies a keyword in the chat message and performs an electronic search for data on the keyword. The search results may then be modified based on location; personal preferences and rankings, as well as preferences and rankings of the designated friends of the users involved in the online chat discussion. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074952 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGREGATION, CORRELATION, DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL COMMUNICATION MESSAGING AND EVENT-BASED PLANNING - A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code to cause a processor to receive, from a first electronic device via a first mode, a signal representing a first data set associated with a first communication at a first time. The code causes the processor to define a second data set associated with the communication in a second mode. The code causes the processor to send a signal representing the second data set to a second electronic device at a second time after the first time. The code causes the processor to receive, from the second electronic device via the second mode, a signal representing a third data set associated with a second communication, at a third time after the second time. The code causes the processor to send, to the second electronic device, a signal including an instruction to present, on a display, the second data set with the third data set. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074953 | AUTOMATED E-MAIL SCREENING TO VERIFY RECIPIENTS OF AN OUTGOING E-MAIL MESSAGE - A method and computer program product for implementing the method are disclosed. The method includes obtaining an e-mail message to be sent and an e-mail distribution list containing prospective recipients of the e-mail message. A subject matter type of the e-mail message to be sent is identified, and one or more user attributes for each prospective recipient is obtained. The method further includes referencing a set of predefined exclusions associating user attributes with subject matter types, to identify any prospective recipients from the e-mail distribution list that have a user attribute that the set of predefined exclusions associate with the subject matter type of the e-mail message to be sent. The e-mail message is sent to the e-mail distribution list except for the prospective recipients identified using the set of predefined exclusions. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074954 | Method, system and device for implementing reposting to microblog - The disclosure discloses a method for implementing reposting to a microblog, which includes: a microblog webpage server transmits information of a microblog user, who posts a microblog message, to a webpage server of a webpage after posting the microblog message including information of the webpage; and the webpage server updates a microblog page link of a microblog user that has performed reposting on the webpage to a microblog page link of the microblog user according to the information of the microblog user. The disclosure further discloses a system and devices for implementing reposting to a microblog, which facilitates popularization of microblog pages of users and can enhance attention of the microblog users, thereby promoting user experience, perfecting a function of reposting to a microblog, increasing a resource sharing efficiency for webpages and improving resource utilization. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074955 | AUTOMATIC ATTACHMENT AND DETACHMENT FOR HUB AND PERIPHERAL DEVICES - A device comprises circuitry and a transceiver. In operation, the device is configured to cause the transceiver to: receive a first message from another device to support at least one aspect of attachment of the device and the another device, send, to the another device, a second message after the first message and prior to attachment, receive, from the another device, a third message that is sent after the second message and prior to attachment, send, to the another device, a fourth message after the third message and prior to attachment, receive, from the another device, a fifth message that is sent after the fourth message and prior to attachment, and send, directly to the another device, data utilizing at least one channel for data transfer utilizing a second one of the addresses for identification in association with the device on the shared wireless communication medium. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074956 | MESSAGE SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A message sending method and apparatus relate to the field of communications technologies and shorten a service delay. A message sending method includes: when a terminal is in a data service sleep state, receiving an instant messaging message sent by the terminal; determining a size of the instant messaging message; and sending the instant messaging message of the terminal through a signaling channel when the size of the instant messaging message is smaller than preset bytes. The embodiments of the present invention are mainly applicable to a value-added service. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074957 | Method and Apparatus for Social Information Exchange in a Vehicle - A computer implemented method includes receiving a request for a review relating to a merchant, good or service, from a requesting user through a vehicle computing system (VCS). The method also includes searching a group of reviews created by one or more users affiliated with a requesting user, the grouping having been created by the requesting user. Further, the method includes retrieving at least one review for delivery to the requesting user. The method also includes delivering the at least one review to the requesting user via the VCS. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140082092 | METHOD OF RESOLVING A CONTACT WHILE COMPOSING TEXT AND/OR EMAIL MESSAGE - Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter may include a method for sharing one or more data fields from within a contact in a contact list on an electronic computing device. The method can include receiving first user input requesting retrieval of the contact in the contact list. The method can include retrieving the contact in response to the user input. The method can include determining that the contact contains data fields, wherein the data fields include contact information for the contact. The method can include presenting one or more graphical user interface (GUI) controls for selecting at least one of the data fields within the contact. The method can include receiving, via the one or more GUI controls, second user input indicating selection of one or more of the data fields. The method can include sharing the one or more data fields associated with the contact. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082093 | BATCHING NOTIFICATIONS OF ACTIVITIES THAT OCCUR IN A WEB-BASED COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods of batched notifications of activities that occur in a web-based collaboration environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for detecting activities occurring in an online collaboration environment, generating a notification event for one or more of the activities, and selecting one or more recipients for each notification event according to criteria determined based on a workspace in which the associated activity was performed in the online collaboration environment. The indications of each notification event are then added to one or more queues associated with the one or more recipients and, upon expiry of a queue timer, the contents of the one or more queues associated with the one or more recipients are sent to the corresponding one or more recipients as batched notifications. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082094 | PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS OF MESSAGES FOR CONSUMPTION - Embodiments of apparatus, packages, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media (transitory and non-transitory) are described herein for providing a notification of a message to a recipient for consumption using a computing device. In various embodiments, provision of the notification may be in a timing or manner that is based on a characteristic of the message, an operational context of the system, and/or empirical data about preferred timing or manner of notification of at least another message to the same or different recipient. In various embodiments, the at least another message may share the same characteristic, or may have a related characteristic. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082095 | WORKFLOW MONITORING - Systems, computer readable media, and methods for workflow monitoring of documents are provided. An example of a workflow monitoring system includes a document having a map-file for each participant in a workflow of the document and a first communication mechanism to transmit the document to a receiving participant in the workflow. The system includes an application, associated with a receiving device of the receiving participant, to extract a confirmation token from the map-file and transmit the confirmation token and a second communication mechanism, different from the first communication mechanism, to transmit a direct message including at least the confirmation token to verify receipt of the document by the receiving participant. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082096 | PRESERVING COLLABORATION HISTORY WITH RELEVANT CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - Preserving collaborative history includes detecting a trigger for a chat session between at least two participants using a processor and, responsive to the trigger, obtaining event data for an event occurring during the chat session and involving at least one of the participants. The event data is included within a transcript of the chat session. In other cases, event data is obtained from external systems that is correlated with the chat session and is included within the transcript. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082097 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MERCHANT SERVICING - A method includes receiving a message comprising a user identification code via a social media messaging channel. In addition, the method includes receiving geo-location information of the device transmitting the message. The method also includes verifying the user identification code by confirming that the geo-location information complies with stored expected geo-location information. The method also includes accessing data associated with a transaction account linked to the user identification code based on the content of the message. The method further includes transmitting a reply to the received message on the social media messaging channel. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082098 | PROVIDING MERGED PRESENCE CALCULATION INFORMATION BASED ON ANALOGOUS MULTI-UTILITY EVENTS - Methods and systems are disclosed for collecting presence information from multiple utilities associated with a user and creating merged presence calculation information where events are determined to be analogous in content. The analogous content may relate to one or more of timing, context, user information, location, and the like. More specifically, email out-of-office and calendar events may be treated as analogous events. From the analogous events, merged presence calculation information is created and then provided to a presence server for an efficient aggregate presence calculation. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082099 | MISPLACED MOBILE DEVICE NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON RIGHTFUL USER'S SOCIAL NETWORKING INFORMATION - In a method for notifying an owner or other rightful user of a mobile device of a misplaced mobile device, a computer receives social networking information about the rightful user of the mobile device. The computer receives, from the mobile device, a set of contextual information that is associated with the mobile device. The computer determines, based on the set of contextual information, whether the mobile device has been misplaced. In response to the computer determining that the mobile device has been misplaced, the computer dynamically identifies, based on the set of contextual information and on the social networking information, one or more contacts associated with the rightful user. In response to the computer determining that the mobile device has been misplaced, the computer sends a notification message to the identified one or more contacts. The notification message indicates that the rightful user's mobile device has been misplaced. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082100 | VIRTUAL AGENDA PARTICIPANT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for managing meeting agendas in a meeting or conference via a virtual agenda participant. The system maintains, prior to a communication session, a conference agenda associated with the communication session. During the communication session, the system identifies, via a virtual entity, communication items associated with the communication session to yield identified communication items, wherein the virtual entity dynamically monitors the communication session and processes data associated with the communication session to identify the communication items. The system then compares, via the virtual entity, the conference agenda with the identified communication items to determine which items from the conference agenda have been addressed during the communication session. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082101 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FACILITATING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING GROUP - A social networking system that enables a member of social networking site to search for other members whose group profiles satisfy one or more search criteria. The system further enables the member to select one or more of the members whose profile satisfies the search criteria, and enables a communication between the member and the selected members. Thus, the member may send a communication to all members whose profiles satisfy the search criteria, or to a subset of those members whose profiles satisfy the search criteria. The communication may be an e-mail, an invitation, a chat message, a private positing on a public message board, a text message or any other suitable type of communication. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082102 | UNIFIED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Unified communication system for consolidating different message sources (e.g. emails, SMS, voice message, fax, etc.) into a single accessible location with the ability to incorporate phone calls, VoIP calls, voice commands, etc. This is achieved through integration of a Speech-ready IVR system with an E-mail client to act as the Unified Communication System. Furthermore, the IVR flexibility allows the user to access messages when internet access is not available or read messages such as SMS and emails when not physically convenient e.g. when user is driving. A computer based server receives a message in the format of SMS, fax, e-mail, or phone message. The server identifies what format the message is in and displays a notification on a graphical user interface. Through integration with a speech ready IVR system user may select to listen to the message or read the message. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082103 | UNIFIED LTE CLOUD SYSTEM - Unified communication system for consolidating different message sources (e.g. emails, SMS, voice message, fax, text messages etc.) into a single accessible location with the ability to incorporate phone calls, VoIP calls, voice commands, etc. This is achieved through integration of a Speech-ready IVR system with an E-mail client to act as the Unified Communication System. Furthermore, the IVR flexibility allows the user to access messages when internet access is not available or read messages such as SMS and emails when not physically convenient e.g. when user is driving. System further includes the ability to automatically convert format of sent messages into an alternative format based upon failed delivery attempts or requested message format not being supported. Automatic format conversion of the sent messages are determined by requested recipient targeted format. Users may customize which alternative formats to use based upon recipient targeted format. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082104 | Updating a Message - Implementations disclosed herein relate to updating a message. In one embodiment, a processor | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082105 | EMAIL RECALL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for advanced e-mail and messaging are disclosed. Profiles which include visual keys enable more efficient communications between users. Profiles may be pushed out to recipients or may be pulled in by recipients, with control over updated elements shared between the profile owner and the recipient. Additional capabilities include the ability to delete e-mails sent to a recipient regardless of when sent, extended subject line support to enable more efficient communications, and Improved display of threaded e-mail messages. Furthermore, features to reduce necessary communications bandwidth are also disclosed. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082106 | PRESERVING COLLABORATION HISTORY WITH RELEVANT CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - Preserving collaborative history includes detecting a trigger for a chat session between at least two participants using a processor and, responsive to the trigger, obtaining event data for an event occurring during the chat session and involving at least one of the participants. The event data is included within a transcript of the chat session. In other cases, event data is obtained from external systems that is correlated with the chat session and is included within the transcript. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082107 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING OBJECTIVES IN AN ORGANIZATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for managing objectives in an organization in a social network environment. A server may receive objective data and task data associated with the objective. A message associated with the objective may be published on a social network feed. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082108 | DIGITAL CLUB NETWORKS - Club networks include provider members of goods or services associated with platforms like automobiles, other vehicles, appliances or structures, and customer members. structures, and customer members. Customer members join a club by connecting an on-board-device, linked to the network through an interface like a smart phone. The club processes the data and delivers messages for the benefit of customer members, providing the advantages of social network with convenience, safety, commercial advantage and fun aspects of using the platform. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082109 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The present invention aims at offering a mobile communication device allowing the user to identify the sender when the user selects or opens a mail in a mail list by outputting an image and music that have been registered to the address book. Accordingly, when a mail is selected in the mail list of the mail box | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082110 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING AN ADDRESS BOOK WITH AN INSTANTMESSAGING APPLICATION IN A MOBILE STATION - This relates to a method for operating a mobile station. The method includes grouping two or more member addresses into a group. The group is presented as a group data in a transient data list. A selection of an option to open a messaging session with the group is selected. A messaging session is opened, with the member addresses of the selected group. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082111 | DOCUMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH EMAIL UPLOADER FOR AUTOMATIC STORAGE OF DOCUMENTS IN A USER ACCOUNT - A computer program product and method for delivery of electronic and physical documents, with an email interface for uploading documents to be automatically stored in a user's account. The system may receive uploaded electronic documents for delivery to one or more electronic and/or physical endpoints. After the electronic documents have been received, the delivery system determines whether the received electronic documents should be delivered electronically or physically, based on recipient data in the delivery system. If physical documents are to be delivered, the system may intelligently decide whether to aggregate some documents into a multi-document package. The system provides for delivery by commercial carrier, postal service, and/or electronic delivery. Optional services available to the sender include, but are not limited to, certified mail, proof of service, and email confirmation. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082112 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING WEB-BASED MULTIMEDIA TO A MOBILE PHONE - An apparatus and method for dynamically providing web-based multimedia to a mobile phone are described. According to one embodiment, an RSS feed is received that references multimedia files meeting one or more criteria. A playlist is generated dynamically from the multimedia files. The playlist is a single virtual multimedia file. An updated RSS feed is received that references one or more additional multimedia files meeting the one or more criteria. A second playlist is generated dynamically from the multimedia files and the one or more additional multimedia files. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082113 | COLLABORATIVE EMAIL WITH HIERARCHICAL SIGNATURE AUTHORITY - Writing a collaborative email document with hierarchical authorities including establishing a collaborative email document on an administrator's computer, identifying one or more signatories for the document, identifying one or more collaborators who are authorized to view and edit the document, providing to the collaborators copies of the document for viewing and editing, where the collaborators' copies reside on collaborators' computers, updating the copies of the document on collaborators' computers with revisions from the collaborators, and sending the collaborative email document from the administrator's computer to addressees when the document bears valid digital signatures from all signatories. Typical embodiments also include providing at least one user authority to delegate signature authority, establishing a hierarchy of delegation authority for signatures, establishing at least one authority delegation policy including at least one rule for automated delegation of signature authority among signatories and delegating signature authority from at least one signatory to another. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140089417 | COMPLEX HANDLING OF CONDITIONAL MESSAGES - System, methods, and apparatuses are provided for outputting a notification of a conditional communication (e.g., a message) based on one or more conditions. The output can be controlled by a receiver's device or by a server communicably coupled with the receiver's device, on which a set of applications are loaded. For example, a filter can determine whether a communication has an associated condition. The condition can require specific values of a variable property associated with the receiver's device. A selector module can determine a subset of application(s) that are used to obtain the variable property. When the condition is satisfied, a notification of the communication can be output. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089418 | STRUCTURING NOTIFICATIONS OF EVENTS TO USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system identifies an event based on a thread including messages from users of the social networking system and communicates invitations to the event to one or more invited users. The social networking system receives a response to an invitation from a responding user and identifies a group of users invited to the event that have not responded to the invitation. From the users invited to the event that have not responded to the invitation, a subset of users having a threshold affinity to the responding user are selected. The social networking system notifies the subset of users of the responding user's response to the invitation and may also provide the subset of users with a suggestion for attending the event. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089419 | Methods, Systems, and Program Products for Processing a Data Object Identification Request in a Communication - Methods and systems are described for processing a data object identification request in a communication. In an aspect, a first communications agent in a first execution environment receives data object information identifying a data object matching criterion. The first communications agent exchanges a first message with a second communications agent in a second execution environment. The second communications agent detects a data object identification request included in the exchanged first message. In response to detecting the data object identification request, a data object identification response is generated that identifies a data object in a second data store in the second execution environment. The second communications agent exchanges a second message with the first communications agent. The second message includes the data object identification response, wherein the second message does not include the data object. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089420 | Methods, Systems, and Program Products for Processing a Reference in a Communication to a Remote Data Object - Descriptions are provided for processing a reference in a communication to a remote data object. In an aspect, information is received, by a second communications agent, that identifies a data object in a second data store in a second execution environment that includes the second communications agent. A descriptor is created for accessing the data object. The descriptor is sent in a first message, by the second communications agent, that is received by a first communications agent in a first execution environment, via a communications protocol. The data object is not included in the first message. A second message that identifies the data object is sent from the first communications agent to the second communications agent, via the communications protocol. Some or all of the data object is sent, via the network, by the second execution environment and received by the first execution environment. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089421 | Methods, Systems, and Program Products for Sharing a Data Object in a Data Store Via a Communication - Methods and systems are described for sharing a data object in a data store via a communication. In an aspect, a second communications agent receives data object information that identifies a data object in a second data store in a second execution environment. A mount descriptor for accessing the data object is created. A first message is sent from the second communications agent and received by a first communications agent in a first execution environment according to a first communication protocol. The mount descriptor is detected and a first location in a first data store in the first execution environment is determined. A representation of the data object is created, based on the mount descriptor, at the location. The data object is accessible to the first execution environment via the representation. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089422 | DYNAMICALLY CREATING A SOCIAL NETWORKING CHECK-IN LOCATION - In a method for creating a social networking check-in location for social networking applications, a computer receives a geographic location for each user computing device in a plurality of user computing devices. The computer determines a portion of the plurality of user computing devices that exhibit an area density exceeding a threshold. The area density is defined as a number of user computing devices per unit area. The computer receives two or more social networking messages from the portion of the plurality of user computing devices. The computer determines a common subject between the two or more social networking messages. The computer creates a social networking check-in location. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089423 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING OBJECTS DISPLAYED IN A MEDIA ASSET - Systems and methods for identifying objects displayed in a media asset are provided. A plurality of messages is received at a remote server from a plurality of users. Each message identifies an object displayed in the media asset. The received messages are processed to extract media asset information and the identified object. The extracted media asset information of each message is cross-referenced with a media asset information database to identify the media asset that corresponds to each of the received messages. The identified objects extracted from each of the plurality of messages are processed to generate information describing the identified object. The generated information for the identified object is stored in the media asset information database for the media asset that corresponds to each of the received messages. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089424 | Enriching Broadcast Media Related Electronic Messaging - Systems, methods and devices described herein enable users of Internet-enabled devices to share content from broadcast media programs in real-time. In particular, in some implementations systems, methods and devices are operable to share content from broadcast media content presented on a first type of device using respective Internet-enabled second devices. For example, a server system parses an electronic message received from a client device to determine if the electronic message is associated with a particular currently broadcast media program. In response to determining that received electronic message is associated with a particular currently broadcast media program, the server system generates a corresponding supplemented electronic message, from the received electronic message, by including content from the currently broadcast media program. The server system then provides the supplemented electronic message to a service (e.g., a micro-blog application) for display. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089425 | HIGH AVAILABILITY APPLICATION MESSAGING LAYER - Certain embodiments enable application message delivery to be automatically guaranteed for all failover scenarios through use of a novel infrastructure layer that supports high availability (HA) messaging. The High Availability Application Messaging Layer (HAML) can guarantee delivery of application messages whether a failover occurs at one or both of the source and the intended destination of the message. The HAML may transmit messages to one intended destination, as unicast messaging, or to multiple intended destinations, as multicast messaging. In some embodiments, the HAML may be HA aware, which refers to the awareness of the HAML of the redundancy for all processing entities within a network device to ensure hitless failover at the network device. By moving support for HA messaging from individual applications to the HAML, as a common infrastructure layer across the processing entities, the individual applications do not need to implement additional software to explicitly support HA messaging. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089426 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ISSUING EMAIL ACCOUNT - A method and apparatus for issuing an email account to a client device by a network device including an email server. The method includes: receiving an email from the client device via a first email account, which is registered in the email server before the email account of the client device is issued; reading information necessary for issuance of a new email account from the read email; and registering a second email account, which is to be issued to the client device, in the email server based on the read information. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089427 | MAIL CREATION SUPPORTING DEVICE AND METHOD - A mail creation supporting device includes a processor and a memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute a process including acquiring attribute information stored in the memory to correspond to a destination of an electronic mail message in process of creation and associated with the destination, specifying a space area in a text input area of the electronic mail message, and displaying the attribute information on the specified space area. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089428 | Method and System for Sharing Web Hyperlink - The disclosure provides a method and a system for sharing a web hyperlink. The method includes: a first mobile terminal adding extended information on a browsed webpage and transmitting the extended information and the web hyperlink of the webpage to a second mobile terminal; the second mobile terminal opening the webpage according to the web hyperlink and displaying the extended information on the webpage. By applying the disclosure, a web hyperlink containing extended information is transmitted to a receiver by a transmitter, so that the receiver is able to display the extended information when opening the web hyperlink. In this way, opinions and comments etc. about contents of the webpage of the transmitter can be shared with the receiver, thus improving personalization and richness of webpage contents shared among terminals and improving user experience. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089429 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND MESSAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM - As described above, when a communication control device receives a message transmitted from a user terminal, the communication control device specifies a destination of the message from contents of the message, specifies a type of communication service available by a user of the specified destination, and creates a message suitable for the specified type of service. Then, the communication control device transmits the created message to the specified destination. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089430 | DATA-SHARING METHOD, TERMINAL, SERVER, AND SYSTEM - Methods, terminals, servers, and systems for sharing data are disclosed. The data-sharing method can include: a first instant messaging terminal transmitting a data-sharing request to a second instant messaging terminal; the second instant messaging terminal responding to the data-sharing request by transmitting a reply permitting data sharing to the first instant messaging terminal, the reply including an identifier (ID) collection of the shareable data resources; the first instant messaging terminal transmitting a data-reading request to the second instant messaging terminal, the data-reading request including at least one data resource ID; the second instant messaging terminal transmitting a data resource corresponding to the data resource ID in the data-reading request to the first instant messaging terminal. This allows simple and fast data-sharing among multiple terminals. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089431 | INSTANT MESSAGING METHOD, TERMINAL, SERVER, AND SYSTEM - The present disclosure discloses an instant messaging method, terminal, server and system. The method includes: a first instant messaging terminal transmitting a transfer request to a second instant messaging terminal, both terminals logged into the same instant messaging account; the second instant messaging terminal responding to the transfer request, transmitting a reply command accepting the transfer; after receiving the reply command, the first instant messaging terminal obtaining information of the current instant messaging session and transmitting the information to the second instant messaging terminal; the second instant messaging terminal setting an instant messaging session based on the received information. The present disclosure can facilitate effective transfer of an instant messaging session, thus allowing a user to easily continue the previous instant messaging session after switching to a different terminal. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089432 | TERMINAL INTERACTION METHODS AND RELATED DEVICES AND SYSTEMS - This provides a terminal interaction method, device, and system. The method includes: a first IM terminal receiving a user-entered file transfer command directed to a second IM terminal, the two terminals logged into an IM platform using associated account numbers, determining whether the two terminals belong to a same LAN, if yes, starting a local Web server of the first IM terminal and generating URL address information of a file, transmitting, to the second IM terminal, address information of the local Web server and the URL address information of the file, the second IM terminal transmitting, in accordance with the address information of the local Web server, to the local Web server, a file obtaining request including the URL address information of the file, and the local Web server obtaining and transmitting the file to the second IM terminal in accordance with the URL address information of the file. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089433 | Primary and Secondary Recipient Indicators for Conversations - Systems and methods for providing information include receiving messages associated with a user. Each message is associated with a respective conversation. A request for conversations associated with the user is received from a client. In response, display information for displaying the conversations as a list, including first and second rows respectively representing first and second conversations, is sent to the client. The first row includes a first recipient indicator indicating that the user is a primary message recipient in the first conversation. The second row includes a second recipient indicator indicating that the user is a secondary message recipient in the second conversation. A single field in each row is provided for presentation of both the first and second recipient indicators in individual rows. The first recipient indicator is not used to identify the primary recipient and the second recipient indicator is not used to identify the secondary recipient. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089434 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EVENT INFORMATION IN WIRELESS TERMINAL - A device and method is provided for managing event information in a wireless terminal. The device includes a controller for controlling and sorting at least one event information based on a menu, and providing an identifier corresponding to the menu on a date-by-date basis, and a displaying unit for displaying event information on the date-by-date basis, using the identifier. The method includes the steps of sorting at least one event information by a menu, and displaying event information on a date-by-date basis, using an identifier corresponding to the menu. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089435 | ACTIVE E-MAILS - A computer-implemented method can include accessing a micro-blog to retrieve a real-time copy of the micro-blog thread and delivering the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread for display in an e-mail message. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089436 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING REMINDER INFORMATION - A reminder information delivery method includes steps of: obtaining reminder information, where the reminder information includes reminding contents, reminding time, and a first account associated with a first communication client; when the reminding time comes, searching for a communication number associated with the first account; and pushing the reminder information to a corresponding communication terminal according to the communication number. By adopting the reminder information delivery method, reminding is implemented in a timely and flexible manner. In addition, a reminder information pushing system is also provided. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089437 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE ACTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL SECURITY DEVICES - Managing a Personal Security Device (PSD) includes retrieving proprietary information from a remote storage location using a first Remote Computer System, providing at least one Client as a host to the PSD and establishing a communications pipe over a first network between the PSD and the Remote Computer System. The communications pipe communicates with the PSD through the Client. Managing a PSD also includes transmitting the proprietary information from the Remote Computer System to the PSD by sending a PSD-formatted message through the communications pipe, where the proprietary information provided in the PSD-formatted message and passing through the Client is at least partially inaccessible by the Client, processing the PSD-formatted messages at the PSD to extract the proprietary information and storing the proprietary information in the PSD. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089438 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for processing information. By obtaining interaction characteristic information corresponding to target information to be sent, according to correspondence between the target information and the interaction characteristic information, matching and obtaining a second user according to the interaction characteristic information, and sending the target information to an information account corresponding to the second user, the embodiments of the present invention can prevent the problem that in the prior art, a network community server can only send related information to a user based on information which the user has browsed, causing that the information obtained by the user is limited, thereby improving universality and accuracy in information acquisition. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089439 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE USER GROUP COMMUNICATIONS - A system and method for resolving topically relevant contacts for a user is provided. One example embodiment provides for a method including acts of presenting, within a web page, a communication list with content that is presented to various user based at least in part on the users being associated with another user and the topical content of the web page. Another example embodiment provides or a system that serves web pages including a communication list with content that is presented to various users based at least in part on the user to user and user to topic associations. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089440 | Systems and Methods for Applying User Actions to Conversation Messages - Systems and methods for handling messages in which a list comprising a plurality of conversations is provided. A first conversation in the plurality of conversations is identified. The first conversation is configurable to occupy a single line in the list and comprises a plurality of messages. This plurality of messages shares a common set of characteristics that meets a predefined criterion. Responsive to receiving a designation of a predefined user action, the predefined user action is applied, without human intervention, to each message in the plurality of messages. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089441 | Method And System Of Transferring Electronic Messages Using An Instant Messaging Protocol - A method and system for transferring electronic messages (email), includes creating a primary email message by a sender using a sender email program and transmitting a P2P request message to a recipient mail. The request contains at least one P2P connection. A P2P connection is established between a sender local host ( | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089442 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MTC IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for performing or supporting machine-type communications (MTC). A method for a terminal to establish a connection to a server according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a triggering message including a triggering identifier from a network; and a step of requesting a data connection to the server using the triggering information contained in the triggering message. The triggering identifier can be set to a predetermined value for distinguishing the triggering message from other types of messages. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140095627 | Likelihood of Receiving a Timely Response - An apparatus and method for determining the likelihood that a first party will receive a timely response from a second party in response to a message initiated by the first party, and sending an indicator associated with the likelihood of receiving a timely response to a terminal associated with the first party. The likelihood of receiving a timely response can be determined from the response histories of the parties, the relationship of the parties, the types of messages and communication modalities, and presence information. The indicator also can be presented in conjunction with, or in addition to a presence indicator. Representative messages can include message-based communications such as text messaging, voice communications, and email communications. Timely responses can include the answering of a voice call, a return call, and reply to a message. Timeliness can depend on the communication modality that is used. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095628 | SPECIFYING DESIRED LIST OF RECIPIENTS IN ELECTRONIC MAILS - Specifying desired list of recipients in electronic mails. According to an aspect, a digital processing system receives a criteria for determining the recipients of an email communication, and in response queries an enterprise data store to identify a set of recipients matching the received criteria. The digital processing system then forwards the email communication to the identified set of recipients. In one embodiment the digital processing system is an email server and in another embodiment is a end user system, used by a user to compose the email communication. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095629 | Systems and Methods for Organizing Events - Systems and methods are provided to organize Events, including transmitting invitations and receiving RSVP responses, and to organize Date Polls to determine availability of attendees. The Events and Date Polls can be related to various Groups. Each Group represents a Group of Users, who choose to attend Events and respond to Date Polls. A Graphical User Interface is provided that displays the consolidated status of all Date Polls, Events and Groups with which a User is associated, even if these Entities are created by multiple independent Administrators. Where the User is also an Administrator of a Date Poll, Event, Group, or any combination thereof, the software provides various options to allow the Administrator to customize data related to any of the Date Poll, Event or Group. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095630 | System and Method of Device Capability Signaling - A method includes sending, from a first electronic device to a second electronic device, a first capability request based on a first schedule. The first electronic device is associated with a first user and the second electronic device is associated with a second user. A first relationship strength is associated with a relationship of the first user and the second user and the first schedule is based on the first relationship strength. The method also includes sending, from the first electronic device to a third electronic device, a second capability request based on a second schedule. The third electronic device is associated with a third user and a second relationship strength is associated with a relationship of the first user and the third user. The second schedule is based on the second relationship strength and the second relationship strength is different from the first relationship strength. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095631 | DELAYED DISPLAY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - An apparatus for delaying a message includes a receiver module, a delay determination module, a storage module, and a display module. The receiver module receives an electronic message. The delay determination module determines if the message includes a request to delay displaying the message. The request includes a requested delay. The storage module stores the message prior to queuing for display in response to the delay determination module determining that the message includes a requested delay. The message is stored in a computer readable storage media accessible to a computing device receiving the message. The display module queues the message for display after the requested delay. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the receiver module, the delay determination module, the storage module, and the display module include hardware and/or executable code where the executable code is stored on one or more computer readable storage media. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095632 | Methods for Coordinating and Presenting Collaborative Communication between Collaborators Working on an Image-Based Project Through an Electronic Interface - An electronic messaging system includes a server connected to the network, the server having access to a processor and a data repository, and including and software running from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing for linking the electronic messaging system to the image-based project accessible through the electronic interface, facilitating calling the message system from within the image-based project by executing a link resulting from execution of the first function to receive a messaging interface, detecting and monitoring any online collaborators working on the image-based project and any online web visitors allowed to view the image-based project under construction, assigning for each message submitted, at least a collaborator identification stamp, a digital time stamp, and a digital location of the collaborator within the project at the time the message was submitted, and publishing the aggregated messages in one or more live broadcast to relevant online collaborators and project visitors. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095633 | INTELLIGENT NOTIFICATION OF REQUESTS FOR REAL-TIME ONLINE INTERACTION VIA REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS AND/OR MARKUP PROTOCOLS, AND RELATED METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA - Intelligent notification of requests for real-time online interaction, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed. In this regard, in one embodiment, a method for intelligently processing a request for real-time online interaction comprises receiving, by a computing device, a request for real-time online interaction directed to a recipient identifier associated with a recipient device of a recipient and originating from a requestor device of a requestor. The method further comprises determining, by the computing device, an interruption indicator that indicates a recipient activity priority relative to a delivery priority of the request for real-time online interaction. The method additionally comprises delivering a notification of the request for real-time online interaction to the recipient device of the recipient, responsive to the interruption indicator indicating that the delivery priority of the request for real-time online interaction exceeds the recipient activity priority. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REDACTIVE MESSAGING - The technology disclosed relates to embedding private comments in public messages. In particular, it relates to customizing public messages by including private comments that are directed to specific recipients. The private comments are included in the context of the public messages sent to their intended recipients but excluded from the public message when it is sent to other recipients. The private comments can be viewable only to their intended recipients and in the context of the public response. The public response as seen by recipients not intended to receive private comments does not include the private comments. This enables a sender of a private comment to efficiently communicate selected information to specific recipients without burdening all recipients with information which may not be relevant for them. Furthermore, it preserves the overall context of the original message. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095635 | OPERATION-ASSISTING APPARATUS, OPERATION-ASSISTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING CONTROL PROGRAM - An agent server includes: a conversational message determining section which determines a conversational message to a message on a family message board; an appliance-related message determining section which obtains operation-assisting information for a domestic appliance according to the message; and a message transmitting section which causes the conversational message and the operation-assisting information to be written on the family message board. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095636 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO MESSAGING AND CONFIRMATION - Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include systems, method, and software for video messaging generation, sending, view tracking, and automated follow-up. Such embodiments provide mechanisms allowing users to engage with recipients and to track and collect recipient information and their tendencies in order to increase communication effectiveness. Some embodiments include sending messages with links to video though various messaging platforms. For example, some embodiments include sending electronic messages via email or via an online hosted computer application system for delivery by the online hosted computer application. Examples of the online hosted computer applications include social networking websites such as FACEBOOK®, TWITTER®, and LINKEDIN®. Messages may be generated and sent by a video messaging system directly; through integration of a customer relationship management application with a video messaging system; through an email, text message, social networking message that includes a link to a video message; and other mechanisms. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095637 | SYSTEM FOR SHARING AND TRACKING REVIEW OF RICH CONTENT, AND METHODS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH - Methods and systems are used to share data as authorized by a provider for review by a recipient. As the recipient reviews information, information relating to the amount reviewed is tracked, and the provider is notified of whether or not the recipient has accessed the shared information and/or the extent to which the shared information was reviewed. The shared information may, in some contexts, be video data. Video data may be captured and automatically uploaded to a network-accessible location. The uploaded video may then be shared with a recipient. As the recipient reviews the uploaded video, the amount viewed by the recipient can be tracked, and the provider notified of the amount viewed. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095638 | METHOD OF SUPPORTING THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND A SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A mobile terminal system for providing instant messaging to a third-party application includes a mobile terminal having one or more processors and memory for storing one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the mobile terminal to perform the instructions of acquiring an application ID (appid) and a software development kit (SDK) from an instant messaging open platform by the third-party application; registering the third-party application at the instant messaging open platform using the acquired appid and SDK when the third-party application initiates; providing an open application programming interface (API) to the third-party application via the instant messaging open platform; and transmitting information between the instant messaging open platform and the third-party application via the open API. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095639 | SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AS WELL AS PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - The invention provides a service providing apparatus and method and an information processing apparatus and method as well as a program storage medium by which a plurality of users can communicate with each other simultaneously. A plurality of client computers are connected to a shared server over a network and log in a common chat room of a chat system. If a user of one of those of the client computers which are in a group requests for reproduction of a predetermined tune, then the instruction is transmitted to the shared server over the network. The shared server receives the instruction transmitted thereto and reads out music data of the request stored in a music database therein, and transmits the music data to the client computers of the group. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095640 | Method and System for Directly Targeting and Blasting Messages to Automatically Identified Entities on Social Media - Some embodiments provide a communication tool that directly sends messages to accounts of different entities across different social media sites by automatically identifying and associating the accounts of the entities when the entities are referenced in the contents of the messages. Such identification and association is performed without the message originator manually specifying the accounts as intended recipients for the messages. The communication tool also automatically sends messages to different social media accounts of the message originator. The communication tool also blasts messages to an information aggregator that aggregates messages to develop a database from which the messages that target a particular entity can be presented irrespective of whether the particular entity has registered an account with any social media site, irrespective of which social media site the messages are originally destined for, and irrespective of whether a recipient is explicitly specified for the messages by the message originator. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095641 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE RETENTION POLICY TAGS - Techniques to manage retention policy tags are described. A system may comprise a tagging component operative to tag a message with an expiration tag to form an expiration tagged message, the expiration tag having expiration information used to expire the expiration tagged message in accordance with a retention policy. The system may further comprise a presentation component communicatively coupled to the tagging component, the presentation component operative to present a view of the expiration tagged message with an expiration field having the expiration information for the expiration tagged message. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095642 | METHOD, A SYSTEM, A FIRST SERVER, A SECOND SERVER, A COMPUTER PROGRAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SENDING INFORMATION ABOUT USERS ASSIGNED TO WORK ON TASKS IN A COMPUTER NETWORK - The invention concerns a method for sending information about users assigned to work on tasts, wherein data sets comprising information about users and tasks the users are assigned to are stored in particular on a first server ( | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140101256 | METHOD TO PREVENT I/O STARVATION OF SLOWER HOSTS IN A MULTI-HOST ENVIRONMENT - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing storage control unit input/output (I/O) operations in a multi-host environment. A storage control unit sends a busy status message when it has exhausted its resources to process new I/O requests. Once the utilization of the storage control unit's resources has subsided to a predetermined upper utilization value, it sends a availability status message to a first predetermined number of host systems that are owed a availability statue message. After the first predetermined number of availability status messages are sent, the storage control unit then waits for a predetermined period of time before sending a second predetermined number of availability status messages. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101257 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUDIO FRAME LOSS RECOVERY - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a message from a user client device associated with a user. The message is generated in response to a code being captured by the user client device. A computer system determines a user identifier for a user associated with the user client device based on the message. Also, the computer system determines a control data set based on the message, the control data set including information used to automatically control a set of controllable devices. Then, the computer system automatically makes the control data set available to allow access by a user network device associated with the user identifier. The user network device is configured to download the control data set to automatically allow controlling of the set of controllable devices when connected to the user network device. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101258 | HANDLING OF WEBSITE MESSAGES - Mechanisms for handling website messages (e.g., website certificate warnings and/or errors), while combating website users ignoring such messages (sometimes referred to as “click-through syndrome”) are provided. Such mechanisms may comprise providing an interface for handling website messages (e.g., website certificate warnings and/or errors) based on a dynamic policy. In one example, such a dynamic policy may comprise: identifying a first trusted user; monitoring website access by the first trusted user; presenting the first trusted user with a first website message based upon a first access by the first trusted user to a first website; capturing a first response by the first trusted user to the first website message; and utilizing the first response of the first trusted user as a model for subsequent access to the first website. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101259 | System and Method for Threat Assessment - A system and method for threat assessment are provided. The system includes a computer system; a data access subsystem programmed into and executed by the computer system for receiving data from a data source, and parsing the data to identify one or more messages; an analytics subsystem programmed into and executed by the computer system for processing and scoring the one or more messages to calculate one or more threat scores; and a communications subsystem programmed into and executed by the computer system for transmitting the one or more messages to a user. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101260 | PROCESSING A TECHNICAL SYSTEM - Unstructured knowledge may be utilized to derive an action to be initiated by a technical system based on a problem that occurred on said technical system (e.g., a device). Such action may be derived by posting the problem, e.g., in textual form, in a social network, e.g., a forum of the Internet. Comments or answers to such posting may be automatically analyzed, e.g., by textual understanding, and a promising action may be mapped and executed (if applicable, e.g., associated with an appropriate level of confidence). This solution may provide a cost-efficient and automated exploration of unstructured knowledge in a social network to solve the problem of the technical system. The solution may be applicable for all kinds of technical systems, e.g., industry and automation systems, e.g., energy processing means, air conditioning systems, processing or delivery systems. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101261 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING WITHIN A MESSAGING ARCHITECTURE USING A STRUCTURED DATA OBJECT - A method, system, and computer-program product for communicating within a messaging architecture using a structured data object are disclosed. The method includes identifying a structured data object configured to represent structured data, receiving the structured data at a messaging system, generating a message that includes the structured data, and sending the message. The structured data object is configured to be accessed by an application and the messaging system, and includes a request element and a response element. The sending includes transferring the message via the messaging system. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101262 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING WITHIN A MESSAGING ARCHITECTURE USING DYNAMIC FORM GENERATION - A method, system, and computer-program product for communicating within a messaging architecture using a structured data object are disclosed. The method includes assembling a dynamic form object and submitting dynamic form information, associated with the dynamic form object, into a messaging session. The assembling includes an assembly operation, which, in turn, includes identifying an input field of an interface of an application, transferring input field information to a messaging system, and generating an element of the dynamic form object. The input field information is associated with the input field, and the generating uses the input field information. Further, the submitting includes transferring a message via the messaging system, the message including the dynamic form information. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101263 | MESSAGING ARCHITECTURE CONFIGURED TO USE AN EXECUTION-ENABLED ELEMENT TO INITIATE AN OPERATION IN AN APPLICATION - A method, system, and computer-program product for communicating within a messaging architecture using a structured data object are disclosed. The method includes receiving an execution-enabled object and receiving a selection of the execution-enabled element. Such an execution-enabled object is configured to be included in a message sent by a messaging system. The execution-enabled object includes a response element and an execution-enabled element. The response element and the execution-enabled element are associated with one another. The execution-enabled element is configured to post an event to the messaging system upon the execution-enabled element being activated. The selection of the execution-enabled element activates the execution-enabled element. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101264 | CENTRALIZED METHOD FOR CERTIFYING CREDENTIALS - A method for collectively delivering electronically certified credentials is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes a) collecting personal data related to credential recipients and including a valid electronic mail address, b) collecting data related to each credential to be delivered to each recipient at a granting authority, c) sending to a centralized server of a certifying authority the collected data of each recipient, the data being stored in a centralized database, d) sending an personalized e-mail corresponding to each recipient, the e-mail including a link to the centralized server, for approval of the data related to the each recipient, and e) activation of the electronic credential. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101265 | DYNAMIC ADAPTION OF ELECTRONIC ROUTING SLIPS FOR FINANCIAL MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for generating a routing slip for a message. A computer system determines an appropriate sub-flow for the message. The sub-flow dictates a sequence of processing steps for the message. The computer system generates a routing slip for the message based on the appropriate sub-flow. The routing slip provides an order for executing one or more processing steps of the sub-flow. The computer system associates the routing slip to the message. The processing steps of the sub-flow are executed by the computer system according to the routing slip. In an embodiment, the message is a financial message describing at least one financial transaction. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101266 | In-Line Images in Messages - In one embodiment, a computing device detects an identifier of an object entered by a user participating in a message session. The message session includes one or more messages including text, and the text includes the identifier. The computing device accesses an image corresponding to the object based at least in part on the identifier. The computing device provides for display to a second user the image in place of the identifier within the text. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101267 | SELECTING USER ACCOUNTS IN SOCIAL NETWORK TO ANSWER QUESTION - Messages generated by user accounts in a social networking application over a period of time are processed to determine the subjects and topic associated with the messages, as well as the geographical locations of the users associated with the user accounts, and the times when the users associated with the accounts are most active. The determined, subject, time, and location information is used to create a model that may be used to predict whether a user in the social networking application is willing, available, and has the knowledge or topical affinity to answer a question proposed by another user in the social networking application based on a subject, time, and/or location associated with the question. When a user enters a question, the user may be presented with a list of their friends or contacts ranked according to the probabilities generated by the model. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101268 | Forwarding Messages for Meeting Attendees to Host Computers at the Meeting Location - A method and apparatus for managing messages is disclosed. A data processing system identifies a presence of a person in a meeting at a location using calendar information. The data processing system also identifies a computing device in the location having a connection to a network. The data processing system then sends a notification to the computing device identified in the location, responsive to the data processing system identifying a message for the person when the person is meeting in the location. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101269 | GROUP MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM IN INTERWORKING SYSTEM OF IMPS SYSTEM AND SIMPLE IM SYSTEM - A group management method and system for group communication in an interworking system of an IMPS system and a SIMPLE IM system is provided. In the method, a client currently connected to one of the IMPS system and the SIMPLE IM system requests the retrieval of the group properties of a group included in the other system to which the client is not connected. The group property retrieval request is converted into a protocol format supported by the other system and is forwarded to the other system. The other system retrieves the group properties of the group, generates a group property response including the retrieved group properties, and forwards the group property response. The group property response is converted into a protocol format supported by the currently connected system and is forwarded to the currently connected system. The currently connected system forwards the group property response to the client. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101270 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, SERVER, AND CONTROL METHOD OF SYSTEM - An electronic apparatus connected to a server providing real-time messaging through a messaging channel to communicate therewith is provided. The apparatus includes a client communication unit for communicating with the server and at least one external device, the electronic apparatus and the at least one external device forming a client group, and a client controller for classifying the electronic apparatus and the at least one external device in the client group into a header client connected with the messaging channel to the server and a node client, and for controlling the header client to transmit a message about the node client from the server to the node client when the message from the server is transmitted to the header client through the messaging channel. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101271 | Method and device for pushing network information based on location - Disclosed are a method and a device for pushing network information based on a location, which are used for solving the technical problem that an existing system is incapable of pushing network information based on a location. The present disclosure can effectively provide network information within a specific geographical region and drive a user to participate in network information activities, thereby improving the activity of the user to participate in network information interactions. Moreover, a recommendation engine based on a location facilitates the listening of more network information within the geographical region where a user is located, thereby forming a relationship chain with a good value, and further improving the activity of the user to participate in network information interactions. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101272 | Method and system for group number-based microblog aggregation - The present disclosure provides a method for group number-based microblog aggregation and a system for group number-based microblog aggregation, which are used for realizing microblog aggregation display for group numbers. In the present disclosure, the binding relationship between a group number and microblog accounts is established, a large number of microblog accounts are bound by one group number, so that a client can initiate a microblog aggregation request based on the group number, and microblog messages issued by a large number of bound microblog accounts can be obtained by only transmitting one group number in an inquiry interface. According to the present disclosure, group users can learn the microblog dynamic states of other group users in real time conveniently, group functions are expanded, and time and network traffic of the users are saved. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101273 | REMOTE CONTROL OF MEDICAL DEVICES USING INSTANT MESSAGING INFRASTRUCTURE - Systems and methods for remote control and management of medical workstations using an instant messaging infrastructure. A remote client, such as a mobile phone, laptop, tablet, or other computing device, is used to generate instructions or information requests in one or more data packets. The remote client sends the one or more data packets using the instant messaging infrastructure to a medical workstation at another location. A service application in communication with the medical workstation receives the data packets and causes the medical workstation to retrieve the requested information or execute the instruction. The communications between the remote client and the service application are encrypted and signed to ensure secure communications. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101274 | TRANSACTION MESSAGE COLLECTOR - Various embodiments of systems and methods for a transaction message collector are described herein. The message collector receives the message from a message producer. In one aspect, the message is stored in an active message bulk storage or a new active message bulk storage. In another aspect, after the message is stored in the message collector, a confirmation is sent from the message collector to the message producer informing the message producer that the message is stored in the message collector. In yet another aspect, the active message bulk storage is forwarded to a message consumer for consumption based upon meeting at least one of plurality of time or memory based conditions. In a further aspect, after the active message bulk storage is consumed by the message consumer a result of consumption of the active message bulk storage is created and sent to the message producer. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101275 | Dynamic Tagging Recommendation - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system automatically tags one or more social contacts of a first user to a photo of the first user by ranking the social contacts based on spatial and temporal proximity to the first user, and in response to the first user's selection of one or more top ranked social contacts, associating the selected social contacts to the photo. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101276 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION - A method and related system obtains consent from a user for electronic delivery of sensitive information. The user operating a first computer accesses a web page on a server system to input the consent. The web page prompts for the consent from the user. Once the consent is received at the server system, the consent is stored and sensitive information is delivered electronically to an e-mail address specified by the user. Once consent is indicated, it is communicated from the individual's computer to another computer such as a server over, for example, a modem connection. Having secured the individual's consent, the additional sensitive information may be delivered to the individual's computer as, for example, a URL attachment to an email message. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101277 | SKILLS PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR YOUTH - A skills portfolio management system for youth that is capable of facilitating easy blog message posting by a multitude of people witnessing a sports event or some other public event, wherein players, spectators and others can provide comments and observation regarding that particular event while the event is going on. The present invention makes it possible to create a blog for that event with messages posted by people, where it is possible for players and others to leverage such messages blogs to create and a manage skills portfolios. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140108559 | Method and System for Content Submission - Embodiments of systems and methods for linking a computer device to a session that is being conducted on another computing device are disclosed. A content-generation session may be conducted by a user on a particular computing device. As part of the content-generation session, the user may request to add other content, which may be located on a different computing device, to content being authored during the content-generation session. Information to allow the different computing device to establish a link to the content-generation session may be generated. Using that information, a link may be automatically established between the different computing device and the content-generation session, such that the other content residing on the different computing device can be associated with the content-generation session. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108560 | DYNAMIC ROUTING OF A COMMUNICATION BASED ON CONTEXTUAL RECIPIENT AVAILABILITY - A plurality of potential recipients of a communication is monitored according to one or more monitored contextual characteristics. Further, a score is calculated for each of the plurality of potential recipients based upon the one or more monitored contextual characteristics. In addition, one or more recipients of the communication are selected from the plurality of potential recipients of the communication based upon the score for each of the plurality of potential recipients. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108561 | METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING ENTITY NEWS ITEMS VIA A COMPUTER SYSTEM - A method for distributing entity news items to one or more select users via a computer system including a central processing unit and a shared data storage cooperating with the central processing unit, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of entity news items for a plurality of entities into the shared data storage; associating, with the central processing unit executing computer executable instructions, an entity identifier with each entity news item to correlate each entity news item with a given entity; associating, with the central processing unit executing computer executable instructions, one or more selected entities with a controlling user based on the entity identifier to define a controlling user set of entities; associating, with the central processing unit executing computer executable instructions, a subscribing user with the controlling user so that the subscribing user receives entity news items associated with the one or more selected entities included in the controlling user set of entities; and distributing to the subscribing user, with the central processing unit executing computer executable instructions, entity news items associated with the one or more selected entities included in the controlling user set of entities to the subscribing user. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108562 | Automatically Suggesting Groups Based on Past User Interaction - An example implementation includes processing message-related information of a first user for a cluster of related users and determining interaction levels for the cluster of related users. The interaction levels describe a level of interaction between the first user and the related users of the cluster. The users of the cluster are ranked based on the interaction levels and a group suggestion is generated suggesting a group be created on a social networking service based on the ranking of the cluster of related users. The group suggestion is sent to the first user for presentation and a response is received from the first user including user input provided in response to the group suggestion being sent. A group of users is created on the social networking service based on the response. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108563 | Information Transmission Method Based on Classification of Electronic Device and Servo System - An information transmission method, executed by a servo system, is provided that includes the following steps of: providing an application program to be downloaded, installed and executed in an electronic device, in which, after the electronic device executes the application program and a consent key is pressed, a device datum including the classification of the electronic device is sent to a servo system; recording the device datum in a user database; and pushing a push message corresponding to the classification of the electronic device to the electronic device. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108564 | ARCHITECTURE FOR A SYSTEM OF PORTABLE INFORMATION AGENTS - A method and system for providing enhanced intelligent agents that are moveable by a user from a browser application to a desktop. In specific embodiments, agents provide advanced interactive graphics and communications back to a server. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108565 | EVALUATING USER CONTACTS ON AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system for evaluating network users comprises one or more processors communicatively coupled to one or more memories operable to receive, over a network comprising a plurality of network users, electronic first user content generated by a first user, provide the first user content over the network to a second user, receive, over the network, a second user response to the first user content generated by the second user, determine a second user response delay time for the second user response, wherein the second user response delay time is associated with the amount of time between when the first user content was provided over the network and when the second user response was received, and generate a first list of network users that have responded to first user content, wherein the first list is organized based at least in part on the second user response delay time. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108566 | UNIVERSAL SOCIAL MESSAGING - A method and system for universal social messaging is disclosed where an event is detecting on a host device by the electronic social messaging platform, an option associated with the event is selected by the electronic social messaging platform, and the option associated with the event is provided to the user of the host device by the electronic social messaging platform. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108567 | MOBILE DEVICE MESSAGE ENABLED ON-LINE COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD - A community information sharing system, method and program product therefore. A communications network with connected communications devices serves community communications device users. A communications network gateway is associated with a community communications server, e.g., on a cloud computer, and couples the communications network to a data network. The gateway interfaces communications devices connected to communications network with the communications server, providing communications devices access to an online message board, message board information and services. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108568 | Method and System for Providing Multimedia Content Sharing Service While Conducting Communication Service - The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing a service for providing multimedia content, such as music and movies, to a client terminal while conducting a communication service based on an Internet protocol, such as text chatting, voice calling, video calling, video chatting, so that users on both sides can simultaneously use the multimedia content. The method for providing a multimedia content sharing service is for providing the multimedia content sharing service, by a service provision system for providing a communication service between a first terminal and a second terminal, to the first terminal and the second terminal while conducting the communication service, and comprises: a first step of receiving from the first terminal a request signal for the multimedia content sharing service with the second terminal; a second step of forming a session for transmitting the multimedia content between the first terminal and the second terminal, according to the multimedia content sharing request signal; a third step of receiving a multimedia content data, which corresponds to the multimedia content that is transmitted from the first terminal, and transmitting same to the second terminal; a fourth step of receiving from the first terminal a play indication signal for indicating the playing of the multimedia content and transmitting same to the second terminal; and a fifth step of receiving from the second terminal a reply signal to the play indication signal and transmitting same to the first terminal, wherein the first terminal and the second terminal plays the multimedia content based on the play indication signal. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108569 | COMMENT PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The agent server of the present invention includes (i) a conversation monitoring section for monitoring, based on a conversation log saved in a family message board server, comments made by members belonging to a community, (ii) a status information collecting section for collecting status information of the community which information corresponds to (i) a specific member or a combination of specific members and (ii) a specific keyword or a combination of specific keywords which have been detected based on the conversation log, and (iii) a comment making section for outputting, to the server, a comment message which conforms to an event of the community which event is indicated by status information. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108570 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR THREADING A MESSAGE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for threading a message. These mechanisms and methods for threading a message can enable more detailed message sending and receiving, improved data analysis, optimized customer experience, etc. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108571 | DEGREES OF SEPARATION FOR HANDLING COMMUNICATIONS - A sender's degrees of separation from a recipient may be used to aid in spam filtering or to otherwise handle a communication. The “degrees of separation” represent a metric used to quantify whether/how the recipient is linked to the sender through intermediary people or other entities. For example, a recipient may know a first user (first degree of separation) and the first user may know a second user (second degree of separation) who knows the sender of an e-mail. In this case, the sender is separated from the recipient by two degrees of separation (by two other contacts). A level of “trust” or “legitimacy” about a sender's communication can be inferred by looking at whether the sender is linked to an intended recipient. Typically, user contact lists (e.g., address book, buddy list, and/or white list) are evaluated to determine the number of degrees (or hops) are required to link or relate two users. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108572 | MULTI-VARIANT E-MAIL TESTING - An email campaign management system includes an HTML engine, an image gateway, and an activity monitor. The HTML engine receives input email content and generates modified email content from the input email content. The modified email content includes at least one image location. The image gateway dynamically associates an image with the image location at a time that an email message inclusive of the image location is opened by a recipient. The activity monitor tracks a user selection of a hyperlink within the email message inclusive of the image location and the associated image. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108573 | E-Mail Forwarding Tunnel Capturing or Tagging - An email forward tagging system including means for selecting on a sender's email client a receiver's email address; means for displaying to the sender's email client a tagging function; means for selecting on the sender's email client the tagging function; means for sending, via a common email system protocol, an email from a email-sending server to a first email-receiving server; means for receiving, via the common email system protocol, the email at the first receiver's email server from the email-sending server; means for sending the received email in the form of one of a forward email and a reply email to a second email-receiving server connected to the network; and means for automatically forwarding the one of the forward email and the reply email to the sender's email address when the sender's email address is omitted from the one of said forward email and said reply email. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108574 | RECEIVING EMAIL ATTACHMENTS WHEN A MAILBOX IS FULL - Within a system comprising a processor and a memory, a method of sending an attachment of a first electronic mail (email) to a recipient. The method includes receiving the first email addressed to the recipient and, via the processor, determining whether a volume of data contained in the recipient's electronic mailbox has reached a threshold level. When the volume of data has reached the threshold level, via the processor, establishment of an instant messaging session with an instant messaging client associated with the recipient can be initiated. The attachment can be caused to be attached to an instant message. Sending of the instant message to the instant messaging client associated with the recipient can be initiated. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108575 | Method and system for file transfer, instant messaging terminal, and computer storage medium - A method and system for file transfer, an instant messaging terminal, and a computer storage medium are described, so as to solve the problem that in case of a poor network environment, too much manual intervention is required when file transfer through an existing instant messaging software encounters a network connection interruption, leading to a low transfer efficiency and poor user. With the present disclosure, an instant messaging terminal is provided with an option of automatic retransfer upon disconnection, an option of automatic reception upon disconnection, and an option of automatic offline-file forwarding upon disconnection, such that when transfer of a file is interrupted, an instant messaging system can automatically retransfer (or resume the interrupted transfer of) the file, thus enhancing efficiency in file transfer. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108576 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING MULTIPLE INSTANT MESSAGES - Systems and methods of hosting electronic conversations are provided in which a plurality of conversations, each having an identified set of participants, is maintained. Responsive to a search query from a first participant of a first conversation in the plurality of conversations, a second conversation in the plurality of conversations is identified as relevant to the search query. All or a portion of the second conversation is formatted for display to the first participant. Each conversation in the plurality of conversations, including the second conversation, is an instant messaging conversation. Participants in each conversation in the plurality of conversations are instant messaging participants. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108577 | INTERWORKING METHOD AND SYSTEM IN CONVERGED IP MESSAGING SERVICE - An apparatus and method are provided for performing interworking between different messaging services in a Converged Internet Protocol (IP) Messaging (CPM) service. The method includes receiving, by a CPM server, a message generated based on a user input from an arbitrary terminal; requesting, by the CPM server, a presence server to provide presence information corresponding to a recipient of the message; receiving, from the presence server, the presence information that is transmitted in response to the request; deciding a type of a messaging service for interworking based on the presence information; and delivering, by the CPM server, the message to an Interworking Function (IWF) that converts the message according to the decided type of the messaging service. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108578 | Geo-Data Spam Filter - Geo-data spam filters are described. In one or more implementations, origin data and language data of a message are evaluated to establish a score for the message indicating a likelihood that the message is spam. The evaluation includes comparing the origin data and the language data to ranked lists indicating message origins and languages with which a respective message recipient interacts positively and ranked lists indicating message origins and languages with which the respective recipient interacts negatively. Interactions of the respective recipient with previously sent messages may be tracked to form these lists. Based on the score established by evaluating the origin data and the language data of the message, the message is filtered for delivery. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MESSAGE - A method for a mobile terminal to process a message, including: receiving a message, the message including a sender identification for a sender of the message and communication information; and updating an address book locally stored in the mobile terminal based on the sender identification and the communication information. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108580 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION APPARATUS FOR MESSAGE AND METHOD OF DATA EXTRACTION - A reception apparatus which receives a first and second message includes a determination unit configured to determine correspondence between the first message and the second message, an acquisition unit configured to acquire data length information expressing a data length from the first message, and an extraction unit configured to extract data which has the data length based on the data length information from the second message when the determination unit determines that the first message corresponds to the second message. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108581 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Customized Alerts - Methods, systems, and products present a custom alert to a recipient of an incoming data communication. A data message is received that specifies the custom alert associated with the data communication. The customer alert is then visually and/or audibly presented to provide notice of the data communication | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108582 | OFFLINE IM CHAT TO AVOID SERVER CONNECTIONS - An instant message (IM) connection is established at an IM server in the usual manner, under the policies and security rules promulgated by the IM service provider. Using this connection to the IM server, an offline IM chat request is made at the IM server for establishing an offline connection directly between consenting IM clients. The request may be included in a message to the IM server from a client, or the request may be in the form of IM session parameter, for the client, that authorizes an offline chat as the preferred type of IM session under certain conditions. These conditions may result in the IM server being unavailable or may instead authorize the IM server to unload the client from an online session to an offline session based on IM server loading level or other factors that are under the control of the server. The conditions may also specify the presence of other IM clients as a criteria for establishing an offline chat; the clients may be present in an online chat session or merely available. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CHAT TESTING - A system for flexible and scalable automated end-to-end chat-based contact center testing, having a test case management platform, a chat cruncher, a contact center manager, a chat classifier, a desktop automation engine, and headless browser-based virtual agents and customers. The test case management platform allows a user to configure operation of the system. The chat cruncher operates a plurality of virtual customers. The contact center manager operates a plurality of virtual agents to participate in chat session with virtual customers. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140115066 | Systems and Methods for Creating and Displaying an Electronic Communication Digest - Systems and methods are disclosed for creating an electronic communication digest. In one implementation, a system receives a first electronic communication including first content, and generates an electronic communication digest that reflects the first electronic communication by including first digest content generated based on the first content. The system receives a second electronic communication that includes second content, and determines a repeated portion of the second content that is included in the first content and a unique portion of the second content that is unique to the first content. The system also update the electronic communication digest to reflect the second electronic communication by adding second digest content generated that includes the unique portion of the content and does not include the repeated portion of the second content. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115067 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMAIL ORGANIZATION - The present invention relates to methods and systems for segregating subscription emails into a single location where they can be organized, deleted, or otherwise managed separate from the user's regular email box. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115068 | Shared Resource and Session Model Using Presence Data - A method implemented in a communication device, the method comprising receiving a context preference for a contact, storing the context preference, connecting to a communication session via the communication device, transmitting, for display at a second communication device, context information based on the context preference and presence information indicating that the communication device has connected to the communication session, and receiving from the second communication device a request from the contact to connect to the communication session. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115069 | GENERATING A USER UNAVAILABILITY ALERT IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - Generating a user unavailability alert in a collaborative environment. An embodiment can include receiving a user input from a user indicating an unavailability of the user. Responsive to the user input, activity of the user in the collaborative environment can be analyzed to identify whether any pending actions are allocated to the user which relate to other people identified by the user's participation in the collaborative environment. Responsive to determining at least one pending action is allocated to the user which relates to at least one other person identified by the user's participation in the collaborative environment, a first message can be generated to be communicated to the at least one other person indicating the unavailability of the user, and the first message can be communicated to the at least one other person. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115070 | APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - An apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: during message composition using a keyboard, use one or more of the keyboard entered characters forming part of the message to search for one or more content items having metadata matching the one or more entered characters; and provide the one or more content items having matching metadata for insertion or attachment to the message. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115071 | TAG MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES IMPROVEMENT - Alert messages are generated containing a text description of an interruption of service of a component in a networked computer system infrastructure; a service provider identity tag that identifies a type of service provider personnel required to engage the computer system infrastructure and abate or diagnose the service interruption; and one or more component tags that identify a component associated with the service interruption. A message board system posts the generated alert message on a support message board that is accessible by support team service provider professionals, each identified by the service provider identity tag and the component tags. Support team members post different reply messages that each comprise different service provider identity tags, and the message board system broadcasts different simple syndication outputs to different recipients based on their associations with the different respective service provider identity tags. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115072 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR GENERATING NOTIFICATION SIGNALS - According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for generating notification signals are provided. The method includes storing an identifier of a slave device in a memory of a master device; detecting, at a processor interconnected with the memory, a notification message via execution of a notification application; in response to detecting the notification message, retrieving the slave device identifier and transmitting an instruction message to the slave device, the instruction message including an identifier of the notification message and an alert parameter; and generating an alert via an output device interconnected with the processor according to the alert parameter. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115073 | METHOD FOR THE REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATION OF RECEIPT OF ELECTRONIC MAIL - The object of the invention is a method to receive e-mail from any transmitting user in a specific e-mail address, generating proof of all the operation transactions to deliver a certificate to the transmitting user as a trusted third party of the sending and delivery of an e-mail, indicating the content and the attachments, by the steps of reception in a mail server, sending of a copy to the recipient, its itemization in a database and its registration in the client register and database, where finally a data processing unit creates an electronic receipt with the transactional data, the data sent, the attachments and it digitally signs it creating the certificate that it sends to the initial user. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115074 | SYSTEM FOR, AND METHOD OF, PROVIDING THE TRANSMISSION, RECEIPT AND CONTENT OF A REPLY TO AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A server transmits a message from a sender to a recipient. The server receives from the recipient an attachment relating to the message route between the server and the recipient. The server transmits to the sender the message and the attachment and their encrypted digital fingerprints and expunges the transmitted information. To subsequently authenticate the message and the attachment, the sender transmits to the server what the server has previously transmitted to the sender. The server then prepares a digital fingerprint of the message and decrypts the encrypted digital fingerprint of the message and compares these digital fingerprints. to authenticate the message. The server performs the same routine with the attachment and the encrypted digital fingerprint of the attachment to authenticate the attachment the recipient replies to the sender's message through the server. The server records proof of the delivery and content of the reply to the sender and the recipient. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115075 | Communicator program manager - A secure communication system including a first central server connected to the Internet to transmit messages over the Internet utilizing IP protocol; at least one push device with a display screen; at least one pull device commonly owned with the push device; at least one cell phone tower to receive a push alert message and transmit the push alert message to the push device for display on the display screen of the push device; a vendor server connected to the Internet and in communication with the cell tower to receive an alert message generated by the first central server and generate a push alert message to transmit to the cell tower for transmission to the push device to appear on the display screen of the push device; and, a channel architecture on the first central server comprising a plurality of different channels. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115076 | Anonymous Notification System and Method with Reduced Traceability on End Device - A notification server that allows one or more user devices to be associated with one or more third-party service providers such that the one or more third-party service providers can send a notification to the one or more user devices. In one example, a notification server utilizes a user/provider ID to associate a user device with a third-party service provider. A notification may also remove identifying information of a third-party service provider from a notification prior to providing the notification to the user device. A user/provider ID may allow for reduced traceability via its specific association with a particular third-party service provider. Systems and methods for anonymous notification take advantage of the mechanisms of user/provider ID assignment and other aspects to reduce traceability. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115077 | GENERATING A USER UNAVAILABILITY ALERT IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - Generating a user unavailability alert in a collaborative environment. An embodiment can include receiving a user input from a user indicating an unavailability of the user. Responsive to the user input, activity of the user in the collaborative environment can be analyzed to identify whether any pending actions are allocated to the user which relate to other people identified by the user's participation in the collaborative environment. Responsive to determining at least one pending action is allocated to the user which relates to at least one other person identified by the user's participation in the collaborative environment, a first message can be generated to be communicated to the at least one other person indicating the unavailability of the user, and the first message can be communicated to the at least one other person. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115078 | Automated Generation of Suggestions for Personalized Reactions in a Social Network - A system and method for automatic generating suggestions for personalized reactions. A suggestion generation module includes a plurality of collector modules, a credentials module, a suggestion analyzer module, a user interface module and a decision tree. The plurality of collector modules collect information accessible by the user and important to the user from other systems such as e-mail systems, SMS/MMS systems, micro blogging systems, social networks or other systems. The information from these collector modules is provided to the suggestion analyzer module. The suggestion analyzer module cooperates with the user interface module and the decision tree to generate suggested reactions or messages for the user to send. The suggested reactions or messages are presented by the user interface module to the user. The user interface module displays the original message, other information about the original message such as others' responses, and action buttons for sending, discarding the suggested message. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115079 | METHOD FOR PROOF OF PLAY (PoP) OF DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT - Provided a proof of play (PoP) method of a digital signage terminal and a digital signage server, the PoP method of the digital signage terminal including obtaining a digital signature and a PoP message generation policy provided by a content owner, generating log data comprising information on a play of at least one piece of content, based on the PoP message generation policy, generating a PoP message using information on the digital signature based on the generated log data, and providing the PoP message to at least one of the digital signage server and the content owner. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115080 | Messaging and Presence Protocol as a Configuration and Management Bus for Embedded Devices - Techniques are provided herein for establishing at a network management server a presence on a network. A presence associated with one or more managed devices on the network is detected. An instant messaging (IM) session is established with the one or more managed devices. The IM session forms a virtual chat room for performing a management function on the one or more managed devices, and IM messages are sent that are configured to perform the management function on the one or more managed devices. Techniques are also provided herein for establishing on a network an enriched presence by a network management server that is configured to perform a management function via a presence function of a messaging and presence protocol. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115081 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING A MICROBLOG MESSAGE - A microblog server receives sharing information required for sharing a microblog message transmitted by a microblog client. Generate a microblog data packet according to the sharing information, and transmit the microblog data packet to an instant messaging (IM) client, such that the IM client displays the microblog message to be shared according to the microblog data packet. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115082 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME - The present invention relates to a method of operating a recommender system arranged for being coupled to a computer implemented social network ( | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115083 | SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING A USER AFFINITY-BASED ADDRESS BOOK, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A USER AFFINITY-BASED ADDRESS BOOK - The invention relates to a system, to a server apparatus, to a terminal apparatus, and to a recording medium for generating a user affinity-based address book, and to a method for generating a user affinity-based address book, which support a user so that the user may intuitively recognize an affinity with a number of other users whose contact information is registered in the address book of the user. The invention is implemented such that: that information on a user's address book is provided; the result of a determination on whether or not the same contact number is shared between the user address book and an address book of each person whose contact information is registered, and the duration and frequency of talks between the user and each person whose contact information is registered; and information on a social address book is generated based on the determined affinity. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115084 | Secure Electronic Mail System - An e-mail system is disclosed that overcomes many deficiencies of, but is backward compatible with, existing e-mail systems. Embodiments of the system may include various features, including but not limited to: (1) secure transfer of e-mail messages, without the need for users to replace existing e-mail clients or to change e-mail addresses; (2) tracking of all actions performed in connection with an e-mail transmission; (3) the ability for a recipient to view information about an e-mail message, optionally including information about how other addressees have responded to it, before deciding whether to retrieve the e-mail message; (4) the aggregation of entire e-mail conversations into a single threaded view; (5) the ability to include both private and public messages in a single e-mail communication; (6) sender control over downstream actions performed in connection with an e-mail message; (7) flexible control over cryptographic methods used to encrypt emails messages for storage. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115085 | Performing Actions in Response to Message Notifications - A computer system performs actions in response to receipt of message notifications. The actions may include preventing the message notifications from being manifested (e.g., displayed on a screen). The actions may be specified by profiles. The computer system may activate and deactivate profiles. For example, activating a first profile may cause a second profile to be deactivated. When a message notification is received, the computer system may perform an action specified by an active profile but not perform an action specified by an inactive profile. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115086 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Performing an Action Based On An Asepct of An Electronic Mail Message Thread - A system, method and computer program product are provided for performing an action based on an aspect of a thread associated with electronic mail messages. In use, an aspect of a thread associated with a plurality of electronic mail messages is identified. Further, an action is performed based on the aspect of the thread. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140122616 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REALIZING COMMUNITY FEDERATION - A method for implementing community federation is disclosed, including: establishing community federation containing information of a plurality of social networks (SN) of a user on a device, and configuring a processing policy of the community federation; and after logging on the community federation, the community federation managing a message according to the process policy. An apparatus for implementing community federation is also disclosed. Through the above-mentioned method and apparatus, it guarantees that the content data obtain sufficient sharing in the community federation, eliminates the “garden wall” among the communities, and enables the user personal information, the message content, the friend information, etc., to flow better and faster, and improves the user experience in the service application. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122617 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to the Sending of Messages Lacking Identified Recipients - A control circuit detects an opportunity to send a message notwithstanding that no recipient is yet identified and identifies, without user input, a specific recipient from amongst a plurality of possible recipients of the message based, for example, on metadata regarding at least some of the possible recipients using one or more predetermined selection criteria. The control circuit can also determine a domain context for a message as corresponds to such an opportunity and use that domain context along with information corresponding to the message to query an invocation framework that cannot itself natively intuit domain context from the information. Received possible recipients can then be presented via a display to facilitate a user-based selection of one of the recipients. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122618 | USER-AIDED LEARNING CHATBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A user-aided learning chatbot system and method. The chatbot includes an interactive dialog interface for engaging in a chat session with a user. The user can enter knowledge entries during the chat session without losing context. The chatbot enters and stores the knowledge entry for interaction with subsequent users. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122619 | CHATBOT SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH INTERACTIVE CHAT LOG - A chatbot system and method with interactive chat log. A chatbot includes a processor, an interactive dialog interface and said knowledge database. The chatbot generates a chat log page including messages based on a chat session. Without leaving the chat log page, the chatbot uses the chat log page for updating chatbot messages and corresponding entries in a knowledge database. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122620 | ATTACHMENT HANDLING DURING EMAIL DELIVERY - A system and method for improving attachment handling during email delivery is disclosed. A partial message data structure stores data associated with an email except the email's attachments' contents. Attachment contents may be stored in the partial message data structure if necessary. When an email is sent to a recipient, a message router constructs the full email message including attachments from the partial message data structure and the stored attachment contents before sending the email to an SMTP server. When an email is received from an SMTP server, a message router transmits the email to a message parser that parses attachments from the email and stores the attachments in persistent storage. The message parser sends a partial message data structure containing data associated with the email and references to the email's attachments to the message router. The message router transmits the partial message data structure to a server for delivery. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122621 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ORGANIZING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods, systems, and apparatus for organizing electronic messages are provided. The method includes receiving a first electronic message having a first electronic object, determining, using a processor, an electronic object store based on the first electronic object, and storing the first electronic object in the electronic object store such that the first electronic message is associated with the first electronic object. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122622 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NEAR REAL-TIME PREDICTED ENGAGEMENT LEVEL FEEDBACK TO A USER COMPOSING A SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGE - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for providing near real-time feedback when a user is composing a social media message. The feedback can indicate a predicted level of engagement with the social media message by other users of a social networking system. In some implementations, a prediction model is used to determine a predicted engagement score, which is an approximation of the predicted level of engagement with the social media message by the other users. A computing device can be configured to display a graphical representation of the predicted engagement score in a user interface at which the social media message is being composed. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122623 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIRECTING MESSAGES TO MULTIPLE USER PROFILES ON A MOBILE DEVICE - The disclosed technology covers messaging systems and methods, and computer program products embodying such systems and methods. An example computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a message server, a plurality of messages for a plurality of remote mobile devices; and providing a single network connection between the message server and a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices. The first mobile device may have a first user profile and a second user profile, each with its own applications and preferences. The method may include associating the first user profile with a first user identifier, and the second user profile with a second identifier. When a message is received, and directed toward the first user profile, the method may include packaging the first message with the first user identifier, and transmitting the first message, along with the first user identifier, to the first mobile device. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122624 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGE DELIVERY TO MOBILE DEVICES SUPPORTING MULTIPLE USERS - The disclosed technology covers messaging systems and methods, and computer program products embodying such systems and methods. A computer program product may include a computer-readable storage medium with instructions executable by one or more processors to perform a method. The method may include receiving, at a message server configured to receive a plurality of messages for a plurality of computing devices, a first message intended for a first user profile. The first user profile and one or more other user profiles may exist on a single computing device. The method may also include receiving a first status update from the first computing device indicating that the first user profile is stopped or non-active, and postponing delivery of the first message to the first computing device, based on the first user profile being stopped or non-active. These and other aspects of messaging systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed herein. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122625 | Method and System for Programming Virtual Robots Using a Template - Disclosed is a method for processing input entered by a user and providing at least one response maintained by an administrator in a system for autonomously processing requests. A template is provided to the administrator, wherein the template includes at least one field to elicit specific information from the administrator. The information is received from the administrator into the template. The information is saved for use in providing the at least one response in reply to a request from a user. An apparatus for performing this method is also disclosed. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MESSAGE CONVERSATION IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An apparatus and method for message conversation in an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a message from a first sender, who uses multiple messaging services, through a corresponding messaging service, determining whether IDentity (ID) information of the corresponding messaging service and a user ID of the sender registered at the corresponding messaging service are mapped to ID information of the first sender registered at a receiver in a group, and, when the received message is mapped in the group, displaying the received message and messages of the mapped group in a thread. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122627 | Triggered Message System - A triggered message system provides individuals with communications based on trigger events. Triggered messages may be text messages, voice messages, or other messages. Delivery of the triggered messages to the proposed recipient may be triggered by events such as the location of a proposed recipient, the occurrence of an event in the proposed recipient's life, or the passage of time. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122628 | Unified Messaging System with Integration of Call Log Data - In particular embodiments, a mobile computing device receives an incoming communication from a source. The mobile computing device queries a social-networking system operable to aggregate communications between the source and a user associated with the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device receives from the social-networking system one or more aggregated communications between the source and the user and at least a portion of a profile associated with the source in the social-networking system. The mobile computing device displays the aggregated communications and the portion of the profile in a screen of the mobile computing device. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122629 | Information Acquisition Method and Device - Disclosed are an information acquisition method and an information acquisition device. A search bar is added on a microblog homepage loaded on a client. Upon receiving a tag keyword input by a user through the search bar, the client sends the tag keyword to a server to match client users who have the same tag as the client user, receives related information of the matched client users that have the same tag as the client user, and then presents the related information to the client user. Therefore, the search speed of the client is increased, and the search accuracy is guaranteed, thereby further optimizing the microblog functions loaded on the client. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122630 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR THE DELIVERY OF MEDIA CONTENT - A system, method and computer program product are provided for delivering media content. The system includes at least one recipient that may be associated with at least one recipient rule. The system also includes a sending entity capable of transmitting a multimedia message addressed to the recipients. The sending entity can also specify delivery rules in the message. In this regard, the multimedia message includes media content. The system further includes a network entity capable of receiving the multimedia message and identifying any recipient rules, sending entity rules and/or network rules associated with the multimedia message. The network entity can then deliver the media content to the recipients based upon respective rules. The network entity can also be capable of processing the media content based upon the rules before delivering the media content, such as by transcoding or truncating at least a portion of the media content prior to delivery. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140129646 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SECURITY CONTROL BY USING CAPTURED IMAGE - A method for performing security control includes selectively controlling at least one camera module of an electronic device to capture at least one image and outputting the at least one image, for security of the electronic device. For example, the method includes: activating a screen lock function that is associated with a password; and when it is detected that a string that differs from the password is entered, controlling the module to capture the image and outputting the image. In another example, the method includes: activating a remote control function, allowing the electronic device to be remotely controlled, through at least one of a telecommunication network and a wireless local area network, by an application that runs on a processor of another electronic device; and based upon remote control of the application, controlling the camera module to capture the image and outputting the image. An associated apparatus is also provided. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129647 | System and Method for Providing an Application to a Device - The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for providing at least one electronic application to at least one device. In one embodiment, the method includes acquiring device information that relates to the device and determining whether the device supports the at least one application based on the device information. The method may further include generating an electronic message for the device wherein the message contains at least one link for acquiring the at least one application when the device supports the application. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129648 | AUTOMATED OUT-OF-OFFICE NOTIFICATION REMINDER - A method performed by a network element, and the network element, the method determining, according to a triggering event, whether out-of-office messaging is active for an electronic mail account; and providing a notification that the out-of-office messaging is active based on the determining. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129649 | SORTING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES USING ATTRIBUTES OF THE SENDER ADDRESS - Systems and methods for sorting electronic messages using attributes of senders or of sender addresses. An electronic messaging server sorts electronic messages using attributes associated with the senders or sender addresses of the electronic messages. The sender addresses and associated attributes are stored in an accept list. A sorting module uses the accept list to sort the electronic messages into various folders. The sorting module can also access other data sources, such as a contact list, to assist in sorting the electronic messages. The attributes can be determined independently of the user or can be set directly by the user. The attributes can also identify a status of a sender such as whether the sender is authorized, unauthorized, or unconfirmed. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129650 | MEDIA MESSAGING METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES - A wireless communications system that allows a mobile phone, tablet or personal computer user the ability to initiate the sending of a text message or email whereby the sender is able to include photographs, graphs, pie charts and the like within the flow of the actual word by word texting or email writing process, without depending on the traditional necessary step to “attach” the photograph. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129651 | HUMAN-ASSISTED CHAT INFORMATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a technology for providing information to users of a chat information system. The chat information system may receive an information request from a user. The information request may be processed to determine its subject area and forwarded to information sources or external communication services, such as social networks, forums, and the like. Answers received from the information sources and external communication services may be validated and selected based on user feedbacks and ratings. The selected answers may be then delivered to the users of the chat information system. After receiving the answers, the user may evaluate them to be further stored for future use by the chat information system. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129652 | System and Method of Secure File Sharing Using P2P - A method is provided for sharing a file between a sender mobile device and a recipient mobile device. Nearby mobile devices to the sender mobile device are detected through a detection application. A recipient mobile device is selected from among the nearby mobile devices. A message is sent to the recipient mobile device including a link representing a file to be shared with the recipient mobile device. This link is actuatable on the recipient mobile device to request permission from a permission server. Upon permission being granted, the file is permitted to be downloaded to the recipient mobile device from a file server. The sender mobile device receives a confirmation once the recipient mobile device has received the file. P2P networks are preferably used for the detection and initial messaging. A method of accessing a shared file is also provided. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129653 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE ALERTING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to provide a user creating an electronic message one or more alerts related to the content and addressees of the electronic message. A computer identifies the one or more addressees of the electronic message. The computer determines one or more alerts associated with each of the identified one or more addressees. The computer displays the alerts in a manner that each step is performed prior to the computer transmitting the electronic message for delivery to one or more addressees. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129654 | Media exchange network supporting local and remote personalized media overlay - Certain aspects of the invention for displaying alerts in a communication network may comprise receiving an alert from a first device coupled to the communication network. A message corresponding to the received alert may be generated within a home and displayed on a television screen within the home. The generated message may be displayed along with a media broadcast on the television screen and an acknowledgment of the displayed message may be received via a user selection. The acknowledgement may be received from a remote control that controls various functions of the television screen. Displaying of the generated message may be terminated upon receiving the acknowledgement or the generated message may be displayed for a predetermined or specified period of time. The alert, which may be received via a wireless and/or a wired connection, may indicate a status of the first and/or a second device. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129655 | SIGNATURE GENERATION USING MESSAGE SUMMARIES - Systems and methods for processing a message are provided. A message may be processed to generate a message summary by removing or replacing certain words, phrases, sentences, punctuation, and the like. Message signatures based upon the message summary may be generated and stored in a signature database, which may be used to identify and/or classify spam messages. Subsequently received messages may be classified by signature and processed based on classification. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129656 | INTERNET CONTENT MARKING - Distributing content markings includes receiving, from a first entity, marking content corresponding to Internet content and author presentation instructions associated with the marking content. When a request to view the Internet or marking content is received from a second entity, the received author presentation instructions are used to determine whether the second entity is approved to view marking content associated with the requested Internet content. Dependent on whether the second entity is approved to view the marking content, presentation of the information associated with the marking content concurrently with the requested Internet content is enabled. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129657 | Messaging Proxy System - A messaging proxy system is disclosed for the purpose of delivering data in the form of a portable message format from a producer running on a mobile or non-mobile computer, over any wireless network, by passing this data through an intermediary proxy computer program, to one or more recipients running on mobile or non-mobile computers. The system includes a message proxy computer program with at least one pluggable transport protocol adapter. The proxy contains a command subsystem for sending and receiving command- and message-tokens to and from the mobile clients. The system further includes a thin messaging middleware client to run on mobile devices. The thin messaging middleware client includes at least one pluggable protocol adapter. The client also comprises a command subsystem for sending and receiving command- and message-tokens to and from the proxy The proxy also contains a communication subsystem for sending and receiving messages via a state of the art message oriented middleware. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129658 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A SERVER AND A CLIENT DEVICE - Systems and methods providing users with a rich web experience are disclosed. In one embodiment, a client and at least one server are in communication using a dual communication link. In another embodiment, a markup language based instant messaging application is disclosed. The instant messaging application may include group instant messaging. The instant messaging application may also provide group member persistence and message persistence at the server. In another embodiment, a card based web application is disclosed, where the card information and character may be shared with other users or within a group. The cards may also be configurable by users. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129659 | SELF-DESCRIBED RENDERING OF DATA - Systems and methods that may be used in instant messaging (IM) environments to allow users in IM environments to share information and render shared information are described herein. In at least one embodiment, a system can receive an indication to publish a geographical location of a client and based on the indication to publish, a system can provide the geographical location of the client and instruction code for rendering an indication of the geographical location of the client within a map. In some embodiments, the geographical location of the client can be presented to one or more users, or contacts, in instant messaging environments. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129660 | Building a Social Graph with Sharing Activity Between Users of the Open Web - A social graph is built which includes interactions, sharing activity, and connections between the users of the open Web and can be used to improve ad targeting and content personalization. Sharing activity between two users will affect ads or content that both users will be presented while surfing the Web. This sharing activity includes sending of links, sending of videos, sending of files, cutting and pasting of content, sending text messages, and sending of e-mails. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140136628 | SNAIL TO ELECTRONIC MAIL CONVERSION - The present invention generally relates to turning snail mail into electronic mail. The snail mail is delivered to the intended recipient's mailbox and then retrieved (i.e., intercepted by a third party) before the intended recipient receives the snail mail from the mailbox. The retrieved mail is then converted into an electronic file that is stored on a server. The intended recipient of the snail mail may then access the electronic file to view the snail mail in electronic format. If desired, the intended recipient can request delivery of the actual snail mail after viewing the electronic file. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136629 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SMART NOTIFICATIONS - A device, system and method for smart notifications is provided. When a new message is received for a unified mailbox, a relevance level associated with the new message is determined at a processor of the device, the unified mailbox providing messages received via a communication interface of the device from a plurality of accounts, a notification device of the device is controlled, via the processor, to provide a notification based on the relevance level, the notification being one of a plurality of multi-level notifications, each associated with different relevance levels. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136630 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING MEETING INVITATIONS - A method includes receiving, at a messaging server, a message from a first device associated with a first user. The message is directed to a second user. The method also includes determining whether the message is associated with a meeting and, in response to determining that the message associated with the meeting, sending data related to the meeting to a platform server to enable the platform server to send an alert regarding the meeting to a second device associated with the second user. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136631 | Friend Matching and Meeting-Up Management System and Its Operation Method - This invention relates to information science, and discloses a friend matching and meeting-up management system and its operation method. In this invention, a meeting check-in portion of the friend matching and meeting-up management system includes a meeting site portion and a meeting confirming portion. In the whole meeting check-in process, users utilize communicators to communicate with a system manager, and the system manager assists and manages the meeting process of the users expecting to meet after the object is determined. It has higher safety, helps ensure that users meet successfully, and saves a lot of people and material resources. In this invention, the check-in function is formed by combining positioning technology and information transmitting technology based on smart phones and mobile communication technology, or the Internet and wireless technology, which brings people together to meet in person, beyond the virtual world, breaks down barriers and narrows the distance between people. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136632 | Remote Customer Mail Processing - Mail processing systems and methods. A method includes scanning a plurality of mailpieces by a mail processing system to produce at least one associated image of each mail piece. The method includes associating each mail piece with a respective recipient and transmitting the associated image of each mail piece to the respective recipients. The method includes receiving a work order for each mail piece from the respective recipients by the mail processing system. The method includes displaying instructions corresponding to the work orders to a user, wherein the user processes the mail pieces according to the instructions. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136633 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING TIME-SENSITIVE DATA BETWEEN DEVICES WITH INTERMITTENT CONNECTIVITY - An apparatus and method for sharing time-sensitive data between devices are provided. The apparatus includes a communication unit for communicating with other devices, a display unit for displaying a notification of a network event originating from another device, and a controller for, when the communication unit receives a first notification message about the network event from the other device, controlling the display unit to present the notification to the user. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136634 | Mass Multimedia Messaging - A method and system of mass multimedia messaging in a system having a service provider and a plurality of subscriber communication terminals supported by the service provider, wherein at least some of the subscriber terminals have different messaging capabilities and different message format requirements. The method includes adaptation and handling of a mass multimedia message, and mass multimedia message notification. The system uses a retrieval platform and a processing platform. The retrieval platform generates a unique message identifier for the mass multimedia message, and pre-adapts the message into adapted content messages for the terminal types supported by the service provider. The processing platform formats message notifications for the subscriber terminals based on each terminal's messaging capabilities, with each notification containing the unique message identifier. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136635 | Method and System of Providing File-Related Social Network Interaction under Cloud Storage Service and Computer Readable Recording Medium Stored with the Method - The present invention provides a method of providing file-related social network interaction under cloud storage service, which comprises: (a) a cloud server synchronizes a plurality of share files transmitted from any local computer to synchronization file folders of all the other local computers; (b) the cloud server gathers all social network feedback messages from all the local computers and user accounts thereof; and (c) when a social network feedback ranking table is opened, the cloud server provides a plurality of latest social network feedback messages relative to the share files and names of the share files and the user accounts to the local computer, thereby allowing the social network feedback ranking table to be made. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136636 | MESSAGE TRACKING WITH THREAD-RECURRENT DATA - A method, system, computer program product, and related business methods are described in the context of a web-based business information system having an internal email facility, wherein e-mail communications between a native e-mail system of an end user of the web-based business information system and an external contact are facilitated and automatically tracked by the web-based business information system, the native e-mail system lying outside the web-based business information system but often being preferred by the end user over the internal e-mail facility of the web-based business information system. The described preferred embodiments provide for easy-to-use, reasonably transparent, “no-click” integration of the web-based business information system with the end user's native e-mail system in a manner that is independent of the particular type and choice of native e-mail system. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136637 | CONTACT MATCHING METHOD, INSTANT MESSAGING CLIENT, SERVER AND SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method of providing matching information to prospective first and second users is performed at a server, the method including: receiving first audio data and first user information; receiving second audio data, and second user information; storing a first timestamp of the first audio data and first user information and a second timestamp of the second audio data and second user information; performing analysis processing on the first audio data to obtain first feature information, and performing analysis processing on the second audio data to obtain second feature information; judging whether the first timestamp and the second timestamp and the first feature information and the second feature information match; and if the first and second times of receipt and the first and second feature information match, sending the first user information to the second user and sending, by the server, the second user information to the first user. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136638 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MESSAGE SYNCHRONIZATION IN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - Implementations of the present invention disclose a message synchronizing method and apparatus in an instant messaging application. The method includes detecting a log-in status corresponding to an instant messaging account currently logged-in through an instant messaging application at a first terminal, receiving a request to update an application state of the instant messaging application, determining if the log-in status is a multi-terminal log-in status, where the multi-terminal log-in status indicates that the instant messaging account is simultaneously logged-in from the first terminal and a second terminal. Upon receiving the request to update the application state of the instant messaging application, when that the log-in status is the multi-terminal log-in status, a message synchronization operation is initiated between the first and second terminals. Otherwise, the log-in status is set to indicate that the instant messaging account is logged-in from the first terminal. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136639 | TIMING FOR PROVIDING RELEVANT NOTIFICATIONS FOR A USER BASED ON USER INTERACTION WITH NOTIFICATIONS - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136640 | Systems and Methods for Supporting Downloadable Applications on a Portable Client Device - Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums for providing message services from a server are described. In some embodiments, a server stores an attachment associated with a communication. The server sends the communication to a client device, with a representation of the attachment type that includes an indication of the attachment's native file type. The server receives a request from the client device to view the attachment in the client device. The server retrieves the attachment in response to the request and transcodes the attachment from the attachment's native file type to a viewable file type configured to display in the client device. The viewable file type is determined by the server based on metadata received from the client device. The server transmits at least a portion of the attachment in the viewable file type to the client device for display. Other embodiments are also described. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136641 | METHOD FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION CONTAINED IN MESSAGES IN A MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL, A SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES, AND A MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL - A method for presenting information contained in messages in a terminal (MS). In the method, the message includes at least one component. The message is transmitted to a terminal (MS) in a system for transmitting multimedia messages. In the method, a presentation model (SMIL) is formed to contain information related to the presentation of each component attached in the message. The aforementioned presentation model (SMIL) is supplemented with a reference about the location of each component in the message, and the aforementioned presentation model (SMIL) is attached to the aforementioned message. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140143346 | Identifying And Classifying Travelers Via Social Media Messages - The method includes collecting a first plurality of social media messages, where each of the first plurality of social media messages contains a respective location of a first social media user; determining a first plurality of geographical distances between the respective locations contained in the first plurality of social media messages; determining a maximum or average geographical distance from the first plurality of geographical distances; and comparing the maximum or average geographical distance to a first or second threshold to determine if the first social media user is a traveler. For a plurality of social media messages, where each of the social media messages does not contain a respective location of a social media user, the method includes extracting content from the plurality of social media messages and comparing the extracted content to a traveler model to determine if the social media user is a traveler. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143347 | Electronic Message Data Input for Social Graphing - In one embodiment, a method includes extracting, by a computing device, information from an electronic message, where the electronic message has been communicated to or from a user of a social-networking system, cross-referencing, by the computing device, the extracted information with social-networking information associated with one or more nodes or edges of the social-networking system, and determining, by the computing device, an action for execution by the social-networking system based on the cross-referencing. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143348 | DYNAMIC ROUTING OF INSTANT MESSAGE - A computer system executes an instant message session in a host message program of a first collaborative tool between users. The computer system executes the instant message session in a participant message program of a second collaborative tool. The computer system further receives a first request from the users to automatically or manually route the instant messages of the instant message session from the host message program of a mobile message program of a third collaborative tool. The computer system further transmits the instant messages from the host message program to the mobile message program based on conditions. The computer system further receives a second request from the mobile message program to route the instant message of the instant message session from the mobile device. The computer system transmits the instant message session based on the second request. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143349 | Distributed Architecture Data Transfer System - Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating data transfer and synchronization between computing devices are disclosed. In an aspect, an enterprise editing platform allows a plurality of contributors to access and alter the same data layer without the use of proprietary server architectures. Data layers are edited by users on local devices and synced remotely by the enterprise editing platform. The data layer is updated via changes sent via ports, protocols, and services associated with electronic mail. In as aspect, updates to the data layer are sent and received via email attachments. Users may initiate sending and retrieving updates to the data layer. In another aspect, a module of the enterprise editing platform sends data layer updates to email addresses associated with each contributor. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143350 | MANAGING EMAIL FEEDBACK - Solutions are provided for managing email feedback. Email messages can be received via a common email address. Individual senders can be determined based on the sender addresses of the received email messages. Feedback objects can be generated and saved from the received email messages. Processing of received email messages, including reply emails, can be performed based on whether sender addresses are authorized. Feedback objects can be provided for review and management. Individual senders can log in to a system to review and manage feedback objects, including assigning classifications to feedback objects. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143351 | Ambient-Location-Push Notification - In one embodiment, a method includes determining a current geo-location of a mobile client computing device associated with a first user; and selecting content associated with the current geo-location that was provided by a second user. The selection is based at least in part on a relationship between the first and second users. The method also includes sending to the mobile client computing device while the mobile client computing device is at or near the current geo-location a notification associated with the content. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143352 | USER PROFILE AND GEOGRAPHY-BASED MEETINGS - A system may include an electronic data storage, a recommendation engine, and a network interface. The electronic data storage may be configured to store a professional skill of a member of a social network. The recommendation engine may be configured to generate a recommendation based, at least in part, on a relationship between the professional skill of the member and a desired professional skill of an organizer and a relationship between a geographic location of the member and a geographic location of the organizer. The network interface may be configured to transmit a meeting invitation to a user device of the member of the social network based, at least in part, on the recommendation. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143353 | Platform-independent method and system for electronically engaging customers - Techniques for electronically engaging customers across all different platforms are disclosed. Based on unique device identifiers captured together with interactions by users with one or more applications provided by a business, a message prepared in a first format is automatically converted to a corresponding message in a second format according to what the devices the user have been interacting with can support. Depending on implementation, the message may be a response by the business to an inquiry from a user or a promotion by the business to be distributed to a group of selected users maintained by the business. The interactions include activities a user has had with one or more of the applications provided by the business and provide the statistical or actual data for the business to determine the group of users to receive the message. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143354 | VIRTUAL CONCIERGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Described are systems and methods that receive from a virtual concierge system a text-based inquiry from a user having an interest; store the inquiry in a queuing system, generate a match between an online assistant and the user based on content of the stored inquiry and profile data of the online assistant, and establish a text-based communication between an electronic device of the user and an electronic device of the online assistant in response to generating the match, the text-based communication including the content of the stored inquiry. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143355 | Method and System for Video Texting - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and computer readable medium for transmitting a video text message including receiving a text message via a text messaging application on a first mobile device. Based on the input, the next steps are determining a search query term for searching one or more libraries of video clips and accessing the one or more libraries of video clips using the search query term to retrieve a plurality of video clips. Thereupon, further steps are presenting the plurality of video clips to the user in the text message application and receiving a user selection of one of the plurality of video clips. As such, the method, apparatus and computer readable medium combines the selected video clip with the text message to generate the video message and provides for transmission to the second mobile device for viewing thereon. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143356 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SENDING RESPONSE MESSAGE ACCORDING TO CURRENT STATUS - An electronic device and a method for sending a response message according to a current status are provided. An operating method of the electronic device includes determining whether a received message is confirmed within a preset time, when the received message is not confirmed within the preset time, determining whether a contact number of a sender electronic device is a preset contact number, and when the contact number of the sender electronic device is the preset contact number, sending an automatic response message to the sender electronic device corresponding to a preset automatic response message status. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143357 | Method and Apparatus for Organizing, Packaging, and Sharing Social Content and Social Affiliations - A method and associated system are provided for operating a mobile device, comprising: capturing real-time audio, image, or video information of the event at a location of the event during the event on the mobile device; selecting a specific invitee from the user's list of confirmed friends during the event; and transmitting an invitation to attend the event to the specific invitee during the event comprising necessary details for attending the event in person by the invitee contemporaneous with and integrated with the captured real-time information. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143358 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVING A MESSAGE CLIENT - A system and method for synchronizing messages between client application instances and a message service provider includes a connection service communicatively coupled to a plurality of client messaging application instances; a first intermediary transfer layer with an inbound message data queue that queues message updates of a client application instance and an outbound message data queue that queues message updates and notifications from a mailbox service layer; a mailbox service layer communicatively coupled to the connection service through the first intermediary transfer layer; a second intermediary transfer layer with an mailbox message data queue that contains queued message data directed at the mailbox service layer and a message service data queue that contains queued message updates directed at a message service layer; and a message service layer configured for message interactions with an outside message service provider. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143359 | INFORMATION PUSH, RECEIVING AND EXCHANGING METHOD, SERVER, CLIENT AND EXCHANGING APPARATUS - A method of providing information to a prospective user is performed at a server having one or more processors and memory storing programs to be executed by the processors, the method including receiving audio feature information and location information from a client device, wherein the audio feature information is extracted from an audio signal received by the client device and the location information identifies a current location of the client device; comparing predefined audio feature information with the received audio feature information and comparing predefined location information with the received location information; and pushing predefined information to the client device from the server if there is a match of both comparisons made at the server. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143360 | System and Method for Creating User Profiles - A computer-implemented method for constructing a profile for a target user is disclosed. The method comprises monitoring electronic communications across a network to identify at least one electronic communication that identifies a target user as an intended message recipient, extracting metadata from content associated with the at least one electronic communication; and constructing a user profile for the target user on the basis of the extracted metadata. It is assumed that the message senders send their messages, including associated content, to a given target user with the belief that the content is of some interest to the target user on the basis of some knowledge regarding the target user's personality, preferences, tastes and the like. In this manner, a profiling entity may indirectly construct a profile of the target user based on the content sent by one or more message senders to the target user. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143361 | Communications Framework Using Hand Held Devices - A hand held communication device, a server and a system and method for a communications framework is disclosed. The hand held communication device includes a client capable of communicating with a server, the client with a user interface, the user interface is capable of displaying at least one receiver and the client is programmed to send at least one message to the at least one receiver based on the at least one receiver's receiving capabilities. The server is adapted to receive at least one message from the communication device. The server includes at least one software entity programmed to accept the at least one message from the communication device. The at least one software entity is programmed to transmit the message to at least one receiver. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140149516 | System and Method for License Enforcement of Email Message Recovery Application - A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for automating enforcement of a license for an electronic mail (email) message recovery plug-in. A first email message recovery plug-in associated with a first information handling system generates a first email message to request a recovery of a second email message. A first license identifier, which is associated with the first email message recovery plug-in, is then attached to the first email message, which in turn is sent to a second information handling system comprising a second email message recovery plug-in. In response, a third email message is received from the second information handling system, comprising the second email and a second license identifier associated with the second email message recovery plug-in. The first and second license identifiers are compared to see if they are the same. If they are, then license remediation operations are performed. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149517 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MIGRATING MAILBOX DATA FROM SYSTEMS WITH LIMITED OR RESTRICTED REMOTE ACCESS - Examples described include software hosting systems able to provide software as a service to client systems through a firewall and/or to client systems which do not have web service capability. Examples include mailbox migration systems for migrating mailboxes from a source messaging system (e.g. a Lotus Notes system) to a destination messaging system. Software hosting systems described herein may maintain an action buffer including a next action to be performed by the source messaging system, and wait for data (e.g. messaging system content) to be returned and stored in a data buffer. Communication between the software hosting system and the source messaging system may occur over a communication channel which may be operated through a firewall using HTTP. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149518 | VIRTUAL CONTACT CARDS - A service provider receives from a user who has an account with it contact card information and recipient information picture information, therefrom determines a virtual contact card and contact channels through which the virtual contact card is sent to the recipients designated by the user, and sends the virtual contact card to the designated recipients through the contact channels. The virtual contact card and contact channels may be selected from what have been previously registered, either by the user or a third person, with the service provider and stored in the user's account, or just newly created, updated, and sent from the user at the time of transmission request to the designated recipients. The virtual contact card, when updated by the user, may be automatically sent by the service provider to the same recipients that previously received a pre-updated version. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149519 | MEETING ROOM STATUS BASED ON ATTENDEE POSITION INFORMATION - A system may include a processor and a network interface. The processor may be configured to set a meeting room status of a meeting room over a selected time period to unavailable based on a meeting organizer specifying the time period and an attendee of a meeting, obtain a location status of the attendee during the selected time period, and change the meeting room status to reserved but not occupied based on the location status of the attendee being not in proximity of the meeting room. The network interface may be configured to transmit the meeting room status to a user device. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149520 | DYNAMIC GRANULAR MESSAGING PERSISTENCE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamic, granular messaging persistence in a messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamic, granular messaging persistence in a messaging system is provided. The method includes monitoring operational performance of a message broker and receiving a message for queuing in a message queue of the message broker. The method also includes parsing the message to extract different fields and corresponding priorities and selectively storing in fixed storage, data for corresponding ones of the different fields based upon consideration of corresponding ones of the priorities and the monitored operational performance. Finally, the method includes queuing the message in the message queue. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149521 | USING EXTENSIONS TO ROUTE COMMUNICATIONS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - Routing incoming communications in a data processing system is provided. In response to receiving a current incoming communication to a communication address associated with the data processing system, it is determined whether an extension is associated with the current incoming communication. In response to determining that an extension is associated with the current incoming communication, the extension associated with the current incoming communication is determined to match an extension in a list of extensions corresponding to a plurality of profiles in the data processing system. Then, the current incoming communication is routed to a profile in the plurality of profiles that corresponds to the extension associated with the current incoming communication. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149522 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE FAN MEETING - Provided are a system and a method for an online fan meeting. The online chat method among a first user and a plurality of second users, includes granting a bilateral chat right to a first group of users selected from the second users for participating in an online chat with the first user, authorizing an online chat communication among the first user and the first group based on the bilateral chat right, and broadcasting the online chat communication to a second group of users selected from the second users. The second group is granted with a unilateral chat right. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149523 | METHOD FOR REGULATED INTERACTION BETWEEN VIRTUAL VISIONS IN RESTRICTED VIRTUAL GROUP COMMUNICATIVE LAYERS - The users ( | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149524 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a generating unit configured to generate a message log including a plurality of messages sent from a device, a first calculating unit configured to calculate for the plurality of messages included in the message log a first probability of a case that after a first message occurs a second message occurs within a first period, a second calculating unit configured to calculate a second probability of a case that before the second message occurs the first message occurs within a second period, a third calculating unit configured to calculate a value which indicates a co-occurrence relation of the first message and the second message based on the first probability and the second probability. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149525 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING INSTANT MESSAGE - In a case where a transmitting apparatus transmits an instant message, for the generated message, an alert command mode in which it is instructed to perform alert processing when a receiving apparatus receives the message or a no alert command mode in which it is instructed not to perform the alert processing when the receiving apparatus receives the message are set up. Then, the receiving apparatus performs the alert processing when the alert command mode is set up for the received message and does not perform the alert processing when the no alert command mode is set up for the received message. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140156760 | Method and system for maintaining contact information - Techniques for synchronizing personal contact information with or from different sources are disclosed. Through a website (i.e., a server or system), all fractional personal contact information is consolidated, synchronized, processed or updated. In return, any of the resources may be synchronized to get a copy of the latest version of the contact information. When contacts in a list by a registered user are also registered with the server, any of the contacts may update their respective contact information that can be timely reflected in the list. As a result, the registered user always has a latest version of the contact information for some or all of his/her contacts without even knowing some has already been changed or updated. Based on the contact information, other features including proof delivery of emails, recycling of deleted contacts, a “black” list, contact relationship levels and anonymous email, short messaging and calls are provided. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156761 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR IMPRESSIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to monitor impressions of social media messages. An example method includes receiving at a server a first request for first media, the first request addressed to a first uniform resource locator (URL), and the first request corresponding to a first social media message to be presented with the first media. The method also includes receiving at the server a second request for the first media, the second request addressed to a second URL different from the first URL, and the second request corresponding to a second social media message to be presented with the first media. The method also includes crediting the first social media message with a first impression based on the first request being addressed to the first URL, and crediting the second social media message with a second impression based on the second request being addressed to the second URL. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156762 | Replacing Typed Emoticon with User Photo - In one embodiment, a computing device receives input from a user participating in a message session. The computing device detects an emoticon in the received input and identifies an image corresponding to the emoticon. The computing device accesses the image corresponding to the emoticon and replaces the emoticon with the image in the message session. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156763 | PERSON CENTRIC FEEDS AND DIRECT MESSAGING IN BUSINESS SYSTEMS - Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a system and method for generating feeds and direct messaging in business systems. Generating a feed in a business system may include subscribing to a user, determining content associated with the subscribed user that is relevant for the feed and monitoring for changes to the content determined to be relevant for the feed. A determination may be made to determine which of the changes to the content determined to be relevant for the feed to include in the feed. A notification can be generated about the changes in the feed. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156764 | Systems and Methods for the Distribution of Electronic Messages - A system and method for an Enhanced Analog Telephone Adapter (E-ATA) that scans and converts outbound faxes, converts the faxes into a text readable document, and then looks up either a phone and/or fax number(s) in the document and extracts the phone number and cross references this number to an email address. This email address is then used to transmit the document to the destination email address. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE HANDLING IN A NETWORK DEVICE - The present disclosure discloses a method and system for achieving enhanced performance for application message handling. The disclosed system includes a device and is configured to receive, at a first processing layer implemented by the device, a message addressed to a first port. The system is further configured to modify the message to be addressed to a second port indicated in a body of the message prior to forwarding the message to a second processing layer implemented by the device. Furthermore, the system is configured to forward, by the first processing layer to the second processing layer, the modified message addressed to the second port. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156766 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPAM MESSAGE DETECTION - A method, apparatus and computer program product for spam message detection. The method includes collecting time domain transmission characteristic of a message source; computing frequency domain transmission characteristic of the message source with the time domain transmission characteristic of the message source; and identifying the message source to be a spammer in response to the frequency domain transmission characteristic of the message source satisfying predefined criteria; wherein the steps of the method are carried out using a computer device. An apparatus and computer program product for carrying out the above method is also provided. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156767 | Tracking Messages in a Mentoring Environment - Tracking messages in a mentoring environment includes presenting to a reviewer a computer-based activity tracking form that is populated with data from an underlying relational database. The underlying relational database includes a content of e-mail messages addressed to an adult mentor and a content of e-mail messages addressed to a juvenile protégé. The underlying relational database also includes a status of e-mail messages between the adult mentor and juvenile protégé as determined by an e-mail interceptor. A status of an e-mail, between the adult mentor and the juvenile protégé, which has been intercepted by the e-mail monitor is displayed. In response to a displayed status indicating that the e-mail has not been reviewed, transmission of the e-mail to an intended recipient is blocked. In response to the displayed status indicating that the e-mail has been reviewed, transmission of the e-mail to the intended recipient is enabled. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156768 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME PAGING - The present disclosure is directed to methods for sending a real-time message to a recipient, where the sending is accomplished using a pre-existing communication system in communication with at least one of multiple application gateways or multiple networks, and systems including a paging engine; a first application gateway; and an administrative portal; where the paging engine, the first application gateway, and the administrative portal are configured to send a real-time message to a recipient, where the sending is accomplished a pre-existing communication system in communication with at least one of multiple application gateways or multiple networks. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156769 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSTING MESSAGE ON SOCIAL NETWORK WEBSITE THROUGH AN IMAGE - A method of posting a message on a social network website through an image is provided. A database is provided for storing a plurality of comparison images and candidate information, wherein each of the candidate information corresponds to one of the comparison images and comprises at least one of a text and a picture corresponding to the corresponded comparison image. An image is received. The image is compared with the comparison images to select one comparison image as a selected image corresponding to the received image. The candidate information corresponding to the selected image is retrieved from the database. A message which can be posted on social network website corresponding to a user is generated according to the retrieved candidate information. The generated message is then transmitted to and posted on the social network website corresponding to the user. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156770 | Method and system for exchanging messages among established contacts - Techniques for exchanging messages among established contacts are disclosed. Through a server or system, a registered user can post messages from his/her cellular phones or personal data assistants as a mobile blog. Depending on preference set by the user, the messages may be posted privately or publically. When the messages are private, the user can use the messages to create his/her journal. When the messages are public, the user allows his established contacts to comment on the messages originated by the user to create a message exchanging environment among the contacts, where the contacts are already established with the user. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156771 | Message Delivery Management - There is provided a method for delivering messages. The method comprises receiving a message for transmission to at least one mobile device. The method also comprises verifying a streaming connection status of the mobile device. The method further comprises delivering the message if said mobile device does not have an active streaming connection. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156772 | WIRELESS CHARGING AND COMMUNICATION WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A personal computing system and a mobile phone interoperate according to a wireless charging protocol while in a charging arrangement. The personal computing system can wirelessly charge a power source of the mobile phone. The personal computing system and the mobile phone are in a communication system. A server communicatively coupled to a first network and a wireless communication network can inhibit in the wireless communication network transmission of messages destined for reception by one of the personal computing system and the mobile phone, in response to determining that the personal computing system and the mobile phone are in a charging arrangement. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156773 | MESSAGING SYSTEM FEATURING CONTROLLED DISTRIBUTION AND ACCESS TO SETS OF MESSAGES - A communication system comprises a plurality of electronic devices and a server in data communication with the plurality of electronic devices having at least one processor. The processor is configured for generating a message that is accessible only by authorized receivers having associated user identifiers, generating a notice indicative of the message, communicating the notice to the first receiver having an associated first user identifier, and automatically granting the first receiver access to the message. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156774 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR CONTEXT-LINKED IMPORTATION OF USER INFORMATION - Various aspects of the invention described herein provide systems and methods for context-linked importation of user information. One aspect of the invention provides a method for context-linked importation of user information. The method includes: providing an interactive environment that allows posting of content by a plurality of pre-identified users; receiving content for the interactive environment from a pre-identified user; selecting relevant data about the pre-identified user from a database, the relevant data selected based on information contained in the content; and displaying the relevant data along with the content on the interactive environment. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156775 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF DATA - A system and method for data communication connecting on-line networks with on-line and off-line computers. The present system provides for broadcast of up to the minute notification centric information thereby providing an instant call to action for users who are provided with the ability to instantaneously retrieve further detailed information. The notification centric portions of information is wirelessly broadcast to wireless receiving devices which are attached to computing devices. Upon receipt of the information at the personal computer, the user is notified through different multimedia alerts that there is an incoming message. Wirelessly broadcasted URL's, associated with the data, are embedded in data packets and provide an automated wired or wireless connection back to the information source for obtaining detailed data. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156776 | IDENTIFYING FIRST CONTACT UNSOLICITED COMMUNICATIONS - Techniques involving identification of electronic messages that are the first contact between the sender identification and addressed recipients. One representative technique includes identifying electronic messages originating from a sender that are first contact electronic messages between the sender and targeted recipients. The sender of the electronic messages may be designated as a source of unsolicited messages if heuristics involving the first contact electronic messages indicate a distribution of unsolicited messages by the sender. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140164523 | AUTOMATED ENABLING OF INSTANT MESSAGING COMMUNICATIONS IN A CLIENT SYSTEM - Communicating using an instant messaging client includes detecting an auto-start event for an instant messaging client, wherein the instant messaging client is disabled and associated with a target user, and enabling, using a processor, the instant messaging client responsive to detecting the auto-start event. A list of users permitted to contact the target user through the instant messaging client is updated responsive to enabling the instant messaging client from the auto-start event. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164524 | SEARCHABLE PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM THROUGH INSTANT MESSAGING BASED TOPIC INDEXES - An embodiment of the present invention, a computer receives, on a first computer, a request to locate a topic. The computer determines a second computer to query for the topic. The computer queries the second computer for the topic. The computer receives identification information of participants of an instant messaging conversation corresponding to the topic. The computer stores, on the first computer, the identification information of the participants and indexing the stored identification information by the topic. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164525 | EVENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system is provided that performs event management operations. The operations include receiving a request to manage an event on behalf of an event sponsor identity associated with an event sponsor, the request including event information including a description of the event, invitee identities associated with invitees to the event and invitee contact information associated with the invitees, generating an event invitation message including the description of the event and an instruction for responding to the event invitation message, directing the event invitation message to be sent to the invitee contact information associated with the invitees, determining that responses to the event invitation message have been received from a set of the invitees, generating an event update message based on a sorting of the responses from the set of the invitees, and directing the event update message to be sent to sponsor contact information associated with the event sponsor. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164526 | INCREASING THE RELEVANCE OF DIGEST EMAILS TO GROUP MEMBERS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates access to content associated with a group. During operation, the system provides, to a first user in the group, a digest email comprising a set of links to the content. Next, the system increases a relevance of the digest email to the first user by selecting a subject header for the digest email based on usage patterns associated with at least one of the first user and one or more other users related to the first user. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164527 | EXPERT AVAILABILITY IDENTIFICATION - A method, computer program product, and system for identifying experts is described. An indication of a subject matter area associated with a user is received. A list of experts regarding the subject matter area is determined based upon, at least in part, identifying one or more members included in one or more contact rosters associated with the user. A set of experts, included in the list of experts, that are available for instant messaging communication, is identified. A portion of the list of experts is provided to the user in the context of an instant messaging application associated with the user. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164528 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Example communication systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method receives a message from a message server. The method identifies constituent data contained in the message and accesses supplemental information associated with the message based on the constituent data. The message is modified to include at least one of a portion of the supplemental information and a reference to the supplemental information. The modified message is then communicated to a client device. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164529 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Example communication systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method receives a message from a message server. The method identifies an activity contained in the received message. The received message is modified to indicate, to a user of a client device, an option to create a reminder associated with the activity contained in the received message. The modified message is then communicated to the client device. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164530 | CROSS-CHANNEL CONVERSATIONS WITH CONTEXT AWARE TRANSITION BETWEEN CHANNELS - A method for engaging in cross-channel communication between an agent and a user of a contact center, the method including: engaging the user in a first communication session via a first communication channel; providing the user a link to a second communication channel; receiving actuation of the link; retrieving data associated with the first communication session in response to actuation of the link; and engaging the user in a second communication session via the second communication channel, wherein the second communication session is associated with the retrieved data associated with the first communication session. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164531 | FOCUSED REAL TIME COLLABORATION - Aspects of the present invention disclose a system, method and computer program product for focused real time collaboration. In an example, a computer receives an electronic message from a first user, the electronic message being addressed to an intended recipient. The computer determines that a posted status of the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is not available to actively receive electronic messages from users. The computer analyzes whether the first user is on a list of users in a collaborative event with the intended recipient. The computer stores the electronic message in local storage. The computer determines that a natural breakpoint is reached in the collaborative event by the intended recipient indicating that the intended recipient is available to actively receive electronic messages from users regardless of the status of the intended recipient. The computer transmits the electronic message to a computer of the intended recipient. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164532 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL AGENT PARTICIPATION IN MULTIPARTY CONVERSATION - Systems, methods, and apparatus for use with at least one virtual agent. In some embodiments, the at least one virtual agent is programmed to: analyze first input provided by a first user during a multiparty conversation; analyze second input provided by a second user during the multiparty conversation, the second user being different from the first user; and use the first and second inputs to formulate at least one task to be performed by the virtual agent. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164533 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER INTERFACE PRESENTATION OF VIRTUAL AGENT - Systems, methods, and apparatus for use in connection with at least one virtual agent. In some embodiments, at least one processor is programmed to present the at least one virtual agent as a participant in a multiparty conversation taking place via a messaging application. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164534 | SYSTEM FOR SENDING A CONTENT ITEM THROUGH AN ONLINE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates sending a content item to a recipient through an online content management system. During operation, the system receives a command to send a message including the content item to the recipient, wherein the command may or may not specify that the content item is to be sent through the online content management system. In response to the command, the system sends the content item through the online content management system to the recipient. During this sending process, the system uploads the content item to the online content management system, wherein the uploading process returns a link to the uploaded content item. Next, the system sends the message including the link to the recipient, which enables the recipient (or a client that is acting on behalf of the recipient) to access the content item from the online content management system. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164535 | SAVING MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS TO AN ONLINE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The disclosed embodiments relate a messaging system, such as an email system, a text-messaging system or an instant-messaging system, that enables a user to save a message attachment to an online content management system (for example, to their Dropbox™). The system receives a call from a messaging system associated with the user to save a message attachment to the online content management system, wherein the call includes a link to the message attachment. In response to the call, the system commences downloading the message attachment to the online content management system. While the message attachment is downloading, the system provides a selection interface to enable the user to select a destination for the message attachment within the online content management system. After the user selects the destination and after the message attachment finishes downloading, the system saves the message attachment to the selected destination in the online content management system. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164536 | AUTOMATED ANNOUNCEMENT-AND-BULLETINS SYSTEM - The current application is related to communications and, in particular, to an announcement-and-bulletins system that allows for flexible and efficient distribution of announcements and bulletins through many different types of communications media and communications devices. The announcement-and-bulletins system can be managed and maintained from a variety of different types of devices and can distribute information to users through many different types of communications media and user devices. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164537 | EXPERT AVAILABILITY IDENTIFICATION - A method, computer program product, and system for identifying experts is described. An indication of a subject matter area associated with a user is received. A list of experts regarding the subject matter area is determined based upon, at least in part, identifying one or more members included in one or more contact rosters associated with the user. A set of experts, included in the list of experts, that are available for instant messaging communication, is identified. A portion of the list of experts is provided to the user in the context of an instant messaging application associated with the user. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164538 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF RECORDING AND OUTPUTTING MESSAGES - In a method of recording and outputting messages using an electronic device, a message is recorded using an input device and is stored into a storage device of the electronic device. When a person appears within a detection range of a detection device of the electronic device, the detection device identifies the person, and the message corresponding to the identified person is outputted using an output device of the electronic device. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164539 | APPLICATION SERVICE INTEGRATION - An application services broker includes a plurality of adapter modules, each of which are associated with a respective application service. Application service data is received from a first application service and converted to a first message having a predefined message format by a first adapter module associated with the first application service. The first message is sent from the first adapter module to a second adapter module associated with a second application service. The first message is converted to application service data for the second application service by the second adapter module. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164540 | METHOD OF WRITING MESSAGE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING THE SAME - A device performs a method for writing a message by an electronic device. The method for writing the message in the electronic device includes collecting information with which a recent situation of a conversation partner may be recognized, writing a greeting message before writing a main message by using the collected information with which the recent situation of the conversation partner may be recognized, and transmitting the greeting message to the conversation partner. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164541 | MANAGING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES - Methods and apparatuses that generate a subtopic identifier identifying a client application within a client device are described. The client application may be associated with a server application hosted in one or more application servers. Notification services may be registered with the application servers from the client application to forward identifiers associated with the client application to the server application to enable the server application to push notification messages to the client device selectively for the client application. When receiving a notification message from the application server, the notification message may be examined to forward the notification message directly to the client application without invoking other applications in the client device if the notification message carries a subtopic identifier of the client application. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164542 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods for providing a report describing the status of an electronic envelope. The electronic envelope includes a first electronic document to be distributed for electronic signature and an electronic signing template defining a set of at least one task that must be performed by an executor of the first electronic document to complete the electronic signature. The first electronic document is subject to a workflow including a plurality of events. The method includes receiving from a monitoring entity a selection of an identifier of an event of the plurality. The progress of the first electronic document through the workflow is monitored. That the at least one event has occurred with respect to the first electronic document is determined. In response to determining that the at least one event has occurred, the monitoring entity is notified of such. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164543 | Communication System, Application Server and Communication Method for Server Cooperation - A communication entrepreneur has an application server | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140172985 | Method and system for forming a hierarchically complete, absent of query syntax elements, valid Uniform Resource Locator (URL) link consisting of a domain name followed by server resource path segment containing syntactically complete e-mail address - URLs or universal resource locators are used to access resources which can be provided over a communications network such as the Internet. Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) are compact strings of characters for identifying abstract or physical resources on network. A computer implemented method is disclosed including forming a hierarchically complete valid uniform resource locator link consisting of a domain name followed by server resource path segment containing syntactically complete e-mail address. The link is absent of query syntax elements. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172986 | TASK COMPLETION IN EMAIL USING THIRD PARTY APP - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems for providing a third party app through an email user interface are provided. That is, an email user interface may provide access to an email comprising email content (e.g., a message regarding meeting for dinner at the Emerald Tavern). The email content may be analyzed to identify an entity referenced by the email content (e.g., an Emerald Tavern entity). A user intent to accomplish a task may be determined based upon the entity. An action that may be performed to accomplish the task, and a third party app capable of performing the action may be presented through the email user interface (e.g., a restaurant reservation app capable of a reservation task). Responsive to selection of the third party app, the third party app may be executed within the email user interface without transitioning a user away from the immersive email experience. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172987 | COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT PORTAL - A system and method for receiving a document from a first user that receives a message associated with the document from a second user, generates a communication thread for the document, the communication thread including the message from the second user, associates the communication thread with the document, provides the communication thread to the first user, receives a message from the first user, inserts the message from the first user in the communication thread, and provides the communication thread and a portion of the document to the second user for display. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172988 | Method, System, and Computer Readable Storage Device for Managing Message Delivery Based on Context of a Recipient and Message Content - Message delivery is controlled based on the context of the recipient and the content of the message. A message is received from a sender device, the message containing dynamic content. Contextual requirement data is received from the sender device indicating a dynamic contextual requirement to be met for the message to be made available to a user of a recipient device. Context data is received, indicating a context of the user of the recipient device. The dynamic content and the dynamic contextual requirement are modifiable, depending on the context data. The context data is evaluated to determine whether the dynamic contextual requirement is met. Responsive to the dynamic contextual requirement being met, the message is made available to the user of the recipient device. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172989 | SPAM DETECTION AND PREVENTION IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system detects spam in comments posted by users of the social networking system. A spam prevention module of the social networking system retrieves content signals associated with a posted comment and analyzes the content signals to determine whether the posted comment contains spam content. The spam prevention module augments the content signal analysis by analyzing social signals of the posted comment. Based on the content signal analysis and the social signal analysis, the spam prevention module determines whether the posted comment is spam and takes remedial actions on detected spam, including blocking the comment and educating the user who posted the comment. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172990 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER DEVICE INTERACTION - Systems and methods for receiving a communication on one or more user devices within a vehicle and redirecting the communications based at least in part on one or more user profiles associated with occupants of the vehicle is disclosed. The redirection of the communication may further be based at least in part on one or more sensor signals or a drive characteristic associated with the vehicle. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172991 | LOW LATENCY MESSAGING CHAT SERVER - A low latency messaging chat service may provide for receiving from a chat client a connection request via a network; authenticating the chat client by a registration process; allocating to the chat client at least a first topic corresponding to a first message queue and a second topic corresponding to a second message queue, the first topic assigned a first format and the second topic assigned a second format; enabling the chat client to post messages in the first topic; and enabling the chat client to receive messages in the second topic. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172992 | Techniques For Communicating Notifications to Subscribers - Techniques for communicating notifications to subscribers are describer. An apparatus may comprise a channel component and a notification component. The channel component may be operative to receive an event from a social networking service to communicate to a subscriber of the social networking service and to determine one or more channels of a plurality of channels to communicate the event to the subscriber according to rankings associated with each channel, the rankings specific to the subscriber and determined according to subscriber history. The notification component may be operative to construct a notification based on the event and to transmit the notification to the subscriber using the determined one or more channels. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172993 | Identifying Special Objects in a Storage Folder in Converged Internet Protocol Messaging - A method is described for providing access to an open mobile alliance (OMA) object, the method may be performed by an email network device, wherein the OMA object is in a mailbox, the method comprising: storing a reference as a metadata entry associated with the mailbox, wherein the mailbox contains the object and the reference identifies the object. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172994 | PREEMPTIVE DATA RECOVERY AND RETRANSMISSION - A data transfer mechanism including at least one data buffer through which messages are sent from a message sender to a message receiver, a preemptive recovery mechanism, and a preemptive retransmission mechanism. The preemptive recovery mechanism and the preemptive retransmission mechanism include at least portions of a control data path, an event handler, a processor, and a cache. The preemptive recovery mechanism sends an early warning message to the message sender independently of the message receiver upon detection that the data buffer is nearing overflow. The preemptive retransmission mechanism sends a retransmission request on behalf of the receiver to the sender, independently of the message receiver, upon detection that the receiver's data buffer has overflowed. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172995 | Suggesting Opt-out of Notifications to Users of a Social Networking System - A social networking system notifies its users of different events and actions taking place inside the social networking system. To present notifications that are most likely to be of interest to the user, the social networking system observes the interactions of the user with notifications presented to the user and suggests an option to opt-out of notifications associated with a source based on the observed interactions. The option to opt-out of notifications associated with the source may be presented if the users interactions with the notifications presented are below a threshold. Notifications associated with a social group are presented to the user based on factors describing the group and the relation between the user and other users of the social group, for example, seniority of the user, size of the group, and the rate at which user actions associated with the group are received. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172996 | Sending Notifications to Members of Social Group in a Social Networking System - A social networking system notifies its users of different events and actions taking place inside the social networking system. To present notifications that are most likely to be of interest to the user, the social networking system observes the interactions of the user with notifications presented to the user and suggests an option to opt-out of notifications associated with a source based on the observed interactions. The option to opt-out of notifications associated with the source may be presented if the users interactions with the notifications presented are below a threshold. Notifications associated with a social group are presented to the user based on factors describing the group and the relation between the user and other users of the social group, for example, seniority of the user, size of the group, and the rate at which user actions associated with the group are received. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172997 | ATTACHMENT COLLABORATION WITHIN MESSAGE ENVIRONMENTS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating collaboration within message environments. In an implementation, a message system receives a request to send on behalf of a sender a message having an attachment. In response to the request, the message system generates a collaborative version of the attachment within a location associated with the sender. The collaborative version of the attachment may be modified to reflect updates initiated on behalf of recipients of the message. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172998 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Browsing Via a Communications Agent - Methods and systems are described for browsing via a communications agent. In an aspect, request information identify a URI is received by a by a first communications agent operating in a first execution environment. A communications request is generate based on the URI. The communications request is sent to a communications service. A communications response is received in response to sending the communications request. In another aspect, for a user a communications request that identifies a URI is received by a communications service from a first execution environment. The communications request is processed. A communications response is generated based on the processing. The communications response is sent to an agent representing the user. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172999 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Accessing a Service Via a Proxy Communications Agent - Methods and systems are described for accessing a service via a proxy communications agent. In an aspect, request information for identifying a service request is identified by a first communications agent in a first execution environment. A communications request, based on the request information, is sent by the first communications agent to a second communications agent to send to the service request to a service application. A communications response is received by the first execution environment based on a service response generated by the service application in processing the service request. In another aspect, a communications request is received by a communications agent, representing a user, from a first communications agent. Access information is identified based on the user. A service request with the access information, based on the communications request, is sent to a service application. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173000 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING MESSAGE DELIVERY - A message handler, a method of handling message delivery and a message delivery device. In one embodiment, the message handler includes: (1) a network interface operable to detect a receipt of an inbound message via a communication network and (2) an alert manager associated with the network interface and operable to employ calendar data of a user to make a determination of whether a message delivery device associated with the user should generate an alert to the user regarding the receipt. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRONIC AND PAPER DOCUMENTS AS PER CUSTOMER CONSENT - A system for enterprise distribution of electronic and paper documents for multiple insurance products is disclosed. The system including a memory device to store policy information for multiple insurance products associated with each of a plurality of clients. The memory device stores document delivery settings, including contact information and notification/alert preferences. The system includes a processor to generate document delivery questions relating to the preferred medium for notification and alert documents. The system includes a receiver to receive responses to the document delivery questions. The processor generates consent questions and updates the document delivery settings based on the response to the document delivery questions and the consent questions. The system may also include a transmitter to transmit a message to the clients notifying them of the change in the document delivery settings and to transmit a message notifying a source system of the change in document delivery settings. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173002 | TECHNIQUES FOR A CUSTOM SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTER - Techniques for a custom short message service center are described. An apparatus may comprise a custom short message service center (SMSC) comprising a reception component, a transmission component, and a control component. The reception component may be operative to receive a short message service (SMS) message for communication to a device from a sender. The transmission component may be operative to initiate transmission of the message to the device. The control component may be operative to monitor the transmission of the message to the device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173003 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE - Provided is a technique for transmitting and receiving a chat message through a message server. A user may transmit and receive a chat message to and from a friend of a first type and may receive a chat message from a friend of a second type, and receive various chat messages from a company supporting the friend of the second type. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173004 | LOW LATENCY MESSAGING CHAT SERVER - A low latency messaging chat service may provide for receiving from a chat client a connection request via a network; authenticating the chat client by a registration process; allocating to the chat client at least a first topic corresponding to a first message queue and a second topic corresponding to a second message queue, the first topic assigned a first format and the second topic assigned a second format; enabling the chat client to post messages in the first topic; and enabling the chat client to receive messages in the second topic. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173005 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR QUICKLY SENDING EMAIL THEREOF - An exemplary method for quickly sending an email includes, firstly, generating operation signals in response to a shape drawn on a touch screen of an electronic device by a user. Next, the shape is identified, according to the received operation signals. Then one or more recipients' email addresses associated with the predefined shape are acquired when it is determined that the identified shape is similar to one of predefined shapes. Lastly, an email is sent to the acquired recipients' email addresses. An electronic device implementing the method is also provided. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173006 | ELECTRONIC MAIL RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD - A preview generating section | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173007 | SCHEDULING OF PRESENCE INFORMATION TRANSFER - The invention relates to a method for triggering a transfer of at least one presence information message between the network node and a client terminal. In the method the network node is configured to receive information on a communication environment from at least one of the following: the communication network, the client terminal. The received information is analyzed at least by comparing information on the communication environment at least partially with at least one predetermined value. If the comparison indicates that the communication environment is suitable for the transfer of the at least one presence information message, the transfer of the at least one presence information message is triggered to the client terminal. The invention relates also to a network node and a system for implementing the method. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173008 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ESTABLISHING REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN NETWORKED COMPUTERS - A system, method, and computer program product is provided for establishing real-time communications between computer users connected by a communications network. An invitation is created by a first computer. An invitation is data that proposes a communication session. An invitation can indicate the status or availability of the sending user or of some other resource. Creation of the invitation is followed by the transfer of the invitation from the first computer to at least one second computer. The invitation can be transferred electronically through the network, or physically, by the transfer of a magnetic medium bearing the invitation. The invitation contains parameters to configure an invitation communicator application for communications between the first and second computers. The second computer accepts the invitation and invokes an invitation communicator application to allow communication. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173009 | Electronic Communication Reminder Technology - Systems and methods concerning electronic communication reminder technology are disclosed. At a receiving device comprising one or more processors and a memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, a first electronic message addressed to a particular user is received from a sender. The first electronic message is made available to the particular user and, in accordance with a determination that the particular user has not responded to the first electronic message, the particular user is alerted, at a predefined time, to the first electronic message. This predefined time is determined based at least in part on response pattern data corresponding to one or more characteristics associated with the receiving device. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173010 | GROUP COMMUNICATION FOR A VARIETY OF MEDIA TYPES AND DEVICES - An apparatus includes at least one memory including computer program code and at least one processor. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive a message containing no media content, the message indicating one or more supported media types by a group, cross-check the indicated supported media types with usable media types in the group, based on the cross-check, determine whether at least one of the indicated supported media types is found in the usable media types in the group and, based on the determination, send the message without modifying the indicated supported media types if all of the indicated supported media types are determined to be usable media types. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173011 | Methods and systems for structuring information of email messages - Provided are computer implemented methods and systems for structuring information of email messages. An exemplary method comprises receiving an incoming email message. An automatic response is sent to a sender of the incoming email message with a request for information. The requested information is received from the sender and associated with a bin. The bin is structured according to a data model associated with the bin. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173012 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EMAIL SEND JOBS - A method and system for managing email send jobs. Managing email send jobs includes constructing and building a plurality of emails based upon an executable process, wherein each of the plurality of emails comprises an activity data and at least one email recipients. Managing email send jobs also includes routing each of the plurality of emails to a queue at a location, wherein the location is determined based in part upon proximity to at least one of the at least one email recipients, processing each of the plurality of emails within each queue, injecting each of the plurality of emails into a mail transfer agent at the location, and sending each of the plurality of emails to the at least one email recipients. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140181215 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Messaging Over a Network - A method, system and computer program product for messaging over a network includes steps and means for logging on to engage in a messaging conversation with at least one party over a communication network. Steps and means prepare messages for the at least one party using a plurality of text input boxes. Steps and means select a one of the plurality of text input boxes for sending to the at least one party a contained message within the one of the plurality of text input boxes. Other embodiments further include steps and means for sending at least a portion of the contained message separately from the contained message and steps and means for adding an additional text input box to the plurality of text input boxes. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181216 | Just-In-Time, Email Embedded URL Reputation Determination - A system allows just-in-time checking of information about an email in which a hyperlink is embedded. Upon receipt of the email containing the hyperlink, the resource locator of the hyperlink is modified to allow checking the reputation of the email upon traversal of the hyperlink. At traversal of the hyperlink, the current reputation of the resource locator and the current reputation of the email are both determined, and one or more actions are performed responsive to the determination. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181217 | ABAP Channels for Event Signaling - A system, a method and a computer-program product for exchanging communications between user sessions are provided. A first push channel and a first messaging channel on a first application server for connecting a first client to the first application server are established. The first messaging channel communicates with the first push channel, where both channels form a first session corresponding to the first client. A second push channel and a second messaging channel on a second application server for connecting a second client to the second application server are established. The second messaging channel communicates with the second push channel, where both channels form a second session corresponding to the second client. The first and second application servers communicate on a communication network. Messages are exchanged between the first and second messaging channels to form a connection between the first and second clients. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181218 | MEDIA CONTENT DISCOVERY AND CONSUMPTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary method includes a media content discovery system 1) receiving a message addressed to a personalized destination within a media content consumption service, the message having originated outside of the media content consumption service, 2) posting information associated with the message to the personalized destination within the media content consumption service for access by a user from within the media content consumption service, 3) receiving a request provided by the user from within the media content consumption service to access the information posted to the personalized destination, and 4) providing, within the media content consumption service in response to the request, a personalized user interface that presents the posted information. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181219 | SUGGESTING RELATED ITEMS - Recommendations, such as recipients and attachments, are determined from content that is associated with a message item. A user may enter one or more: recipients; attachments; and message content for the message that may be used in determining recommendations. Keywords may also be identified by analyzing the content of the message to determine recommended content/recipients. Behavior patterns may also be used to determine recommendations. The recommended users/content of a message may be obtained from a messaging program, a local data store, a network data store, a cloud service, and the like. The recommended items (e.g. users/content) determined from analyzing the content are displayed such that they may be used by the user when editing the message item. The recommended items may be ranked by relevancy using metrics such as keywords, people, time last viewed and use patterns. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181220 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MIGRATING DATA - A system, method and device for migrating data are provided. An attachment type of an attachment received with a message at a device is determined, the message associated with a network address of the device dedicated to data migration. The attachment is stored in a portion of the memory associated with the attachment type | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181221 | ANALYZING A MESSAGE USING LOCATION-BASED PROCESSING - Techniques for analyzing a message using location-based processing are described in various implementations. In one example implementation, a method may include receiving a message from a first user to a second user. The method may also include determining location information associated with the message, the location information including a first location associated with the first user, a second location associated with the second user, or both the first location and the second location. The method may also include determining, based on the location information, location-based processing to be applied when analyzing content of the message. The method may also include analyzing the content of the message to determine whether the message contains potentially unintended content using the location-based processing. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181222 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS FOR DIFFERENT WORKSPACES - A method, system and apparatus for providing notifications for different workspaces is provided. The device comprises a processor, a memory, and a notification device, the processor enabled to: manage a first workspace and a second workspace distinguished from each other by one or more of: data stored at the memory being associated with one or another of the first workspace and the second workspace; and accounts being associated with the one or the another of the first workspace and the second workspace; and, when a current workspace comprises the first workspace, control the notification device to present first notifications associated only with the first workspace, while second notifications associated with the second workspace are not presented. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181223 | AUTOMATIC ROUTING OF ELECTRONIC FILE ATTACHMENTS IN A FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Attachments received at an email account are processed according to a processing rule that is selected using, for example, a sender's email address, the sender's domain, or metadata in the email. A feature triggers the processing rule that then removes the attachment from the received email and stores the attachment in a rule-indicated directory. Processing rules can be defined by the email sender or by the email recipient. Changes to the attachment can be synchronized across multiple user devices and user accounts using a file sharing application. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181224 | CAPABILITY-BASED COMMUNICATIONS - A capability-based communication mechanism is provided for controlling delivery of messages. A capability-based address is an address having one or more capability parameters associated therewith, where the one or more capability parameters associated with the capability-based address may be used to control delivery of messages to the capability-based address. A user or entity requests a capability-based address from a communication service provider. The communication service provider provides a capability-based address to the user or entity. The user or entity provides the capability-based address to one or more other users or entities. The delivery of messages to the user or entity with which the capability-based address is associated is controlled based on the one or more capability parameters associated with the capability-based address of the user or entity. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181225 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REDUCING SESSION RELATED MESSAGE SIZE - An apparatus for reducing session related message size includes a processing element. The processing element may be configured to determine a domain-wide unique identifier and generate a message including a first field for identifying a message sequence associated with the message and a second field including a tag. The second field including the tag may be associated with an identifier of a source or recipient of the message. At least one of the first and second fields may be without data. The processing element may be further configured to include, in the message, a third field comprising at least the domain-wide unique identifier. The third field may be associated with data otherwise intended for the first and second fields. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181226 | CONTENT-CENTRIC NETWORK COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A Content Centric Network (CCN) communication method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes managing a Forwarding Information Base (FIB) indicating destinations to forward an interest message that requests content, which is performed by a CCN node, wherein the FIB includes at least one of a name prefix field indicating a content name, a face list field indicating destinations to forward an interest that requests content with the content name, and a congestion impact field indicating a relative time taken to receive the content from a corresponding destination in response to the interest message, receiving a first interest message, and forwarding the first interest message to at least one destination node determined by taking into account the congestion impact field. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181227 | System for Reducing Conflict between Parties That Must Communicate with Each Other - A system and method for reducing conflict between parties that must communicate with each other are disclosed. In its most basic form, the invention is embodied in a system comprising the steps of: pairing users with system-specific unique address (e.g. e-mail address or text message destination number); receiving each electronic message and edit it as necessary in order to eliminate inflammatory or inappropriate language; and sending the edited electronic message to the intended recipient user, optionally with a copy of the edited electronic message also sent to the sending user. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181228 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING MESSAGES AMONG PLURALITY OF TERMINALS, MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND SERVER - Provided is a method for synchronizing messages among a plurality of terminals, including receiving a communication message from a first sending terminal, sending a message notifying reception of the communication message to a first receiving terminal that is not connected to a server among receiving terminals mapped to a receiving account of the communication message, and sending the communication message to the first receiving terminal, if the first receiving terminal is connected to the server. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181229 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING CLARITY AND EXPRESSIVENESS IN NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments for increasing clarity and expressiveness in network communications include: obtaining a message from a first user as part of a network-enabled conversation with a second user; analyzing the message to identify an expressiveness keyword indicative of an emotion, mood, or level of expressiveness; selecting a level or degree of emotional expressiveness to which a corresponding emotion or mood should be expressed in relation to the identified expressiveness keyword; applying, by use of a processor, at least one embellishment to the message to produce an embellished message, the embellishment including either an explicitly user-selected embellishment or an automatically generated embellishment based on content of the message, the at least one embellishment being configured in a manner consistent with the selected level or degree of emotional expressiveness; and causing transmission of the embellished message via a network to the second user. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181230 | SCALABLE MESSAGE FIDELITY - Message content is scaled to support rich messaging. Devices and associated messaging systems can support various levels of content richness or fidelity. Message content scaling is employed to ensure sharing of content in as rich a manner as possible given limitations associated with various messaging systems, among other things Messages can be scaled down or degraded, for instance where communicating devices do not support high fidelity content being transmitted. Alternatively, messages can be scaled up or enriched in cases, where low fidelity content is transmitted to a device supporting richer content, for example. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181231 | Rescinding Messages in a Messaging System With Multiple Messaging Channels - A messaging system facilitates communication between users through various messaging channels. The messaging system supports multiple communication channels and includes a messaging module that automatically selects one or more of the messaging channels for delivering a message to a recipient of the message using, for example, a set of policy rules or a trained model. The messaging module may also provide, in a user interface for sending and receiving messages, a visual indication of the selected messaging channel to the sender of the message to provide the user with transparency about how the message will be delivered. Additionally, the message may be delivered via multiple messaging channels, where the messaging module may rescind messages from some of the messaging channels upon receiving a reply from the recipient of the message or other confirmation that the recipient has seen the message via one of the communication channels. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140189017 | COMPREHENSIVE TASK MANAGEMENT - Technologies for generating tasks from communication messages includes a mobile computing device for monitoring communication messages, parsing the communication messages to detect content indicative of upcoming tasks, generating a task for each of the upcoming tasks detected, generating a task list from the generated tasks, and generating an alarm for each task. Additionally, the mobile computing device receives tasks generated by a cloud server. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC AND PHYSICAL DELIVERY OF MAIL - Systems and methods for utilizing a digital mailbox to provide additional services with regard to physical mail are provided. A more efficient process for verification of address uses a corresponding digital mailbox to first identify potentially misdirected mailpieces before incurring the expense of a third party address record search. Additionally the system provides notifications related to physical mailpieces using a digital mailbox. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189019 | Associating Received Contact Information With User Profiles Stored by a Social Networking System - A social networking system receives contact information from a social networking system user. The received contact information is stored and associated with a user profile in the social networking system including information matching at least a portion of the stored content information. This increases the information associated with the user profile. Subsequently received content information is compared to user profiles and stored contact information associated with one or more user profiles. User profiles including information matching at least a portion of the subsequently received content information or associated with stored contact information matching at least a portion of the subsequently received content information are identified as potential connections for the user providing the subsequently received contact information. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189020 | EXTENDED OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGE PROCESSING - Message processing includes activating an out-of-office function for a messaging account, wherein the out-of-office function has a scheduled end time. A determination is made, using a processor, that a current time is after the scheduled end time and that a deactivation condition for the out-of-office function has not occurred. Responsive to the determination, an out-of-office action is performed using the processor. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189021 | MINIMIZING THE EFFECTS OF EMAIL ATTACHMENTS ON COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A first computer receives a first message that includes an electronic attachment from a second computer over a communications network. The first computer saves the electronic attachment in a storage device. The first computer removes the electronic attachment from the first message. The first computer adds a link to the first message; wherein the link permits access to download the saved electronic attachment. The first computer sends to a third computer the first message including the link that permits access to download the saved electronic attachment. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189022 | System and method for inputting end-user-selected electronic data, for inputting end-user-selected gradation values of said electronic data, and for creating correlation outputs of said inputted gradation values for optimization of systems and processes - A system and/or method is provided that includes at least one server computer configured to receive user submissions from remote end users including both a) user created topics, each user created topic having user-selected alphanumeric data of a user-selected length, and b) a corresponding user selected valuation associated with each user-created topic, each user-selected valuation having an alphanumeric value from a set of at least three potential values. The server computer being configured to store user submissions along with associated data, including associated time data, and along with end user data, and being configured to determine an average or mean value of the user-selected valuations for corresponding topics, and being configured to create historical reports, graphs or charts depicting variations in the average or means value of the user-selected valuations for corresponding topics over a time period. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189023 | PUSH NOTIFICATION DELIVERY SYSTEM - An example method for delivery of push notifications includes receiving a push notification including a message and a destination, creating a send token, sending a push notification derived from the received push notification and the send token, and receiving push information concerning a processing of the sent push notification which is identified by the send token. An example system for delivering push notifications includes a server system having a processor, memory, and a network interface, where the memory stores program instructions including code segments for receiving a received push notification via the network interface. In this example, the program instructions further includes code segments for creating a send token, code segments for sending a sent push notification derived from the received push notification and the send token via the network interface, and code segments for receiving received push information concerning a processing of the sent push notification are provided. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189024 | EXTENDED OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGE PROCESSING - Message processing includes activating an out-of-office function for a messaging account, wherein the out-of-office function has a scheduled end time. A determination is made, using a processor, that a current time is after the scheduled end time and that a deactivation condition for the out-of-office function has not occurred. Responsive to the determination, an out-of-office action is performed using the processor. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189025 | Apparatus and Method for Managing User Chat Experiences with Businesses - A computer-implemented method of managing a chat experience of a user desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses utilizes in various aspects a chat management server running computer processes for communicating with user devices. In another aspect, a computer-implemented method of providing a chat experience to a user having a user device and desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses utilizes computer processes running on the user device. Corresponding embodiments similarly provide an apparatus performing any of the foregoing methods. Other corresponding embodiments similarly provide a computer readable medium storing instructions, which when loaded into a computer, perform processes corresponding to any of the foregoing methods. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189026 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR EXCHANGING MESSAGE OR MAKING VOICE CALL VIA NETWORK - [Object] To provide a means that enables information exchange with more fun by reducing dull and uninteresting impression in the information exchanged via a network. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189027 | Message Processing Method, Terminal and System - A message processing method, terminal and system. The method includes: obtaining a user's historical message interaction information and first context data associated with the user's historical message interaction information, where the user's historical message interaction information includes historical message interaction content and historical message replying status; determining the user's message interaction preferences according to the user's historical message interaction information and the first context data, where the message interaction preferences include a message reply policy and/or a message writing style; receiving a current message sent to the user, and obtaining second context data associated with the current message; and replying to the current message according to the message interaction preferences, the current message, and the second context data. With the present invention, the user's message interaction preferences are determined, and the current message can be replied automatically, thereby enhancing user experience. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189028 | AUTOMATED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to automated systems for organizing and facilitating information exchange between members of an organization. Automated systems that represent embodiments of the present invention allow for creation and administration of hierarchical groupings of members of the organization to facilitate efficient dissemination of information among members of groups. Embodiments of the present invention provide for automated and intelligent routing of information and communications among many different types of communications media and devices through which members of the organization can distribute and exchange information with one another. Embodiments of the present invention additionally provide for sophisticated logging, tracking, and monitoring of information distribution and management within the organization. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189029 | TELECOMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140195618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNFILTERING FILTERED STATUS MESSAGES - An approach for unfiltering a filtered electronic communication is provided. In one aspect, a computer system receives filtered electronic communication, wherein the filtered electronic communication is a status message. Moreover, the computer system determines a requestor of the filtered electronic communication. The computer system also detects an attempt made to communicate with the requestor. Furthermore, the computer system unfilters, in response to the attempt, the filtered electronic communication. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195619 | Emotive Text Messaging System - A system for expressing emotion in respective users' text messages, the system comprising: respective user text generation engines for generating emotive text messages according to respective user entered text and respective user selected emotional values associated with the text; respective user interfaces for permitting the users to enter the text and select the associated emotional value to be used in generating the emotive text message. respective displays for displaying the emotive text to respective users; wherein the emotive text is displayed as the written text against a background having a color according to the emotional value associated with the written text. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195620 | NOTIFICATION ROUTING TO A USER DEVICE - A system, machine-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for routing a notification to at least one device of a user is provided. User preference data including usage data is obtained from a user. The usage data may relate to activity of the user on at least one device and may indicate a preference of the user in receiving notifications on the at least one device. The occurrence of a notification event is detected. In response to the detection of the notification event, a notification is communicated to the user in accordance with the user preference data. The notification may indicate that a notification event has occurred. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195621 | INTELLIGENT CHAT SYSTEM - The disclosure herein describes an intelligent chat system. During operation, the system monitors content provided by participants of an online chat, and automatically obtains, from a data source, additional information based on the monitored content. The system then presents the obtained additional information to the chat participants without the need for the chat participants to request the additional information. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195622 | DYNAMIC SUBSCRIPTION AND MESSAGE ROUTING ON A TOPIC BETWEEN PUBLISHING NODES AND SUBSCRIBING NODES - A system for dynamic message routing on a topic between publishing nodes and subscribing nodes includes a plurality of message queues, at least one topic/node table, a subscribing module, a publishing module, and other modules to send messages between one or more publisher and one or more subscribers. Methods include: a method for publishing a message on a topic, a method for forwarding a message on a topic, a method for subscribing to messages on a topic, a method for automatically removing subscribers, a method for direct publishing of messages, and methods for optimizing message transmission between nodes. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195623 | SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus that manages a processing flow including a plurality of tasks and is connected to an image processing apparatus and a user terminal, the information processing apparatus comprises: an issuing unit which, if the processing flow requested from the image processing apparatus includes a mail-transmission task of transmitting an e-mail with an attached document from the image processing apparatus to the user terminal, issues a mail address in association with the requested processing flow, wherein the attached document is document data to be processed in the processing flow; a setting unit which sets, as a “Reply-To” setting of the e-mail, the issued mail address into the mail-transmission task included in the requested processing flow; and a first transmission unit which transmits the processing flow set by the setting unit to the image processing apparatus. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING DATA WITH ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - The invention relates to sharing patient care information through electronic messaging. Systems for managing electronic health records may comprise extensive patient information, e.g., names, addresses, insurance coverage and/or other financial arrangements, health conditions, allergies, procedures undergone, and/or tests performed. The invention involves transfer of such information between users. Embodiments of the invention may pass such information by adding to electronic messages pointers that uniquely refer to one or more patient records. Some embodiments may thereby send health information electronically while preserving metadata and/or other meaning associated with the data. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROWDSOURCING EVENT-RELATED SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS - Approaches for facilitating crowdsourcing of event-related social media posts are disclosed. In certain implementations, a first post that includes information specifying a first meteorological event may be received from a first user. Information specifying a first location associated with the first post may be obtained. A determination of whether the first location is within a predetermined proximity threshold of a second location associated with a second post that includes information specifying the first meteorological event may be effectuated. The first post may be presented to one or more other users in response to a determination that the first location is not within the predetermined proximity threshold. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195626 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESS-CONTROLLED INTERACTIONS - An interaction server controls access between a plurality of senders and/or users exchanging electronic interactions. A sender may identify a user with whom the sender desires to interact using a public identifier associated with the user. The interaction server may coordinate the desired interaction without revealing private information, such as information about private user resources (e.g., personal contact information, personal payment information, personal data, etc.). The interaction server may determine whether to provide an interaction by evaluating an access code, by determining whether a user is trusted, and/or the like. The interaction server may provide the interaction, a notice of the interaction, a payload associated with the interaction, and/or the like to a user resource associated with the public identifier if access is allowed. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195627 | CUSTOMER-IDENTIFYING EMAIL ADDRESSES TO ENABLE A MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION THAT SUPPORTS MANY SERVICE PROVIDERS - A system comprising one or more transceivers in communication with a vehicle computing system, the one or more transceivers are also in communication with at least one server. The at least one server is configured to receive an email including a subscriber identification and data formatted by a service provider. The at least one server is further configured to parse the email to retrieve the data formatted by the service provider and identify information usable by the vehicle computing system in the retrieved data. The at least one server is further configured to extract the identified information and transmit the information for communication to the vehicle computing system. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195628 | CUSTOMER-IDENTIFYING EMAIL ADDRESSES TO ENABLE A MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION THAT SUPPORTS MANY SERVICE PROVIDERS - An information distribution system comprising one or more transceivers in communication with a computing system, the one or more transceivers are also in communication with at least one server. The at least one server configured to receive a communication message. The at least one server further configured to identify an element, in a communication text portion, corresponding to a predefined category based on an element classification model. The at least one server further configured to identify additional information associated with the predefined category and provide the identified information to an application on the computing system. The application on the computing system is pre-specified for utilization of information associated with the predefined category. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195629 | GEO-SPATIALLY CONSTRAINED PRIVATE NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and system of a geo-spatially constrained private neighborhood social network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer server of the global neighborhood to verify that a user lives at a residence associated with a geographic location claimed by the user of the global neighborhood environment through a social community module of the computer server using a processor and a memory, to create a social network page of each user once verified, to enable the user to limit communications with only neighbors in a neighborhood in a geospatial vicinity of the user, and to distribute a message in a specified range of distance away from the registered users using an announce module. The computer server to constrain access in the online community with neighbors of the user based on the residence associated with the geographic location claimed by the user of the global neighborhood environment. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140201289 | NOTIFICATION FEED ACROSS MULTIPLE CLIENT DEVICES - Event notifications can be provided to a user across multiple client devices or platforms. If a user takes action on one device, notifications on all devices can be updated to reflect the action. For example, notifications can be indexed by topic and time sequence (or other sequence), and multiple notifications related to the same topic can be consolidated at a server or the client so that current information can be presented to the user. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201290 | Determining States of a Threaded Communication - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for determining the current logical state of a social media communication thread. A method includes computing an initial probability for applicability of each of multiple logical states for a first entry in a social media communication thread, wherein each logical state corresponds to a stage of interaction between customers of an enterprise and/or agents of the enterprise based on features derived from content of entries in the communication thread, network structure of entries, and identity of authors of entries, computing a transition probability between each subsequent consecutive entry in the communication thread, wherein the transition probability indicates the probability of moving from one logical state to another, and determining the current logical state of the communication thread based on the computed initial probability for the first entry and the computed transition probability between each subsequent entry in the communication thread. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201291 | System and Method for Creating a Geographically-Defined Social Network - A system and method for creating a geographically-defined social network. In the preferred embodiment, residents living in a defined geographical area, such as a particular neighborhood, are connected to one another via a social network. Membership in the social network is determined based on geographical location. Also in the preferred embodiment, residents in the defined geographical area can communicate with each other, but not with residents in other defined geographical areas. Communication can be by messaging, email, phone, or other communications methods. In another embodiment, businesses can communicate with residents within a geographical region. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201292 | DIGITAL BUSINESS CARD SYSTEM PERFORMING SOCIAL NETWORKING COMMONALITY COMPARISIONS, PROFESSIONAL PROFILE CURATION AND PERSONAL BRAND MANAGEMENT - An icon added to a message of a sender provides a tool for recipients of the message to determine commonalities with the sender. The recipient activates the icon to initiate retrieval of social networking information from social networking network locations of the recipient to the recipient's computer. The recipient's social networking information is then forwarded to a commonality engine that compares the recipient's social networking information with social networking information of the sender to provide the recipient with commonalities between the recipient and the sender. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201293 | CHOOSING A SERVICE TO PROVIDE A MESSAGE - A machine may be configured to receive a message within an inbound request from an application. The inbound request may ask that the message be provided to a device of a recipient that is identified by a device identifier of the device, and the inbound request may specify a time by which the message is to be provided. The machine may make a request to a first communication service that the first communication service provide the message to the device by the time specified. The machine may determine that the first communication service acknowledged this request but failed to receive a confirmation that references this request. Based on this determination, the machine may choose a second communication service to provide the message and make a request to the second communication service that the second communication service provide the message from the application to the device. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201294 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING VERTICAL SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR CLIENT ORIENTED SERVICE PROVIDERS - An apparatus, system and method for providing an advisor decision enabling tool. The apparatus, system and method includes a plurality of networked computers, wherein at least one user of each of the plurality at least electronically communicates with a plurality of clients at least partially over the network, and a first computing engine comprising at least computing code associated with at least a first processor capable of accumulating data regarding ones of the plurality if clients and actions by each of the at least one user, wherein the first computing engine accepts a plurality of tags indicative of the accumulated data, and wherein the tags are dictated by the at least one user. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201295 | Electronic Message Content and Header Restrictive Send Device Handling System and Method - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. Separate displays are provided at a sending user device for separately entering via the user device message content of an electronic message and a recipient address corresponding to the message content such that the separate displays are not displayed via the user device at the same time. The message content and the recipient address are transmitted from the user device separately and the message content is not accessible by a user of the sending user device via the user device after a media component of the message content is transmitted from the device to a server computer. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201296 | System and Method for Improving Messages - A system and method assists a user in composing more effective messages to a recipient based on experiences of successful messages sent to that recipient, other recipients having one or more similar characteristics as the recipient, or both. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201297 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING UNSOLICITED ELECTRONIC MAIL - An internet service provider (ISP) is configured to analyze a subscriber's sent e-mail packets to determine a subscriber identity associated with the e-mail packets. A database is then queried to determine a current sending rate of e-mails by the subscriber. A sending rate above an allowed threshold causes the upstream transmission of the e-mail packets to be blocked by injecting connection destroying packets. A subscriber remains blocked from upstream transmission of e-mails until the sending rate as determined by the ISP drops below a second, more stringent threshold. This automatic process is also accompanied by automated messaging to the subscriber with information as to the measures taken and remedial options. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201298 | MESSAGE SUBSCRIPTION BASED ON MESSAGE AGGREGATE CHARACTERISTICS - A method for message subscription based on a message aggregate characteristic is described. The method includes receiving a message subscription from a user. The message subscription is based on the message aggregate characteristic including an aspect other than textual content and bibliographic content. The method also includes determining a published message in response to receiving the message subscription. The published message satisfies the message aggregate characteristic. The method also includes providing an indication of the published message to the user. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201299 | INTER-PLATFORM INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD, SERVER, COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is an inter-platform information sharing system, including an interface module, a control module and a database, wherein the interface module is configured to receive information obtained through a first platform and acquire the information from the database and synchronize the acquired information with the counterpart on a second platform, or receive information obtained through the second platform and acquire the information from the database and synchronize the acquired information with the counterpart on the first platform, and the control module is configured to control the interface module to receive the information and acquire the information from the database, and control the database to store the obtained information. In addition, an inter-platform information sharing method, a server and a computer storage medium are also provided. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201300 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A REQUEST FOR A RESOURCE IN A COMMUNICATION - A system, method, and computer program product is included for receiving a criterion at a first node via at least one network; in response to the criterion, sending from the first node via the at least one network a first signal to a second node including a first message; receiving at the first node via the at least one network a second signal from the second node including the content that is included in the second signal based on a schema defining at least one of a format and a vocabulary for processing, and including a second message; and in response to the second signal, presenting at least a portion of the content in connection with the second message. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140207873 | Method and Apparatus for Crowd-Sourced Information Presentation - A system includes a processor configured to receive a request to provide email read-back. The processor is also configured to access contact information for at least one human email read-back party. Further, the processor is configured to determine the availability of the at least one party to read back one or more emails, using the contact information. Also, the processor is configured to deliver the one or more emails to the at least one party for read-back and receive audio data from the party corresponding to the delivered emails | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207874 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATING IN A NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING SYSTEM - A collaboration system may include a computing device that may communicate with the at least one other computing device via a computing network network. The computing device may receive data that has been acquired using one or more non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection devices, receive an input that may cause a list of one or more experts indicated as available to collaborate to be derived. The computing device may also receive a selection of at least one expert from the list of experts. After receiving the expert selection, the computing device may establish a communication connection between the computing device and the at least one other computing device that corresponds to the at least one expert. Here, the communication connection may share data depicted on the computing device with the at least one other computing device. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207875 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING DATA IN A NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING SYSTEM - A method for sharing data in a non-destructive testing (NDT) system may include receiving, using a microprocessor, an indication of data to be shared such that the data has been acquired using one or more non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection devices. The method may also include receiving a format in which to send the data, receiving one or more recipients designated to receive the data to be shared; and automatically modifying the data into the format and sending the modified data to the recipients once the data has been acquired by the NDT inspection devices. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207876 | System and Method for Routing Messages Over a Network - Embodiments of the invention relate to a computer system and method for routing messages over a network, including messages originating from mobile devices and messages destined for emergency services. Initial messages may be associated with a sessionless protocol, e.g., SMS. An initial message embodying a text-based communication that originated from a mobile device at a location and time may be received, and a service query comprising the location of the mobile device may then be transmitted. In response to the service query, the recipient of the message may be identified along with a location, with the initial message being forwarded through the network to the identified recipient. If that initial message lacks sufficient location information, a location query may be transmitted, and a response to the location query that comprises sufficient information about the location of the mobile device may be used to formulate the service query, ensuring delivery of the message to the intended recipient with location information. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207877 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSOCIATING A SOCIAL NETWORKING IDENTIFIER WITH A NETWORK SUBSCRIBER ACCOUNT - An approach for enabling delivery and presentment of service provider notification messages to a subscribed user via a social networking service of the user is described. An integration platform determines whether a network identifier for accessing a social networking service via a communication network is associated with subscriber account information maintained by the communication service provider. The integration platform also generates a request for linking a social networking identifier associated with the social networking service with the subscriber account information based on the determination. The integration platform further initiates a rendering of a notification message received from the communication service provider to a user interface of the social networking service based on acceptance of the request. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207878 | USER INTERFACE WITH RECIPIENT STATUS INDICATION - A method of providing a user interface with recipient status information, in one aspect, may comprise detecting a message (e.g., online message such as instant messaging, chat, etc.) being initiated by a first user to a second user; gathering information associated with the second user; analyzing the gathered information; predicting a state of the second user based on the analyzing; and determining a notification action based on the predicted state of the second user, the notification action notifying the first user of the second user's state; and presenting a notification comprising one or more of graphical, textual, auditory, or tactile indications or combinations thereof to the first user. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207879 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MASTER DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system, a master device, and a communication method are provided. The communication system includes a master device and at least one slave device. The master device periodically sends a plurality of synchronous messages at intervals of a first predetermined time. The at least one slave device respectively receives the corresponding synchronous messages via wireless communication. The master device and the at least one slave device synchronously switch an operating frequency of wireless communication according to a frequency table. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207880 | USER INTERFACE WITH RECIPIENT STATUS INDICATION - A method of providing a user interface with recipient status information, in one aspect, may comprise detecting a message (e.g., online message such as instant messaging, chat, etc.) being initiated by a first user to a second user; gathering information associated with the second user; analyzing the gathered information; predicting a state of the second user based on the analyzing; and determining a notification action based on the predicted state of the second user, the notification action notifying the first user of the second user's state; and presenting a notification comprising one or more of graphical, textual, auditory, or tactile indications or combinations thereof to the first user. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207881 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR CONNECTION INTERFACE - The invention relates to a connecting interface having a circuit arrangement, in order to associate incoming data messages with available information, having a means for comparing incoming messages with available information and for storing available information. In this case, the means comprises a multiplicity of comparison elements that have a respective associated memory, wherein the respective memories together form a store for storing information relating to unassociated messages, and the comparison elements are designed for the parallel comparison of incoming messages with the information stored in their respective memories. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207882 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTI-USER MESSENGER SERVICE - A messenger service method is provided that includes determining whether a user has created information for activating a search in a communication session. The communication session may be between the user and at least one other participant. The method includes transmitting the created information and a message input by the user. The method includes receiving a search result. The received search result may be generated based on the message and the information. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207883 | SYNCHRONOUS CONFERENCING WITH AGGREGATION OF MESSAGES - A method, system, and/or computer program product operates a synchronous conference on a computing system. A processor provides at least one sequence of original messages to be sent from a sender user to a corresponding at least one receiver user. The original messages of each sequence are aggregated into corresponding aggregated messages according to a time distance between each pair of consecutive original messages of the sequence. The aggregated messages are then sent to the corresponding receiver user. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207884 | Caller Initiated Distinctive Presence Alerting and Auto-Response Messaging - Presence information of a first user is relayed to a second user. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others includes, can be implemented as follows. A first communications client of a first user detects a change in the presence status of a first user and sends an alert message to a second communications client of a second user. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING EMAIL MESSAGES - A method for saving an email to an electronic storage location is disclosed. A topic identifier located in the email is used to locate a storage location on the electronic storage device for saving the email message. Emails relating to the same topics of interest may be stored in the same storage location. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207886 | Automatically Providing A Communication Based On Location Information For A User Of A Social Networking System - Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members are provided. According to one embodiment, contact content including an associated GPS identifier and status for web-based social network members located at or near the same location automatically appears on a GPS-enabled device. A further exemplary system includes a GPS-enabled device configured to receive a GPS identifier and a status representing a location and a current state for a web-based social network member, a processing module that associates the received GPS-identifier and the received status, and a communications module that sends the associated GPS-identifier and status to a server comprising a web-based social network database. Contact content in a web-based social network database record in the web-based social network database is updated to include the associated GPS identifier and status for the web-based social network member. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207887 | Method, System, and Apparatus for Providing Self-Destructing Electronic Mail Messages - A method, system, and apparatus for providing a self-destructing e-mail messages are described. An e-mail client application provides a user interface through which the sender of an e-mail message can enter the message and a time period for destruction of the message. Once the sender has provided this information, the e-mail client application sends a request to an e-mail server application to transmit the self-destructing e-mail message. The e-mail client application may also receive self-destructing e-mail messages. When a self-destructing e-mail message is received, the destruction date associated with the e-mail message is identified and the message is destroyed at the specified time. The e-mail client application can also limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on a self-destructing e-mail. An e-mail server application is also provided that receives requests from the e-mail client application to transmit self-destructing e-mail messages and perform other functions. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207888 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE IN INSTANT MESSAGING - The present invention discloses an information processing method in instant messaging. The method includes: establishing and recording a binding relationship between an information terminal and an instant messaging account; determining whether the information terminal is currently under a binding state with the instant messaging account according to the blinding relationship recorded when monitoring that the information terminal is to upload data, allowing the information terminal to upload the data if it is determined that the information terminal is under the binding state with the instant messaging account; receiving the data uploaded by the information terminal, providing the uploaded data to another information terminal. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207889 | Electronic Messaging Systems - A computer system for facilitating communications between users that, in various embodiments, is configured for: (A) receiving, from a first user, one or more user watch area attributes; (B) using the one or more user watch area attributes to define a watch area; (C) receiving, from a second user, a message associated with a particular geographical location, wherein the second user has indicated that the message should be associated with the particular geographical location; (D) determining whether the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area; and (E) at least partially in response to determining that the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area, subscribing the first user to a thread of messages that includes the message. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207890 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT - A communication management method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, user defined data. The computer processor generates an email comprising the user defined data and retrieves an email address associated with a recipient for the email. The computer processor compares the email address to cultural data and determines a cultural region associated with the recipient. The computer processor retrieves content from the email and compares the content to cultural rules associated with the cultural region. The computer processor determines if any of the content conflicts with the cultural rules and performs functions associated with the email. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207891 | METHOD TO INITIATE SERVER BASED COLLABORATION ON E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS - Server-based collaboration is initiated by an email. When the user creates the email message with attachments, a collaboration website is provisioned. The collaboration website allows collaborations on the attached documents by the recipients of the message. The ease of collaboration with email and the advantages of the collaboration server are thus both available to the user. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207892 | MESSAGE CHALLENGE RESPONSE - A system and method are disclosed for registering a email sender for the purpose of sending an email message to an email receiver including receiving a challenge message wherein the challenge message includes a machine answerable question; processing the challenge message to determine that it is a challenge message sent for the purpose of authorizing delivery of the email message; analyzing the question to determine a valid response to the challenge message; and sending the valid response that includes the answer wherein a nontrivial amount of resources are required to send the valid response. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140214969 | MANAGING ELECTRONIC MAIL FOR AN END-USER THAT IS UNAVAILABLE - A first computer sends an electronic message transparently to a second computer of intended recipients of an electronic mail (e-mail), in response to the e-mail addresses of the intended recipients being entered, by a first end-user on the first computer, into a ‘To’ message header field of the e-mail. The second computer sends a Boolean value to the first computer, wherein one of the intended recipients is not available to respond to the e-mail. The first computer queries a repository to return to the first end-user contact information of backup contact entities to respond the e-mail for the intended recipients that are not available to respond to the e-mail. The first computer sends the e-mail to the backup contact entities that are available to respond to the e-mail. The first computer deletes the e-mail from each inbox of the backup contact entities that received but did not read the e-mail before the intended recipients read the e-mail. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214970 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DIGITAL TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES - Embodiments relate to a controller operable to transmit digital data messages to a receiver via a communication link having at least a first and a second transmission path, the controller comprising a first signal terminal the first transmission path and a second signal terminal for the second transmission path. The first signal terminal is operable to digitally transmit a first message to the receiver according to a first transmission technique and the second signal terminal is being operable to digitally transmit a second message to the receiver according to a second, different transmission technique. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214971 | ESTABLISHING AN AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS DELAY BASED ON SOCIAL OR BUSINESS NETWORK FACTORS - Methods and arrangements for imparting a communications delay. A delay is dynamically determined for sending an outgoing communication. The determining includes using information derived from at least one of: a social network graph and a business network graph, and the determined delay is applied to the outgoing communication. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214972 | RECONSTRUCTION OF SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL (SIP) DIALOGS IN A SIP NETWORK - A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) session dialog is established between a first user agent and a second user agent. The SIP server receives an in-dialog message for the SIP session dialog. At this point, the SIP server is no longer aware of the SIP session dialog, for example, because the SIP server was rebooted. In response to receiving the in-dialog message, the SIP server sends a request not found message to the first user agent that comprises a server accessible value. The SIP server receives an out-of-dialog SIP REFER message. The out-of-dialog SIP REFER message comprises call state information for the SIP session dialog and is sent based on the server accessible value. The SIP server sends the out-of-dialog SIP REFER message to the second user agent. The SIP session dialog is reestablished. The SIP server can be a SIP proxy server or a Back-to-Back User Agent. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214973 | ESTABLISHING AN AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS DELAY BASED ON PREVAILING ACTIVITY FACTORS - Methods and arrangements for imparting a communications delay. A delay is dynamically determined for sending an outgoing communication. The determining includes using information derived from a determination of a prevailing activity level of a sender, and the determined delay is applied to the outgoing communication. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214974 | UNIFIED MESSAGING PROXY, A SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a unified messaging proxy and a method thereof. The unified messaging proxy advantageously enables a user to be communicatively coupled with the same account on a messaging platform using multiple end user devices at the same time, allowing the user to read messages on a first end user device and send messages from a second end user device. The unified messaging proxy manages the multiple end user devices and intercepts all messages to and from the multiple end user devices and the messaging platform. From its perspective, the messaging platform only sees a single client messaging application. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214975 | COACHING WITH COLLABORATIVE EDITING - A method has acts for coupling from a computerized server executing software on a processor from a non-transitory medium to two or more computerized appliances operated by persons in a contact center, and updating text composition and editing results in real time in a display of each of the computerized appliances as any person operating a coupled computerized appliance composes or edits in a text-based communication application. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATICALLY ORDERING AND SELECTING RECIPIENTS FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL - Systems and techniques of providing suggestions for email recipients to a user who is composing an email communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may register a plurality of email accounts with an email application. Once an email account is registered with the email application, contact data from each such registered email account may be received. In another embodiment, if the user employs a plurality of devices from which the user composes and/or sends email communications, device-specific contact information may also be received. Relevance metrics may be applied to such suggestions depending upon the contact data received from the various email accounts. Dynamic correction factor may be applied to such relevance metrics—e.g., a decay factor, decrement factor or the like that may or may not be time dependent. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214977 | TOPIC DISCARD INDICATION - In a message delivery system wherein messages having topic portion defining a topic and a body portion containing information relating to the defined topic are delivered to subscribers based on the topics associated with the messages, the messages are placed in a queue for delivery, and in the event of congestion one or more of the messages are replaced with discard indication messages containing the topics associated with the discarded messages without the corresponding body portions. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214978 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR IMPRESSIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to monitor impressions of social media messages. An example method includes receiving at a server a request for media, the request addressed to a uniform resource locator, the request corresponding to a social media message to be presented with the media, and the request including a user identifier. The method also includes crediting the social media message with an impression based on the request being addressed to the uniform resource locator. The method also includes identifying that the impression corresponds to an original intended recipient of the social media message based on the user identifier matching a second user identifier stored in a list of subscribers that subscribe to receive messages from an original sender of the social media message. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214979 | PROVIDING ALERTS ON COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method and system of providing an alert of an event on a communication device are disclosed. A determination may be made that a communication device of a user is a preferred communication device among a plurality of communication devices of the user based on an indication of an activity on the communication device. An indication of an event may be received. In response to the indication of the event, an attempt may be made to cause an alert for the event to be generated only on the preferred communication device. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214980 | SPOILER ALERT SCHEME - Technologies are generally described for a spoiler alert scheme. In some examples, a spoiler alert system may include an event determination unit configured to determine an event of interest to a user for which a spoiler alert is to be provided, a spoiler identification unit configured to identify one or more posts in an online forum that include spoiler information regarding the determined event of interest, and a spoiler control unit configured to hide the one or more identified posts from the online forum, as displayed to the user. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214981 | PUSHING TUNING PARAMETERS FOR LOGICAL GROUP SCORING - Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. Tuning parameters are pushed to a first user device operated by a first user, the tuning parameters specifying weights and/or functions to be applied to data from one or more sensors on the first user device. Tuned data is received from the first user device, the tuned data representing data from the one or more sensors that has been tuned in accordance with the tuning parameters. Then potential membership of the first user in a first group of users is determined based on logical relationship information, by selecting the first group from a plurality of possible groups, the selecting being based on scores generated, for each of the plurality of possible groups, by a candidate scorer module using the tuned data. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214982 | Systems and Methods for Remote Access to a Display-Based Bulletin Board in a Shared User Environment - An electronic bulletin board for use in a shared always-on environment wherein a user may manipulate messages from a remote location. The electronic bulletin board may be implemented via database and programming logic on an application server accessible from any network node, including wireless devices. The always-on environment may be set up on a computer or broadband internet appliance or other communications device. Remote users may perform operations such as updating an existing message, posting a new message, download messages, and the like. The bulletin board also supports shared messages designed for special purposes, for example, an electronic grocery list that is accessible from remote locations, | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214983 | PAUSING OF CONTENT DELIVERY IN PUSH NOTIFICATIONS - A delivery of a message of a notification to a user account may be paused, by the processing device without intervention by a user of the user account, when a first action related to a media event has occurred. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214984 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING E-MAIL ATTACHED WITH LARGE FILE ON MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods for transmitting an e-mail having an attached file are provided. The system includes a mail server configured to receive the e-mail including the attached file, store the attached file at a storage location in a cloud storage system, and replace the attached file with location information. The location information may indicate the storage location. The system includes the cloud storage system configured to store the attached file at the storage location. The mail server may be further configured to send the e-mail with the location information and without the attached file. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214985 | CONTROLLER FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION ON MACHINE OR CONTROLLER VIA E-MAIL - A controller that controls a machine detects an event that has occurred in the controller or the machine to compose and store event information that contains the event. Upon receiving an e-mail acquisition request from a terminal, the controller retrieves the stored event information, composes an e-mail that contains the event information, and transmits the e-mail directly to the terminal. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214986 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR SHARING REAL TIME VIDEO THROUGH CHATTING WINDOW OF MESSENGER SERVICE - A method of sharing video through a chatting window of a messenger service includes generating a chatting window according to a request to create the chatting window. The request to create the chatting window is received from one of a plurality of chatting window participants. The chatting window includes a first portion where messages are to be displayed and a second portion where video is to be displayed. The first portion is allocated according to the request to generate the chatting window. A request to share video is received by at least one of the plurality of chatting window participants. The second portion is allocated according to the request to share video. The video is provided by displaying the video in the second portion, where at least one of the chatting window participants accessing the video via the second portion. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214987 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING AN INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE - According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method and system of providing an instant message service are provided. Combined data is generated through a first terminal. The combined data is transmitted to a server through a network. The transmitted combined data is stored in a database of the server in a predetermined format. A first text is entered through the first terminal. The entered first text is transmitted to the server. Whether the combined data matches the first text is determined. When the combined data matches the first text, the combined data is transmitted to the first terminal and a second terminal that communicates with the first terminal. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214988 | METHODS FOR TRUNCATING ATTACHMENTS FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Methods for transcoding attachments for mobile devices are described. In some embodiments, attachments associated with any communication are stored on a server. When a communication is sent from a server to a client device, a representation of the attachment that includes an indication of a native file type of the attachment is also sent along with the communication to the client device. In responding to a user's request to view the attachment, the server transcodes the attachment from the attachment's native file type to a viewable file type configured to display in the client device and then transmits at least a portion of the attachment in the viewable file type to the client device for display. Other embodiments are also described. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214989 | RENDERING DESTINATION INSTANT MESSAGING PERSONALIZATION ITEMS BEFORE COMMUNICATING WITH DESTINATION - Perception of a personalization item in an instant messaging communications session may be enabled by perceiving an identifier corresponding to an intended instant message recipient designated by an instant message sender system, accessing personalization items corresponding to the perceived identifier, and making perceivable the personalization items corresponding to the received identifier to the instant messaging sender system for rendering in an instant messaging application running on the instant messaging sender system, where the personalization items are made perceivable prior to communication with the intended instant message recipient. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214990 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICES FOR FACILITATING REAL-TIME SOCIAL AND BUSINESS INTERACTIONS/NETWORKING - A personal networking/communication device (PND) enables real-time social and business interactions/networking within a real environment. A first PND associated with a first person/user in the real environment is within communication range of a second PND. The first PND receives (via electronic communication) and displays a social interaction information signature (SIS) of the second PND. The signature includes a physical mapping/location of the second PND relative to the first PND and provides some information about the second PND's user. Following a selection of the SIS on the first PND, the first PND electronically transmits one or more “request for interaction or information exchange” (RIIE) to the second PND. When the first PND receives a response to the RIIE from the second PND, the user of the first PND receives real-time unequivocal confirmation of whether the second person is interested in interacting/socializing with the user. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214991 | LOCATION-BASED COMMUNICATIONS - A computer-implemented method includes generating a communication to be sent from a sender to a recipient who are related to one another by blood or employment; and scheduling delivery of the communication to the recipient based on a future location of the recipient. The content of the communication and the future location of the recipient are determined from an analysis of electronically-accessible resources by or about the sender, the recipient, or both. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214992 | ONLINE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING SOCIAL SEARCH AND STRUCTURED COMMUNICATIONS AMONG SOCIAL NETWORKS - A system and method for enabling structured communication among a social network is disclosed. The system enables a user to formulate a question and answer pattern including potential responses to the question based upon the form of question. The system then translates and transmits a message including the question and answer pattern to users over a plurality of different messaging platforms for eliciting responses to the question using the answer pattern. The system then aggregates responses to the question and presents the responses in a summary format. A language for defining messages according to static and dynamic content and other attributes is disclosed. Collaborative filtering reduces the decision space and as a result increases the possible range of specialized communications a user can choose from and apply or the message processing space available to contemplate alternatives resulting in more effective choices. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214993 | HARDWARE COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTING LOCATION TRANSPARENCY AND DYNAMIC PARTIAL RECONFIGURATION - A communication system according to one aspect of the present invention, comprises one or more integrated circuits. The one or more integrated circuits comprise at least one of a local integrated circuit and a remote integrated circuit. At least one sending application hardware module located on the local integrated circuit has a sending logic that controls the sending of messages from the sending application hardware module. At least one receiving application hardware module is located on at least one of the local integrated circuit or remote integrated circuit. A sending application hardware module sends messages to a receiving application hardware module without its sending logic having been constructed with a priori knowledge of the address of or the path to said receiving application hardware module. A dispatch logic located on the local integrated circuit that routes at least one or more. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214994 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PREFERRED COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - The invention relates to a system ( | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214995 | ELECTRONIC MAIL DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A DATASET FOR SUCH SYSTEMS - A method of updating electronic mails (emails) data dataset that comprises providing a dataset which comprises a plurality of previously identified original message content blocks as a plurality of discrete units, each the original message content block having a header content and a sender content and being extracted from emails exchanged in a multi-email correspondence, receiving at least one additional email, analyzing the at least one additional email to identify a plurality of original message content blocks, tagging each of the plurality of original message content blocks as a discrete unit, and updating the dataset with the plurality of original message content blocks. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140222928 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORSHIP DISAMBIGUATION AND ALIAS RESOLUTION IN ELECTRONIC DATA - A system, method and computer program product for authorship determination, and alias resolution, including a document collection; a Jaro-Winkler similarity module configured for performing authorship determination and alias resolution based on at least one of email addresses, user identification numbers (IDs) on social networks, names written in text, and proper names, including countries and cities in the document collection; an authorship Support Vector Machine (SVM) module configured for performing authorship determination and alias resolution based on content of documents in the document collection, including at least one of emails, and social networks information; and a Jaccard similarity module configured for performing authorship determination and alias resolution based on link networks in the document collection. One or more of the Jaro-Winkler similarity module, the authorship Support Vector Machine (SVM) module, and the Jaccard similarity module are employed for performing the authorship determination and the alias resolution in the document collection. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222929 | System, Method And Device For Creation And Notification Of Contextual Messages - System, method and device for the creation and notification of contextual messages are described. When creating or authoring a message, a sender can define a context in which the message is to be delivered to a recipient. Accordingly, after receiving the message, the recipient's device does not notify the recipient of the receipt of the message until the context is fulfilled. The recipient's device monitors conditions and determines whether the context is fulfilled, and notifies the recipient of the receipt of the message when the context is fulfilled. The recipient can configure common locations associated with the recipient and the information thereof is available in a non-specific way to a message sender for defining the context. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222930 | BROWSER/HTML FRIENDLY PROTOCOL FOR REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION SIGNALING - The present invention provides a protocol for use in a system for real-time communication signaling in a telecommunication network and communication in web-only internet The protocol facilitates adapting complex signaling on the server-side into simple operations towards the Web. In an embodiment the protocol is used to communicate between a server-side web signaling engine and a client-side communication controller. The client-side communication controller provides a JavaScript API to encapsulate the signaling layer. The web signaling engine includes a controller which terminates communications using the protocol, and normalizes communications into an internal protocol suitable for communication with telecommunications network systems. In an embodiment, the protocol utilizes JSON and a WebSocket connection and can be defined as a WebSocket subprotocol. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222931 | IMMEDIATE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication service network, comprising: (a) a communication network including a plurality of terminals configured to support at least a first personal communication service for a plurality of users over the communication network, in which service, each user has a unique handle; and (b) a plurality of clients supporting a second personal communication service, wherein each of said clients is configured to attempt a communication under said second service with any of said users using their unique handles. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING MICRO-SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS - A system for generating micro-social environments comprising: a database including a first feature set, the feature set including a first action; a system controller coupled to the database and configured to establish a first location element associated with a first physical location and associate the first feature set with the first location element; and a first user interface configured to couple a first user device with the system controller, the system controller configured to grant the first user interface access to the feature set if the first user device is within the first physical location. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222933 | MANAGEMENT AND DISPLAY OF GROUPED MESSAGES ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method for managing a plurality of messages stored at a mobile communication device, groups messages based on a common subject line or another quasi-unique identifier, and displays message group entries representing distinct message groups in a user interface. The message group entries may be displayed in association with an icon representing multiple message states associated with individual messages comprised within that message group. The multiple message states may include all messages being read, all messages being unread, a most recently received message being unread while others are read, and a most recently received message being read while order messages are unread. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222934 | COMMUNICATING INFORMATION DESCRIBING ACTIVITY OF COMPUTER SYSTEM USERS AMONG COMPUTER SYSTEM USERS - A computer-implemented method receiving receives information describing a current or future activity from a user of a computing system via a mobile device. The current activity is an activity occurring at a current time when the information is received, while the future activity is an activity occurring at a future time relative to a time when the information is received. The method transmits the information describing the current or future activity to a backend database coupled to the Internet and remote from the mobile device. The information describing the current or future activity is accessible to at least one recipient having access privilege to information associated with the user and describing the current or future activity via the Internet. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222935 | COMMUNICATING INFORMATION DESCRIBING ACTIVITY OF COMPUTER SYSTEM USERS AMONG COMPUTER SYSTEM USERS - A computer-implemented method receiving receives information describing a current or future activity from a user of a computing system via a mobile device. The current activity is an activity occurring at a current time when the information is received, while the future activity is an activity occurring at a future time relative to a time when the information is received. The method transmits the information describing the current or future activity to a backend database coupled to the Internet and remote from the mobile device. The information describing the current or future activity is accessible to at least one recipient having access privilege to information associated with the user and describing the current or future activity via the Internet. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222936 | COMMUNICATING INFORMATION DESCRIBING ACTIVITY OF COMPUTER SYSTEM USERS AMONG COMPUTER SYSTEM USERS - A computer-implemented method receiving receives information describing a current or future activity from a user of a computing system via a mobile device. The current activity is an activity occurring at a current time when the information is received, while the future activity is an activity occurring at a future time relative to a time when the information is received. The method transmits the information describing the current or future activity to a backend database coupled to the Internet and remote from the mobile device. The information describing the current or future activity is accessible to at least one recipient having access privilege to information associated with the user and describing the current or future activity via the Internet. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222937 | GROUP COMMUNICATIONS MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM - A computerized human communication arbitrating and distributing system, including a controller digital computer and a plurality of participator digital computers, each of the participator computers including an input device for receiving human-input information from a human user and an output device for presenting information to the user. A connection, such as Internet, links the controller computer with each of the participator computers. Controller software runs on the controller computer to arbitrate in accordance with predefined rules, which ones of the participator computers can interact in one of a plurality of groups through the controller computer and to distribute real time data to the respective ones of the groups. Participator software runs on each of the participator computers to handle a user interface permitting one said user to send a multimedia information message to the controller computer, which arbitrates which of the participator computers receive the multimedia information message and conveys the multimedia information message to the selected participator computers to present the information to the respective user. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222938 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DELETING INSTANT MESSAGING INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method for automatically deleting instant messaging information. The method includes receiving, by an information transmission terminal, an automatic deletion command from a user of a transmitter, carrying the command in information to be transmitted, transmitting the information; and receiving and playing or displaying, by an information receiving terminal, the information, determining whether the information carries the automatic deletion command, if the information carries the automatic deletion command, deleting the information automatically. In the present invention, the information is deleted automatically according to a command of the user of the information transmission terminal after the information receiving terminal receives and plays the information. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222939 | System and Method for Processing Instant Messages - Various aspects relate to using structured messages within one or more systems that implement instant messaging function in a distributed computing environment. In particular, structured information may be encoded and embedded in unstructured instant messages and communicated among one or more computer systems, networks, applications or other entities. In one aspect, instant messaging may be leveraged as middleware for application integration. Other aspects relate to using structured message information to perform functions in a distributed instant messaging system. For example, structured message information may be used to control the display of instant message information to a user, or may be used to control how the instant message information is distributed, processed, or otherwise handled by a receiving system, application or process. Other aspects relate to an interface for displaying information relating to a number of instant messaging conversations to a user. Further, aspects relate to using instant messaging in a trading environment. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222940 | Unified Communications Platform - The invention unified communications platform ( | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140237054 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to the Sending of Messages Lacking Identified Recipients - A control circuit detects an opportunity to send a message notwithstanding that no recipient is yet identified and identifies, without user input, a specific recipient from amongst a plurality of possible recipients of the message based, for example, on metadata regarding at least some of the possible recipients using one or more predetermined selection criteria. The control circuit can also determine a domain context for a message as corresponds to such an opportunity and use that domain context along with information corresponding to the message to query an invocation framework that cannot itself natively intuit domain context from the information. Received possible recipients can then be presented via a display to facilitate a user-based selection of one of the recipients. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237055 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION LISTS - A distribution list identifies a plurality of recipient addresses for electronic messages. Normal updates to the distribution list can be performed via update commands from an authorized address that is stored in association with the distribution list as authorized to update the distribution list. When a removal command is received from a specific recipient address, which is not authorized to update the distribution list, the specific address can be removed from the distribution list. When an addition command is received from the specific address, a new address can be added to the distribution list. Before sending an outbound electronic message, the distribution list is resolved to the current set of recipient addresses. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237056 | Collaborative Composition Of Multimedia Communications - Provided are methods and systems for providing personalized communications. An exemplary method can comprise determining an interest level in contributing to a media message for a recipient. The method can comprise selecting, based on the interest level, a plurality of contributors from a network of members associated with a recipient. The method can also comprise receiving at least two messages in one or more formats from the plurality of contributors. The method can further comprise combining the at least two messages into a media message. The method can comprise providing the media message to a recipient. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237057 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PRIVATE MESSAGES IN A CONTACT CENTER - A system for exchanging private messages with a contact center over a network includes: a media server including a plurality of media drivers configured to interface with a plurality of social media networks, the media server being configured to maintain a session corresponding to a conversation comprising at least one message, the conversation being conducted on one of the plurality of social media networks; and a chat server configured to: maintain a chat session corresponding to the session; transmit and receive the at least one message of the conversation; and store the at least one message of the conversation in association with the chat session. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237058 | EMAIL MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An email management apparatus and method for grouping emails based on correlation degree among the emails and displaying only the most recently received emails of the respective groups are provided. The email management apparatus of an electronic device includes a communication unit, a display panel, and a control unit which sorts, when an email is received currently through the communication unit, the currently received email and previously received emails into groups based on correlation degree between the emails and displays most recently received emails of respective groups on the display panel. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237059 | Message Status per Recipient Method and Devices - This provides a method and devices to store the recipient status of all recipients of a message and makes the recipient status available from a network server to multiple client devices. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT USERNAME IN STATUS UPDATES - Embodiments provide a system and method of using a universal tagged communication for social networks. A user could insert a contact from multiple social networking sources. As the communication is transmitted, the actual text sent to each social networking service changes depending on how that service supports this tagging. A tagging component may generate new tagging formats for each associated social network. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237061 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-MODE ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION - A method includes receiving at a host device a first communication associated with a transaction from at least one electronic device included in a set of electronic devices. The host device includes at least a memory, a processor, and a database. The first communication received at a first time and via a first communication mode. The method includes sending a response to the first communication at a second time after the first time and independent of the first time. The host devices receives a second communication associated with the transaction from the at least one electronic device at a third time. The first communication, the response to the first communication, and the second communication are displayable in a persistent record of the transaction regardless of a difference between the first time and the third time. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237062 | DIRECT MAILING IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method and system of direct mailing in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile associated with a verified geographic location and at least one of a contact address, associating a first user with a first user profile, selecting a mail mode, selecting a communication, generating a first display view to include a map view embodied by the community network, at least a portion of the user profiles represented at a location in the map view associated with the verified geographic location of the first user profile, selecting a second user profile from the portion of the user profiles, and generating a mailing of the communication, in a format associated with the mail mode, between the first user profile and the contact address associated with the second user profile. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PEER-TO-PEER MESSAGES USING A MEDIA KEY, AND MANAGING THE MEDIA KEY - A peer-to-peer (P2P) message transmission/reception system, a P2P message transmission/reception system and a media key distributing method using the system are disclosed. The P2P message transmission/reception system includes a transmitting client configured to add a first media key issued from a reception-side relay server to media data to be transmitted to the reception-side relay server, the reception-side relay server configured to issue the first media key to the transmitting client, receive the media data from the transmitting client, replace the first media key added to the received media data with a second media key issued from a receiving client, and transmit the media data having the second media key to the receiving client, and the receiving client configured to issue the second media to the reception-side relay server and receive the media data from the reception-side relay server. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140244764 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO PROVIDE A PROTOCOL-ENABLED INTERFACE DEFINITION LANGUAGE - Methods and apparatus to provide a protocol-enabled interface definition language are disclosed. An example method includes generating, using a processor, first computer readable instructions to specify a message to be transmitted by a non-initiating device of a transaction for delivery to a second device based on a protocol, and storing, in a storage device, second computer readable instructions to implement the protocol, the second computer readable instructions including the first computer readable instructions. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244765 | System and method for messaging and notification. - A system and method to distribute messages and notifications through networked devices and sensors in a pervasive computing environment. Included are a triggering mechanism, affirmation of ownership of message content or associated data, and data or message pricing and payment methods. The method enables smart phones, tablets, sensors, or other devices to structure message processing in accordance with the type of messaging process, the entity involved in the message, the ranges or relationships or hierarchies within the entity, and the urgency of the message itself. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244766 | METADATA DRIVEN COLLABORATION BETWEEN APPLICATIONS AND WEB SERVICES - Methods and systems may involve identifying metadata associated with a local application, and using an operating system-independent chat protocol to pass the metadata to a remote application. The metadata may include information to be presented to a user of a device executing the remote application, information to be used to locate more information for presentation to the user of the other device, information to be used to coordinate operation of multiple devices, and so forth. In one example, the metadata is passed using a protocol such as XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244767 | MESSAGE NOTIFICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - An agent server determines a posting timing of a message on a family message board on the basis of urgency associated with situation information based on which a message is generated and a posting state, which is obtained by the posting state obtaining section, on the family message board. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244768 | AUTOMATIC IOT DEVICE SOCIAL NETWORK EXPANSION - The disclosure generally relates to Internet of Things (IoT) device social networking, and in particular to an IoT device publish-subscribe messaging model and automatic IoT device social network expansion. For example, IoT devices from different networks may publish status data that relates to certain topics, wherein the published status updates may be managed in a distributed manner at each IoT network. Furthermore, IoT devices interested in published data can subscribe to data relating to certain topics, which may be used to dynamically adjust actions that the subscribing IoT devices may take. Furthermore, IoT devices can employ common social networking capabilities (e.g., refer, follow, like, publish, subscribe, etc.) to interact with other IoT devices and find relevant information from other IoT devices that can be used to improve performance and effectiveness. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244769 | MESSAGE NOTIFYING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - An operation instruction detecting section detects an operation instruction from a message and specifies, as an instruction provider, a member who has posted the message. A report message displaying section causes a message, which (i) reports a result of an operation executed in accordance with the operation instruction and (ii) is explicitly directed to the instruction provider, to be displayed on a family message board. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244770 | INTERWORKING OF SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICE AND MACHINE TO MACHINE SERVICE - The disclosure is related to an interworking procedure between a social media service (e.g., a social network service) and a machine to machine (M2M) service. More specifically, the interworking procedure may be performed based on location information (e.g., a location of user equipment). | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244771 | Method and device for notifying information of social client - The present disclosure provides a method and a device for notifying information of a social client. The method comprises: updating information of the social client; extracting information of a client contained in an associated client list of the social client identified as a specified category, and notifying the updated information of the social client to the specified category of client; and filtering out the information of the client contained in the associated client list of the social client identified as the specified category, and notifying the updated information of the social client to the rest of clients contained in the associated client list. The present disclosure ensures some specified categories of associated clients of a social client can be notified of information, thereby enabling effective synchronization of information of the social client and improving the information processing efficiency of the social client. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244772 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING INSTANT COMMUNICATION - A method and device are described for implementing instant communication. Information indicating that a first user is logged into an instant communication interface is obtained. On-line users are displayed to the first user in response to the login of the first user. A first user selects an object to follow from the on-line users and, information about the selected object to follow is received in response to the first user selecting the object to follow from the on-line users. The first user may be set into a first instant communication room in which the selected object to follow resides, for performing instant communication. The device includes: an obtaining module, a displaying module and a processing module. In this manner communication between strangers is facilitated and the efficiency of making friends is enhanced. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244773 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING ANONYMOUS COLLABORATION AMONG MEMBERS ALONG VALUE CHAINS - The invention concerns a computer-implemented collaboration platform comprising:
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| 20140244774 | EXTENDING A CONVERSATION ACROSS APPLICATIONS - A method for extending a conversation across applications includes providing a conversation repository for storing a plurality of conversations for a plurality of applications. A conversation in the conversation repository is identified as having a context that is relevant to a first application object of a first application of the plurality of applications in response to a conversation call from a second application of the plurality of applications. A user interface is caused to display the identified conversation. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140250192 | CROWDSOURCING USER-PROVIDED IDENTIFIERS AND ASSOCIATING THEM WITH BRAND IDENTITIES - A system and method for crowdsourcing user-provided brand identifiers and distributing content based on crowd-sourced identifiers is provided. Different user-provided brand identifiers are extracted from messages provided by users of a social network. The identifiers are aggregated into two or more aggregate identity groups. When a brand identifier associated with a user request for content is determined to be in at least one of the aggregate identity groups, content items comprising one or more other brand identifiers of the at least one aggregate identity group are provided to the user. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250193 | GESTURE-BASED CONTENT SHARING - A user selects a content item that he wishes to send. He then performs a gesture to specify a direction toward which the content item is to be sent. For example, he pretends to “throw” his portable communications device toward the West. To receive the content item, potential recipients also make gestures that specify receiving directions. For example, a recipient pretends to “catch” a ball thrown from the East. If the sending and receiving directions are compatible, then the content item is sent from the sender's device to the recipient's device. Enhancements to the basic scheme described above can be made to, for example, specify a dispersion angle for the sending or receiving directions or to include other restrictions so that, for example, only intended recipients can receive the content even if other potential recipients are in the specified sending direction and make appropriate receiving gestures. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250194 | SYNCHRONIZED DATA CHANGES - A method synchronizes data between a first computer and a second computer. An original first data in a first computer is changed into revised first data in the first computer by inserting a data change into the original first data. The data change in the revised first data is identified and transmitted to a second computer in a message. The message instructs the second computer to convert an original second data stored in the second computer into a revised second data by inserting the data change into the original second data, where the original second data and the revised second data are used and managed by a resident application software on the second computer. The message is executable without use of the resident application software on the second computer, thus allowing changes to be made across disparate platforms. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250195 | CHATBOTS - In one aspect, the invention concerns a method of operating a chatbot to engage in a conversation with a correspondent the method comprises building a profile having plural profile variables for the correspondent; and during the conversation with the correspondent; selecting a node in the conversation data structure for processing based on the one or more profile variables, and processing the node to follow a conversation path based on the node's coded instructions and/or relationship with other nodes. In another aspect, the method comprises the steps of attempting to match the conversation data structure of the chatbot; if a matched node is found, selecting the matched node for processing; but if a matched node is not found, selecting a node for processing using a fuzzy search, or using a default procedure. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250196 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AND/OR FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION REGARDING, RELATING TO, OR INVOLVING, DEFAMATORY, DEROGATORY, HARRASSING, BULLYING, OR OTHER NEGATIVE OR OFFENSIVE, COMMENTS, STATEMENTS, OR POSTINGS - A computer-implemented method, including storing, in a memory device, information regarding a search request relating to an individual; processing, with a processing device or with a computer, information regarding the search request; performing a search of the Internet or the World Wide Web using the search request; receiving search results obtained from search; generating a search report containing results obtained from the search, wherein the search report contains information regarding at least one comment, statement, or posting, which contains a defamatory, a derogatory, a harassing, a bullying, or other negative or offensive, comment, statement, or posting, about or regarding the individual; generating a notification message; and transmitting the notification message to a communication device associated with the individual. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250197 | CONTENT SERVER, TERMINAL, AND METHOD USING HTTP - The present disclosure relates to a file transfer system, server, terminal, and method using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). A content server uploads a file from a transmitting terminal using an HTTP, and file link information on the uploaded file is transmitted to the transmitting terminal. The transmitting terminal transmits the file link information to a receiving terminal through a message server, and the receiving terminal downloads a corresponding file using the file link information. According to the present disclosure, since the receiving terminal efficiently downloads a file, based on a network environment or a resource state of the receiving terminal. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WEBPAGE CREATION AND UPDATING - A computer network system for posting content at a web site includes computer servers configured to host a web site for a group of users, and a data storage configured to store an email address in association with a destination at the website. The computer servers can receive an electronic message at the email address by the computer servers from a user. A computer processor can automatically extract content from the electronic message. The computer servers can automatically post the content extracted from the electronic message at the destination at the website. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250199 | Method and System for Directly Targeting and Blasting Messages to Automatically Identified Entities on Social Media - Some embodiments provide a communication tool that directly sends messages to accounts of different entities across different social media sites by automatically identifying and associating the accounts of the entities when the entities are referenced in the contents of the messages. Such identification and association is performed without the message originator manually specifying the accounts as intended recipients for the messages. The communication tool also automatically sends messages to different social media accounts of the message originator. The communication tool also blasts messages to an information aggregator that aggregates messages to develop a database from which the messages that target a particular entity can be presented irrespective of whether the particular entity has registered an account with any social media site, irrespective of which social media site the messages are originally destined for, and irrespective of whether a recipient is explicitly specified for the messages by the message originator. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140250200 | USING BIOSENSORS FOR SHARING EMOTIONS VIA A DATA NETWORK SERVICE - Mobile electronic communication devices upload input data to a server via a data network. The data uploaded per device is indicative of a physiological or emotional state of the device's user, and of the user's geographical location. The server generates output data per individual user under combined control of the emotional state and geographic location of the individual user. The output data associated with multiple users is rendered as graphical symbols at one or more display monitors, thus being indicative of the geographical distribution of emotions of the population of users. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140258419 | SHARING CONTENT ACROSS MODALITIES - When a communication is sent, it is automatically directed to a utility or application (herein called a “modality”) that the intended recipient prefers to use for communications of this type. The recipient's preference may be explicit or implicit. That is, the recipient may state, in a profile, his preference that photographs be received into, say, a particular social-networking account. Implicitly, it may be noticed that the intended recipient frequently reviews voice mails received on his mobile phone but only rarely checks his home voice-mail box. Then, a voice mail for this recipient may be preferentially sent to his mobile phone's voice-mail box. Different content types may be sent to different modalities, as the recipient's preferences dictate. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258420 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING DISTRIBUTION LISTS - A method, system and apparatus for automatically generating distribution lists are provided. In response to receiving, using a communication interface of a device comprising a processor and the communication interface, a message comprising a given identifier, a distribution list is automatically generate at the processor, the distribution list comprising at least one network address associated with the message. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258421 | ANONYMOUS TWO WAY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM & METHOD - A system and method for allowing two-way anonymous communication. A message is received by the system, and a unique user ID is created and associated with the sender's contact information. The message if forwarded to the appropriate administrative user, along with the user ID but not the sender's contact information. A response from the administrative user may then be routed back to the sender by matching the user ID associated with the response with the contact information associated with that user ID. Thus, communication with possible without the parties knowing the identity of the other party. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258422 | PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK USER DISCUSSIONS - Discussion of content between users of social networks is described. A request from a first user to discuss content with a recipient user in a first social network is received, wherein the recipient user has a first identifier in the first social network. A request from a second user to discuss content with the recipient user in a second social network is received, wherein the recipient user has a second identifier in the second social network. A discussion is initiated between the second user and the recipient user about the content in the second social network. The recipient user is tracked in view of the first identifier in the first social network and the second identifier in the second social network. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258423 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CLUSTERING AND COMMUNICATING BETWEEN INTERNET PROTOCOL MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM (IMS) ENTITIES AND FOR SUPPORTING DATABASE ACCESS IN AN IMS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Methods, systems, and computer program products for clustering and communicating between Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) entities and for supporting database access in an IMS network environment. According to one aspect, an IMS cluster node includes a serving call state control function (S-CSCF) for controlling media sessions between IMS users. The cluster node further includes a home subscriber service (HSS) function for storing and providing IMS subscription information to the S-CSCF function. A shared memory is operatively associated with the S-CSCF function and the HSS function. The S-CSCF function obtains IMS subscription information from the HSS function via the shared memory. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258424 | MESSAGING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS - A system and method for allowing a purchaser of a gift to associate a personal message (e.g., an audio and/or video message) with the gift is described. The personal message may be associated with the gift via a unique identifier associated with a parcel (e.g., a parcel tracking number) in which the gift is shipped to the intended recipient of the gift. Once the gift is received by the gift recipient, the gift recipient may also associate a message with the gift via the unique identifier. The gift recipient's message may be in response to the purchaser's message, an unrelated message to the purchaser, a message to the retailer where the gift was purchased, or a message to a common carrier. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258425 | Method and Device for Long Lived Chat with Dynamic Focus - This provides a method and message server device to allow restart of an inter-carrier chat session using a local chat server even if the same session was previously started on another carrier's conference focus server. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258426 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING MESSAGES - A method for sending an Instant Message (IM) to a receiving terminal by a sending terminal is provided. The method includes generating an IM including string data entered by a user, sending the IM to the receiving terminal, receiving a modification of the sting data included in the IM, and applying the modified string data to the IM. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258427 | Systems and Methods for Communicating Opinions About and/or to Individuals and/or Organizations - Systems and methods allow users to communicate opinions about one or more organizations directly to the one or more organizations. Specifically, a user may communicate praise and/or a grievance relating to an organization. The user may choose to share the communication with contacts in the public and/or private sectors, print media, social media and/or industry review organizations. Moreover, the communication may be directed to the specific organization about which the user is communicating prior to its submission to other groups so that grievances can be corrected prior to being made public. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258428 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AND ACCESSING VISUAL PRODUCT REPRESENTATIONS OF A PROJECT - Various embodiments include systems and methods that provide a socially interactive application for requesting, searching, and sharing visual step-by-step instructions and related information to complete a project. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258429 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION EXCHANGES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a message and an importance rating for the message where the importance rating is determined by a second communications management agent of a server based on an analysis of content of the message. The system can access rating feedback information associated with the second communications management agent. A rating accuracy for the importance rating of the particular message can be determined based on the rating feedback information, and the method of providing the message to the intended recipient can be adjusted based on the determined accuracy. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258430 | SERVER, DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR HTTP FILE TRANSFER DURING CHATTING SESSION ESTABLISHED BY ANOTHER PROTOCOL - A message server for transferring a file by using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) during a chatting session established by another protocol, includes: a server transceiver unit configured to transmit and receive data; and a server control unit configured to provide a chatting service by establishing the chatting session between a transmitting terminal device and a receiving terminal device through the server transceiver unit, and transmit file link information to the receiving terminal device through the server transceiver unit when the file link information is received from the transmitting terminal device through the server transceiver unit, wherein the file link information is associated with a file uploaded using HTTP to a content server by the transmitting terminal device. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258431 | Methods of Routing Messages Using a Listener Registry - A method of routing messages may include providing a listener registry of a plurality of listeners and associated namespaces so that at least one namespace is associated with each of the plurality of listeners. A message may be received from an originating application, and the message may include a message namespace. The message may be stored in a message queue, and a determination may be made to determine if a listener from the listener registry is associated with the message namespace. If no listener from the listener registry is associated with the message namespace, the message may be stored in a parked message queue separate from the message queue. After the message has been in the parked message queue for a predetermined period of time, the message may be deleted from the parked message queue. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258432 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROMPTING DYNAMIC INFORMATION ABOUT CONTACT PERSON - Disclosed is a method for prompting dynamic information about a contact person. The method comprises: obtaining dynamic information about a contact person of a user; and displaying the dynamic information about the contact person in an instant messaging chat window of the user. Also disclosed is a device for prompting dynamic information about a contact person. After applying the method, the dynamic updated information about a contact person can be displayed in an instant messaging chat window of a user. Thus, when chatting with the contact person, the user can see a message about dynamic updated information about the contact person in the interactive chatting mode promptly. The user can obtain information and filter information more conveniently and with a shorter delay, thereby facilitating good communication between the user and the contact person and improving the user experience. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258433 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM USING A POOL OF VALID TOKENS - A system for handling email messages comprising: at an originating email server: obtaining a token from a finite pool of valid tokens associated with a sender of an email message that is to be sent to an addressee; incorporating the token into the email message; sending the email message towards its addressee; at a receiving system: inspecting an incoming email message for the presence of a token and establishing the validity of the token; and if a valid token is present, delivering the message to the addressee, and otherwise rejecting the message; or delivering the message to a primary mail box of the addressee if a valid token is present and otherwise delivering the message to a secondary mail box of the addressee; at an addressee's system: acting, responsive to an event indicative that the message is objectionable, to cause the token to be removed from the pool of valid tokens. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258434 | SHORT MESSAGE SERVER, TERMINAL TRIGGER METHOD OF SERVER THEREOF, TRIGGER REQUEST DELIVERY SERVER, TRIGGER REQUEST DELIVER METHOD OF SERVER THEREOF - The present application relates to a control function related to a trigger in a communication network for machine-type communication. A method for triggering a terminal comprises the steps of: receiving a trigger request message from a trigger request transmission server which transmits trigger requests from external servers; and transmitting the trigger request message to a terminal using a received short message, wherein transmission parameters of the short message indicates that the received short message is a short message for triggering a machine-type communication (MTC) apparatus. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140280607 | UPDATING AN E-MAIL RECIPIENT LIST - Arrangements describe herein relate to updating an e-mail recipient list. A first version of an e-mail can be received, the first version comprising a message header identifying at least a first e-mail recipient. The first version of the e-mail can be sent to the first e-mail recipient indicated in the message header. A second version of the e-mail can be received, the second version of the e-mail indicating at least a second e-mail recipient. The second version can be sent to the at least second e-mail recipient indicated in the message header of the second version. An update request for the first version can be received, the update request configured to be processed to update the message header of the first version to add the at least second e-mail recipient to the message header. The update request can be sent to the at least first e-mail recipient. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280608 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TO SCHEDULE COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for improving the effectiveness of communications over a social network. A method for controlling network communication, comprises analyzing a social network in response to a request made by a user to send a message to a node in the social network, delaying for a period of time sending of the message based on a result of the analyzing, and sending the message to the node in the social network after the period of time has elapsed. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280609 | Targeted Message Communication System with Improved Efficiency and Duplication Avoidance - A method and communication system for delivering and coordinating targeted messages to a plurality of recipients is provided. The communication system comprises a host computer, a network, one or more client devices and a plurality of recipients. The targeted message may be delivered to each of the plurality of recipients using one or more delivery methods. Once a recipient has been contacted, information and feedback related to delivery of the targeted message to the recipient are provided to the host computer substantially in real time. In response, client devices are notified that the recipient has been contacted so that the recipient is not contacted again with the targeted message. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280610 | IDENTIFICATION OF USERS FOR INITIATING INFORMATION SPREADING IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Embodiments of the invention relate to identifying users for initiating information spreading in social network. In one embodiment, information for one or more users of a social network is collected and one or more features for each of the one or more users based on the collected information is computed. The one or more features are compared with a statistical model and calculating a probability that each of the one or more users will spread a message received from outside their social network based on the comparison. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280611 | DIGEST FILTERING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computer system for sending, from a first computing device, an email digest in an email message to a second computing device at a first point in time, wherein the email digest includes one or more content items for display at the second computing device when the email digest in the email message is accessed. An action is determined to be performed on a content item of the one or more content items at a second point in time that is after the first point in time. The content item of the one or more content items in the email digest is filtered from the email message based upon, at least in part, determining that the action is performed on the content item of the one or more content items at the second point in time. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280612 | Apparatus and Method for Managing User Chat Experiences with Businesses - A computer-implemented method of managing a chat experience of a user desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses or chat hosts utilizes in various aspects a chat management server running computer processes for communicating with user devices. In another aspect, a computer-implemented method of providing a chat experience to a user having a user device and desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses utilizes computer processes running on the user device. Corresponding embodiments similarly provide an apparatus performing any of the foregoing methods. Other corresponding embodiments similarly provide a computer readable medium storing instructions, which when loaded into a computer, perform processes corresponding to any of the foregoing methods. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280613 | EMAIL AS A TRANSPORT MECHANISM FOR ACVITY STREAM POSTING - A method, system and computer program product for utilizing email as a transport mechanism for activity stream posting. The method, program system, and computer product may include receiving an email, with content, at a target email system of a target from a source email system of a source. Content that is to be posted to an activity stream is extracted from the email content. The extracted content is posted to the activity stream. The method, program system, and computer product may further include examining the email at the target to identify whether the email includes content that is to be posted to the activity stream, or the target email system may deliver the email to a designated email address mailbox assigned to emails containing content to be sent to the activity stream. A notification of the email may be provided or the mailbox may be checked for email. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280614 | PERSONALIZED SUMMARIES FOR CONTENT - A system detects a message from a sender to a recipient, the message including a reference to external content. The system accesses a user model comprising interest information about interests of the sender or the recipient. The system identifies interest content from the external content as relevant to an interest from the interest information, generates a summarized content from the external content and based on the interest content and containing only a subset of information in the external content, and modifies the message to include the summarized content in the message. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280615 | REMINDER VIEWS FOR FACILITATING DRAFT REMINDERS - Systems, methods, and software disclosed herein facilitate draft reminders. In at least one implementation, a primary view of an information management application is rendered. In various scenarios the primary view may include primary items, such as emails, events, tasks, or other types of items. When a reminder view is invoked, draft items are identified to include in the reminder view. The reminder view is then rendered in an overlaid manner with respect to the primary view and includes the draft items. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280616 | EMAIL ASSISTANT FOR EFFICIENTLY MANAGING EMAILS - Technologies are generally described for providing an email assistant for sorting through emails received at an email application. The email assistant may prioritize emails and group high and low priority emails separately to enable a user to quickly view and manage an email inbox. The email assistant may also provide suggestions on how to sort and manage emails in the inbox of the email application. The email assistant may observe a user's pattern of interactions with types of emails, and prioritize emails and suggest actions based on the user's interactions. The email assistant may be configured to automatically sort emails and provide management suggestions based on a detected scenario such as a user's return after a period of time away, a large influx of emails, and presence detection. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280617 | Methods and Systems for Generating Social Media Messages - A method and system are provided for generating social media messages. The method and system involve storing, in a storage module, a user profile corresponding to each user in a plurality of users and at least one message content in a plurality of message contents, the user profile includes a content indicator corresponding to one or more categories of message content selected by a corresponding user; and operating at least one processor module to associate each message content in the plurality of message contents with at least one category in a plurality of categories; determine, for at least one user in the plurality of users, one or more categories using the content indicator associated with the user; and a message content based on the determined one or more categories; and create the social media message based on the determined message content. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280618 | DYNAMIC ALERT RECOGNITION SYSTEM - Intelligent notification generation. Communications from various sources are received and stored in memory as individual event entries. Each event entry is dynamically assessed for generation of a notification based on criteria. This criteria is dynamic and employed by feedback generated by user input and acknowledgements from delivered notifications. Generated notifications are translated into an audio format for delivery. The delivered notification, including the status of the delivered notification and attributes of the delivered notification, are stored in memory for purposes of establishing and aligning the criteria. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280619 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUPING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Arrangements relate to the grouping electronic messages by a messaging client. A plurality of electronic messages to a message recipient from a sender electronic messaging system can be received. Each of the electronic messages can include a container specification, which can include an identifier assigned by the sender electronic messaging system. The identifiers of the received electronic messages can be compared. A plurality of the received electronic messages having the same identifier can be grouped. The grouped electronic messages can be presented as a single electronic message to the message recipient. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280620 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH IDENTIFICATION MANAGEMENT AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a communication system includes: an identifier classification module configured to determine a media classification associated with a sender identifier; a contact assignment module, coupled to the identifier classification module, configured to associate the sender identifier with a contact entry based on context information; and an identifier transmission module, coupled to the contact assignment module, configured to transmit the sender identifier based on the media classification corresponding to a transmission condition for displaying on a device. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280621 | Conversation analysis of asynchronous decentralized media - The present disclosure provides a system that allows for the real-time and online monitoring of the exchanges between customers and a CRM team over social media. While crawling all messages exchanged over the social media by customers and CRM team, the system aggregates related messages exchanged between a given customer and the CRM team into a conversation. The system includes a linguistic framework for the analysis of conversations (based on the two linguistic theories of dialog acts and conversation analysis) to label the nature of the messages in a conversation or thread. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND EXCHANGING DATA - A system, method and computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for performing the methods of the present invention are provided. Embodiments of the present invention include a platform (also referred to as “forum”) for selling, purchasing, collecting, viewing, and exchanging data, e.g., pics, videos, other digital mediums, etc. online. A user can maintain collection of pics, for example, similar to a physical card collection or a sticker album of a sporting team, movie, and entertainer, exclusively in an online platform. The user can collect, exchange, and interact with other users having a similar collection. Interaction with other users can include, for example, displaying the user's collection via an electronic and/or online album, competing with another user over completing a collection such as a limited electronic card/pic/video, and exchanging cards/pics/videos with another user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280623 | AUTO-REPLY EMAIL SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH PERSONALIZED CONTENT - An auto-reply electronic mail message with personalized content. Text is extracted from an inbound email message. The text is used for chatbot input messages. Chatbot output messages are generated. The chatbot output messages are composed. The composed messages are formed into a responsive outbound email communication. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACTIONABLE RECOMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE ELECTRONIC MAIL INBOX PLACEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT - A system and method for analyzing data obtained from distinct sources to provide email senders with specific actionable recommendations that can be used to improve the inbox placement of the email messages they send, as well as recipients' level of engagement with those email messages. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280625 | MONITORING USER ACTIVITY IN APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods that integrate social media applications having social media communities of like-minded users with other applications, such as enterprise applications, are described herein. A user may join one or more of the social media communities based on a variety of factors, including applications the user uses or plans to use, user type (e.g., end-user, administrator, etc.), the user's level of expertise, and/or the type of activities that the user plans to perform in one or more applications. A user's actions within or using one or more applications may be monitored. In response to detecting performance of a monitored action, a description of the user's action may be published to other users in the social media community, the user may be paired with one or more social media communities, and/or recommendations for resources related to the detected action may be provided to the user. Recommendations may also be provided based on posts made by the user in the social media community. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280626 | Method and Apparatus for Adding and Displaying an Inline Reply Within a Video Message - Methods of adding an inline reply to a video email/message and presenting a chain of video emails/messages are provided. A video email/message is received and an inline reply to the video email/message is generated and associated with a point during playback of the video email/message. The inline reply is sent by return email such that, during subsequent playback of the video email/message, playback of the video email/message is paused at the point and the inline reply is displayed. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280627 | FORWARDING MULTICAST MESSAGES IN A MESSAGING NETWORK - The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes establishing federation links between a message broker system and neighbors of the message broker system. The method includes identifying shortest paths between the message broker system and other message broker systems. The method includes receiving a request to forward a message from a source message broker system to destination message broker systems. The method includes identifying source paths between the source message broker system and the message broker system, intermediate message broker systems along the source paths, and destination paths between the message broker system and remaining ones of the destination message broker systems that neighbor the message broker system other than ones of the intermediate message broker systems. The method includes delivering the multicast message to the remaining ones of the destination message broker systems. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280628 | HANDLING UNAVAILABLE DESTINATIONS IN A MESSAGING NETWORK - The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes establishing first federation links between a message broker system and neighbors of the message broker system. The method further includes distributing information describing the first federation links to other message broker systems. The method further includes receiving information describing second federation links between each of the other message broker systems and neighbors of each of the other message broker system. The method further includes identifying shortest paths between the message broker system and each of the other message broker systems. The method further includes receiving a request to send a message from a source message broker system to a destination message broker system. The method further includes determining that none of the shortest paths to the destination message broker system are available and, in response, taking corrective action. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280629 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING COMPOSER PROMPTS FOR POSTING IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method for generating a composer prompt to induce a user to post a message at a social network system is disclosed. The method starts with retrieving information about the user, the user information being stored in a profile at the social networking system. It assesses the user information and temporal information to determine content and format of the composer prompt. Then the method generates a new composer prompt based at least partially on an assessment of the information and display the new composer prompt to the user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT REVIEW OF EXCHANGED CONTENT - A method for reviewing an inmate's communications that includes receiving a two-party message including a media item, and determining whether the media item is viewable pending review. When the media item is viewable pending review, placing the media item in a conditionally viewable repository for the inmate, and making the two-party message accessible to the recipient based on the media item being placed in the conditionally viewable repository for the inmate. When the media item is not viewable pending review, placing the media item in a conditionally held repository for the inmate, and making the two-party message inaccessible to the recipient based on the media item being placed in the conditionally held repository for the inmate. The method further includes receiving review results of a review process performed on the media item, and moving the media item to a reviewed media items repository based on the review results. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280631 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SCHEME IN A CONTROLLED FACILITY - A method for message transmission in a controlled facility includes receiving a request to transmit a message from a superfriend in a controlled facility. The superfriend includes an administrative privilege and a removal protection. The method further includes receiving, for the message from a superfriend network list of the superfriend, a selection contacts confined in the controlled facility, sending, via an electronic network, the message to each of the contacts in the controlled facility, and presenting the message to each of the contacts in the controlled facility. For each contact, the method further includes calculating audit information capturing the presenting of the message, and transmitting an acknowledgement of receipt of the message to the superfriend | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280632 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURE SOCIAL NETWORKING ON FEATURE PHONES - A method for handing messages on a secure social network (SSN) includes receiving a message comprising a recipient name from a SSN member sender, retrieving a list of SSN member names approved to communicate with the SSN member sender, and determining that recipient name matches a first SSN member name and a second member name stored in the list of SSN member names, where the first SSN member name identifies an inmate of a controlled facility. The method further includes retrieving a first period of time since a previous communication between the SSN member sender and the first SSN member name, retrieving a second period of time since a previous communication between the SSN member sender and the second SSN member name, and sending the message to the inmate based on a comparison of the first period of time to the second period of time. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERNET CONTENT THROUGH SMS SERVICES - In one exemplary embodiment, a system includes a method of providing Internet content through a text-messaging service includes receiving an Internet search query in a text message from a mobile device. The text message includes a query term and an application code. The application code identifies an Internet-based application. The text message is converted to a peer-to-peer message protocol message. An Internet-application server include the internet-based application is identified with the application code. The Internet search query is converted from the text message to a peer-to-peer message protocol message. The peer-to-peer message protocol message is forwarded to the Internet-application server. A query response is received from the Internet-based application. The query response is converted into a text message response. The text message response is communicated to the mobile device. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280634 | Perpetual Memoire - Among other things, an intelligent automated proxy for an party who wants to communicate a multimedia message about a life event an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog to a second party and provides information from which the life event, the communication, the manner of delivery, the future time, and the recipient can be determined. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280635 | PROVIDING AN UNSEEN MESSAGE COUNT ACROSS DEVICES - Embodiments are directed to providing an indication of unseen email messages to a mobile device user, to establishing an unseen email message count and to maintaining a consistent unseen email message count across multiple mobile devices. In one scenario, a computer system receives subscription data that subscribes a user to email push notifications. The subscription data includes a token ID and a timestamp. The computer system determines that a new email message has arrived at the user's inbox and accesses the user's email inbox to determine the number of unseen email messages (which includes the number of email messages that have been received at the user's inbox and have not been viewed or marked as read using another email client since the time listed on the timestamp). The computer system also sends a push notification with the number of unseen email messages to each of the user's subscribed mobile devices. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280636 | HIGH SPEED EMBEDDED PROTOCOL FOR DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS - A control network communication arrangement includes a second protocol embedded into a first protocol in a way that modules supporting the second protocol may be aware of and utilize the first protocol whereas modules supporting only the first protocol may not be aware of the second protocol. Operation of modules using the second protocol does not disturb operation of the modules not configured to use or understand the second protocol. By one approach, the messages sent using the second protocol will be seen as messages sent using the first protocol but not having a message necessary to understand or as needing a particular response. In another approach, modules using the second protocol can be configured to send message during transmission of first protocol messages by other modules, the second protocol messages being triggered off of expected aspects of the message sent under the first protocol. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280637 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TO SCHEDULE COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for improving the effectiveness of communications over a social network. A method for controlling network communication, comprises analyzing a social network in response to a request made by a user to send a message to a node in the social network, delaying for a period of time sending of the message based on a result of the analyzing, and sending the message to the node in the social network after the period of time has elapsed. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280638 | REAL-TIME SEARCH AND VALIDATION OF PHRASES USING LINGUISTIC PHRASE COMPONENTS - A method and system is disclosed for evaluating a chat message sent between users of an online environment. The method may include receiving a chat message and parsing the message into words. The method determines the acceptability of the message by matching the message to a plurality of acceptable messages stored in a data structure. Upon determining the message does not match any acceptable messages, the method replaces each word in the message with grammatical metadata. The method may use templates to determine if the message has acceptable word combinations based on the metadata. The method may also compare the metadata to rules wherein the rules determine if the message has unacceptable word combinations based on the metadata. The method may send the message to a user upon determining words in the message do not match any word in a list of unacceptable words. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280639 | Methods, Systems, and Devices for Analyzing Social Media Content - A system for analyzing social media content and for determining the influence types of different social media members is disclosed. The system categorizes users according to their influence on the social media conversation and displays information related to this categorization in schematic form. The popularity of a particular topic can be analyzed to determine when the topic resonates and becomes more popular within the social network. In some embodiments, the categorization of the users and schematic display of information can be conducted in real-time. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280640 | DISPLAYING MESSAGE CONTENT DIFFERENTIAL IN POPUP WINDOW - A difference between a source email message and at least one target email message is determined and then displayed in a popup window. A first selected message in a message thread is designated as a source message. The thread is searched for a target message that comprises a next oldest message in the thread. Identifying data in the source message is compared to identifying data in the target message for generating difference data. Content of both the source message and target message is also compared. A popup window is generated over the target message and the content difference is displayed in the popup window. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280641 | EMAIL AS A TRANSPORT MECHANISM FOR ACTIVITY STREAM POSTING - A method, system and computer program product for utilizing email as a transport mechanism for activity stream posting. The method, program system, and computer product may include receiving an email, with content, at a target email system of a target from a source email system of a source. Content that is to be posted to an activity stream is extracted from the email content. The extracted content is posted to the activity stream. The method, program system, and computer product may further include examining the email at the target to identify whether the email includes content that is to be posted to the activity stream, or the target email system may deliver the email to a designated email address mailbox assigned to emails containing content to be sent to the activity stream. A notification of the email may be provided or the mailbox may be checked for email. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280642 | DISTRIBUTION OF STREAMING CONTENT BETWEEN MEDIA PLAYERS CONFIGURED TO LOCATE EACH OTHER - The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising
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| 20140280643 | DIGEST FILTERING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computer system for sending, from a first computing device, an email digest in an email message to a second computing device at a first point in time, wherein the email digest includes one or more content items for display at the second computing device when the email digest in the email message is accessed. An action is determined to be performed on a content item of the one or more content items at a second point in time that is after the first point in time. The content item of the one or more content items in the email digest is filtered from the email message based upon, at least in part, determining that the action is performed on the content item of the one or more content items at the second point in time. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280644 | REAL TIME UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS INTERACTION OF A PREDEFINED LOCATION IN A VIRTUAL REALITY LOCATION - A virtual reality network provides access to a number of virtual reality representations, each virtual reality representation representing a location in a virtual universe and defined by VR data stored on the network. The VR data can be in a simplified data format. A database stores the network address and the location in the universe of each virtual reality representation. A database server provides access to the database. The database server generates a list of locations in response to a location query from a visitor, and provides the network address of the virtual reality representation of a selected location. A visitor connects to the database server with a client host to visit the locations in the virtual universe. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280645 | Methods, Servers and Systems for Verifying Reported Locations of Computing Devices - Methods, servers and systems are disclosed for authenticating location information in a message from a sending computing device to a receiving computing device. Location information of a sending computing device at an actual location may be incorporated in the message. Location information in a message may be compared with information regarding the actual location of the sending computing device maintained by a server. The location information in the message may be authenticated based on the comparison. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280646 | Method and Device for Managing Communication Activities - A method is disclosed for managing communication processes (N | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280647 | Communication Apparatus and Related Methods - A communication apparatus and related methods is disclosed. The communication apparatus includes a server and a first user device in communication with the server, wherein a message is communicated to the server, the message including at least one data string having at least one recognizable keyword. A keyword module is stored at least partially on the server, wherein the keyword module matches the at least one recognizable keyword with a related characteristic of the at least one recognizable keyword. A stamping module is in communication with the keyword module, wherein the stamping module embeds a stamp within the message, the stamp having at least a portion of the matched related characteristic of the data string. A second user device is in communication with the server, wherein the second user device visually displays the message having the at least one data string and the matched related characteristic within the stamp on a display interface of the second user device. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280648 | Methods and Systems for Email Address Verification - A method of verifying the validity of an email address includes establishing a communication session with a client device; receiving an email address from the client device during the communication session; and while the communication session with the client device remains active, performing an email verification procedure that includes (a) causing a first communication to be sent to the email address; (b) evaluating a second communication received in reply to the first communication; and (c) in response to receiving a second communication indicating that the email address is invalid, sending a request to the client device for a corrected email address. The method may include requesting further information from the client device after receiving the email address, and, while requesting further information from the client device, performing the email verification procedure. Steps (a) to (c) may be repeated using the corrected email address until a valid email address is received. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280649 | RUNWAY CHAT - In an implementation, a selection of a program is received by a computing device. The program is associated with a duration of time. In response to the selection, a plurality of messages is retrieved by the computing device. Each message is associated with a time during the duration of time. Playback of the selected program is caused by the computing device on a display associated with the computing device. One or more of the retrieved plurality of messages are presented on the display at the times associated with the messages during the duration of time associated with the program by the computing device. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280650 | METHOD FOR FRAGMENTED MESSAGING BETWEEN NETWORK DEVICES - Systems and methods for a network, wherein a network device sends one or more pieces of a fragmented message to another network device via a network, and the network device that has received the one or more pieces of the fragmented messaging sends one or more acknowledgments of the receipt of the one or more pieces of the fragmented message to the sender of the fragmented message. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280651 | COMMUNICATION EXCHANGES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - In some embodiments, the instant invention provides for a computer-implemented method that includes the following steps: administering, by a first specifically programmed computer system of a communications exchange, an electronic delivery of a first electronic distribution from a first sender to a first recipient, where the mediating includes: receiving from a first source of a plurality of sources, a first electronic distribution of the first sender, receiving from the first sender, a plurality of sender attributes of the first sender and a plurality of sender rules of the first sender that define how electronic distributions of the first sender to be delivered; receiving the plurality of recipient attributes of the first recipient and the plurality of recipient rules of the first recipient; matching the first electronic distribution of first sender to the first recipient; transmitting, the first electronic distribution of first sender to first channel of the first recipient. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280652 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POSTING MICROBLOG MESSAGE - Described are a method and a device for posting a microblog message. The method includes: acquiring text content input by a user in a microblog text box; monitoring a posting operating instruction for the text content; calculating the number of the characters of the text content; determining whether the number of the characters of the text contents exceeds a preset-threshold; if the number of the characters of the text content exceeds the preset threshold, converting the text content into a format of messages according to a user selection from a plurality of format settings, and posting the format of the messages as a microblog message, or splitting the text content into multiple microblog message being less than the preset threshold; and if the number of the characters of the text content does not exceed the preset threshold, directly posting the text content as the microblog message. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280653 | GENERATING AND/OR PROVIDING ACCESS TO A MESSAGE BASED ON PORTIONS OF THE MESSAGE INDICATED BY A SENDING USER - Message processing is disclosed that includes detecting an action by a sending user selecting at least one portion of a message. An indication of the selected portion of the message is stored in the message, and the message transmitted to at least one message recipient. Contextually related content from the message for the selected portion may also be indicated in the message. The selected portion or portions of the message may be displayed to a recipient user, and selection by the recipient user of a portion of the message selected by said sending user may be detected. Contextually related content may be retrieved from the message in response detecting the recipient user's selection of the portion of the message selected by said sending user, and the contextually related content displayed to the recipient together with the portion of the message selected by said sending user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280654 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CAPABLE OF REFERRING TO TRANSMISSION JOB HISTORY, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A communication apparatus that enables to refer to transmission history information in response to settings of use proprieties for transmission methods. A recording unit records a history of a transmission job executed by the communication apparatus as transmission history information that includes a transmitting destination at least. A setting unit sets a use propriety of each of the transmission methods. A determination unit determines whether reference to the transmission history information is permitted in response to the use propriety of each of the transmission methods set by the setting unit and the transmitting destination included in the transmission history information, when a user instructs to refer to the transmission history information. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280655 | Controlling Notification Based on Power Expense and Social Factors - In one embodiment, a computer system determines a wireless transmit cost for each of one or more outgoing messages for a first user, and transmits to the first user's mobile device at least one of the one or more outgoing messages based on the mobile device's power state and respective wireless transmit costs of the one or more outgoing messages. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140280656 | METHOD EMPLOYING AT LEAST ONE CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU) - The invention relates to a method which employs at least one CPU ( | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140289339 | GLOBAL EMAIL IDENTITY PREFERENCES - In embodiments of global email identity preferences, a default outgoing email address that is designated by a user is maintained at an email server. The user can also be associated with multiple email addresses that are correlated at the email server. When an outgoing email is received at the email server for delivery to a designated recipient, the outgoing email can be identified as being from one of the multiple email addresses that are associated with the user. A determination is made as to whether to update the outgoing email with the default outgoing email address that is associated with the user, such as if the outgoing email is received from an email client that does not allow user selection of a default client email address. The outgoing email is then routed to the designated recipient for display as being from the default outgoing email address. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289340 | Invitations for Establishing Relationships - Techniques for invitations for establishing relationships are described. In at least some embodiments, an architecture is implemented which provides simple and integrated ways for establishing relationships between various entities. The architecture includes invitations that can be used to invite users to establish relationships with entities. A user that receives an invitation can interact with the invitation, such as to accept or decline an invitation to establish a relationship with an entity. If a user accepts an invitation, a relationship can be established between the user and an inviting entity. In at least some embodiments, the relationship can enable the user to perform various actions and/or access resources associated with the entity. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289341 | METHOD OF HYBRID MESSAGE PASSING WITH SHARED MEMORY - A method of communicating data between at least two coprocessors in a single computing environment wherein one of the coprocessors is a transmitting processor and the other of the coprocessors is a receiving processor and the single computing environment includes a memory accessible by the coprocessors includes, among other things, determining in the transmitting processor the size of data to be communicated, attaching the data to a message and transmitting the message to the receiving processor if the size of the data is below or equal to a predetermined threshold value, and transmitting to the receiving processor a pointer that points to a location of the data in the memory if the size of the data is above the predetermined threshold value. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289342 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTACT MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORK - In various example embodiments, a system and method for managing contacts in a network are provided. In example embodiments, a value added by a user to a first contact in an address book of the user is detected. The first contact corresponds to an individual. A determination is made as to whether the value exists in a primary profile of the individual. Based on the value not existing in the primary profile, an assessment is made as to whether the individual previously deleted the value from the primary profile or the individual did not verify a previous notification for the same value. Based on the value not being previously deleted or not verified, a notification is provided to the individual that includes an option to verify the value. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289343 | GROUP MESSAGE RELAY - A message machine may provide a message service that allows creation of a chat group in which multiple users are members. A member of the chat group may send a message to the chat group, which causes the message machine to send the message to each of the other members who are online in the message service. If one of the other members is offline in the message service, but is online in another message service, the message machine may relay the message to this member via the other message service, in which an online member of the chat group is socially connected to the offline member by the other message service. The message machine may access credentials of the online member, use these credentials to impersonate the online member, and send the message to the offline member through the other message service. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289344 | DIGITAL NOTIFICATION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM - This invention relates to an apparatus and method for a digital notification enhancement system. In particular, the invention relates to a method and apparatus for enhancing a header field, such as the subject field, of a notification such as an email to provide for animations and the like to placed in the field. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289345 | END TO END EMAIL MONITOR - A disclosed example method to monitor an email system involves sending a first test email from a first email system to a second email system. The first test email is addressed to a first destination email address associated with the second email system and having first information identifying the first test email and the second email system. The example method also involves retrieving, from an email account having a second destination email address different from the first destination email address, a plurality of other test emails from other email systems being tested for operability. The other test emails include second information identifying corresponding ones of the other test emails and corresponding ones of the other email systems. The example method involves determining whether the first test email fails to arrive at the email account within a time period from the second email system. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289346 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING MESSAGES - A system and method for enabling the interchange of enterprise data through an open platform is disclosed. This open platform can be based on a standardized interface that enables parties to easily connect to and use the network. Services operating as senders, recipients, and in-transit parties can therefore leverage a framework that overlays a public network. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289347 | System and Method for Enabling Applications to Communicate Using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) System - A method and system are provided for enabling applications on a mobile device to utilize a peer-to-peer platform on the mobile device. The method comprises providing an interface between an application and a peer-to-peer (P2P) platform on the mobile device; obtaining data from the application; using the P2P platform to include the data from the application in a P2P message; and sending the P2P message to another mobile device to enable a complementary application on the other mobile device to utilize the data from the application. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289348 | Providing Session Initiation Protocol Request Contents Method and System - An embodiment provides a user equipment that includes a processor configured to receive a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) NOTIFY message transmitted by a network component as a result of a registration event. The SIP NOTIFY message contains at least a portion of information included in a first SIP message sent between a first user equipment and the network component. Another embodiment provides method and apparatus for a network node to determine whether filter criteria include one or more indicators that specify the need for information, and including in a second SIP message the information specified by the one or more indicators. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289349 | ELECTRONIC BUSINESS POSTAL SYSTEM - An electronic business postal system collects, clears and delivers electronic business mail through a closed access, secure messaging system. A collection subsystem consists of access portals that are associated with secured system nodes. The access portals provide authenticated users access to the system to send and retrieve electronic business mail that includes postal system electronic delivery addresses, physical delivery addresses, or both. Secured message servers that are associated with the respective access portals process the electronic business mail into uniquely identified messages for delivery over the system nodes and also process received messages to provide the corresponding electronic business mail to the intended recipients through associated access portals. A delivery subsystem directs the messages through the system nodes associated with the senders' access portals to the system nodes associated with the recipients' access portals. A clearance subsystem confirms the integrity of both the messages and their delivery and ensures that each message is delivered once and intact. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289350 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING DEFERRED MESSAGE - A method for processing deferred messages includes a storing process, a notification process and a retrieving process. In the storing process, when a user presets and requires to store the deferred message, the system stores the deferred message to be sent to the user; in the notification process, when a user gets online, an IM server at the client side detects the system has stored the deferred message for the user and if the user has subscribed the deferred message notification, the system sends the deferred message notification to the client according to the setting of the system or of the user; in the retrieving process, when the client receives the deferred message notification and requests to acquire the deferred message, its IM server sends the deferred message content to the client. The present invention improves the method for processing deferred messages in the SIP/SIMPLE IM service system. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289351 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING MESSAGE TO GROUP USER(S) THROUGH MICROBLOG - The present invention discloses a method and device for sending a message to group user(s) through microblog, which can simply and rapidly send the message to the group user(s) through a symbol @. In the present invention, group(s) that a user has joined is inquired for the user when the user sends a message, and the message is able to be sent to the group user(s) in the manner of “@group”, instead of being sent to each group user in the manner of “@user nickname” for many times, which improves the efficiency of sending messages by group, and brings convenience to the user. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289352 | Divided Multimedia Messaging Delivery - Method and apparatus for sending a large Multimedia Message, such as a MMS from a first terminal ( | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140297758 | EVENT NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON LEARNED TRAVELING TIMES BETWEEN LOCATIONS - Example embodiments relate to event notifications based on learned traveling times between locations. In some examples, a scheduling server computing device may determining an estimated travel time between a first location and a second location based on actual travel times of client devices between the first location and the second location. A scheduling server may determine a location of an event attendee based on location information received from a client device associated with the event attendee. A scheduling server may determine a location of an event and an event time based on an event object. If the location of the attendee is approximately the same as the first location and the location of the event is approximately the same as the second location, a scheduling server may communicating an event notification to the attendee based on the event time and the estimated travel time. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297759 | CONTENT-ITEM LINKING SYSTEM FOR MESSAGING SERVICES - A client service, such as a plug-in to a browser, can alter a document retrieved from a compatible service to augment the document with services from an online content management service. When an application retrieves a compatible document, the client service can detect a document element within the document and alter the document to provide an activatable reference to the online content management service. For example, a client service can recognize an email composition webpage or an email display webpage and insert activatable references provide services from the online content management service. In email composition webpages, a reference can be a button that allows an email author to insert a link to a content item from the online content management service. In email display webpages, references can be added that allow attachments to be sent to the online content management service for storage. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297760 | MANAGING E-MAIL MESSAGES BETWEEN RELATED ACCOUNTS - In a method for managing e-mail messages between related e-mail accounts, an e-mail message is received from a first e-mail account of a user. It is determined that the e-mail message should be listed as a sent e-mail message in a second e-mail account of the user. The e-mail message is listed as a sent e-mail message in the second e-mail account. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297761 | LOCATION BASED EVENT INVITATION GENERATION - A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by at least one remote computing device, location information of one or more other computing devices. Which of the one or more other computing devices is within a pre-defined distance from an event location is identified based upon the location information. At least a portion of automatically-suggested user information associated with at least a portion of the one or more other computing devices within the pre-defined distance from the first computing device is sent to a first computing device. A selection of one or more users associated with the automatically-suggested user information sent to the first computing device is received by the at least one remote computing device from the event location. An invitation to an event at the event location is sent to at least a portion of the selected one or more users associated with the automatically-suggested user information. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TIMEZONE AWARE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE - A method for sending a message using a platform comprises: receiving, by the platform, a request comprising at least one target, a time, and a content, the time is identifying when the message will be delivered. The method further comprises identifying a time zone of the target, calculating, by the processor, when the time will occur in the time zone of the target to determine a delay, storing the request and the delay, determining that the delay has expired, generating the message for the at least one target wherein a payload in the message is based on the content, and sending, in response to determining, the message to the target. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297763 | Method of Managing Networked Devices - A method of managing networked devices for a control point in a network system is provided. The method includes listening to a discovery message transmitted from a networked device, wherein the discovery message indicates groups corresponding to the networked device, selecting at least one networked device according to a group, and transmitting a message to the at least one networked device for instructing the at least one networked device to execute or provide its service. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297764 | AUTOMATIC NEGATIVE QUESTION HANDLING - A contact center system can receive messages from social media sites or centers. The system can review long messages by identifying content in the long message with negative sentiment. The content with negative sentiment is further analyzed to determine whether the identified content is actionable. If the identified content is actionable, the communication system can automatically routed the long message to an agent for response. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297765 | PROFILING SOCIAL TRENDSETTERS - A method and a system for profiling social trendsetters on a communications network includes monitoring social networking communications on a communications network using a program executable by a computer. The program monitors social networking communications for a topic of conversation in messages by a plurality of users. The messages are analyzed for relation to the topic of conversation and for topic information based on a specified criteria. The program determines a role for each of the plurality of users based on the topic information, and indicates the roles for each of the users, respectively, and may indicate the roles and associated people pertaining to particular topics. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297766 | NON-CLOUD BASED COMMUNICATION PLATFORM FOR AN ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM - An environment management system includes a communication platform disposed remote from a site, and at least one client associated with the site. The communication platform includes at least one external XMPP server communicatively coupled with the at least one client via an instant message communication stream, and the at least one external XMPP server is configured to utilize an Extensible Message Presence Protocol (XMPP) standard to communicate with and alter an operating condition of said at least one client at the site. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297767 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VERIFICATION CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus obtains a plurality of messages transmitted between a client and a server, each message including at least one of a plurality of parameters and a value of the parameter. The information processing apparatus detects a parameter having different values set in different messages among the obtained plurality of messages, from among the plurality of parameters. According to the detection result, the information processing apparatus determines a rewrite parameter whose value is rewritten when using the plurality of messages for verification of a server, among the plurality of parameters. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297768 | SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PROVIDING PLURALITY OF DIGITAL CONTENTS AND METHOD USING SAME - One object is to provide a system for facilitating posting for digital contents. The system according to an embodiment includes: a service control unit; an information storage unit a determination unit for determining whether a user is a fan of an artist a user information updating unit for storing a determination result by the determination unit in the information storage unit a use history information sending unit for sending reproduction history information; a posting information reception unit for receiving posting information including musical piece specifying information; a posting information registration unit for storing received posting information in the information storage unit; a posting information sending unit for sending the posting information to the terminal; a reproduction screen sending unit for sending, to the terminal, screen data of a musical piece reproduction screen; and a recommended user information sending unit for sending information on recommended users to the terminal. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297769 | RETRIEVING MESSAGES IN ORDER IN A DISTRIBUTED PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM - A method retrieves in order a plurality of specific topic-based messages in a distributed publish/subscribe system, the distributed publish/subscribe system comprising at least one message transit server, the method comprising: determining an order of a plurality of to-be retrieved messages; recording, in message transit server sequence information, message transit servers where the plurality of messages are located, respectively, an order of the message transit servers in the message transit server sequence information corresponding to the determined order of the plurality of messages; and retrieving in order the plurality of messages from corresponding message transit servers using the message transit server sequence information. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297770 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SYSTEM FOR SOLICITING REPLY - An apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor may receive a user generated electronic message. The processor may also send a first electronic message to a designated receiver, where the first electronic message solicits a response from the designated receiver regarding the user generated electronic message. The processor may also send a plurality of subsequent electronic messages to the designated receiver according to a repeat-notification schedule stored in the memory until the response is received, where the plurality of subsequent electronic messages solicit the response. The repeat-notification schedule includes a first elapsed time before sending of a second electronic message occurs and a second elapsed time before sending of a third electronic message occurs, where the second elapsed time is different than the first elapsed time. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297771 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - The present subject matter discloses a method for application data synchronization through a communication network. The method includes receiving application data from at least one user device, formatting the application data based on at least one formatting parameter to generate a data file, where the formatting parameter is indicative of a format of the data file, and transmitting the data file to at least one target syncing device through protocols based on Push Email Synchronization. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297772 | Automated Triggering of a Broadcast - Systems and methods for using a subset of a group to determine if a given message or post is suitable for broadcast to the entire group. The method may include receiving and tabulating responses to a stimulus for a first period of time from a portion of the population. It may be determined that the tabulated responses exceed a threshold prior to expiration of a timeout period and the threshold may be based on size of the population or size of the portion of the population. In response to determining that the threshold has been exceeded, a broadcast of the stimulus to the population may be triggered. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297773 | Location-Based Notification - Location-based notification includes establishment of a rally point and subsequent notification of a user when another user enters the rally point. Senders may set up rally points at various physical locations and specify one or more target recipients that are to be notified when the sender enters the rally point. Target recipients may specify communication settings that dictate whether and/or how they wish to receive notifications under a variety of circumstances. When a sender having a computing device enters a rally point location, a notification is sent from the computing device to a location-based notification service, which notifies each of the target recipients in a manner that complies with the target recipient's individual communication settings. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140304340 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO BREAK COMMUNICATION THREADS - A method and system for breaking a communications thread on a communications system includes monitoring a communications system having a plurality of users. An initial communications thread is identified between two or more of the plurality of users on the communications system. The initial communications thread is broken based on a criteria. The criteria includes a user initiated break wherein a user selectively breaks the initial communications thread. New communications threads are generated from the break in the initial communications thread which include, a first thread including communications before the break and a second thread including communications after the break. A link may be generated in each of the first and second threads referring to the other thread such that the initial communications thread is reconstituted when either of the links are selected. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304341 | MESSAGE REPORTING SYSTEM FOR VICTIMS OF BULLYING - The message reporting system has a receiver module, a processing module, a message type setting module, and at least one sending module. The receiver module receives an SOS message from at least one victim and the SOS message contains contact information of a bully. The processing module is connected to the receiver module and produces a reporting message in accordance with the SOS message, and then sets the bully in the contact information of the bully as a receiver of the reporting message. The message type setting module is connected to the processing module and is used for setting a type of the reporting message. The at least one sending module is connected to the processing module and is used for sending the reporting message to the bully. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304342 | SECURE GEO-LOCATION OF A COMPUTING RESOURCE - Embodiments of systems and methods for geo-location of a computing resource are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a first computing device determines a geographical location of the first device. The first device accesses an identifier of a second computing device and associates the location with the second device. The first device transmits a notification of the location being associated with the second device to the second device. In response to receiving the notification, the second device periodically transmits a message to the first device. The second device may detect a disconnection of a wired connection coupling the second device with an external system. In response to the detection, the second device ceases the periodic transmission of the message. The first device dissociates the location from the second device based on an elapsed time period since reception of a most recent one of the messages exceeding a predetermined time period. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304343 | SOCIAL MEDIA PROVOCATEUR DETECTION AND MITIGATION - A contact center system can receive messages from social media sites or centers. The messages may include derogatory or nefarious content. The system can review messages to identify the message as nefarious and identify the poster as a social media provocateur. The system may then automatically respond to the nefarious content. Further, the system may prevent future nefarious conduct by the identified social media provocateur by executing one or more automated procedures. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304344 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMAIL TRACKING AND EMAIL SPAM REDUCTION USING DYNAMIC EMAIL ADDRESSING SCHEMES - An email redirection server handles email sent by subscribers or intended for subscribers, obfuscating the subscriber's identity through replacement of the subscriber's native email address with a proxy address in the message header and forwarding the email with only the proxy address. Acquiring a proxy address includes assignment by the email redirection server of a child domain in the DNS namespace for the subscriber's exclusive use. When a subscriber intends to send an email to a particular recipient without revealing the subscriber's native email address to the particular recipient, the subscriber addresses the message by putting the recipient's full email address in the local part of the “To” field, replacing the “@” symbol with a known replacement character, and placing the subscriber's assigned subdomain in the domain part of the “To” field, assuring that the email gets to the email redirection server for appropriate readdressing and forwarding. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304345 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM - A document management site registers a scan document, generates a URL of the scan document and transmits it to an image forming apparatus (an image processing apparatus), the image forming apparatus posts the registered scan document on an SNS site by using the URL of the scan document. The document management site generates a comment ticket that is control information for causing the image forming apparatus to transmit a comment about the posted content shared in the SNS site, and the image forming apparatus acquires the comment ticket from the document management site. Then, the image forming apparatus transmits the comment about the posted content and information relating to an electronic document for a comment according to the comment ticket. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304346 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING CONVERSATION LEVEL IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for assigning a conversation level in a portable terminal is provided. The method for assigning a conversation level in a portable terminal includes entering, by a user of the portable terminal, a message in a chat window, comparing the message to be sent with a conversation level when the user inputs transmission for the message and updating the conversation level based on a result of the comparison, and sending the message and displaying the sent message on the chat window. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304347 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC MAIL DELIVERY CONTROL METHOD IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system includes: a terminal apparatus; and a delivery control apparatus configured to deliver automatically electronic mail to the terminal apparatus without waiting for an acquisition request for the electronic mail from the terminal apparatus, when the delivery control apparatus is configured to receive the electronic mail, wherein the delivery control apparatus includes a mail delivery management unit configured to control to suspend or resume automatic delivery of the electronic mail according to a state of a delivery route of the electronic mail or an apparatus located on the delivery route from the delivery control apparatus to the terminal apparatus, and the terminal apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive the automatically delivered electronic mail. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304348 | Method and Apparatus for Storing Real-Time Text Messages - A synchronization (“synch”) module may reside on a source computing platform and a destination computing platform. The synch module may be configured to operate as a source synch module or a destination synch module depending on which computing platform is a data source. As an data source or initiator, the synch module may be configured to transfer data, e.g., an archived message history, from a source computing platform to a destination computing platform. At the destination computing platform, the synch module may be further configured to convert the received archived message history to a specified data format, where the data format is predetermined by a user. The converted data, e.g., an archived message history, may then be stored in a pre-determined location by the synch module. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304349 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPLYING TO WEBSITE UPDATE EVENT - A method for replying to a website update event includes steps of: receiving, at an instant-messaging client end, prompting information about an update event of personal dynamic information of a user account associated with a current user at the instant-messaging client end in an SNS, wherein the prompting information includes information of prompting the user to conduct a reply; loading and rendering, at the instant-messaging client end, the updated personal dynamic information when the instant-messaging client end receives command information corresponding to the information of prompting the user to conduct a reply; and generating and outputting, at the instant-messaging client end, a reply window according to the loaded and rendered updated personal dynamic information and thereby enabling the user at the instant-messaging client end to conduct a reply through the reply window. A system for replying to a website update event is also provided. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304350 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS IN A COMMUNICATION NODE FOR IDENTIFYING RECEIVERS OF A MESSAGE - The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement in a communication node for creating a group of contacts to receive a message from a user of a user device. The method includes receiving a tag indicating conditions for the message, and obtaining characteristics of primary contacts of the user. Primary contacts are selected for receiving the message by matching the conditions of the tag with the characteristics of the primary contacts, and primary contacts are selected which have characteristics that match the conditions of the tag. A group including the selected primary contacts is initiated. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140310357 | DIRECTED MESSAGE NOTIFICATION IN CHAT SESSIONS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for managing messages in an instant messaging chat session. A computer receives a directed message in the instant messaging chat session, wherein the directed message includes an identification of one or more accounts associated with individuals in the instant messaging chat session. The computer determines accounts associated with individuals in the instant messaging chat session that correspond to the directed message, wherein the accounts associated with individuals that correspond to the directed message include an account associated with an individual that sent the directed message, and the one or more accounts associated with individuals identified in the directed message. The computer displays directed message notifications to the determined accounts associated with individuals that correspond to the directed message. In another embodiment, the computer receives a response to a directed message, and updates the directed message notifications. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310358 | Adaptive Publish/Subscribe System - A context-driven publication option is received over a network at an adaptive publish subscribe broker from a publishing network device. The context driven publication options are presented over the network to a subscribing network device. A selection of a context-driven subscription is received over the network at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker from the subscribing network device. A publication configured for network management and operations is received at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker. Publications are filtered at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker for the subscribing network device according to the selection of the context-driven subscription. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310359 | VEHICLE INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - A vehicle information providing apparatus provides vehicle information based on a message policy script including a message ID containing data required by each of multiple services, location and length of data in a message, and an interval at which the data is required by each of the services. The apparatus provides messages by filtering the message ID or the interval, or creates and provides a new message containing necessary data only. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310360 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING MESSAGE ALERTS - An apparatus for outputting a message alert is provided, comprising a processor configured to: receive a message; determine whether the message includes an attachment file; and responsive to determining that the message includes the attachment file, output sound contained in the attachment file as a message alert for the message. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310361 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING MESSAGE ON INSTANT MESSAGING OPEN PLATFORM - Various embodiments provide a method and system for handling a message on an instant messaging (IM) open platform. In an exemplary method, a message sent to a network application can be received. The network application can be an application plugged in the IM open platform. The received message can be pushed to an access address of the network application. A reply message returned by the network application based on the message can be received and forwarded. An exemplary system for handling a message on an instant messaging (IM) open platform can include a receiving module, a pushing module, and/or a reply processing module. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310362 | Congestion Management in Overlay Networks - A system forwards congestion management messages to a source host updating the source address in the management message. The system may determine that the congestion management message was triggered responsive to an initial communication that was previously forwarded by the system. The system may use header translation within a single addressing scheme and/or may translate the congestion management message into a different type to support forwarding to the source of the initial communication. The system may use portions of the payload of the congestion management message to determine the source of the initial communication and to derive a different header for the translated congestion management message. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310363 | System and Method for Collaborative Decision Making at an Airport - A system and method for facilitating collaborative decision making at an airport. The system and method receive data relating to an airport from a plurality of data feed arrangements, aggregate the data, format the aggregated data for display to users and transmit the formatted aggregated data to the users for display. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310364 | INSTANT MESSAGE SYSTEM AND INSTANT MESSAGE MANAGING METHOD - An instant message managing method comprises detecting which client terminal used by a user sends messages according to basic information of the client terminal. A terminal managing module marks the client terminal used by a first user to send messages as a first access terminal, marks the client terminal used by a second user to send messages as a second access terminal, and prohibits all other client terminals of the first and second users from receiving messages. The message transmitting module transmits the messages between the first access terminal and the second access terminal. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310365 | System and Method for Tracking Messages in a Messaging Service - A system, server and a method for processing messages received at a server device in a network are provided. The method comprises: for a message being transmitted from a first account associated with a client device to a second account in the network, receiving a message event associated with the message at the server; determining whether the message event is associated with an existing conversation involving the first account, and if so setting a sequence number associated with the message event to a value incremented from a current sequence number associated with the existing conversation, otherwise setting the sequence number to a value to track a new conversation; and sending the sequence number to the first user account. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310366 | PERSISTENTLY DETERMINING AND SHARING USER STAYS OF A USER OF A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods, systems and apparatuses for automatically detecting and sharing user stays of a mobile device of a user are disclosed. One method includes persistently collecting location information, determining a group of users for sharing the user stays, determining whether the mobile device is within a specific distance of a specific location for at least specific minimum duration based on the location information, determining a user stay based on the location information and the specific distance, determining if the user stay is private or public to at least a portion of the group of users based on preferences of the user and the location information, and sharing the user stay with the at least the portion of the group of users by sending notifications to the group of users if the user stay is determined to be public to the at least the portion of the group of users. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310367 | User Interface and Method for Viewing Short Messages on a Wireless Device - A method is performed by an electronic communication device. The method includes storing electronic messages, and storing criteria for determining whether a stored message is related to a current message. A current electronic message is displayed to a user of the communication device, including the current message's outside address and message body. The relevance of each of the stored messages to the current message is assessed based on the previously-stored criteria. Those messages that meet the criteria are selected and displayed along with the current message. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310368 | EXPANDING A SOCIAL NETWORK BY THE ACTION OF A SINGLE USER - Techniques for creating a social network are provided. Private relationships that are established (e.g., in the context of instant messaging) may become public by the action of a single user. Each user determines whether they want to be “social” to (or discoverable by) friends of the user's friends. For example, user A is a friend of (i.e., has established a relationship with) user B and user B is a friend of user C, but user A and user C are not friends of each other (i.e., user A and user C have not established a relationship with each other). If user C unilaterally takes an action, then user A is able to see that user C is a friend of user B. User A may then take further actions to attempt to establish a relationship with user C or otherwise contact user C. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140317197 | Systems And Methods For Processing Electronic Correspondence - Systems and methods for processing electronic correspondence such as, for example, email messages, text messages, and the like are provided. In one aspect, one or more electronic messages are received for delivery to an intended recipient. Information within the electronic messages (e.g., sender name/address or one or more keywords) is compared and matched with or one more criteria provided by the intended recipient, and prioritized scheduled time(s) for delivery of the one or more received electronic messages to the intended recipient are determined based on the comparison. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317198 | PREVENTING SMS MESSAGE FORWARDING LOOPS - A device may be configured to receive a message from a user device; and determine whether the message includes a parameter. When the message does not include the loop indicator parameter, the device may add the loop indicator parameter to the message to generate a first modified message, and output the first modified message toward an intended recipient of the message. When the message includes the loop indicator parameter, the device may determine whether a value of the loop indicator parameter exceeds a threshold value. When the value of the loop indicator parameter does not exceed the threshold value, the device may discard the message. When the value of the loop indicator parameter exceeds the threshold value, the device may modify the value of the loop indicator parameter value to generate a second modified message, and output the second modified message toward the intended recipient of the message. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317199 | Method and Apparatus for Determining a Notification Representation Indicative of a Cognitive Load - A method comprising determining to provide a notification to a user, the notification being associated with notification content, determining a cognitive load associated with the notification content, determining a notification representation associated with the notification such that the notification representation is indicative of the cognitive load is disclosed. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317200 | Method and Apparatus for a Textural Representation of a Notification - A method comprising determining to provide a notification to a user, determining a textural representation of the notification based, at least in part, on notification content associated with the notification, and causing rendering of the textural representation of the notification on a variable texture surface is disclosed. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317201 | EVENT DETERMINATION AND TEMPLATE-BASED INVITATION GENERATION - A computer creates an invitation on a social network. The computer receives data from a social networking post, and identifies in the data from the social networking post information about a future event that a first member of a social network intends to participate in. The computer determines an invitation template based on the information about the future event, and generates an invitation to a second member of the social network for the future event based on the information about the future event and based on the invitation template. The invitation template can be determined based on one or more of an event type and event subtype in an event record. The invitation can be generated by populating the template with information in the social networking post, other information in the social network, or other information not in the social network. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REQUESTING AND SENDING AUDIO, VIDEO, STILL PICTURES, AND TEXT FROM A SPECIFIED LOCATION - A method for requesting and viewing real time data comprising: selecting an entity to follow by a requesting user; sending a notification by the entity to the requesting user when the real time data will be sent; recording the real time data by the entity; sending the real time data to a host server; and transmitting the real time data to the requesting user. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317203 | ROLE-BASED SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR MANAGING COMPLEX PROJECTS - A system for managing complex projects with a plurality of participants and entities including people and objects comprises a server device with a processing element and associated memory element. The processing element executes a server application which includes a common database interface, a common object model, a plurality of profiles, and a role-based intelligent object model. The common database interface receives first data from software applications of each participant. The common object model includes a plurality of base terms, wherein each base term is associated with at least one property corresponding to at least one participant. There is one profile for each entity involved in the project, wherein the profile defines at least one relationship with at least one other entity and includes second data related to the project. The role-based intelligent object model sends a message to other entities when the second data for one entity changes. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317204 | TEXT-BASED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION AND STORAGE - Systems and methods are provided for incentivizing. Point(s) are provided for solutions to problems, answers to questions, resolution to issues, etc. and these points may be utilized to obtain products and/or services. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317205 | Method and Devices to Invite a User from an External Chat Service to a Group Chat Session - This is a method and devices used to invite a user from one message chat service into a preexisting group chat session located on another chat service. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317206 | SWITCHED DIRECT ATTACHED SHARED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE - Various embodiments for implementing a switched direct attached shared storage architecture as disclosed herein include: providing a plurality of compute nodes, each compute node having integrated compute capabilities, data storage, and a network interface controller (Host NIC), the plurality of compute nodes being in data communication with each other via a local area network, the plurality of compute nodes each including distributed storage processing software resident thereon; providing a plurality of physical data storage devices in data communication with a storage controller; and enabling data communications in a data store switch fabric between the plurality of compute nodes and the plurality of physical data storage devices via the Host NIC and the storage controller, the data store switch fabric encapsulating data requests from the plurality of compute nodes into data frames for transport to corresponding physical data storage devices. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317207 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING ABSTRACT INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO LINK - The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for displaying link abstract information. The method includes: downloading content corresponding to a Uniform/Universal Resource Locator (URL) from Internet according to the URL inputted by a user in a dialogue window of an Instant Messaging (IM) client; analyzing the downloaded content, acquiring abstract information corresponding to the URL; displaying the abstract information in the dialogue window. According to the above technical solution, the abstract information corresponding to a link inputted in a window of the IM software by the user can be displayed and conveniently shared to the SNS community, so as to extend a function of the IM software and improve user experience. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317208 | CORRELATING MESSAGING TEXT TO BUSINESS OBJECTS FOR BUSINESS OBJECT INTEGRATION INTO MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include identifying a pronoun in the message text referencing the business object and visually distinguishing the identified pronoun in the message text to draw a correlation between the business object and the pronoun. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317209 | INDEXING A MESSAGING SESSION FOR BUSINESS OBJECT INTEGRATION INTO MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the instant messenger. The method further can include indexing the messaging session with keywords in the message text and tags for the business object. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317210 | Method, Apparatus, and System for Adding Electronic Mail Attachment - A method comprising: executing an operation on a file; obtaining a mail editing task list; determining at least one mail editing task; and sending an attachment adding instruction to a mail editing apparatus that generates the mail editing task to instruct the mail editing apparatus to add the file as an attachment of a mail corresponding to the mail editing task. Through the embodiments of the present invention, when a user executes an operation on a file, a current mail editing task list can be automatically obtained, and the file is used as an attachment of a mail corresponding to at least one determined mail editing task. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317211 | MESSAGING STAMP AUTHORITY - Electronic messages may be processed using a stamp authority by receiving an electronic message, identifying a stamp associated the message, determining if the stamp is valid, and, if the stamp is determined to be valid, distinguishing the message from messages with which a valid stamp is not identified. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317212 | INLINE MEDIA - Systems and methods providing users with a rich web experience are disclosed. In one embodiment, a client and at least one server are in communication using a dual communication link. In another embodiment, a markup language based instant messaging application is disclosed. The instant messaging application may include group instant messaging. The instant messaging application may also provide group member persistence and message persistence at the server. In another embodiment, a card based web application is disclosed, where the card information and character may be shared with other users or within a group. The cards may also be configurable by users. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317213 | METHOD, SERVER AND SNS SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE INTERACTION - A method for message interaction includes: receiving, at a server, a first multi-media message recorded and published by a first terminal when the server detects that the first terminal in a social network service (SNS) system carries out a message publishing operation; performing, at the server, a transcoding process on the first multi-media message to generate at least one second multi-media message, and storing the first multi-media message and the at least one second multi-media messages; and allocating, at the server, a publishing identifier and sending the publishing identifier to the first terminal to inform the first terminal that the message publishing operation is successful. Further, a server and a SNS system are also described. In the present disclosure, message interaction can be performed based on multi-media messages in the SNS system, thereby enriching variety of message contents, improving efficiency of message interaction, and enhancing convenience of social activities. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317214 | SENDING OUT-OF-BAND INSTANT MESSAGES FROM A GAME NETWORKING SYSTEM - Techniques for sending out-of-band messages from a game networking system are described. For example, a machine identifies a friend of a user of a game networking system. The identifying of the friend may be based at least in part on a game instance of a game provided by the game networking system. The machine selects an out-of-band instant message from a plurality of messages generated by the game networking system. The one or more of the plurality of messages may be transmittable as different message types based on an activity level of the friend of the user with respect to the game networking system. The machine sends the out-of-band instant message to the friend of the user of the game networking system. The out-of-band instant message may include a request that the friend of the user perform an action with respect to the game executing on the game networking system. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING COMMUNICATIONS - The invention provides a system and method for analyzing a collection of communication messages. The communication messages may be any one of a collection of electronic mail messages, voicemail messages, instant messaging dialogues and other forms of communications. The collections of communications, such as electronic mail messages, may be selected by a user and then subsequently processed to determine the identity of any of the user's contacts within the communications. The contacts may then be arranged in a relative priority arrangement whereby contacts which have been identified as engaging in prior reciprocal communications with the user are given higher priority. Higher priority may also be given to contacts which engage in more recent communications with the user. Specific contact relationships may be inferred from the communications depending on whether specific contacts are repeatedly mentioned within the communication messages. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317216 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE PACING - A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits first and second messages to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by a characteristic of the second message. The system sends the first message to an intended recipient. The system determines a separation based on a pacing algorithm and sends the second message to the recipient according to the separation. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317217 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION, ALERTS, AND/OR COMMENTS TO PARICIPANTS BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION - The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for sharing information related to a location also referred to herein as a “spot,” such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on recipient mobile electronic devices proximately located to such location (e.g., spot). Users of the system can create spot alerts in which designated recipients can receive messages, such as spot alerts and/or spot comments (e.g., shared information, advertisements, etc.) received, displayed, played, and/or actuated, for example, on respective recipient mobile electronic devices, when located within a proximity of a defined location (e.g., spot). | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140324982 | TOPIC IDENTIFIERS ASSOCIATED WITH GROUP CHATS - Text messages over some period of time are collected. Topic identifiers, such as hashtags, are extracted from the text messages. The text messages associated with each topic identifier are processed to identify which topic identifiers are associated with group chats based on information associated with the text messages such as the times when the text messages were generated and whether the text messages identify user accounts. The topic identifiers that are determined to be associated with the group chats are incorporated into applications that allow users to search for group chats, and to view text messages from past group chats. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324983 | INSTANT MESSAGE ROUTING AND MULTI-MACHINE LOG-ON MANAGEMENT - Embodiments relate to customizing instant messaging traffic. An aspect includes receiving a first association between a contact and a category and a second association between the category and one or more receiving client devices. A status from the one or more receiving client devices is routed to the contact based on the first and second associations. Additionally, a message from the contact is routed to the one or more receiving client devices based on the first and second associations. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324984 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM WITH TRACKED UNREAD MESSAGES - A social network system that tracks unread messages across a social network for a social network user receives a request from the user to display unread messages across the social network and generates and displays a list of one or more conversations, where the user is a member of the displayed conversations. The system then, for each conversation, determines and displays the number of unread messages. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324985 | Apparatus and Method for Augmenting a Message to Facilitate Spam Identification - A computer includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to augment a message with network node attributes derived by linking from an original network node specified in the message to additional network nodes associated with the original network node. Message signatures representing the network node attributes are generated. The message signatures are evaluated to characterize the message. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324986 | INFORMATION COLLECTION, STORAGE, AND SHARING PLATFORM - A mobile terminal collects information items identified by a user of the mobile terminal, the collected information items having different formats of data that are to be rendered by different applications at the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal synchronizes itself with the remote server so that the user can access the plurality of information items stored at the remote server from another terminal. Next, the mobile terminal displays some information items in a chronological order. In response to detecting a user selection of one information item, the mobile terminal determines whether data associated with the information item is in the mobile terminal or not. If the data is present in the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal then renders the data on the mobile terminal. Otherwise, the mobile terminal first downloads the data from the remote server and then renders the data on the mobile terminal. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324987 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING WITH A PUBLIC ID AND PUBLIC ID ASSISTANT DEVICE - This disclosure provides methods for communicating with a public ID and public ID assistant devices for assisting in communicating with a public ID. The method includes: receiving a message sent to the public ID; determining whether there is a private ID associated with the public ID; sending, if there is a private ID associated with the public ID, the message to the private ID taking an assistant ID as a sender of the message; wherein the message sent to the private ID comprises information indicating that the message is sent from which buddy of the public ID to the public ID or the message is a system message sent from a WeChat server to the public ID; and the assistant ID is a system ID or a private ID in a buddy list of the private ID. With the technical scheme of the present disclosure, the user may receive messages from and send messages to his/her buddy in time and conveniently. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324988 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION INFORMATION OF A PRIVATE USER IN INSTANT MESSAGING - In a method for obtaining geographic location information of a private user in instant messaging, when a conversation window between the private user and a public account is opened, determining, by a client device of the private user, whether the private user allows the public account to acquire geographic location information of the private user; obtaining and transmitting, by the client device of the private user, the geographic location information of the private user to an IM server if the private user allows the public account to acquire the geographic location information of the private user, such that the IM server provides the geographic location information of the private user to the public account. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324989 | GENERATING A GRAPHIC MESSAGE IN INSTANT MESSAGING - In a method for generating a graphic message in instant messaging (IM), receiving, by an IM server, content inputted by an IM user; determining, by the IM server, user type of the IM user; selecting, by the IM server, a graphic message template from a database of the IM server according to the user type of the IM user; and generating, by the IM server, a graphic message to be distributed according to the selected graphic message template and the content inputted by the IM user. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324990 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MULTIPLE FILES - Examples of the present disclosure provide a method, an Instant Messaging (IM) client for transmitting multiple files, and an IM client for receiving multiple files. The method includes: receiving by an IM client one final request for transmitting N files to an IM user, wherein N is a positive integer, which is larger than or equal to 2; obtaining by the IM client the N files; adding, by the IM client, the N files to a transmitting process; and transmitting by the IM client the obtained N files, until all of the N files are transmitted. By employing the technical solution of the present disclosure, transmission of multiple files, such as, pictures, audios, videos, documents may be more convenient, and user experience may be improved. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324991 | METHOD AND IM CLIENT DEVICE FOR PLAYING MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES AND IM SERVER - This disclosure provides methods for playing Multimedia messages, IM client devices and an IM server. One method includes receiving, by an Instant Messaging (IM) client device, N Multimedia messages from an IM server, checking, by the IM client device, whether an instruction instructing playing the N Multimedia messages automatically is received from the IM server, and playing, by the IM client device, the N Multimedia messages automatically if the instruction instructing playing the N Multimedia messages automatically is received from the IM server; wherein N is an integer larger than or equal to 1. This technical scheme provides a more convenient method for listening to or watching the Multimedia messages, and improves the experiences of the user. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324992 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROMPTING TO SELECT NEW FILE - Examples of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for prompting to select a new file in Instant Messaging (IM). The method includes: receiving, by an IM client, a request for selecting a file to be transmitted; determining, by the IM client, a new file is obtained within a predefined time period before receiving the request; and prompting, by the IM client, whether to select the new file to be transmitted. By employing the technical solution of the present disclosure, selection and transmission of new files, such as, pictures, audios, videos, documents may be more convenient, efficiency may be higher, and user experience may also be improved. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324993 | Method and Apparatus for Establishing Chat Group - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for establishing a chat group. The method performed by a server includes: obtaining an identifier of a user of a first client terminal, an identifier of a chat group to be established and a geographic position of the first terminal; beginning to establish a chat group; selecting at least one second client terminal from a predetermined geographic scope; and inviting a user of the at least one second client terminal to the chat group; receiving authentication information input by the user of the second client terminal from the second client terminal; determining whether the authentication information is correct; if the authentication information is correct, adding the user of the second client terminal into the chat group; and sending information of the second user to the first client terminal; finishing establishing the chat group when a preset finish condition is met. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324994 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING AND FORWARDING A MESSAGE - In a method for transmitting a message, a first client device sends a message to a server, wherein the message includes a tag; the server forwards the message to at least one second client device; each of the at least one second client device receives the message from the server; and each of the at least one second client device outputs a new message notification in a predetermined format. A system and client devices for transmitting and forwarding a message are also provided. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324995 | NOTIFYING A PUBLIC USER IN INSTANT MESSAGING - In a method for notifying a public user in instant messaging, determining, by a client device of a private user, whether a conversation window is opened between the private user and a public user; and if the conversation window between the private user and public user is opened, notifying, by the client device of the private user, an IM server that the private user opens the conversation window with the public user, such that the IM server notifies the public user that the private user opens the conversation window with the public user. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324996 | System and Method for Improved Notifications - Systems and methods for sending/receiving improved in-browser notification messages are provided. The notification messages are overlaid on HTTP traffic on port | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324997 | Enhanced Message Handling - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for enhanced message handling are presented. A first message may be sent to a first identity. Thereafter, a second message may be sent to a second identity. Alternatively, a first message may be received from a first identity, and a second message may be received from a second identity. In either case, in response to determining, based on local address book data, that the first identity and the second identity are both associated with a first person, the first message and the second message may be displayed in a single conversation window. Subsequently sent and/or received messages may be similarly aggregated into the conversation window based on such messages being to and/or from one or more identities of the same person. Additionally, these subsequently aggregated messages may be sent and/or received via different communication services, such as email, SMS, and/or social networking services. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324998 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR NETWORK INTERACTIONS - A network interaction system may comprise a terminal device, an instant messaging server, and a public account server. The terminal device may be configured to receive information from the public account server via the instant messaging server. The instant messaging server may be configured to receive from the terminal device an information operation request associated with information from the public account server. Then the instant messaging server may send a notification associated with the information operation request to the public account server and send a response to the information operation request to the terminal device. The public account server may be configured to receive from the instant messaging server the notification and determine an information transmission strategy for the terminal device in accordance with the information operation request. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324999 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION - A method for acquiring unread messages receives a command for acquiring unread messages. In response, a priority values for each of the unread messages is determined. A threshold value for displaying the unread messages is determined. An unread message is acquired if the priority value of the unread message is larger than the threshold value. Also, disclosed is a device for performing the method for acquiring unread messages. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325000 | ICONIC COMMUNICATION - A method of controlling an external display using a personal communication device, comprising:
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| 20140325001 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGER - Methods and systems are disclosed for managing the communications and information resources of a user. Identity information relating to the user is received. The user's preference for withholding an incoming communication is obtained. An entry is created in a message log for the withheld communication. The user is not notified of receipt of the withheld communication, yet receipt of the withheld communication is logged in the message log. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325002 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGER - Methods and systems are disclosed for managing the communications and information resources of a user. Identity information relating to the user is received. The user's preference for withholding an incoming communication is obtained. An entry is created in a message log for the withheld communication. The user is not notified of receipt of the withheld communication, yet receipt of the withheld communication is logged in the message log. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325003 | MESSAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A message processing system, including an e-mail server for receiving and storing e-mails for a recipient, and an e-mail manager for processing e-mails for a recipient to determine if the e-mails are approved based on stored criteria, sending approved e-mails for the recipient to a location for access by the recipient, and storing and sending a notification to the recipient of unapproved messages. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325004 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA AND SERVER DEVICE - A server device that includes a receiving unit, a browse page creation unit, a mail creation unit, and a mail transmission unit. The receiving unit receives an image transmitted from an electronic camera via a wireless network. The browse page creation unit creates a browse page for browsing the transmitted image from the electronic camera, the image having been received by the receiving unit. The mail creation unit creates a notification mail for introducing the browse page that has been created by the browse page creation unit to a person other than a user of the electronic camera. Furthermore, the mail transmission unit transmits the notification mail that has been created by the mail creation unit to a specified mail address. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325005 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE ORGANIZATION VIA SOCIAL GROUPS - A mechanism for automatically organizing electronic messages is described herein. Social groups of a particular user that may be representative of topics, people, projects, and the like can be automatically learned based at least in part upon historical correspondence of the user. Moreover, messages can be automatically prioritized based at least in part upon historical correspondence patterns. Electronic messages may be presented to the user in accordance with group information and how important the messages are to the user. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325006 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING MESSAGES INCLUDING IMAGE INFORMATION - Storing image data and related information for sharing via a URL includes receiving image data uploaded from a client computer via a user interface and receiving, separate from the receiving of the image data, related information uploaded via the user interface. The uploaded image data and related information are stored. A uniform resource locator (URL) configured for retrieving a display that includes the stored image data and the related information is generated. The URL is provided in a message. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325007 | SYSTEM FOR RECLASSIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES IN A SPAM FILTERING SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided that, in response to obtaining an email to a recipient from a sender, and in accordance with a determination that an indirect relationship exists between the sender and the recipient, determine a spam probability of the email by evaluating statistical information regarding the historical electronic interactions associated with the sender. In this way, the email is classified according to the identified spam probability. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325008 | COMPUTER READABLE NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM, ELECTRONIC MAIL INFORMATION OUTPUT METHOD AND ELECTRONIC MAIL INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE - A computer readable, non-transitory medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes: storing identification information and information of a plurality of users of an electronic mail sent to the plurality of the users in a storage unit when receiving the electronic mail; determining whether a new electronic mail has a correlation with the electronic mail sent to the plurality of the users of which identification information is stored in the storage unit when receiving the new electronic mail; outputting information reporting receipt of the new electronic mail to at least one of the users included in the addresses of the electronic mail sent to the plurality of the addresses with reference to the storage unit when it is determined that the new electronic mail has the correlation with the electronic mail sent to the plurality of the users. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325009 | MESSAGING CONFIGURATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods that facilitate messaging capabilities within a unified plant model (UPM) via employing a plurality of core messaging primitives for configuration of messages that interact with a message engine of the industrial plant. In a related aspect, initially messaging host modules can be located on a network and associated policies identified. Next, data type ID and name syntax can be defined and unique UPM system identifiers generated by the system. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140330910 | UPDATING THE RECIPIENTS OF A PREVIOUSLY DELIVERED ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A system and method for updating the list of recipients of a previously delivered email message are provided. An electronic message server may store an electronic message and a list of recipients associated with that electronic message. Recipient information identifying a new recipient to be added to the list of recipients may be received from an email client. The list of recipients may be updated based on the recipient information such that the new recipient is added to the list of recipients for the electronic message. The recipient information may be provided to another electronic message client that stores a copy of the electronic message as well as a copy of the list of recipients. The copy of the list of recipients may also be updated based on the recipient information such that the new recipient is added to the copy of the list of recipients. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330911 | Note Browser - A notes system is presented with a content management system. The notes system manages creation and distribution of edits to notes to users sharing the notes. The notes are stored as a series of edits at the notes system. When an edit to a note is received, the edit is propagated to users subscribed to a note by a backend server responsible for managing the note. The sharing users are notified through application servers associated with each sharing user. The notes server includes various indices for searching the notes and allows notes to be searched quickly to organize viewing by a user of notes and identification of relevant material in the notes. The stored edits are used to display edits to a note to a user by replaying the accessed note to the user. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330912 | INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION SHARING METHOD - An example of an information sharing system includes at least one processor configured to: accept posting information on a content posted by each of a plurality of users; display the accepted posting information on a first screen; and display, on a second screen, the posting information, which is to be displayed on the first screen and which is posted by one of the plurality of users whose status satisfies a condition on usage of the content. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330913 | EMAIL CONVERSATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to email communication, and more specifically relate to communication between heterogeneous and/or homogeneous email clients through metadata or other type/mode of data to automatically update respective email applications with one or more changes/features that increase the efficiency of communication and enhance user's readability/experience of working with respective email applications. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330914 | SUPPORTING MULTIPLE FACETS OF USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE - A system and method for supporting multiple facets of users in a social networking service (SNS). In one embodiment, a request is received from a first user to create multiple facets upon logging into the SNS. Each of the multiple facets of the first user is associated with one of social networks within the SNS. Further, profile information associated with each of the multiple facets is received. Furthermore, the profile information of each of the multiple facets is associated to corresponding one of the social networks. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330915 | System and method for controlling electronic communications - The approved email generation system described is capable of producing email communications between user and customer by using approved email templates and content that have been aligned with customer information regarding access to such content. Once the approved email has been generated, the content may be verified again for accuracy and validity before being delivered to the customer. When the customer accesses delivered content, the approved email generation system again verifies the content and allows the customer access to only the most current version of the content available. The system provides for control of the content of electronic communications to customers. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330916 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE EVENT NOTIFICATIONS - Techniques to manage event notifications are described. An apparatus may comprise a server having an event notification component. The event notification component may have an event agent component to receive a message indicating a change event for line of business (LOB) data, and convert the change event to a defined LOB entity event. The event notification component may have a notification service component to generate a LOB event message for the entity event. The event notification component may have an event database to store the event message in a user event queue. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330917 | COMPUTER READABLE NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM, ELECTRONIC MAIL INFORMATION SEND METHOD AND ELECTRONIC MAIL INFORMATION SEND DEVICE - A computer readable, non-transitory medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes: accepting electronic mail information including mail body text information and address information designated by a first user; accepting a request of a second user that designates the electronic mail information; referring to a storage unit that relates address information to human resource information of a person corresponding to the address and stores the address information and the human resource information and extracting human resource information corresponding to address information included in the electronic mail information designated by the second user; and sending the extracted human resource information to a terminal the second user uses together with the mail body text information included in the electronic mail information. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330918 | ROUTING AND DISPLAYING MESSAGES FOR MULTIPLE CONCURRENT INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS INVOLVING A SINGLE ONLINE IDENTITY - Routing and displaying instant messages includes receiving a first request to establish a first instant messaging session associated with an instant messaging online identity assigned to a user using a first instant messaging controller. The first instant messaging session is established in response to the first request, where the first instant messaging session includes a first state. A second request from the user is received to establish a second instant messaging session associated with the instant messaging online identity assigned to the user using a second instant messaging controller that differs from the first instant messaging controller. The second instant messaging session is established in response to the second request, where the second instant messaging session includes a second state. An instant message designated for the instant messaging online identity assigned to the user is received and a determination is made on where to route the instant message based on routing criteria. The routing criteria includes the first state of the first instant messaging session and the second state of the second instant messaging session. The instant message is routed based on the determination of where to route to the instant message. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330919 | ASYNCHRONOUS MECHANISM AND MESSAGE POOL - In some disclosed aspects, a method of delivering messages over an electronic network includes retrieving, via an electronic processor, a first message from a message pool, determining, via the electronic processor, a delay associated with obtaining an identity of a remote receiver device of the retrieved first message, transmitting the first message to the remote receiver device if the delay is less than a threshold and storing the first message in a data store if the delay is greater than the threshold. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140330920 | DISCOVERING FORWARDING INFORMATION FOR LOCAL REPAIR - The present invention discloses a method of obtaining forwarding information in a network node device ( | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140337438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUGGESTING A PHRASE BASED ON A CONTEXT - A method and a system to suggest a content item to be included in a message based on a determined context are provided. A context of a message that user is composing via a composition interface is determined based on one or more properties of the message. One or more inputs to the user composition interface are identified, the one or more inputs indicating at least a portion of intended content of the message. One or more suggested content items are provided for inclusion in the message based on the context of the message and the one or more inputs. A suggested content item of the suggested content items are added in the message based at least in part on the one or more properties of the message. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337439 | ELECTRONIC MAIL DELIVERY NEGOTIATION AND REJECTION - Processing electronic mail can include receiving, within an electronic mail server, an electronic mail from a sender client system, sending acceptance criteria for a recipient of the electronic mail to the sender client system responsive to receiving the electronic mail, and receiving, within the electronic mail server, acceptance criteria values from the sender client system in response to the acceptance criteria for the recipient. Using a processor of the electronic mail server, a determination is made whether the acceptance criteria values comply with the acceptance criteria. Responsive to determining that the acceptance criteria values are non-compliant with the acceptance criteria, the electronic mail server rejects the electronic mail, wherein the electronic mail is not delivered to the recipient, and providing, to the sender client system, an indication of rejection of the electronic mail including a reason for non-compliance. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337440 | HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR COMMUNICATION - A method, computer program product, and system is described. A communication session transcript is identified. A chat session input is received. The chat session input is associated with an inactive portion of the communication session transcript. The chat session input is provided to a recipient, in context with the inactive portion of the communication session transcript. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337441 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF EMAIL TO ENABLE EFFICIENT EMAIL PROCESSING - An email system is disclosed which provides annotations associated with email to recipients and allows the recipients to interact with annotated email. The system receives email and determines whether the received email includes items that should be annotated. Responsive to determining that an email includes items that should be annotated, the system acquires annotated information related to the email. The received email and associated annotated information are stored in the email system. When a request is received to access email for a specific user, the email system displays an email listing, identifying email that is associated with an annotation using a visual representation. If the recipient responds to an annotation, the system receives and stores the recipient's response. The system then sends the recipient's response to the sender of the email. The system also receives updates to received email from email senders and displays email updates to the appropriate recipients. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337442 | CLOUD MESSAGING SERVICES OPTIMIZATION THROUGH ADAPTIVE MESSAGE COMPRESSION - Intelligent adjustment of compression levels of messages being brokered or otherwise handled by message service providers in a cloud-computing environment to strike a balance between the reduction in network usage and storage requirement resources owing to message compression on one hand and the increase in CPU resource usage owing to message compression on the other hand for reducing usage-based charges from the cloud customer's point of view and reducing the equipment and operational cost from the cloud provider's point of view (resulting in the ability of the provider to take on and/or retain customers). Determination of an “optimal” compression level that strikes an appropriate balance among resource usage may include consideration of a current messaging load (e.g., bytes of data per unit time), a current compression level, and current usage levels of one or more of the various resources. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337443 | USING THE DISTANCE FROM A FORUM POSTING AS CRITERIA TO SELECTIVELY CONVEY EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS OR NOT - A collaboration server determines a response to a posting on a communication forum. The collaboration server determines whether or not to convey an email notification to a posting user via email based upon a distance threshold established for email notifications. The distance threshold is an integer value. The collaboration server calculates a current distance between the response and the posting, where the current distance represents a quantity of responses to the posting from forum participants that have occurred without a new response from the posting user being submitted to the communication forum. Responsive to the current distance being less than the distance threshold, an email is conveyed to an email account of the posting user informing the posting user of the response. Otherwise, no email is conveyed. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337444 | ELECTRONIC MAIL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An electronic mail communication system or the like capable of transmitting and receiving electronic mail to and from a target who does not have a membership registration without disclosure of a personal electronic mail address and also easy in controlling acceptance or rejection of mail. Where the received electronic mail is determined to be target addressed mail, the decode means | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337445 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR DATA PROCESSING - A data process system including a unit receiving a mail data including an output data or a target output data via a network, a unit identifying a user-identification data to be associated with the output data based on an address data of a transmission source of the mail data by referring to first and second units, the first unit storing a first address data in correspondence with each user-identification data, the second unit storing a second address data in correspondence with each user-identification data, a unit storing data-identification data in correspondence with the output data in a unit in a case where the user-identification data is identified by referring to the second unit instead of by the first unit, a unit notifying the data-identification data via the network, and a unit transmitting the output data corresponding to the user-identification data or the data-identification data received via the network. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337446 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REQUESTING AND TRANSFERRING CONTENTS - Disclosed are an apparatus and method enabling a user to efficiently share contents. A user of an electronic device performs an image capturing by use of a camera, thereby generating an image capture event. According to the image capture event, the electronic device obtains address information of a content transferring apparatus and transfers a content requesting message to the content transferring apparatus having the address information. Upon reception of the content requesting message, the content transferring apparatus provides the electronic device with contents in execution and status information of the content. The electronic device uses the content and the status information to restore a status of the content which has been executed in the content transferring apparatus. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF DATA - A system and method for data communication connecting on-line networks with on-line and off-line computers. The present system provides for broadcast of up to the minute notification centric information thereby providing an instant call to action for users who are provided with the ability to instantaneously retrieve further detailed information. The notification centric portions of information is wirelessly broadcast to wireless receiving devices which are attached to computing devices. Upon receipt of the information at the personal computer, the user is notified through different multimedia alerts that there is an incoming message. Wirelessly broadcasted URL's, associated with the data, are embedded in data packets and provide an automated wired or wireless connection back to the information source for obtaining detailed data. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337448 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND RESPONDING TO COMMUNICATIONS - The present application is directed to a method of aggregating and responding to communications. The method includes receiving incoming communications from a plurality of network connected communication sources, and automatically receiving, at a computing device, incoming communications from a plurality of network connected communication sources; and automatically sending to each of the plurality of network connected communication sources a customized message that is based on at least identification information associated with a sender of the respective incoming communication. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337449 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND DELIVERING GROUP MESSAGES - A method and system for managing the creation and delivery of an electronic group message is disclosed. The electronic group message can be provided to two or more (i.e., a group) of signers to sign the electronic group message. Once signed, the electronic group message can be provided to one or more recipients. Alternatively, the electronic group message can be provided from a signer to a plurality of recipients, where different recipients receive different messages. One type of electronic group message is an electronic card known as a care card. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337450 | Fitness Activity Related Messaging - In one embodiment, a method for generating a message to a friend of a user is provided, comprising: processing activity data of a first user measured by an activity monitoring device to update a value of an activity metric for the first user; identifying a change in an inequality relationship between the value of the activity metric for the first user and a value of the activity metric for a second user; in response to identifying the change in the inequality relationship, prompting the first user to generate a message to the second user. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337451 | Notifications Regarding Interesting or Unusual Activity Detected from an Activity Monitoring Device - A method is provided, including: processing requests from a plurality of users to join a group event, the group event defined for an activity metric for each of the plurality of users for a period of time; analyzing the activity metrics of the plurality of users to determine a ranking of the plurality of users based on their activity metrics, and to identify a change in relationship between activity metrics of two or more of the plurality of users; generating a message, wherein generating the message includes, identifying, based on the identified change in relationship, one or more user accounts of select ones of the plurality of users to receive the message, selecting a message template based on the identified change in relationship, and populating the message template to generate a message describing the change in relationship; sending the message to the one or more user accounts. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337452 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERING - Messages having a reputation score higher than at least one message already on a queue are added to the queue when the queue has already reached the predetermined maximum permitted size. One or more messages having a low reputation score may be discarded from a bottom of the queue in favor of a new incoming message having a higher reputation score. This may be particularly useful in the context of Internet e-mail, wherein mail delivery protocols (i.e. SMTP) allow a connection for an incoming message to be held open for a limited time period and during this period the message processing apparatus does not assume responsibility for onward transmission of the message. Thus, the message processing apparatus is able to selectively accept only those messages having a highest reputation score for detailed analysis, without adversely affecting the operations performed by other parts of the electronic messaging system. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140344369 | ELECTRONIC MAIL READ RECEIPT PROCESSING - Processing electronic mail includes receiving an electronic mail having a read receipt request and determining, using a processor, that the electronic mail includes a read receipt distribution list. The read receipt distribution list specifies at least one sender-defined user including a subset of at least one recipient of the electronic mail. Using the processor, a read receipt is sent to the sender of the electronic mail and to each user specified on the read receipt distribution list responsive to detecting an opening of the electronic mail by at least one recipient of the electronic mail. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344370 | ESTABLISHING SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS - A request to add at least a second user of a social network as a contact of a first user in the social network can be received. A social hierarchy indicating a hierarchical relationship between the first user and the second user can be accessed. Based on the hierarchical relationship between the first user and the second user, whether the second user must approve the request in order for the at least second user to be added as the contact of the first user in the social network can be determined. Responsive to determining that it is not required that the at least second user must approve the request in order for the at least second user to be added as the contact of the first user in the social network, the second user can be added as the contact of the first user in the social network without prompting the second user to approve the request. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344371 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR THOSE LACKING TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE - The present invention relates to a communications device, system, and method for sending and receiving electronic messages (such as emails, texts, etc.) without the sender of the message typing or directly interacting with (e.g., knowingly operating) a computer. The device comprises means for receiving an electronic message, means for converting said electronic message to a physical message, means for converting a physical message to an electronic message; and means for connecting to a network and transmitting and receiving said electronic messages to and from a remote computing device. The device sends and receives electronic messages to a contact of a user of the device through a remote message server connected to a network. The communications device, system, and method have a high level of usability for those lacking technical knowledge. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344372 | EMBEDDING ACTIONABLE CONTENT IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - Embedding actionable content in electronic communication includes associating an embedding gadget with an electronic message and modifying the electronic message based on the embedding gadget. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344373 | EMBEDDING ACTIONABLE CONTENT IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - Embedding actionable content in electronic communication includes associating an embedding gadget with an electronic message and modifying the electronic message based on the embedding gadget. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344374 | Software Method of Organizing and Distributing Air-Travel Related Information amongst a Plurality of Subscribers - A travel information system is a software method of organizing and distributing air-travel related information amongst a plurality of subscribers. The software will begin by receiving updated air-travel information from an airline or an airport. The software will then format this information into a textual message that can comprehended by a user. Next, the software will tag the textual message with a unique designator for the specific airline or airport. Once the textual messages is formatted and tagged, the software will publish the textual message on a middleware broker, which allows a plurality of subscribers to access the textual message. The software will also send the textual message to a specific subscriber if that subscriber inputted a request that matches the unique designator of the airline or airport. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344375 | Systems and Methods for Wireless Activity Monitoring with Notifications - Systems and methods for providing notifications to a user include a first computing device associated with a user and having one or more event indicators that present notifications of events to a user, a second computing device in wireless communication with the first computing device, the second computing device including information about a current status of the user; and a notification filtering engine in communication with the first computing device to modify the notifications of the events presented by the first computing device in response to the current status of the user. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344376 | PUBLICATION OF TEXT MESSAGE CONVERSATIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM - Various embodiments relate to a method and related device and storage medium encoded with instructions including: establishing a text messaging conversation between a local and remote user, wherein the conversation is initially an unpublished conversation; enabling communication between the local and remote user via the conversation; receiving a command to publish the conversation; in response, transmitting a request to publish at least a portion of the conversation to a server that provides additional users access to published conversations. Various embodiments relate to a method and related device and storage medium encoded with instructions including receiving a request to publish at least a portion of an unpublished conversation between a first and second user; creating a published conversation object in response, wherein the object identifies messages between the first and second user from the conversation; and serving data representing the messages to additional users. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344377 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention is characterized in that, when registering function information (a Web Intent) for calling a function provided by a service in a UA, function information is registered in which at least a part of a processing content when the provided function was used previously is reflected. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344378 | Multi-Tier Push Service Control Architecture for Large Scale Conference Over ICN - A network element (NE) comprising a memory configured to store a digest log for a conference, a receiver coupled to the memory and configured to receive a first message from a first of a plurality of service proxies of the conference, wherein the first message comprises a signature profile of a first of a plurality of participants of the conference associated with the first service proxy, a processor coupled to the receiver and the memory and configured to track a state of the conference by updating the digest log according to the first message, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to send a plurality of second messages to indicate the digest log update to the service proxies without a transmission request from the service proxies. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344379 | Multi-Tier Push Hybrid Service Control Architecture for Large Scale Conferencing over ICN - A network element (NE) comprising a memory configured to store a digest log for a conference, a receiver configured to receive a first message from a first of a plurality of participants associated with the NE, wherein the first message comprises a signature profile of the first participant, a processor coupled to the receiver and the memory and configured to track a state of the conference by performing a first update of the digest log according to the first message, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to send a second message to a first of a plurality of service proxies that serve the conference, wherein the second messages indicate the updated digest log. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344380 | MESSAGING STAMP AUTHORITY - Electronic messages may be processed using a stamp authority by receiving an electronic message, identifying a stamp associated the message, determining if the stamp is valid, and, if the stamp is determined to be valid, distinguishing the message from messages with which a valid stamp is not identified. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344381 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING COMMUNICATIONS - The invention provides a system and method for analyzing a collection of communication messages. The communication messages may be any one of a collection of electronic mail messages, voicemail messages, instant messaging dialogues and other forms of communications. The collections of communications, such as electronic mail messages, may be selected by a user and then subsequently processed to determine the identity of any of the user's contacts within the communications. The contacts may then be arranged in a relative priority arrangement whereby contacts which have been identified as engaging in prior reciprocal communications with the user are given higher priority. Higher priority may also be given to contacts which engage in more recent communications with the user. Specific contact relationships may be inferred from the communications depending on whether specific contacts are repeatedly mentioned within the communication messages. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344382 | Communication System for Providing the Delivery of An E-Mail Message - A communication system includes a sender unit, a recipient unit and a control unit. The sender unit is adapted to generate an electronic message, to send the electronic message to the recipient unit, and to send a sending information message to the control unit indicating that the sender unit has sent the electronic message to the recipient unit. The recipient unit is adapted to receive the electronic message from the sender unit and to send a receipt information message to the control unit, the receipt information message indicating that a user of the recipient unit has received the electronic message. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344383 | MANAGING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES SENT TO MOBILE DEVICES ASSOCIATED WITH ELECTRONIC MESSAGING ACCOUNTS - A graphical user interface on a display device of a computer enables communications using a computer service. The graphical user interface includes a list of potential message recipients selected by a user as significant to the user. The graphical user interface also includes a mobile device identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients and a user account identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients. At least one of the listed potential recipients includes a mobile device identifier as the only available conduit for data delivery to the potential message recipient using the computer service. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344384 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGING USING REPLY TELEPHONE NUMBERS - A graphical user interface on a display device of a computer enables communications using a computer service. The graphical user interface includes a list of potential message recipients selected by a user as significant to the user. The graphical user interface also includes a mobile device identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients and a user account identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients. At least one of the listed potential recipients includes a mobile device identifier as the only available conduit for data delivery to the potential message recipient using the computer service. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344385 | MANAGING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES SENT TO REPLY TELEPHONE NUMBERS - A graphical user interface on a display device of a computer enables communications using a computer service. The graphical user interface includes a list of potential message recipients selected by a user as significant to the user. The graphical user interface also includes a mobile device identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients and a user account identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients. At least one of the listed potential recipients includes a mobile device identifier as the only available conduit for data delivery to the potential message recipient using the computer service. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONAL DELIVERY OF MESSAGES - The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with delivery conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where” from any “Who, What, When, Where” upon the detection of an occurrence of one or more “Who, What, When, Where” delivery conditions. A message (which may be any data object including text-based messages, audio-based message such as voicemail or other audio such as music or video-based prerecorded messages) is delivered in accordance with delivery conditions based on any available data, including topical, spatial, temporal, and/or social data. Furthermore, because the systems coordinate delivery of messages via multiple communication channels and through multiple devices, the communication channel for delivery of a message may be dynamically determined based on the delivery conditions. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344387 | ONLINE ADAPTIVE FILTERING OF MESSAGES - In general, a two or more stage spam filtering system is used to filter spam in an e-mail system. One stage includes a global e-mail classifier that classifies e-mail as it enters the e-mail system. The parameters of the global e-mail classifier generally may be a determined by the policies of e-mail system owner and generally are set to only classify as spam those e-mails that are likely to be considered spam by a significant number of users of the e-mail system. Another stage includes personal e-mail classifiers at the individual mailboxes of the e-mail system users. The parameters of the personal e-mail classifiers generally are set by the users through retraining, such that the personal e-mail classifiers are refined to track the subjective perceptions of their respective user as to what e-mails are spam e-mails. Retraining data for the personal e-mail classifiers may be aggregated and a subset of the aggregate may be chosen for use in retraining the global e-mail classifier. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING REAL-TIME EVENTING - A method and system for real-time eventing including interacting with at least one configuration attribute according to instructions specified through an application programming interface (API); adding subscribers for an event channel; generating an event from operation of an application; publishing the event message to the event channel on an event router; processing the event message according to the at least one configuration attribute; identifying a subscriber to the event channel; and sending the event from the event router to the subscriber. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140351345 | GENERATING INSTANT MESSAGING CONTACTS FOR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for the interaction between a CRM system and a instant messaging system. According to an implementation, a computer-implemented method may include identifying, by one or more processors, one or more individuals associated with an opportunity included within a CRM system. The method may also include creating, by the one or more processors, an instant message buddy list group associated with the opportunity. The method may also include populating, by the one or more processors, the instant message buddy list group with at least a portion of the one or more individuals. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351346 | PROVIDING INFORMATION FOR SHARED CONTENT - Various embodiments can enable a content item associated with a sharer account of a content management system to be shared with a recipient account of the content management system. The content item can be analyzed to determine at least some information about the content item, which can include one or more properties associated with the content item, one or more representations of one or more content portions present in the content item, or any combination thereof. A communication can notify the recipient account that the sharer account has shared the content item with the recipient account. The communication can further comprise the determined information about the content item, which can include the one or more properties and/or the one or more representations of the content portions. This information can enable the recipient to make a better decision regarding whether or not to accept the share invitation. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351347 | GENERATING INSTANT MESSAGING CONTACTS FOR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for the interaction between a CRM system and a instant messaging system. According to an implementation, a computer-implemented method may include identifying, by one or more processors, one or more individuals associated with an opportunity included within a CRM system. The method may also include creating, by the one or more processors, an instant message buddy list group associated with the opportunity. The method may also include populating, by the one or more processors, the instant message buddy list group with at least a portion of the one or more individuals. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351348 | Method and system for sharing rich media content from mobile messaging to social media networks - The invention consists of a method and system for delivering rich media content to a mobile device via mobile messaging and then distributing that rich media content to a social media network. The invention includes an easy method for a user that receives rich media content via mobile messaging to initiate sharing the same content with other users on a social media network. The invention includes a messaging system that adapts a set of rich media content to the unique constraints of mobile messaging and to the unique constraints of specific social media networks. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351349 | NETWORK SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND UPDATE NOTIFICATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a network system includes a first computer, a second computer and a third computer. The first computer is configured to set access rights to a storage medium in units of folders or files. The third computer is configured to manage a relationship between the first computer and the second computer. The third computer includes a first notification module. The first notification module is configured to notify the second computer of an update of the first folder or the first file, when the folder or the file in the storage medium is updated. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION BY USING MESSENGER - A user device which can provide information related to text, which is input into a messenger, on a background screen of the messenger, and a method for providing information in the user device are provided. The method includes displaying a conversation exchanged through a messenger, detecting text related to a content in the conversation, displaying a content image matched to the content on a background of the conversation, and providing information related to the content in response to selection of the content image. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351351 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SERVER, AND CONTROL METHOD AND LOCATION INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD FOR THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device of the present invention is enclosed. An electronic device in one embodiment of the present invention periodically transmits current location information to the location information service providing server in case of executing grouping applications, produces group including at least one member, selected by a user, of address list information received from the location information service providing server, requests messages requesting group participation to the member included in the group through the social network service providing server in case of generating predetermined events, and periodically receives the location information from the member accepting the group participation and displays the received location information on a map. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351352 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS AS CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN PARTICIPANTS - A computer-implemented system keeps records of communications between participants as a conversation. All communications between participants in a transaction are stored as part of the conversation including documents, photographs, forms etc. needed to complete the transaction. A computer system interacts with a wallet service of one or more participants to keep a record of, or to affect the transfer of, consideration between participants in the transaction. Conversations can occur for any topic or conversations for a particular topic can be selected and a template provided for documents and/or conversation participants most often needed to complete an associated transaction. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351353 | Media Content Delivery Systems and Methods - The present invention provides systems and methods for enabling a consumer to acquire media content items. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351354 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING POINT OF INTEREST INFORMATION AS A WEBLINK - An approach is provided for facilitating the sharing of information related to an item of interest as a web link via data messaging. The messaging client determines a request to share information related to an item of interest. The messaging client then causes an encoding of the information, geo-coded information, sharing destinations, and user credentials for the sharing destinations into a communication. The messaging client further causes a transmission of the communication to a web server. Next, the message platform determines a request to create a web link for sharing information related to an item of interest, wherein the request includes a communication encoding the information, sharing destinations, and user credentials. The message platform then processes and/or facilitates a processing of the request to cause a creation of a web link based on the communication. The message platform further determines to make the web link available to the sharing destinations. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351355 | FORWARDING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BASED ON SOURCE INFORMATION - The invention provides a method of transmitting electronic messages in a computer environment. The preferred embodiment receives an electronic message addressed to a telephone number and determines an instant message identifier associated with the telephone number. In response to the determination that an instant message identifier associates with the telephone number, it is further determined whether an instant message receiver is available to receive messages addressed to the instant message identifier. In response to a determination that an instant message receiver is available to receive instant messages addressed to the instant message identifier, the electronic message is forwarded as an instant message addressed to the instant message identifier. In response to a determination that an instant message receiver is available to receive instant message addressed to the instant message identifier, electronic message is sent to a mobile device at the telephone number in response to a determination that no instant message receiver is available to receive instant messages addressed to the instant message identifier. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351356 | ENHANCED PRIVACY AND CONTROL FEATURES FOR AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A method and system for sending electronic messages. A command syntax is embedded in an electronic message on a sender device. The electronic message is to be sent by a sender from the sender device to a user at a recipient device. The electronic message includes a data structure to which the command syntax is coupled. The command syntax comprises a text string coded to only describe and trigger one or more pre-defined selective enhanced privacy and control features for one or more portions of the data. The command syntax includes one or more commands which upon being executed at the recipient device prevent the user at the recipient device who receives the electronic message from printing the received electronic message, storing the received electronic message, copying the received electronic message, forwarding the received electronic message, and blind carbon copying the received electronic message. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351357 | Systems and Methods for Messaging to Multiple Gateways - Systems and methods for providing message communication among multiple communication gateways. In particular, systems and methods for providing non-voice message delivery to intended recipients with increased speed and reliability to multiple users on multiple platforms. The systems and methods relate to non-voice messaging to multiple messaging gateways. In at least one embodiment, the systems and methods include Internet based electronic messaging using a messaging subsystem configured to optimize text message delivery to communication gateways. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140359021 | CONTEXT DRIVEN MODIFICATION OF ATTACHMENTS IN A MESSAGING SESSION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for message attachment modification based upon determined context. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for message attachment modification based upon determined context is provided. The method includes loading into memory a message referencing a file to be transmitted to a recipient, determining a context for the transmission of the message, modifying the file according to the determined context, and transmitting the message with the modified file to the recipient. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359022 | ALIGNING CONTENT AND SOCIAL NETWORK AUDIENCE USING ANALYTICS AND/OR VISUALIZATION - Various embodiments provide for the use of analytics to determine a number of key factors prior to a user sending a communication (e.g., an email or instant message, making an online social media post, or accepting or requesting friendship on a social media site). The analytics may determine content, subject, emotion, relationships, and other relevant details when users interact (e.g., with email or other social software). Any alerts/suggestions provided can be provided in real-time as the person types. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359023 | CONTENT-ITEM RELATIONSHIP MESSAGING SYSTEM - A message can be selectively provided to users of an online content management service based at least in part on a user relationship between the users and a shared content item. Users having the user relationship associated with the message can be shown the message, where users without the user relationship are not shown the message. For example, a message can be configured to be shown upon the first time a content item is opened by a user, but not on subsequent openings of the content item. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359024 | Apparatus and Method for Maintaining a Message Thread with Opt-In Permanence for Entries - A server includes a message thread module with instructions executed by a processor to maintain a message thread between a first user and a second user. Each entry of the message thread is deleted after a display period unless an indication regarding the entry is received during the display period. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359025 | APPLICATION BASED DISPLAY LAYOUT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computer system for defining, at a first computing device, at least a portion of a display area associated with the first computing device. A specialized communication from a second computing device is received at the first computing device. The specialized communication is rendered at the first computing device in at least the portion of the display area. Use of an application within at least the portion of the display is prevented at least while the specialized communication is accessed. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359026 | DETERMINISTIC MESSAGING - Contextual information is used in determining how to deliver a message to a user. Instead of displaying a message at a predetermined location or following a predefined routing list to deliver a message to a user, contextual information associated with the user is used in delivering the message. Different message types may be used to deliver the message. The message type that is selected for the delivery of the message may be based on different criteria (e.g. device receiving the message, priority of the message, and the like). In cases where a user does not respond to an important message within a specified time period, other messages using the same or different message types may be delivered to the user or other user(s) until a response is received. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359027 | AUTOMATION PLATFORM FOR HUB-BASED SYSTEM FEDERATING DISPARATE UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - An automation platform for a hub-based system federating disparate unified communications systems is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method includes connecting a first unified communications system supporting a first domain and an automation platform to a federation server, where the automation platform includes a plurality of automated applications that includes comprising a social media automated application, an instant messaging automated application and a directory search automated application. The method further includes routing a message from the first unified communications system to an automated application of the plurality of automated applications, processing the message by the automated application, and issuing a command based on the processed message. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359028 | CONTEXT DRIVEN MODIFICATION OF ATTACHMENTS IN A MESSAGING SESSION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for message attachment modification based upon determined context. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for message attachment modification based upon determined context is provided. The method includes loading into memory a message referencing a file to be transmitted to a recipient, determining a context for the transmission of the message, modifying the file according to the determined context, and transmitting the message with the modified file to the recipient. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359029 | MESSAGE INDEX SUBDIVIDED BASED ON TIME INTERVALS - During a storage technique, multiple messages (such as emails) associated with a user of a communication application are received. Then, the multiple messages are stored in a message table associated with the user and the multiple messages are indexed in an index associated with the user. This index may be divided into multiple divisions if a total number of messages stored in the message table exceeds a threshold value, where each division corresponds to messages received during a different time interval. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359030 | DIFFERENTIATION OF MESSAGES FOR RECEIVERS THEREOF - A solution for sending messages on a data-processing system is proposed. A corresponding method comprises upon a message to be sent from a sender to at least one receiver being submitted, parsing the message to identify an original expression therein matching an indication of one of a set of pre-defined concepts, determining, for the receiver, a preferred expression of the matched concept, among the corresponding original expression and a set of candidate expressions pre-defined to express the matched concept, according to a rating thereof representing an expected understanding by the receiver, processing the message for the receiver by replacing the original expression according, to the corresponding preferred expression for the receiver, and sending the processed message to the corresponding receiver. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359031 | MESSAGE CONTROL METHOD AND MESSAGE CONTROL SYSTEM - Based on information extracted from a message created and addressed to a group, a setting unit sets a responsible person of the message from a plurality of members corresponding to the group. An adding unit adds the message to message lists of the plurality of members. According to confirmation of the message by the responsible person, a removing unit removes the message from the message lists of the plurality of members except the responsible person. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359032 | Apparatus and Method for Maintaining a Message Thread with Opt-In Permanence for Entries - A server has a processor and a memory storing a message thread module with instructions executed by the processor to maintain a message thread between users of client devices. Message thread state changes are queued at the server. The message thread is revised based upon the message thread state changes to form shared message thread state. The shared message thread state is stored. The shared message thread state is supplied in response to a request for the message thread from a user | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359033 | Device and the method for sending personalised messages - The method for sending personalised messages, characterised by comprising steps in which a carrier is tagged, then a personalised message is saved on a server and attributed to the tagged carrier, next the personalised message is sent from the server in response to and in accordance with attribution to the tagged carrier. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359034 | Methods and Systems for Automatically Making Acts of Advocacy Based on Content in Electronic Information Streams - This patent discloses inventive methods and systems for automatically monitoring an electronic information stream for the occurrence of preconfigured trigger condition, such as the presence of keywords, images, and other identifiable stream content. Upon recognition of the preconfigured trigger condition, the inventive methods and systems automatically make a donation, send a counter-statement, or take some other preconfigured advocacy action related to the stream and trigger condition. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359035 | DATA AGGREGATION - Data aggregation in an internet of things (IoT) system refers generally to collecting data such that the data can be processed in a useful manner. Existing approaches to data aggregation in IoT systems, such as a system including a network of sensors for example, often focus on network logical topology and data transmission scheduling and routing schemes. Embodiments disclosed herein include systems that can aggregate data at an application-protocol layer. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359036 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF ELASTICALLY PROCESSING MESSAGE INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - Elastic message tracking apparatus and methods are provided that opportunistically improve on the latency of a message processing system and increase the accuracy of a consolidated message stream generated from message streams received from multiple message sources. The elastic message tracking apparatus and methods reduce that latency in situations where the actual latency of all the message streams is lower than a predetermined latency value. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359037 | CONFIGURING CHANNELS FOR SHARING MEDIA - A user interface for sharing media items with others. From a sender's perspective, embodiments of the invention allow for an easy-to-use drag-and-drop technique that is more user-friendly than conventional techniques. From the recipient's perspective, embodiments of the invention allow media items from multiple sources to be aggregated into a single viewport, providing a cohesive and unified approach to media items received from others. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359038 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING ELECTRONIC BUSINESS CARD - Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose methods, apparatuses, and systems for exchanging electronic business card. One of the methods includes: receiving a first request message sent by a first terminal, wherein the first request message includes first condition information, a first electronic business card, and first location information of the first terminal; selecting a second request message from at least one request message received during a preset period of time, according to the first location information, the first condition information, and the time when the first request message was received; sending an electronic business card corresponding to the second request message to the first terminal; and sending the first electronic business card to a second terminal, wherein the second request message was sent by the second terminal. The methods, the apparatuses, and the systems can be directed to simplify the process of exchanging electronic business cards. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359039 | DIFFERENTIATION OF MESSAGES FOR RECEIVERS THEREOF - A solution for sending messages on a data-processing system is proposed. A corresponding method comprises upon a message to be sent from a sender to at least one receiver being submitted, parsing the message to identify an original expression therein matching an indication of one of a set of pre-defined concepts, determining, for the receiver, a preferred expression of the matched concept, among the corresponding original expression and a set of candidate expressions pre-defined to express the matched concept, according to a rating thereof representing an expected understanding by the receiver, processing the message for the receiver by replacing the original expression according, to the corresponding preferred expression for the receiver, and sending the processed message to the corresponding receiver. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359040 | PRIVATE MOBILE MESSAGING AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL MESSAGING - A private mobile data communications apparatus and methods of managing organizational data flow and coordinate a secure messaging infrastructure allow organizations to communicate with and monitor one or more mobile users each having at least one mobile device with which they communicate. The apparatus includes a server component, system client, a mobile client, and multiple application programming interface modules configured to manage information flow and correspond with external systems as needed. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140365582 | Information Management System And Method - An information management system comprising an activity database to receive messaging data from multiple user equipment devices over at least one messaging channel of a network, a profile engine to generate a profile for an identity using the messaging data, the identity associated with at least one of the devices. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365583 | MANAGING A MESSAGING STATE ACROSS MULTIPLE CLIENTS - Embodiments of the invention relate to managing a messaging state across multiple clients and devices which use respective communications systems. In one embodiment, a plurality of users are connected to multiple messaging communications systems. The multiple messaging communications systems use a plurality of associated messaging clients on each of the users' respective devices, for messaging communications between the users. The users' messaging communications are stored from the multiple messaging communications systems and their respective messaging clients, using a proxy service. A device, of the plurality of messaging clients, being used by a messaging user of the plurality of users is tracked. A current messaging communication of the messaging user from the stored messaging communications is routed to the currently used device, using the proxy service, for maintaining a state of the messaging communications of the users. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365584 | PERSONALIZED LOW LATENCY COMMUNICATION - Embodiments relate to personalized low latency communications. A method may include receiving a description of content of a message, receiving recipient data corresponding to at least two possible recipients within a population of possible recipients, and selecting a relevant subpopulation of the population. The selecting may include, for each of the at least two possible recipients, ranking a strength of an indirect relationship between the description and the recipient data. The indirect relationship may be based on the description, the recipient data and at least one additional data source. The selecting may also include, for each of the at least two possible recipients, adding a possible recipient to the relevant subpopulation based on the ranking of the indirect relationship associated with the possible recipient. The method may further include initiating a two-way communication channel between a sender of the message and the relevant subpopulation. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365585 | System and Method for Spam Filtering Using Shingles - Disclosed system and methods for detecting spam using shingles. In one aspect, the system receives an electronic message including at least a text portion. The system identifies in the received message insignificant text portions. The system then removes identified insignificant text portions to generate an abridged message. The system then generates a set of shingles from the abridged message. The system then indentifies in the generated set of shingles one or more shingles that occur only in messages not containing spam. The system then removes one or more identified shingles from the generated set of shingles to generate a reduced set of shingles. The system then performs spam filtering of the reduced set of shingles to determine whether the received message contains spam. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365586 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETARGETING TEXT MESSAGE ALERTS - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for retargeting text message alerts. A monitor module receives data indicative of online browser activity and determines whether the online browser activity was performed by a user subscribed to receive text message alerts. A selection module selects, based at least on the received first data indicative of online activity, a first alert of one or more candidate alerts. A message generator module generates a text message based at least on the determined first alert. A communication module transmits the text message to the user subscribed to receive text message alerts. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365587 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system includes one or more computers and executes a process flow that is configured by arbitrarily combining one or more process units. The information processing system includes: an acquisition part that acquires electronic mail having a predetermined destination mail address; an extraction part that extracts data contained in the electronic mail; and an output part that outputs the extracted data as a processing target of the process flow. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365588 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A DATA OBJECT IDENTIFICATION REQUEST IN A COMMUNICATION - Methods and systems are described for processing a data object identification request in a communication. In an aspect, a first communications agent in a first execution environment receives data object information identifying a data object matching criterion. The first communications agent exchanges a first message with a second communications agent in a second execution environment. The second communications agent detects a data object identification request included in the exchanged first message. In response to detecting the data object identification request, a data object identification response is generated that identifies a data object in a second data store in the second execution environment. The second communications agent exchanges a second message with the first communications agent. The second message includes the data object identification response, wherein the second message does not include the data object. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCOVERING COMMUNICATION ENTITY - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for discovering a communication entity. The apparatus for discovering a communication entity includes a list generation unit for generating a list of connection target Data Readers (DRs), a counter generation unit for generating a counter including information about a number of the connection target DRs, and a discovery message communication unit for establishing communication connections to the connection target DRs based on the list and the counter. The discovery message communication unit includes a transmission unit for transmitting a DR discovery message including data topic information or possible service quality information to each of the connection target DRs, and a reception unit for receiving a Data Writer (DW) discovery message including data topic information or possible service quality information from each of the connection target DRs. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365590 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO INTELLIGENTLY ROUTE MESSAGE REQUESTS - A computer-implemented method of routing an electronic message. The electronic message is received. A rank, within an organization, of a sender of the electronic message is determined. The electronic message is routed to a destination computer based upon the rank of the sender. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365591 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING PERIPHERAL DEVICES VIA A SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM - A method and device for providing access to one or more peripheral devices over a social networking platform includes registering a first peripheral device coupled to a first user device as a respective social network contact of a user account associated with the first user device; and providing user access to the first peripheral device via a social networking client application executing at the first user device, wherein the social networking client application recognizes the first peripheral device as the respective social network contact of the user account associated with the first user device. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365592 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING PERIPHERAL DEVICES VIA A SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM - A method and device for providing access and control of a peripheral device through a support service provider thereof over a social networking platform includes receiving from the support service provider a servicer registration request specifying a type of peripheral devices to be serviced by the support service provider; establishing a public social network identity for the support service provider based on the request; receiving from a first user a first owner registration request specifying a first peripheral device controlled by the first user; and upon a determination that the first peripheral device is of the type of peripheral devices specified in the servicer registration request: creating a respective social network identity for the first peripheral device on the social network platform; and establishing a social network relationship between the public social network identity of the support service provider, the first user, and the respective social network identity of the first peripheral device. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365593 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING PERIPHERAL DEVICES VIA A SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM - A method and device for providing communication between peripheral devices over a social network platform includes registering a first peripheral device and a second peripheral device coupled to a first user device as respective social network contacts of a user account associated with the first user device; enabling communication between the first peripheral device and the second peripheral device via a social networking client application executing at the first user device; and in a group chat interface of the social networking client application, presenting a group conversation between a user of the user account and the respective social network contacts representing the first and the second peripheral devices, wherein the group conversation includes one or more instant messages corresponding to content of the communication between the first peripheral device and the second peripheral device. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365594 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGE COLLECTION - The invention provides systems and methods for processing communication content from a user device. The method performed by a computer and comprising inputting an electronic communication that includes communication content and a routing character string. The communication content constituted by data generated as a result of, and representative of, characters keyed into the user device by the user. Maintaining a bin collection including bins. Performing processing on the communication content including identifying the user and a bin collection of the user based on the routing character string; and processing the communication content including (1) mapping first data to a command; and (2) mapping second data to a bin label. The command dictates particular action to be performed, and the bin label identifies an identified bin upon which to perform the action; and performing the action on the identified bin. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140372537 | INTERNET STREAMING AND DYNAMIC DISPLAY OF WEB CAM VIDEOS - Internet streaming from broadcast radio or television stations is described wherein triggers for dynamic content from internal or external systems cause an encoder system to generate command messages, and optionally to synchronize those command messages with any delays associated with the triggering events. Command messages are delivered through a streaming media distribution system to client media players which obtain or present the dynamic content, in association with any desired configuration changes to the appearance of the media player or the method or manner in which the dynamic content is presented. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372538 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INTENTIONAL INTERRUPTIONS DURING GATHERINGS - Systems and methods for generating interruptions are provided. A method for generating interruptions, comprises generating a message for one or more recipients, detecting that a computing device is being used for a presentation, concluding, using a processor, that the one or more recipients are in an audience for the presentation, and after concluding that the one or more recipients are in the audience, interrupting the presentation with the message. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372539 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING SOCIAL PRODUCTIVITY USING A DASHBOARD - Systems and methods provide a social productivity platform to create or modify documents and other data content objects using collaborative efforts, possibly where the efforts are received through a social networking service. The systems and methods can, for example, create, review and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any device, using any cloud storage provider. When teams of users collaboratively work on a document or other file, systems and methods connect each the team users to the document or file, and maintain a history buffer of comments, changes, or other events. The systems and methods enable a user to create, review, edit, or otherwise access content and capture information regarding changes implemented during individual or group-based editing to the content. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372540 | INITIALIZING CHAT SESSIONS BY POINTING TO CONTENT - Integrating an application and a chat session includes a first user identifying content from the application, wherein the application is independent of any chat session, the first user initiating the chat session with at least a second user that is remote from the first user by transmitting the content from the first user to the second user, where the first and second user establish the chat session in response to the content being transmitted, and the first user and the second user sharing the content in connection with the chat session. The content may be a portion of a photograph, a portion of an image, a portion of text from a document, and/or a portion of a screen. The portion may be automatically identified following the user pointing and marking up the content. The first user may mark up the content before transmitting it to the second user. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372541 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTION-BASED INPUT TEXT MESSAGING COMMUNICATION - Systems and methods are described herein that allow computing device users to send and receive encapsulated messages through text messaging. Message encapsulation formats are defined that mimic real-world scenarios. Sensors on a computing device, such as a smartphone, may be used to simulate an action that triggers an encapsulated message to be transmitted or retrieved. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372542 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROPAGATING A MESSAGE IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method and an apparatus for propagating a message in a social network are disclosed. A method for propagating a message in a social network according to an embodiment of the invention can include: calculating a degree of connectivity of each user; calculating a propagation capability of each user by using the calculated degree of connectivity and a probability of distribution; choosing target users for propagating a message by using the propagation capability of each user; and propagating the message to nodes of the chosen target users. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTACT INFORMATION REQUESTS IN A NETWORK - In example embodiments, a system and method for managing contact information requests in a network are provided. When a first user does not have a particular value for a contact, the first user may trigger a process to obtain the value. Accordingly, a request is received at a contact management system from a user device of the first user that requests the value. A second user that is socially connected to the first user and having the value for the contact in an address book of the second user is determined. An electronic message is sent to a user device of the second user requesting the second user to provide the value to the first user. The value is provided to the first user based on an approval by the second user in response to the electronic message. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372544 | System and Method for Establishing 2-Way Communications Between an App and a Browser - A method is provided for receiving an instant message from a first user on a device of a second user irrespective of the device's installed applications or the second user's online status. A text message (addressed by the phone number of the second user's device) is received on the second user's device. The text message includes a link with a permanent unique token. When the link is actuated, a session is established of a dedicated web page on the second user's browser. The web page has a URL containing the permanent unique token. The instant message from the first user to the second user is displayed on the web page. The second user is then permitted to send a reply message to the first user via the web page. A server for enabling communication of an instant message is also provided. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372545 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A SUBSCRIPTION-BASED SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM - Systems and methods for implementing a subscription-based social media or fan club platform are provided. A content creator generates live content on a mobile device and sends requests to a server for initializing a live stream from the mobile device. The server sends requests to encoding service providers. The encoded live content is send to a content storage server. Subscribers of the social media or fan club platform can access the live content on their mobile devices from the content storage server. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372546 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING A TYPE OF A NETWORK INTERFACE - The invention relates to a session border controller, method and computer program for receiving in a first network, from a second network, an indication indicating a type of a network interface between the first network and the second network, wherein the indication is received during establishment of a communication session through the first network and the second network, and processing the communication session based on the type of the network interface. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372547 | Method and Device for Implementing end-to-end Hardware Message Passing - A method and device for implementing end-to-end Hardware Message Passing (HMP) are disclosed. The device includes: a message memory, a controller, a message input interface and a message output interface. The message memory is configured to temporarily store a message. The controller is configured to perform management on a message in the form of hardware, store a message obtained from the message input interface into the message memory, and read a message from the message memory and transmit the message to a message user via the message output interface. The message input interface is directly connected with a message creator and is configured to obtain a message created by the message creator under the control of the controller. The message output interface is directly connected to the message and is configured to provide a message to the message user under the control of the controller. The disclosure can improve the efficiency of message passing and reduce software management overhead. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140372548 | OPTIMIZED ROUTING FOR PROXY USE - A system is provided for applying optimized selection to route an email message over a network to a recipient mailbox. An email message may be enabled to be transmitted through a plurality of servers to a destination recipient mailbox server. An external message transfer agent may receive the email message using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and may transmit the received email message to a proxy transport server. The proxy transport server may apply a selection for an optimal store-and-forward (SAF) transport server to which to route the email message. The selection may provide for identifying available SAF transport servers, organizing the SAF transport servers into server groups, and selecting the optimal SAF transport server belonging to a server group where a recipient mailbox server is located. The proxy transport server may transmit the email message to the SAF transport server for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140379812 | METHODOLOGY THAT USES CULTURE INFORMATION AS A MEANS TO DETECT SPAM - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for using culture-related information for detecting spam. Cultural aspect data corresponding to a recipient or a sender of an electronic communication is processed to generate spam detection rules, which are in turn used to detect electronic communications that may be spam. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379813 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT MESSAGING - An approach is provided for intelligent messaging. The approach includes determining a contact, content information, or combination thereof associated with a message. The approach also includes identifying one or more messaging features associated with the contact and/or the content information. The approach further includes configuring a messaging application to provide the one or more messaging features when processing the message via the messaging application. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED MESSAGE CREATION AND DELIVERY - A system provides for the efficient delivery of messages from one or more message originators to one or more message recipients via a plurality of communication or messaging platforms. A message originator can create a single message and specify one or more message recipients, multiple communication platforms and delivery scheduling, all from a graphical user interface on a mobile communication device or a computer. The message will be formatted for the selected message recipients, the available and desired communication platforms in the desired priority order, and scheduled for delivery to the message recipients at selected time(s). Additionally, messages may be screened to reduce or eliminate potentially duplicate messages via one or more duplication filters. On the message recipient side, each message recipient can specify the desired communication platform and preference priority for receipt of messages, along with the desired timing for delivery of messages from each potential message originator. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379815 | AGGREGATING MESSAGE RESPONSES INTO TOPIC-ORGANIZED CONTENT - A computer processor receives a response to an electronic message, the response containing content elements. The computer processor determines one or more topics based on the content elements of the response to the electronic message. The computer processor reorganizes the response to the electronic message, such that the content elements are aligned with similar-topic content elements and associated with one of the one or more topics of the response to generate a topic organized aggregate message, and in response to receiving an additional response to the electronic message, the computer processor updates the topic organized aggregate message to include one or more additional content elements from the additional response, wherein the one or more additional content elements are aligned with the one or more topics of the topic organized aggregate message. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379816 | TYPING INDICATOR FOR IMAP MESSAGING - A message server may establish an internet message access protocol (“IMAP”) IDLE session with a first client device. The IMAP IDLE session may be used to transmit one or more notifications to the first client device. The message server may determine a status notification associated with a second client device. The status notification may include information associated with an action being performed using the second client device. The message server may determine that the first client device is an intended recipient of the status notification. The message server may transmit the status notification, toward the first client device, via the IMAP IDLE session, based on determining that the first client device is the intended recipient of the status notification. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379817 | FABRIC NETWORK - Systems and methods relating to communication within a fabric network are presented. The fabric network includes one or more logical networks that enables devices connected to the fabric to communicate with each other using various profiles known to the devices. A device sending a message may follow a general message format to encode the message so that other devices in the fabric may understand the message regardless of which logical networks the devices are connected to. Within the message format, a payload of data may be included for the receiving device to forward, store, or process the message. The format and the contents of the payload may vary according to a header within the payload that indicates a profile and a message type within the profile. Using the profile and message type, the receiving devices may decode the message to process the message. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379818 | AGGREGATING MESSAGE RESPONSES INTO TOPIC-ORGANIZED CONTENT - A computer processor receives a response to an electronic message, the response containing content elements. The computer processor determines one or more topics based on the content elements of the response to the electronic message. The computer processor reorganizes the response to the electronic message, such that the content elements are aligned with similar-topic content elements and associated with one of the one or more topics of the response to generate a topic organized aggregate message, and in response to receiving an additional response to the electronic message, the computer processor updates the topic organized aggregate message to include one or more additional content elements from the additional response, wherein the one or more additional content elements are aligned with the one or more topics of the topic organized aggregate message. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379819 | Methods and Systems for Providing Information Relating to an Event - An organizer may send information relating to an event to participants via text messaging without having participants' texting numbers. Particularly, organizer may be associated with a texting number. Organizer sets event's start/end times, and provides email addresses for event invitees. Email requests invitees' texting numbers to participate in event. Texting numbers are stored, and encrypted respectively as identifiers. Organizer's message for participants is sent as text message to participants' texting numbers between event's start/end, and may be sent as if the message originated from organizer's texting number. When event ends, participants' texting numbers are deleted unless a participant participates in organizer's later ending event. In response to invitation to organizer's later event, a received participant's texting number may be encrypted as later identifier, and compared with identifier from earlier event. If a match, organizer's text message sent to participant during prior event is included in organizer's or participant's conversational history. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379820 | EMAIL ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER UNIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Example methods and systems for associating a telephone number with an email address are disclosed. One example method includes receiving a telephone number, receiving a first email address, and associating the first email address with a second email address. At least a portion of the second email address includes the telephone number. Email messages sent to the second email address are then forwarded to the first email address. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379821 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING DUPLICATED CONTENTS IN MULTIPLE TERMINALS - The present application discloses methods and systems for synchronizing duplicated contents between multiple terminals. By establishing a mapping relationship between multiple accounts for different application programs installed on different terminals, a server may transmit captured contents between the accounts so that the contents are displayed and/or further distributed. After receiving a content forwarding request from a second account associated with a browser application in a second terminal, the server may process the content forwarding request, which includes the captured contents and identifiers. Using the identifiers and the mapping relationship, the server may identify a first terminal with an instant messaging application having a first account. The captured contents may be transferred to the first account so that the captured contents may be displayed and/or further distributed. The present application provides additional convenience and efficiency for multi-terminal operations. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379822 | AUTOMATIC APPOINTMENT OFFER AND CREATION BETWEEN PARTIES - A method of suggesting meetings between users is provided. A server receives from a plurality of user devices, data indicating geographic location on future dates of a plurality of users, calendar information of the plurality of users and interests of the plurality of users. The data is analyzed to determine whether data for at least two users match. If it is determined that data matches for at least two users, an appointment offer is sent for a meeting during a period of time when the at least two users are available. Acceptance or rejection of the appointment offer is received from each of the at least two users. If the at least two users accept the appointment offer, a meeting invitation is sent to each of the at least two users in order to insert the meeting into a calendar application for the at least two users. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MEDIA MESSAGES - Systems and methods for sending a media message from a communication platform receiving a messaging request to transmit media message to a destination endpoint, wherein the request includes a specified media content universal resource identifier (URI); retrieving a media resource from the URI, wherein the media resource is retrieved from a application layer request including a set of context data relating to the messaging request; transforming the media resource into a messaging formatted media resource; and transmitting the formatted media resource to a destination in a media message. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379824 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR WEB PAGE SHARING - A method for web page sharing may include receiving, by at least one processor, a triggering operation executed on an interface of a current application running on a terminal device by a user of the terminal device; calling, by at least one processor, a sharing interface of a target application from the interface of the current application in response to the triggering operation; displaying, by at least one processor, a plurality of contacts of the user associated with the target application on the sharing interface of the target application; receiving, by at least one processor, a first selection operation from the user to select a contact of the user from the plurality of contacts; generating, by at least one processor, a sharing message in response to the first selection operation; and sending, by at least one processor, the sharing message to the selected contact through the server. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379825 | SENDER-SPECIFIC EMAIL REMINDER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system optionally includes an email server processor and a reminder processor. The email server processor is communicatively coupled to an email client and is configured to process email sent from a sender to an email address associated with the email client, wherein the email client is configured to display emails as processed by the email server processor and facilitate user interaction with the emails as presented. The reminder processor is communicatively coupled to the email server processor and is configured to provide, on the email client, a reminder related to an email, from the sender, that has been displayed on the email client but with which the email client has not interacted within a predetermined time period following display of the email | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379826 | Experience Redirection - A system and method are described for allowing users to forward a media content experience, such as an Internet site, to another computing device. The system may allow the user to select individual portions and elements of the site for forwarding, to customize the level and type of experience being forwarded. The selection of portions and elements may be made based on the capabilities of the other computing device, and the forwarding may be simultaneously made to multiple other devices, each with potentially different combinations of the portions and elements of the site. In some embodiments, a text message link service may be offered by a content ingestion computing device, whereby a user may simply text an address of a site to be forwarded, and in response the user may receive a text message containing a link to the content ingestion computing device with a parameter identifying the site to be forwarded. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A SESSION BETWEEN MULTIPLE CLIENTS - A method for transferring a session between clients is provided when one user uses multiple clients on a service (for example, Push to talk over Cellular (PoC), Instant Messaging (IM), Converged-Internet Protocol (IP) Messaging (CPM)) providing system implemented through a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)/IP core network. A session transfer method is provided when the user needs to transfer a session to another client while the session is performed through one client. A temporary storing technique is used in which a conversation server or client as one of elements of a seamless CPM system for providing a seamless user environment temporarily stores data transmitted from another user during session transfer. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379828 | Systems and Methods for User Group Management - Systems and methods are provided for user group management. For example, a contracting invitation for joining a user group and a first identifier of a first user from a first terminal associated with an administrator of the user group are received; a contracting-invitation page including a first indication message to request the first user to join the user group and a first interface element for inputting a contracting acceptance is generated; the contracting-invitation page is displayed on a second terminal associated with the first user to allow the first user to input the contracting acceptance via the interface element; the contracting acceptance is received from the second terminal; and the first identifier of the first user is added to a user list corresponding to the user group. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379829 | System and Method for Shared Multimedia Experiences across Multiple Subscriptions - Control of a collaborative session between a service centralization and continuity (SCC) application server (AS) and user equipments (UEs) can be transferred between UEs having Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Services (IMS) subscriptions under the same operator. The collaborative session provides media from a remote party to the UEs, and a controlling UE maintains collaborative session control privileges. A controller UE may be configured to release a collaborative session, as well as to authorize media control related requests from other UEs. In some embodiments, the collaborative session control can only be transferred to UEs that have registered a public user identity sharing the same service profile as the controller UE. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379830 | MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379831 | SPACE-EFFICIENT MAIL STORING AND ARCHIVING BASED ON COMMUNICATION STRUCTURE - The present invention relates to electronic mail. In particular, it relates to a method and system for processing electronic mail, wherein mails are stored in a space efficient way by removing redundancy from the content. Prior art is known for doing a limited version of this on a mail client. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150012597 | RETROACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF MESSAGES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for retroactive message management. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for retroactive message management is provided. The method includes receiving a message in a messaging client executing in memory of a computer and characterizing the received message. The method also includes identifying an already received message in the messaging client that matches the characterization of the received message. Finally, the method includes processing the identified already received message in response to the receipt of the characterized message, for example by deleting the identified already received message or by moving the identified already received message to a folder in a messaging data store of the messaging client. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012598 | TECHNIQUES TO GENERATE MASS PUSH NOTIFICATIONS - Techniques to generate mass push notifications are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a submission component, a query component, a delivery component, and a record update component. The submission component may be operative to receive a message bundle, the message bundle comprising a message and a query. The query component may be operative to compare the query to a plurality of recipient records to determine a plurality of recipient records matching the query, each of the plurality of recipient records corresponding to a particular installation of a particular application onto a particular device. The delivery component may be operative to broadcast the message to a plurality of installed applications corresponding to the plurality of recipients records matching the query. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012599 | INDICATING IN AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE WHETHER A USER HAS PREVIOUSLY ACCESSED CONTENT PROVIDED BY A RESOURCE - Arrangements described herein relate to indicating in an electronic message whether a user has previously accessed content provided by a resource. An electronic message can be received. The electronic message can include at least one uniform resource identifier. A determination can be made as to whether a user to whom the electronic message is sent has previously accessed content provided by a resource identified by the uniform resource identifier. In the electronic message, whether the user has previously accessed the content provided by the resource identified by the uniform resource identifier can be indicated. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012600 | INDICATING IN AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE WHETHER A USER HAS PREVIOUSLY ACCESSED CONTENT PROVIDED BY A RESOURCE - Arrangements described herein relate to indicating in an electronic message whether a user has previously accessed content provided by a resource. An electronic message can be received. The electronic message can include at least one uniform resource identifier. A determination can be made as to whether a user to whom the electronic message is sent has previously accessed content provided by a resource identified by the uniform resource identifier. In the electronic message, whether the user has previously accessed the content provided by the resource identified by the uniform resource identifier can be indicated. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012601 | MESSAGE TRANSFER APPARATUS IN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM - A message transfer apparatus in an electronic component mounting system including: a message registration section that registers a message; a message storing section that stores the registered message; a message output section that outputs the stored message to a display section; a message notification timing setting section that sets timings where the message is to be notified in accordance with timings for an operator to be shifted with another; a message-to-be-notified extraction section that extracts a message to be notified from the message storing section at a timing where the message is to be confirmed; and an unconfirmed message notification section that causes a notification section to carry out a notification regarding presence of an unconfirmed message when there is any message which has not been output among the extracted message. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012602 | System and Methods for Searching and Communication - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, comprising the steps of, or structure for, storing a plurality of expert profiles in a database, each of the plurality of expert profiles comprising information associated with a person having knowledge in a particular category, subject or topic; receiving search criteria over a network from a query source; selecting at least one of the plurality of expert profiles comprising information that satisfy the search criteria; and transmitting expert profile data for each of the selected expert profiles to the remote search engine, the expert profile data comprising data that defines a displayable representation of a corresponding expert profile, the expert profile data further comprising data that facilitates a client-initiated, real-time communication session over the network with a person associated with the corresponding expert profile. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012603 | SERVER APPARATUS ENABLING POSTING OF MESSAGES, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A server apparatus which, when a viewer inputs a message, such as a comment, makes it possible to post a relevant comment by referring to another comment posted slightly earlier. Upon receipt of a posting request for posting a message from an information processing apparatus, a comment manager generates a posting reception notification indicative of information related to a reception sequence number of the posting request. The comment manager transmits the posting reception notification to the information processing apparatus. The comment manager receives not only the posted message but also the posting reception notification, and stores the message in a memory if there is no posting request made from another apparatus with a reception sequence number later in sequential order than the reception sequence number indicated by the posting reception notification. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150012604 | INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE BASED ON ITEM OF INTEREST TO USER - Disclosed is a computer-readable recording medium storing a set of instructions executable by a processor of a client device that is accessible by a server providing an instant messaging service. The set of instructions includes an instruction configured to detect an application installed on the client device, and an instruction configured to provide the client device with a prompt indicating that the detected application is selectable as an item of interest. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150019652 | Qualified Email Headers - A method and system provide qualifiers for electronic message header fields. The electronic messages may be email, text, or other messages sent via a wireless or wired communications networks. The qualifiers may facilitate (1) indicating the persistent nature of an electronic message header field; (2) electronic message originator identification; (3) user-defined rules being persistently applied to electronic messages by various entities as the electronic messages travel along; (4) user opt out of electronic message strings or groups; (5) the closing electronic message threads; (6) the ordering of electronic message header fields; (7) electronic message tracing; and/or (8) electronic message tracking. In one aspect, the qualifiers may be of a persistent or indexed nature. The qualifiers and associated qualified electronic message header fields may be generated, operated on, relayed, and/or handled by mobile devices, networks, servers, and/or communications systems to facilitate electronic message-related functionality being achieved either locally or remotely. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING AN IDENTIFIER - A computer-implemented method of automatically adding an identifier related to a content item to a communication in a multi-user communication network such as a social network. The method comprising obtaining a robust fingerprint of the content item, retrieving the identifier from a database using the robust fingerprint, and adding the identifier formatted in a format suitable for the multi-user communication network to the communication. Preferably the robust fingerprint relates to a particular timepoint in the content item and the identifier relates to an aspect of the content item at the particular timepoint. Also a system and computer program product. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019654 | COORDINATED NOTIFICATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE CHANNELS - A server system can provide coordinated event-based notifications to a target user across multiple notification channels. The selection of channels for a particular notification can be based on the type of event underlying the notification, user preferences related to delivery of notifications, and the like. The sending of notifications in different channels can be coordinated so that notifications in different channels are sent at different times, and sending of any given notification can be made to depend on whether the notification (or the underlying event) has already been acted on, as well as on user preferences related to delivery of notification. Some notifications can be sent without delay and/or unconditionally. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019655 | Message Consumer Orchestration Framework - In a decoupled messaging system, a producer device sends produced messages to a message fabric. The message fabric either stores the received message in designated queues, from which consumer devices may retrieve the messages, or broadcasts the messages to consumer devices that subscribe to topics assigned to the messages. A message consumption orchestrator service gathers capabilities information for the message producer, the message fabric, and the message consumer, and configures resources allocated for the message consumer to more fully optimize message throughput. Further, the message consumption orchestrator identifies patterns in changes of the rate of produced messages, i.e., through analysis of historical data and/or received information. The message consumption orchestrator configures resources for the message consumer to account for predicted need based on the identified patterns. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019656 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING GROUP E-MAIL - A method and apparatus for managing group e-mails in an electronic device is provided. A group e-mail message including a request to receive a reply e-mail by a first time may be transmitted to e-mail addresses of at least two recipients. It is automatically determined whether reply e-mails are received from the at least two recipients by a second time. When there is at least one recipient from whom the reply e-mail was not received by the second time, a reminder e-mail is transmitted to the at least one recipient from whom the reply e-mail is not received. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019657 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a message registering unit and a message reproducing unit. The message registering unit is configured to register a first message with video of a first user, the first message being a notification from the first user to a second user who is not in the same space with the first user at the same time. The message reproducing unit is configured to reproduce a second message with video in which the first user and the second user are present at the same time, the second message being a response to the first message from the second user. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019658 | COMMUNICATION STREAMS - Embodiments described herein organize and percolate important messaging and information to the top of a communications pile, and create a high ratio of front-and-center communication versus chatter communication. This is analogous to creating a high signal-to-noise ratio in signal communications. Thus, embodiments described herein raise the desired signal level high above the noise level to obtain a visual at-a-glance level of communication with reduced clutter or no clutter. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019659 | FALLBACK MESSAGING - A computing device may receive first message data associated with a messaging group. The computing device may associate the first message data with a messaging thread. The computing device may associate a unique session identifier with one or both of the messaging thread and the messaging group. For a first one or more user devices of the messaging group, the computing device may send the message data along with the unique identifier via a native messaging protocol. For a second one or more of the user devices of the messaging group, the computing device may associate a fallback identifier of each of the one or more second user devices with one or both of the messaging thread and the messaging group, and send the first message data and unique identifier via a fallback messaging protocol. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019660 | COMMUNICATION OF MEDIA ASSETS FROM SOCIAL PUBLICATION SERVICES - The present disclosure is directed towards having media assets that come from different social publication services be communicated to a user based on different conditions. Specifically, a determination is made from metadata associated with a media asset whether the media asset is of a particular type ( | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019661 | ASSESSMENT OF TRANSACTION-LEVEL INTEROPERABILITY OVER A TACTICAL DATA LINK - A method of assessing transaction-level interoperability over a Tactical Data Link (TDL) ( | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019662 | Notification Message Generation - The disclosure concerns notification message generation. A first message template is generated based on a series of first notification messages intended for push delivery to recipient user devices. The first message template includes non-personalised information identified as substantially common to the series of first notification messages, and one or more parameters representing personalised information identified in the stream of first notification messages. An alternative second message template that includes at least one variation from the non-personalised information in the first message template is then generated. Using the first message template and second message template, a series of second notification messages is generated for push delivery to the recipient user devices. Generating the second notification messages includes replacing the one or more parameters with personalised information associated with the recipient user devices. Based on usage information of the second notification messages, it is determined whether the first message template or the second message template is more effective. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019663 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - Method, system and email client for sending and receiving electronic communications comprising: dividing the message into a plurality of components. Attaching each one of the plurality of components to a single email. Sending the email containing the attachments to a message server configured to perform the step of transmitting the message to a recipient. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019664 | Spam message processing method and system - Disclosed is a spam message processing method, comprising: arranging a spam message storage unit on a media message server, the media message server receiving a spam reporting message from a media message client, and the spam reporting message at least carrying a spam message identifier; and the media message server storing related information about corresponding spam message in the spam message storage unit according to the spam reporting message. Also correspondingly disclosed is a spam message processing system. The present invention can effectively avoid the interference of spam messages on users, and improve user experience. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019665 | LINKING CONTEXT-BASED INFORMATION TO TEXT MESSAGES - A system and a method are disclosed for adding linked content to text messages. Messages are analyzed to determine the context and meaning of a conversation between users, and linked content relevant to the conversation is selected and associated with certain words or phrases in the messages. This process for enhancing text messages beneficially provides users with additional information related to the meaning of their conversation, and also provides advertisers with a valuable new way of delivering highly relevant advertisements to a precise group of users. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESS-CONTROLLED INTERACTIONS - An interaction server controls access between a plurality of senders and/or users exchanging electronic interactions. A sender may identify a user with whom the sender desires to interact using a public identifier associated with the user. The interaction server may coordinate the desired interaction without revealing private information, such as information about private user resources (e.g., personal contact information, personal payment information, personal data, etc.). The interaction server may determine whether to provide an interaction by evaluating an access code, by determining whether a user is trusted, and/or the like. The interaction server may provide the interaction, a notice of the interaction, a payload associated with the interaction, and/or the like to a user resource associated with the public identifier if access is allowed. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019667 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TARGETING COMMUNICATIONS USING SOCIAL NETWORK METRICS - A method for a computer system includes receiving a first user communication, determining a first group of users, determining a target number of users, determining whether the first group of users includes the target number of users, and if not, providing the communication to the first group of users, determining a hierarchal mapping of groups of users in response to user memberships, determining a second group of users from the hierarchal mapping, determining a plurality of social network relationship factors for the second group of users with respect to the first user, and providing the communication to at least a subset of users in the second group of users in response to the first plurality of social network relationship factors. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019668 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TARGETING COMMUNICATIONS USING SOCIAL NETWORK METRICS - A method for a computer system includes receiving a first user communication, determining a first group of users, determining a target number of users, determining whether the first group of users includes the target number of users, and if not, providing the communication to the first group of users, determining a hierarchal mapping of groups of users in response to user memberships, determining a second group of users from the hierarchal mapping, determining a plurality of social network relationship factors for the second group of users with respect to the first user, and providing the communication to at least a subset of users in the second group of users in response to the first plurality of social network relationship factors. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019669 | FABRIC NETWORK - Systems and methods relating to communication within a fabric network are presented. The fabric network includes one or more logical networks that enables devices connected to the fabric to communicate with each other using various profiles known to the devices. A device sending a message may follow a general message format to encode the message so that other devices in the fabric may understand the message regardless of which logical networks the devices are connected to. Within the message format, a payload of data may be included for the receiving device to forward, store, or process the message. The format and the contents of the payload may vary according to a header within the payload that indicates a profile and a message type within the profile. Using the profile and message type, the receiving devices may decode the message to process the message. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150026265 | Techniques for Auto-Detecting Positions in a Multi-Resource Login Control of Instant Messaging - Techniques are provided for delivering messages to users of client devices in a network. At a server device in a network, location information of each of a plurality of client devices is obtained. Each of the client devices runs a presence application for a user in the network and is configured to log-in with one or more resources. A message is received from a sender device in the network. The message is intended to be presented to the user via the presence application and one or more of the resources. Based on the location information of the client devices, one or more designated client devices are selected to which the message is to be sent such that the message is presented to the user via the presence application running on the one or more designated client devices and via one or more of the resources. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026266 | SHARE TO STREAM - In one embodiment, a message transmitted from a first individual to a second individual via a communication platform may be identified, where the message includes a media item, a hypertext link providing access to the media item, or a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) providing access to the media item. The media item, hypertext link, or URL may be obtained from the message. The media item, hypertext link, or URL may be inserted into a stream associated with the second individual. The stream may be transmitted to the second individual via a media platform. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026267 | TARGETED MESSAGE RESPONSE - A tool for targeting a message response. The tool monitors reactions of a user to message subject lines, message content, and social networks. The tool analyzes user interest data and calculates a user interest rating per keyword. Rated keywords are stored in association with the user. When a user drafts a message addressed to a recipient, the tool compares rated keywords within the recipient's log with the subject line and message content. The tool suggests an alternative subject line likely to elicit a faster and more detailed response from the recipient. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026268 | UTILIZING MULTIPLE INTERFACES WHEN SENDING DATA AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PACKETS - Utilizing multiple network interfaces when sending data and acknowledgement packages comprises, in a low power and lossy network (LLN) or other network, a sender device comprises two or more network interfaces for communicating with one or more recipient devices. The sender device assesses the transmission capabilities of the network interfaces to determine data rates available for each interface. The sender device specifies which network interface will be used to transfer data and which network interface will be used to receive an acknowledgement from the recipient device. The sender device selects the network interface with the larger data capacity for transmitting a data packet and the network interface with the smaller data capacity for receiving an acknowledgement. The data transmission and the acknowledgement transmission may be transmitted simultaneously. The recipient device uses transmission parameters received from the sender device to determine the data rate with which to transmit the acknowledgement. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026269 | System and Method for Incorporating Chat Elements Into a Communication Interface - A method performed by a first mobile device is provided. The method comprises: detecting an activity update to an account associated with the first mobile device; communicating the activity update to at least one account contact; receiving a response to the communicated update from the at least one account contact; displaying in a display of the first mobile device: an activity update view having the response appended to the activity update; and a messaging view of a messaging session between the account and the at least one account contact, the messaging view displaying the activity update in association with the response. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026270 | DISTRIBUTION LIST CREATION AND SUBSCRIPTION - A method and system for the efficient creation and management of an e-mail distribution list. The method includes receiving, from a first sender, a first e-mail message directed to an e-mail address comprising a list name. An e-mail distribution list is created comprising a distribution list name, wherein the distribution list name is the list name of the e-mail address. The first sender is added as a first subscriber to the distribution list. A second e-mail communication directed to the e-mail address is received and the second sender is added as a second subscriber to the e-mail distribution list in view of the second e-mail communication. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026271 | SYSTEM FOR EVENT NOTIFICATION AND INFORMATION POSTING - A system for event notification and information posting ( | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026272 | SERVER DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - The present invention provides a server device that receives a start request of a predetermined social networking service (SNS) from a terminal of a user, and information about one or more participation users that are to participate in the SNS, and manages each participation user's turn to upload an image. The server device notifies a terminal of a turn-come user whose turn has come of a fact that the turn-come user's turn has come, and sets a participation user whose turn is next as a new turn-come user when receiving the image uploaded by the turn-come user. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026273 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE IN THIRD-PARTY SERVICE AND INSTANT MESSAGING SERVER APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING THE MESSAGING SERVICE - Disclosed is a method for providing an instant messaging service in a third-party service and an instant messaging server apparatus for providing the messaging service. The instant messaging service provision server according to an embodiment includes: an interest information collection module for collecting user interest information of a third-party service terminal from the terminal; a reception module for receiving a request for provision of a list of open chat rooms from the third-party service terminal; and a messaging service provision module for managing a list of a plurality of open chat rooms and providing the third-party service terminal with a list of open chat rooms associated with the user interest information of the third-party service terminal, according to the request. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026274 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTING A MESSAGE - Routing a message to a recipient based on a topic associated with the message may include: receiving a message lacking a recipient address; searching for at least one recipient address based on a topic associated with the message; and sending the message to the at least one recipient address. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026275 | CONTENT SHARING METHOD, TERMINAL, SERVER, AND SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - A method, a terminal, a server, a system and a computer storage medium for sharing contents are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a reporting request massage carrying position information and identifier information of a user sent by a terminal when an application adapted to obtain contents is used to obtain a content to be shared, obtaining a sharing object according to the position information and the identifier information of the user, wherein the distance between the user and the sharing object is less than a predetermined distance and/or the sharing object has used the application in a predetermined time period, and sending a reporting response massage carrying the sharing object to the terminal to enable the terminal to share the content to be shared according to the sharing object. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026276 | INITIATING MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS FROM MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Methods for establishing simultaneous connections on a plurality of communication devices associated with a user implemented on an instant messaging program by issuing ring tones, audible notifications, or visual indications to the plurality of communication devices and constructing a state diagram for sending the ring tones, the audible notifications, or the visual indications to the plurality of communication devices. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026277 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE PROCESSING - Processing a message includes receiving at a message processing system the message that is distributed by a message distributor, the message having a message type, based at least in part on the message type, locating among a plurality of subscriber groups a subscriber group that subscribes to the message type, each of the plurality of subscriber groups having a unique identifier and comprising one or more message subscriber nodes, at least some of the one or more message subscriber nodes in each of the plurality of subscriber groups being connected to the message processing system, and transmitting the message to a message subscriber node that belongs to the subscriber group that is located. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026278 | Method and Device for Pushing User Message - A method and a device for pushing a user message, which relate to the communications field, to improve user experience. The method includes acquiring regular activity information of a user, triggering a first event when a current activity of a user equipment does not comply with the regular activity information, and triggering a second event when a current activity of a user equipment complies with the regular activity information. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026279 | VIDEO IN E-MAIL - To allow a video clip to be rendered within an e-mail, the video stream is converted into an animated image object (e.g. a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) object) and stored on a server system. An HTML image element/tag (![]() ) is created that references the animated image object at the server, for embedding in a conventional HTML-encoded e-mail message. When the receiving e-mail application processes the HTML encoding, the processing of the HTML image element causes the referenced animated image object to be downloaded and displayed, thereby automatically presenting a recreation of the video stream. To facilitate efficient transmission to the receiving device, the size of the animated image object is preferably optimized before transmission, the optimization including general optimization techniques, as well as optimizations based on the particular characteristics associated with the receiving device and/or the communications link to the receiving device. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026280 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED ELECTRONIC MAIL - An E-mail apparatus and method are provided. The e-mail apparatus includes a memory that stores display names and e-mail addresses corresponding to the display names, and a controller that extracts an e-mail address from a received e-mail message, retrieves from the memory a display name corresponding to the extracted e-mail address, modifies the display name of the received e-mail message to the retrieved display name, and outputs the modified display name. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026281 | EMAIL TO FAX PROCESSING SYSTEM - An email-to-facsimile (fax) processing system efficiently services requests issued by customers of the system in a fair and impartial manner. The system illustratively includes a plurality of components configured to provide email-to-fax processing services over a network. The components of the email-to-fax system include computer nodes executing software processes and/or services embodied as one or more FaxEmail routers, FaxEmail pollers, Rendering servers and Fax assemblers. The email-to-fax processing services provided by the components illustratively include email storage and retrieval services, email-to-fax conversion services and fax organizational transmission services. One or more of these services may be performed by the components in a randomized fashion to ensure that the customer requests, such as email-to-fax requests, may be fairly and impartially processed by the system. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026282 | EMAIL TO FAX PROCESSING SYSTEM - An email-to-facsimile (fax) processing system efficiently services requests issued by customers of the system in a fair and impartial manner. The system illustratively includes a plurality of components configured to provide email-to-fax processing services over a network. The components of the email-to-fax system include computer nodes executing software processes and/or services embodied as one or more FaxEmail routers, FaxEmail pollers, Rendering servers and Fax assemblers. The email-to-fax processing services provided by the components illustratively include email storage and retrieval services, email-to-fax conversion services and fax organizational transmission services. One or more of these services may be performed by the components in a randomized fashion to ensure that the customer requests, such as email-to-fax requests, may be fairly and impartially processed by the system. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026283 | SELECTIVELY TRANSLATING PORTIONS OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method, system and computer program product for instant message communication in a wireless and non-wireless environment. A message is sent from a mobile unit device over a wireless communication network. The message includes a destination address, information associated with the mobile unit device's user, message content and message address. If, according to information previously stored for the mobile unit device's user at the instant message system, the destination address is associated with an instant message function, the associated instant message function is executed at the instant message system using the information contained in the message content, if required as determined by the associated instant message function. If, according to information previously stored for the mobile unit device's user at the instant message system, the destination address is associated with an instant message name, an instant message is created according to the message content and is sent to the user with the associated instant message name. For instant messages sent or received by a mobile unit device with known buddies, the instant message is optimized by tagging the instant message with a routing phone number that is unique to the mobile unit device and buddy combination, whose identity is stored both in the mobile unit device address book and in the instant message routing server. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026284 | Instant Message User Management - Techniques are disclosed for improving management of user information in instant messaging systems. Expiration criteria are defined, whereby one or more users or user groups may be considered as having “expired” from consideration by instant messaging functions such as presence determination. In particular, instant messaging activity is preferably used as an expiration criterion. Absence of inbound or outbound messages for a specified amount of time (or since a particular date/time) can therefore be used as a trigger for treating a user or group of users as expired. As a result, efficiency of an instant messaging system is improved by omitting the expired users and groups from subsequent management operations. Optionally, an expired user or group may be revived upon occurrence of certain events (such as a newly-arriving instant message from, or a change in presence status of, the user or group). | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150032824 | AGGREGATE ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE HANDLING - Techniques for aggregating electronic mail messages are described, including receiving electronic mail associated with a domain, the electronic mail including multiple messages, each message indicating a address being associated with an account, identifying the account with which the address is associated, generating a clean version of each message, the clean version including a subject and a body of a message, and publishing the clean version on a shared environment, including displaying at least a portion of the clean version in the shared environment, the shared environment accessible using access information associated with the account. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032825 | SOCIAL MAIL RESPONSE ENHANCEMENT - A method and system for managing electronic messaging which includes monitoring an electronic message generated by a plurality of users. The electronic message including content. A criteria is determined for setting a status of the electronic message, and the criteria includes a change of the content of the electronic message. A change of the content of the electronic message is detected based on the criteria. The status of the electronic message is set, and the status is indicated to the plurality of users of the electronic message. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032826 | PROBABILISTIC ROUTING OF MESSAGES IN A NETWORK - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with routing messages in a network are described. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring engagement information about each of a plurality of individuals that are members of a network associated with a user. The engagement information is acquired as a message is received from the user. The method may also include analyzing the network and the engagement information using a set of predefined metrics to determine a probability that each of at least a subset of the plurality of individuals will respond to the message. The method may also include routing the message to at least one individual in the subset as a function of the probability that each of at least a subset of the plurality of individuals will respond. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032827 | Encoding Data in Email Headers - Among other things, we describe techniques for encoding data that is included in electronic communications. In one aspect, a first electronic communication system sends, to an entity, a first email message that includes a Message-ID field including data that identifies an action to be carried out by a second electronic communication system. The first electronic communication system receives, from the entity, a second email message that includes an In-Reply-To field containing the data that identifies the action to be carried out by the second electronic communication system. The first electronic communication extracts the data from the In-Reply-To field in a message header of the first electronic communication. The second electronic communication system may be the same as the first electronic communication system, or may be an electronic communication system other than the first electronic communication system. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032828 | Friendly Names for Stored CPM Conversation Histories - A method is provided for providing a meaningful representation for a conversation that occurs according to an OMA CPM protocol. The method comprises generating a friendly name for the conversation, wherein the friendly name comprises a string of characters that form a meaningful expression to a conversation participant, and associating the friendly name with the conversation. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032829 | IDENTIFYING RELEVANT CONTENT IN EMAIL - Message management services can include processing an email to identify relevant content from among all content in the email and converting the identified relevant content into a simple, easy-to-read format. For example, message management services can apply multiple parsing strategies to an email. Each strategy can attempt to parse the email to identify relevant content and to output results that include any identified relevant content and an associated confidence score. The results having the highest confidence score can be selected. The identified relevant content included in the selected results can be converted into a flat string with stylings and links for displaying relevant content of the email in a simple, easy-to-read format. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032830 | Systems and Methods for Spam Interception - Systems and methods are provided for intercepting spam messages. For example, a message including one or more first characters is received, the one or more first characters not being associated with predetermined formats; the one or more first characters are converted to one or more second characters associated with the predetermined formats; the one or more second characters are determined as a feature fingerprint of message; and in response to the feature fingerprint of the message being included in a database of sample feature fingerprints, the message is determined as a spam message and the message is intercepted. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032831 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE FORWARDING - The invention provides a method of transmitting electronic messages in a computer environment. The preferred embodiment receives an electronic message addressed to a telephone number and determines an instant message identifier associated with the telephone number. In response to the determination that an instant message identifier associates with the telephone number, it is further determined whether an instant message receiver is available to receive messages addressed to the instant message identifier. In response to a determination that an instant message receiver is available to receive instant messages addressed to the instant message identifier, the electronic message is forwarded as an instant message addressed to the instant message identifier. In response to a determinaton that an instant message receiver is available to receive instant message addressed to the instant message identifier, electronic message is sent to a mobile device at the telephone number in response to a determination that no instant message receiver is available to receive instant messages addressed to the instant message identifier. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032832 | DYNAMIC EMAIL CONTENT UPDATE PROCESS - An email update system dynamically updates the content of an email when the originator of an email has sent the email, and the originator later determines that the email requires editing. The updating may take place transparent to the recipient and without the introduction of duplicative content into the recipient's email program. The email update system comprises a delta engine program and a delta temporary storage in a sender's computer, a queue manager program and an intermediate email queue in a server computer, and a recipient email retrieval program in a recipient's computer. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032833 | Intelligent Message Routing and Delivery in a Telecommunications Network - Messages directed to a mobile device are selectively routed to message servers based upon the capabilities of a network to which the mobile device is connected. According to an illustrative method disclosed herein, a network connectivity server receives a network identifier from the mobile device, the network connectivity server receives a request for routing instructions for the message, and the network connectivity server determines if the network identified by the network identifier is capable of delivering the message. The network connectivity server then instructs the message server to route the message according to a standard delivery method for a message type of the message or to a message conversion server computer based upon the determination. The message conversion server computer converts the message into a new message type that the network is capable of delivering to the mobile device. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150039697 | Identifying Content in an Incoming Message on a Social Network - Identifying content in an incoming message on a social network includes categorizing a sender-recipient relationship between a sender and a recipient of an incoming message in an activity stream in a display. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039698 | BLIND SHARING OF CONTENT ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES - In an example embodiment disclosed herein, there is described a system and method for a user of a messaging service to create content, and designate that the content should be delivered or posted to selected recipients. The system allows the user to further designate a status for each recipient, in that a recipient may be designated as a public recipient or a private or blind recipient. An appropriate or compatible format for the content is determined for each recipient based on each recipient's status, the content is formatted in accordance with the determined format, and the content is then delivered to each recipient in the determined format. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039699 | System and Method for Displaying and Notifying Collective Events for a Group - A system and method for displaying collective events for a group is disclosed herein. One method comprises receiving, by a reminder device, a plurality of events from a server. Each of the events can be from a user within a group, and the events can be addressed to the reminder device. The method can also comprise the step of displaying the events in a blog on a screen on the reminder device. The reminder device can be displayable in a location accessible by the group. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039700 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed for managing electronic communications. According to certain embodiments, an enterprise directory is provided for listing a plurality of enterprises. In one embodiment, the enterprise directory may include an enterprise profile for each enterprise identifying, among other things, a mode of communication for the enterprise. Enterprises that wish to communicate with one another may form partnerships with one another. In one embodiment, a partnership may be formed between two enterprises when one enterprise accepts a partnership request submitted by the other enterprise. Information regarding partnerships between enterprises may be stored in a database. Further, an enterprise user may request to electronically communicate (e.g., via IM, voice, or email) with a user associated with a different enterprise. Users associated with different enterprises may be allowed to communicate electronically with one another if their respective enterprises are in a partnership with one another. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039701 | Identifying Content in an Incoming Message on a Social Network - Identifying content in an incoming message on a social network includes categorizing a sender-recipient relationship between a sender and a recipient of an incoming message in an activity stream in a display. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039702 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A HUB-BASED SYSTEM FEDERATING DISPARATE UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - An apparatus for monitoring a hub-based federation system. The apparatus includes a message generator, a first connector, a second connector, and a status manager. The message generator is configured to generate a first message based on a first communications protocol. The first connector is configured to send the first message to a hub via the first communications protocol. The hub federates a plurality of unified communications systems. The second connector is configured to receive a second message from the hub via a second communications protocol. The status manager is configured to analyze the second message to determine status information regarding the hub-based federation system. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039703 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION - Systems and methods for electronic message prioritization are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include (1) accessing a message repository for a user, the message repository comprising a plurality of messages; (2) for each of the plurality of messages: (a) collect user behavior with regard to the message; (b) analyze the message; (c) generate an initial message priority based on the user behavior and the analysis; (d) compare the initial message priority to historical message priority data for the user; and (e) adjust the initial message priority based on the historical message priority data. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039704 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION - Systems and methods for graphically representing a plurality of electronic messages in an electronic message repository are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include, for each of a plurality of electronic messages in an electronic message repository: (1) at least one computer processor determining a category for the electronic message; (2) the at least one computer processor determining a topic for the electronic message; and (3) the at least one computer processor identifying at least one related electronic message that is related to the electronic message. The at least one computer processor may graphically represent each of the plurality of electronic messages in relation to at least one of the topic, the category, and the related electronic message. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039705 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION - Systems and methods for prioritizing electronic messages in an electronic message repository are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include (1) at least one computer processor determining an amount of message review time for a user; (2) the at least one computer processor estimating a number of electronic messages that the user can review in the message review time; (3) the at least one computer processor determining a priority level for a plurality of electronic messages in the user's electronic message repository; (4) the at least one computer processor selecting electronic messages from the user's electronic message repository based on the estimated number of electronic messages that the user can review and the priority level for the electronic messages. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039706 | UNIFIED AND CONSISTENT MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK - A unified communication framework in which multiple users communicate using multiple modes. Conversations are kept consistent across users' devices. A backend maintains the true and authoritative version of the conversation within the communication framework. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039707 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING - The disclosure concerns systems and methods for extracting data from documents. A computer receives a message from a sender. The message has the electronic document and an electronic address of the sender. Based on the address of the sender the computer selects a map that comprises location data of data fields and determines values of the data fields by extracting data from the electronic document using the location data of the selected map. Since the computer selects the map based on the address of the sender the computer does not need to rely on the content of the electronic document to select the correct map to use, which makes the selection less prone to errors and the method can be used with existing email systems. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039708 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A MESSAGE - An apparatus and method to process a message in a network communication is provided. An example method for processing a message may include determining, by a message transmitter, a key recipient of a message to be transmitted and adding a key identifier of the key recipient to the message. The method may further involve transmitting the message in the communication group. Upon receiving the message at a message receiver in the communication group transmitted by the message transmitter, it may be determined whether a recipient corresponding to the message receiver is the key recipient of the message. If the recipient corresponding to the message is the key recipient, the message receiver may display the message as an important message; and otherwise, display the message as a non-important message. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039709 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND DISTRIBUTING ELECTRONIC POSTCARDS - Method and system for creating and distributing professional quality electronic postcards are provided. An accessible library of numerous photographs/videos taken by professionals is maintained, for example, on a app or website. Access to the app or website can be accomplished using any suitable input device, for example smart phones, tablets, laptops, computers etc. Following a series of simple steps, users select from an assortment of images, videos, photos, messages, etc., to create an electronic postcard. Users have their own pages on the app or website, where sent and received electronic postcards are stored. A simple method for creating albums from the user's electronic postcards is also provided. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039710 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING ACTION-BASED DIGITAL GREETING CARDS - Systems and methods are described herein that allow computing device users to send and receive encapsulated messages, such a greeting cards, consolidating input from more than one user into a single greeting card. Sensors on a computing device, such as a smartphone, may be used to simulate an action that triggers an encapsulated message to be transmitted or retrieved. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150039711 | Broadcasting in Chat System Without Topic-Specific Rooms - A method, system, and graphical user interface for a chat system is disclosed. A server with processor(s) and memory obtains a plurality of incoming messages, where the plurality of incoming messages include one or more external messages and one or more in-system messages from authors in the communication system, the one or more external messages are generated from one or more external sources. The server identifies one or more messages from a first author among the plurality of incoming messages in the communication system and receives a feedback message from a first user of the communication system about at least one of: the first author and a first message of the one or more popular messages. The server sends to a plurality of users of the communication system the first message and the feedback message from the first user, where the plurality of users track the first author. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150046541 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MESSAGING CLUSTER WITH HYBRID PARTITIONS - Described herein is a system and method for providing a messaging cluster with hybrid partitions. In accordance with an embodiment, a computer environment or messaging system includes a cluster of message brokers, which supports a hybrid of one or more fixed type partitions and/or on-demand type partitions. A message producer can be associated with a configuration that indicates a type of partition to be used for connection with that message producer. The cluster of message brokers assign to that connection a partition of the type indicated by the connection. Upon a load-balancing or failover of a message broker having active connections to message producers, those connections having an indication of fixed type partition are assigned to the same partition at a failed-over message broker, while those connections having an indication of on-demand type partition can be assigned to any on-demand partition at the failed-over message broker. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046542 | Server Device for Exchanging Messages - Since only users registered in a chatting service are subject of friends on the chatting service, unregistered users cannot become friends. A server apparatus controls a message exchanged between registered users who are registered in a chatting service, and controls a message exchanged between a registered user and an unregistered user. Also, the server apparatus manages a friend list of the registered user, and recommends other user to be added to the friend list with respect to the registered user. Also, the server apparatus determines other user to be recommended to the registered user by using a predetermined condition set according to the presence or absence of registration in the chatting service. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046543 | Real Life to Digital Life Event Correlation - A method and system for correlating events with social media is provided. The method includes retrieving from a social network, social network data associated with users of the social network. The social network data is associated with event data associated with a user of the users. Temporary actions associated with a social network account of the user are enabled and a notification is transmitted to a group of users. In response, confirmation data associated with enabling the temporary actions is received from the group of users and permanent actions associated with the temporary actions are enabled. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046544 | Mirror Presence Between Websites - A mirror presence system comprising a mirror site configured to couple to a visitor site via a communication network, establish a mirror presence relationship between the mirror site and the visitor site, perform a mirror presence at the mirror site by mirroring a direct presence of the user at the visitor site to a mirror presence of a user at the mirror site according to the established mirror presence relationship when the user is connect to the visitor site through a user device, wherein the direct presence of the user at the visitor site occurs when the user connects to the visitor site directly, and provide a caller accessing the mirror site through a calling site with an online presence state of the user at the mirror site according to the mirror presence even though the user is not directly connected to the mirror site. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046545 | SEPARATING AND SENDING PRIVATE TEXT FROM AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A computer program product including computer readable program code embodied on a computer readable storage medium, includes computer readable program code for receiving an original message from a sender, wherein the original message includes multiple portions of content and designates one or more recipients for each of the portions of content, wherein at least one of the portions of content is designated for multiple recipients. The computer program product further comprises computer readable program code for automatically, in response to receiving the original message from the sender, preparing a separate message designated for each recipient, wherein the separate message designated for a particular one of the recipients includes only those portions of content from the original message that are designated for the particular recipient. The computer program product still further comprises computer readable program code for forwarding each of the separate messages to the designated recipient. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046546 | SEPARATING AND SENDING PRIVATE TEXT FROM AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A method comprising receiving an original message from a sender, wherein the original message includes multiple portions of content and designates one or more recipients for each of the portions of content, wherein at least one of the portions of content is designated for multiple recipients. The method further comprises automatically, in response to receiving the original message from the sender, preparing a separate message designated for each recipient, wherein the separate message designated for a particular one of the recipients includes only those portions of content from the original message that are designated for the particular recipient. The method still further comprises forwarding each of the separate messages to the designated recipient. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046547 | OPTIMIZING E-MAIL FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Methods and systems of optimizing e-mail for mobile devices are described. In some embodiments, an e-mail message is caused to be displayed within an e-mail client on a mobile device. The e-mail message comprises a selectable link corresponding to a website action that can be performed on a website. A user on the mobile device is enabled to cause a performance of an e-mail action corresponding to the website action via the e-mail client without navigating to the website, such as via a new e-mail message generated within the e-mail client. A mobile link configured to cause the performance of the action via the e-mail client can be included in the e-mail message. A CSS pseudo-element can be included in CSS rules for the e-mail message. The CSS pseudo-element can be configured to generate mobile content associated with the mobile link. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046548 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING CONTENTS THEREOF, AND MASSAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE RELATED TO CONTENTS - A method for reproducing content by a terminal includes reproducing content received from a content providing system, receiving a first message through a user interface of the terminal while the content is being reproduced, and transmitting time information of the content at which the first message was input and the first message to a message management system. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046549 | TOOL SELECTION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a tool selection method, a computer refers to information of work models each associating an attribute of a work tool with a pair of an object character string related to a work object and an activity character string including verbs related to work activities, the information being stored in a memory, detects a pair of an object character string and an activity character string from an e-mail, specifies a work model corresponding to the detected pair, and specifies a work tool having an attribute corresponding to the specified work model. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046550 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMS FOR CONFIGURING ELECTRONIC MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums configure electronic messaging applications to communicate with a server storing messages to and/or from an electronic messaging account of a user. A method involves receiving an electronic message address and a password of the user as inputs, deriving server connection settings based on the electronic message address, and applying the server connection settings to the electronic messaging account. Another method involves receiving an electronic message address of the user and discovering the server connection settings for the electronic messaging account on a server having a designated protocol name as a server prefix name to assist in locating the server and having the server connection settings. The method also involves retrieving the server connection settings from a file provided by the server in response to locating the server having the designated name and applying the server connection settings to the electronic messaging account. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046551 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUPING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Arrangements relate to the grouping electronic messages by a messaging client. A plurality of electronic messages to a message recipient from a sender electronic messaging system can be received. Each of the electronic messages can include a container specification, which can include an identifier assigned by the sender electronic messaging system. The identifiers of the received electronic messages can be compared. A plurality of the received electronic messages having the same identifier can be grouped. The grouped electronic messages can be presented as a single electronic message to the message recipient. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046552 | UPDATING AN E-MAIL RECIPIENT LIST - Arrangements describe herein relate to updating an e-mail recipient list. A first version of an e-mail can be received, the first version comprising a message header identifying at least a first e-mail recipient. The first version of the e-mail can be sent to the first e-mail recipient indicated in the message header. A second version of the e-mail can be received, the second version of the e-mail indicating at least a second e-mail recipient. The second version can be sent to the at least second e-mail recipient indicated in the message header of the second version. An update request for the first version can be received, the update request configured to be processed to update the message header of the first version to add the at least second e-mail recipient to the message header. The update request can be sent to the at least first e-mail recipient. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046553 | Communications Routing and Contact Updates - A system allowing a user to efficiently locate and contact those individuals the user would like to communicate with and for collection of data about users to determine the best contact point to use at a particular time. The system monitors the data and may determine an individual's usage patterns in order to select or suggest contact points that are the best to contact a particular user at a particular time. The system may also allow for the routing of communications to particular contact points based on how the user receiving the communication would prefer to be contacted. The system allows for the single selection of an icon by an individual and automatically determines the contact point to contact the particular user. If further allows for the particular user to push out to others updated contact information. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046554 | Dynamic Duty-Cycling of Processor of Mobile Device Based on Operating Condition of Mobile Device - In one embodiment, a method includes recording a first location of a mobile device; determining, by a geographic-positioning component of the mobile device, on a periodic basis, a trajectory of the mobile device, wherein the trajectory is calculated based on present and past user locations; determining, by the geographic-positioning component, whether the trajectory is outside a geographic region defined at least in part by the first location; and if the trajectory is outside the geographic region, then transmitting, by the processors of the geographic-positioning component, a message to one or more other processors of the mobile device, the message causing one or more of the other processors to transition from a sleep state to an active state. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046555 | MESSAGE BROKER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A message broker system can include a message broker. The message broker can be configured to receive the message instances output as input message instances, store the input message instances in a message store, alter the structure or content of the input message instances according to a message brokering model to generate output message instances and provide output message instances to one or more downstream processors. According to one embodiment, input message stream processing can be decoupled from output message stream processing by the message broker. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150052203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAILING LIST IDENTIFICATION AND REPRESENTATION - Disclosed is a system and method for managing mailing list newsletter messages for a recipient user, and organizing such messages in accordance with a receiving user's interests. The present disclosure enables novel organizational tools for emails by intuitively organizing received newsletters and providing highly visible features within a user's inbox respective the newsletters. Organization of received newsletters is ensured through ranking users' mailing lists according to his/her interest in them, based on actions made by the respective user, in addition to actions of other users receiving the same newsletters. Additionally, upon reception of such newsletters, the present disclosure provides a specialized view, in addition to added functionality within a user's inbox, thereby enhancing a user's experience and engagement with received messages of a newsletter. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052204 | System and Method of anonymously messaging, generating social percentile, match making, personal recommendation and geolocation search - The present invention relates to computer-implemented services and user interfaces for allowing users to send a request or message to another user or anyone with an email address without disclosing her or her identity, match friends, tag people with certain attributes to generate a social percentile, and review connections. The invention also relates to methods for sending a request or message anonymously, generating a social percentile with attribute tagging, reviewing individuals and matching a member with another individual. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE HOLDING STORAGE DURING MESSAGING - A system and method of flexible holding storage during messaging includes determining one or more properties of a message, the message to be stored in a holding storage area of a messaging system, determining status of one or more candidate holding storage devices, determining one or more storage selection rules, adjusting the one or more storage selection rules based on information associated with the status of the one or more candidate holding storage devices, and selecting a holding storage device for the message from the candidate holding storage devices based on the adjusted storage selection rules and information associated with the properties of the message. The one or more storage selection rules express preferences among the one or more candidate holding storage devices. In some examples, the system and method further include sending the message to the selected holding storage device. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052206 | CREATING A CONTACT LIST AND PRE-POPULATED USER ACCOUNTS - Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a contact list and pre-populated user accounts. An existing contact list associated with a first user is imported at a computer system. A second contact list is created for the first user for a user account associated with a social network service wherein the second contact list comprises members from the existing contact list. Members of the existing contact list whom already have a user account with the social network service are filtered into a first category. Members of the existing contact list whom do not have a user account with the social network service are filtered into a second category. Pre-populated user accounts associated with the social network service are created for the members in the second category. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052207 | FILTERING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BASED ON DOMAIN ATTRIBUTES WITHOUT REPUTATION - A messaging application filters electronic messages based on domain attributes without a reputation. A message with a uniform resource identifier (URI) is received and determined to not be included within a trusted or a block list. A total score is computed from weighted scores assigned to factors associated with the message. The message is evaluated for an unsolicited message determination by comparing the total score against a predetermined threshold. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052208 | INVOCATION OF SEQUENCED APPLICATIONS BASED ON DYNAMIC PARAMETERS - Systems and methods are described for selecting applications for incorporation into an application sequence. The selected applications provide one or more features to a communication session and the order of applications selected for the application sequence depends, at least in part, on one or more dynamic parameters. The consideration of dynamic parameters for application sequencing provides a more flexible alternative to traditional application sequencing based on static parameters, like user identities. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRUCTURED MESSAGE ENTRY FOR USE IN SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS - A system for implementing data postings in a social media platform is provided having an interface configured to allow users to receive messages from and to post messages to the system. A processor provides a plurality of structured data tags for use by the users, where the structured data tags have at least one data field for correlating at least one structured data entered in conjunction with the structured data tag. The system in configured to receive a plurality of communications from the users which include at least one structured data tag and at least one correlated structured data. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052210 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BROADCASTING RICH MEDIA TO DEVICES OVER MULTIPLE CARRIERS - The invention pertains to systems and methods for providing content to a device including receiving an identifier for each of at least one device that should receive the content; determining a device type for each of the at least one device that should receive the content; determining device parameters for each of the at least one device that should receive the content based on the determined device type; tailoring the content for each of the at least one device that should receive the content based on the determined device parameters; and providing the tailored content to each of the at least one device that should receive the content. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052211 | MESSAGE BASED CONVERSATION FUNCTION EXECUTION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - A message based conversation method is provided. The message based conversation method includes receiving a toon chat function execution requeast in an execution of a message application, providing a toon chat production tool, storing a cartoon cut created by the toon chat production tool, and transmitting the created cartoon cut to an electronic device corresponding to a conversation counterpart. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052212 | System and Method for Processing Electronic Mail - A system and method for processing electronic mail is disclosed herein. The system for processing electronic mail, comprising a computer system in electronic communication with a network, the computer system receiving and sending one or more email messages over the network, and an email client application executed by the computer system, the email client application generating on said computer system, an electronic user interface for allowing a user to process the one or more email messages, a first toolbar for allowing the user to control operation of the email client application, and a secondary toolbar including at least one macro button selectable by the user when the one or more email messages are displayed to the user in the electronic user interface, the at least one macro button having assigned thereto a user-definable macro which, when selected by the user, automatically processes the one or more email messages. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150058425 | SMART MEETING SERVICE - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a smart meeting service for setting up and managing meetings. One computer-implemented method includes receiving a meeting title as part of an indication to schedule a meeting; receiving an indication to engage a smart meeting service; receiving a content selection, a people selection, a time selection, and a location selection; sending a generated meeting request; and monitoring a meeting workflow for the generated meeting request. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058426 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING EMAIL SUBJECT LINES - Systems and methods for automatically generating e-mail subject lines are provided. A method for automatic generation of subject lines for electronic mail (email), comprises extracting topics from an email message, computing a sender relevance score for each topic, computing a receiver relevance score for each topic, ranking the topics based on the sender and receiver relevance scores, extracting syntactic units from the email message, ranking the extracted syntactic units from the email message based on the topic ranking, and assigning one or more subject lines to the email message based on the ranking of the syntactic units. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058427 | Limited Area Temporary Instantaneous Network - Social interaction between users in a mobile computing environment is facilitated by obtaining, from a plurality of mobile device users seeking connection to other users, via each user's respective mobile device, each user's self-identified interest as to which a connection is sought, and self-identified geographic area within which other users are desired to be engaged for a connection. A platform compares the self-identified interests and self-identified geographic areas of at least two users to identify two or more matching users, the matching users having expressed matching interests, and having overlapping geographic areas of interest, and then enables the two or more matching users to commence communication via their respective mobile devices, to facilitate further social interaction. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058428 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING EMAIL SUBJECT LINES - Systems and methods for automatically generating e-mail subject lines are provided. A method for automatic generation of subject lines for electronic mail (email), comprises extracting topics from an email message, computing a sender relevance score for each topic, computing a receiver relevance score for each topic, ranking the topics based on the sender and receiver relevance scores, extracting syntactic units from the email message, ranking the extracted syntactic units from the email message based on the topic ranking, and assigning one or more subject lines to the email message based on the ranking of the syntactic units. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058429 | MESSAGE TRACKING - Methods and systems for tracking emails are disclosed. Examples include determining the duration of time an email is open, determining whether to initiate or continue a connection with a tracking element, and determining which particular recipient(s) opened an email sent to multiple recipients. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058430 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHANGING A KEYPAD LANGUAGE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method, apparatus, and system for enabling a sender to communicate with a receiver based on a preferred language of the receiver is provided. The method provides the desired keypad language to the sender for typing a text message, mail or a chat message to the receiver. The method suggests the keypad language based on the preferred language of the sender or the last language used by the sender for communicating with the receiver or based on the languages set by the receiver in one or more social networks. Further, the method synchronizes the contacts of the sender, contacts in different communication applications used by the sender and contacts in different social networks of the sender with a cloud or a database and provides the preferred keypad language to the sender. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058431 | CROSS PLATFORM DISCOVERY AND COMMUNICATION OVER A LOCAL NETWORK - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems that execute a cross-platform application programming interface (API) that supports a plurality of applications are described. The cross-platform API implements a request from an application for a device to participate in a unique conversation, the unique conversation being identified by a topic and independent of a unique identifier for entities. The cross-platform API further provides the application an abstracted discovery mechanism by which the application causes the device to discover an entity that is accessible on the local network participating in the unique conversation. The cross-platform API further provides the application with a message passing mechanism by which the application causes the first device to exchange messages related to the unique conversation with the entity. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150067065 | TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES AND NOTIFICATIONS IN VIRTUALIZED WIRELESS MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES - A method for transmitting short message service (SMS) messages and notifications within a virtualized wireless device is provided. In one embodiment, a hypervisor detects an incoming SMS message directed to a virtualized wireless device that comprises at least two virtual operating systems. The hypervisor further transmits the incoming SMS message to a first virtual operating system of the virtualized wireless device. In addition, the hypervisor notifies a second virtual operating system of the virtualized wireless device of the incoming SMS message. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067066 | Provisioning Communication Services using Proxy Server in a Cloud - A method and system for provisioning a communication service using a proxy server in a cloud. The method includes engaging a service provider network and a cloud in a zero-rated service level agreement (SLA). Further, the method includes receiving a message and compressing content of the received message into plain text. The method further includes detecting one or more attachments associated with the message and removing the one more attachments from the message. Furthermore, the method includes inserting one or more links to the one or more removed attachments into the message and routing the message to one or more receivers in accordance to the zero-rated SLA. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067067 | Data Communications In A Distributed Computing Environment - Data communications may be carried out in a distributed computing environment that includes a plurality of computers coupled for data communications through communications adapters and an active messaging interface (‘AMI’). In such an environment, data communications may include: issuing, by a sender to a receiver, an eager SEND data communications instruction to transfer SEND data, the instruction including information describing a location and size of a send buffer in which the SEND data is stored; transmitting, by the sender to the receiver, the SEND data as eager data packets; issuing, by the receiver to the sender in dependence upon data flow conditions, a STOP instruction, the STOP instruction including an order to stop transmitting the eager data packets; and transferring the SEND data by the receiver from the sender's data location to a receive buffer by remote direct memory access (“RDMA”). | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067068 | Data Communications In A Distributed Computing Environment - Data communications may be carried out in a distributed computing environment that includes a plurality of computers coupled for data communications through communications adapters and an active messaging interface (‘AMI’). In distributed computing environment, data communications may include: receiving in the AMI from an application an eager SEND instruction that describes the location and size of send data in an application SEND buffer; copying by the AMI the send data from the application SEND buffer to a temporary AMI buffer; advising the application of completion of the SEND instruction before sending the SEND data to the receiver; and after advising the application of completion of the SEND instruction, sending the SEND data by the sender to the receiver. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067069 | ENFORCING RESOURCE QUOTA IN MAIL TRANSFER AGENT WITHIN MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - An application such as a mail transfer agent (MTA) enforces a resource quota within a multi-tenant environment. An email associated with a tenant is managed based on decisions evaluating the email against a queue quota and an association between the email and an email storm. The email is also managed based on another decision evaluating the email against a processing quota. In addition, the email is managed based on a cross MTA aggregate of usage information associated with the first, second, and third decisions. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING GENDER BALANCING OF AN EVENT USING NOTIFICATIONS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes determining a first number of users who have indicated an intention to attend an event; determining what fraction of the first number of users is a particular gender; and using the determined fraction and an ideal fraction of the particular gender for the event to determine an additional number of males or an additional number of females to be invited to attend the event. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067071 | MANAGING MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - A method for managing message distribution in a networked computing environment. The method includes determining, for a particular topic, at least a first subscriber messaging engine and a second subscriber messaging engine to receive a topic message. The method includes determining that the first subscriber messaging engine is to act as a cache for the second subscriber messaging engine. The method includes sending the topic message to the first subscriber messaging engine. The method then includes sending a reference message to the second subscriber messaging engine, the reference message being able to be used to retrieve the topic message from the first subscriber messaging engine. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067072 | MAINTAINING AND UPDATING NOTIFICATION REGISTRATION INFORMATION - A first server may receive, from a user device, a first instruction including a token and a request to register the user device to receive a message associated with a particular application; update registration information to indicate that the user device is to receive the message based on receiving the first instruction; and provide a second instruction to a second server to cause the second server to provide the message to the user device on behalf of the first server. The second instruction may include information regarding the message, the token, and an instruction to provide the message to the user device associated with the token. The first server may receive, from the second server, a report indicating that the message was not delivered to the user device; and update the registration information to indicate that the user device is no longer to receive the message based on receiving the report. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067073 | RESTART CAPABILITY IN MESSAGE CAMPAIGN - In an embodiment, a message campaign is defined based on a received plurality of inputs and received target group to be assigned to the message campaign. In response to receiving an execute instruction from a user interface, a mass data run object instance is created corresponding to the message campaign. Schedule parameters such as date and time are specified to schedule execution of the created mass data run object instance. The mass data run object instance groups the recipients of the target group into packages. Execute the grouped packages in parallel in batches to send personalized communication to the recipients grouped in the packages by creating a corresponding instance for the recipients. In case one or more packages fails to execute, restart execution of the one more packages to send personalized communication to the recipients in the one or more packages. The recipients receive personalized communication only once. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067074 | PERSONALIZED BOOKMARKING OF TEXTSITE APPLICATIONS VIA A TEXT MESSAGE - A method for using a bookmark to access content from a global textsite platform (GTP). The method includes obtaining a bookmark creating text message, wherein the bookmark creating text message is based on a text messaging service (TMS) and sent by a user to create the bookmark, extracting, by a computer processor from the bookmark creating text message and based on a pre-determined syntax, a user ID representing the user, a first bookmark ID representing the bookmark, and a first registered unique keyword used to access a first textsite from the GTP based on the TMS, and storing, as a bookmark entry in a bookmark list of the GTP, the user ID, the first bookmark ID, and the first registered unique keyword, wherein the first bookmark ID is used by the user to access the first textsite from the GTP. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067075 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ESTIMATE DEMOGRAPHICS OF USERS EMPLOYING SOCIAL MEDIA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate demographics of users employing social media. An example method disclosed herein includes (1) identifying a social media message regarding an asset, the social media message associated with a user identifier associated with the user, (2) determining demographics associated with a group of people exposed to the asset, (3) associating the user identifier with the asset, and (4) repeating (1) to (3). The example method also includes (5) combining demographics associated with two or more different groups of people with which the user identifier is associated to estimate a demographic profile for the user. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067076 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING AND OPTIMIZING QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS - Approaches for distributing and optimizing quality and quantity of social media posts or other posts are disclosed. In certain implementations, a post may be received from a user for submission to a channel directed to a topic. A stream flow value may be determined for the channel. The stream flow value may be based on a volume of posts associated with the channel. A rating value associated with the user submitting the post may be determined. A scope of distribution of the post to one or more users accessing the channel may be determined based on the stream flow value and the rating value. In some implementations, channel instances corresponding to the channel may be provided on different device components. At least one channel instance of the channel instances on which to make the post available may be determined based on the stream flow value and the rating value. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067077 | PRIVATE MESSAGING AND PRIVATE SOCIAL NETWORK METHOD FOR CREATING PERSONAL AND PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNITIES THROUGH CONNECTING USER(S) UTILIZING PHYSICAL OBJECTS AND/OR PRODUCTS AND ASSOCIATED UNIQUE CODE(S) LINKED TO USERS, MESSAGES, ACTIVITIES, AND/OR INFORMATION - A method for creating personal and private online communities through connecting users utilizing physical objects and/or products associated with or having Unique Code(s) linked to member(s), message(s), activity(ies), and information. The invention connects individuals virtually or online in a private online community. The method implements at least one (1) computer, on-line, and/or virtual network, which hosts at least one (1) home page and/or webpage of at least one (1) private online and/or virtual community and uses at least one (1) database, in part or in whole, which stores Unique Code(s) printed on and/or associated with corresponding physical objects and/or products. At least one (1) physical object and/or product is exchanged between at least two (2) individuals. A private messaging and private social network method. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067078 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER FOR DETECTING TRENDS IN SOCIAL MEDIA - The present invention provides a method for selecting an identified message group from among the plurality of messages sent by a plurality of users of social media. For the messages sent by users other than the original user that quote the message sent by the original message user, the method provides: performing a primary evaluation of the potential for being further resent; identifying a single user who has sent a message for which the primary evaluation result was higher than a predetermined first threshold; identifying a message group similar to a resent messages group, based on a resent messages group that quotes the message send by the single user; performing a secondary evaluation for the potential that the similar message group will be further resent; and selecting a message group for which the secondary evaluation result was higher than a predetermined second threshold. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067079 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A device management system including the device management apparatus and a plurality of communication devices capable of communicating with the device management apparatus via the network stores destination information received from a first communication device and first identification information corresponding to the first communication device in association with address information, transmits the address information according to the destination information, transmits screen information to a second communication device in response to access from the second communication device using the address information, stores, when it receives service-related information input according to the screen information from the second communication device, the service-related information in association with second identification information for uniquely specifying the service-related information and the first identification information corresponding to the address information, and notifies the first communication device of the second identification information stored in association with the first identification information. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067080 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING HOME DEVICE IN HOME NETWORK SYSTEM - A method for remotely controlling a home device in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes receiving a chat message input to the mobile terminal for controlling at least one home device through an instant messenger application installed in the mobile terminal, and sending the chat message to a messenger server. The sent chat message is converted into a control command, which is sent to the home device. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067081 | MECHANISM FOR ESTABLISHING REPUTATION IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Traffic is obtained from a plurality of internet protocol version six addresses within a plurality of internet protocol version six blocks; and a first indication of inappropriate traffic is obtained from a first one of the addresses. Responsive to the first indication of inappropriate traffic, a reputation score for a first given one of the blocks, containing the first one of addresses, is incremented by a first predetermined amount; and a reputation score for a second given one of the blocks, adjacent the first given one of the blocks, is incremented by a second predetermined amount which is less than the first predetermined amount. Traffic from the plurality of addresses within the plurality of blocks is passed or blocked in accordance with a policy based on the incremented reputation scores for the first and second given ones of the blocks. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067082 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Automatic Mapping Between Parlay-X Short Messaging Service Message Element XML Encoding and Native SMPP Protocol Data Coding Scheme - Systems, methods, and computer program products are for mapping an extensible markup language (XML) encoding declarations to a short message peer-to-peer (SMPP) data coding scheme (DCS) for a mobile-terminated (MT) short messaging service (SMS). An exemplary method includes receiving a message from a short message entity (SME) for delivery to a mobile device. The message includes a payload with at least one character encoded in accordance with a first character encoding scheme. The exemplary method further includes receiving from the SME a second encoding scheme for the message, implementing a mapping table to map the first character encoding scheme to the second character encoding scheme, and performing an encoding transformation of the message from the first character encoding to the second character encoding scheme yielding a modified message comprising the payload of the message encoded in the second character encoding scheme as specified by the SME. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067083 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC, CONTROL, AND INFORMATION COLLECTION BASED UPON A CONNECTION OR CONNECTIONLESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR SENDING MESSAGES TO THE RESOURCE MANAGER - A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a service center or from a service center to a resource administrator, but also may remain within a local or wide area network for transmission between a machine and a resource administrator. E-mail messages may be transmitted from a computer which is attached to a device that is being monitored or controlled and include information regarding the status, usage, or capabilities of the attached device. The device may send status messages and usage information of the device to either a resource administrator or to a service center on the Internet through a firewall. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150074201 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT TO COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including receiving a plurality of profiles from a plurality of communication devices, where each of the plurality of profiles comprise a content preference established by users of the plurality of communication devices, receiving content from a plurality of content sources, selecting portions of the content according to the plurality of profiles supplied by the plurality of communication devices, detecting that the portions of the content are not compatible with a multimedia messaging service protocol utilized by the multimedia messaging service server, transcoding the portions of the content to generate transcoded portions of the content that comply with the multimedia messaging service protocol, and broadcasting the transcoded portions of the content to the plurality of communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074202 | PROCESSING ACTION ITEMS FROM MESSAGES - An aspect provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, a message directed to a human recipient; processing, using one or more processors of the information handling device, the message to identify one or more action items contained in content of the message; and executing one or more additional actions based on the one or more action items identified from the content of the message. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074203 | PERSONALISED DYNAMIC EMAIL ADDRESSES IN ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENTS - Companies provide a set of default personalized dynamic email addresses for both individuals and groups. The embodiments may be implemented as an extension to existing email servers, which are coupled to an existing enterprise information system. When receiving an email sent to a personalized dynamic email address, an address resolver component is used to access the definition of the email address, query for the respective recipient(s), and replace the recipient(s) in the email message. Users have the possibility to define further personalized dynamic email addresses using, for example, a web interface. The embodiments may be smoothly integrated into an existing communication infrastructure of companies without the need to change existing systems. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074204 | System and Method to Generate an Abstract Advertisement Campaign Management and Implement Policy Enforcement - A message distribution system comprising an analytics system to receive an inquiry with qualifiers to generate an estimate of the number of mobile devices associated the with qualifiers, wherein the qualifiers comprise at least one characteristic associated with at least one of a mobile device, a mobile device user, or a mobile device owner, generating an estimate of the number of mobile devices associated with the qualifiers at a future time which may receive messages, and transmit the estimate of the number of mobile devices to a common campaign system. The system comprises a common campaign system to provide the qualifiers for selection, transmit the inquiry with the qualifiers to at least the analytics system to receive an estimate of the number of mobile devices associated with the qualifiers, and receive the estimate of the number of mobile devices associated with the qualifiers. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED MESSAGING - A user associates a supply chain event with a personalized message. The system causes the personalized message (or a link thereto) to be sent to a recipient using a selected dissemination method when the supply chain event occurs. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074206 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PARTICIPANT BASED IMAGE AND VIDEO SHARING - Methods for forwarding media content are disclosed. For example, a method identifies a known participant captured in the media content, detects an unknown participant captured in the media content and sends a request to a device of the known participant to identify the unknown participant and to provide contact information for the unknown participant. The method then receives from the device of the known participant, the contact information for the unknown participant and sends the media content to a device of the unknown participant using the contact information. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074207 | MANAGING EMAIL CONTENT IN AN ACTIVITY STREAM - Managing email content in an activity stream includes receiving a selection of a number of criteria that indicate content to be presented in an activity stream, retrieving email content based on the number of criteria, and displaying the email content in an activity stream by referencing email data related to the metadata. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074208 | EXPOSED GROUP OF RECIPIENTS FOR TEXT MESSAGE - Creating an exposed group of recipients for a text message includes creating the text message, wherein the text message is to be sent to multiple recipients. An exposed group of recipients is created from the recipients. The exposed group is included in the text message. A receiving device receiving the text message may identify the exposed group of recipients. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074209 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING MESSAGE - A method for a device to display a message includes receiving a message marking instruction directed to a message in a message display window; processing the message according to the message marking instruction; and updating the message display window with the processed message. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074210 | APPLYING ACTIONS TO ITEM SETS WITHIN A CONSTRAINT - Items of an item set may be stored by an item server (e.g., mail messages comprising a mailbox stored by a mail server) that supports the application of actions, but only within a constraint (e.g., a maximum duration or computational resources consumed by the action). The application of complex actions to large item sets may exceed the constraint if performed in one request. Moreover, the request may be made by a user interface of a user device, but the user interface may stall while interoperating with the item server to perform the action. Instead, a background process may issue a sequence of requests applying the action to respective batches of items within the constraint. This architecture may enable the user interface to remain responsive to the user while the action is performed, and even to be terminated without jeopardizing the completion of the action upon the item set. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074211 | NOTIFYING ONLINE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT OF PRESENTING PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED PORTION OF CONTENT - In a method for notifying a participant of an online conference of when a portion of content will be presented during the online conference, a computer receives at least one data item identifying the portion of content. The computer determines an estimate of a time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. The computer transmits a user notification including the estimate of the time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074212 | USER INITIATED RULE-BASED RESTRICTIONS ON MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for user initiated rule based restrictions on sending messages from a sender to a receiver in a communications network. The receiver establishes a set of rules for the sender that allows the sender a limited number of defined messages events with the receiver. The defined message events may be messages or message sessions. When the sender attempts to send a message to the receiver, it is determined whether a message session currently exists between the sender and the receiver. If a current session exists, the rules set by the receiver are used to determine if the message is allowed to be sent to the receiver. If a session does not currently exist, the rules are used to determine whether a new session is allowed. If a new message session is allowed, a new session is established, and the message is sent to the receiver during the new session. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074213 | SENDER-BASED RANKING OF PERSON PROFILES AND MULTI-PERSON AUTOMATIC SUGGESTIONS - Systems and methods for searching of information regarding persons or to provide assistance for completion during address input. In one embodiment, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as outgoing emails. Based on how the addresses of the persons are used in outgoing messages, the relevancy scores of the addresses are determined. When a user is searching for information or typing an address, the profiles and the relevancy scores are used to identify and sort search results or suggestions for the completion of the address input. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074214 | Status Update Propagation Based On Crowd Or POI Similarity - Systems and methods are provided for following status updates of users. In one embodiment, a requestor selects a Point of Interest (POI). In response, one or more POIs that match the selected POI to at least a predefined threshold degree are identified. Status updates sent by users located at one or more POIs of the one or more matching POIs are delivered to the requestor. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074215 | Methods And Systems For Optimizing Messages To Users Of A Social Network - Techniques to optimize messages sent to a user of a social networking system. In one embodiment, information about the user may be collected by the social networking system. The information may be applied to train a model for determining likelihood of a desired action by the user in response to candidate messages that may be provided for the user. The social networking system may provide to the user a message from the candidate messages with a selected likelihood of causing the desired action. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150081799 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING ADMINISTRATIVE ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATIONS - The invention relates to a system for managing administrative electronic notifications of a service voluntarily or obligatorily provided to the end users and the authorized intermediaries thereof through web pages created for that purpose, consisting of a served connected via Internet to said web pages and to user terminals, provided with a data base administrator and a web application that make it possible to periodically recover, according to various search criteria, new notifications in the mailbox associated with each user by means of the corresponding digital certificate, processing and generating a report of said notifications and sending it electronically to the user terminal, along with the corresponding documents. The system solves the problem experienced by authorized users, such as handling centers, of having to make daily checks of the electronic mailboxes of the people they represent, and also useful to end users as an advisory service. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081800 | MANAGING MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIAL GROUPINGS OF CONTACTS FOR A PARTICIPANT OF AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION THREAD - Configurations of the subject technology integrate with an online social networking service in order to manage membership of contacts within one or more social circles provided by the online social networking service. In one example, a button or other similar graphical element is provided to provide this functionality in a widget displayed in a user's e-mail application. The widget in one example is displayed in a conversation thread view of a conversation including one or more different e-mails from one or more participants. For a selected participant of the conversation thread, the aforementioned button is initially rendered to provide an indication of the participant's inclusion in one or more of the user's social circles. Selecting or hovering over the aforementioned button further allows the user to add the conversation participant to the user's social circles. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081801 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING WEB PAGES FOR MEMBERS - The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for generating web pages for members. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081802 | FACILITATING USER COMMUNICATION ABOUT A COMMON TOPIC - Among other things, we describe identifying, in first data available to a first user and not available to a second user, and in second data available to the second user not available to the first user, data pertaining to a common topic, and enabling the first user and the second user to communicate about the common topic based on the identification. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081803 | Recipient Control System for Ensuring Non-Conflicting and Comprehensive Distribution of Digital Information and Method Thereof - A system and method for ensuring an electronic communication sent by a user to one or more recipients is not sent to one or more inappropriate recipients. The system and method controls, monitors, detects and prevents sending of electronic communications to an unintended recipient or recipients. The system and method also controls, monitors, detects and ensures electronic communications are sent to all intended recipients. Based on parameters that identify conditions for an inappropriate recipient, the system and method compares each recipient of an electronic communication with the parameters and stops the sending if an inappropriate recipient exists. A notification is then provided identifying each inappropriate recipient and the parameters that were triggered. Mechanism to override the stopping of the electronic communication may be provided. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081804 | ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Described are a system and method for electronic notification. A metadata generator adds metadata including data related to a computer-related action to an electronic notification. The electronic notification configured to be received by a plurality of disparate systems. A state processing machine changes a state of the electronic notification according to the metadata. A notification modification module marks the electronic notification having the changed state, wherein the marked electronic notification is received by each of the disparate systems and is processed according to its changed state. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081805 | CONSENSUS LOSS IN DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS - A device may correspond to a physical access controller in a distributed physical access control system. A method, performed by the device in a distributed system, may include detecting that another device in the distributed system has become unavailable; determining that a loss of consensus has occurred in the distributed system based on detecting that the other device has become unavailable; generating a list of available devices in the distributed system; and sending an alarm message to an administrative device, wherein the alarm message indicates the loss of consensus and wherein the alarm message includes the list of available devices. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081806 | Techniques for Requesting Web Conference Recordings Automatically via a Conference Invitation Response - Techniques are presented for recording and delivering content associated with a teleconference meeting. At a server device, a message is sent to a first endpoint device. The message comprises an invitation to join a teleconference meeting. The message also comprises an option for a user at the first endpoint device to respond to the message with a request to record the teleconference meeting. A response message is received from the first endpoint device. The response message contains an indication of whether or not the user will join the teleconference meeting and a request to record the teleconference meeting. A host at a second endpoint device is presented with the request from the user to record the teleconference meeting. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081807 | INITIATING SOCIAL INTERACTION BASED ON E-MAIL CONTENT - Arrangements described herein relate to initiating social interaction based on e-mail content. Information associated with an e-mail being composed by a user can be analyzed to determine whether content of the e-mail is appropriate for incorporation into at least one social system. Responsive to determining that the content of the e-mail is appropriate for incorporation into at least one social system, a first option to enter the content of the e-mail in a first social system and a second option to enter the content of the e-mail in a second social system can be presented to the user. Responsive to the user selecting to enter the content of the e-mail in the first social system, a first entry in the first social system can be automatically created. The first entry can include the content of the e-mail composed by the user. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081808 | EMAIL WEBCLIENT AUTOMATIC FAILOVER - An attachment received from a webclient for a message in composition can be saved by an HTTP server in a storage system. Location information for the attachment can be stored in a database in a record associated with the webclient. If the HTTP server is unexpectedly unavailable, a backup HTTP server can locate the attachment using the record in the database and provide the attachment to a messaging server when the user is ready to send the message. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081809 | CONTROLLING DELIVERY AND ACCESS OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - A method, system and a computer program product of a computer controlling delivery and access of electronic communications is provided which includes providing an electronic communication sender to include a security measure with respect to an electronic communication to be sent to at least one electronic communication account of at least one intended recipient, receiving and applying the electronic communication security measure to the electronic communication to be sent, sending the electronic communication with the security measure to at least one intended recipient, determining existence of one or more delegates of the electronic communication account of the at least one intended recipient and in response to the determination step, preventing the sent electronic communication with the security measure from view by the one or more delegate of the electronic communication account of the at least one intended recipient. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081810 | EMAIL WEBCLIENT NOTIFICATION QUEUING - Notifications received from an email server can be stored and provided to a webclient upon subsequent communications from the webclient received at an HTTP server. Notifications stored in a database or a storage are retrieved and transmitted to the webclient by backup or alternate HTTP servers when the webclient requests service. An attachment received from a webclient for a message in composition can be saved by an HTTP server in a storage system so that a backup HTTP server can locate the attachment and provide the attachment to a messaging server when the user is ready to send the message. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081811 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE TO MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - The present invention discloses a method for providing a message to a mobile communication device. The method includes the following steps: a dispatched message is received from a service-providing server through a message-dispatching server. The dispatched message includes identification information of at least one message receiver. Rule-operating and message-processing are performed to the dispatched message through the message-dispatching server after a fixed time period from a time at which the dispatched message is received. The rule-operated and message-processed dispatched message is displayed on a display unit of a mobile communication device through the message-dispatching server. The mobile communication device logs in with the identification information of the message receiver. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081812 | Content-Based Notification and User-Transparent Pull Operation for Simulated Push Transmission of Wireless Email - Exemplary system, method, software and apparatus embodiments provide for creating a content-based notification for a mobile device, as a simulated push operation, for devices which do not have push capability. The system comprises a database, a server, and may also include a second web server for user account configuration. The database is adapted to store user account configuration and preference information. The server is adapted to receive a first message having a first protocol, such as SMTP, and to determine whether the content-based notification for the first message should be provided. When the content-based notification is to be provided, the server is adapted to extract a subset of information from the first message, and using the subset of information, to create a second message having a second, different protocol, such as SMS. The second message is transferred to a wireless network for transmission to the mobile device, with the second message providing the content-based notification of the first message. The information extracted from the first message enables a user to determine whether they want to download the complete message, as a user-transparent pull operation, and typically includes the from, to, size, date, subject fields, and a portion of the body of the first message, up to the remaining capacity of the second message. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081813 | Logo Message - A method for augmenting any communication, text, instant message, social media and other similar user interfaces and applications now known or shall be known in the future that provides the ability to insert and/or place logo, icon, symbol and other such material into individual message interfaces or character bubbles; provides further capability for an end user to “click” such material and subsequently be directed to any desired destination (i.e., content, web, video, audio, mobile, or satellite); user may be re-directed back to their original location prior to clicking on said material once desired. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081814 | WEB REPLY PATH VIA SMS - Methods and systems of providing a web reply path via an SMS-based communication are disclosed. A request to send an SMS message to a second user may be received from a first user. A first SMS message may be sent to the second user via SMS-based communication in response to the request from the first user. The first SMS message may comprise a URL. In response to the second user causing the URL to be loaded on a web browser, a web-based chat session between the first user and the second user may be initiated using the URL. The first user and the second user may be enabled to send chat messages to each other via the web-based chat session, which may be hosted by an online service provider at the URL. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081815 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING ANONYMOUS MESSAGE AND MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An anonymous message transmission method and a message transmission system using the same. In an anonymous message transmission method of a message transmission system, a terminal device transmits a message created by a user to a server when the terminal device is set to an anonymous transmission mode and receives a message transmission command from the user, and the server generates an anonymous message by eliminating user information included in the message, and transmits the anonymous message to an external terminal device. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081816 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An electronic message management system is disclosed that comprises an electronic message server arranged to receive electronic messages addressed to a recipient user associated with the electronic message server, and to cause electronic messages to be sent from the electronic message server to an electronic message client associated with the user and arranged to display messages indicative of the electronic messages, and a storage device arranged to store delivery rules. The system is arranged to store electronic messages until the electronic messages are sent to an electronic message client. Each recipient user associated with the system has at least one associated delivery rule defining when electronic messages received by the message server are made available for sending by the message server to the message client associated with the recipient user. The system is arranged to apply the delivery rules to electronic messages received by the message server so as to control when the received electronic messages are made available for sending by the message server to the message client associated with the recipient user. A corresponding method is also disclosed. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081817 | METHOD FOR DELIVERING PUSH NOTIFICATION AND PUSH NOTIFICATION SERVER FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method for delivering a push notification and a push notification server for performing the method. In the push notification delivery method, by a push notification server, a push notification message is received from a push notification server application. By the push notification server, the push notification message is sent to a push notification client registered in association with the push notification server application. If the push notification message is not sent, the push notification message is stored in a transmission queue within the push notification server and is resent to the push notification client, or an update, expiration or cancellation of the push notification message is processed. A push delivery state of a push notification message, sending of which has finally failed, is changed to a delivery failed state, and failure results are transferred to the push notification server application. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081818 | Combining Communication Contents - When a communication message notification initiated by a current communication window is received, a correlation relationship between a party participating in a communication and K communication subjects that belong to a same user system which acts as another party participating in the communication is obtained respectively. The K communication subjects that belong to the same user system have a common principal account and each communication subject has a corresponding child account. Alternatively, the K communication subjects use a same account and logs in different communication tools in the same system. K≧1. According to the correlation relationship, historical communication contents between the party participating in the communication and the K communication subjects are obtained respectively. The historical communication contents are combined. The combined communication contents are saved and displayed. The present techniques avoid the tedious and overdue problem of manually combining the communication contents. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081819 | Messaging Policy Controlled Email De-Duplication - Example methods and apparatus associated with a messaging policy controlled email deduplication are provided. In one example a messaging policy is accessed. It is determined whether a received message complies with the policy based on rules of the messaging policy. If a message complies with the messaging policy, the message is displayed. If the message does not comply with the messaging policy, it is determined whether the message is duplicative. If the message is deemed duplicative it is not displayed. Conversely, if the message is not deemed duplicative it is displayed. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081820 | MESSAGE PUBLISHING WITH PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED CONTENT REMOVAL - Publishing of a message that is free of prohibited or restricted content by a message publishing system that is provided with criteria concerning acceptable content. A message is received at the message publishing system, is processed by a processor to detect any prohibited or restricted items in the message which are outside of the criteria of the acceptable content, and the prohibited or restricted content is removed in response to the detection of the prohibited or restricted items in the message. Either the message or only a remainder of the message which is free of the prohibited or restricted content is published in accordance with the criteria provided to the message publishing system. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081821 | Time-Managed Electronic Mail Messages - Systems, method sand computer program products for facilitating the automatic deletion of received emails after a user-selectable time period has elapsed are disclosed. In various embodiments, email messages contain a header field referred to as an “Expiration Time” header field that dictates the length of time the email will reside in a designated Inbox prior to its automatic deletion by an email server. The server is able to automatically delete the received email as long as the email is residing in a folder that is synched to the server. A user receiving the email has access to the Expiration Time Header field and can modify its value if desired and allowed by the sender. The user can move the retrieved email to a folder that is not synched to the server, thus preventing the email from being automatically deleted by the server. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081822 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING ESTABLISHING OF A MULTIMEDIA SESSION - Multimedia communication systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary system comprises a server adapted to communicate with two or more multimedia endpoints; and a MCU adapted to communicate with the at least one server and the multimedia endpoints, wherein the server contains a module for instructing the multimedia endpoints to call a dial number for the MCU to establish a multimedia conference in response to a requested list of multimedia endpoints received from one of the multimedia endpoints. An exemplary method for establishing a multimedia conference comprises receiving at a server from a first endpoint a requested list of second endpoints desired to participate in the multimedia session; reviewing at the server the status of the second endpoints; and if the status of a particular second endpoint is an available status, instructing at least some of the available second endpoints to call a dial number for a MCU to participate in the multimedia conference. A further exemplary method allows for a determination to be made whether a multipoint or point-to-point conference is required, and allows a user to leave a message for users who unavailable to participate in the conference. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081823 | Terminal Search Method and Apparatus - A terminal search method and apparatus are disclosed that relate to the field of wireless communications technologies and resolve a problem in the prior art that a terminal cannot find, without relying on support from a Location Based Service (LBS) server, another terminal that runs a same application in a local scope or an adjacent area. The method includes acquiring an application identifier; broadcasting a broadcast frame that carries the application identifier to a receiving end; receiving a message that is sent by a candidate receiving end and carries a target application identifier, where the target application identifier is selected by the candidate receiving end from the application identifier; and determining a target receiving end from the candidate receiving end, so as to establish a connection of a target application with the target receiving end. Embodiments of the present invention are mainly applied to a short-distance wireless communication process. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081824 | Forgotten Attachment Detection - A user is writing an email or other message. The message is inspected for a predetermined word and for at least one of: a predetermined phrase or a template match. A score is generated if the predetermined phrase or the template match is detected. A suggestion is provided to a user that the message may need an attachment if the predetermined word is detected or if the score is greater than a predetermined score. The inspection may begin when the user begins creating the message, indicates that the message should be sent, or at some point in between. The user may provide feedback that the suggestion is accepted or that the suggestion is rejected. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081825 | Method for Automatically Unsubscribing an Address from a Subscription - An improved method for detecting and unsubscribing one or more addresses from a series of subscriptions by examining the emails in the mailbox of the address and determining if they are from a subscription/automated/list server by examining the header contents, the sender's address, the subject, and comparing each message to other messages to identify patterns, then, examining each message to identify methods of unsubscribing from the Subscription. Finally, unsubscribing from the subscriptions either automatically, or in a semi-manual method and optionally deleting all messages associated with the subscription. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A communication system includes a communication server configured to receive a request to generate a communication and receive a request to associate the communication with one or more classifications from a plurality of classifications. The system further includes a store coupled to the communication server and configured to store the communications and/or store the classification received in the association request. The classifications are associated with a request for information from a recipient of the communication. The classifications are associated with a request for information from a recipient of the communication, a request for sharing information with the recipient of the communication, and a request for action from the recipient of the communication. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081827 | INTEGRATED TWO-WAY COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN DATABASE CLIENT USERS AND ADMINISTRATORS - A method and system for communicating between database client users and administrators. A message request is received from a database administrator (DBA) responsible for managing aspects of a particular database. The message request includes a database name of the particular database, at least two message recipients, and message content. The message request is a request to send the message content only to the at least two message recipients consisting of at least two but not all database client users currently connected to the particular database. An Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with each message recipient is determined, without using an instant messaging address for any of the message recipients. A first message including the message content is simultaneously transmitted to each of the determined IP addresses. A second message, which includes a reply message to the first message, is received from one of the determined IP addresses. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081828 | DEGREES OF SEPARATION FOR HANDLING COMMUNICATIONS - A sender's degrees of separation from a recipient may be used to aid in spam filtering or to otherwise handle a communication. The “degrees of separation” represent a metric used to quantify whether/how the recipient is linked to the sender through intermediary people or other entities. For example, a recipient may know a first user (first degree of separation) and the first user may know a second user (second degree of separation) who knows the sender of an e-mail. In this case, the sender is separated from the recipient by two degrees of separation (by two other contacts). A level of “trust” or “legitimacy” about a sender's communication can be inferred by looking at whether the sender is linked to an intended recipient. Typically, user contact lists (e.g., address book, buddy list, and/or white list) are evaluated to determine the number of degrees (or hops) are required to link or relate two users. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150088997 | Method and System for Tracking Estimated Cost of Events - A system and machine-implemented method for determining a cost of an event is provided including detecting an initiation of an event, the event being associated with one or more intended participants, determining an estimated duration of the event and determining a total estimated cost of the event based on the estimated duration of the event and a cost per time unit for each of the one or more intended participants. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088998 | Automatic Question Generation and Answering Based on Monitored Messaging Sessions - Mechanisms are provided, in a first computing device, for sharing content of communication sessions. The mechanisms establish a first communication session between the first computing device and a second computing device. The first computing device is operated by a first user and the second computing device is operated by a second user. The apparatus establishes, in response to content of the first communication session indicating subject matter for which additional information is desired by at least one of the first user or the second user, a second communication session between the first computing device and a question and answer (QA) system. In response to an input by the first user requesting sharing of information, the first computing device automatically copies a portion of content of the first communication session to the second communication session as an input question submitted to the QA system. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088999 | TECHNIQUES FOR RELIABLE MESSAGING FOR AN INTERMEDIARY IN A NETWORK COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - The present disclosure relates generally to techniques for improving reliability of message communications. In certain embodiments, techniques are described for facilitating reliable communication of messages between a source (e.g., a client system) and a destination (e.g., a target system) via an intermediary communication handler system. In certain embodiments, a message can include a request to be communicated to a destination for a target service. An intermediary communication handler system can store information indicative of the delivery status for a message to ensure reliable communication. The information indicative of the delivery status for a message can be managed in association with a unique identifier corresponding to the message. The information indicative of the delivery status for a message may also be used to determine whether to retry communication of a message in satisfaction of reliability parameters (e.g., QoS criteria) specified for a communication protocol used for communication of the message. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089000 | Method and system for sending media message across service systems - A method for sending a media message across service systems is disclosed, comprising: a media server receives a first media message at least carrying forwarding indication information from a sender in a first service system, and the media server converts the first media message into a message form corresponding to a second service system where a receiver is located through a gateway intercommunicating with the second service system and then sends the converted message to the receiver. A system for sending a media message across service systems is also accordingly disclosed. By means of the technical solution of the present disclosure, a message sender user can actively request for the conversion of a media message into a message form selected by the user and then send the converted message to a receiver, and thereby an excellent user experience may be provided. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089001 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER MESSAGING SERVICE FOR USE WITH A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a user messaging service for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a notifier component, which receives information describing notifiable events that occur within the cloud environment during the provisioning of the enterprise applications, and communicates the information to a user messaging service at a user messaging server. The user messaging service is configured, according to one or more user communication preferences, to communicate to users, notifications describing the notifiable events, via one or more channels according to the preferences associated with the users. For example, a cloud account user can indicate a preference that status notifications for that user, such as completion of an operation or operational alerts, be communicated via one or more preferred channels, for example email, instant messaging, or social media. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089002 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: a microphone; a storage unit which stores at least one of record start instruction keyword; a voice recognition section which recognizes a voice content that is input through the microphone; and a record start execution section which, in a case where the voice content recognized by the voice recognition section is coincident with the record start instruction keyword, executes a record start. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089003 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR CONTROLLING SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE ORIGINATED MESSAGE TRAFFIC - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling the delivery of a social networking service originated message directed to a mobile device are disclosed. According to one example, the method performed at a routing node includes intercepting a mobility management message that includes location information associated with a mobile device, storing the location information associated with the mobile device in a location database, and receiving a social networking service originated message directed to the mobile device, wherein the message includes media content. The method further includes extracting the location information associated with the mobile device from the location database and delivering the media content to the mobile device using the extracted location information from the location database. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089004 | MEDIA ADAPTATION DETERMINATION FOR WIRELESS TERMINALS - A method (and corresponding equipment) by which a multimedia message is sent from a sending terminal ( | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089005 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONTENT SHARING - Methods and apparatus for enabling content interaction at a connected electronic device re described. An example method includes establishing a web protocol session between a web server executing on a first electronic user device and a client executing on a second electronic user device via a direct radio frequency connection between the first electronic user device and the second electronic user device, wherein the first electronic user device and the second electronic user device are associated with a same user, the establishing including sending an open request from the client to the web server; and transmitting a response to the open request from the web server to the client, the response including a universal resource identifier identifying a location of content for presenting, on the second electronic device, the application executing on the first electronic device. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089006 | Location Aware Sticky Notes - In one embodiment, a request to create a note is received from a first user. The note includes a message and a first location of the first user. A note record is created of the message, the first location, and a first user-interest associated with the first user. A number of second users are identified based on second locations of the second users, and second user-interests associated with the second users. The message is sent to the identified second users. In response to sending the message, the current location of the first user is determined compared to the first location. If the first user is within a predetermined distance from the first location, a notification is sent to the first user indicating that the message has been sent to the second users. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089007 | E-MAIL HANDLING BASED ON A BEHAVIORAL HISTORY - Recommending actions for incoming messages based upon past historical email behavior information is presented herein. The historical email behavior information represents a user's behavior for a plurality of past messages and an action is recommended based on a comparison of the incoming messages to the historical email behavior information. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150095429 | COMMUNICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC MAIL CLASSIFICATION INFORMATION - A network interface receives an electronic mail on a first computer. A processor determines that the received electronic mail comprises a classification tag, and in response to the determination parses the classification tag to extract a plurality of classification information. The processor displays the plurality of classification information on the first computer. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095430 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY AGGREGATING METADATA AND E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS FROM VARIOUS E-MAIL PROVIDERS IN A CLOUD REPOSITORY - A computer implemented method and apparatus for automatically aggregating metadata and e-mail attachments from various e-mail providers in a cloud repository. The method comprises accessing account information for one or more related e-mail accounts; accessing one or more e-mails from the one or more e-mail accounts using the received account information, wherein the one or more e-mails comprise one or more documents as one or more attachments; extracting metadata from each e-mail in the one or more e-mails that comprises at least one attachment, wherein the metadata comprises information that identifies the attachment and an associated e-mail; and storing the metadata in a cloud repository. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095431 | VIEW OF INFORMATION RELATING TO A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTITIES - A relationship view system generates a relationship view of information for a relationship between a user and another person for display to the user. The relationship view system identifies information relating to the person. For each of a plurality of information types, the relationship view system identifies items of that information type that are related to both the user and the person. The relationship view system then generates a display page for displaying information relating to the identified items of each information type. The generated display page thus displays information related to both the user and the person for multiple information types simultaneously. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095432 | GRAPHING RELATIVE HEALTH OF VIRTUALIZATION SERVERS - In a computer-implemented method for generating a graph of relative health of virtualization management servers, performance information of virtualization management servers of a virtualization infrastructure is accessed and the performance information is aggregated. A graph of relative health of the virtualization management servers based on the aggregating of the performance information for the virtualization server is generated, and the graph is posted to a social network of members of the virtualization infrastructure. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095433 | IMAGE WITH AUDIO CONVERSATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method are presented to allow audio communication between users concerning an image. The originator of the communication uses a mobile device app to select an image and record an audio commentary. The image and commentary are encoded together into a video file. The app uses a server to analyze the recipient address to determine the preferred mode of delivery. If the recipient is a known user of the app, the file is delivered through a proprietary communication system and viewed by the recipient using the app. Otherwise, the originator's app delivers the file through MMS or e-mail for the recipient to view using a standard video player. E-mail and MMS communications include a link for the recipient to download the app. The recipient can download the app and register as a user, which causes a server to download previously delivered files to the new user's app. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095434 | System and Method of Creating a Network Based Dynamic - A method and apparatus that incorporates the steps of creating a friends list through a social networking site, a security system detecting an event within a secured area of the security system, the security system selecting at least one friend of the friends list based upon a relative geolocation of the friend with respect to the secured area and the security system sending an alert to the selected friend notifying the selected friend of the detected event. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095435 | SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A server is provided with: a group management section that manages on a group-by-group basis a user belonging to a group for information sharing; a reception section that receives a message transmitted from a user terminal; a time limit setting section that sets a time limit to data sharing in the group based on destination information of the message; a sharing section that causes data transmitted from the user terminal of the user belonging to the group to be shared by users belonging to a specified group; and an invalidation section that invalidates the sharing by the sharing section in accordance with the time limit. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095436 | METHOD, SERVER, AND PROGRAM FOR MANAGING NOTIFICATION - A controller stores a new notification in a storage section when receiving a new notification to a user device. The controller checks, in the storage section, a use status of an application of the user device. The controller determines a notification method for outputting the notification stored in the storage section to an application display of the application when determining that the application is in use based on the use status. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095437 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATION INFORMATION SELECTIVELY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An apparatus and method for providing notification information in an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a message when a message reception notification is limited. The method also includes providing a reception notification for the message selectively based on one or more of sender information of the message and whether the message includes notification setting information or not. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095438 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO MESSAGING AND CONFIRMATION - Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include systems, method, and software for video messaging generation, sending, view tracking, and automated follow-up. Such embodiments provide mechanisms allowing users to engage with recipients and to track and collect recipient information and their tendencies in order to increase communication effectiveness. Some embodiments include sending messages with links to video though various messaging platforms. For example, some embodiments include sending electronic messages via email or via an online hosted computer application system for delivery by the online hosted computer application. Examples of the online hosted computer applications include social networking websites such as FACEBOOK®, TWITTER®, and LINKEDIN®. Messages may be generated and sent by a video messaging system directly; through integration of a customer relationship management application with a video messaging system; through an email, text message, social networking message that includes a link to a video message; and other mechanisms. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095439 | MESSAGE HANDLING EXTENSION USING CONTEXT ARTIFACTS - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: identifying a context artifact, wherein the context artifact defines a context object type for use by the DRA; receiving a Diameter message at the DRA from an origin device; establishing a context object of the context object type defined by the context artifact; evaluating a rule that includes a context object reference, wherein the evaluation includes accessing the context object based on the context object reference; and transmitting a message based on the evaluation of the rule. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095440 | ACCESSING USER MESSAGES AT A HOSTED COMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER - A hosted communications provider or network supports communications to multiple users, each having associated accounts. The network includes memory storage device(s) for storing communications message(s) directed to one or more of the users. A web server module is configured to receive access requests for the user accounts; such requests originating from a user device. The network provides the requested access and sends the information using a non HTML format for at least a portion of the information. The user device displays the requested information on a display device. In some implementations, the information is sent to the user in a non-HTML format. In some implementations, at least a portion of the user interface is provided in a file format which does not include HTML. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095441 | COMMUNICATION STREAMS - Embodiments described herein organize and percolate important messaging and information to the top of a communications pile, and create a high ratio of front-and-center communication versus chatter communication. This is analogous to creating a high signal-to-noise ratio in signal communications. Thus, embodiments described herein raise the desired signal level high above the noise level to obtain a visual at-a-glance level of communication with reduced clutter or no clutter. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150100644 | EMAIL FREQUENCY AND CONSOLIDATION ASSISTANT - An email system is configured to enable a user to identify frequent email senders and block or consolidate emails from such senders. The emails received within a predetermined time period from a sender, who is selected for consolidation by a user of an email account, are consolidated into one entry in the inbox. This mitigates the inbox from getting overcrowded with frequent emails from various senders. Statistics related to various senders are also generated in order to aid the user in identifying senders whose emails need to be consolidated or blocked. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100645 | DYNAMICALLY REBUILDING CONTENT OF SENT OUT EMAILS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for dynamically rebuilding content of sent out entails are described herein. The method involves receiving a request to render a content of a personalized email sent to a particular recipient of a plurality of recipients. In response to the request, an outbound email tracking table having individual tracking record for each recipient is invoked. The tracking table holds a mapping of the plurality of recipients to specific versions of an email template. The email template includes place holders for receiving variables specific to each recipient. Based on the mapping, a specific version of the email template applied in creating the email sent to the particular recipient is retrieved and the sent email is rebuilt by replacing the place holders in the retrieved email with variables specific to the particular recipient. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE SERVICE PROVISION - A system and method for providing a message at a computing device is provided. A message content originating at a provisioning server is received, the message content being selected based on a messaging campaign associated with a user account maintained at the provisioning server. The message content is provided in association with user account participation at a first network service, the network service being provided by a service server different from a provisioning server. The participation can take the form of an activity comprising posting an entry in the form of at least one of: an update, a comment, a blog, a chat entry, a feed entry and a short entry. Providing the message can further comprise displaying a message indicator on or near the activity, detecting an interaction with the message indicator, and is playing the message content when an interaction is detected. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100647 | RICH MEDIA MESSAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In methods and systems, a textual portion of an electronic message from a first user device to a second user device is received. One or more contextual tags to represent a context of the textual portion are recommended. The recommending the one or more contextual tags is based at least in part on the receiving the textual portion. One or more rich media elements are recommended to represent the context of the textual portion. The recommending the one or more rich media elements is based at least in part on the one or more contextual tags. The one or more rich media elements and the textual portion are integrated into a rich media message. The rich media message is provided to the second device. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100648 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AN E-MAIL MESSAGE TO DETERMINE A CATEGORIZATION THEREOF - Method of processing an e-mail to determine a categorization thereof including a sender type and a message type, comprising: receiving an e-mail including a header having header fields and body having content; if the e-mail is not junk e-mail, determining the sender type of the e-mail from potential sender types, via first analysis of the header and the body including application of at least one first complex rule, each applied first complex rule including elementary rules specific thereto, at least some of the elementary rules specific thereto including regular expression analysis; if the e-mail is not junk e-mail, determining, a message type of the e-mail from potential message types, via second analysis of the header and the body including application of at least one second complex rule, each applied second complex rule including elementary rules specific thereto, at least some of the second elementary rules thereto including regular expression analysis. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100649 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR REFORMATTING AN E-MAIL MESSAGE BASED A CATEGORIZATION THEREOF - There is provided a method of reformatting an e-mail message having a header and a body having content in a received format. The method comprises receiving, by at least one server via a communications network, the e-mail message; saving, by the at least one server, the e-mail message in a database in communication with the at least one server; receiving, by the at least one server from a client device, a request to retrieve the e-mail message; retrieving, by the at least one server, the e-mail message from at least one database; determining, by the at least one server, a classification of the e-mail message from the at least one database, the classification including a sender type and at least one message type; and reformatting at least some of the content of the body of the message into a predetermined format associated with the determined classification of the e-mail message; and sending, by the at least one server to the client device, at least some of the reformatted content of the body of the message. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100650 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR REFORMATTING AN E-MAIL MESSAGE BASED A CATEGORIZATION THEREOF - There is disclosed a method of reformatting an e-mail message having a header and a body having content in a received format, the method comprising: receiving, by at least one server via a communications network, the e-mail message; saving, by the at least one server, the e-mail message in a database in communication with the at least one server; receiving, by the at least one server from a client device, a request to retrieve the e-mail message; retrieving, by the at least one server, the e-mail message from at least one database; determining, by the at least one server, a classification of the e-mail message from the at least one database, the classification including a sender type and at least one message type; sending, by the at least one server to the client device, at least some of the content of the body of the message; and sending, by the at least one server to the client device, instruction to display, along with the content, a user-selectable graphical element for causing a function to be performed in respect of the one of the e-mail messages, the function being based, at least in part, on the classification of the first one of the e-mail messages. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100651 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING A LISTING OF E-MAIL MESSAGES - There is disclosed a method of constructing a listing of e-mail messages, the method comprising: retrieving, by at least one server, information in respect of a plurality of e-mail messages from at least one database in electronic communication with the at least one server, each e-mail message including a header having a plurality of header fields and a body having content; sending, by the at least one server to a client device via a communications network, instruction to display in one of an e-mail message listing pane or an e-mail message listing window in a graphical user interface of the client device, a listing of e-mails, the listing including in respect of at least some of the e-mail messages listing information including at least some of the header fields; for a first one of the e-mail messages, one of determining a classification of the first one of the e-mail messages by the at least one server and retrieving from the database a classification of the first one of the e-mail messages by the at least one server, the classification including a sender type and at least one message type; and sending, by the at least one server to the client device via the communications network, instruction to display in the listing information in respect of the first one of the e-mail messages appearing in the listing of e-mail messages of information other than that of the header fields, the other information being displayed in a first predetermined format associated with the classification of the e-mail message, the first predetermined format being other than a format in which the content of the body was originally received. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100652 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING A LISTING OF E-MAIL MESSAGES - There is disclosed a method of constructing a listing of e-mail messages, the method comprising: retrieving, by at least one server, information in respect of a plurality of e-mail messages from at least one database in electronic communication with the at least one server, each e-mail message including a header having a plurality of header fields and a body having content; sending, by the at least one server to a client device via a communications network, instruction to display in one of an e-mail message listing pane or an e-mail message listing window in a graphical user interface of the client device, a listing of e-mails, the listing including in respect of at least some of the e-mail messages listing information including at least some of the header fields; for at least some of the e-mail messages, one of determining a classification of the e-mail messages by the at least one server and retrieving from the database a classification of the e-mail messages by the at least one server, the classification including a sender type and at least one message type; receiving, by the at least one server from the client device via the communications network, a request to sort the listing of e-mails by e-message classification; sorting, by the at least one server, the listing of e-mails by e-mail classification; sending, by the at least one server to a client device via a communications network, instruction to display in the one of an e-mail message listing pane or an e-mail message listing window in a graphical user interface of the client device, the sorted listing of e-mails. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100653 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURE MESSAGE TRANSMISSION - Methods and systems for secure message transmission from a computing device of a sender to at least one recipient, the method comprising iteratively selecting a group until the sender indicates conclusion of the group to provide a selected group, selecting at least one recipient from each selected group to provide at least one selected recipient, composing a message to provide a composed message, selecting at least one device for each selected recipient to provide at least one selected device, wherein the composed message is to be dispatched to the at least one selected device, and indicating an alert notification on each of the at least one selected devices of the recipient, wherein the alert notification indicates dispatch of the composed message to the selected device. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100654 | Reference Notification Method and Apparatus - A method and an apparatus of reference notification comprises obtaining an instant message that is sent from a sending user. A contact is selected that satisfies a predetermined criterion from contacts of the sending user. For the selected contact, content is determined that is of interest to the selected contact, and content is found that is of interest and is included in the obtained instant message based on the determined content of interest. Based on the found content of interest, a reference notification message is sent to a contact corresponding to the found content of interest, for notifying the contact that the content of interest is referenced. By using the technical scheme of the present disclosure, the problems of existing technologies that a user cannot accurately and quickly determine whether an instant message references content with which he/she is concerned are solved. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100655 | ON-DEMAND MAILBOX SYNCHRONIZATION AND MIGRATION SYSTEM - A system for managing physical and logical resources to provide on-demand synchronization or migration of mailboxes and their corresponding content. Physical resources are managed by automatically assigning mailbox processing tasks to either reserved computing resources, or computing resources dynamically obtained from cloud computing services. Authentication resources are managed by automatically requesting credentials from users, accepting submitted credentials, and initiating mailbox processing tasks. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100656 | SERVICE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DEFERRED MESSAGE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A service apparatus and method for providing a deferred message, and a storage medium. The service method for providing a deferred message comprises: receiving a message parameter sent by a first client and to be forwarded to a second client (S | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100657 | Electronic Message Send Device Handling System and Method with Separated Display and Transmission of Message Content and Header Information - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. Message content and an identifier of a recipient are associated with an electronic message at a sending user device. The message content is associated via a first display and the identifier of a recipient is associated via a second display. The first and second displays are not displayed at the same time. The identifier of the recipient is part of header information for the electronic message and the header information is not displayed at the same time as a media component of the message content via the first display. Transmission of recipient identifier and message content including a media component occurs separately from the sending user device. Methods, systems, and computer readable media with separation of the display of media component and recipient identifier in various implementations may provide for reduced traceability of an electronic message. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150106453 | SERVER DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS PROVIDING DONATION SERVICE, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVICE THEREOF - A method for providing a service of a server device is provided. The method includes selecting a donor from among users registered in the server device; selecting a recipient; and in response to the donor and the recipient being selected, providing the donor with a notification message indicating that a donation service is provided to the recipient in the name of the donor. Accordingly, user satisfaction can be improved. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106454 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING AND RECEIVING MESSAGE IN ROAMING SYSTEM - A method of transferring and receiving data by a mobility management entity (MME) in a mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes receiving, from equipment, a message that includes the address of an XML configuration access protocol (XCAP) and is used to access an Internet packet data network (PDN); checking any one of subscription information on the equipment and a network carrier policy, on the basis of the received message; and delivering a create session request message to a gateway on the basis of the received message if the equipment is accessible to the PDN as the result of the check, wherein the create session request message includes an indicator that accesses the XCAP server. according to an embodiment, roaming equipment may transfer and receive an XCAP related message. Moreover, as the roaming equipment receives the XCAP related message, the present invention has an effect of being able to prevent undesired traffic due to another data packet from occurring. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106455 | MULTIMODAL CONVERSATION TRANSFER - In one embodiment, a user may transfer a multimodal conversation. A multimodal conversation may have a first mode communication session and a second mode communication session. A first user point of presence may execute a first transfer of the first mode communication session with a first partner point of presence from the first user point of presence to a first target point of presence. A second user point of presence may execute a second transfer of the second mode communication session with a second partner point of presence from the second user point of presence to a second target point of presence. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106456 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS - System, methods, and computer program products are provided for managing communications. A first applet and a second applet are operable receive and transmit application protocol data unit messages. The application protocol data unit messages include command-response message pairs. An application protocol data unit message is transmitted from the first applet to a second applet to trigger and establish a communication channel with a first device. Thus, messages may be comprehensively managed post-issuance. User experience is improved. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC SESSION PLACEHOLDER FOR MESSAGE COLLECTION USER INTERFACE - A method and apparatus for representing a conversation of related messages is provided. In a message collection user interface for displaying messages sent and received by a communications device, a dynamic session placeholder is used for a respective conversation of related messages. The message collection user interface is displayed including any dynamic session placeholders in the list of messages. As messages from the conversation are occasioned, the dynamic session placeholder is updated. When the message collection is displayed, it is displayed in accordance with the updated session placeholder. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106458 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR STORING, TRANSMITTING, RECEIVING, AND USING STRUCTURED DATA USING UN-STRUCTURED TEXT MESSAGE BODIES - The present invention relates to the use of unstructured and untagged text message protocols to form a text message body that can be used to transmit and receive semi-structured, or structured text message bodies, which optionally may also use various, widely used Markup Languages. The semi-structure, or structure used within the text message body can be a format, such as, but not limited to, partitioning and/or comma delimited values, etc. The tagging for use with the text message body can be a protocol, such as, but not limited to, Extensible Markup Language (XML). | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106459 | Electronic Message Send Device Handling System and Method with Separation of Message Content and Header Information - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. Message content and an identifier of a recipient are associated with an electronic message at a sending user device. The message content is associated via a first display and the identifier of a recipient is associated via a second display. The first and second displays are not displayed at the same time. The identifier of the recipient is not displayed at the same time as a media component of the message content via the first display. Methods, systems, and computer readable media with separation of the display of media component and recipient identifier in various implementations may provide for reduced traceability of an electronic message. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106460 | Electronic Message Send Device Handling System and Method with Media Component and Header Information Separation - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. Message content and an identifier of a recipient are associated with an electronic message at a sending user device. The message content including a media component is associated via a first display and the identifier of a recipient is associated via a second display. The first and second displays are not displayed at the same time. The identifier of the recipient and the media component are not displayed at the same time via the second display. Transmission of recipient identifier and message content including a media component occurs separately from the sending user device. Methods, systems, and computer readable media with separation of the display of media component and recipient identifier in various implementations may provide for reduced traceability of an electronic message. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106461 | Electronic Message Recipient Handling System and Method with Separation of Message Content and Header Information - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. Separate displays are provided at a recipient user device for separately displaying via the user device header information of an electronic message and message content including a media component. The header information is displayed in a message list via a first display. The message content including a media component is displayed via a second display. The display of the message content occurs via the second display without displaying the header information. Methods, systems, and computer readable media with separation of the display of media component and header information in various implementations may provide for reduced traceability of an electronic message. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106462 | COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, SERVER, AND TERMINAL - The communication processing method includes: receiving terminal information sent by a terminal; allocating a group parameter to the terminal according to the terminal information, so that the terminal joins, by sending a message carrying the group parameter to an XMPP server, a terminal group corresponding to a group identifier, where the group parameter includes the group identifier; sending, to the XMPP server, a first communication message carrying the group identifier corresponding to the terminal group, so that the XMPP server sends, according to the first communication message, a second communication message to each terminal in the terminal group. In the embodiments of the present invention, when communicating with multiple terminals, a management server only needs to send one communication request carrying a group identifier to the XMPP server so as to be capable of communicating with the multiple terminals. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106463 | LOCAL MESSAGE QUEUE PROCESSING FOR CO-LOCATED WORKERS - Technologies are provided for locally processing queue requests from co-located workers. In some examples, information about the usage of remote datacenter queues by co-located workers may be used to determine one or more matched queues. Messages from local workers to a remote datacenter queue classified as a matched queue may be stored locally. Subsequently, local workers that request messages from matched queues may be provided with the locally-stored messages. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106464 | GENERATION AND RETRIEVAL OF REPORT INFORMATION - An information management system may store information related to tasks to be performed by workers in an organization. Workers in the organization may communicate with the information management system using email messages. The information management system may not require a login or authentication procedure, and workers may interact with the information management system without the need to log in to the information management system. The information management system may receive an email message from a worker that indicates a request for a report. The information management system may determine whether to transmit the report to the worker based on whether the worker is appropriately registered with the information management system, and/or whether the worker has administrative privileges. The information management system, in response to a positive determination, may transmit the report to the email address from which the requesting email message was sent. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106465 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTROL OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for providing control of social networking sites are disclosed. For example, the method establishes an owner profile, receives a request from a third party user to post information on a social networking site associated with an owner, determines if the request should be granted in accordance with the owner profile and posts the information on the social networking site associated with the owner if the request is granted. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106466 | COMMUNICATION EXCHANGES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - In some embodiments, the instant invention provides for a computer-implemented method that includes the following steps: administering, by a first specifically programmed computer system of a communications exchange, an electronic delivery of a first electronic distribution from a first sender to a first recipient, where the mediating includes: receiving from a first source of a plurality of sources, a first electronic distribution of the first sender, receiving from the first sender, a plurality of sender attributes of the first sender and a plurality of sender rules of the first sender that define how electronic distributions of the first sender to be delivered; receiving the plurality of recipient attributes of the first recipient and the plurality of recipient rules of the first recipient; matching the first electronic distribution of first sender to the first recipient; transmitting, the first electronic distribution of first sender to first channel of the first recipient. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150113070 | OPTIMIZATION OF POSTING IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Embodiments of the disclosure relate to optimizing postings in a social network. Embodiments include receiving content delivery preferences that correspond to a geography and an optimal time window for the geography from a content provider. Embodiments also include adjusting the content delivery preferences to create optimized content delivery preferences. Embodiments further include receiving a post to the social network from the content provider at a posting time and determining if the posting time is within the optimal time window for the geography. Based on a determining that the posting time is within the optimal time window for the geography, embodiments include delivering the posting to one or more users in the geography targeted by the posting corresponding to the optimal time window. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113071 | SYMBOLIC VARIABLES WITHIN EMAIL ADDRESSES - Embodiments of the disclosure relate to processing email having symbolic variables in the address. Aspects include receiving, by an email server, an email comprising an email address for an intended recipient and determining whether the email address includes a symbolic variable. Based on determining that the email address includes the symbolic variable, the symbolic variable from the email address are extracted, an email address for an additional recipient by querying a database based on the symbolic variable is identified, and the email is transmitted to the email address of the intended recipient and the email address of the additional recipient. Based on determining that the email address does not include the symbolic variable, the email is transmitted to the email address of the intended recipient. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113072 | MESSAGING AUTO-CORRECTION USING RECIPIENT FEEDBACK - Embodiments of the disclosure relate to providing auto-correction feedback in a messaging application. Embodiments include receiving a message from a sender and selecting a portion of the message for clarification. Embodiments also include creating a proposed modification to the message and transmitting the proposed modification to the message to the sender. Embodiments further include receiving a response from the sender regarding the proposed modification. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113073 | CORRECTION OF INCOMING MESSAGING - Embodiments of the disclosure relate to performing correction on incoming messages. Embodiments include receiving a message from a sender and determining if a portion of the message has been auto-corrected by the sender. Embodiments also include performing a correction on the portion of the message that was auto-corrected by the sender and storing the correction made by the receiver for each individual sender. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113074 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL INTRODUCTIONS - A system and method are disclosed enabling users to identify and discreetly contact other users at a venue via their computing devices. In an example, a map of the venue may be displayed to users on their computing devices, together with representations of the positions of users in the venue. A first user may select the representation of a second user on his or her computing device, and thereafter see information about the second user and/or send a message to the second user. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113075 | IMPLEMENTING INJECTION OF FORMAL NUMERICAL MESSAGE IDENTIFIERS IN CLOUD STACKS - A method and apparatus are provided for injecting formal numerical message identifiers in an existing cloud stack. Numerical message identifiers are automatically injected into predefined messages of each translated message catalog before building the translated message catalogs into enhanced binary message catalogs. The numerical message identifiers are generated using an existing unique message identification (msgid) string within the translated message catalog. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113076 | MESSAGE THREAD IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for identifying threads of related messages. A computer can associate messages with threads by storing a thread identifier (thread ID) identifying a thread and associating the thread ID with a message identifier (message ID) of each known message that belongs to the thread. The computer can inspect a message to determine whether the message identifies a reference message. Before assigning a thread ID to the message or a reference message, the computer can determine whether a message ID for either message is stored in association with a thread ID. If a thread ID is stored for a message ID of either message, the computer can assign the thread ID to message IDs of other reference messages. If a thread ID is not stored for a message ID of either message or is different for either message, store a common thread ID in association with both messages. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113077 | SECURE SENT MESSAGE IDENTIFIER - A message management service allows a user to access and manage messages from various message services. The user can access the message management service using a message management client application executing on a client device and can draft messages using the message management client application and send the messages through the different message services. The message management service can add information to messages sent using the message management client application that can be used to identify and organize the messages. A secure sent-message identifier can be added to messages sent by the message management service to reliably indicate that the messages were sent by the message management service. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113078 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A method for a first communication device transreceiving a message with a second communication device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: the first communication device confirming a user value of the second communication device; the first communication device comparing the user value of the second communication device that is confirmed to a user value of the first communication device; and the first communication device establishing either the first communication device or the second communication device as an initiator having initiative for communication and establishing the other as a responder not having initiative for communication, depending on the result of the comparison. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113079 | EMAIL ANALYSIS AND CONTROL - Email analysis and control system comprising: at least one server comprising an email exchange module and an email control module; and a plurality of users' computers running an email application and a client application communicating with the email application, the email control module comprising a rules database and a server program communicating with the client application, the client application configured to analyze each email sent by the user's email application, determine its importance or relevancy to each addressee according to the rules and act accordingly, the client application further configured to analyze each email received by the user's email application, determine its importance or relevancy to the user according to said rules and act accordingly. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113080 | TECHNIQUES FOR SENDER-VALIDATED MESSAGE TRANSMISSIONS - Disclosed are various embodiments, implemented in one or more computing devices, for filtering objectionable content from messages prior to transmission of the messages to recipients. A message is obtained for which a sender seeks to transmit, via a network, to one or more recipients. An examination is determined that is to be performed upon the message, where the examination is selected from among a set of available examinations. An action is initiated for the message, where the action is determined based upon a result of the examination. The action includes at least one of: transmitting the message to the recipients, requesting the sender to review the message, modifying the message, and deleting the message. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113081 | SYMBOLIC VARIABLES WITHIN EMAIL ADDRESSES - Embodiments of the disclosure relate to processing email having symbolic variables in the address. Aspects include receiving, by an email server, an email comprising an email address for an intended recipient and determining whether the email address includes a symbolic variable. Based on determining that the email address includes the symbolic variable, the symbolic variable from the email address are extracted, an email address for an additional recipient by querying a database based on the symbolic variable is identified, and the email is transmitted to the email address of the intended recipient and the email address of the additional recipient. Based on determining that the email address does not include the symbolic variable, the email is transmitted to the email address of the intended recipient. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113082 | SOCIAL MESSAGING HUB - A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities such as a portable media player, personal digital assistant, a Wi-Fi mobile platform, a tablet computer, portable e-Reader, a personal computer, a laptop and a netbook computer. The social messaging hub communicates with the data enabled device over the Internet or cellular data networks, and interfaces with a message infrastructure including mobile carriers, message aggregators, message exchanges and various specialized social messaging services, such as Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, AIM, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, Facebook and Twitter to enable bi-directional messaging communication. The user is given a registered phone number and unique IP addressable identification which serve as a source and destination identifier of the associated data enabled device. Messages may originate in or be delivered to other users' mobile telephones or in similarly equipped and provisioned IP data enabled devices. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113083 | HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND MEDIUM STORING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS REGISTERING PROGRAM AND READABLE BY COMPUTER - To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a variety of occupations or engaged in various technical fields and to obtain expert knowledge or information. The human relationships registering system comprises first data processing units | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113084 | MESSAGE-BROWSING SYSTEM, SERVER, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To easily grasp relations between posts and responses by other users, when a browsing service for browsing messages exchanged through posts and responses to the posts among multiple users is provided in a message-browsing system, a terminal device | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113085 | Systems and Methods for Controlling Email Access - Embodiments of the disclosure relate to identifying email resources associated with client devices, identifying resource rules, determining whether the email resources satisfy the resource rules, and modifying the email resources based on the resource rules if the resource rules are not satisfied by the email resources. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113086 | RECURSIVE IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS FOR CASUAL COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCING - A method for real-time communication among two or more individuals separated in space. The method includes the steps of determining that a first individual is likely to be interested in communicating with a second individual via a first communications link; retrieving information via the first communications link about one or more additional individuals from electronic memory means associated with the second individual; and establishing communication with at least one of the additional individuals based on the retrieved information. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113087 | SELECTIVELY SENDING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method, system and computer program product for instant message communication in a wireless and non-wireless environment. A message is sent from a mobile unit device over a wireless communication network. The message includes a destination address, information associated with the mobile unit device's user, message content and message address. If, according to information previously stored for the mobile unit device's user at the instant message system, the destination address is associated with an instant message function, the associated instant message function is executed at the instant message system using the information contained in the message content, if required as determined by the associated instant message function. If, according to information previously stored for the mobile unit device's user at the instant message system, the destination address is associated with an instant message name, an instant message is created according to the message content and is sent to the user with the associated instant message name. For instant messages sent or received by a mobile unit device with known buddies, the instant message is optimized by tagging the instant message with a routing phone number that is unique to the mobile unit device and buddy combination, whose identity is stored both in the mobile unit device address book and in the instant message routing server. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150120839 | PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL MESSAGES RELATING TO CURRENTLY ACCESSED CONTENT - One or more first devices may receive, from a second device, program information as part of a request to provide a contextual message, associated with particular content corresponding to the program information, to a third device. The program information may identify a time, a geographic location, and a television channel identifier associated with the particular content. The one or more devices may cause the particular content to be identified based on a fingerprint of the particular content; receive the contextual message that was identified based on the fingerprint; provide the contextual message to the third device; and provide, for storage in a content schedule, information identifying the particular content, a time period during which the particular content is broadcasted, the geographic location, and the television channel identifier. The content schedule may be used to identify the particular content after the particular content has been initially identified based on the fingerprint. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120840 | RESOURCE REFERENCING IN A COLLABORATION APPLICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a first computing device, a resource associated with a collaboration session. A comment about at least a portion of the resource associated with the collaboration session is received. The comment is associated with at least the portion of the resource. A selection of at least one of the comment and at least the portion of the resource is received. The comment with at least the portion of the resource is provided for display to a second computing device in response to receiving the selection. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120841 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving from a web real-time communications gateway a first request for communication services from a network resource, where the network resource does not utilize a web real-time communications protocol and where the first request is compliant with a markup language that differs from the web real-time communications protocol, directing the network resource to provide the communication services identified in the first request, receiving a first message from the web real-time communications gateway, where the first message is compliant with the markup language, translating the first message to a first updated message conforming to a protocol used by the network resource, where protocol differs from the markup language used for communicating with the web real-time communications gateway, and transmitting the updated first message to the network resource facilitating the communication services identified in the first request. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120842 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING EMAIL TO MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS WITH RECIPIENT SELECTED SPECIFIC ATTACHMENTS - A method and system is provided for managing groups of individuals to receive an electronic message with recipient specific selected document attachments. The method and system associates one or more documents with individual recipients prior to composing an email message. After an email message is composed, the email message is sent to the selected recipients with respective associated documents for the recipients as previously selected. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120843 | Method and Device to Store and Forward a File Thumbnail to an Initially Unavailable Client - A method and a telecommunications message server apparatus is presented to store and forward file thumbnails to telecommunication messaging clients which have been temporarily unavailable. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120844 | HIERARCHICAL RESPONSE-ENABLED NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system are provided for providing a hierarchical response-enabled notification is described. In an implementation, a method may include identifying a notification group containing a plurality of node members. The method may also include designating a first node member as an owner of the notification group. The method may include determining a hierarchical relationship between the owner of the notification group and at least a second node member the method may include populating the notification group with at least the owner and the second node member. The method may also include receiving a notification request from the owner of the notification group. The method may include providing the notification request to at least the second node member of the notification group. The method may also include receiving a response to the notification request from the second node member of the notification group. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120845 | PROCESSING OF MESSAGES USING THEME AND MODALITY CRITERIA - Embodiments related to a message processing system are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computing system may include receiver logic to receive a message addressed to a user; analysis logic to determine whether a message collection, including the received message, has a common theme (e.g., a common sender or common content); modality logic to identify a messaging modality associated with each of the messages in the message collection; criteria logic to determine whether the message collection satisfies modality criteria (e.g., the messages represent at least two different messaging modalities); and notification logic to provide a notification of the message collection in response to determining that the message collection has a common theme and satisfies the modality criteria. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120846 | SURVEY SAMPLING PRIOR TO MESSAGE PUBLISHING - Systems and methods for surveying presence messages prior to widespread distribution-publishing are disclosed. The system includes a presentity module and surveying server, specifying a parameter for subsequent publishing and compiling a notification list of watchers for participation in a given survey. The system further includes a presence-notification server, presence-messaging user agent module and a client feedback module, collecting information regarding interacting with the message in and transmitting the information to the surveying server. The method includes composing a message, specifying at least one parameter for subsequent publishing, compiling a notification list of watchers for participation in a given survey, selectively notifying the message to the watchers in the notification list, viewing the message notified to the watchers in notification list and interacting with the message. The method further includes collecting feedback information regarding the interacting with the message and transmitting this information to the surveying server. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PRESENT TARGETED INFORMATION - Systems and methods directed to presenting targeted information are described herein. Content for one or more messages are received, the messages to be sent to users eligible to receive the one or more messages. Messaging constraints associated with the one or more messages are determined. Preference scores are assigned to one or more potential users to receive the one or more messages, the preference scores measuring a response rate to messages similar to the one or more messages. Users eligible to receive the one or more messages are identified based on the preference scores. The users eligible to receive the one or more messages are segmented according to a messaging goal. The one or more messages are sent to a subset of the eligible users based on the segmentation of the users eligible to receive the one or more messages. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120848 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FILTERING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - The present invention discloses a method and system for filtering electronic communications based on the receiver's tolerance for attributes of both a sender and an electronic communication. The receiver's tolerance for an attribute is calculated based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to: self-reported preferences, past behavior and community norms. The attribute score is calculated based on an analysis of how closely either the sender or electronic communication exemplifies the attribute. An electronic communication is filtered if the attribute score exceeds the receiver's tolerance of the attribute. If an electronic communication is filtered it will not show up in the receiver's in-box, it will instead show up in a spam folder. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120849 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PUSH NOTIFICATION MANAGEMENT - The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for delivering and presenting notifications at a consumer device. The method includes receiving, by a notification manager, from a client device, a notification to be delivered to an application executing on a consumer device. The method also includes holding, by the notification manager, the notification in a notification queue. The method further includes identifying, by the notification manager, a consumer notification policy of the consumer device applicable to the notification, the consumer notification policy specifying one or more conditions for presenting the notification at the consumer device. The method further includes releasing, by the notification manager, from the notification queue, the notification for presentation at the consumer device upon determining that the conditions of the consumer notification policy have been met. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120850 | Method and System for Providing Presence Information - A system and method for a user to send presence information to authorized contacts in her device's address book and to receive the presence information of those contacts in her device's address book that have authorized her. A user can authorize any contact in her address book. Optionally, a user can only authorize a contact and be authorized by a contact if she is in that contact's address book. A local application on the device interacts with and displays the device's address book, manages the authorization of contacts, updates the user's presence, and receives and displays the presence of contacts. The local application updates the user's presence manually, semi-automatically, or automatically. Semi-automatic updates involve synchronizing with the device's calendar. Automatic updates may involve the use of location data, the device's built-in sensors, and augmented reality. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120851 | MESSAGE-BROWSING SYSTEM, SERVER, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To make a user interested in a service if the user provides a response, a message-browsing system includes an image storage unit storing user images which are displayed on a screen and correspond to the multiple users, respectively, an input instruction unit providing a response in multiple response forms to a post, the response forms corresponding to multiple fixed response sentences which are different from each other, a motion storage unit storing motion information defining motions of the user images, which is associated with the multiple response forms, respectively, and a setting unit selecting motion information corresponding to a response form of a response provided to a post, and setting a motion of a user image corresponding to a user contributing the post, the user image being displayed on a screen of another user providing the response. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150127748 | RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ENHANCED CONTENT IN SOCIAL POSTS - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for creating recommendations to add enhanced content to a post being created in a social network. One method includes an operation for detecting, using one or more computing devices, user input for a social post before the social post is submitted on the social network. The user input is analyzed, using the one or more computing devices, as is being entered to determine relevant content. Further, the method includes another operation for providing for display, using the one or more computing devices, the content recommendations, with the option to select one or more items on the content. If any of the recommendations are selected, the social post is provided for display, using the one or more computing devices, with the user input and with the selected recommendations. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127749 | EMAIL THREAD PROCRASTINATING METHOD - A computer-implemented method for procrastinating an email for review at a later time is provided. The method includes identifying an email for procrastination, and selecting a procrastination period. The method also includes procrastinating the identified email, including storing the identified email separately from other emails or email threads stored in an email repository. The method further includes receiving a new email during the procrastination period and identifying if the new email relates to the procrastinated email to form a thread, and if the new email relates to the procrastinated email, storing the new email with the procrastinated email to form a procrastinated email thread. The method further includes communicating all emails related to the procrastinated email thread to the user after expiration of the procrastination period. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127750 | System and Method for Pushing Smart Alerts - An alert notification is received and evaluated by a processor. An identifier of a subscriber who is registered to receive the first alert notification is identified. The subscriber identifier is used to select assessment rules corresponding to the first alert notification. The assessment rules are applied to the alert notification to determine whether the receipt of the alert notification satisfies a condition for taking one or more actions. If the condition is met, one or more commands are issued to effectuate the one or more actions. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127751 | SENDING AN OUT-OF-FACILITY NOTIFICATION BASED ON AGGREGATED CONTENT FRM A TASK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Historical content corresponding to activity of a user in at least one social networking service is aggregated. The historical content indicates a plurality of collaboration partners with whom the user collaborated via the at least one social networking service in an occupation context. Based on the aggregated historical content, at least one of the collaboration partners can be identified as at least one priority collaboration partner. Whether the user currently is not in a facility where the user works can be automatically determined. Responsive to determining that the user is not in the facility where the user works, a message indicating that the user is not in the facility where the user works can be automatically sent to the at least one priority collaboration partner. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127752 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGING METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE DEVICE - Disclosure herein is related to an intelligent messaging method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable storage device. The method includes firstly acquiring selection of message recipients from an address book when a user manipulates a messaging program. The method essentially includes configuring the message transmitted to the multiple recipients selected from the address book in the communication device. The next step in the method is to determine the messaging means corresponding to the every recipient. After that, according to a messaging scenario, the method simultaneously initiates the step of transmitting the message to the recipients using the every recipient's corresponding messaging means. Personalized information may be applied to the message individually for the every recipient while the message is sent. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127753 | Word Recognition and Ideograph or In-App Advertising System - A non-transitory processor readable medium is described having processor executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to monitor application data from a user device via a communications network, analyze the application data for one or more indicator, retrieved one or more ideograph indicative of a graphical representation of one or more meaning of the one or more indicator, and transmit the one or more ideograph to the user device via a communications network. The application data is indicative of text entered into an application by a user via the user device. The one or more indicator is at least a portion of the text entered into the application and has one or more meaning. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING MEDIA CONTENT - A system and method are provided for collecting photographs, drawings, videos and other media elements from one or more sources. A user on one site can create an album associated with one or more identifiers and the site can search for and retrieve media elements associated with the identifiers on other sites or in other locations. The collection of media elements may then be stored or posted in the album and access given to others for viewing the collection. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127755 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING STATUS OF MESSAGES IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and apparatus for checking the status of sent and received messages in an electronic device. The method may include: setting, when a message is sent, the reception confirmation state of the sent message to “unread”; and displaying a notification window in at least one of a status display window of the electronic device, a status display window of an application program and a usage history window of the electronic device so as to present at least one sent message whose reception confirmation state is set to “unread” as being unread. The method and apparatus is operable with or without a message server between the electronic device and a counterpart device associated with the message. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127756 | METHOD OF VIRALLY EXPANDING SOCIAL NETWORKS - Membership in a social network is virally expanded by suggesting to a user to invite contacts from the user's address book and, in addition, eligible contacts from other address books. Eligible contacts from other address books include those contacts that have e-mail addresses with the same e-mail domain as the user's e-mail address. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127757 | Systems and Methods for Sending Messages - Devices and methods are provided for sending messages. For example, a receiving user list corresponding to a specific message to be sent is acquired; a first timeline refresh request associated with a first receiving user in the receiving user list is received; and upon the capture of the first timeline refresh request, the specific message is sent to a client associated with the first receiving user that refreshes a timeline. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150127758 | LOCATION-BASED CONTENT AGGREGATION AND DISTRIBUTION - In one embodiment, a method includes storing one or more content postings that each include data representative of one or more content instances. Each content posting is associated with one or more first users. The method also includes storing one or more data records associating one or more geographic locations with accessing of the content instances. The method also includes selectively sending one or more of the content postings for display on an access device based on a past or present geographic location of the access device. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150134747 | MANAGING A MESSAGING QUEUE IN AN ASYNCHRONOUS MESSAGING SYSTEM - A computer implemented method, system and/or computer program product is provided for managing a messaging queue in an asynchronous messaging system. A duration for which a message can remain on the messaging queue is determined. An age of the message on the messaging queue is monitored. The age of the message on the messaging queue and the determined duration is compared and a notification is generated based on the comparison. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134748 | ONLINE AND OFFLINE COOPERATION TO OBTAIN INPUT TO AUGMENT RECORDING OF MEETING - In one embodiment, a method includes initiating a record of a session, and determining when, during the session, an input is requested from a first party. The session includes at least a first participant. The method also includes providing an indication during the session, the indication being arranged to indicate that the input is requested from the first party, the indication being provided in the record, and notifying the first party that the input is requested from the first party. Notifying the first party that the input is requested from the first party includes providing the first party with an interface which enables the first party to provide the input. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134749 | RETROSPECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF PREVIOUSLY SENT ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods and arrangements for managing one or more electronic messages. An electronic message is obtained. A numerical metric is calculated corresponding to the message, the numerical metric comprising at least one of: a confidence level relating to whether the message has been addressed; and a topic-based distance from a reference. The message is altered, based on the numerical metric, and the altering comprises altering at least one of: an attribute associated with an appearance of the message and a position of the message. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134750 | TECHNIQUES FOR CHANGE PROPAGATION ACROSS BROKER TERRITORIES - Certain example embodiments described herein relate to techniques for propagating changes across broker territories. Broker territories are formed from broker servers that are placed in different geographical locations. When a territory is formed, a minimum spanning tree (MST) is formed between the brokers in the territory and, as a result, every broker in the territory will know its nearest neighbors and will be able to propagate the changes to these brokers. The MST may be dynamic in certain example embodiments. Each broker may be configured to calculate the cost of the edges based on certain predefined parameters, e.g., in computing the MSTs. Parameters that may be used in determining edge weights may include, for example, response to ping, geographical distance, whether a broker is in a LAN versus in a WAN, whether brokers are embedded in a mobile device, predefined categories (e.g., based on device type, etc.), and/or the like. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134751 | SHARING A FILE VIA EMAIL - Techniques for facilitating sharing a file via email are disclosed. A file may be shared as an attachment or link in a simplified process flow initiated from within an email application. In response to receiving a command to share a file, the email application can launch a file explorer screen from which a user may navigate files including files stored on a local drive and files stored via a cloud storage provider. After a file is selected by the user via the file explorer screen the email application can present sharing options for the file. Regardless of where the file is originally stored, the file may be attached to the email or a link to the file may be inserted in the email. The email application can upload a file from a local drive to the cloud storage provider when such a file is selected for inserting as a link. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134752 | AUTOMATICALLY TRANSITIONING A USER FROM A CALL TO ACTION TO AN ENROLLMENT INTERFACE - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for automatically transitioning a user from a call to action (CTA) to an enrollment interface. An embodiment operates by receiving a request from a user's device to display web content. The requested web content is displayed along with a CTA. When the CTA is selected by the user, an e-mail client associated with the user's device automatically opens, generates an electronic message based on the selected CTA, and populates a recipient address and a code associated with the CTA within the electronic message. Upon its receipt, the electronic message is processed by enrolling the user in a campaign associated with the CTA based on the code and the user's e-mail address. An electronic message is generated and sent to the user's e-mail address that contains a first hyperlink to the campaign associated with the CTA and a second hyperlink to an associated privacy policy. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134753 | METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR MANAGING SENT MESSAGE IN MESSENGER SERVER - A method and computer readable recording medium having a program for managing sent messages in a messenger server includes receiving a message to be transmitted to a user terminal associated with a user account, the message received from a second user terminal associated with a second user account, inserting into the message information indicating an inactive status, and transmitting the message including the information to the user terminal, wherein the information causes the user terminal to disable a message notification function. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134754 | DATA CACHING IN A HYBRID COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method of caching communications for devices being transported by vehicles includes receiving, at a vehicle via a forward link, a message directed to the vehicle and a plurality of other vehicles. The message includes: (i) content to be delivered to a requesting mobile computing device being transported by the vehicle or one of the plurality of other vehicles, and (ii) an indication of at least some of the content to be cached in one or more computer readable storage media disposed on the vehicle. The method further includes determining if the requesting mobile computing device is being transported by the vehicle, and, if the requesting mobile computing device is being transported by the vehicle, forwarding at least some of the content to the requesting mobile computing device. At least some of the content is then stored on the one or more computer readable storage media disposed in the vehicle based on the indication of the least some of the content to be cached. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134755 | Notification Method of Mobile Terminal Using a Plurality of Notification Modes and Mobile Terminal Using the Method - Disclosed is a notification method of a mobile terminal using a plurality of notification modes. A mobile terminal according to one aspect of the present invention determines a first configuration type relating to the notification mode of the mobile terminal in response to the receipt of a new push message. The mobile terminal determines a second configuration type relating to the notification mode of a push message application based on the first configuration type. The mobile terminal notifies the arrival of a new push message according to the second configuration type. That is, embodiments may provide a technology that uses at least two configurations relating to the notification mode of the mobile terminal so as to notify the user about receipt of a new message. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134756 | System and Method for Real Time Bidirectional Threaded Messaging with Persistent Record Keeping - A system and method for real time, bidirectional threaded messaging with persistent record keeping is presented. The invention pertains to environments where record-keeping is desired (e.g., emergency services dispatching, customer service,), and where clients employ common messaging technologies (e.g., SMS or MMS messaging, e-mails). The system disclosed includes a method for threading messages regardless of what type of message it may be, and it includes a method to auto-forward messages to appropriate agencies needed to take action on any given message or thread. Lastly, the invention includes a method to auto-confirm to message senders on each thread to ensure that critical messages have been received by the agent. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134757 | TRANSFERRING FILES - Systems and techniques for transferring one or more files by connecting to a communications system host; sending, to a client connected to the communications system host, a request to transfer one or more files; when a client permits access to the one or more files, establishing a direct socket connection from the client and bypassing the communications system host; and initiating the transfer of the one or more files from the client over the direct socket connection. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134758 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTRONIC MAIL - The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for e-mail communications with members of a group of members. In one or more embodiments, a server computer system determines whether a sender of an incoming e-mail message addressed to a recipient member of the group is a member of the group. If the sender is a member of the group, the server computer system replaces the senders existing e-mail address in the incoming e-mail message with a created e-mail address created by the server computer system for the sender. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150142895 | Real Life Presence and Dynamic Meeting Scheduling - Various embodiments provide solutions that enable accurate tracking of users' statuses to provide real life presence information. The real life presence information can be used to enable meetings to be dynamically scheduled, thus making efficient use of a user's time and resources. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142896 | HANDLING ELECTRONIC MAIL - The present invention provides a method of handling electronic mail containing information related to recruitment, the method comprising: storing flag information related to recruitment of personnel; receiving, at a first email address, a first email from a sender having a second email address; parsing the email to determine whether the first email is related to recruitment of personnel, wherein parsing comprises comparing information related to the first email with the stored flag information and determining whether any of the stored flag information is present in the information related to the first email; and executing an action as a result of a positive determination. This results in a reduction in disputes and cost to companies that have retained or contingent recruitment agents. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142897 | MANAGING TEXT MESSAGES - Message management services for text messages can include converting, modifying, or copying a text message so as to create an email that a corresponds to the text message; adding a subject line to a corresponding email to facilitate grouping, threading, and searching; linking a corresponding email to the original text message to enable a text-message reply to a corresponding email; email-address-lookup services to enable an email reply to a corresponding email; and so on. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142898 | CLOUD-BASED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING A FIRE PANEL - An alarm panel configuration system for facilitating cloud-based configuration of the alarm panel is provided. The configuration system may include a remote server providing a remotely accessible configuration file modification interface, the configuration file modification interface configured to compile a configuration file and transmit the configuration file to a mobile device, and an alarm panel configured to receive the configuration file from the mobile device. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142899 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTENT - A first notification of a first action by a user with respect to a first content item may be received by a computer system, the first content item having a first relationship to the user. A second notification of a second notification by the user with respect to a second content item may be received by the computer system. The second content item may have a second relationship to the user, and at least a portion of the second content item may correspond to at least a portion of the first content item. A first property of the first relationship may be managed by the computer system based on the second notification. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142900 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAP DATA FLOWS, ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVERS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTING SAID METHODS - Method for processing at least two IMAP data flows exchanged via an internet network between an electronic mail server and two remote clients respectively using a first and a second separate proprietary IMAP protocol, each IMAP data flow respectively corresponding to a respective remote client connection to an electronic mailbox, said method comprising the extraction of proprietary protocol data from an IMAP data flow, the execution of at least one task relating to the proprietary protocol data by a proprietary IMAP application module, and the generation of a return IMAP data flow, the proprietary IMAP application module being selected from two modules suitable for executing tasks relating respectively to the first and second proprietary IMAP protocols. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142901 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING TIME-DELAYED ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATIONS - This invention relates generally to the field of electronic messaging and notifications, and more particularly to systems and methods for creating and distributing time-delayed electronic messages and notifications on mobile devices. Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for creating electronic messages and notifications for time-delayed delivery, storing those messages locally on the sender's device and/or a receiver's device, and proving accompanying protocols for a time-delayed display on the receiver's mobile device or for later dispatch through the sender's device. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142902 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - To prevent a user who has not yet saved content non-temporarily from forgetting to save the content in such a non-temporary manner, the present invention determines a remaining save period for temporarily saved content and save state of the content, and in the case where it has determined that (i) the remaining save period for the content is shorter than a predetermined period and (ii) the content has not yet been saved in a user dedicated storage area, transmits to an email address associated with the content an email for notification of the save state of the content. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142903 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVEYING INFORMATION TO AN INSTANT MESSAGING CLIENT - A method comprising: providing a first client of an instant messaging service, the first client enabling a data service; receiving a request for the data service from, a second client of the instant messaging service; and rendering client-controlled information regarding the first client available for persistent conveyance to the second client, the client-controlled information regarding the first client Including data related to the data service. This allows a user associated with the second client to become aware of the data in a non-intrusive manner. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142904 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLATION, TRANSLATION, AND ANALYSIS OF PASSIVELY CREATED DIGITAL INTERACTION AND RELATIONSHIP DATA - A computer readable medium containing executable instructions that when executed perform a method of generating relationship data, the method comprising: accessing an interaction database, wherein the interaction database comprises a record of exchanges between two or more users of a digital communication system, and wherein the exchanges occurred on the digital communication system; obtaining one or more characteristics of one or more exchanges of the two or more users, wherein the one or more characteristics are stored in the interaction database and wherein the data is obtained through a direct internet access protocol; and generating relationship data by analyzing the one or more characteristics. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142905 | MARKING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES TO INDICATE HUMAN ORIGINATION - Systems and methods for marking electronic messages to indicate human origination are provided. According to one embodiment, an electronic message and information verifying the electronic message is human originated are received. Then, the fact that the electronic message is human originated is conveyed to one or more recipients of the electronic message by associating with the electronic message a human origination indication. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142906 | ORDERING SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SERVICE CONTROL THROUGH TEXT MESSAGING - A system allows control of an ancillary server function through a text messaging protocol. The text message allows a connected user to obtain goods or services through a network controller that selectively routes a self-addressed text message to a remote networked server that instantiates the server function based on content in the text message. The self-addressed electronic message (e.g., SMS message) is interpreted by a network component as needing invocation of a specified ordering service and, accordingly, is routed to a server that is tasked with administering, for example, order and delivery of a product or access to an account. The server, upon receipt of the self-addressed electronic message, may interact with the buyer using messaging to confirm the scope of the order and to fulfil the order. The system augments cellular phone functionality with a mechanism for placing orders using a looped text-yourself approach that engenders trust with users. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150149559 | Systems and Methods for Customizing SIP Message Processing - System, methods, and computer program products are provided for configuring a computing system that processes messages according to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The method includes defining, by a scripting-type computer processing language, one or more variables, where each variable is configured to store state data based on at least a portion of a SIP message and is associated with the SIP message flow. Once configuration is complete, a series of SIP messages belonging to the SIP message flow is received by the computer system. As each SIP message in the series is received, each SIP message is processed where the message processing includes modifying the state data stored in at least one of the variables based on data included in the respective SIP message | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELAYING MESSAGES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for message delivery according to a distribution list, from the point of view of a message relay server. An example message relay server receives a message, and parses the message to extract a distribution list identifier. The message relay server can parse the distribution list identifier from one of a body of the message, a message subject, an address to which the message is directed, for example. Based on the distribution list identifier, the message relay server can retrieve a distribution list of intended recipients for the message and the message relay server can adapt the message for each intended recipient on the distribution list based on respective message preferences, to yield adapted messages. The message relay server can deliver each of the adapted messages to a respective recipient in the distribution list of intended recipients based on respective message preferences. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149561 | TIME CONVERSION IN AN INSTANT MESSAGE - In a method for determining and displaying a corrected time of a time included in the text of an instant message, one or more processors determine that an instant message sent from a first user to a second user includes a first time and a first time zone corresponding to the first time. The one or more processors determine that the first time zone corresponding to the first time does not match a second time zone, wherein the second time zone is the time zone where the second user is the time zone where the second user is scheduled to be, based, at least in part, on the first time. The one or more processors convert the first time to a second time, wherein the second time is determined based, at least in part, on the first time, the first time zone, and the second time zone. The one or more processors cause the second time to be displayed to the second user. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149562 | System and Method for Lost Item and Product Alerts, Notifications, and Messaging Communications - A method, system, a computer program product, and mobile device application product that uses item and/or product identification number and/or identification code information (product serial number, item number, universal product code, barcode, custom code, system generated code, quick response code, electronic product code, unique product identifiers, and/or any other identifying item and/or product code), contact information (email, phone, etc.), and user location information (IP address, Mobile GPS, etc.) to send real-time alerts, notifications, or messages to individual users, organizations, external systems, and/or any other entity and/or third party systems. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149563 | INTELLIGENT MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (IM2M) RESERVE - An intelligent machine-to-machine (iM2M) device may collaborate with other reserve devices to perform functions. An iM2M device may determine if it has the necessary resources to respond to a request. Upon determining that the resources needed to provide a response to the request are not available in the iM2M device, the iM2M device may send a help request to other devices, such as a reserve, farm, and/or network (collectively referred to as a farm) of M2M, iM2M devices, and/or other appropriate devices. The iM2M device may negotiate with farm devices so that the farm devices may generate, at least in part, a response to the request, or provide the needed resources, at least in part, to the iM2M device. The farm devices may send respective responses back to the originating iM2M device. The originating iM2M device may, in turn, respond to the original request. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149564 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MESSAGES TO A USER - This disclosure relates generally to a method and system of providing messages to a user, and more particularly to a method of providing messages to a preferred device and/or message service account of the user. The method includes initially registering one or more devices and/or message service accounts at a managing server. Thereafter, one or more messages received at the registered message service accounts are forwarded to the managing server. Subsequently, the managing server may multicast a notification of the message to all the registered devices and/or service accounts of the user. The notification may include an indication of the registered devices and/or message service accounts of the user. The user may then select a preferred device and/or message service account from the notification. Thereafter, the managing server may forward the message to the preferred device and/or message service account. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149565 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC COLLABORATION - Certain examples provide systems and methods for medical diagnostic collaboration. An example system includes a conversation manager to facilitate a first conversation between a first device and a second device. The conversation manager manages a plurality of conversations based on respective conversation identifiers assigned to each of the plurality of conversations. The example system also includes a collaboration session manager to facilitate, via the first conversation, a collaboration session between the first and second devices, which allows a user of the first device and a user of the second device to view, share, and comment on a medical study. In addition, the example system includes a context manager to manage context information to describe a state of the medical study as it is displayed on the first device to synchronize a state of the medical study displayed on each of the first and second devices. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149566 | MESSAGING SERVICE ACTIVE DEVICE - A system and method for communicating messages over messaging service, comprising: receiving a request from a first user device to transmit a message to a second user having one or more communication devices sharing the same account ID; determining at least one active device from the one or more communication devices sharing the same account ID; sending an active status to the selected one or more device; sending an inactive status to the unselected one or more devices; and transmitting the message to the one or more active devices. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149567 | SMART NOTIFICATIONS - A system and method for delivering messages to participants in an instant messaging session, the participants running an IM application, comprising: receiving by a server a message from a first participant's IM application, addressed to at least one other participant; for each the at least one other participants: if the participant is active in the session—sending the message by the server to the participant; and if the participant is inactive in the session—sending a silent notification by the server to the participant. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149568 | Method, system and client for message sending - A method for message sending is disclosed, which includes that a message sending client sends a remote message forwarding request to a network side, the remote message forwarding request at least containing a remote content identifier, forwarding indication information and message receiver information; and the network side acquires a message content according to the remote message forwarding request, and sends the message content to a message receiver in a message form indicated by the forwarding indication information. A system and client for message sending are accordingly disclosed. By such a technical solution, a message sender can actively select service interworking, so that user experiences can be improved. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149569 | PUBLISH AND SUBSCRIBE BROKER WITH MULTIPLE ORTHOGONAL TOPIC TREES - A publish subscribe broker system comprises a hardware receiver, one or more processors, and a hardware transmitter. The hardware receiver receives a message and two or more orthogonal message topics, wherein a topic is a branch of a topic tree. The one or more processors execute a subscription engine for identifying all subscribers whose subscription topics match the received two or more orthogonal message topics. The hardware transmitter sends the message only to identified subscribers and not to subscribers having just one of the orthogonal message topics. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149570 | MESSAGE DELIVERY IN A MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method, hardware system, and/or computer program product controls message delivery from a publisher application to one or more subscriber applications in a publish/subscribe messaging mechanism. The one or more subscriber applications have a plurality of subscriptions registered with a broker application of the publish/subscribe messaging mechanism. A unified subscription description representing the plurality of subscriptions registered with the broker application is generated, and is then communicated to the publisher application. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149571 | AUTHENTICATION OF SERVICE REQUESTS INITIATED FROM A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for authenticating user service requests from a social networking site. Data representing a selected message and an originator of the selected message is stored. Data representing a reply to the originator of the selected message is transmitted for posting at the social networking server, the reply including data that causes transmission of a service request to the server when actuated. Data representing the service request and a sender of the service request is received. Data representing a user profile of the sender of the service request is retrieved from the social networking server. One or more attributes of the user profile of the sender are compared against one or more attributes of the stored data representing the originator of the selected message in order to verify the one or more attributes of the user profile. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149572 | Integration System Providing Conversation Messages and Social Network Posts by Conversation Message Authors to Client - A server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors receives from a client device a request, the request comprising a request for message content from one or more email messages in a conversation thread. The server system responds to the request by identifying the message content, identifying candidate authors, and obtaining qualifying posts by the candidate authors, the qualifying posts satisfying predefined criteria. The server system furthermore selects a subset of the qualifying posts, and prepares the selected subset of the qualifying posts and the message content for concurrent display at the client device. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149573 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SOCIAL ACTIVITY RELATING TO COMMUNICATION SERVICE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An operation method of a user device in a communication system is provided, which includes receiving a notification of update of session-related contents from a server, and storing information about the session-related contents. The notification is provided by a user preference of the user device. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149574 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information processing system includes an apparatus and terminal devices, wherein a first terminal device of the terminal devices includes a first acquisition unit acquiring a file name of one file stored in the apparatus using first user information, a first send unit sending a message including the first user information and access information and directed to the second user, wherein a second terminal device of the terminal devices includes a receiving unit receiving the message from the another apparatus based on second user information, a second acquisition unit acquiring one file specified by the access information using the first user information, wherein the apparatus includes a determination unit determining whether one file is sent to the second terminal device based on the first user information and information of the user who can access one file, and a second send unit sending one file to the second terminal device. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149575 | Messaging centre for forwarding e-mail - A method for forwarding an e-mail message from an e-mail server to a mobile terminal is provided. An e-mail address of the mobile terminal is associated with an identifier and encryption information, receiving the e-mail message associated with the e-mail address and sent by the e-mail server. The method includes encrypting the e-mail message using the encryption information associated with the e-mail address and transmitting the encrypted e-mail message to the mobile terminal. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150295754 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CONFIGURATION SETTINGS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND SERVICES - A system for controlling configuration settings for mobile data communication devices and services includes a redirection server and a policy generation system. The redirection server detects a triggering event in a host system and in response to the triggering event continuously redirects data items from the host system to a wireless network. Each mobile data communication device receives data items from the wireless network and includes a device configuration stored in a memory location on the mobile data communication device. The device configuration of each mobile data communication device controls one or more functions of the mobile data communication device. The policy generation system receives a policy setting from a user interface and stores the policy setting in a user information record associated with a mobile data communication device. The redirection server detects the policy setting in the user information record and in response to detecting the policy setting transmits the policy setting over the wireless network to the mobile data communication device associated with the user information record. The mobile data communication device automatically modifies the device configuration to include the policy setting. Methods of controlling a configuration setting in mobile data communication devices are also disclosed. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295865 | ATTACHMENT TRANSFERRING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - An attachment transferring method, apparatus, and system, is described. Technical solutions are described that save traffic in a mobile client during transfer of an attachment of a network message, and improve transferring efficiency. The method may include parsing a first attachment message from a first mobile client, and sending an attachment obtained through parsing to a file server. The method may include sending a request for extracting the attachment to the file server according to a request message from a second mobile client for extracting the attachment. The method may include sending the attachment to the second mobile client. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295866 | INTERACTIVE AVATAR IN MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - A sender sends an email message to a receiver. The message includes an avatar representing the sender. Upon receiving the message, if the receiver has a question related to the message, the receiver sends the question to the sender via the avatar. After receiving the question, the avatar remote server device correlates the question with the message through a MSG-ID associated with the receiver or avatar. The avatar remote server device parses and analyzes the question and then searches mailboxes, agendas, previous answers, toDoLists, folders, resumes, and/or address books of the sender to find a corresponding answer for the question. Then, the avatar remote server device provides the answer to the receiver via the avatar. Alternatively, upon receiving the question, the avatar remote server device sends a notification to the sender. If the sender has an online connectivity, the sender provides the answer to the receiver via the avatar. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295867 | ASSOCIATING SENTIMENT WITH OBJECTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA - An approach for associating a sentiment with a picture posted on a social media account is provided herein. A computing device receives user preferences associated with one or more pictures. The computing device detects at least one of an orientation of the computing device and a motion by a user of the computing device. The computing device determines a sentiment associated with a picture of the one or more pictures based on the user preferences and the detected at least one of the orientation of the computing device and the motion by the user of the computing device. The computing device posts the picture and the associated sentiment on a social media account. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295869 | Filtering Electronic Messages - Technologies are described herein for filtering of electronic messages. A method for filtering messages includes receiving an electronic message for transmission to a recipient, generating a fingerprint for the electronic message, determining if the electronic message is associated with a known cluster of previously transmitted electronic messages, and filtering the electronic message based on the determining. The fingerprint is a fixed length of appended bits selected from hash values determined by applying hash functions to separate textual words included in the electronic message. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295870 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR SHIELDING HARASSMENT BY MENTION IN USER GENERATED CONTENT - A method, an apparatus, and a system for shielding harassment by a mention in user generated content (UGC) are provided. The method includes: receiving a UGC publication request; parsing the UGC publication request to determine whether a mentioned object is included; determining whether the UGC publication request meets a preset harassment determining condition if it is determined that the mentioned object is included; and forbidding sending message content of the UGC publication request to the mentioned object if the preset harassment determining condition is met. A defect of processing after occurrence of harassment by a mention is overcome, beforehand processing for the harassment by a mention in UGC is implemented, and the efficiency of processing the harassment by a mention in UGC is improved; moreover, automatic shielding of the harassment by a mention in UGC is implemented, and a defect of manual examination is overcome. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295871 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INCOMING EMAILS - A method for processing email is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first email via an email system and storing the first email in a database system communicatively coupled to the email system. The first email is assigned to a first one of a plurality of email queues, each of the plurality of email queues associated with at least one designated user-recipient, the designated user-recipient having a skill set suitable for processing emails within the associated email queue. The first email is subsequently assigned to a second one of the plurality of email queues and an email history of the first email is displayed, the email history describing sequential assignments of the first email to the plurality of email queues and including historical data in a chronological order. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295874 | MESSAGE PRELOADING SYSTEM - A method comprising: obtaining, by a client application of a messaging system, information about messages of a user residing on a messaging server; obtaining at least message headers for previously not downloaded messages; determining, on a basis of at least one predefined rule, whether to download whole content of at least one previously not downloaded message in the client application; and downloading the messages for which a positive download decision is made in the client application. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295875 | Automatic Group And Hotspot Creation For Websites - A method for allowing website servers to automatically generate discussion groups based on currently discussed topics and user locations. In its first embodiment, the server looks for active conversations between users and group posts, clusters the conversations, generates discussion groups from those clusters and then invites the corresponding users to said groups. In another embodiment, the server monitors the users' IP addresses and location, clusters the users by those parameters, generates discussion groups based on them, then invites the corresponding users. In some cases the clustering can be done solely based on IP address so that if multiple people are using the same network to access a site, they will be given a way to converse amongst themselves. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295876 | Message Scanning System and Method - A system for sorting electronic messages having at least one computer to execute instructions stored on a computer-readable medium. The system scans a message in order to identify terms in the message listed in a first database and provides a message score to the received message based on the presence of any identified terms. At least one action is taken if the first message score is higher or lower than a certain value. If the first message score is higher than a second message score of a second message, then the first message is ranked more important than the second message. Messages may be placed within a score-ranged category. The message score may be determined by combining the weights of identified terms. Terms identified in the received message may be compared with terms in a second database. The received message is preferably put into at least one of at least two categories including a first category for incoming messages with matched and identified terms. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295878 | NOTIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC CONVERSATION - A computer system identifies an electronic conversation between a plurality of participants. The computer system identifies the plurality of participants. The computer system determines whether the plurality of participants match a specific list of participants that have been predetermined to be of interest to a user. In response to determining that the plurality of participants engaged in the electronic conversation matches the predetermined list of participants of interest to the user, the computer system notifies the user of the electronic conversation. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295963 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR USER COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for communication program association. The method includes acquiring a communication program account number in the local area network; sending a communication association request to the communication program account number in the local area network; and receiving communication association confirmation information returned by the communication program account number in the local area network, and establishing communication association with the communication program account number in the local area network. Because the established associated communication program account number does not occupy significant network bandwidth in the communication process, the network transmission speed is improved. Because communication is performed on the local network, security of communication information is ensured. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150296037 | PUSHLET INSTANT MESSAGING FRAMEWORK AND PUSHLET INSTANT MESSAGING METHOD - A Pushlet IM method for pushing a message from a first client device to a second client device includes the steps of: providing a Java-based web service; receiving a message from the first client device, the message including information of a recipient entity; verifying identity of a sender entity who intends to send the message to the recipient entity using the first client device; and creating a thread according to the information of the recipient entity for pushing the message to the second client device that is associated with the recipient entity. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150296049 | BATTERY EFFICIENT SYNCHRONIZATION OF COMMUNICATIONS USING A TOKEN BUCKET - Systems and methods for email synchronization may include a computing device with a token bucket. The token bucket allows for temporary storage of tokens, each token authorizing a synchronization of at least one email application running on the computing device. The device may determine a frequency of received email communications associated with an email account managed by the at least one email application and hosted by an email server. The determining may be based on one or more characteristics associated with the token bucket. The determined frequency may be compared with a threshold value. When the determined frequency is equal to or lower than the threshold value, a push communication channel may be established with the email server, the push communication channel for receiving server-initiated email push communications. The at least one email application may be synchronized with the email account by receiving push communications using the push communication channel. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150304253 | Experience Sharing with Commenting - Exemplary embodiments involve real-time commenting in experience-sharing sessions. An exemplary method involves: (a) a server system facilitating an experience sharing session between a sharing device and one or more viewing devices, wherein the server system receives media in real-time from the sharing device and transmits the media to the one or more viewing devices in real-time, wherein the media comprises video; (b) during the experience sharing session, the server system receiving one or more comments from one or more of the viewing devices; (d) the server system filtering the received comments in real-time based on filter criteria; and (e) the server system initiating real-time delivery, to the sharing device, of one or more of the received comments that satisfy the filter criteria. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304254 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing system is implemented by an information processing apparatus and terminals connected to the information processing apparatus. The information processing system includes a destination determiner that determines a destination terminal of the terminals based on the right of a sender terminal of the terminals that has sent a message, a message generator that generates a message adapted for the destination terminal based on the message sent from the sender terminal, a transmitter that sends the message generated by the message generator to the destination terminal, and a display unit that is provided in each of the terminals and displays the message sent from the transmitter in a display format corresponding to the right of the each of the terminals. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304255 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING CONTENT OF A MESSAGE INTENDED FOR A PLURALITY OF RECIPIENTS - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating an exchange in a messaging conversation between an originating entity and a plurality of recipient entities. According to certain aspects, a facilitating entity receives a message from the originating entity that is intended for the plurality of recipient entities. The facilitating entity analyzes the message to determine how to modify content associated with the message and modifies the content of the message according to the analysis. The facilitating entity sends the modified message to the plurality of recipient entities, hi aspects, the facilitating entity can manage rounds of message and response exchanges with one or more of the recipient entities until a predefined criteria is met, or according to other parameters. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304256 | MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304259 | CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - A method for controlling a message from a sender. A referee can evaluate a credential associated with a message to determine it's desirability to the intended recipient, and take an action based upon the results of the determination. A sender that includes a trusted component can send a credential with the message, and the message can be controlled without a referee. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304260 | METHOD OF PROCESSING CONNECTION DATA OF PLATFORM OF AN INTERNET SITE - The present invention relates to a method of processing data regarding connection to a platform ( | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304261 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ECHOING OR REDIRECTING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES IN A CONVERSATION - Systems and methods are provided for echoing or redirecting messages in a conversation between an originating entily and a plurality of recipient entities, According to certain aspects, a facilitating entity determines to echo or redirect an electronic message and identifies an additional entity to which to echo or redirect the electronic message. In some embodiments, the facilitating entity can echo or redirect return messages that are associated with an original message. In redirecting an electronic message, the facilitating entity retrieves the electronic message from a recipient entity and sends the electronic message to an additional entity. The facilitating entity echoes or redirects messages according to various analyses and/or in response to various conditions, situations, and/or the like. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304262 | Device Discovery Method, Apparatus and System - A device discovery method, apparatus and system. The method includes transmitting a detection request message on a set transmit channel, where the detection request message carries interception rule information of a local device, and the interception rule information includes at least interception time information and/or interception channel information; and intercepting, according to the interception rule information, a detection response message transmitted by another device. The device discovery method, apparatus and system provided by the embodiments of the present invention can improve the device discovery efficiency. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304263 | INNER-CIRCLE SOCIAL SOURCING - A social networking environment supporting collaborative social interaction is disclosed. The social networking environment may be implemented by a computing system including a number of client computing devices and a server system that communicate with each other via a communications network. User profile and geographic location information associated with users of the social networking environment may be shared with each other. Users may request commentary from other users regarding a target user. Users may receive and fulfill requests for commentary to facilitate social interactions between two or more other users. Users may define an inner-circle of users from which commentary may be requested by that user. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304264 | CONTEXT AWARE SERIALIZATION - Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to techniques for serializing account and message management actions performed at a message management service for synchronization with a messaging service. A message management service can receive requests from a client device and/or a messaging service to perform actions on resources for an email message account. The actions can include account-related actions, folder-related actions, message thread-related actions, and/or message-related actions. Message management service can implement techniques for serializing actions that conflict, such as actions on a resource (e.g., a message account, a message, a folder, or a message thread) that conflict with other actions on the same resource and/or other resources that have a dependency relationship. By performing serialization, message management service can prevent conflicting actions from being performed concurrently, while enabling non-conflicting actions to be performed in parallel, thereby improving performance for execution of actions. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304265 | BROADCAST NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - An online content management service can manage distribution of event notifications to client devices based on notification keys. Client devices can register with the content management service to receive event notifications associated with one or more specific notification keys of interest. The content management service can receive information about events, determine a notification key for each event, and selectively send notifications to clients that are registered for that notification key. The content management service can store event notifications for client devices that are generated during a period when the client device is not in communication with the content management service and can send the missed event notifications to the client device when the client device reestablishes communication with the content management service. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304266 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADDING FRIEND, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method and apparatus for adding friend are described. The method includes: scanning to acquire a two-dimension code shared by a two-dimension code sharing user; parsing the two-dimension code to obtain a responsive user identifier; judging a relationship between the user identifier and a user identifier of the two-dimension code sharing user; and if the relationship is a stranger relationship, entering a friend adding interface and adding the two-dimension code sharing user as a friend. The present method is capable of avoiding leakage of user information. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304268 | SHARING A SECRET IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATION ANONYMOUSLY - Technology is directed to a social networking application for sharing secrets anonymously. The social networking application receives a message from a user, anonymizes the message to generate a secret and shares the secret with other users. The other users cannot know who posted the secret. A message can include multimedia content such as a text, an image, an audio, a video or a combination thereof. The secrets are displayed in a graphical user interface (GUI) as secret GUI components. A secret GUI component displays the secret in a particular format. In one example, a text of the secret is superimposed on an image or a background color of the secret in the secret GUI component. The secret GUI component includes GUI elements using which users can “love”/“heart”/“like” a secret and/or comment on the secret. The secret GUI component can display author-viewer relationship information or a location information of the author. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304270 | SYSTEM, PROCESS AND COMPUTER WRITEABLE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTED MOBILE APPLICATION HAVING INQUIRY BASED GAME PLAY FUNCTIONALITY - A social media based messaging and entertainment system incorporating any number of processor driven devices, each including key input and audio/visual output display features. A software program incorporated into the processor device further includes a plurality of enterable fields for composing and responding to query based messages. The software program further may include any of a browser supported website or a mobile operating system supported application configured for linking together any number of the processor driven devices. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304364 | Method, System, and Terminal for Web Real-Time Communication - A method and a system for web real-time communication and a terminal. The method includes performing, by a first terminal, web real-time communication with a second terminal, where the first terminal and the second terminal separately save property information of a current media channel; when a network connection is restored within a preset time threshold after network disconnection occurs to the first terminal, automatically initiating, according to the property information, a process of restoring or establishing a media channel; and continuing, by the first terminal, web real-time communication with the second terminal through the restored or established media channel. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304368 | Sharing Locations with Friends on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a mobile client system of a first user may determine a first location of the mobile client system, where the first user corresponds to a first node of a social graph of the online social network, the social graph comprises a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, and each of the edges between two of the nodes represents a single degree of separation between them. The mobile client system may send an indication of the first location and one or more and one or more notification preferences to a computing system associated with the online social network. The mobile client system may receive a notification referencing one or more second users of the online social network, where each second user is associated with a mobile client system having a second location within a threshold distance of the first location. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150312176 | Instant Messaging Systems and Methods - Data describing a request to obtain access to an instant messaging system is received from a requesting device. The request to obtain access includes an identifier. A plugin is identified from a data repository based on the identifier in the request. The plugin is adapted to extend an instant messaging application installed on the requesting device. In some aspects, the plugin received during an instant messaging session extends the instant messaging application until the instant messaging session is terminated. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312177 | MESSAGING BASED SIGNALING FOR COMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for providing call signaling services to client devices transmits a start channel message on a service topic from a first client device to a service instance. The system publishes from the service instance to the client devices a channel message including a channel topic. The service instance subscribes to the service topic and an associated channel topic. Each client device subscribes to a corresponding client topic. The system transfers signaling information between the client devices and the service instance by publishing signaling information to a channel topic and client topics to establish a communication channel between the client devices. The system communicates between the client devices by publishing information over the communication channel. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for providing call signaling services in substantially the same manners described above. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312178 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF PROCESSING MESSAGE IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Methods and apparatus are provided for processing a message in an electronic device. A first message application is executed, which displays a first message and a second message in a combined message display window of an interlocutor. A second message application is executed, which provides the second message to the first message application while the first message application is executed. The first message is received and/or transmitted through the first message application, and the second message is received and/or transmitted through the second message application. The first message application and the second message application have different message reception and transmission techniques. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312186 | METHODS OF GENERATING SIGNATURES FROM GROUPS OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES AND RELATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING SPAM MESSAGES - A method of generating a signature for a group of electronic messages that each include a plurality of characters comprises extracting a plurality of blocks of characters from each of the electronic messages, mathematically processing each of the blocks of characters from each electronic message, and generating a signature for the group of electronic messages based at least in part on the mathematically processed blocks of characters. In some embodiments a counting Bloom filter may be used to generate the signature. The signatures generated by these methods may be used to identify spam. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312187 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODIFYING A RECIPIENT LIST OF A MESSAGE - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating an exchange in a messaging conversation between an originating entity and a plurality of recipient entities. According to certain aspects, a facilitating entity receives a message from the originating entity that specifies a list of the plurality of recipient entities. The facilitating entity analyzes the message to determine how to modify the list of the recipient entities and modifies the list according to the analysis. The facilitating entity sends the message to the plurality of recipient entities that are specified by the modified list. In aspects, the facilitating entity can manage rounds of message and response exchanges with one or more of the recipient entities until a predefined criteria is met, or according to other parameters. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312189 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVING NOTIFICATION APPLIED TO A PORTABLE DEVICE AND RELATED SYSTEM THEREOF - A system of automatically receiving notification applied to a portable device includes a first portable device transmitting position coordinates thereof to a server; the server receiving the position coordinates, storing the position coordinates to a database of the server, and updating previous position coordinates of the first portable device according to the position coordinates; the server finding a second user within the database matching customization conditions of a first user having the first portable device according to the position coordinates and the customization conditions of the first user; the server simultaneously transmitting a first push notification message to the first portable device and a second push notification message to a second portable device of the second user according to a push notification function. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312190 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION - A system for integrating social media information or other electronic interactions may comprise a database configured to store instances of interaction among a plurality of users, such as users of one or more electronic social media networks, and an application configured to be installed on the computer system of a first one of the plurality of users. The application may be configured to collect information from a website displayed in a web browser on the user's computer system, determine if the information includes a second one of the plurality of users, and display on the user's computer system one or more instances of interaction between the first user and the second user that are stored in the database. The application may be configured to operate with one or both of social media network websites and non-social-media network websites. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312192 | USING ORGANIZATIONAL RANK TO FACILITATE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - A system for electronic communications. Receiving a sender identifier and a recipient identifier. A first message is received from the sender identifier to send to the recipient identifier. Determining the relative ranking of the sender and the recipient. In response to determining that the recipient has a higher relative ranking than the sender, determining whether the first message contains an action item. In response to determining that the first message contains an action item, transmitting a second message to the sender. In response to receiving an indication from the sender to send the first message, sending the first message from the sender identifier to the recipient identifier. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312194 | BOOKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The invention relates to a method and system for booking reservations in a booking system and synchronizing bookings among several booking systems. The system comprises at least one booking system; at least one service provider; a mediator service; a client, and at least one client terminal device that can be a mobile device and that includes a dialogue. The client uses the dialogue to enter information into the system and the mediator receives inquiries and answers from the at least one booking system, the at least one service provider, and the at least one client. The mediator transfers and adapts information between them. The method and system are particularly suited for use with mobile phone users by Small Message Service messages. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312195 | System and Method for Displaying Message or User Lists - A system and method displays lists of users or messages in segments, with some segments showing messages or users believed to be more relevant to the user than others on the list. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312196 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGING - The present invention relates to a messaging technique, and more specifically, relates to a method and system for messaging using information of predetermined message recipients. According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for messaging, comprising: obtaining message recipients designated by a to-be-sent message; obtaining predetermined message recipients corresponding to the to-be-sent message; and in response to inconsistency between the designated message recipients and the predetermined message recipients, unifying the designated message recipients and the predetermined message recipients. According to the method and system for messaging provided by the present invention, message recipients may be efficiently controlled and uniformed so as to avoid missing of recipients or to promptly update message recipient information. Further, the messaged content can be efficiently controlled and unified. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312200 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR OUTCOME PREDICTION OF TEXT SUBMISSION TO NETWORK BASED ON CORPORA ANALYSIS - Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring a message that is configured to be submitted to a network for publication, performing text-based analysis on the acquired message to determine an objective message prediction, wherein the text-based analysis is at least partially based on a corpus of one or more related texts, and transmitting the objective message prediction to a destination device, wherein the objective message prediction is configured to be presented on the destination device prior to submission of the acquired message to the network. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312202 | Method of Managing Social Media Distractions over a Social Networking Application by Executing Computer-Executable Instructions Stored On a Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium - A method of managing social media distractions over a social networking application allows status descriptions to be automatically generated and displayed on a networking application based on automatic detection of media being engaged with on a device. Additionally, users are aided in managing distractions such as video chatting on social media while consuming media or experiencing leisure. Furthermore, a method of organizing text messages in a message stack is provided. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312203 | MOBILE STATUS UPDATE DISPLAY - A method for using a wireless receiver may include receiving subscribed messages for a user identified with a user account of a hub, being messages posted by other uses of the hub to which the user has subscribed. The method may include automatically processing the messages to determine content for display on a display device, and displaying the content on the display device. The display device may be configured as two separate screens mounted at separate locations on the user's body. The messages may include user status messages, which are messages posted to the hub by the user, and the user status messages and subscription messages may be displayed on separate ones of the two screens. An apparatus for performing the method may include a processor coupled to a memory holding encoded instructions for performing operations of the method. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312204 | Tagging Posted Content in a Social Networking System with Media Information - A social networking system allows a user to insert media information into content posted by the user, where the media information identifies a media item that the user is consuming while composing the posted content. When a user of a social networking system composes content via a composer interface, the user may select an option on the composer interface to record audio using a microphone on the user's device. A media item is identified from the recorded audio and information about the identified media item is added to the user's posted content. The system may also update information about the identified media item and the composing user. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A SUBSCRIPTION-BASED SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM - Systems and methods for implementing a subscription-based social media or fan club platform are provided. A content creator generates live content on a mobile device and sends requests to a server for initializing a live stream from the mobile device. The server sends requests to encoding service providers. The encoded live content is send to a content storage server. Subscribers of the social media or fan club platform can access the live content on their mobile devices from the content storage server. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150319110 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGE BASED ON OBJECT - An apparatus and method for providing a message based on an object are disclosed. The apparatus includes an object management unit, a message management unit, a notification processing unit, and a reading processing unit. The object management unit performs the registration, authentication and deletion of an object based on object identification information and object authentication information transmitted from a message generation terminal. The message management unit connects a first message and message control information, transmitted from the message generation terminal, to the corresponding object. The notification processing unit provides notification of the arrival of the first message to a message reception terminal based on a message notification condition included in the message control information. The reading processing unit processes the reading of the first message of the message reception terminal based on object authentication information and a message reading condition included in the message control information. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319111 | BILATERAL CHAT FOR INSTANT MESSAGING - Systems and technologies for providing an electronic bilateral chat room are disclosed. Users of the system may be screened against a database of organizations having hierarchal information relating to parent organization for which the user is associated, including parent subsidiaries, joint ventures and affiliates. While a bilateral chat room is limited to users in only two organizations, the present disclosure also allows other users that are associated with the structure of the parent organization to be included in the chat room. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319112 | SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT - The invention relates to a method and apparatus for allowing presence information from multiple platforms to be synchronised to provide a single master presence status. This is achieved by a client monitoring the status on one platform and then updating the status on a different platform in response to changes. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319115 | DETERMINING A TIME BEFORE A POST IS VIEWED BY A RECIPIENT - In an approach to determining a time before a recipient views a communication, a computer receives a communication from a sender in a collaboration application. The computer determines one or more attributes of the communication, the attributes including at least a recipient of the communication, and a plurality of viewing data for the recipient of the communication. The computer determines, based, at least in part, on the one or more attributes of the communication and the plurality of viewing data for the recipient, a time before the recipient views the communication in the collaboration application. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-CHANNEL DELIVERY OF TRANSFORMED AND AUGMENTED MESSAGES IN REAL-TIME - In a system of interconnected enterprise apps, a business data object maintained by a server undergoes a life cycle event which triggers a message notification. All messages between client applications and the server are intercepted, and a configurable rules engine and message processing filters govern the transformation and delivery of each message according to each recipient's role, application, and login state. Messages can be enhanced by adding contextual information and details from other messages and/or information retrieved from enterprise back-end systems according to the rules. The transformation and delivery of messages occurs in real-time across multiple channels, platforms, and users. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319117 | Computer System and Computer-Implemented Method for Service and Application Load Testing - A computer system for use in load testing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) service has a processor and a memory storage device in communication with the processor. The processor is adapted to receive an XML message, an address for a service to be tested, an action compliant with a protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment and associated with the service; create and store in memory a template message package compliant with the protocol; create a populated message package compliant with the protocol by incorporating in the template message package the XML message, the address and the action; establish a connection to the service and furnish one or more documents and attachments to the service; and receive a response from the service. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319118 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC, CONTROL, AND INFORMATION COLLECTION BASED UPON A CONNECTION OR CONNECTIONLESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR SENDING MESSAGES TO THE RESOURCE MANAGER - A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or via a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to a service center or from a service center to a resource administrator, but also may remain within a local or wide area network for transmission between a machine and a resource administrator. E-mail messages may be transmitted from a computer which is attached to a device that is being monitored or controlled and include information regarding the status, usage, or capabilities of the attached device. The device may send status messages and usage information of the device to either a resource administrator or to a service center on the Internet through a firewall. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319120 | EXECUTING COMMANDS EMBEDDED IN MESSAGES - A communication server, computer-readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method for executing commands embedded in messages are provided. The method may include accessing a message that is being routed through a communication server. The message may include a command operator that is operative to execute an action performed by a network-based service executing on an application server. The method may further include identifying the command operator included in the message, and transmitting a request to the application server to perform the action corresponding thereto. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319122 | Synchronization of Preferred Perishable Content - A user can specify particular news, weather, traffic, or other perishable content received on a particular Internet radio station or other media channel. The user can customize the station so that wherever the user is currently located, he can receive perishable content related to a preferred geographic location or other category. In some embodiments, a user can specify that a customized station plays local news from one city at the top of the hour, traffic from another city at 10 minutes past the hour, and music or other content at other times. The user can also customize the station to select the perishable content, or other original content, from the personal libraries of specified users. Thus, a user can customize not only the genre of content or select a particular local station, but can also modify the perishable content provided by the customized station. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319124 | SORTING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES USING ATTRIBUTES OF THE SENDER ADDRESS - Systems and methods for sorting electronic messages using attributes of senders or of sender addresses. An electronic messaging server sorts electronic messages using attributes associated with the senders or sender addresses of the electronic messages. The sender addresses and associated attributes are stored in an accept list. A sorting module uses the accept list to sort the electronic messages into various folders. The sorting module can also access other data sources, such as a contact list, to assist in sorting the electronic messages. The attributes can be determined independently of the user or can be set directly by the user. The attributes can also identify a status of a sender such as whether the sender is authorized, unauthorized, or unconfirmed. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319125 | VIRAL INVITATIONS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS - A system and method for virally growing a social network. The social network system receives a member account sign-up message for a first social network from a first member. The social network system then posts a member sign-up notification to the first member's event wall on a second social network; wherein the first member has one or more social contacts through the second social network. For at least a second respective member in the one or more social contacts, the social network system posts a personalized invitation message as a comment to the member sign-up notification on the first member's event wall, wherein the comment is initially hidden from all members other than the second respective member of the one or more member contacts. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319126 | AD HOC MESSAGE SHARING BETWEEN EMAIL AND SOCIAL NETWORKS - There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for sharing messages between an email client and a social network. The system prepares, based on an input from a sender, an email message by using the email client. The system identifies a portion of the email message to be shared with one or more users in the social network. The system tags the portion of the email message with identities of the one or more users in the social network. The system accesses the social network with credential of the sender. The system posts the portion of the email message on social network pages of the one or more users under a name of the sender. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319127 | AD HOC MESSAGE SHARING BETWEEN EMAIL AND SOCIAL NETWORKS - There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for sharing messages between an email client and a social network. The system prepares, based on an input from a sender, an email message by using the email client. The system identifies a portion of the email message to be shared with one or more users in the social network. The system tags the portion of the email message with identities of the one or more users in the social network. The system accesses the social network with credential of the sender. The system posts the portion of the email message on social network pages of the one or more users under a name of the sender. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319130 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE RECIPIENT DISPOSITION CHARACTERISTICS - A computer implemented method for determining recipient disposition characteristics of an electronic message that was acted upon by an electronic message reader is described. The method includes receiving by a computer system message requests in response to the electronic message reader acting on the electronic message and executing by the computer system one or more rules that compare a value of one or more fields included in the one or more message requests to one or more field values included in the one or more rules. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319223 | Delivering Content - Disclosed is a method of delivering targeted content to users of a communication system comprises receiving notification data of a communication event conducted over a communication network of the communication system between at least a first and a second user of the communication system, the notification data identifying the second user and conveying information pertaining to the first user. The method further comprises selecting content for transmission to the identified second user based on the information pertaining to the first user and transmitting the selected content to a user device associated with the identified second user for delivery to the second user. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319262 | SIMULTANEOUS FORMATION OF ASSOCIATIONS AMONG MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system, apparatus, and method are provided for facilitating simultaneous formation of associations or connections among multiple users of a professional network service, a social network service or other application or service in which users form relationships with each other. One user submits a request or suggestion to the system and identifies the multiple users (e.g., by username, by electronic mail address, by telephone number). The system dispatches invitations to some or all of the users to allow them to endorse connections with all of the other users, with none of the users, or with some specific subset. The system receives the responses and forms the approved associations. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150326510 | Method and Apparatus for Time Limited Messages in Packet Communications - The present disclosure includes systems and methods for direct packet communications and store and forward packet communications including packets which have attributes which determine the lifetime of the packet contents and these lifetimes are optionally a function of the recipient. Example methods are given featuring the transmission of packets with limited lifetime, the storing and retransmission of packets to one or more recipients and confirmation of deletion of packet contents. It is also shown that cryptography may be employed to ensure that timed presentation of packet contents to recipients takes place and is authenticated by the sender. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326514 | MODULAR MESSAGING PLATFORM - Embodiments are directed to providing a modular messaging platform that accommodates additional functionality modules. In one scenario, a computer system instantiates a modular messaging application that is configured to interoperate with additional functionality modules. The additional functionality modules are configured to provide additional functionality to the modular messaging application. The computer system receives an indication indicating that an additional functionality module is to be implemented within the modular messaging application. The computer system then initiates transmission of a message from the messaging application, where the message is sent using at least some of the functionality provided by the additional functionality module. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326515 | METHOD FOR STORING CONVERSATION UPON USER'S REQUEST IN CPM SYSTEM, AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method for storing a conversation upon a user's real-time request in a Converged-IP Messaging (CPM) service is provided. The method includes receiving a pager mode message including a dynamic user preference; identifying a setting of the dynamic user preference; and storing the pager mode message in a message storage server, depending on the setting of the dynamic user preference. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326518 | Method and apparatus for forwarding multimedia message - A method and an apparatus for forwarding a multimedia message are provided. The method for forwarding a multimedia message includes that a gateway receives a compressed multimedia message from a terminal, the gateway parses the received multimedia message to acquire a compression type parameter which is adopted for the compression at the terminal and is carried in the received multimedia message, the gateway decompresses the received multimedia message according to the compression type parameter to obtain a decompressed multimedia message, and the decompressed multimedia message is sent to an MMS center. According to the technical solution of the present disclosure, the gateway decompresses the received multimedia message and then sends the decompressed multimedia message to the MMS center in a conventional way, and the multimedia message downloaded from the MMS center is sent to the terminal in a compression form, so that the waste of network resources can be avoided effectively and the speed of uploading and downloading the multimedia message is increased. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326519 | MANAGEMENT OF PARALLEL USER INPUTS IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - A discussion thread is associated with a master recipients list that is maintained at an author's computer or a server computer. The recipients list is revised as participants in the discussion are added to and/or removed from the discussion. An author is notified when target recipients do not match the master recipients list. When a participant is added to the discussion from an old discussion instance, a thread manager provides for the added participant to receive a more current discussion instance. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326520 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL MESSAGE BASED ON ACCOUNT ATTRIBUTE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is a method for detecting an abnormal message, comprising: diving a text of a detected message into a plurality of text segments; obtaining one or more account attributes of each text segment, and determining a publication proportion parameter corresponding to the account attributes of each text segment; determining a first factor corresponding to the account attributes of each text segment according to the publication proportion parameter; determining a second factor of the detected message according to the first factor corresponding to the account attributes of each text segment; and determining according to the second factor of the detected message whether the detected message is an abnormal message. Through the combination of publication account attributes of messages with undifferentiated text segmentation and the use of Bayesian algorithm, batches of junk messages of a microblog account are effectively limited, and the flexibility of junk message processing is improved. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326521 | MESSAGE CATEGORIZATION - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for defining a message behavior profile for a sender, which may be used to categorize messages from the sender. A message behavior profile may be defined based upon, for example, message distribution behavior of the sender (e.g., volume, frequency, variance in content amongst messages sent to recipients, etc.); recipient interactions with messages from the sender (e.g., message read rates, message response rates, etc.); unsubscription options comprised within messages from the sender; and/or other factors. In this way, the message behavior profile and/or features extracted from a message may be used to categorize a message from the sender (e.g., newsletter, commercial advertisements, alert, social network etc.). Categorized messages may be organized into folders, displayed or hidden within views, and/or processed based upon their respective categorizations. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326523 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTED SOCIAL NETWORKING MESSAGING - An approach is provided for augmented social networking messaging. A message is generated for posting to a social networking service. Address information is determined for a group of one or more devices associated with one or more users. At least one of the one or more users is a non-subscriber to the social networking service. The addressing information is used to send the message to the group. A reply to the message is received from one of the devices of the group. Posting of the reply to the social networking service is initiated. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326678 | METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING MESSENGER FRIEND - A method for recommending a messenger friend is disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one first contact number from a first-user terminal through a transceiver by a service server, receiving at least one second contact number from at least one second-user terminal through the transceiver by the service server, comparing the at least one first contact number with the at least one second contact number by a controller of the service server, and recommending, in the presence of the same contact number between the at least one first contact number and the at least one second contact number, the at least one second-user terminal as a friend to the first-user terminal. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326691 | ROUTING COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON HISTORY OF PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS - A method and system for routing communications includes building a first user profile for a first user based on a history of communications associated with a plurality of communication identifiers associated with a first user to route inbound communications. A first communication identifier of the plurality of communication identifiers is associated with the first user and subsequently, the first communication identifier may be assigned to a second user. A second communication identifier is assigned to the first user such that a received inbound communication is directed towards the first communication identifier. The method routes the inbound communication based on an analysis of the first user profile of the first user. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150331714 | Enforced Unitasking in Multitasking Systems - A computer system includes one or more devices that are capable of multitasking (performing at least two tasks in parallel or substantially in parallel). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a first one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the first task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a second one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the second task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150333990 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING AVAILABILITY STATUS FOR MULTIPLE SIP USERS - Systems and methods for obtaining availability status in respect of a plurality of user identifiers are provided. For each user identifier, a respective SIP cluster identifier is obtained. The user identifiers are then grouped according to SIP cluster identifier, each such group of user identifiers containing at least one user identifier for which the same SIP cluster identifier was obtained. For each SIP cluster identifier for which there is a group of user identifiers, a request is sent for availability status information in a single message to a SIP cluster associated with the SIP cluster identifier, the request containing the user identifiers of the group of user identifiers. A response to each single message is received in a single message containing availability status information for the user identifiers belonging to the group of user identifiers. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334060 | Method and Computer Network for Transmitting Real-Time Communications - The disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a method for the transmission of messages in a computer network comprised of computing nodes which are interconnected via active components. The computing nodes exchange real-time-messages that are allocated defined CM time intervals of constant duration. The bandwidth available for real-time messages within a CM time interval is limited to a defined real-time bandwidth. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING TIME-LIMITED MESSAGES - The claimed system and method offers computer readable instructions for software that enables a user to send content that is time-sensitive. This sender may set a window of time in which the content may be viewed. By limiting a time for viewing the sender is able to control the viewing of the message. In addition, the sender may control what reply capabilities, if any, a recipient may have following receipt of the message. Further, the sender may be given a list of recipients that have viewed the message. The sender may select recipients based on demographic information. Further, the sender may send a message and invite recipients to view data of the message while the data is being created as in viewing the life streaming images or sound being recorded. This system and method may be useful not only to those who wish to create temporary messages to protect privacy of the message, but also to parties such as businesses wishing to attract customers in a time-sensitive manner. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334064 | MULTIUSER WEB ONLINE COMMUNICATION TOOL WITH SECURE HANDSHAKE - A method and system for centrally managing transaction displays and communication between users is disclosed. The system comprises a web interface displaying a unique presentation of the data submitted and generated by the user. A secure handshake of the present invention solves the problem of managing multiple requests between users and keeping all parties informed about the status of the potential agreement. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334065 | Method and System for Automated Social Communication Between Individual People - A method according to a set of instructions stored on a memory of a computing device includes receiving, by a processor of the computing device, first and second user-profile information associated with a first and second user, respectively. The method further includes determining a match between the first and second users based on the first and second user-profile information. The method further includes establishing, in response to determining the match, a real time voice communication over a network between a first user device and a second user device. The method further includes sending or receiving information to the first user device and the second user device during the real time voice communication. First contact information associated with the first user device is not sent to the second user device. Second contact information associated with the second user device is not sent to the first user device. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334069 | Notifications - A notification of a received communication relating to a communication chain is presented. An input is received in response to that notification. Until a predetermined event occurs, the presentation of at least one type of notification of further received communications relating to that communication chain is suspended in dependence on said input. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334073 | SYMBOLIC REFERENTIAL THIRD-PARTY NOTIFICATION - User input including a social network notification symbol followed by a social network tag is detected in association with a social network user interface. The social network tag includes a text keyword that identifies a social network topic within the social network. A subset of social network users within the social network that follow the social network topic identified by the text keyword of the social network tag is determined. A referential third-party social network user notification subset within the social network is defined as the determined subset of social network users within the social network that follow the social network topic. A referential third-party social network notification is published to the defined referential third-party social network user notification subset within the social network. The referential third-party social network notification includes the detected user input that includes the social network notification symbol followed by the social network tag. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TO SCHEDULE COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for improving the effectiveness of communications over a social network. A method for controlling network communication, comprises analyzing a social network in response to a request made by a user to send a message to a node in the social network, delaying for a period of time sending of the message based on a result of the analyzing, and sending the message to the node in the social network after the period of time has elapsed. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150339309 | INFORMATION POSTING METHOD FOR A WEBSITE - A method includes receiving an information posting request from a source platform, and receiving a location of where a media content associated with the information posting request is to be posted. After receiving the location, if the source platform is a mobile platform, then open an email client software on the mobile platform, create an email message, transmit the email message to a website service provider's email address, store the media content in a storage system, and post the media content in a webpage referred by the location so the posted media content is searchable on the website. The email message contains a message body for inputting the media content, a message header having the location automatically embedded in a subject header field of the message header, and the website service provider's email address automatically filled in a recipient address field of the message header. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341287 | ESTIMATING THE TIME UNTIL A REPLY EMAIL WILL BE RECEIVED USING A RECIPIENT BEHAVIOR MODEL - A method is provided in an email communication system having at least a processor. The method includes generating an estimate of a receipt time of a reply email from a recipient of an initial email using a recipient behavior model that applies machine learning to the initial email and to training data from other emails. The method further includes indicating the estimate to a user using an indication device. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341288 | TWO-WAY REAL TIME COMMUNICATION SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS ASYMMETRIC PARTICIPATION IN CONVERSATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE ELECTRONIC PLATFORMS - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for receiving from responders conversation selection criteria and mode of communication information. A request for a conversation is received, from an initiator using a first communication mode that identifies a topic, but does not identify any responders. A conversation identifier is created. Possible responders are determined based on the topic and the conversation selection criteria. The topic of the conversation is sent to the possible responders, without identifying the initiator. A first response from a first responder is received using a second communication mode that is different than the first communication mode. The first response is mapped to the conversation based in part on the conversation identifier. The response is sent to the initiator using the first communication mode. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341289 | Merging Instant Messaging (IM) Chat Sessions - The present disclosure provides for merging of instant messaging (IM) chat sessions. In one embodiment, a method for automatically replying to an IM message from a first IM sender when a recipient is engaged in an IM session with a second IM sender is provided. In another embodiment, the disclosure provides a method for forwarding IM messages to a recipient at different IM clients. In still another embodiment, a method for transferring IM messages to a different recipient is provided. In some embodiments, two separate IM chat sessions are merged into a single IM chat session. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341290 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING MESSAGES BASED ON USER ACTIVITY STATUS - An approach is provided for delivering messages to a user based on their activity status. An activity detection platform receives a request to deliver a message from a sending device to a receiving device. The activity detection platform also detects an activity status of a receiving user associated with the receiving device based on the request. The activity detection platform also presents at least one delivery option for the message at the sending device to a sending user based on the detection. The message is then processed based on the at least one delivery option selected by the sending user prior to a presentation of the message to the receiving user. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341292 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DATA AND COMMAND REQUEST PROCESSING - Methods and systems are disclosed for processing data and command requests. In one aspect, a method for processing a data and command request is disclosed that includes receiving, at a server, a first electronic mail message from a requesting electronic mail address, the first electronic mail message including information that identifies an application. The method may also include transmitting, by the server, a query to an application data source associated with the application, the application data source being selected from a plurality of data sources associated with a plurality of applications and receiving, at the server, application data from the application data source. In addition, the method may also include transmitting, by the server, a second electronic mail message that includes at least some of the application data as a reply to the first electronic mail message. Systems and computer-readable media are also disclosed for implementing the above-described method. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341293 | Methods and Systems to Display a Video in an Email - The present invention provides a method and a system to display a video in an email without the need to execute a player on the computerized device. The video email allows video to be displayed in emails without flagging the emails as a virus or spam. The video emails get through most firewalls. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341295 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a memory, a transmission unit, and a permission unit. The memory stores an identification of a client apparatus, a first mail address assigned to a first user, and first permission information indicating that the first user has authority to use a service, while associating the identification, the first mail address, and the first permission information with one another. The transmission unit transmits, in a case where the identification has been received from the client apparatus, a first email addressed to the first mail address stored in association with the identification that has been received. The permission unit permits, in a case where a reply corresponding to contents of the first email has been received from a terminal, use of the service in accordance with the first permission information stored in association with the first mail address. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341296 | PROBABILITY BASED WHITELIST - A system and method are disclosed for maintaining a whitelist, including: obtaining message data based on an email message sent by a user; extracting recipient information from message data; updating the whitelist using the recipient information. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER COMMUNICATION IN A NETWORK - Methods and systems for user communication in an online community and/or website are provided. User profile data may be accessed to from a memory. An analysis system compares the user profile data for the user with a time-dependent goal to determine a result. The time-dependent goal may be determined based on an analysis of a set of (successful) users. A user interface system generates a representation of the result for prompting the user to initiate a communication to a different user based on the time-dependent goal. The representation may comprise a metered representation indicating an amount of progress, by the user, toward the time-dependent goal. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341298 | THIRD PARTY MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND MANAGING DOMAIN NAMES AND WEBSITES - A method is disclosed for a domain name registrar or a website hosting provider to authenticate a user as having authority to manage an account. The user may enter a selected messaging system for receiving and sending messages. The domain name registrar or the website hosting provider may monitor one or more events (such as an expiration of a domain name or a usage of a resource permitted by a website). When one or more events occur, a notice with various options may be sent to the user via the selected messaging system. The selected action may be received and performed by the domain name registrar or the website hosting provider. A confirmation message may be sent to the user regarding the results of the domain name registrar or the website hosting provider performing the selected action. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341299 | INTELLIGENT, DYNAMIC E-MAIL SIGNATURE - A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for providing a dynamic, intelligent e-mail signature. In an embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving an e-mail from a sender, storing the e-mail for later retrieval, assigning a URL representing the e-mail signature and sending the URL to the sender. Further, the method includes the steps of receiving the URL from the e-mail recipient, analyzing the e-mail and social media activities of sender and recipient, determining a signature and sending the signature to the recipient. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341301 | SENDER SPECIFIED MESSAGE NOTIFICATION - A method includes obtaining a user sender message to be sent to a user receiver via a user sender device, identifying whether or not to provide an interrupting notification to the user receiver that a message has been received, and sending the message with an indication of whether or not to interruptingly notify the user receiver. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341303 | MESSAGE SCREENING SYSTEM - A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electronic message then is forwarded to the intended recipient if the electronic message is approved by the supervisory recipient. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341304 | PERSONALIZED SHARING AT THE USER LEVEL - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for generating and provisioning personalized messages is presented. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include receiving a request from a user to share content with one or more other users. In response to receiving the request, user profile data about the user may be accessed, and a portion of the user profile data may be selected. The method may further include generating a personalized message based on the selected portion of the user profile data, and communicating the personalized message to the one or more other users. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341305 | MAINTAINING CONVERSATIONAL CADENCE IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP - A method for maintaining conversational cadence may include determining, by a processor, a conversational cadence associated with a user in a social network. The conversational cadence may be determined based on a plurality of messages previously transmitted by the user. The method may also include detecting, by the processor, a reduction in the conversational cadence of the user. The method may further include providing, by the processor, a set of fill-in messages that create an appearance to another user in the social network that there is no reduction in the conversational cadence. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341306 | DATING STATUS INDICIA AND METHOD OF CONFIDENTIALLY MAKING CONTACT - A new device, method of using same and a method of doing business for helping single people to connect with one another, especially through second chance connections, without the use of profile matching, unless otherwise desired. The devices are to include some indicia of the person's single status, such that another person that observes the indicia, and wishing to meet the first person will be able to leave a message on a SEEKING website message board or any other message spot they may designate, in order that the first person can pick up the message. The message can be left any place that the SEEKING member will designate as their preferred place to receive messages. The method of using the SEEKING message board includes both proactive and reactive participation, and the method of doing business discloses a possible franchising opportunity. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING TELECOMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS THROUGH AN ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS - A system and method of establishing and controlling a telecommunications or multimedia communications sessions over a conventional call signaling protocol is employed to enable such a communications session to the initiated and managed between participants through translated resource identifiers. The method of establishing and controlling a telecommunications or multimedia communications sessions over a conventional call signaling protocol is employed in one embodiment through the provision of a database which includes resource records linked together by user which include an email address and corresponding URIs, the retrieval of a corresponding URI upon the generation of a session invitation which identifies its target recipient by email address, the transmitting of the session invitation to the retrieved URI, and notifying the target recipient by sending a message to the email address used to generate the session invitation. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150350005 | COORDINATING ACTIVITY VIEWS ACROSS OPERATING SYSTEM DOMAINS - A device and its operations are described herein. In some examples, the operations can include executing a first application within a first operating system domain of a device, the first application associated with at least a first activity view. The operations can further include detecting user input associated with the first application. The user input is associated with activating a second activity view of a second application. The operations can further include determining that the second application corresponds to a second operating system domain of the device. The operations can further include establishing a first proxy link within the first operating system domain that corresponds with a second proxy link within the second operating system domain. The first proxy link is associated with causing the second proxy link to invoke the second activity view of the second application within the second operating system domain. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMAIL PRE-DELIVERY - Disclosed is a system and method for automatically pre-delivering messages such as emails that satisfy a certain criteria. Upon a received email satisfying certain criteria conforming to a pattern, an appropriate rule is triggered which pre-delivers an email(s) to other appropriate inboxes. The pre-delivered emails are marked with a display flag and a time-to-live (TTL) flag. The display flag masks the pre-delivered email. The display flag results in the pre-delivered email being hidden until the sending user actually executes the send/forward action. At that time, the display flag is toggled so that the pre-delivered email is instantly displayed in the recipient's inbox. The TTL flag set enables pre-delivered emails to have a life-span, such that in cases where the user chooses not to forward/send the email, they auto-destruct after a period of time. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350120 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING INSTANT MESSAGE - A method for a terminal to manage an instant message, includes: determining whether the instant message is a reply to an existing message when receiving or sending the instant message; if the instant message is not a reply to any existing message, creating a new session and adding the instant message as a root node into the new session; and if the instant message is a reply to an existing message, adding the instant message into a session to which the existing message belongs and setting the instant message as a child node of the existing message. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350121 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTITHREADED COMMUNICATION - The present disclosure provides a system and method multithreaded communication. A user operating at a client device communicates a request for searching a particular keyword(s) to another user. Said communicating user in response performs a search at his/her client device. Further, the (chat) communication server is specifically configured to, simultaneously and in parallel, present said search process in progress and results so produced in real time at the client device of said requesting user. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350124 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SHARING CONTENTS USING MESSENGER - The present invention provides to a system and method of sharing contents using a messenger program. The system includes a device server which registers Consumer electronic (CE) devices of the same user and CE devices of different users, and generates a messenger account; a messenger server which registers the generated messenger account; and a buddy setting module which sets a buddy relationship among the CE devices of the same user and a buddy relationship among the CE devices of different users, such that contents are shared by the CE devices having the buddy relationship. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350126 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR USING LOG INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method and device for using log information, acquiring log information; and sending the log information to a first instant messaging client, so that the first instant messaging client displays the working status of the user according to the log information. In this way, the log information of the user is displayed in an instant messaging client that has an instant messaging identifier of the user. When the user performs communication by using instant messaging software, a peer end in communication can acquire a future status of the user in time, and the user can acquire a future status of the peer end in communication in time, which helps either communication party select an appropriate time to initiate communication with a peer end in communication, thereby greatly enhancing efficiency of communication performed by using the instant messaging software. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350129 | MESSAGE PROCESSING BY SUBSCRIBER APP PRIOR TO MESSAGE FORWARDING - Certain embodiments of the present invention can detect and evaluate new messages at a coordinating device to determine whether to forward the message to a wearable device. In this manner, a server can reduce a number of devices that it is to communicate a message to, while still allowing the message to be availed to multiple devices. Further, certain embodiments relate to coordinating alerts (e.g., audio or haptic alerts) to reduce redundant alerts of a single message amongst spatially clustered devices. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350131 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY OF A GROUP OF CONTACTS - A method and a device are provided for controlling the display of a group of contacts associated with a terminal. The group of contacts is ordered according to a first predetermined criterion, and displayed according to this arrangement. Each contact is represented in a frame of predetermined size. When at least one contact of the group fulfills a second predetermined criterion, the display control method includes enlarging the frame in which the contact is displayed so that a user scrolling through the list of contacts can easily identify a contact fulfilling the second predetermined criterion. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350132 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING FUTURE EMAIL - Disclosed is a system, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for predicting future messages. A processor receives a message sent to a user operating a client device, analyzes the message in light of previously identified patterns and scores assigned to scanned messages, determines a future message that should be received by the client device based on the received message, and transmits an item of information based on the determined future message. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350134 | DUAL SERVER SYSTEM FOR SENDING A LARGE EMAIL ATTACHMENT - An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and display can execute a messaging application. The messaging application provides options for sending a message with a large attachment. In one option it allows for sending a message with a large attachment by uploading and storing the attachment on a cloud server, embeds a link to the storage location in the message, and sends the message without the attachment. The messaging application may also include a UI element in the message that includes an indicator about the status of the stored attachment. Furthermore, the messaging application may embed in the message a smaller sized version of the attachment before sending the message. The status indicator may display whether the link to the storage location has expired or whether the attachment has previously been retrieved from the cloud server. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350135 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC INFORMATION BOARD, STORAGE MEDIUM OF SOFTWARE PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION BOARD SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a message receiver, an attachment data generator, an extractor, a message generator, and a message transmitter. The message receiver receives a message. The attachment data generator generates attachment data to be attached to a distribution message, to be transmitted from the information processing apparatus, by retrieving data loaded to the information processing apparatus. The extractor extracts candidate information to be used as transmission setting information of the distribution message from information included in the message received by the message receiver. The message generator generates the distribution message attachable with the attachment data generated by the attachment data generator based on the transmission setting information extracted by the extractor. The message transmitter transmits the distribution message generated by the message generator. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350137 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING E-MAIL TRAFFIC - According to a first embodiment of the invention, if an e-mail sender attempts to make too many connections within a predetermined period of time, the excess connections are automatically rejected. According to a second embodiment of the invention, an agreement is established between an e-mail sender and an e-mail recipient that states when the sender may send e-mail messages to the recipient. According to a third embodiment of the invention, trend data reflecting an amount of e-mail sent by a sender is collected. The trend data can be used to establish a rate limit for the sender. According to a fourth embodiment of the invention, separate rate limits are established for authenticated and unauthenticated mail from addresses. According to a fifth embodiment of the invention, a sender may have a rate at which their e-mail is transmitted reduced if they exceed predetermined rate limits. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350138 | CONTROLLER, MESSAGE DELIVERY SYSTEM, MESSAGE DELIVERY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A controller, for controlling a switch that forwards a message, comprises: a holding unit that, upon receipt of a notification including a tag from a second node that subscribes to a message delivered with the tag from a first node, associates and holds the tag and a virtual address, and associates and holds the virtual address and a physical address of the second node that transmits the notification; a setting unit that sets in the switch the association between the virtual address and the physical address; and a tag resolution unit that, upon receipt of an inquiry about the virtual address associated with the tag from the first node, responds the virtual address. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350139 | System and method for following topics in an electronic textual conversation - A method for following a topic in an electronic textual conversation, the method includes selecting, by a computing device, one or more primary terms related to a topic, sending, by the computing device, to at least one communication service, a first query containing the at least one primary term, receiving, by the computing device, from the at least one communication service, at least one first set of messages responsive to the first query, for each first set, extracting, by the computing device, from the first set of messages, a first plurality of additional terms, and for each term of the first plurality of additional terms, enumerating, by the computing device, the messages of the first set in which the term appears and adding the term to a list of secondary terms if the enumeration exceeds a threshold amount. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350141 | MESSAGE USER INTERFACES FOR CAPTURE AND TRANSMITTAL OF MEDIA AND LOCATION CONTENT - A device provides user interfaces for capturing and sending media, such as audio, video, or images, from within a message application. The device detects a movement of the device and in response, plays or records an audio message. The device sends the recorded audio message in response to detecting a movement of the device. The device removes messages from a conversation based on expiration criteria. The device shares a location with one or more message participants in a conversation. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350144 | EMAIL OPTIMIZATION FOR PREDICTED RECIPIENT BEHAVIOR: SUGGESTING CHANGES IN AN EMAIL TO INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF AN OUTCOME - Techniques are described herein for predicting one or more behaviors by an email recipient and, more specifically, to machine learning techniques for predicting one or more behaviors of an email recipient, changing one or more components in the email to increase the likelihood of a behavior, and determining and/or scheduling an optimal time to send the email. Some advantages of the embodiments disclosed herein may include, without limitation, the ability to predict the behavior of the email recipient and suggest the characteristics of an email which will increase the likelihood of a positive behavior, such as a reading or responding to the email, visiting a website, calling a sales representative, or opening an email attachment. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350145 | SHARING OF ACTIVITY METADATA VIA MESSAGING SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are provided for sharing activity information of devices engaged in a messaging session. In operation, the devices provide activity and sharing preference information to a data service. Thereafter, the data service generates notifications for the devices based on the activity, sharing preference, and device information, wherein the notifications include a payload with instructions for messaging clients at the devices to present user interface elements that allow users to access content and applications associated with other users in the messaging session. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350146 | COORDINATION OF MESSAGE ALERT PRESENTATIONS ACROSS DEVICES BASED ON DEVICE MODES - Certain embodiments of the present invention can detect and evaluate new messages at a coordinating device to determine whether to forward the message to a wearable device. In this manner, a server can reduce a number of devices that it is to communicate a message to, while still allowing the message to be availed to multiple devices. Further, certain embodiments relate to coordinating alerts (e.g., audio or haptic alerts) to reduce redundant alerts of a single message amongst spatially clustered devices. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350148 | HEALTHCARE SECURE MESSAGING AND REMINDER SYSTEM - A system provides secure messaging of healthcare data and prompts message responses using prioritized hierarchical reminders. Messages can be sent and received through an application executing on a mobile device or on a web browser or application executing on any computer. The system can provide message notifications and multiple reminders to ensure that a user is reliably receiving and also reading messages. If an in-application message is not read within a time period, the message can followed by a reminder message informing the recipient that there is a secure message waiting. The reminder message can be sent using an application notification or through other channels, such as by SMS text message, automated voice telephone call, or e-mail, without including sensitive patient healthcare information. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350149 | METHOD FOR REAL-TIME VIRAL EVENT PREDICTION FROM SOCIAL DATA - Filtering a set of social messages received in real time to yield a sub-set likely to relate to some first substantive content subject (such as a video available online). For each message in the sub-set, a respective social message sender, and a corresponding social influence value for each respective social message sender is determined. A prediction of the extent of the spread of the substantive content subject is made based on the social influence values of the social message senders. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350151 | Generating a Conversation in a Social Network Based on Mixed Media Object Context - A system and method for generating a conversation in a social network based on visual search results. A mixed media reality (MMR) engine indexes source materials as MMR objects, receives images from a user device and identifies matching MMR objects. A content management engine generates metadata corresponding to the MMR objects. A social network application generates conversations corresponding to the MMR object. The conversation includes multiple discussion threads. If a conversation already exists, the social network application provides the user with access to the conversation. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350152 | MANAGING AND STORING MESSAGES RECEIVED BY A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - In an approach to managing messages received by a mobile computing device, a computer retrieves a plurality of settings associated with the mobile computing device, with at least one of the plurality of settings associating a characteristic of the mobile computing device with an indication to initiate message retrieval. The computer determines the characteristic of the mobile computing device and determines, based, at least in part, on the characteristic of the mobile computing device, whether the associated indication to initiate message retrieval is received. Responsive to determining the associated indication to initiate message retrieval is received, the computer retrieves at least one message received by the mobile computing device and transmits the at least one message to a user of the mobile computing device. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150358196 | COMPUTER SYSTEM TO SUPPORT FAILOVER IN AN EVENT STREAM PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a system, a first status of a first ESP engine (ESPE) executing at a first computing device is determined as newly active; a last published event block object identifier is determined as an identifier uniquely identifying a last event block object published to an out-messaging network device; a next event block object having an event block object identifier greater than the determined last published event block object identifier is selected from a first computer-readable medium; and the selected next event block object is published to the out-messaging network device. A first event block object is received from a second ESPE executing at a second computing device. A first status of the second ESPE is determined as standby by the second computing device. The received first event block object is stored by the second computing device in a second non-transitory computer-readable medium. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358258 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGE PERSONALIZATION - Systems and methods for building personalized messages to one or more recipients. In one aspect, one or more personalized messages are created from one or more templates and one or more token lists. The templates include global tokens and local tokens. The token lists contain fields in the templates and corresponding token values. For each respective target recipient, a personalized message is generated by identifying and storing global tokens and corresponding global token values in a global cache, and identifying and storing local tokens and corresponding local token values in a local cache. The personalized messages are then created using the templates and substituting tokens with token values stored in the global and local cache. The personalized messages are then distributed to the corresponding target recipients. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358259 | OPEN CHANNEL APPLICATION PROGAMMING INTERFACE - Systems and methods for distributing messages are described. In some embodiments, a server system includes one or more processors, and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The system receives message distribution information, the message distribution information including a channel identifier and a message distribution address. The system receives from a message queue a plurality of messages that correspond to the channel identifier. The plurality of messages is for distribution to a plurality of users through one or more message distribution servers. The system processes the plurality of messages in accordance with the message distribution information; and sends a plurality of processed messages to the message distribution address for distribution to the plurality of users. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358260 | DYNAMIC BUDDY LIST MANAGEMENT BASED ON MESSAGE CONTENT - A gateway includes a proxy that selectively forwards messages to a messaging server based on the sender's authorization status. If the sender is authorized to send messages, the proxy applies a set of predetermined rules to dynamically control user identification information included in the buddy lists on the messaging clients based on the content of messages exchanged between messaging client users. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358261 | PLAYBACK METHOD AND ASSOCIATED TRANSMITTING DEVICE, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A playback method and associated transmitting device, playback device and communication system are provided. The communication system includes the transmitting device and the playback device, which are in communication with each other. The transmitting device transmits a bitstream profile tag to the playback device. After receiving the bitstream profile tag, the playback device plays a selected range of a target bitstream according to the bitstream profile tag. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358262 | HANDHELD HYPERLINK SYSTEM - A new protocol identifier called a Hand Held Hyperlink Protocol [HHHP:/] is described, that when interpreted and parsed by the handheld operation system, can invoke an electronic device to not just display data, but also to either execute an operate or perform a function directly on the device. This capability enables new functionality of performing actions relating to a command embedded in a new form of hyperlink in accordance with settings set in an electronic device. The present invention provides improved capabilities to intelligently modify operating system functions, to initiate operations in a software application, or to control of the hardware devices, such as, a light, a speaker, a vibrator, or a camera in an electronic device. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358263 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A WEB APPLICATION INSTANCE CONNECTED TO A CONNECTION SERVER AND A CALLING ENTITY OTHER THAN SAID CONNECTION SERVER - The invention relates to a method for communicating between a caller entity (EN) and an instance of an application (W | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358264 | INFORMATION SUPPLY METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND WORD STRING SUPPLY SYSTEM - An Information supply method for displaying a message received or generated by a first electronic device on a display of a second electronic device. The information supply method includes the steps of: receiving a request of displaying the message; generating a word string according to the request, wherein the word string includes at least one word pattern and at least one graph encoding correspondingly representing the at least one word pattern; transmitting the word pattern and the graph encoding from the first electronic device to the second electronic device; and receiving the at least one word pattern and the at least one graph encoding, and displaying the at least one word pattern corresponding to the message received or generated by the first electronic device on the display according to the graph encoding. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358265 | PREVENTING MESSAGES FROM BEING SENT USING INAPPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION ACCOUNTS - A method, system and computer program product for preventing messages from being sent using inappropriate communication accounts. A message created by a user of a mobile device is analyzed to identify the topic and sentiment. The appropriateness of the message being sent to the intended recipient(s) using a selected communication account (e.g., company social media account) is determined based on one or more factors, including the analysis of the message to identify the topic and sentiment. A score is generated as to the appropriateness of sending the message to the intended recipient(s) based on such an analysis. If the score is less than a threshold value, then the message is deemed to not be appropriate to be sent to the intended recipients using the selected communication account. In this manner, potentially erroneous communications, such as accidentally posting a message to a wrong social media account, may be prevented. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358266 | PREVENTING MESSAGES FROM BEING SENT USING INAPPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION ACCOUNTS - A method, system and computer program product for preventing messages from being sent using inappropriate communication accounts. A message created by a user of a mobile device is analyzed to identify the topic and sentiment. The appropriateness of the message being sent to the intended recipient(s) using a selected communication account (e.g., company social media account) is determined based on one or more factors, including the analysis of the message to identify the topic and sentiment. A score is generated as to the appropriateness of sending the message to the intended recipient(s) based on such an analysis. If the score is less than a threshold value, then the message is deemed to not be appropriate to be sent to the intended recipients using the selected communication account. In this manner, potentially erroneous communications, such as accidentally posting a message to a wrong social media account, may be prevented. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358267 | COMMUNICATION STREAMS - Embodiments described herein organize and percolate important messaging and information to the top of a communications pile, and create a high ratio of front-and-center communication versus chatter communication. This is analogous to creating a high signal-to-noise ratio in signal communications. Thus, embodiments described herein raise the desired signal level high above the noise level to obtain a visual at-a-glance level of communication with reduced clutter or no clutter. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358268 | MESSAGE SCREENING SYSTEM UTILIZING SUPERVISORY SCREENING AND APPROVAL - A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electronic message then is forwarded to the intended recipient if the electronic message is approved by the supervisory recipient. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358269 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THROTTLING DISPLAY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method throttles display of electronic messages. The process displays a list of entries in an email application. The list of entries includes a first electronic message, a first message cluster, and a second message cluster. The process detects the occurrence of a cluster display trigger event for the first message cluster. The trigger event is one of: detection of passage of a predetermined amount of time since refreshing display of the first message cluster, an occurrence of a particular time of day, an occurrence of a predetermined date, or receipt by the first message cluster of a predefined number of new electronic messages since previously refreshing the display of the list. In response to the detected trigger event, the process refreshes the display of the list of entries, including re-ranking the first message cluster within the list of entries. This changes the relative position of the first message cluster. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358272 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MESSAGE TRANSMISSION - A method for message transmission is provided. The method includes receiving a message to be transmitted to an application on a terminal, determining whether the application is in an inactive state, and determining whether a push notification switch of the application is turned on when it is determined that the application is in the inactive state. The method also includes, when it is determined that the push notification switch of the application is not turned on, storing temporally the message and detecting whether the application is activated and, after detecting that the application is activated, transmitting the temporally stored message to the application on the terminal. Further, the method includes transmitting the message to a push notification server to cause the push notification server to push the message to the application on the terminal when it is determined that the push notification switch of the application is turned on. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358273 | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM - A request for information system is provided. The request for information system may include at least one computer with a user interface and a program product adapted to provide user-generated elicited information through a question-and-answer forum organized by location. A user may select at least one current location or a custom location of interest. Then the user may subscribe to at least one localized list associated with the selected location of interest. Then the user may select a topic such as food, drink, culture or the like from the localized list. The program product may display the most relevant user-generated requests and elicited information that match the location and or the topics selected. At which point, a user may view such requests and elicited information or submit a new request. If the user submits a request, the program product may provide similar requests based on similarity in topic and location associated with the new request. The user may choose from the provided similar requests for viewing or the user may post their submitted request for other users to generate elicited information. In any event, the program product may provide elicited information in response. The provided elicited information may be ranked by the highest number of positive votes less negative votes. Subsequently, the program product may notify the user of any newly added requests and or elicited information related to requests the user has indicated through the steps disclosed herein. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358274 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE - An information providing device includes a post information acquiring section acquiring one or more information elements posted by one or more posters, a post situation estimation section estimating a post situation of each of the one or more information elements, the post situation being a situation under which the corresponding information element is posted by the poster, a device situation acquiring section acquiring a device situation under which the information providing device is placed, a determination selection section determining a suitability of the device situation with a general situation of the one or more information elements posted by the posters and selecting one or more target information elements from the one or more information elements based on the suitability, and a providing section providing an information to the user based on the one or more target information elements selected based on the suitability. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358275 | Messaging Object Generation for Synchronous Conversation Threads - In particular embodiments, a messaging device or server may be operable to receive a message including a thread identifier or a list of conversation participants; if the message includes a thread identifier, then append the message to a locally-stored conversation thread possessing the same thread identifier; if the message includes a list of participants, then: search a plurality of locally-stored conversation threads for a conversation threads having participants matching the list of participants; and in response to a match, append the message to the matching thread; in response to failing to find a match, generate an offline identifier for the message and storing the message locally. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358371 | NOTIFYING ONLINE CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT OF PRESENTING PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED PORTION OF CONTENT - In a method for notifying a participant of an online conference of when a portion of content will be presented during the online conference, a computer receives at least one data item identifying the portion of content. The computer determines an estimate of a time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. The computer transmits a user notification including the estimate of the time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358416 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING CUSTOMER INTERACTION BASED ON ASSESSED PERSONALITY - A method and apparatus for guiding interaction with a subject person, for example a customer. Data relating to prior social activity of the subject person is obtained, for example from stored emails, social media, and the like. Based on the data, a determination is made of a set of personality traits of the subject person, a social networking status of the subject person, or both. The determination may include whether the subject person is a potential advocate or detractor, or a potential impact of the subject person. The subject person is categorized based on the determination, and a set of parameters for guiding interaction with a subject person based on the categorization is provided. Proposed outgoing communication can also be assessed for personality traits being conveyed, and noncompliant traits can be automatically identified and adjusted. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150365358 | Context-Aware Dynamic Policy Selection for Messaging Behavior - Messaging policies can be dynamically updated based on operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAMP) data generated by data plane entities of a messaging network. For example existing messaging policies may be dynamically modified based on OAMP data generated by message brokers and/or network elements (e.g., queues). As another example, new messaging policies may be dynamically created based on the OAMP data. As another example, an updated set of messaging policies may be selected from a pool of policies based on the OAMP data. Dynamically updating messaging policies can be achieved using information model processing frameworks, such as the next generation directory enabled networks (DEN-ng) model. Various events may trigger the creation of new messaging policies and metrics, such as adding new data plane entities and/or network elements to the network, receiving new messaging instructions, etc. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365359 | HTML5-BASED MESSAGE PROTOCOL - One embodiment of a web-based message protocol using HTML video and audio tags to dynamically serve the video and audio parts of an asynchronous multimedia message having message parts selected from the group consisting of video, audio, images, text, and links, by interpolating video and audio file names into the video and audio tags based on identifying data connecting a message part to a message. Other embodiments are described and shown. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365360 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING PUSH MESSAGE IN NOTIFICATION CENTER OF MOBILE TERMINAL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for processing a push message in a notification center of a mobile terminal, and a storage medium. The present invention relates to the field of terminal devices. The method comprises: establishing a specified clearing option in a notification center of a mobile terminal, the notification center being used for displaying a push message of each application and a processing option of each push message; and when a triggering instruction for the specified clearing option is received, clearing a displayed push message of each application according to a preset rule, the preset rule being used for determining push messages capable of being cleared in one time in the notification center. The apparatus comprises an establishing module and a clearing module. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365361 | System and Method for Management of Persistent and Irrefutable Instant Messages - The present disclosure includes systems and methods for providing instant messaging communication between users via a communication network. Instant messaging clients are executed at user devices of a first and second user. A data message is transmitted from the instant messaging client at the user device of the first user to the instant messaging client at the user device of the second user, the data message having a content portion and at least one associated attribute that is cryptographically generated. The cryptographic attribute plus any additional first user attributes irrefutably binds the ID of the first user to the message information content to form an irrevocable message. The availability of at least one user-selectable function by the instant messaging client at the user device of the second user is controllable, based on the at least one associated attribute. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365362 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMINISCE AND VENERATE THE DECEASED - A method for commemoration of the deceased, includes receiving instruction that specify actions to be performed on a computer server to serve a request of a computing device; creating a temporary database having a subset of contents in data storage, creating a data exchange platform upon request by a service account of a user for manipulating the temporary database to perform intended commemoration operations, translating the instructions to a commemoration operation, initiating a chat session on the data exchange platform between two or more chat accounts, monitoring activities on the data exchange platform and the chat session, displaying information on the data exchange platform within a display window showing activities performed by one or more accounts on the data exchange platform, and displaying information within a chat window in the display window showing the chat session conducted between the two or more users; and a system for implementing the same. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365363 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING INSTANT MESSAGES BETWEEN ONE OR MORE USERS USING MEDIA AS REFERENCE - A system, method and computer program product for transmitting online content to one or more recipients through online messaging, including a selectable button embedded within online content; and an online messaging mechanism. The selectable button is configured upon selection to transmit the online content as a generated message to one or more recipients through the online messaging mechanism. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365365 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODIFYING MESSAGE - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for modifying a previously sent UC message. The method of modifying a previously sent message in accordance with the present invention may include: receiving, by input of a user, a modified phrase of a message to be modified that is selected among a list of previously sent messages; generating a comparison string by adding at least one letter preceding the modified phrase and one letter following the modified phrase to the modified phrase; comparing a length of the comparison string with a length of an entire string of the message to be modified; transmitting a modification message having the comparison string included therein if the length of the comparison string is smaller than the length of the entire string of the message to be modified; and transmitting the entire string of the message to be modified having the modified phrase included therein if the length of the comparison string is greater than or equal to the length of the entire string of the message to be modified. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365366 | Method to stop cyber-bullying before it occurs - A method to stop cyber-bullying before it occurs by alerting the user (potential bully) to pause, review and rethink before posting a hurtful messages to the recipient (potential victim(s)) is the essence of this patent. ReThink is designed to be setup as an optional software installed as an extension, plugin or add-on on web browsers and as a customized keyboard or add-on app on mobile platforms (smart phones, cell phones, tablets, phablets, mobile devices) that detects hurtfulness on all text, image or videos posted or shared on the internet in all languages by a user. Upon detection, ReThink alerts the user to rethink the decision before posting message and provides a chance for the user to edit message to make it non-hurtful to recipients. ReThink is backed by a sound scientific research that has found that the ReThink method prevents cyber-bullying over 93% of the time in adolescent users. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365367 | Method and System for Providing Electronic Information to a Virtual Mailbox Based on a Geographical Address - A method is provided for providing electronic information to a virtual mailbox based on a geographical address. The method includes storing a collection of physical locations each associated with a physical location ID in a database, storing a collection of electronic information data packets in a digital library, each stored data packet associated with a pointer and comprising an electronic information data packet uploaded by a sender and the sender's instructions defining the distribution area. The method also includes running a query for retrieving pointers as a function of the physical location associated with an addressee's physical location ID and as a function of the sender's instruction associated with stored data packets, and creating an addressee interface for accessing the electronic information data packets associated with the retrieved pointers. A system for providing electronic information to a virtual mailbox based on a geographical address is also provided. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365370 | INTELLIGENT RESOURCE MANAGER SERVICE RECOVERY INCLUDING REQUEST RETRANSMISSIONS - A system for providing media services on behalf of a customer contact center includes: a processor; and a memory, wherein the memory has stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: transmit and receive signaling messages to and from a control server over an established data network connection; in response to the signaling messages, invoke a media device for transmitting media to an end-user device; detect loss of the data network connection; identify a configurable parameter for determining whether a failed message transmission should be retried; and in response to determining that the failed message transmission should be retried, re-transmitting the failed message to the control server. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365371 | Channels: Real Time, Internet Social Networking, Multichannel, Communication and Multimedia Sharing Application - Examples of use to explain the unique and innovative system and process: | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TO SCHEDULE COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for improving the effectiveness of communications over a social network. A method for controlling network communication, comprises analyzing a social network in response to a request made by a user to send a message to a node in the social network, delaying for a period of time sending of the message based on a result of the analyzing, and sending the message to the node in the social network after the period of time has elapsed. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365375 | DELIVERY OF A MEDIA ITEM - An approach for delivery and sharing a media item is provided. In an example embodiment, the approach provides a first arrangement that comprises obtaining one or more media items associated with a first client, obtaining one or more unique identifiers, each associated with at least one media item of the one or more media items and providing said one or more unique identifiers to at least one second client to enable identification of the one or more media items. In another example embodiment the approach further provides a second arrangement that comprises comprising obtaining one or more unique identifiers, each associated with at least one media item of one or more media items, wherein the one or more media items are associated with a first client, determining whether the one or more media items having said one or more unique identifiers associated therewith are already available for at least one second client at an apparatus, requesting, in response to one or more of the one or more media items having said one or more unique identifiers associated therewith not being available for the at least one second client at the apparatus, the respective one or more media items from the first client, and associating the one or more media items with said first client. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150371138 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION AND USE OF ALTERNATE USER CONTACT INFORMATION - Computer-implemented techniques for automatic identification and use of alternate user contact information can include identifying, at a server having one or more processors, a set of patterns from training electronic messages, each pattern indicating a pattern of contact information context. The techniques can include storing and utilizing, at the server, the set of patterns to obtain a set of alternate contact information for a target user. In response to a use of a specific alternate contact information for the target user by a source user at a computing device, the techniques can include providing, from the server to the computing device, a suggestion for the source user. Examples of the suggestion may include a virtual address for an electronic message or at a social network, a physical address for navigation, and a telephone number for calling or incoming caller identification. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372829 | SHARE TIMELINE OF CALENDAR - Sharing a timeline of a calendar is provided. An application such as a calendar application detects an activation of a share operations control on a timeline of a calendar. A context menu is displayed on the timeline, where the context menu includes a share control and a print control. An activation of the share control is detected. A communication component is initiated to share the timeline. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372951 | Retrieval Of Stored Transmissions - An instant messaging client application is executed on a first terminal, to participate in threads of instant messaging between user terminals over a packet-based network, each thread comprising exchanging text-based messages between the user terminals of a selected group of contacts comprising the first user and at least one second user. A digital record of the messages is maintained in a data storage medium. A further text-based message is received from one of the second terminals over the packet-based network, comprising a citation of a cited one of the text-based messages previously transmitted over the packet-based communication network and stored in the storage medium. The further message is processed at the first terminal so as, by reference to the storage medium, to recover a context of the cited message in relation to others of the text-based messages in the respective thread. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED CONTENT MESSAGING - Methods and system for integrating a media file within a text message on a user device are provided herein. In some embodiment, a method for integrating a media file within a text message may include sending a request to determine whether one or more text message terms included in a text message matches a predetermined list of terms, wherein each term in the predetermined list is associated with at least one media file, and receiving an indication of a match between the one or more text message terms and at least one term in the predetermined list, and tagging each of the matched text message terms with the at least one media file associated with the corresponding matched term in the predetermined list. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372954 | Rule-Based Rate Limiting - Methods, devices, and machine-readable media are provided to perform rule-based rate limiting. As provided in this disclosure, this may include receiving a message en route to a destination, determining one or more parameters of the message, and determining whether the parameters of the message match parameters of a rule that specifies taking a first action when more than some number of messages having those parameters are received within a specific amount of time. When the one or more parameters of the message match the one or more parameters of the first restriction rule, a sliding window counter that indicates a total number of corresponding messages received within the amount of time may be incremented. When the first sliding window counter exceeds the first number of messages, the specified action may be taken. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372956 | MESSAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - A message processing system is disclosed herein. A client computing device may receive an electronic message from a server via a network and via a forwarding operation on a condition that the electronic message is approved to be forwarded to a recipient. The client computing device may then receive from the server a message that the electronic message is unapproved, wherein the message includes a URL to view the unapproved electronic message and the electronic message is stored on the server with an indication that the electronic message is unapproved. The client computing device may then receive a list of unapproved electronic messages to display, wherein associated with the list are selectable options including to send the unapproved electronic message, to add a sender of the unapproved electronic message to an approved sender list, and to delete the unapproved electronic message. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372957 | REAL-TIME MESSAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A system and method for the late-biding of time-based media in real-time With late binding, the sender may create time-based media before or at the same time an active delivery route to the recipient is discovered. As soon as the route becomes available, the media is transmitted. The existing DNS and email infrastructure is possibly used for route discovery, while any real-time transmission protocol may be used for the actual delivery of the media. “Progressive” emails may also be used for the real-time delivery of time-based media. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372958 | MAIL SENDING/RECEIVING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM - A vehicle-mounted apparatus includes a mail receiving processing unit configured to receive an electronic mail, a received mail determination unit configured to determine, after a first electronic mail is received by the mail receiving processing unit, whether a second electronic mail associated with the first electronic mail is received by the mail receiving processing unit, and a notification processing unit configured to perform, when it is determined by the received mail determination unit that the first electronic mail and the second electronic mail are associated with each other, notification of these two electronic mails simultaneously. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372959 | SOFTWARE INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC MESSAGING CARDS - A method and a device are disclosed including software components that are executed on a computing device to enable multimedia communications. A message card constituting an integrated messaging unit is used to transmit and receive multimedia data between two or more computing devices. The card may contain text, picture, animation, sound, video, metadata, and other messaging data and information, some of which may be encapsulated in software stickers embedded in the message card. The cards may be stacked, stored, searched for, modified, augmented with stickers, and the like. The stickers may have various looks and functions including providing a message, animation, video, picture, hologram, be peeled off, be scratched to reveal content, detect movement of the computing device, detect finger tapping, show emotions, provide quick reply to messages, and the like. The looks, contents, and behaviors of the message cards and/or the stickers may be programmable by the user. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372960 | Method and system for sending messages per channel - Techniques for electronically engaging customers across all different platforms are disclosed. Based on unique device identifiers captured together with interactions by users with one or more applications provided by a business, a message prepared in a first format is automatically converted to a corresponding message in a second format according to what the devices the user have been interacting with can support. Depending on implementation, the message may be a response by the business to an inquiry from a user or a promotion by the business to be distributed to a group of selected users maintained by the business. The interactions include activities a user has had with one or more of the applications provided by the business and provide the statistical or actual data for the business to determine the group of users to receive the message. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372961 | NOTIFICATION GENERATION SYSTEM FOR MESSAGES - A method for generating a notification about a recipient of a message. The recipient of the message is identified while the message is being composed. Whether information is present about the recipient for use in composing the message is determined. The notification is presented to the sender based on the information identified about the recipient while the message is being composed when the information about the recipient is present for the message. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372962 | MANAGING AND ACCESSING DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are disclosed for managing and/or accessing distributed data storage. A server computing device or network attached storage (NAS) device may include a message processing module to send and receive electronic-mail (email) messages. The message processing module is configured to cause the NAS device to perform NAS operations based on messages (e.g., email messages from users) and to send email messages with the results of the NAS operations to users. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372963 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATEGORIZING MESSAGES - Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to categorizing messages. A first server can receive, from a second server maintaining a plurality of social media messages, a message. The first server can categorize the message under a first category or a second category. The first server can process the message and determine a frequency of each of the words included in the processed message. The first server determines, using a probabilistic engine executing on the first server, a relevancy score of the modified message indicating a level of relevance between the message and the first category based on the determined frequency of each of the words. The first server, responsive to determining that the relevancy score satisfies a threshold, can categorize the message under the first category. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150372964 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECIPIENT MANAGEMENT WITH ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - There is provided a method of recipient management with electronic messages having time defined actions, comprising: defining for an electronic message to a recipient, according to data inputted by a user at a user client terminal, one or more actions for the recipient to perform and a time frame for performance of the one or more actions; sending the electronic message to a recipient client terminal of a recipient to trigger a monitoring of performance of the one or more actions by the recipient at the client terminal during the time frame; receiving an indication of the performance of the one or more actions based on the monitoring from the recipient client terminal; and presenting on the user client terminal a notification in response to the indication. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150373130 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING CELEBRITIES AND FANS - Various aspects described herein relate to connecting fans and celebrities in a social networking environment. A fan profile can be associated with a celebrity profile in the social networking environment. Attendance of a device registered for the fan profile at an event defined for the celebrity profile can be determined. An opportunity for the fan profile to obtain an autograph related to the celebrity profile can be provided based at least in part on the determined attendance of the device. Distributions of locations or times related to the autograph and/or other autographs can be provided. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150373144 | Personal Daemon Interaction through Escalating Disclosure - Systems and methods of a personal daemon, executing as a process on a mobile computing device, for providing personal assistant to an associated user is presented. While the personal daemon maintains personal information corresponding to the associated user, the personal daemon is configured to not share the personal information of the associated user with any other entity other than the associated user except under conditions of rules established by the associated user. One such condition is when encountering the presence of another personal daemon associated with another user. Upon encountering the other personal daemon, an iterative process of escalating discover and/or disclosure is commenced to determine whether the associated user of the personal daemon would be interested in engaging with the user associated with the other personal daemon. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150373146 | Data Delivery Optimization - The various embodiments provide systems, devices, and methods which optimize the way in which data is delivered between devices a group of interconnected devices. In one embodiment a data set intended for multiple devices may be segmented and different portions of the data set may be provided to each device. The intended devices may then share their data set portions to recreate the complete data set on each device. In another embodiment, multiple devices each storing a complete data set may need to upload the complete data set to a single device. The multiple devices may assign upload responsibility for segments of the complete data set among each other, and the multiple devices may each upload their assigned segments to the single device. The single device may then combine the segments to recreate the complete data set. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150373515 | AUTOMATICALLY ENABLING THE FORWARDING OF INSTANT MESSAGES - Some implementations may enable instant messages to be automatically forwarded. For example, a computing device may receive an electronic message and an indication of a sender-specified destination for the electronic message. The computing device may determine whether the destination is available to receive an electronic message using a first mode of communication. The computing device may determine whether a mobile telephone number is associated with the destination. The computing device may transmit a communication to the mobile telephone number based on the electronic message in response to determining that the destination is unavailable and that the mobile telephone number is associated with the destination. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150381380 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING GEOFEED-BASED ALERTS - The disclosure relates to systems and methods for monitoring content, generating alerts, determining trends, and communicating notifications related to geofeeds, including content related to geographically definable locations that is aggregated from a plurality of social media or other content providers. The system may monitor the content based on one or more alert parameters that specify alert conditions that when satisfied cause the system to generate an alert, including trending alerts. The system may track an activity as it moves over time. Content may be associated with the activity and monitored such that the activity may be tracked based on the monitored content. Various alerts may be generated based on the tracked activity. The system may communicate notifications that include the alerts, thereby leveraging content from social media or other providers to convey real-time information on subject matter, trends, activities, and/or other information. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381504 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION - According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to obtain, for each of a plurality of pacing units, a planned number of impressions associated with a current time, define, for each of the plurality of pacing units, a difference between the planned number of impressions associated with the current time and an actual number of impressions associated with the current time, adjust a score of at least one of the plurality of pacing units based at least in part on the difference, and select one of the plurality of pacing units based at least in part on scores of each of the plurality of pacing units. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381524 | PROVIDING A GUEST WITH ACCESS TO CONTENT OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - Providing a guest with access to content of a social network includes identifying a guest associated with content posted by a user on a social network, sending, via electronic mail (email), a notification to the guest's email address to notify the guest of the content on the social network, receiving, via an identity provider, an identity assertion associated with the guest's email address, and providing, based on the identity assertion, access to the content posted by the user on the social network to allow the guest to view the content, in which the identity provider is identified by a domain of the guest's email address. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381532 | MANAGING UNAVAILABILITY NOTICES - A computer-implemented method, carried out by one or more processors, for managing unavailability notices. In an embodiment, the method comprises the steps of initializing an out of office notice, wherein the out of office notice is associated with a first user of an e-mail service; receiving inputs for the out of office notice, wherein the inputs include one or more of: a duration of time selection, alternative contact information, and message content; receiving a list of one or more user to whom to send an out of office alert notice with the received inputs; and sending to the one or more users from the list the out of office alert notice with the received inputs and a reminder function, wherein the reminder function allows for each of the one or more users to receive a reminder about unavailability at another time. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381533 | System and Method for Email Management Through Detection and Analysis of Dynamically Variable Behavior and Activity Patterns - Techniques for aiding an email recipient in the management of inbound email by detecting, and configurably responding to, dynamically variable patterns of activity and behavior are described. Characteristics are extracted from new email messages originated by senders and intended for a recipient. One or more patterns of sender activity, recipient message management behavior, and/or message response behavior, relating to treatment of messages from individual senders and/or plural senders in the aggregate, are identified. The patterns are identified by analyzing statistics collected by the extraction of characteristics from email messages previously received by the recipient. Before the recipient reads a new email, a determination is made as to whether any deviation from an identified pattern exists; and, if so, a pre-existing rule for treatment of the new message is enforced and/or a new rule specifying treatment of at least some messages from the sender of the email is proposed. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381535 | Automated, user implemented, secure document and communication creation and management system and method - A secure document creation and distribution system, method and computer product for generating customized documents to be delivered to third parties either in printed or electronic format. The system provides the separation of a document presentation and its contents for reuse, variable data publishing and multiple presentations embedded within the same document for delivery over different channels. The system provides multiple templates, content management, business rules, dynamic merge and process control to permit information to be collected from the generating entity or Client-user and merged into multiple documents, campaigns and communications to third parties in multiple formats, according to the Client-user's specification and directions. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381536 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROMPT VIDEO-DATA MESSAGE TRANSFER TO PERSONAL DEVICES - Instant disclosure is directed to the processing and transmission of data, namely, to the fields of closed-circuit security television (CCTV), video surveillance, and video analytics. The invention ensures alarm notifications from the monitored facility to mobile devices. The invention can be used in safety and security, communications, transportation, retail, manufacture, sports, entertainment, housing and utility services and social infrastructure. More specifically, there is disclosed a method of transmitting a message from a first computer system to a second computer system, the method comprising: receiving at the first computer system an event and related data (video data and information on the video data), generating a message based on the event and the related data, which includes, at least, a link to the video data, sending the message from the first computer system to the second computer system, receiving the message on the second computer system, analyzing the message received, and, if the analysis of the message received shows the need to analyze the video data, downloading the video data using the link in the message. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381537 | OUTBOUND IP ADDRESS REPUTATION CONTROL AND REPAIR - Embodiments provide IP address partitioning features that can be used to source outbound email communications, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-based method operates to remove blocked or potentially misused IP addresses from a partition and/or move good or reputable IP addresses from other partitions to account for volumetric shortfalls. A method of one embodiment operates to repair removed IP address reputations as part of recycling and reusing IP addresses. A system of an embodiment is configured in part to remove misused IP addresses from one or more partitions, source reputable IP addresses from other partitions, and/or repair and reuse IP addresses as needed. Other embodiments are included. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381538 | NETWORK, HEAD SUBSCRIBER AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - In a network, a control node is connected to a plurality of network subscribers via a closed ring-shaped data path, wherein the network subscribers form a chain, starting from the control node, with a head subscriber as a termination for the chain. The ring-shaped data path transits through the network subscribers on an outbound route and an inbound route, wherein the network subscribers are designed to perform data interchange both on the outbound route and on the inbound route with data messages circulating on the ring-shaped data path. The control node is additionally designed such that it outputs data messages with an identifier on the data path, wherein the head subscriber has a filter function to use a prescribed identifier to block the further transport of data messages with the corresponding identifier on the inbound route following transit of data messages through the head subscriber on the outbound route. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381539 | Systems and Methods for Spam Detection Using Frequency Spectra of Character Strings - Described spam detection techniques including string identification, pre-filtering, and frequency spectrum and timestamp comparison steps facilitate accurate, computationally-efficient detection of rapidly-changing spam arriving in short-lasting waves. In some embodiments, a computer system extracts a target character string from an electronic communication such as a blog comment, transmits it to an anti-spam server, and receives an indicator of whether the respective electronic communication is spam or non-spam from the anti-spam server. The anti-spam server determines whether the electronic communication is spam or non-spam according to features of the frequency spectrum of the target string. Some embodiments also perform an unsupervised clustering of incoming target strings into clusters, wherein all members of a cluster have similar spectra. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND UPDATING REPUTATION RECORDS - According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is provided for generating a reputation record and filtering electronic messages, each reputation record including a reputation score and a reputation key. The method includes receiving at least one incoming event notification, including a reputation key; determining, based on the reputation key, whether a corresponding reputation record exists; creating a new reputation record if the corresponding reputation record does not exist; determining a trust determination function based on the incoming event notification; calculating a reputation score based on the determined trust determination function, the incoming event notification, and an attribute associated with the reputation key; storing the calculated reputation score along with the reputation key in either the new reputation record or the corresponding reputation record; and filtering one or more electronic messages based on the calculated reputation score. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381541 | Group Messaging Method, and Device - A group messaging method and a device, which relate to the field of communications is described. The group messaging method is applied to a group-send management device and includes: acquiring an information parameter of an information scheduling device, generating a group-send policy according to the information parameter, and sending the group-send policy to a terminal device served by the information scheduling device. The terminal device performs group messaging according to the group-send policy. The group messaging method and the device provided in the embodiments of the present invention are used for group messaging. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381542 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULED DELIVERY OF CONTENT - Systems and methods for asynchronously delivering content to a recipient include receiving a recipient identifier and an item of content from a sender device, generating a unique redemption code associated with the recipient identifier, and storing the content, identifier, and redemption code in a data storage medium. The unique redemption code can be output to the sending device. At a later time, the unique redemption code can be received from a recipient device, delivery information can be requested from the recipient device, and the delivery information can be received and stored. The delivery information can be used to provide the content to the recipient device in the scheduled manner determined by the sender. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381545 | PROVIDING A GUEST WITH ACCESS TO CONTENT OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - Providing a guest with access to content of a social network includes identifying a guest associated with content posted by a user on a social network, sending, via electronic mail (email), a notification to the guest's email address to notify the guest of the content on the social network, receiving, via an identity provider, an identity assertion associated with the guest's email address, and providing, based on the identity assertion, access to the content posted by the user on the social network to allow the guest to view the content, in which the identity provider is identified by a domain of the guest's email address. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381547 | CONTEXT BASED MULTI-MODEL COMMUNICATION IN CUSTOMER SERVICE - Context based multi-model communication in customer service is disclosed. In one innovative aspect, an architecture is provided. The architecture includes an application configured to perform a plurality of sets of functions addressable through a function identifier. Included is a wrapper around the application operable to receive notifications from a plurality of remote locations to address one or more sets of functions via the function identifier. The wrapper is arranged to send to a remote server an application identifier associated with the application and device information, upon first execution of the application by the processor. The device information includes at least a device identifier in the network it is operating with. The wrapper executes the application following receipt of a first notification including the application identifier and the device identifier and executes a function of the application following receipt of a second notification including the application identifier and the function identifier. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381548 | Time-Based Computer Control - A computer system includes a calendar containing appointments. The system also includes one or more logic modules. Each logic module specifies a condition and a corresponding action. The profile may be applied to context data, such as data representing the current time, to perform the actions specified by the logic modules in response to detecting that the context data satisfies the conditions specified by the logic modules. In particular, the actions specified by the logic modules may be performed in response to detecting that the current time falls within the time period of an appointment on the calendar. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381550 | CLOUD COMPUTING ABSTRACTION LAYER FOR INTEGRATING MOBILE PLATFORMS - A system for managing a virtualized computing system is disclosed. The system enables a user of a mobile device to efficiently track and manage computing resources via a management application that includes a graphical user interface that is designed to be operated using a conventional terminal (e.g., via a mouse and keyboard). The system may receive commands from the user of the mobile device in a first format and translate the commands into a second format that can be executed by a management application. Embodiments of the present disclosure further enable a management application to verify and securely communicate with users via existing communications services (e.g., social networking services) without expending additional resources to develop custom, secure interfaces for multiple mobile software and hardware platforms. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381551 | APPLICATION FOR VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION - Described herein is a framework for vehicle-to-vehicle communication. In accordance with one aspect, a send message to a receiving driver of a receiving vehicle is generated from a sending end-user device in response to a user event from a sending driver. The send message may be generated to include an image of the receiving vehicle of the receiving driver, and a voice message created by the sending driver. The send message may be sent to a server using the sending end-user device. The send message may further be processed by the server, in which the processing may include identifying the receiving vehicle, searching to find information of a receiving end-user device, and sending the send message to the receiving end-user device if information of the receiving end-user device is found. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381552 | PERSONALIZED DELIVERY TIME OPTIMIZATION - Techniques for optimizing a delivery time for the delivery of messages are described. According to various embodiments, a system determines, for each of a plurality of time intervals, a likelihood of a particular member of an online social network service performing a particular member user action on a particular message content item during the corresponding time interval. The plurality of time intervals are then ranked, based on the determined likelihoods corresponding to the plurality of time intervals. Thereafter, a particular time interval is identified from among the plurality of time intervals that is associated with a highest ranking. The particular time interval is then classified as an optimum personalized message delivery time for the particular member. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381555 | SELECTION AND RANKING OF COMMENTS FOR PRESENTATION TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS - When a social networking system receives a request from a requesting user for a content item associated with one or more comments, the social networking system determines an interest score for each comment. The interest score for a comment indicates a measure of the user's likelihood of being interested in the comment. Based on the calculated interest scores, the social networking system selects one or more comments for presentation to the viewing user along with the content item. The social networking system may specify an order in which the selected comments are presented based on the interest scores of the selected comments. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381561 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MULTIPLE EMAIL SERVICES HAVING A COMMON DOMAIN - Systems and methods provide an ability to split multiple email addresses having the same email domain across a plurality of email service providers. A first email server receives a forwarded email message from a second email server, the forwarded email message including an original domain and an intermediary domain, the intermediary domain added by the second email server. The first email server removes the intermediary domain from the recipient address and delivers the email message to a corresponding email account that is serviced by the first email server. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381705 | Method and System of File Folder Transmission in Instant Messaging - File folder transmission in instant messaging may be implemented by an instant receiving client, which receives information of a file folder and information of each file in the file folder. The instant receiving client may display the information of the file folder and the information of each file in the file folder. In some embodiments, the instant receiving client may further receive selection information inputted by a user, and receive the files in the file folder that correspond to the selection information from an instant sending client. Such file folder transmission in instant messaging can efficiently save network resources within a process of file folder transmission. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381717 | COMMUNICATION CONSOLE WITH COMPONENT AGGREGATION - Systems methods and devices are provided for a presentation including a communications console with component aggregation. In one potential implementation, a computing device with an application framework receives a communication manager object via a network connectivity device and executes the communication manager object within the application framework. The computing device may then receive and execute communications components and a presentation components within the application framework using the communication manager object. The communication manager object may then manages interface and display of the presentation information via the application framework, as modified by communication components. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DEVICE CAPABILITY SIGNALING - A method includes generating a first schedule at a first electronic device associated with a first user. The first schedule is generated based on a first relationship strength of a relationship of the first user and a second user. The method further includes sending, from the first electronic device to a second electronic device associated with the second user, a first capability request. The first capability request is sent based on the first schedule. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150382167 | EVENT-BASED MEDIA GROUPING, PLAYBACK, AND SHARING - Exemplary methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for capturing, organizing, sharing, and/or displaying media. For example, using embodiments of the disclosed technology, a unified playback and browsing experience for a collection of media can be created automatically. For instance, heuristics and metadata can be used to assemble and add narratives to the media data. Furthermore, this representation of media can recompose itself dynamically as more media is added to the collection. While a collection may use a single user's content, sometimes media that is desirable to include in the collection is captured by friends and/or others at the same event. In certain embodiments, media content related to the event can be automatically collected and shared among selected groups. Further, in some embodiments, new media can be automatically incorporated into a media collection associated with the event, and the playback experience dynamically updated. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160005301 | ALARM NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - An alarm notification system comprising: a central server; the central server configured to monitor the status of one or more remote alarms, and in the event of the status of a first remote alarm changing, generating an alert to send to a first remote device; the central server further configured to determine if the first remote device is connected to the alarm notification system by a persistent connection, and in the event that the first remote device is connect via persistent connection sending an alarm notification message via the persistent connection; and in the event that the first remote device is not connected via a persistent connection sending an alarm notification message via a push notification service. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006680 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING WHETHER AN ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE IS COMPLIANT WITH AN ETIQUETTE POLICY - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining whether an electronic mail message is compliant with an etiquette policy. In use, a predetermined event associated with an electronic mail message is identified. Additionally, it is determined whether the electronic mail message is compliant with an etiquette policy, in response to the predetermined event. Furthermore, a reaction is performed, based on the determination. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006682 | UTILIZING SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR PROBLEM SOLVING - A computing device receives information detailing a question. The computing device divides the question into at least a first question segment and a second question segment. The computing device transmits the first question segment and second question segment to at least one social network contact, wherein the at least one social network contact is selected based on expertise of the at least one social network contact. The computing device receives a first response corresponding to the first question segment and a second response corresponding to the second question segment. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006683 | HUB BASED CLEARING HOUSE FOR INTEROPERABILITY OF DISTINCT UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A hub-based clearing house for interoperability of distinct unified communication systems is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system comprises a database that stores configuration information for the system; an administrator module that maintains the configuration information; a federation server that is connected to a first unified communications system and a second unified communications system. The federation server comprises a first translator that translates a first formatted message received from the first unified communications system into a common language formatted message, a second translator that translates the common language formatted message into a second formatted message, and a routing engine that routes the second formatted message to the second unified communications system. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006792 | Computing System and Method for Identifying Files Transmitted to an External Network - A computing device includes a computing system and a method for identifying files transmitted from an internal computing device within an internal network to an external computing device within an external network. The computing system comprises one or more internal computing devices which are connectable by an internal network. At least one of the internal computing devices is configured to be operable as a workstation or as a file server, wherein the workstation or the file server is capable of generating, storing and/or transmitting a data file. Further, at least one of the internal computing devices is configured to be operable as an insertion device. The insertion device is capable of inserting a data file element into the data file to generate a tagged data file. Further, at least one of the internal computing devices is configured to be operable as a gateway. The gateway is capable of connecting the internal network to an external network. Further, at least one computing device is configured to be operable as a monitoring server. The monitoring server is capable of receiving information transmitted by an external computing device connected to the external network upon opening, reading and/or processing the tagged data file. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006823 | LOCATION SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE APPLICATION - Embodiments described herein generally relate to a social media platform which provides a location specific experience. An application, such as a website or mobile app, may provide a community of users the opportunity to connect with various media based upon the user's physical location. Application users may create and access media with others users within the application. Various media may be created and associated with a physical location utilizing a location based service. The application may allow users to access location specific media based on the user's vicinity of the media to provide the user with a unique location based experience. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006825 | ALERTS FOR MONITORING USER STATUS - A method of monitoring a user of a communication system includes enabling a first user to initiate monitoring of a second user, automatically monitoring status of activity by the second user on the communication system, and delivering to the first user, one or more of an indication that the second user has added or changed a profile or away message, received a new or updated profile or away message comment, visited an Internet location, engaged in communication device activity, or has generated audio or visual input. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160006832 | UPLOADING ATTACHMENT TO SHARED LOCATION AND REPLACING WITH A LINK - The size of attachments to an electronic message are examined before the message is sent to determine if the attachments exceed a size threshold. When the size of the attachments exceed the threshold, one or more of the attachments are uploaded to a shared location that is accessible to the recipients of the message. A link replaces each attachment that was uploaded to the shared location. Permissions are automatically set at the shared location such that each of the recipients of the message are able to access the uploaded attachment. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160014054 | Conditional Auto-Responder | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014055 | MONITORING INSTANT MESSAGING USAGE | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014056 | METHOD, DEVICES AND SYSTEM HAVING OUT OF OFFICE BASED PRESENCE | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014057 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DYNAMICALLY CUSTOMIZED WEB PUSH MESSAGES IN A WIRELESS NETWORK | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014058 | COACHING WITH COLLABORATIVE EDITING | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014060 | NATIVE AD FORMAT FOR INTEREST-BASED CONTENT SUBSCRIPTIONS IN EMAIL | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014061 | MULTIMEDIA CONVERSATION TRANSFER | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014064 | System and Method for Managing Electronic Conversations | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014065 | Method and Apparatus for Event Notification | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014066 | PROCESSING MESSAGES | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMAIL TRACKING AND EMAIL SPAM REDUCTION USING DYNAMIC EMAIL ADDRESSING SCHEMES | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014069 | System for Communicating Between Devices | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014070 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIRECTNG MESSAGES BASED ON SOCIAL DATA | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014225 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING PUSH CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160020917 | COMMUNICATION GATEWAY SERVICES IN A NETWORKED MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - Systems for specialized high-performance electronic messaging campaigns using multiple communication partner channels. Electronic messages are sent to a plurality of differing electronic messaging communication systems using a network communication interface component that is configured to interface with individual ones of the plurality of differing electronic messaging communication systems using individualized script files and individualized parameter files. A network communication interface component is initialized with a first set of configuration instructions using a script input port and a parameter input port. The configured network communication interface component sends an electronic message to a first electronic messaging communication system using the first set of configuration instructions. The network communication interface component is initialized using a second set of configuration instructions, after which electronic messages are sent to a second electronic messaging communication system using the second set of configuration instructions. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021033 | TEMPORAL MESSAGE ORDERING - For temporal message ordering, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an inbound text message from one or more remote devices, transmitting an entered outbound text message, and ordering the inbound text message and the outbound text message based on an order wherein the outbound text message is ordered before the inbound text message based on the inbound text message having a reception time after an entry start time for the outbound text message. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021034 | TECHNIQUE OF CO-OPERATION BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF CLIENT ENTITIES - The invention relates to a technique of co-operation between a plurality of client entities ( | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021035 | CREATING A USER GROUP - Group creation information sent by multiple instant messaging client terminals are received, wherein the group creation information includes instruction information for creating a user group and an instant messaging identification of a user logging into a respective instant messaging client terminal. Group creation information set including the same instruction information is determined. The user group is created according to the instant messaging identification included in the group creation information set. When an instant messaging server determines that parts of the multiple pieces of the received group creation information request to establish the same user group, the instant messaging server, by using the instruction information in the group creation information, quickly determines which pieces of the group creation information instruct to establish the same user group and creates the user group, thereby effectively reducing the time of gathering group members and enhancing the efficiency of creating a user group platform. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021036 | TERMINAL AND METHOD OF HAVING CONVERSATION USING INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE THEREIN - A mobile terminal including a display unit; a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with at least one external device via a wireless network; and a controller configured to: execute a first message conversation with the at least one external terminal while executing a video communication with the at least one external terminal, and store an image of the video communication in response to termination of the first message conversation. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021038 | CHAT-BASED SUPPORT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATED FUNCTIONS - A chat-based communication capability is presented. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may utilize a chat-based communication paradigm to support one or more communication interaction types not typically supported by chat-based communication paradigms. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may support chat-based communication between a human entity and a non-human entity or between multiple non-human entities. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may support extended operations which may be provided within the context of a chat-based system. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability or other communication or interaction environment may support one or more of relationship identification and notification capabilities, question and answer management functions, message attribution management functions, software developer functions, or the like. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021040 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND PROCESSING SENSOR DATA IN AN INTERFACING-DEVICE NETWORK - An interfacing device is configured to process one or more rules, based on sensor data, to perform a predetermined action. During operation, the device can detect a rule-triggering event, and can search a rule repository to obtain a set of rules whose action criteria is satisfied by the rule-triggering event. If the set of rules include a plurality of rules that are simultaneously triggered by the rule-triggered event, the local interfacing device may process the plurality of rules in a user-defined sequence. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021042 | VIDEO MESSAGING - Texts message(s) may be provided via an app on a user device. A video message may be generated based at least partially on phrases in the text message and media including video, audio, and images associated with the phrases. The generated video message may be transmitted to other users. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021043 | COMMUNICATING MESSAGES BETWEEN PUBLISHERS AND SUBSCRIBERS IN A MESH ROUTING NETWORK - A system that communicates across a network is described. During operation, the system receives a subscription request from a subscriber requesting to subscribe to receive information published to a service name. The system applies a function to the service name to generate a value that maps to a root-node associated with the service name. The system forwards the subscription request through the network to the root-node and logs information associated with the subscription request in a subscription table at the root-node, so that the root-node can forward messages that are subsequently published to the service name to the subscriber. Upon receiving a publication request from a publisher requesting to publish a message to the service name, the system first determines the root-node from the service name. The system forwards the publication request to the root-node to be forwarded to one or more subscribers for the service name. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021045 | ROUTING MESSAGES BASED ON GEOLOCATION INFORMATION - Embodiments relate to method and computer program products for routing messages based on geolocation information. Aspects include receiving a message from a publisher, computing a geo-hash for the message based on a location associated with the message, and traversing a geo-hash tree associated with a subscriber to determine if the geo-hash of the message corresponds to a geo-hash grid in the geo-hash tree. Based on determining that the geo-hash of the message corresponds to an identified geo-hash grid in the geo-hash tree, a point in a polygon algorithm is performed to determine if the location associated with the message is inside an area of interest associated with the identified geo-hash grid. If the location associated with the message is inside the area of interest, the message is forwarded to the subscriber. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021046 | ROUTING MESSAGES BASED ON GEOLOCATION INFORMATION - Embodiments relate to method and computer program products for routing messages based on geolocation information. Aspects include receiving a message from a publisher, computing a geo-hash for the message based on a location associated with the message, and traversing a geo-hash tree associated with a subscriber to determine if the geo-hash of the message corresponds to a geo-hash grid in the geo-hash tree. Based on determining that the geo-hash of the message corresponds to an identified geo-hash grid in the geo-hash tree, a point in a polygon algorithm is performed to determine if the location associated with the message is inside an area of interest associated with the identified geo-hash grid. If the location associated with the message is inside the area of interest, the message is forwarded to the subscriber. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021048 | Dynamically Expanding and Contracting Group - A group within the context of a social networking website or mobile application that expands or contracts to show content objects and entities based on a geographic location and the distance from that location. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING THREADED COMMUNICATION ACROSS MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS USING A MOBILE WEB SERVER - A system, apparatus and method for visualizing threaded communication across multiple communication channels using a Mobile Web Server. A Mobile Web Server enables access to the messages received on a wireless communication device from the Internet using any web browser. Messages belonging to the same conversation, even if received on multiple communication channels (SMS, MMS, email, IM, Bluetooth, etc.), may be displayed in a threaded fashion. Once displayed on the web browser, a user may then view, create, edit, send, receive and filter the messages according to sender, receiver, time ranges, keyword/content, etc. A user does not have to be in physical possession of his or her wireless communication device to access received messages. Rather, one advantage of the invention is to allow a user to access messages on the wireless communication device where the user has forgotten the wireless communication device or spends most of his or her time in front of a personal computer in a location remote from the wireless communication device. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021050 | EVENT MESSAGE SYSTEM - A dynamic message system that the receiver is able to set the criteria to receive messages and the sender sends messages with geographic location and valid period of time attached. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021052 | INTELLIGENTLY SPLITTING TEXT IN MESSAGES POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE TO BE MORE READABLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE FOR USER - A method, system and computer program product for improving readability and understandability in messages posted on a social media website. The messages posted on a social media website, such as the user's social networking feed, are scanned. The scanned messages are analyzed for topics, meaning and/or tenses using natural language processing. The text in the scanned messages are split into message segments based on topic, meaning, tenses, punctuation, custom identifiers, hashtags and/or @ symbols. These message segments are then grouped based on relatedness of the topics, meaning and/or tenses. The message segments are ordered in each group of message segments, such as based on timestamps. The ordered message segments are then displayed to the user. By displaying these message segments in separate groupings in a logical order, the user will be able to view the messages posted on the user's social media website in a more readable and understandable manner. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021053 | INTELLIGENTLY SPLITTING TEXT IN MESSAGES POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE TO BE MORE READABLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE FOR USER - A method, system and computer program product for improving readability and understandability in messages posted on a social media website. The messages posted on a social media website, such as the user's social networking feed, are scanned. The scanned messages are analyzed for topics, meaning and/or tenses using natural language processing. The text in the scanned messages are split into message segments based on topic, meaning, tenses, punctuation, custom identifiers, hashtags and/or @ symbols. These message segments are then grouped based on relatedness of the topics, meaning and/or tenses. The message segments are ordered in each group of message segments, such as based on timestamps. The ordered message segments are then displayed to the user. By displaying these message segments in separate groupings in a logical order, the user will be able to view the messages posted on the user's social media website in a more readable and understandable manner. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021054 | CAUTIOUS AUTO-ENTRY FOR MESSAGING SYSTEMS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to auto-entry of addresses in an electronic message and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for cautious auto-entry for messaging systems. In one embodiment of the invention, a cautious auto-completion method can be provided. The method include auto-completing a messaging address provided in a messaging client; computing a similar name set (SNS) value for the auto-completed messaging address; and, posting a warning if the SNS value exceeds an SNS threshold. As used herein, an SNS includes a list of similar messaging addresses having similarities likely to result in an unintended auto-completed messaging address in a messaging system. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021148 | ARCHITECTURE TO ESTABLISH SERVERLESS WEBRTC CONNECTIONS - Peer-to-peer connection methods and systems are provided. A first client device receives a request to initiate a peer-to-peer connection with a second client device. Responsive to the request, the first client device presents an offer message that includes first address information associated with the first client device. A first mobile device captures the presented offer message and sends the captured offer message to the second client device via a wireless communication network. The first client device receives, via the first mobile device, a response message over the wireless communication network from the second client device. The response message includes second address information associated with the second client device. The first client device initiates the peer-to-peer connection with the second client device, responsive to the second address information in the received response message. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160026975 | EVENT TRIGGERED NOTIFICATIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES - Notifications that serve as “hints” related to activity associated with a collaborative process are propagated to an originator to alert the originator of activity on the collaborative process. A collaborative process server computer receives an indication that the originator has initiated a computer implemented collaborative process that generates collaborative content to be tracked. The collaborative process server computer is utilized to share the collaborative content associated with the collaborative process with at least one recipient. Computer implemented event(s) associated with the shared collaborative content by recipients are detected. Information associated with the collaborative process is automatically transformed in response to detected event(s) associated with the shared collaborative content, wherein a notification of the occurrence of the event(s) is propagated to the originator. The notification is generated in response to detected event(s) and is based upon the transformed information. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028555 | MESSAGE BROADCASTING IN A CLUSTERED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Approaches are provided for message broadcasting within a clustered computing environment such as a Cloud computing environment. Specifically, a message is received in a message queue (e.g., on a message queue server). From the message queue, the message is sent to a single node of a plurality of nodes within the clustered computing environment. The single node can be selected based on factors such as a best available node within the plurality of nodes. This single node will process the message and identify a set of message listeners to whom the message should be broadcast (e.g., based on a topic of the message and an association of the topic to the set of message listeners). The single node will then publish the message to the set of message listeners. Delivery confirmations, responses, etc. associated with the message will then be tracked, processed, and/or routed by the single node. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028659 | System and Method for Targeting Advertisements or Other Information Based on Recently Sent Message or Messages - A method of serving information items in association with one or more messages sent by a client includes identifying at least one message sent by a client, obtaining at least one information item associated with the at least one identified message, and preparing for display to the client the at least one information item. The method may include identifying one or more categories associated with the message, or identifying one or more elements in the message that correspond to predefined information entity types. The operation of associating one or more categories with a message may be done before, in parallel, or after sending the messages as an outgoing message. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028660 | PRIVATE CHAT ROOM - Chat rooms and other messaging applications allow users to share messages, images, and other digital content with one another. Messaging applications may be configured to remove content exchanged between users from their devices in response to a user leaving closing a communication channel or otherwise terminating the chat session. Content may be removed from a device executing the messaging application, and/or any device that stored a copy of the content. Some messaging applications may require users to transfer a key before such a transient chat room may be created, such that the users are provided with an additional layer of protection. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028661 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING ALERTS - A method for sending and receiving alerts in an instant messaging environment are disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for alerts from a service provider, the request including an alert template and a rule to retrieve the alert template. The method also includes receiving a trigger from the service provider, the trigger including an identification of an alert receiver, the rule to retrieve the alert template, and changeable contents for the alert template. The method further includes obtaining the alert template from the request for alerts based on the rule to retrieve the alert template in the trigger; composing an alert using the alert template and the changeable contents; and sending the alert to the alert receiver identified in the trigger. The method and system consistent with the present disclosure may enrich the user experience in instant messaging applications. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028662 | INSTANT CONVERSATION IN A THREAD OF AN ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUM - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to discussion forum management and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant conversations in a thread within a discussion forum. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for instant conversations in a thread within a discussion forum can be provided. The method can include providing a discussion forum and initiating a thread in the discussion forum and measuring a temporal proximity of postings between two or more users in the thread. In response to determining a close temporal proximity, an instant messaging session can be launched between the two or more users and entries in the instant messaging session can be inserted as responses to the thread in the discussion form. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028663 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF OBTAINING CONTACT INFORMATION FOR A PERSON OR AN ENTITY - Methods and systems are provided for obtaining and utilizing status information associated with persons and/or entities. Status information associated with a person or an entity may be determined based on information, associated with the person or the entity, in one or more applications and/or one or more databases. In this regard, an indication of the person or the entity may be detected in a frame (e.g., from a screen of a device), and the status information may comprise an indication of online or contact availability, via at least one of the one or more applications, associated with the indication of the person or the entity. In response to user input based on the status information, a communication session associated with one of said one or more applications may be imitated, to provide connectivity with the person or the entity. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028664 | CHAT SYSTEM, KEY TELEPHONE UNIT, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A chat system includes a key telephone unit and a plurality of user terminals connected to the key telephone unit. When the key telephone unit receives presence information including an IP address of the user terminal, it refers to a list in a list table, selects the received IP address in presence information, and transmits the presence information including the IP address to a recipient included in the list. Thus, the key telephone unit establishes peer-to-peer chat communication between the user terminal that has transmitted the IP address and the recipient. When the user terminal which is continuing a chat moves to a different user terminal, the chat is being continued by transmitting presence information including an IP address of the different user terminal to the key telephone unit and chat data are transferred between the user terminal and the different user terminal in a peer-to-peer connection. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028667 | MANAGEMENT AND PRESENTATION OF NOTIFICATION CONTENT - An example method includes, responsive to receiving an indication of an incoming communication, identifying, by a computing device, first and second portions of an image that are associated with respective first and second portions of a face of a human user, wherein the human user has been determined to be an originator of the incoming communication. The example method further includes outputting, by the computing device and for display, the first and second portions of the image that are associated with the respective first and second portions of the face of the human user, and outputting, by the computing device and for display, message content associated with the incoming communication, such that the message content as displayed at least partially overlays the second portion of the image. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028668 | ROUTING MESSAGES BETWEEN APPLICATIONS - A system and method for enabling the interchange of enterprise data through an open platform is disclosed. This open platform can be based on a standardized interface that enables parties to easily connect to and use the network. Services operating as senders, recipients, and in-transit parties can therefore leverage a framework that overlays a public network. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028670 | ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS USING HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM - Methods and systems are described for communicating messages using a home automation system. An example computer-implemented method for communicating messages using a home automation system includes generating a message, establishing at least one condition related to delivery of the message, and delivering the message via the home automation system when the at least one condition is met. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028671 | Adaptor Based Communication Systems, Apparatus, and Methods - Systems, methods, and apparatus for sending electronic messages. One embodiment provides methods which include accepting a message in a disparate source-message-type. The recipient, a recipient-message-type, and the source-message-type are determined and, responsive thereto, adaptors are selected for changing the message from the source-message-type to the recipient-message-type. The message is adapted and versions of the adapted message are sent to the recipients. The message types correspond to permutations of technologies and user preferences associated with the messages. Moreover, the message could be an emergency notification, part of a campaign, etc. Quality of service (QOS) measurements regarding the message can be gathered and different adaptors can be dynamically selected responsive thereto. Further, third-party adaptors can be accepted and rules can be implemented pursuant to which the third-party adaptors will be used. In some cases the message can further comprise data in differing formats on which the adaptors are used. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028672 | Message Controlled Application and Operating System Image Development and Deployment - A highly automated development of cloud-based application image development and deployment. A developer user interface front end receives build requests and information for the developer. Alternatively, a code-checkin can also trigger a build request. The front end provides a message to a messaging system which is accessed by the other servers. A continuous integration server obtains the message and performs relevant steps in building the request application image, with a template server and the source code control server providing relevant files. As various tasks in developing the application image are completed, messages are sent to the messaging server. Other operations on the integration server listen for selected messages to initiate the next step in the process. Further, other servers monitor the messaging to perform relevant operations, such as storing files that have been produced. Ultimately the finished image can be deployed to application servers to allow user to operate the new application version. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028673 | MULTI-TIERED ANTI-SPAMMING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Embodiments are provided for reducing unwanted messages or spam within a real-time social networking service. According to certain aspects, a synchronous analysis module may operate in coordination with an asynchronous analysis module. Each of the synchronous analysis module and the asynchronous analysis module analyzes an incoming message from a user account to determine whether the incoming message has characteristics of spam, whereby the synchronous analysis is at a lower latency than the asynchronous analysis. The asynchronous analysis is afforded the ability to identify certain spam characteristics that the synchronous analysis may identify during its lower latency analysis. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028674 | SPAM FILTERING AND PERSON PROFILES - Systems and methods to reduce false positives in spam filtering. In one aspect, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as incoming and outgoing e-mails. Messages flagged as spam can be checked against the profile to identify false positives. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028676 | OFFENDER MESSAGE DELIVERY SYSTEM - A correctional facility communication system for sending an external message to an offender of a correctional facility is disclosed. The correctional facility communication system includes a messaging system and a correctional facility system coupled together with a wide area network. The messaging system is at a first location and the correctional facility system is at a second location, different from the first location. The messaging system authenticates a sender of the external message, receives the external message in electronic form at the first location, checks the external message against criteria specified by the correctional facility, determine a second location of the offender and a corresponding printer, and sends the external message to the second location for automatic printing with the corresponding printer. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028678 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SENDING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic mail sending device able to simply confirm and correct a designated destination. To this end, an electronic mail sending device ( | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028679 | ERROR CORRECTION FOR INTERACTIVE MESSAGE EXCHANGES USING SUMMARIES - In a conversation between a first computing device and a second computing device over a communication channel, each computing device keeps a transcript of the messages that have been sent and received by that computing device. After a threshold number of messages have been sent and received by the devices, each device transmits a summary of the messages sent and received by that device to the other device. If the summaries match, then the messages were sent and received successfully by each device, and the devices can continue to exchange messages until the threshold number of messages is reached again. If the summaries do not match, the devices can roll-back a part of the conversation and the transcript and continue covered by the summaries and continue from there. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028680 | NETWORKED SYSTEM OF INTRODUCTION CONSOLES FOR STIMULATING NEW SOCIAL INTERACTIONS - A networked system of introduction consoles for deployment in a public location, such as a bar, restaurant or other public place for the purpose of facilitating networking with or meeting of new people in nearby locations in order to stimulate social interactions like dating includes a network server, a plurality of introduction consoles, and a plurality of discrete personal electronic devices. Each of the introduction consoles are connected to network server through an internal electronic data network while the network server is additionally configured to communicate with external, personal communication devices through the Internet. The consoles take photos and uploads profiles of users to the network server, and additionally enables the review of photos stored on the network server. The network server maintains a database of profiles as well as transmits response and posting activity messages directly to active users. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028682 | NETWORKING ACTIVITY INTERACTIVE SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, CLIENT TERMINAL AND SERVER THEREOF - A networking activity interactive system includes: a creating module for creating networking activity contents; an interactive module for receiving requests for participating the networking activity and participant data submitted by a user, to ensure only participant data in conformity with the networking activity contents is added to the participant user group of the networking activity, and the user is added to the participant user group; a database for storing the networking activity contents, the participant user group of the networking activity, and the participant reply content volume; and a presenting module for presenting the networking activity content and the participant reply content volume of the networking activity. Furthermore, a non-transitory computer readable recording medium, a client terminal and a server for networking activity interactive are also provided. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028686 | MANAGED ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MESSAGE ADDRESSES - A method may include receiving an outbound communication directed to one or more recipient addresses from a communications infrastructure hosting the true address for the user. A server or similar intermediary may generate an alias address for each recipient address in an outbound communication so that each recipient may communicate with the true address using a unique reply channel. A discrete security state may be assigned as a security attribute to each such alias address. The discrete security state, which can be controlled by the user and stored, e.g., at the intermediate server, establishes rules for controlling communications from one of the recipient addresses through the communications infrastructure to the true address via one of the alias addresses. Once an alias and a security state are assigned in this manner to facilitate handling of responsive communications, the outbound communication may be forwarded to recipient addresses through the communication network. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028799 | Peer-To-Peer Email - A peer-to-peer email system and methods are provided for distributed email distribution, prevention of SPAM, and efficient email storage. Each email client also serves as a node in the peer-to-peer system, relaying email messages and/or attachments. Large attachments may be transmitted directly from sender to receiver, and if the receiver is not online at the time the sender sends the attachment, the receiver can request the attachment from the sender at a later time. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028827 | INTELLIGENT MEDIATION OF MESSAGES IN A HEALTHCARE PRODUCT INTEGRATION PLATFORM - An example method to provision an interface for mediation of messages in an integration platform includes identifying a target healthcare system; identifying configuration rules and protocol requirements for the target healthcare system and comparing to a source healthcare system; defining a configuration for the interface associated with the target healthcare system based on the configuration rules, protocol requirements, and a relationship between the target healthcare system and the source healthcare system; constructing the target healthcare system interface route; creating an interface factory to return implementations of an interface route and configuration; passing the interface factory content to an interface control channel; loading a concrete implementation of the interface route and configuration; initializing the interface route; and instantiating interface endpoints and processors to enable communication between the source healthcare system and the target healthcare system via the interface route. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160036734 | SHORT MESSAGES - A message converter can be configured to generate a reply notification message for a gaming server in response to a reply short message provided from a mobile device. The reply short message can be sent in response to an original short message previously sent to the mobile device in response to a request initiated by a client associated with a player of a virtual world implemented by the gaming server. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036735 | Instant Messaging - A method implemented by a client application when executed on a user device during an instant messaging communication between said user device and at least one further device, the method comprising: transmitting a first message comprising media data over a communication network from said user device to said at least one further device; receiving a second message comprising further media data transmitted over said communication network from said at least one further device; determining that the media data and the further media data are of the same data type; and generating a composite media object based on the media data and the further media data in response to said determination and displaying the composite media object on a display of said user device. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036736 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING SUBJECTS IN INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method are provided that incorporate subjects or subject lines into instant messaging sessions or conversations on a mobile device. During an instant messaging session, the user is provided with an option to specify a subject for at least the current portion of the session or for the entire session. The subject is proposed to the other users in the session, who can accept, ignore or modify the subject at their end. Multiple subjects can be specified for a single conversation if desired, and the subjects can be displayed with the contact in a message list. The instant messaging sessions may then be searched using search tools that are typically used for search email and other data messages. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036739 | THANK YOU MESSAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE GIFTING - A thank you message generation system includes a server that functions with a recipient computing device to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display of the recipient computing device to receive gratitude information directed to a giver of a gift in which the gift received via a gift message received by the recipient computing device. The server extracts at least one element of gift information from the received gift message, generates a thank you message using the gratitude information and the gift information, and transmits the thank you message to a giver computing device of the giver. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036743 | MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036744 | MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036745 | MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036748 | EXCLUDING RECIPIENTS OF A MESSAGE BASED ON CONTENT OF THE MESSAGE - In an approach for excluding contacts from receiving a message within a social network environment, a computer receives a message to be sent by a first user in a social network environment and determines that content of the message includes objectionable language, wherein the objectionable language includes at least one of: a negative connotation, a negative term, and a negative content. Based on the determination of the named user in the message content and the objectionable language in the message content, the computer recommends excluding, prior to sending the message, the named user from receiving the message to be sent. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036749 | USER INITIATED RULE-BASED RESTRICTIONS ON MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for user initiated rule based restrictions on sending messages from a sender to a receiver in a communications network. The receiver establishes a set of rules for the sender that allows the sender a limited number of defined messages events with the receiver. The defined message events may be messages or message sessions. When the sender attempts to send a message to the receiver, it is determined whether a message session currently exists between the sender and the receiver. If a current session exists, the rules set by the receiver are used to determine if the message is allowed to be sent to the receiver. If a session does not currently exist, the rules are used to determine whether a new session is allowed. If a new message session is allowed, a new session is established, and the message is sent to the receiver during the new session. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036750 | PRODUCT ONBOARDING VIA MESSAGES - Techniques for onboarding users to various product features are described. According to various embodiments, information identifying a set of candidate onboarding content items associated with an email type of an email to be transmitted to a particular member of an online social network service is accessed. Thereafter, a first subset of the candidate onboarding content items is removed from the set, responsive to determining that the particular member has already been onboarded to products associated with the candidate onboarding content items in the first subset. Further, a second subset of the candidate onboarding content items is removed from the set, responsive to determining that the particular member has previously viewed and not interacted with the candidate onboard* content items in the second subset. A specific onboarding content item is then dynamically selected from the remaining set of candidate onboarding content items. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING A MESSAGE - Systems, methods and devices are provided for communicating a message prior to enabling communication over a communication link between user devices. In one aspect, a method is provided for communicating a message prior to enabling communication over a communication link between a user device and a second user device. The method includes receiving a request to initiate the communication link from the second user device, causing a notification of the request to initiate the communication link to be generated at the user device, receiving an acknowledgement from a user of the user device that the notification has been received, causing a message to be communicated to the user of the user device, receiving a user initiated acknowledgement from the user of the user device that the message has completed, and enabling communication between the users of the user device and second user device upon receipt of the user initiated acknowledgement. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036753 | Mobile device power management in data synchronization over a mobile network with or without a trigger notification - A method for transferring data between a mobile device and a client includes sending transactions from the mobile device to the client over a first connection and determining how often to receive new data. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036754 | METHOD TO REFINE ADDRESSEES IN A GROUP ENVIRONMENT - For an electronic communication environment, an apparatus for refining addresses in a group messaging environment is disclosed. The apparatus may include a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor, including code that identifies a message addressed to a group, resolves the group into a plurality of addressees, and sends the message to a subset of the addressees. The apparatus may notify the user that the message is addressed to the group. The apparatus may further receive user input defining the subset of the addressees, wherein the message is addressed based on the user input. Additionally, the apparatus may prompt for confirmation in response to the user selecting all addressees in the group. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036756 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPILING, CURATING, AND SHARING DIGITAL CONTENT - Systems and methods are disclosed for compiling, curating, and sharing digital content. A content clearinghouse server can compile digital content items received from a number of content sources and curate the digital content items for a user of a client device. The content clearinghouse server can also receive information from client devices to be broadcast to a number of different platforms. Digital content items received from content sources and broadcast information can each be de-duplicated at the content clearinghouse server. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036757 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO QUICKLY AND EASILY SHARE THEIR BEHAVIORS OR ACTIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system for allowing an individual to share at least one behavior or action on a social network, the system comprising: a token comprising token data relating to the identification of the token and the social network so that at least one behavior or action can be shared on the social network; and a reader for receiving the token data from the token and for transferring the token data to a social network. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036759 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT STREAM MANAGEMENT - A system for managing event streams is provided that includes a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and a processor. The volatile memory is configured to store, for each of a plurality of event streams associated with the client device, metadata indicative of events not yet delivered to a client device and the content associated with only a most recent event of the event stream. The non-volatile memory is configured to store the content associated with each of undelivered events. The processor is configured to, upon receiving a request from the client device, retrieve from the volatile memory, without accessing the non-volatile memory, data indicative of a current state of an event stream associated with the client device. The processor is further configured to deliver the retrieved data indicative of the current state of the event stream. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036760 | TARGETED NOTIFICATION OF CONTENT AVAILABILITY TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A system includes a first computing device client associated with a first user in a community of users operable to send content to publish to a data aggregation server. The data aggregation server is operable to receive the content to publish from the first computing device client, host a first user profile associated with the first user of the first computing device client, the first user profile identifying a targeted recipient in the community of users, and disseminate automatically the content received from the first computing device client to a second computing device client associated with the targeted recipient, without receiving input from the first computing device client explicitly specifying the targeted recipient to whom the content is disseminated | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036761 | FORWARDING SELECTED DOCUMENT PASSAGES FROM AN ELECTRONIC READER - A method of forwarding selected passages from an electronic document being displayed on an electronic reader to a designated recipient. The method includes electronically selecting a passage from the electronic document, and automatically associating metadata with a selected passage upon selection by the user. The method also includes storing the selected passage together with the associated metadata in a file in the memory of the electronic reader. The method further includes electronically checking the selected passage for compliance with special requirements, the special requirements including a designated size of the selected passage, the special requirement of the designated size of the selected passage being of a variable size designated by the user based on user preference. The method also includes electronically transmitting the stored selected passage and associated metadata from the electronic reader to a designated recipient after completion of the electronic checking by the electronic reader. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036887 | ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATIONS - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing for a user one or more electronic notifications that include information about a social network. The social network includes a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of edges, with at least one node corresponding to the user. The method further includes determining, for each of the electronic notifications, a score that estimates whether a user interaction with the social network will result if the electronic notification is provided to the user. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the determined scores, an action to take with respect to the electronic notifications. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160037307 | VEHICLE-RELATED INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND SYSTEM - In an example of a vehicle-related information sharing method, vehicle-related information is received at an in-vehicle application resident on a memory of a communications platform in a vehicle. The in-vehicle application identifies a mobile communications device to transmit a data package to, where the data package is associated with the vehicle-related information. The in-vehicle application recognizes that the mobile communications device has a vehicle-related application resident on a memory thereof and that the vehicle-related application has a rich message feature enabled. The in-vehicle application prepares the data package with vehicle-related action information and a phone number of the mobile communications device. The data package is transmitted from the in-vehicle application to the vehicle-related application first through a messaging server of a communications platform service provider and then through a proprietary messaging server of a proprietary messaging service of the mobile communications device. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160043917 | MONITORING SMS MESSAGES RELATED TO SERVER/CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS - A system, method and/or computer program product monitors delivery of text messages related to network traffic between a user's electronic system and a server. A capture server captures a network traffic message from a user's electronic system to a solution server. In response to capturing a request for specific information from the solution server, the capture server captures a related text message from the solution server to a text message gateway. The capture server then monitors a text message log within the user's electronic system, which contains a record of text messages received by the user's electronic system. In response to the text message log containing no record of the text message from the solution server within a predetermined length of wait time, the capture server generates and transmits an alert message to the solution server. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043972 | Interactions Based On Instant Messaging - Interactions based on Instant Messaging (IM) are provided, where an IM client of a user terminal device is configured with a microblog entrance related to IM tips, the IM client obtains IM tips data from an IM server, invokes the microblog entrance in response to an operation instruction of a user, obtains from a microblog server microblog data associated to the IM tips data, generates a microblog box and presents the microblog data on the microblog box. The methods can improve efficiencies of interactions. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043973 | DYNAMIC RESOLUTION OF MESSAGE CONTENT - Example methods, systems and computer readable media are directed to one or more functionalities that dynamically resolve one or more messages. A functionality identifies content in the message that is required for one or more operations performed by the functionality. By performing such operations, the functionality creates modified message data based on the identified content. An identifier for the modified message data is embedded in the message. The modified message data is stored in relation to an object on a server. By using the embedded identifier, the modified message data can be retrieved by a client application associated with a message recipient. The modified message data can be applied to a received message to update the message. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043975 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION INTERACTIVELY BY INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - A method that uses a processor to provide information, the method includes establishing a conversation session between a terminal and a software bot through an instant messaging application executed in the terminal for an instant messaging service; displaying a map on a screen of the terminal; transmitting a request to the software bot through the conversation session for querying information associated with at least one point selected in the map on the screen of the terminal by an user of the terminal or a region corresponding to the at least one point; receiving the information associated with the at least one point or the region from the software bot through the conversation session; and displaying the received information the screen of the terminal. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043976 | SHARED ATTACHMENTS - When an outgoing communication sent to one or more recipients contains a supported attachment type, a shared workspace that contains a shared version of the original attachment is provisioned. A modified version of the original outgoing communication is delivered to internal recipients including both a link to the shared document and the original attachment. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043978 | TECHNIQUES FOR HOT SNAPSHOTS FOR MESSAGE SYNCING - Techniques for hot snapshotting for message syncing are described. An apparatus may comprise a network component and a snapshot component. The network component may be operative to receiving an incoming update. The snapshot component may be operative to retrieve a messaging snapshot for a user associated with the incoming update; identify a messaging thread corresponding to the incoming update; apply the incoming update to the messaging thread; determining that a number of messaging threads stored in the messaging snapshot is greater than a thread storage limit for the messaging snapshot; identify a least-recently-updated messaging thread currently stored in the messaging snapshot; and remove the least-recently updated messaging thread from the messaging snapshot. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043979 | AUTOMATIC BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY COMPILATION AND SPEAKER RECOGNITION BASED MESSAGING SYSTEM - Some embodiments include a messaging platform to facilitate delivery of message conversations between user accounts. The messaging platform can store at least a subset of the message conversations in a data storage memory. The messaging platform can implement a data destruction policy configured to specific which of the message conversations are to be queued for deletion from the data storage memory. Based on the stored conversations, the messaging platform can generate a biographical summary of a user account based on portions of archived message conversations in the data storage memory. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043981 | TECHNIQUES FOR A PERSISTENT QUEUE FOR MESSAGE SYNCING - Techniques for a persistent queue for message syncing are described. A recipient inbound messaging component may receive an incoming update at a recipient update queue. A recipient queue management component may determine an incoming recipient sequence number for the recipient update queue. A recipient outbound messaging component may transmit the incoming update to the recipient messaging endpoint. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043982 | TECHNIQUES FOR A SEQUENTIAL MESSAGE READER FOR MESSAGE SYNCING - Techniques for a sequential message reader for message syncing are described. An apparatus may comprise a network component and an inbox management component. The network component may be operative to receiving an incoming update at a messaging endpoint from a recipient update queue, the incoming update comprising an incoming recipient sequence number. The inbox management component may be operative to add the incoming update to a message inbox on the messaging endpoint, the incoming update added to the message inbox in an order determined by the incoming recipient sequence number and determine based on the incoming recipient sequence number whether one or more additional updates are missing from the message inbox on the messaging endpoint. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043983 | TECHNIQUES FOR INTELLIGENT MESSAGING FOR MESSAGE SYNCING - Techniques for intelligent messaging for message syncing are described. An apparatus may comprise a recipient inbound messaging component, a recipient queue management component, a recipient update customization component, and a recipient outbound messaging component. The recipient inbound messaging component may be operative to receive an incoming update at a recipient update queue, the recipient update queue associated with a recipient of the incoming update. The recipient queue management component may be operative to add the incoming update to the recipient update queue and determine a recipient messaging endpoint to receive the incoming update. The recipient update customization component may be operative to retrieve one or more recipient messaging endpoint parameters associated with the recipient messaging endpoint and generate a customized incoming update from the incoming update according to the one or more recipient messaging endpoint parameters. The recipient outbound messaging component may be operative to transmit the customized incoming update to the recipient messaging endpoint. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043984 | REDIRECTING NOTIFICATIONS TO AN ALTERNATIVE COMPUTING DEVICE AND ALLOWING SUBSEQUENT SMS INTERACTIONS TO ADDRESS THE NOTIFICATIONS VIA THAT ALTERNATIVE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method, system and computer program product for handling notifications. An instruction from the user is received to redirect notifications to alternative computing device(s). After a notification (e.g., operating system update) is received from a computing device (e.g., computing device of the presenter of an electronic presentation), the notification is queued. A graphical representation of the notification is saved as an image and the action buttons within the notification are translated into textual actions. The image of the graphical representation of the notification and the textual actions are sent to the alterative computing device(s), such as via MMS. In this manner, notifications are prevented from being displayed and interrupting the user, such as a presenter of a presentation, by redirecting such notifications to an alternative computing device. Furthermore, in this manner, the user of the alternative device is able to respond to the notification via SMS. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043985 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOTIFYING USERS UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF AN EVENT - A computer-implemented system and method for notifying users on the occurrence of an event is disclosed. An embodiment further includes notifying selected users upon the occurrence of particular events in sessions using a variety of notification methods. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043986 | SECURE FRIENDING - Defining a secure association of users in social networks is described. Users are associated in the social network as a response for association request messages from both users. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043987 | SUGGESTED OUT OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION RECIPIENTS - Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine readable medium for recommending an out-of-network communication by determining a set of potential recommended members of a social networking service based upon one or more recommendation criteria. In some examples the recommendation criteria may include: a profile similarity to a previous target of an out-of-network communication, a degree of correspondence between an interest and intent of the sending member, and a likelihood of response. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160043988 | MONITORING SMS MESSAGES RELATED TO SERVER/CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS - A system, method and/or computer program product monitors delivery of text messages related to network traffic between a user's electronic system and a server. A capture server captures a network traffic message from a user's electronic system to a solution server. In response to capturing a request for specific information from the solution server, the capture server captures a related text message from the solution server to a text message gateway. The capture server then monitors a text message log within the user's electronic system, which contains a record of text messages received by the user's electronic system. In response to the text message log containing no record of the text message from the solution server within a predetermined length of wait time, the capture server generates and transmits an alert message to the solution server. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044089 | CONTEXT-BASED CONTACT NOTIFICATION - Disclosed are systems and methods for providing a context-based notification from a first device to a second device. In an embodiment, the first device is associated with a driver travelling to pick up a passenger, and the second device is associated with the passenger. Substantially at a notification point, the first device determines if, how, and when to transmit an auto-notification to the second device based on context. For example, if the passenger is not near the meeting point, then a notification is not sent, whereas if the passenger is in a conference with others, then a text rather than a call is sent. If traffic between the notification point and the meeting point is heavy, then the notification is delayed until the expected amount of travel time remains. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044122 | DEVICE PAIRING FOR CONTENT SHARING - A computer-implemented method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for device pairing for content sharing are disclosed. An encoded URL is accessed in a first device, the encoded URL associated with a second device. A content group identifier is provided to the second device. The second device is notified that content is ready to be pushed to the second device from the first device through the content group. Content is pushed from the first device to the second device through the content group. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044135 | DISTRIBUTING UI CONTROL EVENTS FROM A SINGLE EVENT PRODUCER ACROSS MULTIPLE SYSTEMS EVENT CONSUMERS - A method, system, and/or computer program product distributes a user interface (UI) initiated system event, from a single producer of the UI-initiated system event, across multiple systems event consumers on multiple execution environments. An operating system (OS) event receiver in a server receives a user interface (UI) initiated system event on the server. In response to the OS event receiver receiving the UI-initiated system event, the UI-initiated system event is recorded and published, via messages, to multiple systems event consumers on multiple execution environments, where each message directs a receiving execution environment adapter to locally replicate and execute the UI-initiated system event from the server on each of the multiple execution environments. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160044142 | Messaging System with Multiple Messaging Channels - A messaging system facilitates communication between users through various messaging channels. The messaging system supports multiple communication channels and includes a messaging module that automatically selects one or more of the messaging channels for delivering a message to a recipient of the message using, for example, a set of policy rules or a trained model. The messaging module may also provide, in a user interface for sending and receiving messages, a visual indication of the selected messaging channel to the sender of the message to provide the user with transparency about how the message will be delivered. Additionally, the message may be delivered via multiple messaging channels, where the messaging module may rescind messages from some of the messaging channels upon receiving a reply from the recipient of the message or other confirmation that the recipient has seen the message via one of the communication channels. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160050163 | Mail Data Transmission System and Transmission Method - A method of transmitting mail data includes inputting a first client terminal address to a network electronic device, assigning a mail server address to the network electronic device under a simple mail transfer protocol, inputting a second client terminal address to the network electronic device, transmitting mail data from the first client terminal address of the network electronic device to a relay server corresponding to a relay server address, transmitting the mail data to a mail server corresponding to the mail server address from the relay server, and transmitting the mail data to the second client terminal address from the mail server. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050164 | PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MAIL REPLIES - Disclosed are various embodiments for processing electronic messages and/or reply electronic messages. A contact entry associated with a user issue is created. A unique token associated with the contact entry is generated. Electronic messages sent to the user are generated with a reply-to address that incorporates the token. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050166 | EXPRESSING STATEMENTS IN MESSAGES WITH PERSONALIZED EXPRESSION STYLE - Many computing scenarios enable a user to send a message to a user expressing a statement, such as a “happy birthday” message or a “let's meet for lunch” message, and may seek assistance in composing the message. Some services may suggest stock messages, which the user may browse and select, but the generic, impersonal style of the messages may be apparent to the recipient. Presented herein are techniques for composing a message from a user to a recipient expressing a selected statement in the personalized style of the user. Such techniques involve evaluating an expression set (e.g., a mailbox or text message set) of the user to identify an expression style of the user when expressing such statements to such recipients, and composing a message that expressing the statement in the expression style of the user. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050169 | Method and System for Providing Personal Emoticons - The present invention relates to a method of providing personal emoticons by applying one or more image processing filters and/or algorithms on a self-portrait image for performing at least one of the following tasks: enhancing said provided image, recognizing the face expression, and/or emphasizing the face expression represented by the provided image, and converting said process image into one or more emoticon/s format such that the image file is standardize into a pixel array of uniform dimensions to be used as personal emoticons in one or more applications and/or operating system based platforms by a software component that allows a user to enter characters on a computer based device. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050170 | TERNIMAL DEVICE, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAM FOR MESSAGE PROCESSING - The present disclosure provides a terminal device. The terminal device includes: a communication unit configured to transmit or receive a message containing at least one of text, video and audio, through a communication network; a memory unit configured to store a plurality of message processing applications, and a message database (DB); and a control unit configured to perform a first delivering of the message, received through the communication unit, to the plurality of message processing applications through a first transmission path, and a second delivering, after a first predetermined time from said first delivering, of the received message again to a first message processing application among the plurality of message processing applications through a second transmission path. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050171 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENDING DIGITAL IMAGES - Facial recognition algorithms may identify the faces of one or more people in a digital image. Multiple types of communication may be available for the different people in the digital image. A user interface may be presented indicating recognized faces along with the available forms of communication for the corresponding person. An indication of the total number of people available to be communicated with using each form of communication may be presented. The user may have the option to choose one or more forms of communication, causing the digital image to be sent to the recipients using the selected forms of communication. An individual may have provided information for facial recognition of the individual to a service. Based on the information, the service may recognize that the individual is in an uploaded picture and send the digital image to the user account of the individual. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050172 | DIGITAL MEDIA MESSAGE GENERATION - A method of generating a digital media message includes receiving a first digital content segment via an electronic device, associating the first digital content segment with a first position in a play sequence, receiving a second digital content segment different from the first digital content segment, and receiving a third digital content segment different from the first and second digital content segments. The method also includes adding the second and third digital content segments to the play sequence such that the second digital content segment is presented simultaneously with at least one of the first and third digital content segments when the digital media message is played. Such a method further includes providing the digital media message for sharing with a remote electronic device. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050173 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS WHICH COOPERATE WITH OTHER APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An information processing apparatus is configured to transmit transmission target data to another information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display at least one object corresponding to the transmission target data together with a live view image on a display screen, and a receiving unit configured to receive an association operation for associating any one of the objects with any one of photographic subjects included in the live view image on the display screen. The information processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify another information processing apparatus associated beforehand with the photographic subject to be subjected to the association operation received by the receiving unit as a transmission destination to which the transmission target data corresponding to the object associated with the photographic subject is transmitted. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050174 | Profile-Based Message Control - A computer system includes a profile associated with one or more logic modules. Each logic module specifies a condition and a corresponding action. The profile may be applied to context data, such as messages transmitted over a network, to perform the actions specified by the logic modules in response to detecting that the context data satisfies the conditions specified by the logic modules. The profile may have an activation state, in which case the logic modules may be applied to the context data only if the profile's activation state indicates that the profile is active. One application of the system is to perform different actions (such as blocking, forwarding, deferring, and allowing) in connection with messages transmitted via different modes of communication (such as one or more of email communication, text messaging communication, and live voice call communication). | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050175 | ALERTING A MEETING PARTICIPANT TO REJOIN A VIDEOCONFERENCE - Meeting participants of a videoconference can be enabled to alert the other meeting participants that they are going to be away from or inattentive during a portion of the videoconference. For example, each meeting participant can be presented with a user interface element, such as a button, that the meeting participant can select to alert the other meeting participants that the meeting participant will be away or inattentive during a portion of the videoconference. The meeting participants can also be enabled to alert an away meeting participant to rejoin the videoconference. For example, meeting participants can be presented with a user interface element, such as a button, that can be selected to send an alert to an away meeting participant to rejoin the teleconference. A meeting participant can also select to be alerted when a specified alert trigger occurs, such as when a specified word or phrase is used. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050176 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING OR MAINTAINING A PERSONALIZED TRUSTED SOCIAL NETWORK - Automated systems and methods are provided for establishing or maintaining a personalized trusted social network for a community of users, with little or no input from any given user. To establish the personalized trusted social network, one or more trusted sources are identified for a given user. The identified trusted sources are added to a user profile for the given user. Also, identified are any annotations, bookmarks, or the like that the identified trusted sources have associated with any shared content. These annotations provide access to microcontent items that the identified trusted sources have integrated with the shared content to thereby enhance or enrich its context. One or more profiles are constructed or updated to track the associations between the identified trusted sources and their annotations. The profile information can be applied to enhance and personalize search and browsing experiences for the given user. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050177 | MANAGING DRAFTS OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS ACROSS CLIENT DEVICES - Techniques are described for managing drafts of an electronic document (e.g., an electronic note, an electronic message, an electronic calendar invitation, and/or other types of electronic documents) between client devices. Such an electronic document can be composed using different clients, such that composing the document can be continued using different clients. A draft of an electronic document can be stored by clients and/or the message management service as a metadata. A message management service can be implemented as an intermediary computing system to manage a current version of a draft in local storage when a draft is composed using a client device. The message management service can manage version information of a draft that is exists, if any, on each of the client devices. The message management service can synchronize a draft of the message with client devices when a draft is composed using a client device. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050238 | CONSOLIDATED PEER-TO-PEER MEDIA SESSIONS FOR AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS - System, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions for performing the methods are provided for facilitating electronic audio and/or video communications between multiple parties over a consolidated peer-to-peer media session. The peer-to-peer media session is consolidated in the sense that at least one of the two communications systems of the peer-to-peer media session performs media data relaying functions for at least one other communications system that is also a communications participant. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050263 | CLOUD SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING, BY CLOUD SYSTEM, CONTENT - Provided is a cloud providing a cloud service for displaying content, the cloud including: a first server configured to receive a sharing request for content, from an electronic device; a second server configured to determine whether the content is displayable on a display device connected to the cloud, based on a type of a file format of the content; a third server configured to render the content and generate an image file from the rendered content, when it is determined that the content is not displayable; and a fourth server configured to control display of one of the content and the image file on the display device. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160055456 | OUT-OF-OFFICE NOTIFICATION MECHANISM FOR EMAIL CLIENTS - A method for an out-of-office message notification system to notify at least one sender who has sent an email in a pre-defined time span prior to a start time associated with an out-of-office notification being set by a user is provided. The method may include identifying an unresponded email within a plurality of unresponded emails in an inbox received within the predefined time span prior to the start time associated with the out-of-office notification being set by a user. The method may also include sending an out-of-office message notification to the sender associated with the unresponded email. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057053 | Light-Weight Fork Channels for Clustering - A method for light-weight fork channels for clustering is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a processing device, a message at a main channel used for group communication between processes executed by the processing device, identifying a fork channel identifier (ID) and a fork stack ID in a header of the message, processing the message with a fork stack corresponding to the fork stack ID in the header of the message, the fork stack comprising a subset of protocols of a main protocol stack of the main channel, and providing the message to a fork channel corresponding to the fork channel ID, wherein the fork channel to utilize the fork stack to separate messages for the fork channel from the main channel. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057082 | OUT-OF-OFFICE NOTIFICATION MECHANISM FOR EMAIL CLIENTS - A method for an out-of-office message notification system to notify at least one sender who has sent an email in a pre-defined time span prior to a start time associated with an out-of-office notification being set by a user is provided. The method may include identifying an unresponded email within a plurality of unresponded emails in an inbox received within the pre-defined time span prior to the start time associated with the out-of-office notification being set by a user. The method may also include sending an out-of-office message notification to the sender associated with the unresponded email. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL INTERACTION - In one aspect, at least one processor may receive a first user input and identify one or more first keywords from the first user input to determine one or more previously recorded outputs corresponding to the first keywords. The previously recorded outputs may correspond to a virtual character, such as a celebrity. Further, the at least one processor may select one of the determined previously recorded outputs and output the selected previously recorded output corresponding to the virtual character. The at least one processor may also identify one or more second keywords from at least the first user input, temporarily store the second keywords in memory in association with at least one portion of the user input, receive a second user input, and determine another previously recorded output based at least in part on the temporarily stored keywords associated with the first user input. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057084 | LOCATION-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE - A communication system comprises a server for receiving one or more requests or messages from one or more location-enabled user devices. The server typically stores the requests and retrieve them based on location information stored along with the requests. The server notifies a user when another user transmits a message while near or at one of the user's previous requests. In some instances, the users may be customers and providers. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057086 | Method and System for Cross Device Notification - Method and system for cross device notification (CDN) are provided. An incoming event is received at a first device associated with a user. The first device detects one or more active devices associated with the user other than the first device. Whether the user reacts to the incoming event is detected on the first device. Whether a CDN is needed is determined based on whether the one or more active devices are detected and/or whether the user reacts to the event within a predetermined time period. If a CDN is needed, the CDN is generated and transmitted to the one or more active devices. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057087 | PROCESSING MEDIA MESSAGES BASED ON THE CAPABILITIES OF THE RECEIVING DEVICE - When a user requests to send a media message to a contact, a sending device retrieves the device parameter of a receiving device used by the contact to receive messages. Based on the retrieved device parameters, the sending device processes a media file to be included with the media message. The sending device processes the media file to reduce the size of the media file and for the media file not to exceed the display capabilities of the receiving device. The sending device sends the media message with the processed media file to the receiving device of the contact via a messaging system. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057088 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for transmitting information. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for transmitting information, comprising: creating an activity in response to having received inputted information from a user U; looking up a first number of users matching the activity in contact information of the user U; adding the first number of users into a candidate list; transmitting a notification of the activity to users in the candidate list; wherein the contact information comprises at least one address book through which the user U communicates with a plurality of other users via at least one communication channel. In other embodiments of the present invention, there is further provided apparatuses for transmitting information. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057089 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Blind-Carbon-Copy Account Replies in E-Mail Communications - A apparatus and method for managing blind-carbon-copy replies in e-mail communications includes an electronic computing device configured to detect | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057090 | DISPLAYING PRIVATE INFORMATION ON PERSONAL DEVICES - A computing device is described that includes one or more processors and at least one module operable by the one or more processors to determine whether the computing device is currently designated to display private information, receive an incoming communication, responsive to determining that the incoming communication includes private information, determine whether one or more individuals other than a user to whom the incoming communication is directed are proximate to the first computing device, and, responsive to determining that one or more individuals other than the user to whom the incoming communication is directed are proximate to the first computing device, determine, based on a type of the first computing device, whether to display private information. The at least one module is further operable by the one or more processors to, responsive to determining to display the private information, output, for display, an indication of the incoming communication. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057092 | Event-Based Comment Grouping for Content Items - A method for event-based comment grouping for content items is disclosed. The method includes identifying comments corresponding to a content item, the comments comprising playback timestamp information transformed into selectable links to access a corresponding portion of the content item during playback of the content item, dividing the content item into a plurality of time interval segments, grouping the received comments into the time interval segments based on the playback timestamp information of each comment, selecting a time interval segment of the time interval segments, and providing comments corresponding to the selected time interval segment for display during playback of the content item. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057095 | Methods and Systems for Providing Current Email Addresses and Contact Information for Members within a Social Network - Methods and systems for providing current email addresses or contact information to members within a social network are described. In one described method, an email program application requests an email address for a member within a social network. Using profile information associated with the member, the email address is provided to the email program application which sent the request. The email address is then entered into the send-to parameter field of an email message. In another described method, contact information associated with a first member of a social can be provided to a second member of the social network. The contact information is provided if the relationship between the first and second members is an authorized relationship. The contact information associated with the first member can be used to update the contact information for the first member in an electronic address book associated with the second member. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057096 | MOBILE SOCIAL INTERACTION - A question associated with a first user may be obtained. A search link may be determined based on content of the first question. A response may be obtained. Updates to a content graph may be initiated, including an addition of a question node and a first link indicating asking of the question by the first user, and an addition of a response node and a second link indicating an answer relationship between the question and the response, and a third link indicating answering of the question from a second user, the second user associated with the first user via a friend link indicating a friend connection relationship between nodes associated with the first user and the second user. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057097 | Controlling Notification Based on Power Expense and Social Factors - In one embodiment, a computer system determines a wireless transmit cost for each of one or more outgoing messages for a first user, and transmits to the first user's mobile device at least one of the one or more outgoing messages based on the mobile device's power state and respective wireless transmit costs of the one or more outgoing messages. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160065506 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM WITH COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A communication device includes an acceptance section, a mail data generating section, and a transmission section. The acceptance section is configured to accept a plurality of destination addresses and a mail text to be sent to the plurality of destination addresses. The mail data generating section is configured to generate, for every one of the plurality of destination addresses, mail data that contains the mail text, destination information indicating the one of the plurality of destination addresses as a destination, and destination address list information which indicates a list of the plurality of destination addresses arranged in order and in which the one destination address is placed higher in order than when accepted by the acceptance section. The transmission section is configured to send the mail data generated by the mail data generating section. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065507 | ANONYMOUS SOLICITATION OF A RESPONSE TO A USER-ASSOCIATED QUESTION - In one embodiment, a message may be received from an initiating user over a computer network including an indication of a target user selected by the initiating user and of a plurality of other users selected by the initiating user. A message is then sent to the target user over the computer network prompting the target user to indicate a level of the target user's romantic interest toward each of the initiating user and the plurality of other users. Next, an indication of the target user's romantic interest toward each of the initiating user and the plurality of other users is received over the computer network. Then, a message is sent to the initiating user over the computer network notifying the initiating user of the target user's romantic interest toward the initiating user. Other user-associated questions/responses may also be used, thus anonymously soliciting the responses in a similar manner. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065508 | System And Method For Identifying An Expert - According to one embodiment, a system includes an interface, a memory, and a processor. The interface receives, from a first device associated with a requesting user, a request. The requesting user is associated with an enterprise group. The enterprise group comprises a plurality of users. The memory is operable to store e-mail information for each of the plurality of users in the enterprise group. A processor is communicatively coupled to the interface and the memory and is operable to determine, based on the request and the e-mail information, one or more expert users in the enterprise group to provide a response to the request. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065510 | SCHEMA-BASED DYNAMIC PARSE/BUILD ENGINE FOR PARSING MULTI-FORMAT MESSAGES - A parse/build engine that can handle multi-format financial messages. The engine converts the different format messages into a common format, and the common format message is then processed by the business service application. A parser examines the message and determines an appropriate schema for the particular format of message received. The schema is a data structure in a schema registry that includes a grammar structure for the received format as well as pointers to handlers for converting the different fields of the message into the internal message format using the grammar structure (the “grammar” can include field sequence, field type, length, character encoding, optional and required fields, etc.). The handlers are individually compiled. As formats change, new formats or changes to old formats can be dynamically added to the parse/build engine by loading new schema and handlers. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065511 | DISPLAYING EMAIL ATTACHMENTS ON A WEBMAIL PAGE - Disclosed are a method and a system for displaying email attachments on a webmail page. An email server receives a request for pending email messages from a communication device associated with an email receiver. The email server retrieves from an email database pending email messages having a destination address designating the email receiver. Some of pending email messages include email attachments. The email server sends a trigger to the communication device. The trigger includes information instrumental in causing the communication device to display a webmail page viewable by the email receiver. This webmail page shows several lines of pending email messages. Each line shows an identity of a sender and a title of a pending email message. For an email message having an email attachment, the line also shows a thumbnail representative of the email attachment. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065514 | E-MAIL SERVER, VIDEO TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR SENDING VIDEO E-MAIL - A video terminal configured to be connectable with an e-mail server and a communication server, the video terminal stores the text content input by a user, communicates with a plurality of terminals by the video communication, receives video of each terminal. The video terminal selects a edition format from a plurality of edition format, and transmits the text content, videos and the selected edition format to an e-mail server. A method of sending video e-mail applied in video terminal is also provided. An e-mail server and a method of sending video e-mail applied in e-mail server are also provided. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065515 | PROVIDING CENTRALIZED MESSAGE NOTIFICATION - A mechanism for providing centralized message notification for user interface. disclosed. A method includes intercepting a plurality of message notifications. The plurality of message notifications are generated in an operating system and an application. The method also includes comparing content of a message corresponding to one of the plurality of message notifications with a plurality of regexp based rules. Each of the regexp based rules comprise a condition that is regexp based. When the content of the message matches with a matching regexp based rule of the plurality of regexp based rules, determining whether the condition in the matching regexp based rule is associated with a black list rule. The black list rule comprises excluding one or more of the message notifications among the plurality of message notifications indicated by a user to be displayed at a user device. The method further includes preventing the one of the plurality of message notifications to be displayed at the user device when the condition in the regexp based rule is associated with the black list rule. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065517 | DYNAMIC FILTER GENERATION FOR MESSAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Filtering rules for incoming messages can be dynamically generated by a message management service based on patterns in the user's behavior. The message management service can analyze event records associating user actions with features of messages to detect correlations between message features and resulting actions, including correlations across multiple messaging accounts belonging to the same user. Based on correlations, the message management service can provide a suggested rule to the user's client device, and the user can accept or decline the suggestion. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065518 | TRANSMITTAL OF BLOCKED MESSAGE NOTIFICATION - A method according to one embodiment is for transmitting a message. In one embodiment, one or more processor of a messaging system identifies a certain message of the messaging system, the certain message being a blocked message intended for transmission to a certain user of the messaging system. In one embodiment, the one or more processor further determines one or more of a popularity of content of the certain message and a relevance of content of the certain message to the certain user, the certain user being a prospective recipient of a message. In one embodiment, the one or more processor transmits a message to the certain user responsively to a result of the determining of the one or more of a popularity of content of the certain message and a relevance of content of the certain message to the certain user of the messaging system. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065519 | CONTEXT-AWARE AGGREGATION OF TEXT-BASED MESSAGES - For automatically aggregating text-based messages together based on context, an apparatus for automatically identifying a topic of a reply message and associating the reply message with a conversation thread based on the topic is disclosed. The apparatus may include a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor, including code that identifies a messaging conversation between two or more messaging devices, code that determines a topic of a reply message in the messaging conversation, and code that associates the message with a conversation thread based on the topic. In one embodiment, the apparatus examines active applications on a messaging device composing the message and determines the topic based on the active applications. In one embodiment, the apparatus identifies an unanswered question and determines whether the reply message answers the unanswered question. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065522 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NETWORK DOMAINS IN A SERVICE CLOUD - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, and methods for integrating a service console application by providing communication between a first and second network domain. In various implementations, first data is received at a second network domain, where the first data includes one or more functions. A first message may be received at the second network domain, the first message being provided at the second network domain in response to the one or more functions being invoked, and the message identifying the one or more functions. Responsive to receiving the message, the one or more functions may be executed at a computing device associated with the second network domain. Responsive to executing the one or more functions, a second message may be sent to the first domain indicating that the one or more functions have been executed, where the second message is operable to invoke and execute one or more call back functions. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065523 | METHOD FOR REAL-TIME LOCATION BASED CLOSE QUARTERS INTRODUCTIONS - A method for making introductions between consenting members of an online community based on the real time physical location of the consenting members. The method allows members to digitally communicate with strangers they meet whilst performing their daily activities and then the members can decide whether to follow up the digital communication with a face to face interaction. This method eliminates the awkwardness and the risks associated When an individual has an interest in introducing themselves to a stranger that they come across. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065524 | Systems and Methods for Temporarily Postponing Messages - A method postpones an electronic message displayed for a user of a computing device. The user provides input to postpone the electronic message. Postponement options are displayed for the user. The user selects one of the options. Display of the message at the computing device is inhibited accordingly. One option enables a user to repeat the most recently selected postponement option. Another option postpones the message until the computing device is at a user-designated location. Another option inhibits display of the message at the computing device, but enables display of the message at another user-specified second computing device. Some postponement options are generated according to context of the electronic message, such as the content of the electronic message, the date or time when the user requested the postponement, or prior history of user-selected postponements. Some options are based on a sampling of postponement options selected by a plurality of users. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065526 | CONVEY MESSAGE ANONYMOUSLY AND DISCREETLY - Convey Message Anonymously and Discreetly is an exclusive social network that allows people to connect with others, recognize their actions and offer genuine advice to members in the network. It achieves this by granting users the option of mentioning the place, time and describing the individual, and event in detail. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065527 | Systems and Methods for Triggering Redisplay of a Postponed Message - A method of postponing an electronic message is performed at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. The device displays a first electronic message for a user of the computing device and receives user input to postpone the first electronic message. In response to the user input, the device displays a plurality of postponement locations in a user interface window and receives user selection of a postponement location from the displayed plurality of postponement locations. The device then inhibits display of the first electronic message at the computing device. When it is subsequently determined that the computing device is at the first postponement location, the device redisplays the first electronic message. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065528 | PROVIDING NOTIFICATION PERTAINING TO MESSAGE BASED ON MESSAGE TYPE - in one aspect, a device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive a first message, identify at least a first type of message to which the first message pertains, and determine whether to provide a notification at the device pertaining to the first message based on the identification. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065530 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXPIRING MESSAGES IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - The present disclosure includes systems and methods for off-the-record communication including expiring messages. An example method comprises receiving an electronic communication from a source device, the electronic communication including at least one expiring message, temporarily storing content of the expiring message in a non-durable memory for a predetermined amount of time, durably storing envelope information associated with the expiring message in a durable memory, and determining whether a recipient device for the expiring message is available to accept transmission of the expiring message and determining whether an expiration event has occurred. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065532 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE ASSOCIATIVE ROUTING FOR MOBILE MESSAGING - In an example implementation of the disclosed technology, a method includes assigning a computing device to a region associated with a region server that comprises a plurality of region server instances. The method also includes generating device-to-region mapping and transmitting a replica of the device-to-region mapping to a messaging server instance and connection server instance. Further, the method includes receiving local device connection information comprising connection information relating the computing device and the connection server instance. The method also includes outputting the local device connection information to the plurality of region server instances. Additionally, the method includes receiving a message for delivery to the computing device and, responsive to accessing the local device connection information, transmitting the message to the connection server instance identified by the local device connection information. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065645 | Method And System For Publishing An Electronic File Attached To An Electronic Message - An aspect for communicating content for delivery to a device to receive an electronic message having an attached electronic file includes receiving the attached electronic file at the device. The attached electronic file contains instructions for accessing the content. Responsive to an input signal indicating a request to access the attached electronic file, an address of a remote device that hosts the content is obtained, a viewing program is executed at the device, and a launch control icon via a toolbar of the viewing program is provided. Responsive to selection of the launch control icon, the content is obtained for delivery to a recipient of the electronic message using the address of the remote device to establish a connection with the remote device. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065657 | MESSAGE AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION PROCESSING - A method and system for processing a message and subscription information is provided. Subscription information is obtained and parsed into a first set of predicates, whereby these predicates are not repetitive. One or more tree structures for the predicates and the subscription information are constructed based on possibilities of the predicates in hitting a message. The possibility of the predicate for a lower internal node in the tree structure hitting the message is higher than that of an upper internal node. Each of the subscription information corresponds to one leaf node in one tree structure, and each of the subscription information corresponds to all information of the predicates in a branch of the leaf node in the tree structure thereof from the root node. The one or more tree structures for matching with the message are stored. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160071060 | PROACTIVE OUT OF OFFICE NOTIFICATION - In an approach to out of office notification, one or more computer processors receive an electronic communication from a sender to a recipient. The one or more computer processors determine an organization associated with the recipient. The one or more computer processors determine whether an organization timing rule for out of office notification exists for the organization. Responsive to determining an organization timing rule for out of office notification exists, the one or more computer processors determine whether the recipient has a planned absence. The one or more computer processors determine whether the recipient's planned absence meets a requirement of the organization timing rule. Responsive to determining the recipient's planned absence meets a requirement of the organization timing rule, the one or more computer processors send an out of office notification to the sender. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072736 | PROACTIVE OUT OF OFFICE NOTIFICATION - In an approach to out of office notification, one or more computer processors receive an electronic communication from a sender to a recipient. The one or more computer processors determine an organization associated with the recipient. The one or more computer processors determine whether an organization timing rule for out of office notification exists for the organization. Responsive to determining an organization timing rule for out of office notification exists, the one or more computer processors determine whether the recipient has a planned absence. The one or more computer processors determine whether the recipient's planned absence meets a requirement of the organization timing rule. Responsive to determining the recipient's planned absence meets a requirement of the organization timing rule, the one or more computer processors send an out of office notification to the sender. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072737 | APP POWERED EXTENSIBILITY OF MESSAGES ON AN EXISTING MESSAGING SERVICE - An instant messaging (IM) service interacts with IM clients operating on computing devices to implement an extensible platform with which individual composer applications (“apps”) may interact to support a variety of different messaging user experiences for users of respective local and remote devices. Each IM client exposes an application programming interface for utilization by a local composer app to package content that the IM service then transparently transports to a remote device. An IM client on the remote device provides the package to an identified associated remote composer app that can unpack the content and use it to support the app's customized messaging experience for the remote user. The composer app also provides a preview of the experience supported by the packaged content that the clients on the respective local and remote devices may utilize in a messaging history and/or as a launching point to the composer app's user experience. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072739 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLAYING MULTIMEDIA FILES - Playing multimedia files includes determining an instant messaging scenario type associated with an instant messaging session, locating multimedia file information that matches the scenario type, and sending the multimedia file information to at least one instant messaging terminal of a plurality of instant messaging terminals participating in the instant messaging session to trigger the at least one instant messaging terminal to play a multimedia file based on the multimedia file information. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072740 | Dynamic Invites With Automatically Adjusting Displays - Methods, devices, systems, and non-transitory processor-readable storage media for providing a collaboration tool for soliciting responses from users, including operations for receiving at a computing device a request from a user, transmitting to a plurality of computing devices an invitation message that causes the plurality of computing devices to render a display that solicits a response to the request, receiving a response message related to the request from at least one of the plurality of computing devices, evaluating the received response message to determine whether the received response message fulfills the request, and transmitting to the plurality of computing devices a cancellation message in response to determining that the received response message fulfills the request, the cancellation message configured to cause the plurality of computing devices to perform operations to automatically clean-up the display that solicits the response to the request. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072741 | METADATA BASED USER DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS - A system includes a user device and a controller device. The user device is configured to receive messages via user interface components associated with a user interface, analyze, based on receiving the messages, the messages, generate metadata values based on analyzing the messages, and provide the messages and the metadata values to the controller device, via the user interface. The controller device is configured to receive the messages and the metadata values from the user device, via the user interface, receive profile information associated with the user device from a database server device, identify recipient user devices for the messages based on the metadata values and based on the profile information, and cause the messages to be provided to the recipient user devices. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072743 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL OF MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS IN A MESSAGE CONVERSATION - The present disclosure provides for an end-user communication device of a messaging system configured to identify messages exchanged during a message conversation. Responsive to selection of one or more data files, the device retrieves the one or more selected data files from a local memory of the device or from a server of the messaging system. Optionally, the messages may be identified in response to a request to add one or more new recipients in a reply to a message of a message conversation and selected data files may be forwarded to the new recipients. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072744 | AUTOMATIC SHARING OF MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS ACROSS MULTIPLE SYSTEMS - Provided are techniques for automatic sharing of message attachments across multiple systems. A message that identifies message recipients by their target addresses and includes an attachment is received. Each of the target addresses is mapped to one or more common file servers. It is determined which of the one or more common file servers is to be used for each of the message recipients by grouping message recipients that use a same common file server. For each of the grouped message recipients, a modified message is created by creating copy of the message that adds an attachment link for use in accessing the attachment from the same common file server. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072745 | AUTOMATIC SHARING OF MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS ACROSS MULTIPLE SYSTEMS - Provided are techniques for automatic sharing of message attachments across multiple systems. A message that identifies message recipients by their target addresses and includes an attachment is received. Each of the target addresses is mapped to one or more common file servers. It is determined which of the one or more common file servers is to be used for each of the message recipients by grouping message recipients that use a same common file server. For each of the grouped message recipients, a modified message is created by creating copy of the message that adds an attachment link for use in accessing the attachment from the same common file server. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072746 | E-Mail Proxy - In one embodiment, a method for processing an e-mail message addressed to an e-mail client is disclosed. The method comprises receiving at a mail server an e-mail message addressed to the e-mail client, the e-mail message including an attachment which is characterized by a size; reducing the size of the attachment to create a reduced size attachment; preparing a formatted message, which includes the reduced size attachment and a link to the attachment, wherein the attachment is downloadable from the mail server using the link; and delivering the formatted message to the e-mail client for display on a computational device. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072747 | Automated spam filter updating by tracking user navigation - An email filter updating system includes a tracking component, and a logic component. The tracking component is provided to track user navigation. This tracking compiles information about websites the user has visited and presumably may “trust” in the event an email associated with one such site or application is later received by the user's email application. The logic component uses information and a set of configurable rule-based criteria to output a characterization that a particular email message has been initiated from a site that the user has visited or should otherwise trust. The characterization is then provided to the email filter to control whether in-bound email is passed to the user's email client inbox. Further, the logic component is operative to generate filter update commands that update the email filter in an automated manner, i.e., without user input. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072749 | Automated spam filter updating by tracking user navigation - An email filter updating system includes a tracking component, and a logic component. The tracking component is provided to track user navigation. This tracking compiles information about websites the user has visited and presumably may “trust” in the event an email associated with one such site or application is later received by the user's email application. The logic component uses information and a set of configurable rule-based criteria to output a characterization that a particular email message has been initiated from a site that the user has visited or should otherwise trust. The characterization is then provided to the email filter to control whether in-bound email is passed to the user's email client inbox. Further, the logic component is operative to generate filter update commands that update the email filter in an automated manner, i.e., without user input. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072750 | DIGITAL COLLABORATION PROCESS ENABLEMENT TOOL - A collaboration system provides a combination of technical features to address complex collaboration between geographically distributed teams. The collaboration system implements follow and notify functionality, monitor and engage functionality, and capture functionality. The collaboration system may, for instance, tailor data flows and notifications of significant workflow events via a dynamically tuned subscription model. The system may also create a digital collaboration workspace supported by automation and machine learning functionality. In addition, the system may create documentation of collaboration with automatic recommendation of metadata tags to support search and cataloging of the documentation. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072751 | TRACKING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - A method of tracking electronic content includes producing a file of electronic content and executable instructions that collect notification information and attempt to transmit the notification information to an address when triggered by an event. The executable instructions deny access to the electronic content until the notification information is transmitted successfully. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072752 | FILTERING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES BASED ON DOMAIN ATTRIBUTES WITHOUT REPUTATION - A messaging application filters electronic messages based on domain attributes without a reputation. A message with a uniform resource identifier (URI) is received and determined to not be included within a trusted or a block list. A total score is computed from weighted scores assigned to factors associated with the message. The message is evaluated for an unsolicited message determination by comparing the total score against a predetermined threshold. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072755 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A MESSAGE THREAD ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes receiving a new message and providing instructions to a client device for collapsing at least one of one or more previously received messages when the number of messages reaches a number at which it is desirable to collapse the message thread. The method also includes providing instructions for appending a new message to the message thread. The method may also include instructions for providing one or more collapse or expand controls for managing message threads. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072756 | Updating a Sender of an Electronic Communication on a Disposition of a Recipient Toward Content of the Electronic Communication - Determining a disposition of an electronic communication recipient is provided. An electronic communication is received from a sender. The electronic communication is sent to a recipient. Then, captured biometric data is received corresponding to the recipient of the electronic communication indicating the disposition of the recipient toward the content of the electronic communication while the recipient was perceiving the electronic communication. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072757 | System and method for managing messages based on user rank - Messages are sent to multiple addressees in an organization. Responses are correlated to the rank of the responding recipient in the organization, to assist the senders of messages to identify which responses to read. Receipt of the messages is acknowledged before the message can be fully read. Responses to the messages include a selection of a user status from a preset choice of statuses, and may include other response attributes required or offered by the sender of the message. The locations of responding and non-responding addressees of messages can be mapped. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072758 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, a social networking system identifies a user viewing video content on a first display device, identifies the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determines a second display device associated with the identified user. The social networking system sends one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display one or more chat messages associated with the identified video content. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072902 | ASSOCIATION OF AN EMOTIONAL INFLUENCER TO A POST IN A SOCIAL MEDIUM - A method for associating an emotional influencer to a post may include determining, by a processor, an emotional baseline for a user and detecting, by the processor, a post by the user on a social medium. The method may also include analyzing the content of the post to determine an emotion of the user based on the content of the post and determining a difference between the emotion of the user associated with the post and the emotional baseline of the user. The method may additionally include determining an emotional influencer of the post in response to the difference between the emotion of the user associated with the post and the emotional baseline of the user exceeding a preset threshold. The method may further include tagging the emotional influencer to the post based on the emotional influencer being related to the post. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160072906 | HYBRID TAG MATCHING - A method for communication includes posting, by a software process, a set of buffers in a memory of a host processor and creating in the memory a list of labels associated respectively with the buffers. The software process pushes a first part of the list to a network interface controller (NIC), while retaining a second part of the list in the memory under control of the software process. Upon receiving a message containing a label, sent over a network, the NIC compares the label to the labels in the first part of the list and, upon finding a match to the label, writes data conveyed by the message to a buffer in the memory. Upon a failure to find the match in the first part of the list, the NIC passes the message from the NIC to the software process for handling using the second part of the list. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160080291 | MESSAGE RECIPIENT INDICATOR - For preventing messages from being sent to an unintended recipient, an apparatus for indicating a message recipient is disclosed. The apparatus may include a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor, including code that identifies an active messaging interface from among a plurality of messaging interfaces, identifies a correspondent associated with the active messaging interface, and temporarily provides a message recipient cue based on the identified correspondent in response to a user writing to the active messaging interface. The apparatus may remove the message recipient cue in response to expiration of a predetermined interval. The apparatus may further retrieve the visual indicator from a local database, a server, and/or the identified recipient. Additionally, the apparatus may identify the active messaging interface based on a viewing location and/or on a cursor location. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080294 | COORDINATED DEEP TAGGING OF MEDIA CONTENT WITH COMMUNITY CHAT POSTINGS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to deep tagging of media content and provide a method, system and computer program product for coordinating deep tagging of media content with chat postings. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for coordinating deep tagging of media content with chat postings can be provided. The method can include monitoring a group chat of participants co-browsing media content, identifying a token in the group chat appearing a threshold number of times within a temporal window, and creating a deep tag in the media content in association with a portion of the media content played back concurrently with the temporal window. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080298 | METHOD FOR GENERATING EMOTICON AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - Disclosed are a method for generating an emoticon and an electronic device supporting the same. The method includes dividing content into multiple image regions; extracting an image region corresponding to designated text among the multiple image regions; and generating an emoticon by using the extracted image region. Therefore, various emoticons, which are automatically generated by using various pieces of content, can be interestingly used. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080300 | NET- BASED EMAIL FILTERING - A local gateway device receives email across the internet from a sender of the email and forwards it across the internet to an email filtering system. The email filtering system analyzes the email to determine whether it is spam, phishing or contains a virus and sends it back to the local gateway device along with the filtered determination. The local gateway device forwards the received email and the filtered determination to a local junk store which handles the email appropriately. For example, if the email has been determined to be spam, phishing or containing a virus, the junk store can quarantine the email and if the email has been determined to be non-spun and/or not phishing and/or not containing a virus, the junk store can forward the email to a local mail server for delivery. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080301 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF RESTRICTING EMAIL VIEWING, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A processor acquires feature information of a target email, among email that has already been transmitted from the information processing apparatus, the target email specified by an operation of a user of the information processing apparatus as email to be restricted from viewing-access by a user of a receiving-side apparatus. The processor transmits feature information of the target email to an apparatus that receives information for identifying a removal target for a security measure system. The target email is designated as a removal target by the security measure system for the receiving-side apparatus. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080302 | Cooperative Session-Based Filtering - Various embodiments provide session-based filtering to filter messages in a cooperative manner between a client and a service provider. In at least some embodiments, a service provider can establish a messaging session with a client and deliver messages to the client. The client can implement various client-side techniques to filter some of the messages based on various client designated criteria. The service provider can obtain feedback from the client indicative of one or more of the delivered messages that have been filtered. The service provider can dynamically create a session-based list based on the feedback and use the list during the session to block messages on the server-side according to the client designated criteria. When the session concludes, the session-based list can be discarded. In this manner, message filtering can occur without persistent storage of state data for the filtering at the service provider. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080303 | DETERMINING TOPIC RELEVANCE OF AN EMAIL THREAD - A method for determining topic relevance of an email thread with an electronic device is described. The method includes removing redundancy from email messages in an email thread, grouping a number of email threads into a number of email clusters, identifying high information gain terms for each email cluster, identifying topic terms for each email cluster from the high information gain terms and determining a relevance of the number of email threads in an email cluster based on the topic terms for the email cluster and a threshold number of email messages in an email thread. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080304 | ORGANIZING MESSAGES INTO CONVERSATION THREADS - A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080307 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC BLOGGING AND SOCIAL GROUP INTERACTIONS - A system that supports automatic blogging as well as social group interactions comprises a mobile device with a client application that is communicatively coupled over Internet to an interaction management server capable of facilitating message distribution to social groups as well as blogging of messages selectively. The client application of the mobile device comprises a message creation module that facilitates creation of a message by a user of the mobile device, a social group interaction module that communicates the message to a social group managed by the interaction management server coupled to the mobile device, and a blogging module that communicates the message as a first blog entry to blog page managed by the interaction management server. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080308 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR ENRICHING MICROBLOG PAGE - The present disclosure discloses methods, systems and devices providing enriched message on a microblog page. The methods include providing the microblog page on a terminal of a user, the page being displayed in a timeline format; and providing an enriched message associated with an interactive application in the timeline, wherein the enriched message is configured to direct the terminal to present the interactive application in the timeline when the user clicks the enriched message. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080310 | INTEGRATION OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC DATA FOR DATABASE ENTITIES AND THE UNIFIED PRESENTATION THEREOF - A method is disclosed for presenting static and dynamic data corresponding to an entity within an application on a mobile device. An entity object is created as part of a data model within the application such that the entity object has a plurality of fields with the plurality of fields having static data corresponding to the entity. Based on the static data corresponding to the entity, dynamic data corresponding to the entity is received into the entity object from at least one of a plurality of applications executable within the mobile device. The static and dynamic data from the entity object corresponding to the entity is displayed simultaneously within a user interface of the application in a single presentation view. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080311 | PERSONAL MESSAGE DEVICE AND METHOD - A system for providing patients with dementia or other cognitive impairment with instructions and reminders of tasks to enable them to live with minimum third party oversight. The system provides for a continuous display of viewable indicia of at least one of text or images to provide the patient messages. The messages may be generated by a remote third party or software running on a computer. Employing the system, a remote user such as the child of a patient can provide instruction and reminders to the patient allowing them to live with minimal supervision. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080508 | DIRECT RESPONSE AND FEEDBACK SYSTEM - The invention provides methods and systems for analyzing and routing items in a social media stream. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080512 | DATABASE TRIGGERED PUSH NOTIFICATION - Systems and methods of database triggered push notification are disclosed. In one aspect, data from a database entity is cached in response to executing user service request at a client session, where the service request involves information from the database entity. In response to caching the data from the database entity, the client session subscribing to a messaging channel dedicated to the database entity. In another aspect, a message is generated as a result of invoking a trigger by an operation in the database entity. In yet another aspect, the message is transported by the messaging channel to the subscribed client session to invoke refresh of the cached data. A push notification is sent to the client in response to the message. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRESENTING MEDIA CONTENT - A method includes monitoring media content at media content locations to identify media content items. The media content locations are identified in social network data stored by a set-top box device. The method includes receiving, at the set-top box device, a command to present image cells to a display device. The command is responsive to an alert sent from the set-top box device. The method also includes presenting the image cells at the display device. At least one of the image cells includes an image corresponding to an identified media content item. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160086501 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GATING NOTIFICATIONS - System and methods of gating notifications for content objects of an electronic learning platform are described herein. The notification may be conditioned on whether the content object is available to a user receiving the notification, or the state of the content object, for example. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087919 | AUTOMATED MESSAGING SYSTEM SURVIVOR - An automated messaging system for distributing personalized messages of a deceased user to particular recipients on particular dates. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087920 | MANAGING INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS ON MULTIPLE DEVICES - Transferring instant messaging sessions includes receiving a selection, from a user within a user interface, of at least one instant messaging session from among multiple instant messaging sessions to transfer from a first instant messaging controller on a first device to at 5 least a second instant messaging controller on a second device, where the user is signed on concurrently to the first instant messaging controller on the first device and the second instant messaging controller on the second device. At least a portion of the selected instant messaging session is transferred from the first instant messaging controller on the first device to the second instant messaging controller on the second device and the transferred portion of 10 the instant messaging session is made perceivable on the second instant messaging controller on the second device. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087921 | METHOD FOR TRACKING AND ROUTING FINANCIAL MESSAGES FOR MOBILE DEVICES - The present disclosure provides a financial messaging apparatus configured to encapsulate and transmit a financial message along with actions to a mobile device. The actions relate to rules that are associated with characteristics of the financial message. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087922 | SELECTIVE MESSAGE REPUBLISHING TO SUBSCRIBER SUBSETS IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE MODEL - According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for selectively resending a first message in a publish-subscribe message distribution model is provided. The method may include receiving the first message having a first message ID associated with the first message. The method may include sending the first message to a plurality of subscribers. The method may include receiving a rolled back first message. The method may include determining if the first message ID matches a second message ID associated with a second message. The method may include creating a first subscriber list associated with the first message. The method may include storing the first message in a data structure. The method may include appending a second subscriber list associated with the second message with a subscriber. The method may include sending the second message to the first subscriber or the first message to the first subscriber. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087923 | SELECTIVE MESSAGE REPUBLISHING TO SUBSCRIBER SUBSETS IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE MODEL - According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for selectively resending a first message in a publish-subscribe message distribution model is provided. The method may include receiving the first message having a first message ID associated with the first message. The method may include sending the first message to a plurality of subscribers. The method may include receiving a rolled back first message. The method may include determining if the first message ID matches a second message ID associated with a second message. The method may include creating a first subscriber list associated with the first message. The method may include storing the first message in a data structure. The method may include appending a second subscriber list associated with the second message with a subscriber. The method may include sending the second message to the first subscriber or the first message to the first subscriber. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMAIL MESSAGE FOLLOWING FROM A USER'S INBOX - Disclosed is a system and method for email management. The disclosed systems and methods enable a user to follow messages and message conversations based on, but not limited to, a context of the received messages, content included in the messages, the sender of the messages, intended recipients of the message, and the like. Therefore, the present disclosure describes systems and methods for enabling a recipient user to follow messages, topics or other users from the recipient user's inbox. Accordingly, followed topics or messages from followed users can be grouped into message conversations within the recipient user's inbox. Whenever there is an update in a followed conversation, the recipient user will be notified. By determining which messages a user desires to follow, the disclosed systems and methods can identify the interests of users by leveraging information from the followed messages for advertising purposes. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087925 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTO-FORMATTING MESSAGES BASED ON LEARNED MESSAGE TEMPLATES - The present disclosure describes systems and methods for email management that leverages information derived from a sender's message activity with particular recipients in order to automatically format subsequent messages to those recipients according to the derived information. The present disclosure describes determining message templates associated with messages sent to repetitive recipients, and applying those determined templates upon composition of subsequent messages to the same recipients. Message templates comprise information associated with a message's settings, layout, message content, content type(s), a message type and the like. The determination of message templates and template information for application to messages being composed can be based on learned expressions and/or patterns from a sender's message activity or behavior. Additionally, the message templates can be utilized for monetization purposes in order to serve targeted advertisements when communicating with repetitive recipient users. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087926 | DATA STORAGE METHOD AND MAIL RELAY METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEM IN MAIL SYSTEM - In a mail system, the present invention implements a mail gateway that prevents data from being lost when a server fails and provides high delivery capability. In a mail system, the mail delivery performance of the mail gateway is increased by the communication method and data storage method used between the mail gateway and storage systems. More specifically, the mail gateway and storage system maintain a mail, which should be maintained by the mail gateway, in the volatile memory of the mail gateway and storage system. The mail that may be lost by a failure and important data such as accounting information are written in the nonvolatile memory of the storage system. In addition, the storage system processes multiple accesses to the nonvolatile memory at a time to speedily write data into the nonvolatile memory. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087927 | EVENT NOTIFICATION - In an approach to event notification, one or more computer processors determine a baseline for a volume of activity on a social media website in a geographic location. One or more computer processors determine whether a deviation from the baseline for the volume of activity occurs. Responsive to determining a deviation from the baseline occurs, one or more computer processors identify an event that caused the deviation. One or more computer processors calculate an estimate of population for the geographic location. One or more computer processors identify based, at least in part, on the identified event and the estimated population, a relevant party to be notified of the event. One or more computer processors generate a recommendation based, at least in part, upon one or more of the identified event, the estimate of population, and the identified relevant party. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087928 | COLLABORATIVE AND INTERACTIVE QUEUING AND PLAYBACK OF CONTENT USING ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - An application (APP) executing in a processor of a host device, may receive an electronic message (EM) that may include a handle for an address associated with the host device or a user of the host device, and a data payload that identifies content to be played back on a media device in communication (e.g., wirelessly) with the host device. An electronic messaging service may receive EM's addressed to the handle and may broadcast (e.g., wirelessly) the EM's. EM's received by the host device may be parsed by the APP to extract the handle and data payload. Data in the data payload may be used to search a content source for content to be communicated (e.g., wirelessly) for playback on the media device. Content specified in data payloads of EM's from one or more client devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, pads) may be queued for playback on the media device. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087929 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENT CREATION VIA EMAIL - A system and method for creating a document in a messaging environment is described. A communication including a document specification including zero or more formatting commands and content is received from a sender and processed. The system and method determine whether the document specification is in a done condition, and iterates until done. A formatted document is also created and returned to the sender and recipients. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160087930 | EMAIL INTERFACE FOR APPLICATION CREATION AND MANAGEMENT - A system and method for creating, managing, and using an application in a messaging environment is described. A communication including an application specification comprising zero or more commands is received from a sender and processed. The system and method determine whether the application specification is in a done condition, and iterates until done. A confirming specification, including revisions made while iterating, is also created and returned to the sender and recipients. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160088100 | Method And System For Enabling The Creation And Maintenance Of Proximity-Related User Groups - Techniques are described for providing location-based information and functionality to people and computing devices in various ways. In at least some situations, the techniques include enabling multiple people in a common geographic area to interact in various ways, such as via devices capable of communications (e.g., cellular telephones, computing devices with wired and/or wireless communications capabilities, etc.), while in other situations at least some users who are remote from a particular geographic area may be allowed to intercommunicate with one or more other users or other entities in or related to that geographic area. In addition, the techniques include enabling the creation and maintenance of location-based virtual groups of users (also referred to as “clouds”), such as for users of mobile and/or fixed-location devices. Such clouds may enable various types of interactions between group members, and may be temporary and/or mobile. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160088115 | PREEMPTIVE LOADING OF PROTECTED DATA FOR STREAMING MOBILE DEVICES - According to some embodiments, a proxy server populates a proxy server cache with first user content and sends the first user content to a secure client application executing on a user's mobile device. The proxy server determines a usage pattern based on a portion of the first user content consumed by the secure client application, prioritizes unrequested user content according to the usage pattern, and populates the proxy server cache with at least a portion of the unrequested user content based on priority. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160093303 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT UNIFIED MESSAGING SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR SPEECH-TO-TEXT SERVICE - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for communicating information about transcription progress from a unified messaging (UM) server to a UM client. In one embodiment, the transcription progress describes speech to text transcription of speech messages such as voicemail. The UM server authenticates and establishes a session with a UM client, then receives a get message list request from a UM client as of a first time, responds to the get message list request with a view of a state of messages and available transcriptions for transcribable messages in a list of messages associated with the get message list call at the first time, and, at a second time subsequent to the first time, transmits to the UM client a notification that provides an indication of progress for at least one transcription not yet complete in the list of messages. The messages can include video. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094490 | PERSONALIZING DATA SYSTEM COMPONENTS AND DATA SOURCES AS CHATBOTS IN A GROUP CHAT SESSION - Provided are techniques for personalizing data system components and data sources as chatbots in a group chat session. A social media gateway interface with a chat adapter for a chat application is provided. One or more chatbots that each represent a corresponding component of a data system are created. The one or more chatbots and the chatbot adapter are used to manage each corresponding component of the data system. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094491 | PATTERN-CONTROLLED AUTOMATED MESSAGING SYSTEM - A system has a router connected to one or more channels, a server connected to the network having a processor coupled to at least one data repository and software executing on the processor, and one or more templates, each template dedicated to a particular objective and comprising one or more representations of data related to the objective of the template, and required to accomplish the objective. Upon receipt of a transaction from a sender, the router routes the transaction to the server, which determines an objective for the transaction, selects the template dedicated to the determined objective, compares input from the transaction against the one or more representations of data, matches input data to the data representations, determines when and if all data representations are satisfied, and stores in the data repository the matched input data associated with the data representations and with the sender. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094492 | PERSONALIZING DATA SYSTEM COMPONENTS AND DATA SOURCES AS CHATBOTS IN A GROUP CHAT SESSION - Provided are techniques for personalizing data system components and data sources as chatbots in a group chat session. A social media gateway interface with a chat adapter for a chat application is provided. One or more chatbots that each represent a corresponding component of a data system are created. The one or more chatbots and the chatbot adapter are used to manage each corresponding component of the data system. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094493 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING MESSAGES - A method for transferring a message includes receiving a message passing request. The message passing request includes a message to be passed, first information regarding a source account generating the message to be passed, and second information regarding a target account of the message to be passed. The method also includes determining a message passing path from the source account to the target account according to stored association relationships between user accounts. The message passing path includes at least one relay user account. The method further includes transferring the message to be passed to the target account through the message passing path. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094494 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Automatic Mapping Between Parlay-X Short Messaging Service Message Element XML Encoding and Native SMPP Protocol Data Coding Scheme - Systems, methods, and computer program products are for mapping an extensible markup language (XML) encoding declarations to a short message peer-to-peer (SMPP) data coding scheme (DCS) for a mobile-terminated (MT) short messaging service (SMS). An exemplary method includes receiving a message from a short message entity (SME) for delivery to a mobile device. The message includes a payload with at least one character encoded in accordance with a first character encoding scheme. The exemplary method further includes receiving from the SME a second encoding scheme for the message, implementing a mapping table to map the first character encoding scheme to the second character encoding scheme, and performing an encoding transformation of the message from the first character encoding to the second character encoding scheme yielding a modified message comprising the payload of the message encoded in the second character encoding scheme as specified by the SME. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094496 | Devices for Instant Message Client Swap - This innovation relates to client devices to allow a single user to swap between devices in real-time within the same instant message session. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094497 | BUILDING MESSAGE RELATIONSHIPS FOR OFFLINE OPERATION OF AN ENTERPRISE APPLICATION - A system, method, and computer program product for building JSON message relationships for offline operation of an enterprise application is presented. The claimed embodiments address the problem of mobile application behavior during periods of limited access to backend application services and data. More specifically, some embodiments are directed to approaches for capturing request and response information communicated between a client device and application server when connected by a network, and storing respective relationships using the captured information. The stored requests and responses and respective relationships are used to emulate the backend services provided by the application server when the client device is disconnected from the network. In one or more embodiments, a crawler on the client device can generate simulated online requests to build a set of information for use by the emulator when the client device is disconnected from the application server. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094498 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR JMS INTEGRATION IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, a system and method provides a messaging service in a multitenant application server environment. Deployable resources are usable within the multitenant application server environment and groupings of resources are defined by resource group templates within a domain. One or more partitions are provided, with each partition providing an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain that can be associated with a tenant. Java message service (JMS) resources are defined within a resource group template or a resource group, and instantiated within a partition to enable messaging for applications deployed within the partition and between partitions. Integrating JMS in a multitenant application server environment further includes a foreign JMS server feature which maps remotely hosted JMS connection factories and JMS destinations into a local partition's JNDI, so that bridges and applications in turn gain access to these resources by looking them up in this name-space. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094500 | CONTEXT-BASED AUTOMATED/INTELLIGENT CONTENT MANAGEMENT - Methods and systems to predictively determine to perform a computing activity based on contextual information. Context-based criteria are defined based relationships between user-computing activity and contextual information, and are evaluated based on updated contextual information to determine whether to perform the computing activity. Context-based criteria may be defined to predictively identify content to be transferred/synchronized/updated and/or deleted, and/or to select one or more of multiple devices to receive content. Content may be selectively synchronized across devices of a user and/or shared with another user(s). Context-based criteria may relate to, without limitation, location, activity, computer-usage patterns, motion, and/or schedule of a user, device location, user/device proximity, relationships amongst content, users, and/or devices. Context-based computing environment parameters may be provided to pre-loaded content on device (e.g., store, open, and/or configure an operating system, application, and/or resource), with little or no user interaction. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094501 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING VIDEO CONTENTS IN SOCIAL PLATFORM AND FILE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A contents providing system for providing video contents through a social service includes a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to, manage information on a social network between users of the social service; and provide a together-watching function if at least one conversation partner is selected from a list of different persons related to a user according to the social network, wherein the together-watching function is a function that provides simultaneous display of a conversation screen with the at least one conversation partner and a video reproduction screen in which the video contents are reproduced. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094505 | MESSAGE HISTORY DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique for message history display includes combining message histories for multiple different messaging services. A system constructed according to the technique may include, for example, a message history database; a history aggregation engine that aggregates message logs for storage in the message history database; and a history provisioning engine that provides an aggregated message log associated with the user from the message history database to a requesting device. A method according to the technique may include, for example, identifying a device in association with a user profile; providing an online platform that receives messages from and sends messages to the device; and creating an aggregated log from messages sent to and from the device. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094507 | SOCIAL MEDIA BOT TO REPRESENTATIONAL STATE TRANSFER (REST) PROXY FOR DATA SYSTEMS - Provided are techniques for social media bot to Representational State Transfer (REST) proxy for data systems. An adapter for a social media application and message to Representational State Transfer (REST) mappings are provided. A social media bot is created to represent a data system component. The social media bot and the adapter are used to enable the data system component to interact with the social media application by using the message to REST mappings to map social media messages for the social media application and REST calls that are used to access the data system component. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094508 | POSTING CONTENT TO SOCIAL MEDIUM - A computer-implemented method of posting content to a social medium comprises receiving content posted by a user along with an associated posting time which indicates when the user selected an option to post the content to the social medium; determining that publication of the content posted by the user is dependent on a trigger; and in response to determining that publication of the content is dependent on the trigger, storing the content with the associated posting time and suspending publication of the content until the trigger is satisfied such that the posting time published with the content indicates a time prior to transmission of the content from an electronic device to a server for publishing. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094509 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING A LISTING OF MESSAGE LOGS - A computing device with processor(s) and memory obtains user-specific models corresponding to a user of the computing device, where the user-specific models are configured to determine respective listing priorities for message logs based on a respective set of parameters generated based at least in part on previous behavioral data corresponding to the user. The computing device obtains a request from the user to display a listing of message logs with message logs of at least two distinct message types. In response to obtaining the request, the computing device: determines listing priorities for the message logs in the listing of message logs according to user-specific models corresponding to the least two distinct message types; determines a presentation order for the listing of message logs based on the determined listing priorities and a prioritization preference of the user; and presents the listing of message logs in the determined presentation order. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGING IN A MULTITENANT APPLICATION SERVER ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with an embodiment, a system and method provides a messaging service in a multitenant application server environment. Deployable resources are usable within the multitenant application server environment and groupings of resources are defined by resource group templates within a domain. One or more partitions are provided, with each partition providing an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain that can be associated with a tenant. Java message service (JMS) resources are defined within a resource group template or a resource group, and instantiated within a partition from the one or more partitions to enable messaging for applications deployed within the partition and between the one or more partition. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094511 | METHOD, DEVICE, COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CANDIDATE WORDS - A method, device, computer storage medium, and apparatus for providing candidate words. The method comprises steps of: detecting user input; determining whether the current application environment is an information exchange application if user input is detected; determining an identifier of the communication counterpart in communication with the user if it is determined that the current application environment is an information exchange application; determining, based on the determined identifier of the communication counterpart, the social relationship between the user and the communication counterpart according to a social relationship automatic determination model, which is a model for determining the social relationship between the user and the communication counterpart; determining, based on a social relationship correction mapping table, whether the user input matches the determined social relationship, wherein the social relationship correction mapping table provides, based on the determined social relationship, correction candidate words corresponding to the social relationship; providing, based on the social relationship correction mapping table, correction candidates the determined social relationship if it is determined that the user input does not match the social relationship. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094640 | PROCESSING A MESSAGE RECEIVED BY A MESSAGE SERVER - A message received by a message server is processed. The message server includes a query store for storing query requests, value data for the query requests, and response time data for the query requests. A message is received and at least one query request is determined from the message. The at least one query request is sent to a query server. A timeout period is determined from the response time data for a query request stored in the query store. In the case that no response to the query request is received within the timeout period, a value is determined from the value data for the query request stored in the query store. Alternatively, in the case that a response to the query request is received within the timeout period, a value is determined from the response, value data for the value is stored in the query store, and response time data for the period the response took to be received is stored in the query store. An action in response to the message is then determined using the value obtained from the query store or the value obtained from the response, and the action is performed. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094671 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - An information processing system formed by connecting an information processing apparatus with terminal apparatuses includes a delivery unit delivering information received from the terminal apparatus to the other terminal apparatus; a display unit displaying the information exchanged between the terminal apparatuses; a user detection unit detecting whether the user exists before the other terminal apparatus in a case where the information delivered from the terminal apparatus is displayed in the other terminal apparatus; a report unit sending a report indicating that the information delivered from the terminal apparatus is browsed from the other terminal apparatus, which detect that the user exists, to the terminal apparatus and not sending the report from the other terminal apparatuses, which does not detect that the user exists; and a display control unit of the terminal apparatus displaying a browsed state of the information in the other terminal apparatuses based on the report. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160099892 | VIRTUAL AGENT PROXY IN A REAL-TIME CHAT SERVICE - Techniques are disclosed for implementing real-time chat systems including virtual agents as chat participants, and more specifically, to the use of a virtual agent proxy in a real-time chat service. Certain techniques are disclosed that allow for seamless chat transitions between virtual agents and live agents. A chat server may include a virtual agent (VA) proxy module. The VA proxy module intercepts messages received at the chat server from end users, forwards them to virtual agents, and posts responses from the virtual agents back to be displayed to the corresponding end users. The VA proxy module thereby loosely couples virtual agents to the chat server, allowing the virtual agents to participate in chats just as live agents do. The chat server may determine that chat escalations and de-escalations are to occur, and can provide a full transcript of the chat to new chat participants. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099894 | Aggregated Presence Over User Federated Devices - One embodiment of a system for aggregating and distributing presence information comprises a hosted presence aggregator server. The hosted presence aggregator server receives an update of presence information from a user device and relays the presence information update to another user device, wherein the user devices are part of a federation of user devices controlled by a single user which relay updates in presence status of the single user to one another via the hosted presence aggregator server. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099895 | System and Method for Alerting a List of Multiple Recipients of a User's Request for Assistance - A request for assistance from a user employing a first user device is received. The request is converted into a plurality of formatted requests. Each formatted request is formatted for receipt by a respective recipient in the list of recipients. Each of the plurality of formatted requests is broadcasted to each respective recipient in the list of recipients. A location of the first user device is provided to each recipient in the list of recipients. An assistance response to the request is received. The assistance response is sent by a particular recipient in the list of recipients. A message is broadcasted to each recipient in the list of recipients, other than the particular recipient, indicating that the particular recipient provided the assistance response. Upon receiving an update message from the particular recipient, the update message is broadcasted to each recipient in the list of recipients other than the particular recipient. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099896 | System and Method for Attaching a Remotely Stored Attachment to an Email - An electronic mail message sent from a sender device is received by an email server. The electronic mail message includes an attachment holder block including an authentication token and an address of an attachment stored at a remote server. The authentication token is transmitted to the remote server to login to the remote server to access the attachment. The attachment is retrieved from the remote server using the address of the attachment. The attachment is attached to the electronic mail message by replacing the attachment holder block with the attachment. The electronic mail message including the attachment is transmitted to a recipient. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099897 | INFORMATION SHARING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An information sharing method that includes receiving additional information about content on a webpage, inputting the additional information into a message including a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the webpage, specifying a destination of the message including the URI of the webpage and the additional information, and transmitting the message to the destination. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099899 | EFFICIENT USE OF RESOURCES IN MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION - A system and method are disclosed for routing a message through a plurality of test methods. The method includes: receiving a message; applying a first test method to the message; updating a state of the message based on the first test method; and determining a second test method to be applied to the message based on the state. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099900 | Generating A Relationship History - Systems and methods for generation of a relationship history or text for a new message. In one embodiment, a method includes: scanning, by a computing device, a set of messages to or from a user to generate a plurality of profiles for persons associated with the messages, each person being a sender or a recipient of at least one of the set of messages, and the persons including a first person; generating, via the computer, a relationship history using the plurality of profiles, wherein the relationship history is for a relationship between the user and the first person; and presenting the relationship history to the user. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099901 | Ephemeral Gallery of Ephemeral Messages - A server has a processor and a memory storing instructions executed by the processor to maintain an ephemeral gallery of ephemeral messages. An ephemeral message is posted to the ephemeral gallery. The ephemeral message has an associated message duration parameter and a gallery participation parameter. An ephemeral message is removed from the ephemeral gallery in response to the identification of an expired gallery participation parameter. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099903 | IDENTIFYING COMMUNICATION PARTICIPANTS TO A RECIPIENT OF A MESSAGE - Participant identifiers, or display names, for participants in an electronic communication can be selected such that each participant's display name is unique relative within a defined set of “relevant” participants, such as all participants in an electronic communication exchange or all contacts in a contacts list maintained for a specific user. Selection of display names can be optimized to provide a unique display name for each participant using a reduced or minimized number of characters. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099904 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SOFTWARE PRODUCT FOR FILLING AN ADDRESS FIELD OF AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A content, context or the like as entered by a user may be used to automatically evaluate a recipient or recipients to whom the message is directed. A method for filling a recipient address field of an electronic message in a messaging application executable on a communication terminal begins by selecting a content chunk from a content area of said message and deciding whether said content chunk matches a predefined addressee identifier pattern. If the content chunk matches a predefined addressee identifier pattern then the a name portion is extracted from the content chunk. The name portion is compared with entries in a predefined directory. It the name portion matches an entry then a recipient address proposal is created based on an address stored in the directory. That recipient address proposal is filled into said recipient address field of said message. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099905 | AD-HOC Micro-Blogging Groups - Systems and methods are disclosed for distributing micro-blog posts to ad-hoc micro-blogging groups. In one embodiment, a micro-blog post of a user is obtained. A crowd in which the user is located is determined, where the crowd is a group of spatially proximate users. The micro-blog post of the user is tagged with a crowd identifier of the crowd in which the user is located such that the micro-blog post includes a crowd identifier tag. Publication of the micro-blog post including the crowd identifier tag is then effected. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099906 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATION OVER A MEDIA NETWORK - A system that transmits a request to initiate a communication session with a member device of a social network may include, for example, activating a speech capture element, maintaining activation of the speech capture element in accordance with a pattern of prior speech messages, detecting a speech message at the activated speech capture element, and transmitting the detected speech message, or a derivative thereof, to the member device of the social network. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099907 | SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC PARTICIPATION BASED ON CURRENT LOCATION INFORMATION - A social networking website system with automatic registration based on a current location information. Individuals are automatically enrolled into social network services based on a current location determined from their mobile devices. In particular, farmers in rural places can be enrolled into social networks in their local districts, and they can interact with others using audio and video messages employing their local languages. Such interaction can be adhoc in nature, employing audio messages, or audio and video messages. In general, automatic memberships to social networks, social groups and to discussion lists are provided to users, based on user's current location. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099908 | EMAIL AND INSTANT MESSAGING AGENT FOR DIALOG SYSTEM - Provided are methods and systems for email communication and instant messaging through a dialog system. The method may commence with enabling a user to create a personal account with a server. The personal account may be associated with the user and with the dialog system. The method may continue with enabling the user to establish a list of trusted email addresses. The method may further include receiving a notification from the server. The notification may be associated with a communication addressed to the user from one of the trusted email addresses. Upon receiving the notification, a first message associated with the notification may be delivered to the user. Upon receiving of an instruction associated with the notification from the user, an inquiry to receive the communication may be sent to the server. The method may further include delivering a second message associated with the communication to the user. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099984 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTE, MULTI-MEDIA COLLABORATION, INCLUDING ARCHIVE AND SEARCH CAPABILITY - Embodiments of a method and apparatus for remote collaboration include a central cloud computing infrastructure configurable to capture data related to online, remote collaborative session between users via any type of Internet capable user device. Data capture includes capture of data via services/systems external to the infrastructure, and services/systems internal to the infrastructure. Methods further comprise archiving session data including video and audio from a session and any data attachments users might add to the session (during or after the session). The session data can be searched by permitted users to find any data from a session, different session a participant attended. Permitted users can add data to a session, either during or after the session occurred. Added data includes book marks that mark a point in time of a session and can be associated with comments, data attachments, and more. A rich user interface graphically displays bookmarks, comments and data over the time of the session. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160099987 | SYNCHRONOUS DELIVERY OF MEDIA CONTENT IN A COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT - An apparatus and method for facilitating a synchronous display of a time-based media object (e.g., a video or audio file) with a remote device is provided. In one example, the apparatus comprises control logic for controlling the display of a media object in response to a user entered command with a first device, and communication logic for causing communication of the user entered command (e.g., play, pause, skip, etc.) and a metric (e.g., time or frame reference) associated with the media object to a second device for synchronizing the display of the media object with the first and second devices. The first and second devices may communicate via peer-to-peer communications, for example, in a collaborative or social application such as an IM application. Further, the apparatus may include various devices such as a personal computer, mobile phone device and/or mobile personal entertainment device, DVR, or the like. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160105292 | Method and System for Controlling Internet of Things (IoT) Device - Provided is a method and system for controlling an Internet of Things (IoT) device. An IoT control method configured as a computer may include registering an IoT device as a buddy through an open application programmer interface (API) of a messenger service platform; creating a group chat room by grouping a plurality of IoT devices among IoT devices registered as the buddy; and providing a messaging service participated in by the plurality of IoT devices through the group chat room. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105384 | Processing of Email Based on Semantic Relationship of Sender to Recipient - Embodiments are provided for processing received electronic mail messages. A received message is processed based upon a set of rules made up of at least first and second sets of rules. The processing includes ascertaining a property derived from the received message and determining a set of rules associated with the ascertained property. The received message is processed corresponding to at least one rule in the first set of rules if the ascertained property is associated with the first set of rules, and the received message is processed corresponding to at least one rule in the second set of rules if the ascertained property is associated with the second set of rules. The received message is communicated to a recipient based on the at least one rule. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105385 | TECHNOLOGY FOR PROVIDING CONTENT OF A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIBE TOPIC TREE - Content of a publish-subscribe topic tree is provided. This includes receiving a path for a requested topic. The path specifies topics leading from a highest to a lowest level topic in the path. Content in the topic tree is retrieved for matching topics that match the lowest level topic in the path independently of whether the matching topics are on the path in the tree. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105386 | SYSTEM FOR HANDLING ABBREVIATION RELATED TEXT - Abbreviations can be handled by a computer system that receives a message that specifies a recipient and a sender. A first text portion is identified from the message as being associated with an abbreviation. A sender and receiver profile are used to identify a set of one or more solutions for the first text portion. The solutions are scored based upon the online content exposure information in the profile of the recipient. Based upon the scoring, a particular solution of the one or more solutions is identified for use. The text body of the message is modified to include the particular solution, and the modified message is transmitted to the recipient. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105387 | FILTERED MESSAGE STREAMS - A system and method is disclosed for filtering messages in a social network. A message may be posted to a social network with a corresponding rank. On receiving the message and corresponding rank, the social network generates a perceived rank of the message for a receiving user and provides the message for display at the receiving user's message stream according to the perceived rank. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL MEDIA CAPTURE AND RELATED SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system and method is provided for media capture and social networking that encourages communication via media posts in an interactive manner. The media content can be recorded via a mobile application running on a mobile device. The application presents an intuitive display in a single screen for capturing various media formats, including images, video, and audio, as well as media compilations of multiple media formats (e.g., still image and audio, video and still image, and others) in a single file. The resulting media content can be shared to the social network via the application. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105389 | METHOD, SERVER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES OF SYNCHRONIZING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A method of synchronizing notification messages for electronic devices may include monitoring if an electronic device has a notification message. If the electronic device has a notification message, the method may include determining if the electronic device is on standby. If the electronic device is determined to be on standby, a notification message may be sent via a server to an active electronic device associated with the electronic device. An associated server and an electronic device are also provided. The methods, servers and electronic devices may facilitate gathering of notification messages. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105464 | CRISSCROSS CANCELLATION PROTOCOL - Technologies, systems, and methods for ordered message delivery that avoid message races or crisscrosses between communicating nodes. For example, if Node A sends message 3 towards Node B and, shortly thereafter, Node B sends message X to Node A, Node A would like to know whether or not message X reflects Node B's state after receiving message 3. If Node B received message 3 prior to sending message X, then proper state may be maintained between the nodes. But if messages 3 and X crisscrossed, or if message 3 was never properly received by Node B, then the state between the nodes may be corrupt. Technologies, systems, and methods are provided to avoid such corruption. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105474 | INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND VEHICLES FOR EVENT GENERATION AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF A MATERIAL PROCESS - An integrated system of communication between people and vehicles involving a diagnostic device installed in the vehicle, a host platform and a personal mobile device, the system being an integrated way of conversation in real-time between individuals and vehicles for generation of automatic event and control of business processes, specifically, but not limited to fleet management and leasing of vehicles. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105516 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SITE PAGE RELATED TO CURRENT POSITION IN DESIRED CONDITION ORDER IN PORTABLE TERMINAL, AND SYSTEM - A proxy server includes an address correspondence table in which reference information is associated with each set of the address of the access point and the address of the site page. The portable terminal searches for the access points in the vicinity of the portable terminal, receives annunciation signals including the addresses of the access points, and transmits a page acquisition request including the addresses and query information to the proxy server. The proxy server searches for the addresses of the site pages, using the address correspondence table, and generates list information in which the addresses are arranged such that the address having the reference information related to the query information ranks high, and transmits the list information as a response to the portable terminal. It is preferable that the portable terminal transmit each page acquisition request based on the list information to site servers. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105518 | INTEGRATING OFFSITE ACTIVITIES RELATED TO CHAT AND TEXT MESSAGING WITH ONLINE DATA RECORDS - Various systems and associated methods for tracking chats, text messages, and other user interactions. The process generates at least one identifier, distributes at least one identifier to at least one system, uses the at least one identifier to associate interactions with network-based content across different entities, whereby at least one interaction is anonymous. The method involves receiving a request sent to a database stored on a computer readable medium in response to online activity and any collected or known user information, creating a record thereof in response to the request, generating an identifier associated therewith, generating a code corresponding thereto, and using the identifier to associate an incoming text message, chat, resulting financial transactions, follow-on activities, etc. with associated online activity and user information. The association happens through remote communication with a system that receives and sends the incoming text message or chat requests. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160105521 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PUSHING TARGET INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for pushing target information belong to the field of Internet applications. The method includes: determining, according to target information, a user meeting a condition; determining, for each determined user, a target identifier of the target information and strength of interest of the user in the target information as a push task for the user; determining a push task having the greatest strength of interest or a push task whose strength of interest is greater than a predetermined strength threshold as a target push task; and pushing a target push message corresponding to the target push task to the user. In the present disclosure, a target push task is determined according to strength of interest of a user in a push task, a target push message is determined according to the target push task, and the target push message is pushed to the user. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160112351 | Apparatus and Method for Quickly Sending Messages - A communication apparatus is configured to provide for quickly sending a message to a recipient. For instance, embodiments can be configured so that text, an image, or other content can be copied from a received message and sent via use of a copy and send command to actuate the formation of a message for sending. After selecting such a command, a message may be formed in a format of a preselecting messaging protocol (e.g. instant messaging, text messaging, etc.) that includes the copied content. In some embodiments, the sending of the message having the copied content may occur automatically in a predefined messaging format to a predefined addressee or group of predefined addressees after selecting a copy and send command so that no further input from a user is needed to effect the generation and sending of a message to the addressee(s). | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112352 | Method and Device for Real-Time Conversations of Participants and Comments with Each Other - A method for real-time conversations and comment with each other in a mobile device comprises the following steps. In the step (a), it activates a communication module of real-time conversations and comment with each other of a first mobile device. In the step (b), it performs a matching process for a user of the first mobile by a server. In the step (c), it provides a topic of chat for the user of the first mobile device for conversations by using the communication module of real-time conversations and comment with each other or by using the server. In the step (d), the user of the first mobile device transmits a first message to the successfully matched user of a second mobile device and makes comments for a second message from the user of the second mobile device. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112353 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINING ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE - According to the present invention, even while a chat opening process is in progress, users can join chats by means of a simple procedure from a video game machine. Once a chat has been opened, an invitation signal can further be transmitted to other chat guests. A video game machine of an expected guest receiving the invitation signal displays a screen prompting the guest to enter the chat room, and the expected guest can join the chat by transmitting an enter room signal to a database. At this time, a chat answer signal indicating that the expected guest accepts the invitation from a chairman is transmitted from the expected guest to the chairman. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112354 | CHAT ROOM VIEWING - A system and method allows a user to view communications exchanged between other participants within an online chat room without the user becoming a participant within the online chat room. The online chat room enables ongoing exchanges of electronic communications between two or more participants whose participation within the chat room are mutually revealed to each other. A user is enabled to perceive the existence of the online chat room without the user becoming a participant within the online chat room. Selection of the online chat room by the user is received. Responsive to user selection of the online chat room and without the user becoming a participant within the online chat room, at least some of the communications exchanged between the participants within the online chat room are made perceivable to the user as the communications are exchanged. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112355 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING MESSAGING APPLICATIONS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH A POLICY - The present inventions relate systems and methods for monitoring and managing electronic messages in one or more computer networks. More particularly, the systems and methods of the present invention provide a substantially global or unified approach to messaging management within one or more computer networks that allows network administrators or other authorized users to define and identify electronic messages of interest within the network and store selected messages such that they can be retrieved and examined in connection with an audit or other inquiry. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112356 | Network Device and Method for Processing Email Request - A network device and a method for processing an email request are disclosed. The network device includes a communications interface and a processor. The communications interface is configured to communicate with a client device and an email server. The processor is configured to receive a first request from the client device for fetching a portion of an email message. The processor generates a second request for fetching the email message in its entirety according to the first request. After receiving the email message that is in an encoded form and that is returned according to the second request by the email server, the processor decodes the email message to obtain the portion in a decoded form. Then the processor forwards the portion of the email message to the client device. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112358 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT SUPPRESSION OF INCOMING MULTI-FORMAT MULTI-PROTOCOL COMMUNICATIONS - This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for integrating communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, lappets, wearable devices, and the like, to present users with a multi-protocol, person-centric, multi-format in box feed system for integrating multi-format communications. Use of a person-centric, e.g., sender-specific, in box feed allows users to view/preview all their messages in a single feed. Grouping messages by sender also conveniently allows the user to stay on the same user interface screen while reviewing messages and allows for quick visual filtering of messages. “Intelligently Snoozing” messages, e.g., by sender or group of senders, may further allow the user to receive communications at times, locations, on devices, and in ways of the user's choosing. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112359 | GROUP MESSAGE CONTEXTUAL DELIVERY - A message context and delivery manager (MCDM) receives a group message designated for delivery to a plurality of recipient devices. The MCDM determines a message context of the group message, determines a sending device context of the sending device, and determines a recipient device context for each of the plurality of recipient devices. The MCDM further determines the relevance between the message context and each of the recipient device contexts and delivers the group message to the recipient devices if the message context is relevant to the recipient device contexts. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112361 | SUPPORTING MESSAGE SHARING - A method and system for processing an email. A mail hub device receives the email from a first mail server, a Mail Thread ID (MTID) from a Mail Thread Board (MTB) server, and additional data from the MTB server. The mail hub device transmits, to a second mail client, the email with the added MTID and the added additional data and in response, receives, from the second email client, a selection of a message from messages contained in the additional data. The mail hub device transmits, to the MTB server, a request to generate an update of the additional data based on the selection of the message. The mail hub device receives, from the MTB server, the updated additional data based on the selection of the message. The mail hub device transmits, to the first mail server, the updated additional data based on the selection of the message. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED REMINDERS FOR A DATING SERVICE - A system and method for generating and outputting automated reminder messages for a computer-based dating service is disclosed. An indication from a user computing device associated with a user can be received, where the indication can be indicative of interest of a user in connecting with another user. Temporary contact addresses for each user can be generated and output. Each temporary contact address can be active for an activated period of time. Any electronic communication received during the activated period can be forwarded to the appropriate user. A reminder message can be output to a particular user when: (i) the particular user has not responded to an electronic message from the other user for a response period of time, and/or (ii) the particular user has not sent an electronic message to the other user and there is less than a threshold of remaining time in the activated period. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112364 | Systems and Methods for Mobile Matchmaking Requiring Users to Chat before Successively Revealing Identities - A mobile matchmaking system including a chat server; and a user device including a network interface, a user interface, and a controller configured to: request, from the chat server, a match between the user and a matched user; initiate a first round of a chat mode including the steps of: initiating a chat conversation between the user and the matched user; receiving, from the chat server, access to a set of pictures, wherein the set of pictures includes a picture of the matched user and one or more decoy pictures; displaying, via the user interface, the set of pictures; and upon reaching an endpoint of the round, removing at least one of the one or more decoy pictures from the set of pictures; initiate further rounds of the chat mode until only pictures of the matched user remains in the set of pictures; and identifying the matched user. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112366 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTER-SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems for social media cooperation, via allowing inter-social network communications between users of different networks is provided. The inter-social network communications may be facilitated by sending inter-social network communications in a format determined by a protocol that is used by the social networks agreeing to allow inter-social network communications. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112524 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - [Object] To associate information generated on the basis of an activity that is carried out by a user with respect to a content with the content, thereby effectively using the information. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160112529 | INTERFACE GATEWAY AND METHOD OF INTERFACING A PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH A GUEST SERVICE DEVICE - An interface gateway interfaces between a first device and a second device serving a hospitality establishment. The first device is one of a property management system (PMS) and a guest service device, and the second device is the other of the property management system (PMS) and the guest service device. One or more communication ports perform data communications with the first device and the second device. One or more processors receive a message from the first device, determine that the message is in a first format, convert the message from the first format to an internal data structure, parse the message in the internal data structure to determine that the message is applicable to the second device, determine that the second device supports a second format, convert the message from the internal data structure to the second format, and send the message in the second format to the second device. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160119257 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MULTI-DEVICES - A method of providing communication between a plurality of devices of a user without a dedicated server and a device capable of communicating with other devices by using the method are disclosed. The method includes generating a message to be sent to a second device and storing a channel file including message data in a predetermined space within a cloud server, which are performed by a first device, and accessing the cloud server and reading a channel file stored in a predetermined place within the cloud server, which are performed by the second device. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119260 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED MULTI-FORMAT COMMUNICATION DELIVERY PROTOCOL PREDICTION - This disclosure relates generally to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ optimal communications formats and/or protocols. Determinations of optimal delivery methods may be intelligently based on the sender individually or the relationship with the sender in the context of a group of recipients—including the format of the incoming communication, the preferred format of the recipient and/or sender, and an optimal format for a given communication message. The techniques disclosed herein allow communications systems to become ‘message-centric’ or ‘people-centric,’ as opposed to ‘protocol-centric,’ eventually allowing consideration of message protocol to fall away entirely for the sender of the communication. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119261 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTI-FORMAT AND MULTI-PROTOCOL GROUP MESSAGING - This disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send encrypted or unencrypted group communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ communications formats and/or protocols. Correlation of messages comprising secure group communications across multi-format multi-protocol may be determined by tracking message groups and mapping aliases across protocols. The techniques disclosed herein allow communications systems to become ‘message-centric’ or ‘people-centric’ as opposed to ‘protocol-centric,’ eventually allowing consideration of message protocol and security mechanisms to fall away entirely for the sender of the communication. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119262 | Subscription-Based Media Push Service - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process that determines an identity of a subscriber of a media service. A viewing criterion of the subscriber is determined and a media content item is identified based on the viewing criterion of the subscriber. The media content item is provided for delivery to a media processing device without first requiring a request for delivery of the media content item. The media processing device is identified by a network service provider based on a selection of the media processing device from among a number of devices of the subscriber that are registered with the network service provider. The selection of the media processing device is based on device capabilities and the identity of the subscriber. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119264 | RE-ROUTING INCOMING EMAIL FOR A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - A method for processing email for a multi-tenant database system is presented here. The system includes a plurality of data centers and a plurality of instances of a database system core. Each data center implements at least one instance of the database core. The method receives an incoming email at a first local mail transfer agent (MTA) of a first data center, wherein the incoming email is erroneously directed to a first instance of the database system core. The method continues by searching a private domain name service (DNS) database maintained at the first data center, based on an identifier of the first instance and an identifier of the first data center. The method then obtains an identifier associated with a second data center of the plurality of data centers, and routes the incoming email in accordance with the identifier of the second data center. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119265 | SOCIAL NETWORK USERS' INTERACTIONS BY SPLITTING POSTS IN A THREAD INTO A NEW THREAD - A method, system and computer program product for improving social network users' interactions. The content of posts in a thread is analyzed so as to group the posts by topic. The posts directed to a specific topic are then analyzed to determine which users posted an initial post or a comment containing an ongoing question not answered. The users' profiles, liked pages and/or friends' graphs for the users involved in the analyzed posts are analyzed to determine any relationships among the users. Furthermore, past communication patterns and/or liked pages of the users are analyzed to determine the likelihood of responding to posts. The posts in the original thread are split into a new thread containing the group(s) of posts directed to a topic(s) having a group of users who would most likely participate in the new thread, where the group of users is selected based on the analysis discussed above. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119266 | ENCODING PORTIONS OF A MESSAGE - The disclosure is related to encoding a message or portions of the message to be exchanged between a pair of users. Messages can be exchanged between a pair of users in multiple ways, e.g., electronic mail, short messaging service (SMS), messenger applications. The computing resource, e.g., network bandwidth consumed in transmission of the messages, can be minimized by encoding/compressing at least portions of a message prior to transmission. A server analyzes messages exchanged between a pair of users to identify message portions, e.g., a word or a phrase, that are commonly exchanged and generates a set of codes for those message portions. The pair of users can use the set of codes for encoding and/or decoding the messages exchanged between them. The codes are generated using a specified coding technique, e.g., Huffman coding. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119267 | METHOD FOR NOTIFYING A SALES PERSON OF A SALES PROSPECT - A computer system and method that immediately alerts a sales person with a notification message when the online behavior or usage criteria of a subscriber is met, so that the sales person may follow up on the sales lead before the subscriber loses interest in the commodity or buys elsewhere. With the preferred embodiment, the activity criteria for each subscriber (or a group of subscribers) can be preset by the sales person, so as to selectively quantify degrees of activity that triggers the sending notification messages. With the preferred embodiment records are kept of all the events, including triggers and messages sent in relation to the subscribers and sales persons and these records provide valuable management information for evaluating the efficiency of online marketing campaigns. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119268 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENTITY DETECTION IN MACHINE GENERATED MESSAGES - Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information derived from automatically generated messages in order to identify types of messages and message content. The disclosed systems and methods apply the information learned from decoding previously received messages to other messages in a user's inbox to fully, or at least partially decode the information included within such messages. The disclosed systems and methods analyze messages received in a user's inbox to detect message specific information corresponding to types of content in the message and the location of such content in the messages. The message specific information is then applied to other newly received or identified messages to learn message specific information about those messages. Based on such learning, information can be extracted from such messages in order to increase a user's experience and increase monetization. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119269 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOW-REDUNDANCY E-MAIL HANDLING - A method of low-redundancy e-mail handling, wherein: e-mail data is selected, attachments of e-mails comprised in the e-mail data are detached, stored and replaced with references accordingly, and wherein further e-mail threads comprised in the e-mail data are identified and split in separate e-mails, duplicates of e-mails are deleted while maintaining their e-mail references, differences between a first e-mail and an immediately preceding second e-mail of the same thread are identified, generating difference data, the first e-mail is replaced by the difference data, and a reference to the second e-mail is inserted therein, the e-mails and references to their predecessors and successors in the same thread are stored in a data storage, and a graph-based interface is generated for the stored e-mails and references, and an e-mail server computer device, e-mail client computer device, data processing program, computer program product, and computer data signal therefor. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119270 | STAKEHOLDER NOTIFICATION - As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, for enabling stakeholder notification includes receiving a message that indicates a stakeholder for a message and responding to an identified stakeholder without requiring user intervention. The stakeholder, specified by a stakeholder indicator, may be an address, a label, or the like that is included in a message header or embedded in the message. A messaging client may auto-populate the stakeholder indicator with a specified user, such as, a supervisor of the user preparing the message. Activation of the stakeholder field may be a configurable setting configured through email client options, or alternatively may be manually selected by the message author at the time of message creation. A user interface may be available allowing an identified stakeholder to request removal as a stakeholder. A computer system, and computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119271 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - A computer implemented method is provided. The computer implemented method includes A computer implemented method comprising receiving a request from a user of a social networking system to select a first post, receiving a first range from the user, providing a first group of content items comprising a first plurality of content items posted for a period of time of the first range including the first post, identifying a second post of the social networking system according to a predetermined criteria, identifying a second group of content items comprising a second plurality of content items posted for a period of time of the first range including the second post, and displaying at least one of the first group of content items and the second group of content items on a display device. Each of the content items of the first group and each of the content items of the second group are rearranged according to a relative time difference with a posting date of the first post. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119273 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND SENDING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE IN A MESSAGE - A code-generating system can be accessed from within a messaging application on a mobile computing device to generate and insert a two-dimensional (2-D) code into a message. During operation, the system can receive a request to generate a 2-D code, such as from the messaging application executing on the mobile device or from the operating system. In response to receiving the request, the system can present a user-interface (UI) mechanism (e.g., modal window) for entering or selecting message content to convert into a 2-D code. Then, in response to obtaining the message content from a local user, the system may generate a 2-D code for the message content, and may generate a message that includes the 2-D code (e.g., by inserting the 2-D code into the message body). The system may then send the message, which includes the 2-D code, to a target recipient. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119274 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT DELIVERY TIME DETERMINATION FOR A MULTI-FORMAT AND/OR MULTI-PROTOCOL COMMUNICATION - This disclosure relates generally to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for composing communications for computing devices across multiple formats and multiple protocols. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, this disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, and computer readable media to permit computing devices, e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the like, to send communications in a number of pre-determined and/or ‘determined-on-the-fly’ communications formats and/or protocols at one or more determined delivery times via a single, seamless user interface. The determined delivery time of any message to any recipient may be intelligently determined individually for each recipient, e.g., by using one or more context factors to assess optimal delivery times for each recipient. The techniques disclosed herein allow communications systems to become ‘message-centric’ or ‘people-centric,’ as opposed to ‘protocol-centric,’ allowing the message protocol and delivery time to be abstracted from the sender of the communication, if the sender so desires. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160119441 | Real Life to Digital Life Event Correlation - A method and system for correlating events with social media is provided. The method includes retrieving from a social network, social network data associated with users of the social network. The social network data is associated with event data associated with a user of the users. Temporary actions associated with a social network account of the user are enabled and a notification is transmitted to a group of users. In response, confirmation data associated with enabling the temporary actions is received from the group of users and permanent actions associated with the temporary actions are enabled. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160127277 | Electronically Processing Bounceback Messages from Communications Networks - Examples of systems and methods for processing email bounceback messages are disclosed. One disclosed method includes the steps of receiving a bounceback email message, determining a classification for the bounceback email message, determining a corrective action for the bounceback email message based on the classification, and executing the corrective action. In another example, program code for performing such a method is encoded on a non-transitory computer-readable media. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127278 | EXTENDED OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGE PROCESSING - Message processing includes activating an out-of-office function for a messaging account, wherein the out-of-office function has a scheduled end time. A determination is made, using a processor, that a current time is after the scheduled end time and that a deactivation condition for the out-of-office function has not occurred. Responsive to the determination, an out-of-office action is performed using the processor. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127279 | EXTENDED OUT OF OFFICE MESSAGE PROCESSING - Message processing includes activating an out-of-office function for a messaging account, wherein the out-of-office function has a scheduled end time. A determination is made, using a processor, that a current time is after the scheduled end time and that a deactivation condition for the out-of-office function has not occurred. Responsive to the determination, an out-of-office action is performed using the processor. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127280 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS WITH IN-CONTEXT MESSAGING - A communication apparatus, a system, and a method are provided that allow in-context electronic communication. In particular, communications received by a user is organized with in-context information, such as pictures or profiles of senders or recipients, forwarding history of the communication, relationship among the senders or recipients, subject matter and flow of conversation, and the like. As such, the user may review the received communication in context. For example, a graphical interface may be provided to present received messages as graphical conversations among different characters or persons using their pictures. The graphical interface may depict participants, listeners, and speakers in different panels to represent a flow of group conversation. In an embodiment, the communication may be depicted in a story or comic based format to layout messages or comments from different people. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127281 | Enhanced Video Instant Messaging Processing - An enhanced instant messaging processing method is presented to users in an instant messaging communication environment. For a user having two or more communication terminals that have logged into a same instant messaging account of the user, a communication server monitors invitations sent to the instant messaging account. Responsive to one communication terminal responding to the invitation and the type of the response, the communication server generates a response policy for each of other communication terminals of the user, where the response policy optimizes the instant communication performance enhances the user experience. The disclosed embodiments also support simultaneous instant communications among a large number of users connected to multiple data processing servers. The disclosed solution for support simultaneous instant communications balances the load of the data processing servers while keeping multiple communication terminals of a user informed of the status of the instant communication. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127284 | CLOUD MESSAGING SERVICES OPTIMIZATION THROUGH ADAPTIVE MESSAGE COMPRESSION - Intelligent adjustment of compression levels of messages being brokered or otherwise handled by message service providers in a cloud-computing environment to strike a balance between the reduction in network usage and storage requirement resources owing to message compression on one hand and the increase in CPU resource usage owing to message compression on the other hand for reducing usage-based charges from the cloud customer's point of view and reducing the equipment and operational cost from the cloud provider's point of view (resulting in the ability of the provider to take on and/or retain customers). Determination of an “optimal” compression level that strikes an appropriate balance among resource usage may include consideration of a current messaging load (e.g., bytes of data per unit time), a current compression level, and current usage levels of one or more of the various resources. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127285 | BEARING PERFORMANCE AUTOMATIC CALCULATION SERVICE DEVICE - A bearing performance automatic calculation service device is provided which allows a user to receive an automatic calculation service at any time in any location, which easily ensures reliability in terms of leakage of transmitted/received data, and which is easily used in terms of an input operation. An e-mail address is assigned, which is used only for receiving a request for an automatic calculation service. It is determined whether authentication information and a description content of a file | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127286 | Apparatus and method for secure elective message tag provisioning - A computer-implemented method and apparatus for the secure provisioning of elective message tags in a digital environment. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127288 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INVITING USERS TO PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES BASED ON INTERACTIVE RECORDINGS - A method for inviting users to participate in activities comprises receiving from a first client device a recording of at least a part of an activity provided via the first client device to a first user and one or more parameters related to a configuration of the activity on the first client device, embedding an interactive element into the recording of the activity, thereby generating an invitation to participate in the activity, wherein the invitation is published. The method further comprises receiving from a second client device an indication of an interaction of a second user with the embedded interactive element, and providing the one or more parameters for initiating the activity on the second client device according to the configuration. Furthermore, a system enabling inviting of users to participate in activities and a corresponding client device are defined. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127289 | OPERATING A MATCH COOPERATIVE WITHOUT HANDLING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION - The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques used in systems, methods, and in computer program products for building and operating a match cooperative without handling personally identifiable information. The various embodiments address the problem of discovering attributes pertaining to a particular user without sharing personally identifiable information pertaining to that particular user. More specifically, the claimed embodiments are directed to approaches for receiving online and offline PII and NPII associated with various users, obfuscating (e.g., hashing) the PII, and matching the obfuscated PII to the NPII based on various data (e.g., common attributes, etc.) and methods (e.g., deterministic matching, probabilistic matching, etc.). The matched NPII attributes can then be used to target the user associated with the obfuscated PII in online advertising campaigns. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127291 | ANONYMOUS MOBILE GROUP COMMUNICATIONS - A text-notification application for iOS and Android devices that facilitates broadcasting group messages for any size group, for any purpose, without requiring users to disclose email or cell phone contact information. Users can configure their own group channels to send and receive messages anonymously. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127292 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING POLLING IN MESSAGE CONVERSATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES - A method and apparatus for controlling polling in message conversations across multiple devices are provided herein. The method includes displaying a poll in a messaging conversation display screen on a first participant device, wherein the poll comprises at least two polling options; receiving an instruction to update the poll based on a response to the poll from at least one of the multiple devices; and updating the poll per the received instruction. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127294 | Method and Apparatus for Location Related Social Reminder Provision - A system includes a processor configured to determine a vehicle destination. The processor is also configured to access a driver-owned media delivery account to determine context-relevant information relating to the destination. The processor is further configured to prepare a driver alert based on the context-relevant information and deliver the driver alert. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127295 | SOCIAL PRESENCE - Publishing social presence data associated with users in flight to other users associated with messaging services is described. Technologies described herein include determining messaging services offered by a telecommunications service provider are enabled to facilitate an exchange of communication data between a first user device associated with a first user that is physically located in an aircraft and associated with a connectivity services service provider and at least one second user device associated with a second user. The technologies described herein can include, based at least partly on determining that the messaging services are enabled, receiving communication data from the first user device, accessing presence data from the first user device, sending the communication data to the at least one second user device, and causing the presence data to be presented on the at least one second user device. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127296 | EMAIL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING DESIGNATED CONTENTS OF EMAILS - A method for sending and receiving an email includes providing an email interface for an email sender to compose the email, inputting a number of recipients and an email message of the email to corresponding input fields of the email interface, setting a reading privilege for each recipient, sending the email to the number of recipients according to the reading privileges, and receiving the email sent from the email sender. The email received by each recipient only contains designated contents of the email according to the reading privilege set by the email sender. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127297 | PERSONALIZED MESSAGES FOR PRODUCT ONBOARDING - Techniques for onboarding users to online product features are described. According to various embodiments, email content data describing an email type of an email to be transmitted to a particular member is accessed. Information identifying a plurality of candidate onboarding content items associated with the email type is also accessed. Feature data including member onboarding content item interaction data describing the particular member's interactions with various onboarding content items is also accessed. Thereafter, for the particular member and the email type, a relevance score is generated for each of the candidate onboarding content items, based on the email content data and the member onboarding content item interaction data. Each of the relevance scores may indicate a likelihood that the particular member selects the corresponding candidate onboarding content item. A specific onboarding content item is then selected from the plurality of candidate onboarding content items, based on the generated relevance scores. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127298 | CROWD DETERMINED MESSAGE RESPONSE SYSTEM - A crowd determined message response system may be provided. A message sent from a sender to at least one recipient over a communication network may be received. The message may be presented on a user interface device. A selection of a designated recipient for responding to the message may be received. A priority of the message sent to the designated recipient may be adjusted. The priority of the message sent to an unselected recipient of the message not selected as the designated recipient may be adjusted. The priority may be adjusted differently for the designated recipient and the unselected recipient. Based on the adjusting of the priority of the message sent to the unselected recipient, the order of importance in which the unselected recipient's messages are presented may be rearranged. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127299 | CROWD DETERMINED MESSAGE RESPONSE SYSTEM - A crowd determined message response system may be provided. A message sent from a sender to at least one recipient over a communication network may be received. The message may be presented on a user interface device. A selection of a designated recipient for responding to the message may be received. A priority of the message sent to the designated recipient may be adjusted. The priority of the message sent to an unselected recipient of the message not selected as the designated recipient may be adjusted. The priority may be adjusted differently for the designated recipient and the unselected recipient. Based on the adjusting of the priority of the message sent to the unselected recipient, the order of importance in which the unselected recipient's messages are presented may be rearranged. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127300 | DYNAMIC GRANULAR MESSAGING PERSISTENCE - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamic, granular messaging persistence in a messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamic, granular messaging persistence in a messaging system is provided. The method includes monitoring operational performance of a message broker and receiving a message for queuing in a message queue of the message broker. The method also includes parsing the message to extract different fields and corresponding priorities and selectively storing in fixed storage, data for corresponding ones of the different fields based upon consideration of corresponding ones of the priorities and the monitored operational performance. Finally, the method includes queuing the message in the message queue. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127303 | INTELLIGENTLY SHARING MESSAGES ACROSS GROUPS - Identifying recipients to receive communication based on content selection may be provided. An indication of content selected by a user is received. The content may be part of group communication that is communicated among users via an online communication application. The content and an author of the content are identified. One or more criteria may be applied to the content to determine the recipients of the communication. The communication may be transmitted as a single message to the recipients simultaneously. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127304 | AUTOMATIC SCHEDULING OF CONTENT DELIVERY - A content delivery system coupled to a computer network can provide large volumes of content to large numbers of recipients. The content is collected into digests and individual articles to be sent in email via an email channel established by the content delivery system to the recipients through the computer network. Content producers submit content for aggregation into various email deliveries and submit initial scheduling information. The scheduling information may specify target characteristics of preferred recipients of the content as well as general and initial scheduling preferences for email delivery. The content delivery system utilizes the initial scheduling information as a starting point for scheduling email deliveries. The system measures levels of content interaction by the recipients to gauge corresponding interest levels in the content. Using recipient interest levels as feedback, the content delivery system is able to modify and extend scheduling details to optimally schedule further deliveries of content. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127431 | SMOOTHING PEAK SYSTEM LOAD VIA BEHAVIOR PREDICTION IN COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS WITH TEMPORAL DATA ACCESS PATTERNS - Techniques are described above for smoothing peak load in collaborative systems. One embodiment includes, prior to a predicted peak load period, pre-staging user-data associated with one or more users of the collaborative system. During the predicted peak load period, a request from a first one of the users for access to the pre-staged user-data associated with the first user is received. And in response to the request, the pre-staged user-data is provided to the first user. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127436 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING USER-CONTROLLED FEATURES RELATING TO MEDIA CONTENT IN MULTIPLE ONLINE MEDIA COMMUNITIES AND NETWORKS - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating playlist assistance and sharing of media content over multiple media communities according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving, at a first computing device, a request relating to media content. The request may be placed by a user at a second computing device. The method may further include researching a plurality of media playlists at a plurality of media communities for the media content, selecting one or more of the plurality of media playlists at one or more of the media communities having the media content, and transmitting, from the first computing to the second computing device, the one or more media playlists having the media content. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127486 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION SHARING - Method and server system for location sharing are disclosed. The method includes: determining a motion state of a first user in accordance with respective information items related to a current location and a previous location of a first device associated with the first user; in accordance with a determination that the motion state of the first user is a stationary state, determining a user direction of the first user based an orientation of the first device associated with the current location; in accordance with a determination that the motion state of the first user is a moving state, determining the user direction of the first user based on a motion direction from the previous location to the current location of the first device; and sending the determined user direction of the first user to one or more second devices associated with one or more second users for location sharing. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160134568 | USER INTERFACE ENCAPSULATION IN CHAT-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A chat-based communication capability is presented. The chat-based communication capability may support encapsulation of a user interface within a chat session. The encapsulation of a user interface within a chat session may be provided by dynamically creating the user interface within the chat session. The creation of a user interface within a chat session may be supported by determining that the user interface is to be created within the chat session and propagating, toward a device supporting the chat session, information configured for use by the device to create the user interface within the chat session. The creation of a user interface within a chat session may be supported by receiving information configured for use by a device to create the user interface within the chat session and initiating creation of the user interface within the chat session based on the information configured for use by the device to create the user interface within the chat session. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134569 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device of the present invention includes a connecting section which connects application modules capable of performing application processing, a receiving section which receives an electronic mail including a command transmitted from a terminal device, an interpreting section which interprets the command included in the electronic mail received by the receiving section, a designating section which designates, from among the application modules connected by the connecting section, an application module corresponding to the command interpreted by the interpreting section as the execution destination of the command, an acquiring section which acquires a processing result of processing performed by the application module designated by the designating section, and a transmitting section which creates a response electronic mail with the processing result acquired by the acquiring section as a response, and transmits the response electronic mail to the terminal device. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134571 | AUTOMATED LARGE ATTACHMENT PROCESSING DURING MIGRATION - A network-based solution for automatically processing large email attachments or other files during migration between email platforms or other platforms, as may be embodied by various systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media, may involve downloading mailboxes from a source email platform and inspecting the mailboxes for emails containing attachment files. The solution may involve determining a file size of any detected attachment, comparing the file size of the detected attachment file to a predetermined attachment size limit, and uploading a copy of the detected attachment to a storage server for storage when the comparison determines that the file size of the detected attachment file exceeds the predetermined attachment size limit. The solution may further include modifying the email by replacing the detected attachment with a link to the copy of the detected attachment stored at the storage server and then migrating the modified email to the target email platform. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134572 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MESSAGE ATTACHMENT TRANSMISSION - Methods and devices for transmitting message attachments from a messaging server to a mobile device. The mobile device identifies if any of the attachments are of a first type and requests transmission, from the messaging server, of the identified attachments of the first type, if any. The device determines the remaining transmission capacity by subtracting the collective size of the message body received and the identified attachments of the first type, if any, from the initial data limit. Based on the remaining transmission capacity, the device determines that at least one of the one or more attachments, other than the identified attachments, has a size smaller than the remaining transmission capacity, and based on that determination, requests transmission of said at least one of the one or more attachments from the messaging server to the mobile device. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134574 | NOTIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC CONVERSATION - A computer system identifies an electronic conversation between a plurality of participants. The computer system identifies the plurality of participants. The computer system determines whether the plurality of participants match a specific list of participants that have been predetermined to be of interest to a user. In response to determining that the plurality of participants engaged in the electronic conversation matches the predetermined list of participants of interest to the user, the computer system notifies the user of the electronic conversation. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134577 | DETERMINING TEMPORAL RELEVANCE OF NEWSFEED STORIES - A social networking system generates stories based on actions of users in the system and provides a newsfeed to users that contain stories that related to one or more of their friends in the system. Although the story ranking algorithm includes a time decay to penalize older stories, stories may actually become stale at different rates. To measure the staleness of a story, the system computes a ratio of a current engagement rate for the story to an average engagement rate for the story. Based on this ratio, the system may filter out stale stories, includes the ratio as a feature in the scoring model, and/or adjust the decay rate. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134578 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CONNECTIONS - Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to perform a code based technique to identify at least one potential connection for a user. The code based technique comprises generating a code associated with the at least one potential connection; providing the code to a mobile device of the at least one potential connection; and providing information to allow the user to establish a connection with the at least one potential connection. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134579 | ALIGNING CONTENT AND SOCIAL NETWORK AUDIENCE USING ANALYTICS AND/OR VISUALIZATION - Various embodiments provide for the use of analytics to determine a number of key factors prior to a user sending a communication (e.g., an email or instant message, making an online social media post, or accepting or requesting friendship on a social media site). The analytics may determine content, subject, emotion, relationships, and other relevant details when users interact (e.g., with email or other social software). Any alerts/suggestions provided can be provided in real-time as the person types. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134581 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server including a controller to receive audio signals and content identification information from a media processor, generate text representing a voice message based on the audio signals, determine an identity of media content based on the content identification information, generate an enhanced message having text and additional content where the additional content is obtained by the controller based on the identity of the media content, and transmit the enhanced message to the media processor for presentation on the display device, where the enhanced message is accessible by one or more communication devices that are associated with a social network and remote from the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134582 | MANAGING AN EPHEMERAL POST IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A method of posting ephemeral posts is disclosed. The method starts with receiving, from a user of a social network, a request to post an ephemeral post, the request including an ephemeral variable associated with a threshold event. The ephemeral post is posted on behalf of the user. Then an occurrence of the threshold event is monitored. When the threshold event has not occurred, the post is allowed to be accessible to at least one viewer other than the user. When the threshold event has occurred, the post is blocked from being accessible by the at least one view other than the user. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPENLY SHARING AND SYNCHRONIZING INFORMATION ACROSS A PLURALITY OF MOBILE CLIENT APPLICATION COMPUTERS - A system and method for interactively sharing, synchronizing and controlling information among a plurality of users with different electronic contact types using network-based communication between a plurality of client applications on a plurality of mobile devices and a central controller computer, are described. In an exemplary embodiment, an information context may be configured as open by a first client application. A plurality of client applications may then share information within the information context whereby the plurality of client applications may join the information context using the information context identifier. A method for synchronization allows for shared information on different client devices to be controlled and automatically synchronized by the central controller. Messages, data structures, communications, and protocols between clients and the central controller allowing at least the creation, update, and deletion of information data related to the event, are described. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134664 | Providing Session Initiation Protocol Request Contents Method and System - An embodiment provides a user equipment that includes a processor configured to receive a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) NOTIFY message transmitted by a network component as a result of a registration event. The SIP NOTIFY message contains at least a portion of information included in a first SIP message sent between a first user equipment and the network component. Another embodiment provides method and apparatus for a network node to determine whether filter criteria include one or more indicators that specify the need for information, and including in a second SIP message the information specified by the one or more indicators. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134707 | CONTEXT PARAMETERS AND IDENTIFIERS FOR COMMUNICATION - In one aspect, a method related to communication. In addition, other method, system, and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and/or text forming a part of the present application. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160142344 | AUTOMATED RESPONSE ACTION IN MESSAGING APPLICATION - A messaging application such as an email application receives an electronic message including request text, and automatically analyzes the electronic message to extract the request text and match it to a matching predefined request. Predefined requests are associated with respective functions of the messaging application generating electronic messaging items. The electronic messaging item associated with the matching request is automatically generated. As an example, a matching request may be a request for a reply containing requested information. The requested information is obtained, and a reply message is automatically generated using a compose or reply function of the messaging application. The reply message can be presented to a user to enable the user to modify the message before it is sent. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142345 | METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL OF LOST OBJECTS - A method and program product include communicating with a server system to report a found tag associated with an owner's lost possession. The server system is operable for capturing contact information of a finder of the possession. An identification of the tag is communicated to the server system. The server system queries a database with the identification, and retrieves owner information associated with the identification. The server system further generates and sends a message to the owner. The message includes the captured contact information. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142346 | Avoiding Message Conflict - A communication system for communicating instant messages between a plurality of user accounts, each instant message forming part of a logical conversation stream comprising one or more such messages, the system comprising: a plurality of communication terminals, each communication terminal being configured to service a respective user account by simultaneously supporting multiple instant messaging clients, each client being (i) associated with a respective user interface different from that of the other instant messaging clients supported on the terminal, (ii) capable of transmitting and receiving instant messages to and from user accounts serviced on others of the communication terminals and (iii) configured to attribute to each instant message generated through that client an identifier corresponding to the client; a database storing a user profile for each of the user accounts, each user profile indicating which clients are supported by the communication terminal for the respective user account; and a server entity for supporting communication of the instant messages, the server having access to the database and being configured to direct instant messages received from one of the communication terminals to a specific instant messaging client on another communication terminal servicing an account of an intended recipient, the specific client being selected by the server entity in dependence on the identifier attributed to the message received from the said one of the terminals and the user profile of the account of the intended recipient. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142347 | INITIATING MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS FROM MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Methods for establishing simultaneous connections on a plurality of communication devices associated with a user implemented on an instant messaging program by issuing ring tones, audible notifications, or visual indications to the plurality of communication devices and constructing a state diagram for sending the ring tones, the audible notifications, or the visual indications to the plurality of communication devices. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142349 | MESSAGE GENERATION PROGRAM, MESSAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, AND MESSAGE GENERATION METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein a message generation program that causes a computer to execute a process includes converting a message generated according to occurrence of an event into converted data complying with a particular format, and transmitting a format information of the particular format, the converted data, and a restoring program, the restoring program restoring the message based on the format information and the converted data. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142350 | STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT OF MAIL ATTACHMENTS - A system according to certain aspects improves the process of sending emails containing attachments. The system can detect a request to send an email containing attachments to one or more recipients, create a copy of the attachments on a network storage device, replace the attachments contained in the email with links to the copies of the attachments, and send the email containing the links to the one or more recipients. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142351 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - An information processing system includes a register module, a determining module, and a transfer module. The register module is configured to store event data corresponding to a specific QR code. The determining module is configured to obtain the event data, and to communicate with a mobile device, so as to determine whether application programs on the mobile device includes a first application program which is corresponding to any one of the event data. If yes, the determining module transmits launch information to make the mobile device lunch the first application program. If not, the determining module transmits install information to make the mobile device install the first application program. The transmitting module is configured to transmit a message corresponding to the first application program to the mobile device, so that the first application program launched by the mobile device displays the message. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142352 | System and Method for Cloud Based IP Mobile Messaging Spam Detection and Defense - A cloud based mobile internet protocol messaging spam defense. Short message service (SMS) messages are analyzed by a cloud based virtual machine to determine if should be considered potentially unwanted messages (e.g., spam). The cloud based virtual machine uses a user specific algorithm for determining if a message should be considered to be a potentially unwanted message. Messages that are determined to be potentially unwanted messages trigger a notification to be sent to a user device associated with the virtual machine. The notification requests confirmation from the user that the potentially unwanted message is an unwanted message. The user's response to a request for confirmation is then used to update an unwanted message database associated with the user and the user device. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142353 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SPAM MAIL AND MAIL SERVER USING THE SAME - A method for identifying a spam mail and a mail server using the method are provided. The method includes: when receiving a mail, retrieving a mail header of the mail; obtaining reference servers from a received line of the mail header; obtaining mail forwarding information of a mail forwarding host of each of the reference servers, and obtaining mail receiving information of a mail receiving host of each of the reference servers; comparing the mail forwarding information of an i-th reference server with the mail receiving information of an (i−1)-th reference server; and when the mail forwarding information of the i-th reference server is completely different from the mail receiving information of the (i−1)-th reference server, identifying the mail as the spam mail. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142355 | MANAGING COMMUNICATION EXPLOITATION IN GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS - Techniques disclosed herein integrate communication mechanisms of a business or government with time management/calendar systems having knowledge of an employee's work schedule and geo-location, with a set of rules usable to selectively store and/or forward work related communications to an employee, while enabling overrides for emergencies, preventing employee self-exploitation, and monitoring for compliance. When a work related communications is sent towards an employee, the system receives the communication, and evaluates the communication based on the employee's work schedule, geo-location, and any other restrictions within the set of rules. When it is determined that the communications should be restricted from being sent, and no override to the restrictions is identified, then the communication is scheduled for transmission to the employee at a later time. Overrides to the restrictions are logged and monitored for compliance to company or public policy. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142356 | Message Driven Data Updates - Novel tools and techniques might be provide for implementing message-driven data updates. In some embodiments, a server might generate linear (e.g., short message service (“SMS”)) message(s) containing data updates, and might send the linear message(s) to a user device over a linear messaging communications network. The user device might receive the linear message containing data updates, and might divert, based on the format of the linear message, the linear message, from a queue of regular (i.e., message only) linear messages that are displayed to a user, to a translator device or application programming interface (“API”). The translator or API might parse the data updates in the linear message (in some cases, combining data updates in multiple linear messages, decrypting data updates, and/or the like) to generate data updates in data format, which are then relayed to one or more identified applications running on the user device for updating these applications. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142358 | RECIPIENT LOCATION AWARE NOTIFICATIONS IN RESPONSE TO RELATED POSTS - In one aspect, a method is provided, including the following method operations: receiving a request to generate a first post data item at a first location; providing for presentation of the first post data item at a second location; receiving a request to generate a second post data item at the second location, the second post data item being in reply to the first post data item; identifying a destination for notification about the second post data item; providing in association with the destination a notification identifying the second post data item, the notification being associated with the first location. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142359 | ITEM IMPORTANCE INDICATION - A method of operating a computerized device to indicate importance of messages to a user includes calculating importance scores for the messages based on importance features of the messages, the importance scores calculated as weighted sums of respective feature scores for the messages, and selecting messages for including in a subset of messages based on the importance scores. Message data and respective importance indicators for the subset of messages are displayed to the user, the importance indicators drawn from a set of distinct importance indicators corresponding to the set of importance features. An importance indicator is displayed for a given importance feature of a message when a feature score for the importance feature is above a threshold. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142360 | ELECTRONIC MAIL DELIVERY APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC MAIL DELIVERY METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - Various embodiments prevent erroneous transmission of electronic mails and therefore forestall information leakage in an electronic mail delivery apparatus. When an electronic mail is to be transmitted, a hidden letter selection unit presents a mail address specified as a transmission destination or source of the electronic mail with a part of the mail address presented as a hidden letter part. If a correct letter is entered in the hidden letter part of the mail address, a selective mail delivery unit executes the transmission of the electronic mail. If a correct letter is not entered in the hidden letter part of the mail address, the transmission of the electronic mail is stopped. Thereby, the effectiveness of operation for mail address checking can be improved, and the checking operation can be prevented from losing substance. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142361 | IMAGE WITH AUDIO CONVERSATION SYSTEM AND METHOD UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS - A system and method are presented that use an existing social networking message system to allow interactive audio commentary concerning a visual image. Audio is rendered into a video file containing the image. This video file is provided to a web page generation server that creates a web page containing the video file and appropriate metadata. A social networking message containing a link to the web page is sent over the existing message system. Existing applications read the social networking message, follow the link, read the metadata, and allow readers to play the video file. Users are encouraged to view the message using an app that can record a reply audio track. Recorded reply messages are added to the social networking message in the same manner as the original audio. Audio commentary concerning an image can also be added to a web page or blog post through a widget. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142362 | CUSTOM ENCODED MESSAGES AMONGST A CUSTOMIZED SOCIAL GROUP - A system and method for sending custom encoded messages amongst a customized social group. A selection of intended recipients within a subgroup from a list of contacts is received on a client device. It is determined whether all of the selected recipients are capable of receiving a custom encoded message. If it is negative, the method includes sending an invitation email to one or more of the selected recipients. If it is affirmative: the method includes receiving a message from the user intended for the selected recipient. An assignment of a graphical symbol to an alphabet is received from the user. The assignment associating with all of the intended recipients is stored in a memory of the client device. The assignment and the message are transmitted to a remote processor for converting the message to the custom encoded message based on the assignment and transmitting them to the device. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142363 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING INTENT - A method of operating an electronic device includes segmenting a second message in a first message, allocating the segmented second message to at least two queues, and performing a parallel-processing of the first message based on the allocated second message. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142364 | Secure Electronic Mail System - An e-mail system is disclosed that overcomes many deficiencies of, but is backward compatible with, existing e-mail systems. Embodiments of the system may include various features, including but not limited to: (1) secure transfer of e-mail messages, without the need for users to replace existing e-mail clients or to change e-mail addresses; (2) tracking of all actions performed in connection with an e-mail transmission; (3) the ability for a recipient to view information about an e-mail message, optionally including information about how other addressees have responded to it, before deciding whether to retrieve the e-mail message; (4) the aggregation of entire e-mail conversations into a single threaded view; (5) the ability to include both private and public messages in a single e-mail communication; (6) sender control over downstream actions performed in connection with an e-mail message; (7) flexible control over cryptographic methods used to encrypt emails messages for storage. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142498 | Managing Web Services Data and Presence Data - Interfacing a wireless device with web services, including social networking web services, is described. For example, a system for interfacing a wireless device with a plurality of web services comprises a web service proxy having an API to allow other modules to interface with the web service proxy; a plurality of web services adapters interfaced with the web services proxy through the API, each one of the web services adapters configured to communicate with a particular web service using the specific communication formats for the web service; where the web services adapters and the web services proxy convert between the communication formats employed to communicate with each of the web services and a wireless communication format, the wireless communication format being a different format than the communication formats for each of the web services, thereby enabling bi-directional communication between the wireless device and the plurality of web services. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160142505 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MESSAGE - An apparatus for processing a message is provided. The apparatus includes a message controller configured to check contents included in a push message, determine a template of the push message in relation to the contents, and generate a content message by using the contents and the template, and a message communication unit configured to receive the push message from a service server, and transmit the content message to an electronic device. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160149798 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SERVER, USER TERMINAL APPARATUS, METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGE, AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING MESSAGE - A message transmission system, a message transmission server, a user terminal apparatus, a method for transmitting a message, and a method for receiving a message are provided. The message transmission system includes a message transmission server configured to select a channel server to broadcast an input message, based on the input message, and transmit the input message; and a selected channel server configured to receive the message transmitted by the message transmission server, and broadcast the transmitted message to a terminal apparatus. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149836 | Communication and Messaging Architecture for Affiliated Real-Time Rich Communications Client Devices - A real-time rich communications (“RTC”) architecture consolidates a SIP/IMS framework and other frameworks for the desired communication and messaging services into a RTC host, which functions like a client to a SIP/IMS core in an IMS network, but which functions like a server to any number of RTC client devices over any number and any type of RTC capable networks. Advantageously, the RTC host may manage the RTC functions in the RTC clients without requiring support from any network infrastructure. Advantageously, the frameworks may be but need not necessarily be modular to facilitate design flexibility, modification, and upgrade. Advantageously, an RTC client may be a thin client. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149837 | SOCIAL NETWORK CHANNEL COMMUNICATION - Technologies are described for methods and systems effective for sending a communication from a first device to a second and a third device. The methods may comprise receiving a request to send the communication from the first device to a group that includes the second and the third device. The methods may include determining the group includes the second device and the third device. The methods may comprise identifying an email address associated with the second device. The methods may comprise identifying a text address associated with the third device. The methods may comprise sending the communication to the second device with use of the email address. The methods may comprise sending the communication to the third device with use of the text address. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149839 | Multi-Network Chat System - A network-based chat server provides a virtual chat room for chat participants, and synchronizes and shares chat dialogue exchanged between the chat participants regardless of whether the chat participants are logged onto the same chat platform or different chat platforms. The chat server includes a plurality of chat proxies; each of which is configured to communicate data with a particular chat platform. A chat synchronizer function executing at the chat server communicates the chat dialogue between the chat participants via the chat proxies. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149840 | PRESENCE AND GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION NOTIFICATION BASED ON A DELEGATION MODEL - A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, may store contact information about people on the mobile device. Information describing the on-line presence of the user within the instant messaging system or geographic location of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone associated with the user system, may be disseminated to users on the participant list or people on the contact list based on notification information that is associated with groups of users or contacts. A delegation model is used to control whether a user is permitted to make modifications to the notification information. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149842 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR COMMUNICATING AND DISPLAYING CONTENT IN A MESSENGER APPLICATION - In one example embodiment, a communication method includes identifying a selection instruction for content provided by a content provider, and establishing a communication link between a first account of a user and a second account of a business operator relevant to the content based on the identification of the selection instruction. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND ACCESSING COLLABORATIVE ELECTRONIC MULTIMEDIA COMPOSITIONS - Systems and methods for production of a collaborative electronic multimedia composition allow an initiator to select a collaboration template and multiple collaborating users. The collaborating users receive invitations to contribute to the collaborative electronic multimedia composition by customizing one or more fields of the collaboration template with multimedia content, including for example photographs and captions. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149846 | PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING USING MESSAGE STRUCTURE - Publish/subscribe messaging using a message structure carried out at a messaging intermediary system is provided. A plurality of lists to which publishing entities can publish messages and to which subscribing entities can subscribe to messages is maintained. A list for messages conforming, at least partly, to a common message structure is provided. A request from a publishing entity or a subscribing entity is matched to one or more provided lists by comparing a message having a message structure or an abstract representation of one or more messages to the provided lists. Messages conforming, at least partly, to the common message structure via the list are shared. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149847 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORRELATING CONVERSATIONS IN MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - A computer based method for correlating conversations is provided, including the steps of providing a discussion interface at an interface device, receiving an indication that one of several messages displayed at the discussion interface is part of an active conversation, providing a message entry location for imputing new messages associated with the discussion interface, and receiving new messages at the message entry location. New messages received are automatically associated with the active conversation by displaying them with a visual cue shared by all messages associated with the active conversation. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149848 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED COMMUNICATION IN EMAIL APPLICATIONS - A method and system for providing a communication stream for associating messages are described. A communication stream receives various message types including messages, posts, events, tasks, and comments, and presents them to users. Private messages relating to one or more messages may be sent between and among one or more users. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149849 | Systems and Methods for Generating a Message Topic Training Dataset from User Interactions in Message Clients - Systems and methods for classifying messages are provided. Each message in a plurality of messages is classified, thereby independently identifying a message category in a set of message categories for each respective message in the plurality of messages. The plurality of messages is delivered to a plurality of recipients with a designation of the message category of each respective message in the first plurality of messages. A plurality of recipient initiated message interaction events for messages in the first plurality of messages over a predetermined period of time is collected from the plurality of recipients. A message categorization dataset is then constructed from (i) the first plurality of messages, (ii) the designation of the message category of each respective message in the subset of the first plurality of messages, and (iii) the plurality of recipient initiated message interaction events. This message categorization dataset is used to train or evaluate a message classifier. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149850 | INTELLIGENT SCHEDULING FOR EMPLOYEE ACTIVATION - Techniques for intelligent scheduling of content sharing by company employees via an online social networking service are described. According to various embodiments, a request is received from a member of an online social networking service to share a content item among members in the member's connection network on the online social networking service. Member behavior log data associated with the members in the connection network of the member is then accessed. Thereafter, an optimum sharing time for sharing the content item among the members in the member's connection network is calculated. The content item is then caused to be shared at the optimum sharing time with the members in the member's connection network. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149851 | SUGGESTED CONTENT FOR EMPLOYEE ACTIVATION - Techniques for identifying suggested online content for company administrators to broadcast to company employees via an online social networking service are described. According to various embodiments, a plurality of suggested content items are displayed, via an administrator user interface, to a user associated with a company. A user request is then received via the administrator user interface, the request being to broadcast a recommendation to view a specific content item of the suggested content items to one or more employees of the company that are members of an online social networking service. The recommendation to view the specific content item is then broadcast to the employees of the company. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149852 | GROUP FORMATION FOR EMPLOYEE ACTIVATION - Techniques for forming groups of employees for receiving online content broadcasted by company administrators via an online social networking service are described. According to various embodiments, a plurality of content items is displayed, via an administrator user interface, to a user associated with a company. Thereafter, a user specification of a topic-based group is received together with a user request to broadcast a recommendation to view a specific content item to one or more employees of the company that are members of an online social networking service and that are associated with the topic-based group. The employees of the company that are associated with the topic-based group are then identified, and the recommendation to view the specific content item is broadcasted to the employees of the company that are associated with the topic-based group. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160150009 | ACTIONABLE SOUVENIR FROM REAL-TIME SHARING - A souvenir is provided to enable participants in a real-time sharing session to retain access to the shared content and experiences when the real-time sharing is completed in a fully actionable manner in which all of the functionality and interactivity of the content and experiences are maintained as when they were originally shared. Each of the sharing participants can get a souvenir that can be used to initiate access to the shared content such as a photo or replay an experience such as a telling of a bedtime story. In cases where user generated content (UGC) such as mark-ups, annotations, commentary, content links, highlights, animations, graphics, drawings, directions, points-of-interest, etc., were part of the real-time sharing session—for example, an annotated webpage, a marked-up map, voice commentary over a video recording of a live event, etc.—such UGC can be maintained as part of the post-sharing actionable souvenir experience too. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160150036 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING PHOTOGRAPHIC CONTENT - A method and system for sharing photographic content, the method comprising generating social media content for a photograph feed associated with a photograph that is shared on a social network, the photograph located at a first location and including scannable code, receiving activity information associated with the photograph from one or more client devices, the activity information including scanning of the scannable code and geographical data of the one or more client devices, and determining movements of the photograph from the first location based on the geographical data. The method further comprises updating the social media content with geographical locations and distances traveled from the first location based on the activity information and the determined movements. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160156573 | Determining the Status of A Device Through Use of a Publisher/Subscriber Interface | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156575 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156576 | USER DEVICE, CLOUD SERVER AND SHARE LINK IDENTIFICATION METHOD | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156577 | ONLINE ADAPTIVE FILTERING OF MESSAGES | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156578 | Ingesting Forum Content | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156579 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING USER JUDGMENT BASED ON PARTIAL FEEDBACK AND APPLYING IT TO MESSAGE CATEGORIZATION | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING MESSAGE SIMILARITY | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156581 | Message Notification Method, System, and Device for a Communication Account | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156582 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION USING UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS ASSOCIATED WITH ELECTRONIC ADDRESSES | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156583 | SELECTIVELY DELAYING SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156585 | CONDITIONAL DISCLOSURE OF A RESPONSE TO CONTENT POSTED IN A SOCIAL NETWORK | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156586 | DELIVERY OF MESSAGES FOR A LIFE EVENT OF USER OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156589 | Method and System for Advanced Alias Domain Routing | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160157171 | Technique for Providing Service Availability Indications | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160157206 | INFORMATION NOTIFICATION METHOD AND INSTANT NOTIFICATION DEVICE | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160162471 | INTELLIGENT SOCIAL FEED GENERATOR - An intelligent social feed generator system leverages existing social platforms to generate context specific social feeds having enhanced messages that facilitate context specific user actions. The system implements technical features that analyze messages on existing social platforms to determine a message context and identify responsive user actions. The system generates enhanced messages allowing the user to take such action. The system also dynamically generates an enhanced social feed based on a particular usage context, where the social feed is formed of messages that match the usage context. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160162838 | SUPPLY CHAIN MESSAGE MANAGEMENT AND SHIPMENT CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATION - A method of adapting a message translation system includes receiving a message from a sender; selecting a configuration set from a stored plurality of configuration sets based on at least two of: information regarding the sender of the message, information regarding a recipient of the message, and information regarding the message type; processing the message in accordance with information derived from the selected configuration set; identifying an issue with the processing of the message in accordance with information derived from the selected configuration set; determining a resolution for the identified issue with the processing of the message in accordance with information derived from the selected configuration set; updating the selected configuration set based upon the determined resolution; reprocessing the message in accordance with information derived from the updated configuration set; and transmitting the message reprocessed in accordance with information derived from the updated configuration set to a recipient. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160162839 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFLINE SYNCHRONIZATION OF EXCEPTION ITEMS OF SHARED SERVICES FOR CLIENT APPLICATIONS - Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and UI modifications for existing applications are used to implement efficient methods for taking content offline with full synchronization, incremental synchronization, in the case of document libraries per-folder synchronization, and the like. The APIs provide support for synchronizing changes to attachments, the ability to download a document library's complete contents or only a list of the available documents, and read-only folder hierarchy replication in the case of document libraries. These abilities coupled with corresponding user interface features enable easier browsing and searching of large document library structures, making edits to those documents offline, being able to see an up-to-date version of those documents in a preview mode, and receiving reminders when offline edits remain on the local computer and need to be updated to a server. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164808 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSTANT MESSAGING - A method for instant messaging includes: sending a prompt message in a group chat when a first member sends a new message in the group chat, the prompt message being configured to prompt all members in the group chat existence of a new message; receiving a read request configured to request reading of the new message to a second member in the group chat; and screening the read request according to a predefined rule so as to determine whether to allow the terminal device to display the new message. The present disclosure may accurately control which member in the group chat can obtain permission of reading new messages without creating a new group chat or a new topic, thus guaranteeing privacy and security of messages, greatly reducing operation complexity, increasing interestingness of group chat, and improving activity of group chat and user experience. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164810 | MULTI-ENDPOINT ACTIONABLE NOTIFICATIONS - An actionable notification service supports a notification publication and subscription system that interacts with registered endpoints such as smartphones, tablets, and PCs so that notifications can be distributed and effectively managed across multiple endpoints. Applications on registered endpoints can publish notifications into the system to which other registered endpoints may subscribe. The notifications received at the subscribing endpoints are displayed and raised in a manner to be fully actionable so that users can interact with the publishing application as a native experience using either a local handler or by implementing a remote session into the publishing endpoint. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164813 | CONVERSATION AGENT - Various systems and methods for a conversation agent are described herein. A system for a conversation agent includes a context module to determine a context of a conversation involving a first participant and a second participant; a conversation history module to access a conversation history of the first participant and a conversation history of the second participant; a conversation topic module to identify a conversation topic using the context of the conversation, the conversation history of the first participant, and the conversation history of the second participant; and a presentation module to present the conversation topic to the first participant. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164815 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A terminal device is provided. The terminal device includes a communication interface configured to perform communication with an external device, as chatting begins, a display configured to display chatting messages sent and received through the communication interface, a storage, and a processor configured to classify the chatting messages into a plurality of dialogue sessions, store keywords for defining the respective classified dialogue sessions on the storage, and provide the dialogue session matching at least one keyword through the display when an event associated with at least one keyword among the plurality of keywords stored on the storage occurs. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164816 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELF-DESTRUCTING MESSAGES - Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically deleting messages from a recipient's inbox. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability for automatic actions to be taken on delivered messages based on a passage of time. This enables a sender of messages, email service provider and/or email platform to exert control over sent messages to limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on such messages. For example, operations such as saving, forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise duplicating the message and/or message data can be prohibited and all together rendered impossible. The disclosed systems and methods enables the purging of messages and associated message data from a recipient's inbox at a certain specified time, after the passage of a pre-determined amount of time, or upon the detection of a specified event. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164818 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USER-TO-MACHINE AND MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION THROUGH INSTANT MESSAGING - A system includes at least one first service device. Each first service device has one or more processors, a service instant messaging (IM) application, and at least one first service. The service IM application, when executed at the one or more processors of the at least one first service device, is configured to receive at least one command instant message, where the at least one command instant message comprises at least one first command associated with the at least one first service, extract the at least one first command from the at least one command instant message, and send the extracted first command to the at least one first service such that the at least one first service performs a corresponding first function based on the extracted first command. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIAGING IN A MESSAGE SYSTEM ON SEND FLOW - The present disclosure relates to improving the performance of computer systems and/or platforms programmed to work in concert with messaging systems for mail triaging. Disclosed are computer systems and methods for enabling a sender of a message to classify a message addressed to the recipient's inbox prior to sending the message based on triaging settings set by the recipient. Message triaging can include applying a recipient created flag to the message, categorizing the message according to a category preset by the recipient and/or instructing the message to be delivered to a specific folder(s) in the recipient's inbox based on folder instructions set by the recipient. The message sender is capable of classifying the message according to classifications the recipient has designated, whereby upon delivery of the message, the message is delivered and displayed in the recipient's inbox according to the recipient's settings that were selected by the sender. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164820 | DEFERRING ALERT OF NOTIFICATIONS FOR A PARTICULAR TIME - A computing system is described that receives, at a particular time, notification data, the notification data indicating a threshold amount of time for which the computing system is to delay outputting an alert based on the notification data. The computing system initiates, based on the threshold amount of time, a deferred output of the alert based on the notification data. Responsive to determining that the threshold amount of time has elapsed since the particular time, the computing system outputs the alert based on the notification data. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164821 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING FEED INFORMATION TO ONE OR MORE RECIPIENTS - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media for communicating feed information to one or more recipients. In some implementations, an instruction to communicate an information update to one or more identified first recipients is received. In some instances, an additional recipient indicator is identified and an identification of one or more second recipients based on the additional recipient indicator is generated. In some instances, the one or more second recipients are provided access to the information update. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164822 | SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computing system for providing a plurality of users of a social network with the ability to indicate affinity with an electronic object. An indication is received from a first user of the plurality of users to initiate an object-specific, synchronous communication session concerning the electronic object. Electronic invitations to join the object-specific, synchronous communication session are provided to one or more invited users of the plurality of users of the social network. A request is received, from at least one of the invited users, to join the object-specific, synchronous communication session. The object-specific, synchronous communication session is provided for the first user and the at least one of the invited users. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164823 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICE USERS - Provided are systems and methods for establishing a communication between mobile device users that register with a collaboration system. The collaboration system determines a match between profile data of the first registered mobile device and profile data of the second registered mobile device. Displayed at the first registered mobile device is a first list of user identifications, which includes an identification of a user of the second registered mobile device and an identification of a user of at least one other mobile device. Displayed at the second registered mobile device is a second list of user identifications. The second list includes an identification of a user of the first registered mobile device and an identification of at least one other mobile device user. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164824 | COMMON AGGREGATOR FRAMEWORK FOR SMS AGGREGATORS - A method, system, and computer program product for short messaging service (SMS) aggregation system setup. A computing platform (e.g., a server, a multi-processor server, a cloud array, a processor, etc.) is configured to receive messages over a network (e.g., an aggregator carrier network) and to deliver the messages to a processing entity executing on the computing platform. The processing entity receives messages comprising a set of SMS configuration parameters such as SMS configuration parameters to identify an SMS aggregator identifier and SMS configuration parameters comprising an aggregator network type and/or an aggregator carrier name. The SMS configuration parameters are stored for later retrieval and used when formatting and sending SMS messages. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164927 | SOCIAL MEDIA SESSION ACCESS - A method for social media session access includes, by a computing device, receiving a user request to join a social media session. If the social media session has less than a predetermined quantity of current users, the user is granted access to the session. If the social media session has the predetermined quantity of current users, information about the user is stored user in a list of users waiting to join the session. As slots in the session become available, users are selected from the waitlist. An owner of the session may determine the criteria used in selecting from among multiple users in the waitlist. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164928 | Goal-Based Connection Management Between Parties - A monitoring computer system receives a message, from a first party, which identifies a goal of the first party. The monitoring computer system receives an identity of a second party that has been selected by the first party to assist the first party in achieving the identified goal of the first party. An electronic communication connection is created for electronic communications between the first party and the second party, wherein the electronic communications are related to accomplishing the goal of the first party. The electronic communications between the first party and the second party are monitored by executing message analytics to determine a status of the goal of the first party. In response to determining that the goal of the first party has reached a predefined status, a predefined action that has been associated with the predefined status of the goal is executed. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDIATING AND PROVISIONING SERVICES - Equipments and methods for a mediator server controlling communication between clients and service provider(s). Clients are associated with a client identifier address. The mediator uses multiple addresses for receiving communications from the clients regarding the provider(s). The mediator sends to the clients a set of inquiry messages pertaining to the service provider, in a first communication format and associated with a particular reply address. The mediator receives reply message(s) from the clients at the particular reply address, the reply message including the client identifier address and a reply generated at the client terminal device. The mediator sends the client terminal device(s) service continuation information by which the client(s) can continue service provisioning in a second communication format which is different from the first communication format. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164985 | SELECTING COMMENTS FOR PRESENTATION TO A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER ALONG WITH A CONTENT ITEM - A social networking system maintains various content items with one or more content items associated with comments provided by social networking system users. When a user requests a content item associated with one or more comments, the social networking system determines likelihoods of the user performing a type of interaction with the one or more comments based on characteristics of the comments. For example, the social networking system determines likelihoods of the user requesting to view one or more of the comments. Based on the determined likelihoods, the social networking system generates an instruction describing presentation of comments. The instruction may identify a set of comments for presentation along with the content item that are selected based on the determined likelihoods. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164987 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY MONITORING AND SEARCHING SOCIAL NETWORKING MEDIA - A system for continuously monitoring and searching social networking media allowing at least one client to access the system through a respective connection link and for connecting to at least one social networking media through a connection link. The system further comprises a connecting module comprising at least one connecting unit to connect to the at least one social network media for receiving continuously for a time selected by the activity data shared in real time and/or posted by users of the social network media; and a processing module comprising a processing unit, configured to process continuously for the time selected by the client the received activity data based on at least one pre-determined monitoring criterion selected by the client from a number of predetermined criteria, and a notification unit configured to send a notification to the client when the received activity data meet the selected monitoring criteria. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160164990 | Method for Sending Heartbeat Message and Mobile Terminal - A method for sending a heartbeat message and a mobile terminal are disclosed. The method includes determining, according to a heartbeat message sending period, a first time point at which a heartbeat message needs to be sent; before the first time point arrives, determining whether a push message has been received to obtain a first determining result; and when the first determining result is no and the first time point arrives, waking up the modem to send a heartbeat message to a service push server. Using the method or the mobile terminal of the present disclosure, power consumption for sending a heartbeat message by a terminal may be reduced, and further average standby power consumption of the terminal may be reduced, thereby prolonging a standby time of the terminal. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160173419 | Instant Messaging System and Method | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173420 | MESSAGE RETRIEVAL IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING NETWORK | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173421 | COMMUNICATION VERIFICATION BASED UPON MESSAGE CONTENT AND RECIPIENT PROFILE | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173423 | Dynamic Subscription and Message Routing on a Topic Between Publishing Nodes and Subscribing Nodes | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173424 | Messaging System For Initiating Event Based Workflow | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173426 | CORRECTION OF INCOMING MESSAGING | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173427 | CROSS PLATFORM DISCOVERY AND COMMUNICATION OVER A LOCAL NETWORK | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173428 | ENHANCING A MESSAGE BY PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT IN THE MESSAGE | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173430 | PRESENCE-BASED COMMUNICATIONS | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173431 | Electronic Message Redacting | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173432 | ENHANCING COMMUNICATION | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173433 | DISPLAYING AT LEAST ONE CATEGORIZED MESSAGE BASED ON A PERCENTAGE | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173435 | ORIGIN-BASED CONSOLIDATION OF RELATED CONTENT WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORK POSTS | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173436 | Event Planning on Online Social Networks | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173438 | INTEGRATING COMMUNICATION MODES IN PERSISTENT CONVERSATIONS | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173557 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A SUBSCRIPTION-BASED SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173596 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDING DIGITAL CONTENT TO CONTENT MANAGEMENT SERVICE ACCOUNTS | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173642 | System And Method For Generating A Call For Media In A Communication System | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160182242 | Distributing Messages in a Network Environment | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182298 | RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT OF DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION PROCESSING OPTIMIZATIONS BASED ON CONNECTION STATUS | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182410 | Conversation Advisor | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182411 | E-MAIL INBOX ASSISTANT TO REDUCE CONTEXT SWITCHING | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182412 | COLLABORATIVE DRAFTING OF A MESSAGE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182414 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGING MANAGEMENT | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182416 | Distributing Messages in a Network Environment | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182417 | System, Method and Computer Program Product to Extract Information from Email Communications | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182418 | PRIVATE TOKENS IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182419 | SOCIAL NETWORK ACTIVITY MODES | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182420 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Prioritizing Electronic Messages Based On Importance | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182421 | POLICY-BASED DELAYED DISPATCH OF E-MAIL MESSAGES | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182422 | Gallery of Messages from Individuals with a Shared Interest | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182424 | Location Data for Defining Places and Traffic | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182425 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BASED ON GEOLOCATION | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182427 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182428 | E-MAIL INBOX ASSISTANT TO REDUCE CONTEXT SWITCHING | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182429 | POLICY-BASED DELAYED DISPATCH OF E-MAIL MESSAGES | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182431 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO CONTACTS WITHOUT BEING GIVEN CONTACT DATA | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182433 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ONTOLOGY BASED REQUEST/REPLY SERVICE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182434 | WITHDRAWAL OF A MESSAGE SENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182436 | System And Method For Facilitating Driver Communication Via An Audio Centric Network | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182437 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182439 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING NETWORK COMMUNICATION DURING EMAIL DATA TRANSFER | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182651 | MULTIMODAL CONVERSATION TRANSFER | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AND PRESENTING HISTORICAL COMMUNICATION DATA | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182667 | Management Application for an Application Router | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182677 | METHOD OF ENABLING DIGITAL MUSIC CONTENT TO BE DOWNLOADED TO AND USED ON A PORTABLE WIRELESS COMPUTING DEVICE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182679 | Content Delivery System, Delivery Server, Receiving Terminal, and Content Delivery Method | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160188153 | Social messaging system for real-time selection and sorting of photo and video content - Systems and methods for implementing a social messaging network are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method includes hosting a social messaging network, receiving a contest from a sender client device, generating a set of answer objects having a visibility region and a tap region, sending instructions for generating a graphical user interface to a recipient client device, displaying the set of answer objects on the graphical user interface, and receiving feedback from the recipient client device. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191428 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO MEDIA CONTENT - A system and method are provided for providing access to media provided by a media service. A first request and a second request are sent by the media service to a first device and a second device using a messaging protocol, the first request and second request being associated with the ability to access the particular media using the media service. The media service receives, via the messaging protocol, a first response from the first device and a second response from the second device. A determination is made as to whether the first response and the second response are compatible. A dispute resolution between the first device and the second device is initiated based on determining that the first response and the second response are not compatible. Access to the particular media provided by the media service is permitted or denied according to the dispute resolution. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191432 | SECURE CONVERSATION AND DOCUMENT BINDER - Disclosed are various embodiments for maintaining a collection of documents and user-defined messages made in conversations such that the collection may be accessed in a secure and manageable manner. A user-defined message may be stored by a collection control application in at least one data store according to a message storage policy and a portion of the user-defined message may be associated with at least one file in a collection of files. A manifest may be generated that enables access to the portion of the user-defined message and the at least one file. The manifest may comprise a location reference for each of the plurality of files in the collection of files and the user-defined message and an indication that the portion of the user-defined message is associated with the at least one file in the collection of files. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191433 | SERVERS, SERVER CONTROL METHODS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMS - In a server, a transceiver is configured to receive a request for content from a first terminal device through a first application, and to transmit response data to the first terminal device and a second terminal device. At least one memory is configured to store permission information indicative of whether the first terminal device and the second terminal device are permitted to access the requested content, the at least one memory having computer-readable instructions stored therein. At least one processor is configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to: determine whether the second terminal device is permitted to access the requested content based on the permission information stored in the memory; and generate the response data based on a result of the determination. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191435 | CONTENT-ITEM LINKING SYSTEM FOR MESSAGING SERVICES - A client service, such as a plug-in to a browser, can alter a document retrieved from a compatible service to augment the document with services from an online content management service. When an application retrieves a compatible document, the client service can detect a document element within the document and alter the document to provide an activatable reference to the online content management service. For example, a client service can recognize an email composition webpage or an email display webpage and insert activatable references provide services from the online content management service. In email composition webpages, a reference can be a button that allows an email author to insert a link to a content item from the online content management service. In email display webpages, references can be added that allow attachments to be sent to the online content management service for storage. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191436 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FILTERING MESSAGES - In a method for filtering messages being executed by at least one processor of electronic devices, the method includes detecting a message filtering template set by the first electronic device when the first electronic logs into the server successfully; sends a content of the message filtering template and a communication request from the first electronic device to the server; sends the content to the second electronic device by the server, the content of the message filtering template including functions of stop receiving messages from group members within a first certain period of time or refusing to send messages to one or more group members within a second certain period of time; and receiving a selection from the second electronic device through the server. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191437 | Data Transmission Management for Computer Based Inter-User Communication - Methods and systems for inter-user communication that can provide data transmission management for more efficient communications are disclosed. The methods and systems can provide enhanced electronic communications, such as via electronic mail or text messaging. Improved communication tools can be provided to better management and/or control communications. The enhanced communication tools can be implemented by electronic devices, namely, computing devices, including portable or handheld electronic devices. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191438 | FILTERING NOTIFICATIONS FROM A THIRD PARTY APPLICATION TO A USER OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM BASED ON AN ACTION OF THE USER - A method for filtering a notification being provided from an application to a user of a social networking system based on an action of the user is described. The method starts by receiving the notification from the application to the user. If the notification is a first notification sent from the application to the user, the notification is displayed to the user with (i) a prompting message that includes a selectable opt in image, and (ii) a selectable opt out image. The prompting message includes a request to opt in to receiving notifications from the application. If the notification is not the first notification sent from the application to the user, the method determines whether to display the notification to the user by determining whether the user previously opted in to notifications from the application and whether click-through rate (CTR) of notifications from the application is greater than CTR threshold. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191439 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNFILTERING FILTERED STATUS MESSAGES - An approach for unfiltering a filtered electronic communication is provided. In one aspect, a computer system receives filtered electronic communication, wherein the filtered electronic communication is a status message. Moreover, the computer system determines a requestor of the filtered electronic communication. The computer system also detects an attempt made to communicate with the requestor. Furthermore, the computer system unfilters, in response to the attempt, the filtered electronic communication. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191440 | INTELLIGENT PREVENTION OF SPAM EMAILS AT SHARE SITES - A computer-implemented method for preventing spam emails from a share site includes providing a network-based computer system to enable users to set up share sites and to send emails from the share sites, detecting potential spam emails based on one or more spam detection rules, identifying false positive emails in the potential spam emails based on one or more false alarm reduction rules, removing false positive emails from the potential spam emails to produce a list of verified spam emails, identifying a sender of the list of verified spam emails as a spammer, and prohibiting the spammer from sending emails from one or more share sites owned spammer. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191441 | Time-Managed Electronic Mail Messages - Systems, method sand computer program products for facilitating the automatic deletion of received emails after a user-selectable time period has elapsed are disclosed. In various embodiments, email messages contain a header field referred to as an “Expiration Time” header field that dictates the length of time the email will reside in a designated Inbox prior to its automatic deletion by an email server. The server is able to automatically delete the received email as long as the email is residing in a folder that is synched to the server. A user receiving the email has access to the Expiration Time Header field and can modify its value if desired and allowed by the sender. The user can move the retrieved email to a folder that is not synched to the server, thus preventing the email from being automatically deleted by the server. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191442 | Message Communication Systems and Applications with Message Lifetime Settings for Automatic message Deletion - Computer implemented methods, systems and computer readable media are provided for processing and managing electronic messaging. In one example, a system includes a client interface for enabling access to users of the electronic messaging system. Each user is provided with an inbox for electronically receiving messages and a sent box for electronically sending messages. The client interface is configured to receive an input for setting a lifetime setting for a message that is composed by a sender to a recipient via the client interface. Further provided is processing logic of the electronic messaging system for tracking messages having a lifetime setting and processing logic for deleting a message having a lifetime setting after expiration of a time period defined by the lifetime setting. The deleting is configured to remove the message from the sent box of the sender and the inbox of the recipient. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191443 | CLOUD-BASED DELIVERY NOTIFICATIONS FOR MESSAGING SYSTEMS - A message identifier collector may collect message identifiers identifying sent messages having been sent by originating devices and identifying received messages of the sent messages that have been received at corresponding recipient devices. A message identifier matcher may match a sent message identifier for a sent message of the sent messages with a received message identifier for a corresponding received message of the received messages at a corresponding recipient device, and a delivery notification generator may send a delivery notification to an originating device of the originating devices that originally sent the sent message, thereby indicating receipt of the message at the corresponding recipient device. A delivery notification network path along which the message identifiers and the delivery notification are sent is different from a message delivery network path along which the message is sent. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191444 | Data Transmission Management for Computer Based Inter-User Communication - Methods and systems for inter-user communication that can provide data transmission management for more efficient communications are disclosed. The methods and systems can provide enhanced electronic communications, such as via electronic mail or text messaging. Improved communication tools can be provided to better management and/or control communications. The enhanced communication tools can be implemented by electronic devices, namely, computing devices, including portable or handheld electronic devices. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191445 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENDING MESSAGES TO A PLURALITY OF RECIPIENTS - In a method for sending messages to a plurality of recipients, for at least one first recipient in a non-empty set of first recipients of a message, a search is conducted in at least one directory for an address of a second recipient associated with said first recipient in said directory. If at least one address of a second recipient is found, the search result is supplemented to a set of second recipients before the message is submitted to recipients included in any set of recipients of said message. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191446 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROMPTING COMMUNICATION AMONG USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - Techniques for prompting communication among members of a social network are described. A social server may include an interaction detection component configured to detect a user interaction of a first user with an information unit. An information component of the social server may be configured to store an association between the first user and the information unit. A correlation component of the social server may be configured to correlate the first user with one or more other users based upon one or more stored associations. A messaging server may include a display component and a messaging component. The display component may be configured to provide a prompt to the first user suggesting that the first user initiate a communication with the one or more other users, the prompt based at least in part on the correlation. The messaging component may be configured to initiate a communication with the one or more other users in response to a selection of the prompt by the first user. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191448 | PROVIDING TRANSLATIONS OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES VIA A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for providing translations of electronic messages via a social networking system. For example, systems and methods described herein involve determining whether to provide an electronic message or a translation of the electronic message to a recipient based on social networking activities of the recipient. Furthermore, systems and methods described herein can provide a translation of an electronic message based on an analysis of social networking activities of one or more recipients of the electronic message. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191449 | RANDOM CONTENT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A random content messaging system and method are provided. The system and method allows users to submit content to a service and the system makes that content available for discovery, viewing and interaction by other users as unorganized random selection of items. The submitted content, in the form of threaded conversations, is only discoverable by users of the system via that random request & selection mechanism. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191450 | Recommendations Engine in a Layered Social Media Webpage - A social media system directs content data to users according to content affinity data received from users. A server program assigns work queue pipelines on the server a processing priority in numeric order of (i) expressed affinity data, (ii) calculated affinity data, (iii) collaborative filtering affinity data, (iv) content-based affinity data, and (v) global user average affinity data. Collaborative filtering affinity data comprises item based collaborative filtering data and user based collaborative filtering data with item based data being granted a higher processing priority than user based data. The processing priority at the server determines how quickly content data at an end user device can be updated. The user devices, accessed by a user with an account on the social network described herein, displays content data received from the server in accordance with processed affinity data received by the server. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191451 | E-MAIL STATUS NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for alerting e-mail activity status. The system has at least one e-mail server for integrating N e-mail accounts, at least one second server communicating with the e-mail server adapted to monitor at the e-mail server; at least one computer readable medium (CRM) adapted to receiving an e-mail alert wherein the second server identifies activity status in the e-mail server according to a set of predetermined parameters. The second server alerts the CRM on the activity status. The parameters may consist of entries to e-mail accounts type of actions performed in an e-mail account and other activities and events. The invention further comprises methods of applying the aforementioned system. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191452 | Electronic Message Handling System and Method Between Sending and Recipient Devices with Separation of Display of Media Component and Header Information - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability by separation of display of media component of message content and header information. An electronic message having an identifier of a recipient and a message content including a media component is received at a server from a sending user device at which a display for associating the media component with the electronic message is provided without displaying the identifier of a recipient with the media component such that a single screen capture of the identifier of a recipient and the media component is prevented. The electronic message including an identifier of a sending user is transmitted to a recipient user device at which a display presenting the media component is provided without displaying the identifier of a sending user such that a single screen capture of both the identifier of a sending user and the media component is prevented. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191453 | NETWORK-BASED MESSAGING SYSTEM WITH DATABASE MANAGEMENT FOR COMPUTER BASED INTER-USER COMMUNICATION - Methods and systems for network-based messaging systems with database management for supporting based inter-user communications, such as via computing devices, are disclosed. The methods and systems facilitate improved message transmission management for more efficient communications. The methods and systems can provide enhanced electronic communications, such as via electronic mail or text messaging. Improved communication tools are provided to better manage and/or control communications. The computing devices can be personal communication/computing devices, such as mobile, portable or handheld computing devices (e.g., smart phone, a laptop, a tablet, etc.). | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191638 | TRUSTED DEVICE IDENTIFICATION AND EVENT MONITORING - A method includes identifying individuals that are affiliated with a user. The method includes incorporating trusted devices associated with the identified individuals into an event monitor network that is configured to monitor for an occurrence of a monitored event. The method includes identifying a particular input that suggests the occurrence of the monitored event. The method includes communicating to the trusted devices, an input sample that is used for recognition of the particular input from general input that is measured by sensors of the trusted devices. The method includes receiving from at least one of the trusted devices, an event message that indicates the particular input is observed by at least one of the sensors. In response to the event message, the method includes communicating to a user interface of a user device associated with the user, an alarm message that indicates the occurrence of the monitored event. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191656 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR RELATIONSHIP MAPPING - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems for relationship mapping are detailed. In some embodiments, a post by a first user includes a relationship term associated with a second user. Depending upon privacy policy settings, a link to the second user's profile. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160197858 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND RECORDING MEDIUMS FOR PROVIDING MESSENGER SERVICE WITH USER CUSTOMIZABLE TEMPLATES | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160197859 | MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160197860 | PRESERVING COLLABORATION HISTORY WITH RELEVANT CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160197861 | PRESERVING COLLABORATION HISTORY WITH RELEVANT CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160197863 | SCHEDULE BASED EXECUTION WITH EXTENSIBLE CONTINUATION BASED ACTIONS | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160197864 | Updating of Presence Information Assigned to a User of a Communication Service | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160197865 | Method and System for Message Delivery Based on On-Device Data Analysis, and Computer Program Therefor | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160197867 | System and Method for Regulating Electronic Messages | 07-07-2016 |
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| 20160203566 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LABELING MESSAGES FROM CUSTOMER-AGENT INTERACTIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO IDENTIFY AN ISSUE AND A RESPONSE | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205050 | SIGNATURE GENERATION USING MESSAGE SUMMARIES | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205052 | CORRELATING CONTACT TYPE WITH APPROPRIATE COMMUNICATIONS TO ELIMINATE INADVERTENT COMMUNICATIONS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205053 | CENTRALIZED COMMUNICATIONS CONTROLLER | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205054 | CONDITIONAL DELIVERY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205055 | SAFE UNSUBSCRIBE | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205056 | Method and system for automatic erasing repeated messages of an computerizes devices and systems | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205057 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONNECTIONS TO CONTACTS BASED ON ASSOCIATIONS WITH CONTENT | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205058 | VIRTUAL CONTACT CARDS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205059 | Social Network Site Recommender System & Method | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205169 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING A REMOTE WEB CLIENT FROM AN APPLICATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205186 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF CONVERSATION DATA | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160205214 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANTANEOUSLY DEPLOYING PACKETIZED ALERT DATA | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160255023 | Themes Indicative of Participants in Persistent Communication | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255024 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING PRESENTATION OF MESSAGE CONTENT AT USER COMMUNICATION TERMINALS | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255026 | Electronic Message Handling System and Method Between Sending and Recipient Devices with Separation of Display of Media Component and Header Information and Deletion of Electronic Message from Server | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255027 | VIDEO MAIL THROUGH PEER TO PEER NETWORK | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255028 | CONTEXT-DEPENDENT MESSAGE MANAGEMENT | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255029 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GEO-COLLABORATION | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255030 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGING IN A NETWORKED SETTING | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255031 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255032 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRESENCE BASED ON AN ATTRIBUTE OF AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255033 | CONTENT BASED MESSAGE DELIVERY | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255034 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGING | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255035 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMISSION OF A MESSAGE TO AUTHORIZED RECIPIENTS WITH SELECTED CONTENT | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255036 | ASSOCIATION OF A SOCIAL MESSAGE WITH A RELATED MULTIMEDIA FLOW | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255038 | Electronic Messaging Systems | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SOCIAL MESSAGING | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255040 | Method and System for Automatic E-mail Aliasing for User Anonymization | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255041 | SOCIAL MESSAGING SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE NUMBER, DUAL MODE PHONE SUPPORT | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255044 | Method and System for Management of E-Mail Addresses for Regulation Compliance | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255165 | EVENT NOTIFICATION METHOD, EVENT NOTIFICATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255166 | CONTEXT-DEPENDENT MESSAGE MANAGEMENT | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160255480 | UNIFIED NOTIFICATION AND RESPONSE SYSTEM | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160380926 | Establishing Sender Identities in Synchronous and Asynchronous Communications - An approach is provided for establishing a sender identity. In the approach, a communication is received at a communication device over an electronic communications channel from a sender with the identity of the sender being withheld in the communication. An identification request is transmitted from the communication device to the sender over the electronic communications channel. Subsequently, a sender identification response is received at the communications device over the electronic communications channel. An acceptance criteria is applied to the received sender identification response. In response to a successful application of the acceptance criteria, the user of the communication device is notified of the communication. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380927 | PROTECTION OF SENSITIVE CHAT DATA - Particular embodiments described herein provide for a system that can be configured to communicate chat session data during a chat session to a first display of a first electronic device, communicate the chat session data during the chat session to a second display of a second electronic device, receive sensitive data during the chat session from the first electronic device, and protect the sensitive data from being displayed on the second display during the chat session without breaking continuity of the chat session. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380928 | INTERFACE FOR MANAGING MESSAGES IN A MOBILE TERMINAL - An interface method for a mobile terminal includes: receiving in the order of time and saving two or more types of messages corresponding to two or more types of first applications; integrating and configuring the two or more types of messages using a second application, which integrates and manages the two or more types of first applications; and displaying the two or more types of messages with the identification information on the type of each of the messages using the second application. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380930 | Messaging System Apparatuses Circuits and Methods of Operation Thereof - A messaging system configured to receive a message from a first mobile messaging client device, transmit to a second mobile messaging client device a notification of the presence of the message, receive a message attribute comprising an instruction to limit a functionality of the message, apply the message attribute to the message based on a message characteristic and update any existing corresponding message attribute, and transmit the message and the message attribute to the second mobile messaging client device that manages the message in accordance with the message attribute, wherein managing the message comprises limiting the functionality of the message based on the message attribute, wherein the message attribute comprises a predetermined message viewing time after which the message content cannot be accessed at the second mobile messaging diem device. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380931 | PRIVATE TEXT CHATTING SESSIONS - A system and method for private text chatting. A request to a remote device to establish a private text chat session is either sent or received. Based on the sending or receiving, an acceptance from the remote device accepting the request is received. Based on the sending or receiving, a separate user interface to conduct the private text chat session is presented. Private text chat messages are exchanged in association with the private text chat session based on and subsequent to the receiving and the presenting. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380933 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CROWD-BASED TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO SMARTPHONE USERS - Provided are a system and method of providing chat-based technical support to smartphone users. The system and method include a cloud-based server connected to the internet, and a plurality of smartphone specialists connected to the server. The server is configured to select a group of top ranked specialists based on device tags and keyword tags. The device tags relate to the smartphone. The keyword tags relate to the smartphone user query. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380934 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO A REFERENCED INDIVIDUAL - Providing supplemental contact information for an individual referenced in an electronic message typically includes receiving an electronic message, examining the electronic message, detecting an identifier for a referenced individual contained in the electronic message, and making supplemental contact information for the referenced individual available to a recipient of the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include information that is in addition to information contained in the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include at least one of an e-mail address, a screen name, a telephone number, a facsimile number, and a mailing address, each of which is associated with the referenced individual. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380935 | Computer System and Method for Adding Attributes to an Electronic Message on Behalf of the Message's Sender - A message creator encodes message information into an original message. The message creator transmits the original message to a message recipient via a first medium. The message recipient receives the original message and decodes the original message to extract the encoded message information. The message recipient adds and/or modifies an attribute of the original message and re-encodes the message information in a modified message. The computer system transmits the modified message as if it were transmitted from the message creator to the message recipient. One attribute that the message recipient may modify is the message medium. As a result, the modified message may be transmitted via a different medium than the original message. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380936 | USER-FEEDBACK-BASED TENANT-LEVEL MESSAGE FILTERING - Embodiments maintain filtering criteria for classifying electronic messages in a multi-tenant environment, including maintaining global filtering criteria for all tenants, as well as tenant-level filtering criteria for each tenant. For each tenant, feedback regarding a messaging campaign is identified. When the messaging campaign has not been categorized, and the feedback signals the messaging campaign as undesirable, the tenant-level filtering criteria for the tenant is updated to signal the messaging campaign as undesirable. When the messaging campaign has previously been categorized as undesirable, and the feedback signals the messaging campaign as desirable, the tenant-level filtering criteria for the tenant is updated to signal the messaging campaign as desirable. A reputation score for each tenant is also calculated. The global filtering criteria is updated to signal desirability of the messaging campaign when a threshold number of tenants, each having a threshold reputation score, reach a consensus regarding desirability of the messaging campaign. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380937 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDER-CONTROLLED MESSAGING AND CONTENT SHARING - A messaging and content sharing platform that allows for sender-controlled permissions and rules. During operation, a sending device can receive user input to set permissions and rules for an object to be sent to a receiving device. The permissions and rules control how the object will be managed after leaving the sending device. A receiving device receives the object and complies with the permissions and rules associated with the object. Other features of the platform include a hierarchical view for group messaging, an attachment-only view of messages, large file attachments, and the ability to allow users to access external services such as social networking websites without logging in. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNWANTED CONTENT - A system and method for detecting unwanted electronic content, such as spam. As a user operates an application to send messages, several metrics are tracked to allow the system to analyze her activity. Illustrative metrics may include, but are not limited to, block count (e.g., how many other users have blocked her), block rate (e.g., the rate at which other users block her), peer symmetry (e.g., percentage of her messages that are to other users that have her in their address book), message uniqueness (e.g., how unique her messages are from each other), peer uniqueness (e.g., how unique the addressees of her messages are), and message rate (e.g., the rate at which she sends messages). Periodically, metrics may be compared to corresponding thresholds. Depending on whether a threshold is crossed, and which threshold is crossed, she may be banned from using the application or placed on a watch list. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380939 | HANDLING VARIOUS SCENARIOS WHERE AN EMAIL RECIPIENT IS NOT AVAILABLE - A method for sending a plurality of alternate contact information associated with an online communication system. The method may include receiving an electronic message associated with the online communication system, wherein the electronic message is addressed to a recipient from a sender. The method may also include identifying a recipient inbox using a plurality of directory information associated with the received electronic message. The method may further include determining the identified recipient inbox satisfies at least one of a plurality of alternate contact criteria. The method may also include transmitting a plurality of alternate recipient contact information within a simple message transfer protocol (SMTP) response to the sender based on the plurality of determined alternate contact criteria being satisfied. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380943 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING HISTORICAL COMMUNICATION CONTENT - A communication server is disclosed. The communication server may receive, via at least one network interface, a request to add one or more new participants to a communication group; receive, from one or more members of the communication group, one or more selections indicating one or more selected portions of communication content for providing to the one or more new participants, wherein the communication content includes information transferred between a plurality of participants of the communication group prior to the one or more new participants being added to the communication group; determine, based on the one or more selections, a portion of the communication content for providing to the one or more new participants; and provide, via the at least one network interface, the portion of the communication content to one or more user devices associated with the one or more new participants. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380947 | HANDLING VARIOUS SCENARIOS WHERE AN EMAIL RECIPIENT IS NOT AVAILABLE - A method for sending a plurality of alternate contact information associated with an online communication system. The method may include receiving an electronic message associated with the online communication system, wherein the electronic message is addressed to a recipient from a sender. The method may also include identifying a recipient inbox using a plurality of directory information associated with the received electronic message. The method may further include determining the identified recipient inbox satisfies at least one of a plurality of alternate contact criteria. The method may also include transmitting a plurality of alternate recipient contact information within a simple message transfer protocol (SMTP) response to the sender based on the plurality of determined alternate contact criteria being satisfied. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380948 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a search unit that searches for an apparatus, which is suitable for providing event notification, when event generation is detected; and a supply unit that supplies notification content to the apparatus which is found by the search unit. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380949 | HOST STATE-SENSING FOR MESSAGE INTERRUPTION - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managing interrupting requests to engage in a collaborative session and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for host state sensing for message interruptions. In one embodiment of the invention, a data processing system configured for host sensing for message interruption can include a messenger disposed is a host computing platform, prioritization logic including program code enabled to assign priorities to incoming messages, and host state sensing logic coupled to the host computing platform. The host state sensing logic can include program code enabled to adjust a threshold value for permitting message interruptions for messages having assigned priorities beyond the threshold value. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380951 | SYSTEM FOR POST SELF AWARENESS - A social network post subject area of a social network post is identified using text analysis. A longevity of social network posts related to the social network post subject area on each of multiple hosting platforms is determined using monitored multi-platform post-longevity information. A hosting platform with a determined highest longevity of the related social network posts is recommended from among the multiple hosting platforms. Responsive to user approval of the recommended hosting platform, the social network post is posted to the recommended hosting platform with the determined highest longevity of the related social network posts. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380952 | AUTHORING TOOL FOR CREATING NEW ELECTRONIC POSTS - A database system operates a feed system and communicates with different remote computing devices associated with different users. The database system may display feed items from the feed system on the remote computing devices and enable users to author new posts to the feed system. An authoring tool supports creation of new posts, and provides transparency as to which users will have access to the post. The authoring tool supports managing intended recipients, including users, groups, topics, files, and other entities. The authoring tool creates, and shows to the author, an automatic summary of recipients before the post is added to the feed system. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380954 | IDENTIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES ON EXTERNAL SOCIAL MEDIA - A method for identifying employees across external social media sites including generating a list of at least one external social media site to be compared with an enterprise directory, comparing a plurality of users in the at least one external social media site to at least one employee in the enterprise directory, and determining a match between the at least one employee in the enterprise directory and at least one user in the at least one external social media site. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380955 | WEB-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - A user friendly web-based social network for conveniently finding and connecting to network members worldwide. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380956 | COMMUNICATION MESSAGE CONSOLIDATION WITH CONTENT DIFFERENCE FOMATTING - A set of similar messages addressed to a user is detected. Redundantly similar portions of the set of similar messages and a progressive set of differences between the set of similar messages are identified. The set of similar messages are consolidated into a single consolidated message. The single consolidated message includes one version of the redundantly similar portions in association with the progressive set of differences in a sequence and the progressive set of differences formatted differently from the redundant similar portions. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380958 | Device and Method for Temporal Correlation of Communication Types - A device and method temporally correlates communication types. The method performed by a first electronic device includes receiving a first message in a first communication format from a second electronic device, the first message having first metadata associated therewith. The method includes determining respective second metadata associated with existing conversations. The existing conversations each include a plurality of existing messages in at least one second communication format. The existing messages are a thread in a temporal order. The existing conversations are shown in a single, respective user interface. The method includes determining a correlation between the first message and one of the existing conversations based upon the first and second metadata. The method includes inserting the first message in the existing messages of the one of the existing conversations that maintains the temporal order. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380959 | COMMUNICATION MESSAGE CONSOLIDATION WITH CONTENT DIFFERENCE FOMATTING - A set of similar messages addressed to a user is detected. Redundantly similar portions of the set of similar messages and a progressive set of differences between the set of similar messages are identified. The set of similar messages are consolidated into a single consolidated message. The single consolidated message includes one version of the redundantly similar portions in association with the progressive set of differences in a sequence and the progressive set of differences formatted differently from the redundant similar portions. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381164 | OPTIMIZING STORAGE IN A PUBLISH / SUBSCRIBE ENVIRONMENT - Creating message files in a publication subscription computer system by: (i) receiving data corresponding to a first message; (ii) receiving a list of subscribers that subscribe to a topic of the first message; and (iii) creating a digital data file that includes a payload data and a consumption metadata. The payload data includes content data corresponding to the first message. The consumption metadata includes data relating to whether one or more subscribers of the list of subscribers will potentially consume the first message at a later period in time from the time of receiving the content data corresponding to the first message. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381165 | Electronic Notifications - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing for a user one or more electronic notifications that include information about a social network. The social network includes a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of edges, with at least one node corresponding to the user. The method further includes determining, for each of the electronic notifications, a score that estimates whether a user interaction with the social network will result if the electronic notification is provided to the user. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the determined scores, an action to take with respect to the electronic notifications. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381173 | Method and Apparatus for Associating Online Accounts - A method for associating online accounts includes: sending a device identification of a public device corresponding to a public online account that includes at least a first online account and second online account information corresponding to a second online account to a server, so that the server associates the second online account with the first online account in the public online account corresponding to the device identification, to obtain a public online account including the first online account and the second online account. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381501 | System and Method for Locationally Aware Communication - A system and method for locationally aware communication that does not reveal a user's exact location to any other user. Users interact with client applications installed on their computing devices, which are connected to one or more remote serves. Users may determine when certain other users are nearby specified geographic areas, may communicate with others, and may view, send, and receive invitations to events. Communication may be transmitted to individual recipients or to groups of recipients. Invitations may be transmitted to specified invitees or to broader groups of users. Users may define parameters controlling the extent to which information about their locations may be shared with others. | 12-29-2016 |
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| 20170237694 | FITNESS ACTIVITY RELATED MESSAGING | 08-17-2017 |
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| 20220138696 | WORKFLOW SERVICE EMAIL INTEGRATION - Disclosed are various approaches for workflow service email integration. In some examples, an email application executed on a client device receives an email message that includes a workflow micro application. The workflow micro application has a workflow information component, and evaluation component, and a workflow actions component. The evaluation component identifies a presence or an absence of a management software development kit (SDK) on the client device. The email application renders a user interface that shows or hides a workflow actions interface area based on the presence or absence of the management SDK. | 05-05-2022 |
| 20220141162 | GENERATING CUSTOMIZED GRAPHICS HAVING REACTIONS TO ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CONTENT - Method of generating customized graphics having reactions to electronic message content starts with application server causing a communication interface for a communication session to be displayed at a first client device and at a second client device, respectively. The communication session is between a plurality of client devices. The communication interface includes a chat presence bar that includes a plurality of presence indicators associated with the client devices, respectively. Application server receives content for an electronic message from first client device or second client device and generates a customized graphic based on the content for the electronic message and a user identifier for first client device. Application server causes the customized graphic to be displayed on the chat presence bar of the communication interface displayed on the second client device. The customized graphic included in a first presence indicator associated with the first client device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-05-2022 |
| 20220141164 | ACCESS AND ROUTING OF INTERACTIVE MESSAGES - Systems and methods are provided for determining that a message received from a second computing device associated with a second user is an interactive message and causing the interactive message to be displayed. In response to a selection to skip engagement with the interactive message, the systems and methods display a message feed with a list of a plurality of users and cause a selectable engagement indicium to be displayed next to a list entry of the second user in the list. The system and methods further determine that a predetermined amount of time has elapsed since the start time of the display of the interactive message without engagement with the interactive message and cause the interactive message to be deleted from the message feed and the selectable engagement indicium removed from next to the list entry of the second user. | 05-05-2022 |
| 20220141171 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A PROACTIVE TWO-WAY CONVERSATION - The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for facilitating proactive two-way communication sessions. One example includes proactively sending a message, where when the message is received, the message initiates a conversation with a user across a first messaging platform. When it is dynamically determined that the first messaging platform is unavailable, a list of prioritized alternative messaging platforms is dynamically generated. A prioritized second messaging platform is selected from the list of prioritized alternative messaging platforms, and the message is dynamically modified in accordance with standards associated with the prioritized second messaging platform. When a response is then received after sending the modified message on the prioritized second messaging platform, an agent is selected from a pool of agents to respond. | 05-05-2022 |
| 20220141174 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING MULTIPLE TARGET NODES WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for selecting multiple target nodes within a social network includes a selecting step, a simulation passing node number calculating step and a target node updating step. The selecting step is performed to select a plurality of simulation nodes from a plurality of nodes in the social network according to a simplified swarm forming rule. The simulation passing node number calculating step is performed to calculate a simulation passing node number of the simulation nodes according to a Monte Carlo simulation method and a layer search method. The target node updating step is performed to update the simulation nodes and the simulation passing node number as the target nodes and the target passing node number according to a simplified swarm updating rule, respectively. | 05-05-2022 |
| 20220141260 | SESSION SETUP CONTROL FOR MESSAGING INTEROPERABILITY - A device includes a processor and a memory. The processor effectuates operations including receiving a service capability for a mobile originating (MO) device. The processor further effectuates operations including receiving a service capability for a mobile terminating (MT) device. The processor further effectuates operations including receiving session initiation protocol (SIP) messages from the MO device at a Breakout Gateway Control Function (BGCF). The processor further effectuates operations including determining whether the received SIP messages are associated with setting up an outgoing open group chat (OGC) or an outgoing Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) file transfer. The processor further effectuates operations including blocking the SIP messages in response to the determination that the SIP messages are associated with setting up a MSRP file transfer. | 05-05-2022 |
| 20220141263 | EMBEDDINGS-BASED DISCOVERY AND EXPOSURE OF COMMUNICATION PLATFORM FEATURES - A communication platform may comprise different systems for helping a user discover features of the platform. However, the systems may generate different results. An application programming interface (API) may receive such outputs and may be configured to select between the outputs based on detecting a state at a user's computing device and/or using a machine-learned model to weight the outputs and/or probabilities associated therewith using a target metric. The API may then rank the outputs and select from among them based at least in part on the target metric. | 05-05-2022 |
